During their recovery, the coyote kittens found new friends in foster mom Lori Lang and her English sheepdog, Romeo, who "stepped up to surrogate parent the little orphans."Posted on 11/15/2012 2:28:37 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
Orphaned after their mother died while protecting them from a coyote, four starving kittens were rescued and nursed back to health by the CATS Cradle Shelter in Fargo, N.D. Now all four kittens have been adopted together and are learning their way around their new home.
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During their recovery, the coyote kittens found new friends in foster mom Lori Lang and her English sheepdog, Romeo, who "stepped up to surrogate parent the little orphans."(Excerpt) Read more at mnn.com ...
Cuteness doesn’t begin to cover it.
About 5 yrs ago, we rescued 2 kittens that were about 4 weeks old and got separated from their mother and were caught in a blizzard.
My mom took one and my sister in law took the other. They are doing well, but my mom’s cat is totally Garfield and a real imp. Good problem solver though - he will stand on his hind legs, grab a 7# jug of water and walk it backwards to get into the cupboard where she keeps his cat treats.
I fed her with an eye dropper and she is not quite the cat!
As found
Now she is even bigger.
She is now an art critic and tries to take my brushes away from me.
I love it when kittehs show their smarts (as long as nothing valuable is damaged in the resulting avalanche).
Awww! What an adorable little tabby girl!
They are GORGEOUS! Best of luck to them.
Your kitteh is adorable!
Your kitteh is adorable!
Awww what a beautiful baby!!!
as long as nothing valuable is damaged in the resulting avalanche).
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That is sometimes a problem. They go back and forth with my mother between her summer and winter homes (both cats travel in the car real well and don’t mind hotel rooms), but the floor of the winter house is concrete and Sully likes to swipe glasses off the counter and watch them break. He seemed disappointed when it didn’t work at the farm (wood floors with vinyl) and they bounced instead of broke.
My tomcat likes to knock stuff down too. If he wasn’t such a sweetie I’d murder him.
I’m so sorry their mom died, but it’s great that they were all adopted by one family.
They are all beauties.
Honestly I don’t see any reason that coyotes/wolves/other predators that pose a risk to kitties shouldn’t be gunned down on sight, or at least removed before from where the are not supposed to be before domestic animal prey is allowed to enter the area. I’m surprised advocacy groups are not pushing for such a rule.
Cute kitties! Coyotes are the reason I won’t adopt a cat again.
(A mama giving her life to save her babies...Humans could take a lesson from this story.)
I have a cat who was lost from his mom, too. His eyes were barely open. He was in the rain yelling at the top of his little lungs. He yelled for a couple of hours before I realized it was a kitten. I thought it was a bird calling. I brought him in and had to feed him with a med dropper. Kitten milk from Walmart works really well. They tolerate it much better than regular milk. We named him Peanut cause he was so tiny. He is 3 yrs old now and he long ago outgrew the peanut status. Now he’s Mr. Peanut. He is huge! Its strange because he grew so much faster than normal house cats. He is just a big old sweetie.
Amazing that the coyote didn’t kill the kittens. On the other hand, I have no objection coyotes in rural areas help limit the population of feral cats. Coyotes do not prey on birds to the extent that “nobody’s” cats do.
Good thing there are enough birds for food for animals and birdwatchers, too. Wonder why the coyote just killed the mom and didn’t eat it.
Well we humans are 100% responsible for the feral cat over-population. We are responsible, too, for the destruction of habitat, pollution, and other effects of our presence that kills birds and other animals. I believe we have to step up and be responsible for the situation we have created. Allowing cats that should be to trapped and possibly put down in a veterinary clinic to be viciously taken down by wild predators is far from the most humane or more viable method of population control possible.
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