The Kitten and Bugs

My moms heart was breaking yesterday.

Here and the boys (her younger grandsons)

went to Uncle Mark and Aunt Kim's 

house so the boys could see the kittens.

Mom and the boys walked up

to see one kitten just laying there.

Mom grabbed it up and knocked 

on the house door. Aunt Kim has

been working from home. She got

on the phone and started calling vets

to get the kitten in. Mom told her

to call Elm Hill and talk with 

Amber (Amber is moms daughter).

Amber said bring it in.

Braden sat in the the backseat

with the kitten in his lap

and never took his eyes off

that babe. He kept reporting

to mom that it was still

breathing. 

Amber (the boys mom) 

came out and got the baby. 

In about ten mins Amber

text to say that it was 

dehydrated and jaundice

from fleas. Its body temp

was so low that they could

not even get a reading. 

Amber put it on a heating

pad and gave it warm 

fluids and Nutrical to boost

its gluccose.

Amber kept texting mom

and mom would text 

aunt Kim who was having

to say home and work but

was crying cause she was so 

upset for this babe. Amber

text to say the temp was

up to 98 (normal 101-102.5).

Mom sent Kim a message and 

just as she did Amber called.

Mom knew by her calling it

was not good. They lost that

sweet little babe.

It was an orange babe

like one of these above.

That is mom and two 

orange babes. There were

four orange ones and 

just one that looked like 

the mom. BELOW.

Mom wanted to send a 

message out to Dr King

and Amber for trying to save

that little babe. Dr King did not

charge Aunt Kim for anything that

was done yesterday. On the flip 

side mom told me that Dr King

did not charge mom for helping

Dakota to go to sleep either. 

Anyway the verdict on the little

fur was that all this came about

due to fleas. They will suck out

the blood and fluids from small

babes like this. Mom said it was

a given that this baby was the 

runt even. Mom got the babe

from Amber and took it to 

uncle Mark to be buried. At the 

same time Dr Kings office sent

flea meds to treat the other four.

One tube would treat one cat

but cause of the size one tube

would do two kittens. They sent

syringes along also to make

things easier. 

When mom got to their house

she opened a tube and squired the

meds in a drink top to be able

to suck up half the meds so 

she could apply them.

OOPS...then came the hard

part, getting them from under

Marks storage trailer, out of 

the ice chest homes made for 

them and past the mom. Mom

was alone, no one home. 

The mom stood and watched

but let mom do  what she needed

to do. She slide a ice chest out

and had to cover her arm with

a jacket, dumped a babe out 

and held it and loved on it before

applying the meds. Mom got 

two done and Mark came home

so he helped to catch the other

two and mom put meds on them.

Over an hour but the babes are

now protected. The cat mom was glad 

to see mom leave. But maybe the 

babes will be fine now. 

Yesterday before finding the 

kitten we went to the old

house and mom saw this...

In the front yard.

It is a hatched nest of 

Box Elder bugs...

all babies and tons

of them.....YUCK.

Thank you for coming 

over the read what Chey

and I write about.

Lily Bit...