A Newborn Kitten Dilemma

Hello all!

To catch everyone up, a few months ago a good friend and animal ally, Sonia Zjawinski, brought me into the fold of an awesome TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) group, Slope Street Cats (SSC), who needed a sister organization to help out with their adoptions. I was planning to open a rescue and this was a perfectly timed opportunity to receive guidance and support and provide something in exchange.

Since then, I have put together the paperwork for incorporating with the state, and chosen and reserved the name, Mutts & Mitts of Brooklyn, Inc.

This week I received a call from a woman named Donna who had found a momma cat and 5 newborn kittens (less than a day old) in her backyard. 2 of the litter were already deceased and the momma cat had taken one of the surviving kittens to a new location when she caught sight of Donna's German Shep! Donna was afraid that the remaining 2 kittens might be in danger of freezing to death out in the cold, so she brought them inside and put them on a warm blanket. I am not yet a kitten expert so I thought we had made the right choice. I then consulted with several volunteers from SSC and they informed me that the kittens had very little chance of thriving without their momma's milk and needed to be put back out to see if the momma cat would come back for them. So Donna did this and we waited. Meanwhile, I was put in contact with cat rescuer named Rosey who was fostering another momma cat and litter of kittens. As a last resort, Rosey offered to try to integrate these two orphan kittens into the little family she was fostering. Once a few hours had passed and the temp dropped we decided to try Rosey's idea. Luckily the momma cat at Rosey's accepted the new kittens. The newborn kittens are fighting to feed against 4 other 2 week old kittens but they are holding their own,biting and kicking when necessary!

There are small miracles.