From early childhood I was taught to love and take care of animals. It can be said that my whole family taught me this. I remember when I was about seven years old, my father picked up a sick hedgehog on the street and we treated him. After that, we often had situations when we helped unfortunate animals.
Today the life of one small family has been threatened. It's about the cat and her kittens, very young. We, after a few weeks of unbearable heat, went to the strongest downpour.
Under the windows of our apartment there is a very young and silly cat with 4 kittens. I fed this cat, even before she had four multicolored fluffy babies. After the birth of the kittens, I fed them daily.
A few hours ago, when a downpour descended on the ground, I heard a mournful squeak of one of the kittens. Immediately ran out into the street and found that one wet kitten is sitting under the house, the second is also completely wet and sits under the bush. From the house, I immediately took a large bucket and put them in it. She began to look for the remaining two, it was not easy, but found a small redhead in a large puddle under a rose, from which he simply could not get out and a little more and would have drowned, because it poured like a bucket. I did not find the fourth one, though I searched the whole flower bed. But she decided to stop the search and carry the victims to the house. If I decided to come later, I do not know what would have happened to them. Mamma was not with them.
This is the place where they live under the windows of our house
Brought them all home and immediately began to dry and warm the hair dryer
Brought them to the apartment, put them in a basin and started warming up with a hair dryer. Water streamed down from them. The poor people were so shaken from the cold that they did not even fear the noise of the hair dryer. The first in their little life, the rain nearly became the last. Their eyes are still not well opened, according to my calculations they are about two and a half weeks.
All this time I was worried, where is the fourth kitten. Therefore, instructed my mother to warm them, she went out into the street. Serenky was in the same place where I gathered the others, probably when I was looking for him, he hid, and then got out. He, too, was completely wet.
After drying them and feeding the porridge with the fish (cooked for our cat Sonya), we gave them a warm milk. At that time, the cat-mother began to look for them - she is wild and in the hands is not given, we had to run around to put them all together in a secluded dry place. Well fed and warmed, they started very active activities next to their mother cat. As it is interesting in cats and other animals the maternal instinct inherent in them operates. It's amazing how cats take care of their kittens. All the time, while the kittens were in our apartment, the cat-mom did not find a place for herself and called for her children. Therefore, we tried to return them to their mother, as soon as they dried and fed.
Ryzhik today was lucky - I pulled it out of a deep puddle
Once upon a time, I read one amazing story about how a cat made fire from its fire all five of its kittens, at the risk of dying and greatly burned while doing so. She was barely alive herself, lying next to her rescued kittens. How touching, then that animals do this - risking their lives to save their children.
I really love animals, I can not turn away when I see that one of them is in trouble. Today even she soaked herself to the skin, saving the poor kittens from the rain. It's good that everything was all right for them, they were warmed and fed and dried and returned alive and healthy to their mother cat.
Now the downpour is over and I immediately went to check on them. It seems that everything was all right, everything is in place and my mother is near them. I handed them warm milk with bread for dinner.
I hope that all of them will grow up healthy!
Take care of each other and love animals!