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Warpy

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3. Here's something that might help

Thu May 9, 2024, 11:12 AM

May 2024

It will make you wonder how any kittens survive:
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https://www.catster.com/guides/why-do-kittens-sometimes-die-suddenly/

Human strategy is to have one offspring at a time and devote all their energy to that offspring. Cat strategy is to have a litter and eliminate the weak ones and hope one or two kittens from multiple litters make it to breeding age. It seems cruel, but we'd be up to our armpits in cats if they all survived. You and I wouldn't mind that but most people would and the cats wouldn't like it much, either.

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I want to thank everyone for their kind words of support [View all] Siwsan May 2024 OP

huggggggggs to you, dear one. We were all almost as stunned niyad May 2024 #1

Saving these hypoglycemic, cold babies abandoned so early by their mother is so damned tough... hlthe2b May 2024 #2

Here's something that might help Warpy May 2024 #3

RIP for kitten XanaDUer2 May 2024 #4

I hope it was some comfort to see how many lives she touched... 3catwoman3 May 2024 #5

Good to hear... 2naSalit May 2024 #6

I've had so many pet losses in my life, from pets to ferals and rescues. Lunabell May 2024 #7

I'm so very sorry! *hugs* GPV May 2024 #8

You did the best you could, everything you could. CaptainTruth May 2024 #9

You are still an incredible human. onecaliberal May 2024 #10

And that's all you can do. calimary May 2024 #11

Your rescue stories SARose May 2024 #12

You extended a life that could had been gone sooner LiberalFighter May 2024 #13