On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, John Schestag wrote:
> Diana, Nancy and group,
> Thanks for your responses. I am sure to catch her after this litter and
> get her fixed. She looks like a basket ball with a tail now. My
> secretary helped me with a kitten once who was taken away from her mom
> way too young, either by death or?
>
> Anyway, of course I took her and she couldn't or wouldn't go No. 1 or
> No. 2. And she could hardly stand up she was so little. She took food
> from an eye dropper. I brought her into my office in the morning and
> she was quickly scooped up by my secretary and another lady in the
> office and they started rubbing her little behind with their finger
> tips. In no time the little kitten did her stuff on a paper towel.
> After that, my secretary kept her for her mother to adopt. The kitten
> was dark grey, real fluffy and sky blue eyes.
>
> I was told the mother cat will stimulate the litter's bodily functions
> only when it is safe and no other animal will smell the kitten's urine
> or stool. I thought that was so amazing. I felt so dumb and would've
> just kept trying to let her go into a litterbox I had made at my house.
> If I hadn't brought her into work, she may well have gotten impacted and
> died. So, it was a nice happy ending. (Satisfied some of my
> "fathering" needs, I guess!?)
>
> p.s., Please send up some good prayers for my Lizzie during your candle
> prayers.
>
> Thanks, John
>
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