incase anyone is interested, u know my kitten that i was hand rearing (see page 14), well we got him to 5 weeks and 3 days old, he was weaned and ate, drank and ran all by himslef. He suddenly died yesterday. Orphaned kittens often die like the other 3 did, but Oliver was really old and out of the dangerous stage, he just got ill so quick and the vet , me and the other nurse could do nothing to save him.
I feel really crappy now bcoz we put so much time, effort and emotion into keeping him alive and all we got was 5 weeks. He was such a nice cat and i was so looking forward to seeing him as an adult.
but at least ive learnt from this experiance is never to hand rear animals bcoz its so upsetting, its just all effort and u get nothing out of it. I guess its nice he had a bit of a life but a lot of it was a struggle anyway.
k thats enough of that depressing news. just incase u wanted to know.