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Saikou · #30 (**permalink**) 06-11-2009, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Rraa

it would show that your post was in error and not out of naughtiness.

sorry, but thats bit patronising !!

I think Lauren just made a statement of fact. No blame apportioned to anyone. Fact is to have any chance of success, and its slim at best sometimes, you have to act quickly when you notice something amiss, but in some cases that is not always evident.

I went to a seminar that discussed fading kittens and I was shocked at how just a short period of being slightly too cold can set off a chain reaction inside their body that starts slowly shutting down, meaning even if they are feeding they can not metabolise what they are taking in and in most cases its silent and irreversible. Regularly weighing them sometimes can give you a heads up to the process allowing you to step in earlier than maybe otherwise, but success is still not guaranteed.

The % of kittens that die in the first week of life is worryingly high in a survey they took of pedigree cats the average was 25% mortality rate, which is quite shocking really.

Losing a little soul is never easy, you always have doubts about whether you could of done things differently, its only natural. Mother Nature is incredibly cruel at times, you wonder why she allows these little souls to come into the world alive only to have something go wrong and have them fade away. I always think they are souls who got in the queue to come back before their time, and have to go back to wait for the right time to return (((hugs))) Tillysmum, every breeder goes through this at some point, and it is incredibly hard as you do feel so responsible, but somethings are just not meant to be no matter how hard we battle for them.