Look What I Found in the Clearance Section
 

I was at my local Wal-Mart looking for "clearance" plants and found these six kittens instead. After asking the employees at the store about them, I guess there is a local cat that "dumps" them there. They were happy for me to take them.....husband not so sure. They are just opening their eyes and are doing well on a bottle.

Awwwh! Sweet little babies! What a kind heart you have. Bless you for taking them.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! So cute ,they are so little. It was wonderful of you to take them. All my house kitties have died(OLD AGE) My hubby won't let me replace them.

And calicos at that! :)

Tso true. These kitties are adorable, as they all are. Will you keep them all or try to find homes for them?

How do you know the mom was not taking care of them? They look healthy. She is probably wondering what happened to her kittens.

Oh they are adorable!! I hope they all find good homes.

Too true! Thanks for the rescue.

Oh...so sweet. I wouldn't have been able to leave them either!

They are a handsome , you're a great person. Barb

am I the only one who is worried the kittens got taken away from their mom? If she is a typical feral cat she would vamoose when people come by, so the workers would not see her, just the kittens, and assume she "dumped" them. I don't think too many mother cats do that to kittens that young.

I am glad you are bottle feeding them but if they had stayed with their mom, it wouldn't be necessary.

Don't jump down HensandHollyHocks, she felt she was doing a good deed based upon response from workers. The kitten are adorable, your great for taking care of them.

oh they are so cute ,hope they all make it mighty young aren't they

Such little dolls. Thank you so much for giving them a home.

Even if their mom was still around, think of the life they would've had - not all would've survived, and the rest would've become just as wild - and would've continued the cycle of adding more poor stray kittens to the world. Maybe one thing that could still be done is see if a live trap could be set in that area (just during the day so you don't catch racoons or skunk). Mama needs help too!

If you contact your local humane society, they may know of a low cost spay/neuter clinic that could help too. I have an appt to fix our feral mom and young ones - hopefully the feral dad too if we can get him. The cost for all of them, including shots, will be about what it would cost to have ONE done at a local vet.

Thank you for caring!

I'd say you got the best deal in the store and those pretty kittens did great getting you. God Bless You. So wonderful of you & the little ones. :thumbup:

oh for goodness sakes. the things you can find when out shopping!! have fun!!!!

love calicos, had one years ago

I agree 100%. I have been bottle feeding a little kitten that we found near death in our upstairs storage space.

Archie must have been the runt of the litter because he was the size of a week old kitten (though his eyes were open) and you could feel every one of his little vertebrae. Absolutely skeletal. He was so malnourished that he had no hair on his tail or belly. He ate, pooped and pee'd (with help) and slept for a week. He would lay in his box without stirring and more than once I was sure I'd open it to find him dead.

The Mama and the other two kittens had been coming down at night and eating out of our stored cat food so they were comparatively healthy and about three times the size of this little guy.

Unfortunately, the Mama and one of his siblings were hell-aciously wild and we had to turn them over to our local no-kill shelter. The second kitten (Alf) was wild until we caught him but calmed down when we held him and has been slowly but surely learning to trust us.

Archie thinks I am his mama and sleeps under my chin every night. My husband says it is just like having a newborn again. He also says he is "More rat than cat" because his tail is bare. lol

We plan to keep Archie and Alf. I shudder to think what their life could have been like.

You are heaven sent. What a nice thing to do.

And who thought you could only get fish at Wally World?

My thoughts exactly. I have found that if I would be looking for a new pet, I'd just check with our local vet (rural town). They get drop offs all the time. They currently have a small black lab 'living' with them. She's the sweetest thing!!

Awe! I wish I could have one! They are way too cute!

I admire your courage.

I was wondering that, too.

I can keep two of them. I have another spoken for, and I think I should have no problem giving the others away. My Veterinarian is a friend of mine and he helps me with numerous projects. I'm sure he can't wait to help with kittens!

Even if they were being taken care of by a feral mother, they would then grow to be feral too. Not something many communities are okay with. Don't worry, they will be placed with good homes who want a cat.

How sweet! I have never found anything this cute in the clearance section of Walmart.

I wasn't suggesting you leave them there. I just thought if you contacted the humane society or feral cat group, if there is one in your area, they could trap the mom, and then take the family as a group until the kittens are old enough to adopt out.

Now the mom is still out there, unspayed, and will probably have another litter.

we took in a mamma and her two girls. she was raising them on her own and very scared of people. she wouldn't let me near the kittens. the two girls were all she had left of who knows how many in her first litter. They all live in our house now and the two kittens are still a bit shy. Especially one. but they all get lots of loving and food and i take mamma out on a leash every day. she is so sweet and loving now. I couldn't do without them.
I should add, all of them are fixed. we weren't sure mamma would stay with us or insist on going back to live on the street. got her fixed, either way. But she loves having a safe haven.

Adorable babies!