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16 years ago
The Tortie baby didn't make it...stopped feeding around midnight and what milk I could force in its mouth it spit up. needless to say I've been crying my eyes out. times like this I wish I had been trained to foster, I could have given it sub-q fluids or tube fed it but I didn't have the syringes and id worry to much about messing it up to try it. Also the whole litter has yellow urine (should be clearish) so their dehydrated to. I KNOW what they need but i havnt the skills to give it...and it SUCKS.
And so I looked in to caring for the rest, called my boss who promptly shot me down with a "Can't happen, I'm allergic and I wont have them in the store" so while I now want to bite her there's not much I can do with that. and leaving them for 7ish hours for the week would be bad they would be starving and if anything bad happened I wouldn't know. And with the box climbing their doing there's alot of bad things that could happen. *grumble* I got a grand 23 bucks to get thru the week on and I'm out of formula so yah I cant vet them atm..
So now its find new foster mom or find a shelter ,and if I cant well boss is gonna have to work with me.
I got them out of the elements warm and fed, but thats all I could do right now. Keeping them isnt in the cards at this point it sucks but I'm not going to let my want to care for them lead to their deaths. I dont think their in bad enough shape for me to lose anymore but when thy do start crashing it happens fast. I tryed, I helped, Im not done till I get them better care.
I'm mostly writing all this to convince myself I cant keep them. So sorry if it seems repetative. :(
And so I looked in to caring for the rest, called my boss who promptly shot me down with a "Can't happen, I'm allergic and I wont have them in the store" so while I now want to bite her there's not much I can do with that. and leaving them for 7ish hours for the week would be bad they would be starving and if anything bad happened I wouldn't know. And with the box climbing their doing there's alot of bad things that could happen. *grumble* I got a grand 23 bucks to get thru the week on and I'm out of formula so yah I cant vet them atm..
So now its find new foster mom or find a shelter ,and if I cant well boss is gonna have to work with me.
I got them out of the elements warm and fed, but thats all I could do right now. Keeping them isnt in the cards at this point it sucks but I'm not going to let my want to care for them lead to their deaths. I dont think their in bad enough shape for me to lose anymore but when thy do start crashing it happens fast. I tryed, I helped, Im not done till I get them better care.
I'm mostly writing all this to convince myself I cant keep them. So sorry if it seems repetative. :(
-Hugs.-
I really hope they all perk up for the better and get well fast, that way you don't have to worry so much. You could do what I did in this situation, if you do have to leave them alone, just make sure to put them in a bare-ish room, and anything they could get under or into, cover with boxes. They should be too small to crawl over the boxes, so they'll just wiggle around all day.
What have you tried to feed them with?
Best of wishes for the rest of them
Just as humans have Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, kitties sometimes have their own equivalent. There was nothing you or she could have done to prevent it, I'm sure. Glad to hear that the others are healthy and are receiving the best care possible. :big hug: