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.


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