Throwaway kittens

After 5pm on Sunday December 18, 2016 a stranger drew our attention to two kittens up a tree along a busy road.  She had been walking along and heard their cries.  She returned with food and tried to get them to come down. (Thank you, kind lady.)

They were three to four weeks old.  I got both down and took them home.  We fed and watered them - a tortoiseshell and ginger.  Almost immediately they explored their environment, doing what kittens do, the ginger more nervous than the other, bringing smiles to our faces.

Matthew Michael Jackson* (left), Eve

This part of the road is separated from houses.  Kittens this age would not leave their mother, and it's too far for them to accidentally have walked off - it just doesn't happen.  We concluded they had been dumped there over the past few days.

To the person who did this, it was cowardly and cruel.  First, why did you not spay the  mother cat?  Second, there are humane alternatives available: adoption or take them to one of the pro-life animal welfare societies.

Your neighbours may not have seen what you did.  But if you believe in a higher power note this: what you did will be recorded and entered on the balance sheet that is your life, even for such a tiny creature.  Perhaps you don't believe in something greater than you, and your selfishness and material comfort is all that matters.  In this holy season of giving and sharing, that is a sorry thought and you a sorry person.

The kittens are growing well, but covered in fleas.  The vet said it's too early to use standard de-flea products.  I tried natural remedies like apple cide vinegar but it didn't work.

* Matthew is actually a girl.  I gave him a boy's name before her sex was confirmed.  I suggested the alternative "Jemima" or "Gemma", which was not popular.