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Thanks everyone for your wonderful replies! I need people to talk me out of this now! :D ;)
I just heard the results of the X ray from the vet. I hate people. Vet determined that the kittens were all "intentially mutillated". It just makes me want to cry. :(
Oh my gosh ... that is HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!:mad: To think what that baby has been through, and she still loves humans like she does ..... Kim, you have to keep her!:(
Damn. How unhappy does someone have to be to do that? :(
Liz
I'm not so sure I'd go by one vet's assumption. I have a pair of cats here that belonged to my (thankfully X-neighbor). Lana's uncle let his cat keep reproducing, and then let his teenage (at the time) neice pick and choose the kittens she wanted. I was getting blue in the face trying to get through to her, and her family how important spay/neutering etc. was...but to no avail. So I went to step #2 and just made the kittens go *POOF* one by one. Impy was my first with half a hind leg, which ended up being amputated at the hip due to him being a rambunctious kitten, and outside at the time. Gabriel, and his sister Nicki were from another litter born to the same mom cat. Gabe has stumps, and Nicki half a hind leg...all were born that way. Either the umbilical cord cut off the blood supply, or the mom cat chewed the legs off as she was birthing the kittens. It happens. ;) And Skippy is also missing a portion of his leg, so it's not so uncommon. ;) I'm amazed that you couldn't make out the initials on Flutter's head! Look at how many others saw them...time for an eye exam for you Kim! ;) :) And a head exam if you think she's leaving your house! :D ~giggle~ snort~ chuckle!!!
Oh! I'm so sorry to hear that Flutter and her sister might have been intentionally hurt.
My friend Val rushed a newborn kitten to the vet when it's inexperienced mom chewed off one of it's legs. The vet started to accuse Val of intentionally hurting the kitten when the other volunteers came to her defense. Unfortunately, it happens with over-enthusiastic cleaning by an inexperienced mom.
Whatever the cause, Flutter and her sister should have wonderful lives from here on out.
Flutter is adorable! I couldn't have been able to resist her either! Now ya know why I don't foster!
Melissa
LOL... guys, hubby's finally gotten a chance to see Flutter. Last night she was in a spare room and I checked up on her in there. I was able to bring her out today because the vet sad her earmites would be dead by this morning... anyway....
Hubby has met her, and won't comment on her except he has nicknamed her. Her new name according Grant is....
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TRIPOD! Oh my God, I almost fell over laughing. And let me tell you, he does NOT nickname them unless he likes them. The only other one he nicknamed was Murphy, and he loved the little dude. Yes, its a TERRIBLE nickname... but there have been worse (Lori, what was your husband calling Rumor for a while... Prunella pudding pants I recall? :D )