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Lillepus, my brother's cat, was supposed to get sterilized, but the vet said she was too young. Shortly after, before the new time the vet gave them, she became pregnant. Not wanting to abort the kittens my brother decided to wait till after they were born. During this time he found 5 feral kittens in a dumpster at his work. He brought 4 of them home with him (the fifth a co-worker took). The now very pregnant Lillepus took to the young ones right away! She took care of them, washed them and would probably let them suckle had they tried (they suckled on every surface they got purchase, so not sure why they didn't try) 



The fluffy white one was a female called Milky (got a new home at 8 weeks old. To early for my taste, but it was their decision), the black was a male called Zorro, and the spotted one we called Spotify and believed to be a male until she gave birth ^^; (one still born and one rejected during the night, so unfortunately both kittens died =( )

Spotify was kept by my brother for a year before being re-homed due to moving. She was still so tiny that we managed to find a new home for her =)

Zorro worried me as he had an extremely large scrotum. He seemed to get better, but after a few weeks he still seemed to have some pains, and was taken to the vet. Apparently he had no but hole, the scrotum had simply ruptured in the area where it should have been. Fixing it would be hard, and he would still have pains the rest of his life, so he was put to sleep. 



These photos was taken on top of their soft padded climbing post, which I used to get better photos. The mother was nice and calm and never reacted on the kittens being moved at all =) 
I also made sure to only keep them for a minute at a time. The bigger kittens where very curious about the little ones, and so careful so we let them come close under close supervision. They where all perfectly safe and happy =^_^=

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Jul 19, 2012, 2:21:44 PM
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You need to find a new vet. I thought all vets fix them once they are about 3 or 4 months old. If the vet would have done that then the cat would not have gotten pregnant. All though the fact that most of her liter died, tells me she was probably too young. Also the did the vet explain why or how zorro's anus closed up???  Because he could not have been born that way. He would not have lived over a week. 8 weeks is ok to give a kitten away unless its health is not good.... I got my little guy when he was only 4 wks. But that was because his feral mother abandoned him. And the woman I got him from, brought him into her home when he was around 3 wks. He was sickly and she had a lot of things going on and was trying to work. She lives about 4 hours from me and she had to come down here, so she asked if I would care for him. She wasn't sure if he would die during the drive. But she could not leave him alone. So she brought him to me and I fell in love and he got better. But he had some kind of virus and his butt was raw and he was weak. Maybe thats what happened to zorro. 
I think my cat was abandoned  because he was sick. And another kitten from that same feral barn cat where my cat came from... anyway the woman ended up bringing him in and spent all kinds of money trying to find out what was wrong with him. Because whenever he would have to have a bowel movement he would make a screaming type noise, or sometimes he would make that noise and act like he was in pain... she figured it was something intestinal and certain foods would bother him. So she switched food and final found one that he didn't seem to have trouble with. He eventually just got over it after he was around 2 yrs old. Her cats go outside, so its kind of hard to control what they eat out there lol.
Anyway it was nice of your brother to try and find homes for the dumpster kittens. I don't know what is wrong with people. They could of at least taken them to a shelter. If nobody found them, they would have died in the dumpster and it would have been a hard death too... starvation and dehydration. No matter how cute kittens and puppies are, its always better to get them fixed. (I know you tried) but people like the dumpster dumpers should get their animals fixed... no those types shouldn't have any animals except maybe a gia pet