That is pure bullshit.
If there is a TINY KITTEN sitting out in plain sight, with no mother visible, it's likely the offspring of a feral cat and SHOULD be collected and given to a shelter or to someone who can raise it.
Bottle raising a healthy newborn kitten means getting up every hour, on the hour, for feeding and stimulation. If you can go through that, barring any other immense medical issues, I can almost guarantee the cat would live. I was given a newborn with placenta still on his feet, who had been baking in the Mexico sun for hours, and he lived with hourly feedings for a week and a half. No colostrum, and I kept him in as sterile an environment as possible while he was still young. I fed him nutri-cal in addition to the homemade formula which consisted of evaporated milk, some egg yolk and some distilled water.
I would rather see a kitten be collected and given to a shelter than to grow up to be a feral cat that people shoot at, poison and consider pests.
If there is a TINY KITTEN sitting out in plain sight, with no mother visible, it's likely the offspring of a feral cat and SHOULD be collected and given to a shelter or to someone who can raise it.
Bottle raising a healthy newborn kitten means getting up every hour, on the hour, for feeding and stimulation. If you can go through that, barring any other immense medical issues, I can almost guarantee the cat would live. I was given a newborn with placenta still on his feet, who had been baking in the Mexico sun for hours, and he lived with hourly feedings for a week and a half. No colostrum, and I kept him in as sterile an environment as possible while he was still young. I fed him nutri-cal in addition to the homemade formula which consisted of evaporated milk, some egg yolk and some distilled water.
I would rather see a kitten be collected and given to a shelter than to grow up to be a feral cat that people shoot at, poison and consider pests.
The litter Apollo came from was found as newborns, most of them dead. Apollo and his sister made it. I had him at two days old. Took care of him round the clock every two hours for almost a month. Then we were able to go down to every four hours round the clock. He's alive and well at two years now. I just took in a 3.5 week old kitten (she's about six weeks now) after someone found her and couldn't keep her. She was destined for the shelter, but since our clinic works with a rescue and adopts out cats, I offered to foster her if she could be adopted out when she's older.
And add me to the group that would rather see a kitten humanely euthanized than grow up to be feral and/or die from exposure. Yes, a cat can survive in the wild, and yes, it is a life (and not always a horrible life)...but as feral animals they are pests, plain and simple.