Abandoned Kittens!

Fleurpepper

This has gruly upset me too.

And who and how, does anyone end up with 28 kittens?

Bred commercially for what purpose? Just sickening.

The average fertile house cat has six kittens in a litter and comes into heat again seven weeks after giving birth during the summer months. So a household or farm with four or five queenie cats can mangage 28 kittens relatively fast.

Some of the breeds sold as pedigree cats have or can have up to eleven kittens at a time.

I totally agree that allowing fertile cats to breed like this is irresponsible, but is mathematically and zoologically possible.

I know Christine Bayka who runs The Moggery in Bristol and have had a rescue kitten - my lovely Tilly - from her in the past.

She sends me her newsletter every month and honestly, she is a saint. She works tirelessly for cats and kittens, will stay up all night bottle-feeding newborn kittens, and her charity pays for them to be spayed/neutered free of charge for negligent owners.

At least they were left at the shelter, not put in a sack and thrown in the river like has happened to other animals…😢

It's very sad.

Callistemon21

Do people buy kittens when so many are available from rescue centres?

They were filthy and flea-ridden, poor little things.

My 2 rescue kittens cost £500 a couple of years ago for the pair from a reputable shelter - they were removed by the police in very poor condition and one has a permanent disability

Although we have another lovely cat who we found living behind the wheelie bins. She was abandoned in the forest near our house but when winter came she almost starved to death - she was emaciated and had been coming into our garden to eat bird food. Although these days she thinks she's a princess.

Likely these kittens were abandoned by an animal hoarder who could not cope anymore - or perhaps the owner was evicted or died

Do people buy kittens when so many are available from rescue centres?

They were filthy and flea-ridden, poor little things.

So many people rushed out to buy a dog or a cat during the pandemic. They thought they'd be working from home forever. And now that the majority of people are back in their workplace, rescue kennels are struggling to cope with the numbers of abandoned and unwanted animals. People can be so thoughtless.

My guess is that the owner was struggling to sell them as there are so many kittens available these days. It’s the same with dogs and puppies. Rescues are overflowing and healthy animals are being killed because there’s nowhere for them to go. If only people would go to rescues instead of buying from the greeders (greedy breeders) then we wouldn’t be seeing awful stories such as this.

Fleurpepper

This has gruly upset me too.

And who and how, does anyone end up with 28 kittens?

Bred commercially for what purpose? Just sickening.

Well, I don't know why they can have been bred commercially then dumped, but it seems odd if someone owned the mothers and they all produced kittens at about the same time.

I hope we hear more about this, who is responsible.

How awful. The poor mother cats. At least the kittens will be well cared for and hopefully find good homes.

Poor little things.

I think it's a small charity and the person who runs it has been up all night, feeding the youngest ones.

This has gruly upset me too.

And who and how, does anyone end up with 28 kittens?

Bred commercially for what purpose? Just sickening.

I tried to include the picture but it wouldn't post.

You can see it in the link