My boyfriend and i have been crying most of the afternoon. The runt of the litter, Dean, who my boyfriend wanted to keep, passed around 12:20 pm today. 
We tried our best for him. I'm so anxious about the rest of the litter despite them doing well. This is haunting me 
Hold your babies tight tonight. Dean made it 10 days and I'm so proud of his hard work
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hey lois this is just like the time Brian passed away
!familyman in memory of brian 
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!downmarseyrs kittenmisia
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I dropped more than a downmarsey on his butt.
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OWO CHUD AWARD ULTRA COMBOOOOO
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racist
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I'm sorry. I hoped he'd make it too.
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He was and will forever be our special little beanie baby....
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:#marseybeanu:
God speed little one and rest in power
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I don't know if this will make you feel any better, but this is how it works with kittens. Usually one of them doesn't make it past this phase. That's just how their life cycle works. One dies so the rest can be stronger.
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I understand. Truly, it's not... terribly shocking that it happened. But he faked me out by making it past the first 72 hours. I know we're doing everything and more than the vet told me to do for them nutritionally. But Dean had been really struggling since day one. I just can't help but feel for my poor bf. That was his special kitten
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It's fine. He was probably born with an undersized liver or something and would've suffered for years if he somehow lived.
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True, that's entirely possible. We've lost a couple cats to disease and it's heartbreaking
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It's natural for the mother to eat the deceased so she can produce more milk for her living offspring. Since this is a domesticated cat situation where that is unnecessary, I'd recommend taking the following steps:
1. Skin the kitten by placing your thumb in it's butthole and gripping on it's lower pelvic area. Give it a quick tug all the way through.
2. Remove any excess fur and chop the paws and head off (I normally enjoy the crunchy texture but the effort to remove the fur from this area isn't worth the reward)
3. Take a sharp blade and create an incision from the naval to the breastplate. Make sure to remove all organs you do not wish to enjoy later.
4. While you heat up a pot of oil, 1 inch deep, prepare a bowl with a whipped egg.
5. Dip the carcass in the flour, then in the egg, then add panko.
6. Cook in the oil for about two and a half minutes on each side, until golden brown.
7. Season to your preference and enjoy!
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We used to have a kitten mother that decided this must hold true always and even if no kitten died she made sure one did by herself, either by moving the little ones in random places outside and forgetting about them, or accidentally dropping them from high places
Needless to say we fixed her pretty quickly lol. We joke that she sacrificed her other kittens to make the only surviving one more powerful because he ended up being 3 times her size
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My goodness. Sheila is just barely a year old. She should not be reproducing yet, and so the vet told me to start feeding the babies formula 4 to 5x a day AFTER they drink her milk. These kids need to fatten up
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!r-slurs
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Raising a litter of kittens is hard work, a lot of them just don't make it and there's nothing you can do. Sounds like you gave him as good a life as he could have had
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Yes, the important thing is to learn and not look back.
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RIP little neighbor, always sucks thinking about what could've been
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It just kills me that I should have taken them in sooner but I took two days to prep the quarantine area... these aren't my only cats
The woman who watched them for two days or so did not see well enough to notice the serious nature of Deans condition, or of Sheilas.
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RIP
Sorry for your loss
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I appreciate your kind words. This is just tragic
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I'm so sorry to hear that. Lost my pet earlier this year too
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IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!
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No, take me
I've lived a good life. When the thought hit me that he'd never see the sunlight I bawled 
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!friendsofsnappy this is such a brutal
response lmfao
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!edgelords Snappy is one of us
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!pinggrouplovers should i taxmaxx snappy for kittenmisia?
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Keep yourself safe instead r-slur
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!downmarseyrs well look whos here! the FAILED VILLAIN of platysfield, LAUGH
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I'm so sorry Juju you are such a good person for helping raise these kittens it's so heartbreaking when this happens. My friend is raising his first batch of sick kittens and the same happened and it's so hard
I hope you guys are doing okay and know you did your best for this little fella and gave him the absolute best top tier life a lil runt could ever have during his time here
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Thank you for your kind words. Please send your friend with the babies my condolences
all we can do is try at the end of the day. Poor Sheila is a wreck today though
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His little ears
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Mommy cat sensed it was cursed and you thought you knew better
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I had to try to save him...
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What if it was cat Hitler?
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He'd be the one living in the attic
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RIP Dean 👼
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rest in peace bud
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that's just how it goes with kittens sometimes.
if the mom wasn't eagerly feeding it then she probably knew something you didn't.
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That's what i said the moment i met them at pickup. She knew he was in the woods
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Bye bye, Dean!
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I also came to this thread to see if he left a demented comment
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Nah that's too far lol
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Much appreciated
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Valuing the life of every single
child 
is something 
rather rare in nature, besides humans only a few other mammals really 
care as much about their offspring as we do.
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Like Elephants or other great
apes which is why we should 
systematically torture 
poachers to death 
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Runts are supposed to die otherwise it would spread it's subpar Marsey genes. All Marseys are born equal but some are more equal than others.
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Jewish lives matter but yours doesn't
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I'm sorry juju
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Thank you, lain, our family remains strong but weepy
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I'm getting myself and the family ready to head to the vet across town right now
@MenAreWorst the professionals are going to tell me how to do this. I take notes. They WILL be ok. And we will all recover with time. 
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here's an idea:
can you send him to
@WorldAroundEwe ?
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Tempest my dearest of online animal lovers, little Dean is already at the cremation center. We will luckily get his paw prints stamped onto clay with his name on it...
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This is actually really thoughtful.
I know Dean is the focus of this catpost but are the others doing well? There's 5 left in the litter, right?
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There are now 4 kittens. But sheila keeps choosing to depression nap on the floor rather than stay in bed like usual. I'm worried about her.
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live sheila cam:
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I got them all into a 2 pm vet visit today! They'll be able to tell me how to steer this ship
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The other kittens are still underweight but eating well and I've increased the rooms temperature slightly just in case.
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