CDS left my deliveries out in the rain
Huge storm rolled through on Tuesday night. We heard crying, and at 11pm in a torrential downpour we found 5 kittens in a rapidly flooding den under our house. If we'd been any later, they wouldn't have made it - one of them was literally swimming when I scooped it up! A few chaotic hours later--what do newborn kittens eat? How do we feed them? What stores are even open right now? Where did we put that electric blanket?--we whipped up some "emergency DIY kitten formula" from a recipe we found online, fed them with syringes, and managed to keep them alive until we could get proper kitten formula at 6am when Walmart opened.
Today is day 6 with the kittens, and Kitten Lady's website is our bible. All of them are steadily gaining weight, and they learned to purr on Saturday! My heart is going to burst out of my chest. I may be horrifically sleep deprived, but this is the most rewarding thing I've done in a long time!
The kicker: three weeks ago, my brother was trying to convince me to take a cat his friend found, but I insisted that I couldn't handle a third animal--I already have a dog and a cat. CDS doesn't make mistakes, my delivery was still being prepared. Now I have 7 animals, and 5 of them have to be bottle-fed and manually stimulated to potty.
And in case anyone asks: haven't found mama cat.