07/11/2026
2026 has been the worst kitten season we’ve seen yet.
We apologize for the lack of posting. We have been dealing with intake after intake, and a whole lot of loss💔
The loss that hurt the most was my little nugget, the single kitten we had been bottle feeding round the clock with hopes he would make it. Nugget was on very strong antibiotics, nutrient gel, kmr, and eye drops. We tried and our partners at Coyne fought with us. Nugget passed in his sleep one evening. I had just fed, burped, and stimulated him only 20 minutes before. I’m crying typing this because even though he was maybe 7-10 days old, he was with me day and night for the time we had him. Nugget, I will continue to do what we do in your honor and memory🤍
Shortly before nugget, there was Woody and then Annie. Woody was Mama Olive’s sickly runt that unfortunately did not survive past ~2 weeks. Annie was found alone and given to mama Olive to try and save her. We monitored her round the clock, but unfortunately by the time we had received her, she had already been without her mom for over 24 hours and she was too far gone for us to even bottle feed successfully.
An unexpected loss was fiesty little Bastian from our little mermaid litter of 3 (now with a new addition, Ursula). Bastian started to get very sick almost overnight and we rushed him to Coyne. He was nebulized, started on antibiotics, and getting extra nutrients and round the clock monitoring and care. Even though he was the biggest and looked to be the healthiest in his litter, our sweet Bastian passed away less than 48 hours after starting to show symptoms. We believe he suffered from fks💔
After nugget, we took in another pregnant mama (name still tbd) who had 6 very small kittens. 2 of those kittens unfortunately passed less than 48 hours after their birth. We then received a call from our friends at Big Dogs Don’t Cry Inc. to see if we could bottle feed 2 kittens a mama had delivered at crossroads but did not survive delivery. We said yes, but one passed that night and the other made it less than a day more. Then came 4 less than a week old grey tabby kittens. One was found outside of an old barn, 2 inside of a plastic bag within the barn, and the other in the barn as well. We lost the 2 from the bag within 24 hours, the smallest 3 days later. So far their remaining sibling, Wolfie, is thriving, gaining a nice plump belly, and starting to open his eyes and ears, all thanks to our surrogate mama🩷.
All this to say, we have been quite busy. These are the losses we have been facing, besides a personal pet loss in our family. These aren’t even all of the little ones we have taken in recently. These are the stories we share to let you know the reality of what happens when you don’t spay/neuter your pets. PLEASE always spay and neuter, keep your pets vaccinated, and treat them with all the love in the world. They might not be here for all our life, but we are there for all of theirs❤️🩹
🐾🩷~Kyla’s Helping Paws Inc.~🩷🐾
