After our foray into fostering last fall, I decided (with the enthusiastic encouragement of my husband, who loves cats) to do it again.
I filled out the volunteer application form on my phone while waiting in an airport and within a week and a half found myself with a litter…and then a week later with FIVE 2.5 week olds who apparently needed to be fed with a tube because their latch on the bottle was less than spectacular.
Having five newborn kittens is probably (maybe?) close to the work of having one human baby, right? Maybe not. I’ll find out in a few years. Feedings took anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, four times a day at first.
It took about a week and a half for them to become “fun” and playful, but it felt good to know that I was doing something that for them meant the world. The last week or so we’ve let them into the office and hallway and they provide lots of laughter.
While I probably won’t do another little of bottle kittens for awhile (and then probably not five at once!), the experience is still definitely rewarding.
