The Miracle Kitten: a starving stray kitten comes to life with lots of love, heat, and kitten formula

Kitten, with heating pad set on hot and all bundled.

Look at those eyes! (above) The kitten's eyes looked so strange until recently: pain, lack of connection to reality, like it left its body . . .

There must be something about having so many cats at our farm that just drew this kitten in. . . we have a litter of kittens right now and a few cats from a previous litter, so we have 10 cats right now! The litter and their mom are living in the barn. We plan to keep a few as barn & mousing cats.

After a long, exciting and stimulating morning with friends riding the new ponies and a few emotional break downs from so much activity, I was happy to sit in my fav chair and relax watching the girls play with toys, hugging a cupo of coffee. The phone rings and I think, nah, too busy relaxing for a phone call, plus, I've had my share of socializing for the day!

It was my friend Ellie asking for advice as she'd found a stray kitten, looking very bad nearly on her doorstep. I was immediately at attention. I am always game to try to help a hurt animal. In this case we had kitten formula sitting around and I loaded that up, some mauka honey in case the kitten had injuries and some small animal bottles. Marina was very excitd and carried the "doctor" bag out to the car in anticipation.

When we arrived I was shocked to see how dead the kitten was looking! It was writhing to the touch, no eye contact, glassy eyes, barely breathing and COLD. I had Ellie get a heating pad and turn on her heat. We held the kitten wrapped in a towel by the heater and readied the bottle with formula and water.

The kitten wouldn't even open its mouth. Teeth clenched I had to drip the milk onto its teeth holding its limp head just so to get it to swallow. Fearing it wouldn' make it through the night I took the kitten home and within hours it was lapping milk from the bottle, turning its head from side to side, even standing up! As we speak, it is purring at being touched and looking lively. What a transformation! It was apparently starving to death, and the love and milk and heat revived it.

Luc's a sucker for a poor stray cat too ;)

Marina and me, enjoying being mamas

Drinking from a bottle

Wow, looking lively babe, and milky