Un, dos, tres

Sad as it is, there are still a lot of shelters that kill animals when those places are over populated. I wonder why people don't get their pets spayed/neutered. They think it is "cruel" to spay/neuter those animals but then is it "humane" enough to have healthy baby animals killed just because the shelters are over populated? Anyway, I don't want to argue in favor of spaying/neutering, there's basically no point AGAINST that!

Eggroll

Nimbus

There are also quite a few shelters who save death row animals by taking surplus animals in from there. I personally know of some people who have offered to foster or even adopt these animals, who would have otherwise been put to death. Seattle Humane Society recently got a whole batch of teeny tiny kittens from some animal shelters in Eastern Washington. A lot of those kittens already went to their forever homes to loving families, but there are still quite a few who are either sick, underweight or very young to be up for adoption. As foster parents, we were asked if we could help. Neither Arnab nor I had any experience with young kittens. Fun to look at, they are a lot of work. Unlike Mota and May who had come to us as respectable adults, little kittens need supervision while they eat, they may not be housetrained (a lot of carpet cleaning is needed) and they have so much energy that it is very probable for them to chew up cords, get into nooks and crannies, slip out from under closed doors and stuff like that. However, we still volunteered and took three kittens in.

Tangy peeking out from under the sink

Eggroll talking to Tangy

They are around 5-6 weeks old, one still wobbles while walking but he/she (we don't know yet) lacks no energy. Eggroll, as the kitty is named, was jumping on to the floor from Arnab's knees and tried to climb up my leg this morning, chewing and clawing at my denim. Nimbus, a black and white kitty is a hearty eater and Tangy, an orange-white tabby (yes, ANOTHER orange cat) is a little shy with people but with Eggroll, she (we think it's a girl) would fight and roll around. They are splashing in their water bowl, falling backwards in their food and scattering the nuggets all around. One also wiped his paws on the wall after using the litter box :) They are fun to have in the house. Though Mota and May are not happy with "unruly little kids" in the house, as they don't have to interact with one another, we are not much bothered.

Tangy, Nimbus and Eggroll will have to stay with us until they are a little older and weigh around 2 lbs. It will be very hard for us to return them to Seattle Humane, but I am sure these cute, tiny, cuddly kitties would soon bask in lots of love and care throughout their lives in their forever homes.