Kittens can be tough little creatures. My ex and I lived on a farm and he brought home a tiny kitten, planning to raise her as a barn cat. The little thing ran off into the cornfield behind the house and disappeared. I arrived home and tried to find her--no luck. A couple days later I heard a mewing from a big bush near the house, and we managed to extract a very scared kitten. I brought her inside and fed her and told the ex to forget about the barn cat idea, and my Keke girl was my best friend for 13 years.