<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of the <i>Huffington Post </i>at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arlene-lassin/grieving-mama-cat-who-lost-all-three-babies-matched-with-three-abandoned-kittens_b_7166682.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arlene-lassin/grieving-mama-cat-who-lost-all-three-babies-matched-with-three-abandoned-kittens_b_7166682.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 26px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 36px; font-size: 32px; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Grieving Mama Cat Who Lost All Three Babies Matched With Three Abandoned Kittens</h1></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is a true story of a very depressed and grieving mama cat, brought back to a happy maternal state thanks to some very loving people involved in the rescue and foster care of cats, complete with gorgeous photos of this miraculous match.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mikey, an eight month old cat, was inconsolable. She had three kittens, born too early. They were weak and one by one, they died. Mikey's owner Hillary tried everything she could think of to save the babies. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After the last of Mikey's kitten's passed away the cat was searching frantically for her offspring, acted very depressed, and her breasts were engorged with milk. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Watching her cat suffer, Hillary was desperate for help and called <a href="http://www.doridarlings.com/" target="_hplink" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dori's Darlings</a>, a cat rescue organization run by Dori Hillman in Houston.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is where Amanda Lowe comes in. She is a foster mother to abandoned kittens, through Dori's Darlings. Just days before Mikey lost her last kitten, Amanda received three baby kittens to foster that were just a few days old, that still had their umbilical cords attached.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amanda and another foster, Kelli Nicole, provided around the clock care for the three kittens, who she named Teddy, Abby, and Lily for four days. That's when Amanda received the call from Dori about Mikey losing her brood of kittens.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reaching out to Hillary immediately, Amanda offered to bring the kittens to Mikey the cat that same evening. After a conversation, they decided Mikey could make it through the night and Amanda went to her first thing the next morning.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Before showing Mikey the kittens, Amanda, who says she talks to cats and animals all the time, told Mikey how sorry she was about her babies.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking to her in a soothing voice, Amanda told Mikey the cat, "I have some babies for you so you can be a mommy again." </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amanda said she could tell Mikey liked her and trusted her, and then she placed the kittens in front of the mama cat.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Immediately, Mikey started licking them, grabbing them, hugging them. Around 15 minutes later, the cat spread out and rolled over giving the three kittens a nursing invitation. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lily was the first to latch on.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After two hours, Amanda knew that with Mikey cuddling her new kittens, bathing them, and falling asleep with them, that she was leaving a very happy mama cat and giving the abandoned kittens a new home. She said they even looked like they belonged to one another.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As Amanda explained, the kittens are more important for Mikey, as lots of kittens are raised by human foster moms. "This was just an awful thing she went through (losing all of her babies) and this will be healing for her," Amanda explained.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photos</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_01.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_01.jpg</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_02.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_02.jpg</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_03.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_03.jpg</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_04.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_04.jpg</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_05.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_050215_05.jpg</a></span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>