Lord help me, I'm such a sucker! I let the dogs out this morning and they always tear over to the other side of the yard. Well, today they stopped halfway and were more interested in something on the ground...then I heard this pathetic little cry.
After chasing the dogs off, here was this little kitten (wet from all the licks she got). She apparently crawled in through the fence shortly before I let them out. I picked her up, put the dogs back, and put her back on the other side of the fence....which she proceeded to crawl through again and follow me. I know she is one of the barn cats kittens, I just don't know which one (half of them live in the woods).
After trying to put her outside the yard 3 times (each time she came back in), I took her to the other side of the house where one of the barn cats has kittens about the same age. Mama cat came up, head butted the kitten and she ran off to play with the rest so I thought maybe she would have a new family. But, when I went out a few hours later, she was laying by herself right next to the woods, covered in flies and her eyes completely matted shut. I don't know how that happened so fast because they weren't matted earlier today.
Anyway, she is now inside and currently sitting on my lap. She seems to have no interest in cat food (dry, watered down, or wet) but did take some milk suppliment from a bottle so that's good. She seems like she's fairly healthy, aside from the eyes and we do have ointment to put in them. Vet visit will probably be next week and she will be kept away from the other cats until then. We have an extra dog crate in the basement that I'm going to fix up for her, and she's getting a bath here in a few minutes. She REALLY needs one.
Oh, she's a very light orange/white....but not tabby really...she looks more like a toasted marshmellow. With longer fur and I can already tell there are knots that need to be cut out. Fun, fun. I'll try to get pics when I can.
Anyone want a kitten??????
After chasing the dogs off, here was this little kitten (wet from all the licks she got). She apparently crawled in through the fence shortly before I let them out. I picked her up, put the dogs back, and put her back on the other side of the fence....which she proceeded to crawl through again and follow me. I know she is one of the barn cats kittens, I just don't know which one (half of them live in the woods).
After trying to put her outside the yard 3 times (each time she came back in), I took her to the other side of the house where one of the barn cats has kittens about the same age. Mama cat came up, head butted the kitten and she ran off to play with the rest so I thought maybe she would have a new family. But, when I went out a few hours later, she was laying by herself right next to the woods, covered in flies and her eyes completely matted shut. I don't know how that happened so fast because they weren't matted earlier today.
Anyway, she is now inside and currently sitting on my lap. She seems to have no interest in cat food (dry, watered down, or wet) but did take some milk suppliment from a bottle so that's good. She seems like she's fairly healthy, aside from the eyes and we do have ointment to put in them. Vet visit will probably be next week and she will be kept away from the other cats until then. We have an extra dog crate in the basement that I'm going to fix up for her, and she's getting a bath here in a few minutes. She REALLY needs one.
Oh, she's a very light orange/white....but not tabby really...she looks more like a toasted marshmellow. With longer fur and I can already tell there are knots that need to be cut out. Fun, fun. I'll try to get pics when I can.
Anyone want a kitten??????