It was about 4:30 in the afternoon on Sunday and I was sitting in my living room watching TV. I heard a cat miaowing and thought it was my neighbors cat as it sometimes cries when the neighbor leaves. I kept hearing the miaowing so I went out on my deck. As I turned to go back inside I saw a black and white kitten running down the path across the courtyard desperately trying to find a place to hide. I immediately went over and cornered it in one of the entrance ways to two apartments. The kitten hissed, growled and spitted at me. It was so tiny and as I managed to pick it up it bit my index finger on my left hand. I held it firmly and talked softly to it. I did say loudly to the neighbors, I found someone's kitten. A lady came out and said it was probably a stray. The kitten calmed down and I got it inside my place, got into one of my cat carriers and immediately called the emergency vet to say I had caught a kitten and wanted to have it checked out. I got it to the emergency vet and the vet looked the kitten over and it turns out it is a boy kitten about 6-8 weeks of age. The vet said the kitten had fleas and a scab on the right side of it's face that looked like a healing burn as the whiskers on that side were short and some were curled. The vet gave it a dose of dewormer and Frontline for fleas. I named the kitten Felix as it is a tuxedo kitten. I stopped off at Petco and bought a small covered fabric cat bed, a low pre-filled litter box, three cat food bowls, Royal Canin kitten wet and dry food and three toys. I placed water, wet kitten food and dry kitten food in each of it's own bowl and set this all up in my bathroom. I had to put the kitten in front of the wet food as it had curled up inside the carrier. Once the kitten was in front of the wet food, it ate voraciously. After it was done it climbed up onto me to purr and nuzzle my face. Eventually after a couple of feedings and cuddling, Felix got sleepy and snoozed on my chest a bit. As it was late at that point and I needed to feed Sylvester and Mia and then go to bed myself so I put it in it's covered cat bed. Felix curled up to go to sleep. I didn't sleep much but did fall asleep long enough to have a short dream about taking care of a little boy. This morning I refreshed Felix the kitten's wet food and water. He ate both the wet and dry food and drank some water and then low and behold went and used the litter box to produce a hard dark brown colored poop. He peed a little too and then he covered most of it! I was very surprised that he knew to use the litter box as I didn't think a feral kitten would know to do this! This has me wondering if he was someone's kitten or someone's cats had kittens. Also as I held the kitten last night and this morning it let out some gas which concerned me. Is that possibly because of the new food? The kitten seems sleepy this morning and I will go check on it in a few minutes. As long as it is eating and drinking, it should be okay but if it continues to be sleepy, I will go back to the vet. I need to make an appointment for it to get vaccinated and a second dose of dewormer. Both Sylvester and Mia are a bit upset with me. Wen Mia smelled the kitten on me, she hissed. Sylvester seems okay now. Kitten stays in the bathroom till it gets it vaccinations and all the fleas die. I need to wash the fleece thing that was on the bottom of the cat carrier as Mia keeps hissing at the kittens smell on it and I need to wash it also in case there are any fleas on it.
I welcome any advice from our experience kitten fosters. I want to keep the kitten but cannot as my complex limit for pets is two and also do not think my two cats would welcome a third kitty. I probably will foster it for 4-5 weeks till it reaches 10-12 weeks nd then see about finding it a forever home.
