Pomelo's incredible rescue story is absolutely everything. 💕 Feral mama Pomelo has experienced more loss in her life than we can imagine. Being feral with rare type B blood meant she got pregnant and gave birth over and over again to kittens who would die within the first week. Pomelo's blood type creates a condition called Neonatal Isoerythrolysis. This causes antibodies in her milk to attack and kill the red blood cells in her newborn kittens. She was pregnant again when we trapped her, and w

Neonatal kittens under 3 weeks aren’t able to eliminate without stimulation, but once they are between 3-4 weeks old you can introduce a low pan of nonclumping litter (vitally important that it’s nonclumping so that when they try to eat it, because they will try to eat it, it doesn’t clump in their tummies) and they’ll start going to that. Now not all will go there so sometimes you have to watch for the signs (like running near a wall looking for a spot or even the sitting in one spot crying… th