The Savannah Signal Final Issue 2011
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On my way home to care for my four one week old orphans, I was beyond devastated with sad- ness and disbelief; I tried to hold myself to- gether and just prayed for God to give me the strength and wisdom to raise these babies on my own. The realization hit home to me that I would need to bottle raise the babies since they had been using their suckling reflex already with mom for the last week - this was my first attempt to bottle raise orphan kittens. It came with much resistance on the kittens part for some time, as the babies were used to having mom’s milk - and let’s face it, the formula and kitten bottle are no easy match to what mom was and her natural milk. With much patience and in due time, the four babies fi- nally started taking the bottle and formula. I was relieved when I got them on a feeding
Rest in Peace,
Miss Daisy 6/18/06 -4/9
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Bundas Miss Daisy of Spots on the Lake was my very special F1 Savannah Queen here at Spots on the Lake. Miss Daisy had the most incredible exotic looks, excellent coloring and perfect personality. She was also the best mother cat to her kittens that I have known over the years of raising my savan- nahs. Mostly, Daisy was my best friend and treasured pet, for this reason, I wish to share her story....
One tragic afternoon I found Daisy had very suddenly and unexpectedly passed on while tending to the care of her four newborn F2 Savannah Kittens. She left this world with very little warning or indication that anything was out of the or- dinary, with the shock of her sudden loss, I immediately was forced to shift my entire self into the mind set of trying to save these four precious newborn kittens she had gifted me with, before her departure. After attempts by myself initially, and then in the animal E.R, we were unsuccessful saving her - Daisy’s spirit had already left this world and it was not re- turning to her body.
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schedule finally ( every 2 hours night and day around the clock) there was also the potty time and cleaning and sterili- zation of the equipment used to feed and care for them, the daily weigh in’s and recordings, the checking on them to en- sure they were kept warm enough, but not too warm, as new- born kittens are unable to regulate their body temperature at that tender age, so it was a big job and a responsibility I took very seriously, after all I am the breeder and I choose to bring these little darlings into this world and now there mom was taken away from them, after all sweet Daisy was all they knew.
On top of this responsibility I also had daily cattery chores and daily life to get through, including the basic necessity of sleep combined with the overwhelming sadness of Daisy’s sud- den loss of life and at that point not understanding why this happened to Daisy. (It was later revealed upon necropsy, that Daisy had died from a ruptured bladder.) For many days I was not sure how we would make it through another day, all I did know was that I would not be able to withstand any fur- ther heartbreak.
I made a promise to Daisy’s sprit the day she left, the promise was I would raise and look after her babies she left me with the very best way I knew how. After all, I felt this was the very least I could do for a cat that brought so much love and devo- tion to me and created some of the best memories between a cat and it’s human during the four years I was blessed to share
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