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    Every Sunday I go to the farmer's market, and I pass a pet adoption on the way there. I like to stop and look at the kitties and puppies since it's on my walk anyway. Today there were lots of adorable kittens, a sweet old dog and an adorable puppy; I went on my way.

    On the way home, I stopped in again and noticed a kitty that had escaped my attention before. She was beautiful, all white with huge sad blue eyes. She was practically still a kitten - I'm guessing she was barely a year old, if that - and she was nursing a litter of kittens. These kittens were still nursing and they were each about half her size, so that tells you how small she was. She had the saddest eyes I've ever seen.

    I scratched behind her ears and stroked her under the chin, reaching my fingers through the cage. She looked up with profound gratitude and licked my fingers. She was just so very young and it looked like no one loved her at all. And to be that little and already have kittens - that birth must have been horrible for her.

    I wanted to take her and her kittens home right then. I'd love her and find good homes for the kittens once they were weaned, and make sure she never had to feel that sad or lonely ever again. I'd get her spayed and brush her every night and make sure the rest of her life was happy enough to make up for the sadness in those blue eyes. But I can't, because I have a 20-pound tomcat who HATES other cats and he would surely kill her kittens and probably her too. So I had to leave her behind.

    It's been hours and I still can't stop thinking about that little sweetheart. I really hope someone takes her in and gives her a happy life. I'm going to be haunted by those eyes for a really long time.

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    Yek that is so sad. I would so take that kitty(and her kittens) in a heartbeat if i had a stable place to live.

    Nothing is worse than seeing sadness in a child's eyes, or an animals'. Both seem to hit me deep down inside my heart(if that makes sense). Makes me want to do whatever I can to remove that sadness.
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    Same here. I'm STILL upset about that poor little mama-kitten.

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    Oh, this stuff always brings tears to my eyes.
    I want a kitty!!!



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    Isn't it funny how vicious species can be so touched by the suffering of another smaller animal? I remember reading about a little kid who climbed into a gorilla enclosure at the zoo when no one was looking. A female gorilla immediately picked him up, very gently, and took him to a quiet place where the other gorillas wouldn't notice him. When he cried, she sat next to him and stroked his hair with her thumb. That was how the zookeepers found them when they arrived to rescue the kid... he was curled up against her, tears on his cheeks and sucking his thumb, with her arm around him and her thumb stroking his hair. If it had been a grown man climbing into her home, she might've knocked him into next week, but she was going to take care of that little kid!

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    O.K. You all made me cry!

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    I'd really want to adopt her too. It's sad how many cats and dogs are put to sleep. I have a cat now and about every other day I think about wanting a kitten but I don't think my current cat would not adjust well to it. Also bf says 1 is enough.

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    AAARRRGGHH!!!

    You are killing me with this piteous, woeful tale of miserable kitties!

    Don't you know I have been dying to get a kitty for months on end now? If I saw that now, I'd be ruined, lol.

    I'd be running out and looking for strays right now after reading that, immediately--but I cannot have a kitty, if I'm thinking of moving to Orlando, Vegas, NorthCarolina, Washington state, back to Austin, or who the hell knows where right now!

    My first kitty was preggers when I got her at about 5 months of age, her belly kept swelling and we took her to a vet who thought she might have been hit by a car, that's how weird it was--we freaked when it kept growing, took her back, and he then immediately exclaimed "She's pregnant!" Some brutal, vicious Chicago street tom must have raped her, because she was pretty small to begin with,

    The pregnancy went well, but she had a tough time nursing them, in fact one of the kittens didn't make it, and another we had to take in for transfusions. She wasn't too happy about all of that part, but she recovered nicely.

    She was a sweet kitty, too--she would run along next to me on my bicycle until I crossed a street, and then run back and forth at the curb, crying because she was scared to follow me (she did get hit by a car once, only bad enough to scare hell out of her).

    Damn...
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    Awwww I'm sad! It's weird, I can see people that are upset and only think about it for a second, but an animal consumes me. Anybody, animal or human, who is helpless kills me. *Sigh*

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    Default Re: This is so silly but I can't help it!

    I have a self-imposed rule now of no pets for the time being, because I'm not at home enough to properly care for one.

    I can't help, though, thinking of the song, "Bless the Beasts and the Children" whenever I read something similar to Yekhefah's initial post starting this thread.

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