Bonnie and Clyde
In my years of fostering I have had the opportunity to foster litters of bottle baby kittens twice. The term “bottle babies” is used to describe any unweaned animal and that has lost it’s mother for whatever reason and is being raised by humans with the help of a bottle.
The black ball of fur you see here to the left are Bonnie and Clyde, my most recent bottle baby litter. I believe they were about a week old at the time this picture was taken.
Fostering bottle babies is time consuming, can be exhausting, and is very rewarding. It also comes with a significant amount of responsibility. Kittens are fragile and even with the best of care it’s easy to loose them. At one point, Bonnie and Clyde became ill and I was up every hour giving them fluids, feeding them, and stimulating them. That was one of the longest nights of my life. It was also early in my relationship with my wonderful fiance John. I knew then that if he stuck around through that, he was a keeper. 
