So my mom forwards me the newsletter for the Fauquier SPCA (shelter near my parents' house) and today this little blurb was in it:
Um, raising a bottle baby isn't difficult. Sure its annoying to get up every three hours at night so that you can feed it and make it poo, but many bottle babies are raised all the time just fine. Are they actually encouraging people to allow kittens to grow up in the wild, thus perpetuating the feral cat problem?
What do you think?
If you find a baby kitten, do you know what the best thing for the kitten is?
To NOT touch the baby kitten, unless you already know the mother is deceased or there is imminent life-threatening danger approaching.
Often it looks as if the baby kitten has been abandoned, when in reality, the mother may not be far away and may be searching for food of her own. She may be scared of people and may be purposely avoiding you seeing her.
Taking a nursing kitten away from her mother is depriving the kitten of essential antibodies she will need to ward off disease and infection, and she'll face a lower survival rate without her mother's milk.
So what's the best thing to do? Look but don't touch!
To NOT touch the baby kitten, unless you already know the mother is deceased or there is imminent life-threatening danger approaching.
Often it looks as if the baby kitten has been abandoned, when in reality, the mother may not be far away and may be searching for food of her own. She may be scared of people and may be purposely avoiding you seeing her.
Taking a nursing kitten away from her mother is depriving the kitten of essential antibodies she will need to ward off disease and infection, and she'll face a lower survival rate without her mother's milk.
So what's the best thing to do? Look but don't touch!
What do you think?