r/kittens • u/Complex-Potato-7387 • 4d ago
First time CDS Winner
Accepted a dogsitting job outside my usual range. The second night I found these two stinkers abandoned. They just got back from the vet they're healthy and perfect and mine!
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u/nudesteve 3d ago
Yes, you've truly hit the jackpot with the CDS. A double win with those two. They're both cute little kittens, who are destined to graduate into a pair of beautiful kitty cats. I love their green eyes.
👣🐈👣❤️❤️❤️🏡🌎
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u/sleepygiggle23 3d ago
someone left a baby that cute in the dirt? 😭
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u/Complex-Potato-7387 3d ago
Probably their mom. I found them in a really rural area and they're only 6 weeks old
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u/misshestermoffett 3d ago edited 3d ago
Do cats do that?
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u/Complex-Potato-7387 3d ago
Yeah they probably annoyed the crap out of her with their teeth. It happens. I'm glad they stuck together
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u/bibijack1 3d ago
Mom isn't jetting off to Vegas for a fun weekend. Bad things can happen when they're looking for food & water: car strikes, dog attacks, mean people (ex. man killing cats w/crossbow in nearby town), locked in a garage etc. She drank puddle water with lethal toxins like anti-freeze in it or ate poisoned food (lost 4 colony cats this way). She may have succumbed to disease like panleuk, parasite infestation or a post-partum infection. Given the age of the kittens & feline 63 day gestation, a likely & happier explanation of maternal abandonment is that she is heavily pregnant with her next litter. There's only room for one crew at the milk bar. Feral feline females walk a rough road.
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u/misshestermoffett 3d ago
Oh I don’t doubt that. I was asking if female cats intentionally abandoned their kittens ever. I really don’t know. I have found three kittens all alone in my rural area three separate times. I have rescued them all, but I never see any other kittens around or the mom.
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u/bibijack1 3d ago
There is one more reason moms abandon that single kitten. If they feel the kitten is not going to make it, they'll leave it. Saw a mom put a kitten in the gutter then go back up the alley & disappear. Kitten had a bad uri which meant it couldn't nurse. It has to be able to breath thru the nose to suckle. Well, I snatched the lil sniffler up and took her home. No uri is going to beat me but I have options mom doesn't. Sickness, prematurity, birth defects (external & internal) are all causes for abandonment. If kittens are 6 weeks plus, mom is heavy with the next litter which sucks but it happens. Of course, as u well know, people dump unwanted litters in rural areas. Kittenappers!
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u/Starry_night_85 3d ago
They're so cute! I'm a recent CDS winner and didn't know how much I needed them in my life. Congrats!
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u/bibijack1 3d ago
Best tip for dog sitting ever.
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u/Complex-Potato-7387 3d ago
For sure I was mad at myself for not charging more for mileage but I see now it was meant to be
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u/DylanFromDelectables 35m ago
Ahhhh, the cat distribution system strikes another lucky person, just not me 😭 Kittens require so much attention and playtime, so the fact that these two already have a built-in buddy to grow up with is amazing 🫶 You seriously hit the CDS jackpot.
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u/Lionheart_Lives 3d ago
Are you telling us you're fostering this little nuggets of cute smollness? 🥰