Newborn Kitty On Her Way To Her Foster Mum-Cat

Yesterday evening, the vet called. Someone had left a tiny newborn (eyes closed) kitten at his clinic. Would I know of any fosterers or anyone with a mum-cat who can nurse the little one?

I made a few phonecalls to friends and luckily Connie had a friend who has a nursing mum-cat.

Here’s the little kitty now, in Connie’s car, on the way to her new foster mum-cat.

Yesterday, the kitty’s eyes were still closed. Today, they are open, so that’s not so worrying.

Looks feisty, doesn’t he?

Have a good life, little kitty!

The milk and supplies provided by the vet.

Now, the reason I blogged this story now (lest people accuse us of practising double standards again!) is to let everyone know that we are keeping our policy of not blogging for fosterers. I did not blog about this yesterday and did not use this blog to shout-out for fosterers. I only called a few friends on a personal basis.

And in case new readers do not know why. It was because in November 2012, someone appealed for a fosterer for a newborn kitten. We found a fosterer and the arrangement between the requester and the fosterer was that the fosterer will look after the kitten for only an agreed duration. When the duration was up, the requester refused to take back the kitten citing personal reasons. The fosterer was scheduled for a work trip out of town, so she called us for help.

We were caught as we were the middle-person.

We couldn’t take over either because we have no shelter or fosterers.

So we had to blog again for another fosterer and luckily one of our readers responded to help us out.

What would have happened if nobody responded? Does it mean I have to personally take over the kitten? Is that fair on me? And it certainly wasn’t fair on the fosterer who had responded out of goodwill, friendship and most importantly, TRUST.

This is what happens when requesters do not honour their word. No matter what her personal reasons were, it is not right to just dump the kitten on the fosterer (who had honoured her part of the agreement for the said duration). And that is not all, another reader later wrote to us saying that this same person did the same thing on her as well, ie. rescued another kitten and asked for a fosterer for a certain duration, not through us, but through another channel. This reader responded and again, the person refused to pick up the kitten after that. It makes us wonder why anyone would want to do this. It is good that to pick up an infant street animal and ask for fosterers, but why deceive the fosterer into thinking that the fostering period is only for an agreed duration? Breaking one’s promise and not keeping one’s word are unacceptable behaviours. I know what it is like as Indy and Tiger were both dumped on me too.

So, this was the reason we stopped publicising for fosterers on 21st November 2012.

Previously too, we had requesters who promised financial support for their animals but did not do so and the fosterers were similarly caught and left with the responsibility of buying supplies for their fosters as well as rehoming them later. It has happened too often. It just took that last straw to break the camel’s back for us.

In yesterday’s case, I have the vet’s promise that he will take back the kitten for rehoming once the kitten is old enough so I asked friends for help. And the vet is a friend whom I can trust. I have personally fostered kittens for him too. He took them back for rehoming when they were old enough. So yesterday, I was doing it on a personal basis to help the vet. Me, not AnimalCare.

AnimalCare can do without the nightmare of dealing with requesters who do not honour their word.

I am also personally tired of dealing with people who do not keep their word. If there are two types of people whom I prefer to dissociate from, they are (1) the dishonest ones and (2) those who don’t honour their word.

Sorry folks, I know you sometimes need fosterers, but we cannot publicise for you. We can publicise for adoption, though. For fostering, please try other social media.

Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2013/07/18/newborn-kitty-on-her-way-to-her-foster-mum-cat/

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