Cat owner completely overwhelmed with hand rearing - family drama in Bergheim
Created: 09/16/2022, 04:54
By: Sandra Barbara Furtner
Animal rescuers receive a call for help from a woman who is overwhelmed with raising her kittens.
They are in danger of dying.
Animal shelter intervenes.
When the mother cat is struggling and unable to care for her offspring, humans must intervene and hand-raise the young kittens.
A cat owner also tried this, but failed because of the challenge.
But she is smart and brave enough to go to an animal shelter and ask for help.
Cat owner completely overwhelmed - family drama in Bergheim
An entire family of cats is now cared for at the shelter.
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Even if the animal shelters are bursting at the seams and actually have no more space, they lovingly take care of the helpless kittens.
How about this kitten that a breeder disposed of like garbage because it was too ugly for him.
The team at the Bergheim animal shelter recently reported on their Instagram page: "As you now know, we never really get any rest and since yesterday the colleagues from the cat department have been faced with a very special challenge: we received a call for help from an owner whose female cat was accidentally mated by her own tomcat.”
Cat owner completely overwhelmed - mother can no longer take care of babies
But the mother's teats become inflamed and she is no longer able to adequately feed her babies.
Now it's up to humans to hand raise the kittens.
In the beginning, the little ones need a bottle of substitute milk every two hours.
The abdomen must then be massaged to stimulate urination and defecation.
A lot of warmth and security is particularly important.
This can be stressful at times and takes a lot of time.
When the cat owner noticed this and couldn't cope with hand-rearing, she asked for help.
"You know us, we can hardly say no and so yesterday she brought the whole family to us.
A kitten sadly passed away on the way to the shelter and now we are doing everything humanly possible to save the rest of the family," says a shelter worker.
In the comments, many animal lovers praise the grandiose effort.
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"Once again great your help ❤️ as always ❤️."
"Such beautiful kittens ❤️ you really are the heroes of the fur noses.
It never ceases to amaze me how responsibility is shamelessly delegated away.”
"All the best to the little family.
🍀❤️”
“She had the courage to ask for help … !
Thanks for stepping in.
♥️”
