They saved a tiny kitten who was found listless on the street, and went back to find his surviving sibling so they could be reunited.
A woman from Montreal, Canada spotted a kitten lying on the street in the cold. He was just a bag of bones and very frail. She rushed him to a veterinary clinic where the staff reached out to a local rescue group for help.
The kitten was in need of foster care. A volunteer of Chatons Orphelins Montréal canceled his plans for the rest of the day and went to pick him up. “The kitten was in really bad shape and fading. He hadn’t eaten for a long time,” Celine Crom of the rescue told Love Meow. “He weighed 470 grams instead of 1.3 kg for his age.”
They worried that the kitten might not make it but wanted to do everything they could to save him. They cleaned his clogged up nose, gave him antibiotics and fluids. After syringe-feeding him, they wrapped him up in a blanket and kept him warm with a heat pad.
“He was so weak that he had trouble standing up and opening his eyes. That kitten wouldn’t have survived another night in the cold in that state,” Celine said.
They named him Kurt.
The first 24 hours were touch and go. He was fed every three hours and watched by a caretaker around the clock. Eventually, the little guy started to perk up. “He began to want to eat. Though slowly, that gave him every chance of survival,” Celine said.
Three days later, Kurt could finally eat from a dish on his own. His appetite came back and he started to gain weight and strength.
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