[Tara Rose]

Well here are a few pics from about two days ago. Little is exactly 2 weeks old today!

Sleeping..his favorite activity next to eating
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And in this one you can sort of see the little grey spots on his head
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His GI tract has been kind of a mess for the past few days. After his enema saturday he immediately got constipated again and monday had ANOTHER enema. He produced a HUGE amount of stool and this one really wiped him out. He was pretty lethargic monday, I started giving him some pedialyte monday evening and he seems to have bounced back. He is still a bit drained but getting back to his perky self. However I decided to switch him back to the canned KMR thinking maybe the powdered formula was causing the constipation and now he has diarrhea. Poor fella can't find a happy medium!!

The doctor who delivered Little was working monday when he went in for his enema (I usually don't see her because she works on my days off) and told me the real story about him. When they started shaving mom for the c-section she had hemhorraging all over her stomach, had obviously gotten into rat poison or something similar. So the owner opted to euthanise and wanted to abort the litter of kittens because they weren't full term. The doctor persisted and asked if she could just check and see if any were alive before the euthanised and the owner agreed. One kitten was stuck in the birth canal and had obviously been there a few days. The other two were alive (Little and his sister who passed away the next day). Aparently Little was the worst off of the two kittens..the doctor said his heart kept stopping and she was doing CPR for about 30 minutes before he finally came around.

And yet here he is today. Talk about will to live..or devine intervention, I'm not sure which. Either way this kitten really shouldn't be alive. Lucky little buggar!!!

[Andie's Mom]

Wow he's really grown. 2 weeks, his eyes should be open now huh? does he have any other gray spots on him or just the spot on his head?

I'm curious to know what color his eyes are... Cuz I've heard that white kitties with a spot on their head between their ears with green eyes are usually deaf...

Thanks for sharing the photo's Tara... Looks like he's found his home huh???

[Siobhan]

God, how the poor mother cat must have suffered! One stuck in the birth canal for TWO DAYS???? Little is a very lucky little cat indeed.

[Carrie~Anne]

oh geez, what a heart wrenching story. Glad to hear the little one is doing okay. Thanks for doing such a great job of taking care of him, Tara...you're the bestest!!!!

[Tara Rose]

Nope he just has the one grey spot in between his little ears ontop of his head. His eyes started to open today I think they will be blue for a little while before they really start turning into their real color. I will also be interested to see if he is deaf...

I am still trying to convince myself not to keep him..it's becoming a losing battle...

[Carrie~Anne]

ahhhhhh what's one more cat?

[Andie's Mom]

I think you should change his name to Stewart...as in Stewart Little.... And you know you're gonna keep him, you can't fool me....

[Andie Wan Kenobi]

How could you not keep him? He is soooo cute! I am very interested to see what his life is like with the rough start he's had...good thing he has you!

[cindylou_38]

aww so beautiful.

[jujusaffiemom]

he is so cute. keep up the good work.

[NCVon]

Oh gosh! How adorable!! And I love Connie's suggestion...Stuart Little it too cute. After all the love you have put into him I have a feeling he will be staying. LOL His poor mom! Two days with the baby in the canal, plus possibly being poisoned! She must have really suffered. I have a white one that has a little black spot on her head, she can see okay, her eyes are blue but at full grown she is half the size of the other cats. My daughter named her Oreo. LOL