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I have a situation (with cats) that is requiring me to make a decision quickly on whether to keep a kitten, or give it to an adoption agency. I got the kitten a few weeks ago, with the momma cat, and I was letting them live under my bed until I could get a spay appointment for both of them. However, I have 2 cats of my own, and both of them were displeased about the guests. I let the momma cat go out one day when I had visitors, thinking that she would not want to leave the babe, and would come back. However, she took off, and I am now having a hard time trying to catch her again. The kitten stuck around, and put up with some hissing and territorial issues. My two cats pretty much had figured all that stuff out between them, with one staying mostly outside, but coming in at night, and for food- and she also had lots of friends in the neighborhood whom she visited- both human and feline. She stopped coming home because of the kitten, or would stop by, and then run out when she saw the kitten. I think that maybe she wasn't getting enough sleep. On friday morning, she was hit by a car and killed, and a neighbor left me a note. I wasn't able to locate her body, wanted to give her a full burial. Anyway, I have been in grief since then, thinking about her, missing her, hoping she wasn't in too much pain at the time. And feeling a little guilty, that maybe my trying to help the kitten stressed her, and made her less alert. At the same time, there is this kitten, and my other cat is always hissing at her, and not letting her on the bed, and getting upset when I give her attention. So I am just not sure what to do, and wondered if anybody else has had a similar situation, or could venture an opinion. thanx!
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