Abandoned Kitty

Video of an abandoned kitten I found in our currant bushes on May 23, 2010. If it hadn't been for how loud the tiny thing was crying, I would never have known it was there. 

We have quite a few stray and feral cats in our area. We do what we can for them, including trying to catch the feral ones to have them fixed in the local catch/spay/release program. We have three 8 month old feral girls we've been trying to get close to since their Mommy brought them around. (We were able to catch mommy when she left them on their own. She was once again very pregnant. We were luck that the local SPCA took her. She had 5 more kittens who the SPCA are trying to find homes for. They have fixed Mommy and she has been adopted.)

Video of Mommy and the three feral girls the first day Mommy brought the to the "food house".

I am certain that this little kitten was the first born of the litter of the smallest of the three feral girls. As we name every cat who turns up, whether they are in the yard for a day or decide this is their home, we call her Tiny.

Tiny curious about the phone, but wary of me

 She was extremely friendly that day and for the first time didn't run when I got within a few feet of her, and she actually let me touch her. When I petted her, I ran my hand along her tail and my hand came back with blood on it. I new she was in labour and was able to get her into a cat carrier. One of her sisters, whom we call Patch (for the patch of orange on her head), was also pregnant and would not leave her sister's side. We were able to get both cats into our washroom. It was about four hours after this that I found the kitten in the currant bushes.

Video of Tiny and Patch together. Tiny is the active one in the front and Patch is sitting under the tree.

We hand fed this little one every two hours overnight. The next morning we found that Tiny had given birth to a little black and white kitten, whom she was not taking care of. She had left it in a corner while she was cuddling with her sister in another area.

Luckly our vet was able to take the abandoned kittens and put them in the hands of people who knew what they were doing when it comes to hand feeding them.


There was a third kitten, however it didn't survive. It got stuck and suffocated before anything could be done.
Their mommy (Tiny) was then fixed as part of the catch/spay/release program and returned to us to release back into the feral cat colony she came from. We kept her with her pregnant sister (who has since given birth and is a good mommy) for a few days to allow her heal.

Tiny is now out and about and back with her other sister (Whom we call Little Cee - she looks a lot like her mommy whom we call CeeCee). Still as timid with us as she was before she went in labour, but she's far more playful.

Video of the three sisters together. Tiny is the one in the tree, and is the smallest when you see all three together. Little Cee is the mostly white one, and Patch is the one, well with the little patch of orange on her head.


We still have to catch Little Cee and get her spayed. She is the most cautious of us and has avoided all our efforts thus far. Patch will get spayed after her kittens a weaned.