Foster Fur Mom: Losing Kittens

Guest Blogger: Susan Gottfried

After 2 years of fostering, it happened this morning.

I lost a kitten.

Now, I've lost kittens before. They stimulate got an uncanny habit of running nether beds or tucking themselves into spaces that I never knew existed. My favorite mightiness stimulate got been the truthful cat who jumped upwardly on the built-in shelves inwards my component division together with hid behind the TV that hasn't worked – or been noticed – for years.

That's the correct agency to lose a truthful cat or a kitten.

This wasn't.

I walked into the foster room this morn amongst 3 bowls together with an unopened tin of moisture food, expecting absolutely nothing, together with ... injure upwardly running out amongst a piddling dark kitten held carefully inwards the truthful cat bed he'd been laying inwards front end of.

Big Bad Pete, his cite was. Six weeks onetime when he came to me, he solely weighed a pound. He was all black, amongst a piddling white star on his chest, together with a tail that had clearly been truncated at about point. He came inwards a box amongst 2 others, a calendar week older, obvious littermates.

"He's your challenge," Foster Coordinator Megan Schmitt said to me.

I similar challenges.

But piddling Pete had the cards stacked against him. "Remember," the awesome medical staff on telephone band this morn said, "cats stimulate got litters for a reason. Nature doesn't await them all to brand it."

And I knew. I'd done all I could for piddling Petey. I'd fed him together with held him together with petted him together with set him inwards his pan together with helped him dig together with I'd fifty-fifty given him a bathroom when he'd been coated inwards his ain droppings together with was stinking upwardly the joint.

Still, I tried to salve him this morning. My daughter, even together with thus inwards her pajamas, jumped into the machine together with I handed her the truthful cat bed together with the kitten. We flew downwards 79. It wasn't enough.

My immature lady cried. I tried non to.

Could I stimulate got done more? Of course. I could stimulate got railroad train my component division every bit a foster room together with brought him downwards hither amongst me during the days together with thus I could concur him. I could stimulate got been faster to abide by he wasn't eating properly. I could stimulate got done this, that, or the other thing. We are human, together with hindsight ever tells us nosotros could have.

But inwards the end, nature gives cats litters for a reason. Nature knows... non every i of them volition survive, together with inwards the end, I stimulate got to stimulate got solace inwards the fact that I did my best past times Petey. It wasn't meant to be.

And if I've been fostering for 2 years together with this is the commence delicate kitten I've had sideslip away, I'm doing to a greater extent than than okay.

So I'll proper name at about indicate soon. And I'll become upwardly to that foster room together with cuddle the remaining 2 kittens. And I'll endeavour to produce to a greater extent than past times them, together with thus that they are shortly create for their ain forever home.

And I'll shout back virtually Big Bad Pete, who inwards the terminate was neither big nor bad. He was i piddling kitten out of hundreds who volition come upwardly through ' welcoming doors. One kitten who likely got an extra 2 weeks of life, thank yous to me together with the staff.  

Sometimes, that's all yous tin do.

Sometimes, fifty-fifty the best of us lose a kitten.

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