Baby Kitties at School :)

[Jessika]

Oh no worries, they will all be spayed and neutered before being adopted out. In fact, we were able to watch a neuter last week of a dog named Costello, and last night they had to do an emergency spay on another pregnant mama, Paula, who's cervix was open for more than 24 hours because she was aborting her kittens and was at very high risk for infection... All kittens were stillborn, some were severely underdeveloped (one's cartilage hadn't even started to harden yet to form bones, the poor kitten was... and I hate using this description, just... skin and "goo", others were more developed but some had clearly been aborted earlier in the pregnancy) and the mama is still at high risk for infection... it was either lose the kitties AND mama, or lose the kitties... but either way the kitties were dead It's sad... the mama is still "in ICU" you could call it, and it's still iffy either way.

But they care so much about the animals here, we actually are graded on how well we care for them, and it's a huge chunk of our grade and if we continually are late to kennel and/or mess up we can even be dismissed from the program, even if we have otherwise perfect grades. That's how serious they are here about the animals' welfare.

But yeah, all animals are scheduled to be spayed/neutered before we adopt them back out. All animals we receive are from a local no-kill shelter

[pitc9]

Oh they are too cute!

How sad about Paula's kittens.