What would you do if you found a lost kitten?
Have you ever found a lost animal? What did you do?
Hubby and found this soaking wet lost kitten while on our walk today.
We thought he might have been hurt -- just cowering in a puddle in the middle of a parking lot next to a busy street.
He had a collar with a bell. But no ID tag. Seemed awfully young to be out in the torrential storms we've been having here.
Gave him some food -- he was ravenous.
Wrapped him in a towel and dried him off.
Took him to 3 different vets to see if
a) he was microchipped (not) and
b) someone had filed a missing cat report (nope).
I also posted a "found kitten" ad on Craigslist.
Finally brought him to the city animal shelter. The owners now have 3 days to claim him.
Then we have first right of adoption before they advertise him to the public.
I guess if we are meant to have this little guy, that's how it will work out.
We have four already. What's one more?
However, if anyone out there in hubberland is in the market for a very, very friendly boy, we're more than willing to oblige...Bless you for caring so much. This little boy found you, and if his owners don't turn up then it happened for a reason. We don't always adopt our pets, they frequently adopt us instead
I always bring them home. When you find an animal like that, you are intended to keep it!
Too funny! At least you kept your "pet"!
- PrettyPantherposted 11 years ago
0You keep it, of course! Here are the latest additions to our farm family: Frodo, Sam, and Pippin.
Adopted pets are often the best pets. - Sarra Garrettposted 11 years ago0
i cant begin to count how many friends i rescued over the years. i remember when i was younger and staying with my uncle, i saw a little dog, maybe a pup, running down the street and i prepared to go get it. he asked me what i was going to do with it, i told him i planned on taking care of it til i could find it a good home. he asked me how do i know the pup didnt belong to someone and was just lost, maybe there was some kid out there crying his eyes out because his pup was missing. so i didnt go get it. today, being much older and living with my parents who also love animals, i have an answer to that. i DO know accidents happen and animals escape...but 90 percent of the time an animal is running around because it was not being looked after properly. if i see a animal running around and no human, i will rescue it. i keep it til i know its healthy, then i find it a good home. only once in all my years of rescuing did anyone come searching for their lost animal. we lived out in the country, farmland, and one morning i heard a pup baying/howling. i traced the sound out into the frozen swamp area where i found an adorable beagle...he had probably chased a bunny into the swamp area and then could not find his way out, so i took him home. we had him most of one day before someone came looking for him. oh yes, and there was Bobby. i found Bobby, a very young manx kitten, hiding under the tire of a pepsi diesel in the store parking lot. i picked him up and took him with me in the store and asked if anyone knew who he belonged to. no one knew so mom and i decided to keep him. we bought cat litter and kitten food and some water, (we planned to be out most of the day). just as we finished paying for all the stuff a drunk man came in. he said thats my kitten. i said then how did it get here (the man lived across the street behind the post office. he said i dont know must have followed someone. Betty, the cashier told him, well they just bought a bunch of stuff for the kitten, you better let them have it, so he shrugged and let us keep him. sadly i had him but a few days when i had to take him to the vet and learned about spina bifida, and i had to have him put down. that was a hard thing to do as i had already fallen head over heels for the little guy. so anyways, my belief is if the animal is well cared for it wont end up lost. out here to many pweople believe in allowing their pets to run and roam and fend for themselves, so when i find an animal and no human i take it. and i care for it and i find it a home where it will be well cared for. i never even consider if the animal belongs to someone. heck, one winter i went out to feed the horses only to find a very young filly in the pasture. how it got there i can only guess, we think she simply walked on the snow over the fence. needless to say she was a walking skeleton. so i kept her. since the pasture is very visible from the road i figured if her owner saw her they would come for her. i had her a year before a man showed up claiming her. he said he had separated from his wife and had been in rapid city trying to get his horses and belongings and he came looking for them to find everyting gone. a friend told him the filly was at my place. that was sad as i loved the filly and had put moch time money and effort in her care and training. but i could not keep her when she bleonged to someone else. so in answetr (i know a long one im sorry) to your question...keep them. if someone comes askinig then you might still get to keep it but you might now. we have a dog we took in over a year ago. a pit bull. here they can be shot on sight by anyone, no questions asked, and he is so super human friendly and dog friendly. he simply loves everyone. not a good watch dog at all. so we keep him tied on a 50 ft run out of sight of the road for his own safety. one day a couple of months ago a man came by...he lives a couple of miles away. he said i think thats my dog. and the dog did seem to recognize him. but i told him...i hope you dont mind us keeping him, my dad is awefully attached. he said no, you can keep him, he has been gone to long from us now. so we got to keep him. so it never hurts to ask. anyway i about wrote a book so i better stop here.
MM, when my kids were little I felt like the pied piper, I always had them and their friends. As they became more independent, I found all these animals *That just needed to be taken care of* I became a bit like Noah. I'd probably take the little fella, you found each other, he needs a home and you clearly like him. There's always room *or a little 'un*
He's officially listed on the shelter's website.
With a whole bunch of other lost/found kitties.
I couldn't resist today and drove over to see if I could go see him. I mean, they include the kennel number and everything.
But they would not let me!
Didn't occur to me not to tell the truth, that we were the ones who brought him in, not his real owners there to pick him up.
Oh well.
I feel like we've done our part.
Three business days and his owners will figure it out -- see him listed on Craigslist or on the shelter website. And claim him -- and hopefully take better care of him.
Or else he will come home to live at our house.
And get a better name than Little Timmy (my husband's nod to Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol).Once we found a "found" kitten! The neighbors took turns to "look after" him. Eventually he adopted us. The kids down the lane used to take him away occasionally to "spend the day" with their cats. He always used to look forward to such outings. Such a social dude he was!
I like that solution. Everyone gets to share in the kitty's affections!
I was careful in the Craigslist post to leave out key information that would for sure identify this kitten.
The collar it was wearing -- the only way we knew he was not a feral stray.
But so far not a single inquiry from Craigslist.
The reason we took him to the shelter is that by the time we found him our vet was closed (Saturday). Otherwise we would have gotten him physically checked out ourselves.
We would not have simply brought an unknown feline into our house where we have 4 healthy indoor-only cats. Putting their health at risk would not be fair.
IDK. This seems to me like the mature, sensible (as opposed to completely emotion-driven) solution.
We are giving his owners a reasonable opportunity to get him back.
We are getting him checked out medically to make sure he's ok.
We will end up paying an adoption fee to the shelter for him, but it's worth it to make sure he's not sick.
BTW, two of our four cats are from the same shelter.
Our other two are also rescue cats. Jimmy's story is chronicled in my "How a Rescue Cat Rescued My Marriage" hub.
Tina, our 1-year-old, was hanging around a friend's condo and she couldn't take her but wanted her to have a good home. Of course I had her medically checked out before bringing her into our home as a 2011 Christmas gift for Hubby).I recently took in an abandoned cat. Her name is Ki Ki. (we just call her kitty.)
An employee of the campground had this cat, and was let go, and when he left he abandoned the cat. Another person took her in, and also abandoned her. So, yet another person took her in, and was in wait to take her to the humane society, who would most likely end up putting her down due to having an over loaded shelter. And, not enough people willing to adopt.
The truth of the matter is, that these so-called animal shelters are asking for too much money for people to adopt, and have too many required fees on top of adoption, that not many people can afford to adopt from a shelter. If they were serious about wanting these animals to have a home, they would reduce the amount of money they are asking for to get more people to adopt a pet.
We love her. She is very affectionate, and moves faster than lightning. She has developed a love affair with one of my mom's slippers. I'm so glad I gave her a home.
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