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pinkfox
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im hurting but im moving on, I know he wouldn't have wanted me to look back and doubt myself or hurt...
and today whent with a friend, she had to drop her foster dog in to be spayed and I neede groceries...
well apparently life is saying "no time to slow down..."
on our way out of the vet office, in the middle of the parking lot I see a box...now the building nextdoor was having some constricuton work done with sheet rock and scrap piled nearby and I was just gong to ignore it as trash...until something told me not to.
I wandered over and sure enough, a box full o kittens.
took them inside, I know for a fact the cat rescue run out of this particular vts is FULL...I opend the box...and inside were a bunch of aprox 3-4 week old bay kittens.
I know for a fact that this rescue has eithanized litters before when not having the resources so I told them IF they didn't have the room I can take them UNTILL they are old enough to be vaccinated and spayed/neutered (about 8-9 weeks or 2lbs whichever comes first) the morning I drop them off for vaccination/spay/neuter I will NOT be coming to pick them back up...BUT I can keep them until then.
o off to do grocery shoping the back to pick dog an the box o kittie shome.
I will NOT be fostering for this rescue (or any) ever again...after the reception I ecived when pincking them up...I mean im doing THEM a favor, it would cost them time and money to keep or euthanize these babies...they don't have room, a simple, hey thanks...but no instead im being barked orders about how I NEd to do this and I NEEd to do that...I mean come on, this is not my first tim with kittens, ive told this vet and her staff before I was a vet tech...this is nothing new...
anywho, they gave me kmr aid the kittens wernt old enough to lap yet so id have to bottle or syrnge feed, a bag of dry food and a box of canned sci-die kitten food
got them home and settled into an under bed box, itll only last them mabe a week before I have to move them to a crate or playpen but for rightnow itll work, then I mixed em up some wet food and kitten milk mush...yup they lapped it up...messily but they can lap...so im thinking 4 weeks old.
once they hit 2lbs I take em in, theres no cost involved to me (unless I want to aopt one, they hinted at, im sorry but if im rasinging them I shoudlbe able to eep one for free...not that I need another cat or want one...) they'll go in and that's that.
and ill be VERY firm on that...I canot have 7 teenage kittens running round hre all because their adoption fee is too high to get good turnover on the cats.
people in THIS area arnt going to pay $80 for a cat whn they can get oe free and spayed/neutered with the low cost for $30, shots even with rabies are $20 with the low cost vac clinic...hmmm, lets see $50 or $80?! I wonder.
anyway, I figured they were meant to find me and visa versa so there now in the spare bedroom for the next 4 weeks...and you KNOW im going to be feeding them as much as they need to make 2lbs asap...im on the way home thinking WTH did I just agree too...
but then...I cant turn fate away because next time it could be something great and she might not bother knocking.
anywho...
otherwise not much going on. getting out of the house today was a good thing...if for no other reason than getting out.
tomorrows plan is to clean the bedroom and call the usda lady AGAIN...I swear this telephone tag is ridiculous. I need this cash,i NEED to get my septic sorted.
im hurting but im moving on, I know he wouldn't have wanted me to look back and doubt myself or hurt...
and today whent with a friend, she had to drop her foster dog in to be spayed and I neede groceries...
well apparently life is saying "no time to slow down..."
on our way out of the vet office, in the middle of the parking lot I see a box...now the building nextdoor was having some constricuton work done with sheet rock and scrap piled nearby and I was just gong to ignore it as trash...until something told me not to.
I wandered over and sure enough, a box full o kittens.
took them inside, I know for a fact the cat rescue run out of this particular vts is FULL...I opend the box...and inside were a bunch of aprox 3-4 week old bay kittens.
I know for a fact that this rescue has eithanized litters before when not having the resources so I told them IF they didn't have the room I can take them UNTILL they are old enough to be vaccinated and spayed/neutered (about 8-9 weeks or 2lbs whichever comes first) the morning I drop them off for vaccination/spay/neuter I will NOT be coming to pick them back up...BUT I can keep them until then.
o off to do grocery shoping the back to pick dog an the box o kittie shome.
I will NOT be fostering for this rescue (or any) ever again...after the reception I ecived when pincking them up...I mean im doing THEM a favor, it would cost them time and money to keep or euthanize these babies...they don't have room, a simple, hey thanks...but no instead im being barked orders about how I NEd to do this and I NEEd to do that...I mean come on, this is not my first tim with kittens, ive told this vet and her staff before I was a vet tech...this is nothing new...
anywho, they gave me kmr aid the kittens wernt old enough to lap yet so id have to bottle or syrnge feed, a bag of dry food and a box of canned sci-die kitten food
got them home and settled into an under bed box, itll only last them mabe a week before I have to move them to a crate or playpen but for rightnow itll work, then I mixed em up some wet food and kitten milk mush...yup they lapped it up...messily but they can lap...so im thinking 4 weeks old.
once they hit 2lbs I take em in, theres no cost involved to me (unless I want to aopt one, they hinted at, im sorry but if im rasinging them I shoudlbe able to eep one for free...not that I need another cat or want one...) they'll go in and that's that.
and ill be VERY firm on that...I canot have 7 teenage kittens running round hre all because their adoption fee is too high to get good turnover on the cats.
people in THIS area arnt going to pay $80 for a cat whn they can get oe free and spayed/neutered with the low cost for $30, shots even with rabies are $20 with the low cost vac clinic...hmmm, lets see $50 or $80?! I wonder.
anyway, I figured they were meant to find me and visa versa so there now in the spare bedroom for the next 4 weeks...and you KNOW im going to be feeding them as much as they need to make 2lbs asap...im on the way home thinking WTH did I just agree too...
but then...I cant turn fate away because next time it could be something great and she might not bother knocking.
anywho...
otherwise not much going on. getting out of the house today was a good thing...if for no other reason than getting out.
tomorrows plan is to clean the bedroom and call the usda lady AGAIN...I swear this telephone tag is ridiculous. I need this cash,i NEED to get my septic sorted.
