I stopped at our local feed store in town on Thursday to get dog and horse feed. Thankfully even in our little town this store carries our Fromm dog food so they see me often.

As I stood at the counter paying for my purchases I heard kittens crying. It’s not unusual to see kittens, bunnies, guinea pigs, parakeets or farm fowl (in the spring) at this store. Many locals pick up a new barn kitty or pet while they’re getting other supplies.

But what grabbed my attention was the very “tiny” sounding cries. These did not sound to be kittens that were weaned and on their own. I headed toward the enclosures to see what was there. On the top cage were three older, very nervous looking kittens. But the bottom cage had four, teeny tiny kittens. They were way to young to be away from their mom! It was heartbreaking to think someone ripped them away from their mother to drop them off here. They looked to be around four weeks old.

I wanted to scoop them all up and take them home with me, but I hesitated. I have puppies at home, lots of puppies to take care of! And six puppies to get ready to leave on Sunday. Plus some other “projects” and things taking my time.

I started to leave, wandered around the store, picked up some kitten formula, put it back, stared at the kittens again, vacillating  what to do.

But I just couldn’t leave them there…..

So I said to the gals at the counter, “Do you have a box?”. And while one boxed up the kitten,  I went back to the cat section and grabbed kitten formula, canned kitten food, dry food and cat litter. (My two cats are grown and outside so I didn’t have supplies).

And so now I have four teeny kittens living with me. They are learning to lap formula from a pan, but I’m sure they’d much rather be nursing from their mom and have her for comfort but we’re doing the best we can.

They we’re so hungry when we got home. But acted like that not eaten from a bowl before.

So cute!

They really like cuddling together in their big fluffy bed.

This one is really getting its food! 😂

Meet Eeny, Meeny, Miny & Moe 😉

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