What do I do with an abandoned, stray kitten?
Now that you know about it and have given it some care, you can't just abandon it.Never mind that the shelters you called said they can't help you. Don't leave the kitten out there to die, which it will without warmth, food and care. Take it to a shelter. But keep in mind that unless it's a No-Kill Shelter, they will put it down. Kittens that young have to be hand-fed every couple of hours, which is a lot of time and work that most shelters can't afford to spare. They usually are forced to euthanize them unless they have volunteers to foster them.It's a sad fact. We got our cat Chance at three weeks because a friend who worked at a shelter called my husband to tell him they had several tiny kittens that would be put down unless we wanted one. My husband drove nearly two hours to the shelter just in time to save the last one. He brought him home for me because I was still grieving for an older cat we had just lost, and we had to wean him ourselves, feeding him and getting him on to solid food.If you can, I would say to adopt it. It's crying because it's lost, alone, scared and hungry. Who knows what happened to the mother that ended up with it all alone. Take it in, give it a warm bath, warm it up with a gentle towel massage, and keep it in a separate room from the dog until it gets used to the new smell. (The dog may even love it - you'd be surprised at how maternal some dogs can be with kittens). Get goat milk and wet cat food for kittens, mix it (2 parts milk for every 1 part wet food) and feed it every few hours. Every week lessen the milk and increase the wet food. If you decide to keep it, take it to a vet and have it de-wormed, checked for fleas and get its first round of shots. (Don't give it a flea bath at home - the chemicals are far too harsh. A simple warm bath, a pair of tweezers, a fine-tooth comb and some time in the bathroom can get rid of the worst of it. Drop the fleas in a container of soapy water. And do it in the bathroom - tile is much better than carpet for this, believe me.)Many cities and counties offer services that will cover a large part (or all) of the cost to get pets spayed or neutered, so check into that, too.But please don't just leave that kitten out there. Go get it right now. Please.
We found a baby bird in the street, did we do everything ok?
we found a very new baby bird (pretty sure its a robin) in the middle of the street, we figure the mom must have dropped it by accident. we didn't want all the passing cars to squish it so we found its abandoned nest, put the baby bird in it, using gloves of course and placed the nest near where the robins fly around our yard. we already saw some flying around but they haven't approached the nest. did we do everything right? is there anything else we can do? im so scared for this little bird's life. oh and also if they don't come to the nest for hours, should we move the bird somewhere else/feed it something? i don't know what to do and the vets wont take it in thanks so much!
If someone intentionally abandoned a baby on my doorstep, would I be allowed to keep it and raise it?
In the United States, certainly not! In a situation like this, the first step for you would be to call emergency services; the police, the medics.The infant is then brought to a hospital for evaluation and placed in the custody of the state, and attempts are made to find the parents. In many cases, the parents would have an opportunity to regain custody, depending on the circumstances of the abandonment. (Counseling and other social services would be mandated of course. Reunification would start with supervised visits.)If the parents or relatives aren’t found, the infant would be placed for adoption. Foundlings tend to get a lot of media attention and many people apply to adopt them. But, the process of legal adoption has many steps and prospective parents are scrutinized closely. There wouldn’t be any “Firsties”, “Hey, I found the baby first”, in the consideration of applications to adopt!Of course this is a theoretical question, but think it through. How would you know where the baby came from? As Moca pointed out, you’d be a suspect in the child’s disappearance, if the child had been kidnapped from someone else before ending up on your door step.A baby isn’t a puppy or kitten. Custody of children and the legal documentation of such is taken very seriously in the US and any kind of interference —even with the best of intentions—can result in legal trouble!
Can my mom stop me giving my baby up for adoption?
First off, I want to say I think you're making a very mature and honorable decision - don't let anyone tell you differently. There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting your child to have a better life with people who can provide more stability than you can. You're 15 years old, it's nothing to be ashamed of that you can't be the perfect mom right now. That kid has a chance at a loving mom, AND dad, who he or she will mean the world to, and it's great that you're thinking about it. Anyway, more to the point, no, your mom can't keep you from doing it. I believe that in some states, you are actually emancipated if you have a child. I do think, however, that there is a "family gets first pick" sort of rule - in that, she CAN choose to adopt the child. But that, I'm not sure about. (if you're absolutely against it.) (For reasons such as: She isn't well-off, and doesn't have the time, money, or dedication to really take care of a child as well as an adoptive couple could) If it does come to a point where she tries to adopt the child herself, I honestly think that once you see your baby you might be happy about that. You won't be the "legal guardian", thus, not responsible for coming up with resources for your child, or making hard, adult, parenting decisions, but you won't have to watch someone take off with your first baby forever, either. You may be able to get him/her back when you're maybe even... 18 or so. Or 25. When you're ready. If you don't want your mother to take the baby into adoption for personal reasons of your own, just make sure you have an intelligent, mature way to present your case in court. Something besides "She's my mom and she's being a jerk so I want to give the kid away to prove a point". If you truly think that an adoptive couple would be a better decision for your baby than you or your mother, back it up in court.
Why do mother's really abandon their babies?
When I was 3 months old, my biological mother abandoned me and 2 of my siblings. I never met my mother until I was 19 years old when she handed me a $20.00 bill and said "I love you, Son." Through the years, I've tried to forgive and forget, but every time I let her back into my life she causes something disasterous to occur either for myself or between me and my siblings. I am 54 years old now, and just can't seem to trust her fully. She said that she gave us up because she wanted to marry a man that didn't want little boys around, but the rumers were that he had roaming hands when it came to little boys and he could not be trusted around them. She divorced this man after only about a year, saying that he was not straight. My bio mom kept my sister but us boys were abandoned. Is this what motherhood is really all about? Is it easy to trust someone after this sort of experience? People have told me "Well, after all she IS your mother." .
How to raise a 3-week old orphaned puppy?
I found this three -week old puppy abandoned on the streets, I don't know what happened to its mother or the rest of the litter, but when I found it it was all alone and covered in ticks and fleas. I brought it to the vet, he says its old enough now to start eating dry food, he gave it its first de-worming and some medicine against the fleas/ticks. I am not in the States so the country where I'm living doesn't have rescue shelters or places like that, so I'm kind of on my own in raising this little guy and I need some help! Luckily I work from home, so I can give him a lot of attention but please advise me on what to do: 1) when can I start potty-training him? I set up a little crate sideways for him to walk in and out of with a fleece blanket and another blanket where he loves to sleep, and next to that area I put down a whole bunch of newspapers. the first day i let him have total freedom of my studio, which isn't so big, and he seemed pretty happy and he would come wobble out and wander around and pee or poop and then go back to sleep. He sleeps A LOT. Then the next day I closed off his little area with suitcases so he can't come out unless he pees/poops on his paper first, and if he does I reward him and pet him and act all excited and take him out. But i feel like this "wall" has really made him very anxious and he is becoming more needy and it is generally hard for him to poop, it is not coming naturally to him and the more I keep trying to pick him up mid-poop and bring him back there, the more he holds it in and resists. What I am wondering is simply if he is TOO SMALL to start this process? Perhaps he needs my attention, like a mother, for the next couple of weeks until he is around 5-6 weeks old, then I can start this process of being stricter and designating a potty area. He also can not leave the house until he has all his shots. What do I do? If I let him run free, aren't I setting a bad precedent? And aren't dogs creatures of habits? But then again, I hear that babby pups without their moms are very vulnerable and could even die if not handled correctly? Do I be a strict mother or gentle from now on...my boyfriend says I am spoiling him, that most people leave their dogs in these crates for hours on-end...but not 3 week old puppies!!??! Right??? Also, how long can I leave him alone for each day, in case I want to go to the gym or food shopping? Any advice?? Thanks!!!
What should you do if someone leaves a baby on your doorstep both if you want to legally keep the child as your own and if you do not?
In case ii, I'm not sure what you would do if you wanted to take the child in, but I'm pretty sure that it would be illegal in the US. First, abandoning a child is illegal, so the police would immediately start looking for whoever left her there. They'd also look for any other relatives. What if the baby is a kidnap victim? What if her mother left her there, but her father still wants her? Biology tends to be the deciding factor in such cases, so if a blood relative can be found who's willing to care for her, they'd probably be entitled to custody. In any case, Child Protective Services, or some equivalent agency would take custody of her, have her checked for any medical problems, then determine who has legal custody. If no living relatives can be found/are willing to take custody, then she'd be placed for adoption. Now, in the US, healthy infants are highly in demand for adoption. There are generally long waiting lists to adopt such a baby. You'd have very little chance of getting her. The only real hope you have is if the child is sick or disabled in some way, such that she's hard to find adoptive parents for. In such a case, you could apply to adopt her, but finding her on the doorstep really doesn't give you priority. The adoption agency would still have to go through all the steps to determine if you are a fit adoptive parent and to decide whether to place her with you. In most wealthy countries with well-established social systems, you can't just keep a baby you find. There are laws and procedures to decide who gets to raise her if the parents aren't willing. If the parents really wanted you to have her, there are a lot more papers they should have signed.
What causes feral cats to abandon their kittens?
See my feral foster kittens below. Feral feline mothers will only abandon their litter out of pure fear. I wouldn’t even say abandon because their maternal instincts are strong, so they will be close by, but you wouldn’t know because they’re hiding from you. The kittens also must feed frequently and to keep up her milk supply for her nursing babies, she must find food often but momma isn’t gone long.A feral cat is wild just like a raccoon or a rabbit, you can’t get near them.Every single kitten season here in New Jersey from March till about October hundreds of feral kittens from newborn to about 4 weeks old, (by this point in age they will run and hide making them harder to catch), come into our Shelter.What these kind hearted people do not realize is that when they stumble on a litter of tiny helpless kittens under a wood pile or inside an old shed they aren’t abandoned. Their mother must frequently feed herself to keep up her milk supply and or also she fled because you are there.The silver lining is that these kittens will become adoptable pets and will also be spayed or neutered. Last year I had 3 litters of “abandoned” kittens. I had gotten 2 separate litters that were about 2 weeks old and also had a momma give birth at the Shelter and took her home when her babies were 3hrs old. All successful endings!2 days old1 week oldReady for adoptionThis entire litter was adopted along with their momma!This is the 2nd litter 2.5 week old bottle babies successfully weaned and All four adopted!3rd litter successfully weaned and all three adopted!Being a surrogate mother for these helpless babies is what I feel I’ve been put on this earth to do, and I will do it every single year, every time the phone rings. The feeding schedule is like that of a newborn baby. Very tedious but 100% rewarding.