Originally Posted by Janet Wilder[_1_]

We are still raising a foster kitten. She's about 5 weeks old now and
doing fabulously well. She'll go to the shelter for shots and a forever
home next Wednesday.

This morning our Toy Poodle found three tiny kittens under our
motorhome. Their eyes were closed. Two were huddled together and the
third was off to the side.

We waited several hours to see if the mom would come back, but she did
not. One of them managed to move out from under the motorhome and was
exposed. I had to put it in a box and take it into the garage as we
have a lot of large raptor birds around here. Could not bring it in the
house and possibly expose the kitten and my dog to any diseases they
might have had.

Waited again, but still no mom, so DH moved the motorhome and scooped up
the other two and took the three of them to the shelter before the fire
ants found them.

There was no way I could handle 3 babies of less than a week old. The
shelter confirmed that they were about 4 days old and put them down. (Of
course I feel horrible, but I can't handle 3 newborns who would need
more care than I am capable of giving)

My question is why do mother cats abandon their babies? I tried looking
on the Internet but could not find a reasonable answer. There are a
number of cat experts here, so I thought I'd ask.
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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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