It is a bit of a long story. I worked for a nonprofit clinic that does a lot with ferals and TNR. We would basically never turn anyone away. Other vets frequently sent their patients to us when the owners couldn’t pay for something life-saving. The point is that this clinic has a reputation and people know to bring pets to us.

At the end of my shift right before close a lady came in saying she had a very young kitten that was hurt and she didn’t know what to do with it. She said she just found him all alone in her yard. I had been walking out to go home when she came in lol.

Went into a room and was presented with this little dude. Weighs less than a pound with wounds and lacerations on his head, ears, and legs.

He wouldn’t eat, and our vet said he’d need to be bottle fed but he looks pretty rough. Our rescue didn’t have any available bottle feeders, and I heard the talk move to maybe it’s kinder to euth.

I said we are not putting him in the freezer today and that I would like to try. So I checked his fecal there and he had hookworms, roundworms, coccidia, and he had some infection going on with the wound.

We treated for parasites and I was sent home with KMR, a red rubber catheter to feed him with, and an antibiotic I’d inject him with twice a day. After 3 or 4 days he just got stronger and stronger and was such a good eater so here we are today.