‘I just burst out in tears at the thought of having took him from his family’:A person’s compassionate rescue of a sick and abandoned kitten leads to an emotional crisis of empathy after the rest of the feline family returns

Cat rescues just got a whole lot more complicated with this story, and it is hard to put how we feel about the implications into words. You see, usually the biggest concern a would-be feline rescuer might have is that they are unwittingly taking someone's cat child, who simply went out for a stroll and maybe lost their collar and look a little scruffy. A problem which is rather easily avoided thanks to microchips and strong social media communities that support finding lost pets.

But what happens when a would-be rescuer comes across a kitten who is obviously feral, takes them in, and a few days later sees the cat's feline mother come back around to check up on her kitten? This is the conundrum that we will be taking a look at within this story, and we can tell you it is not an easy one to judge.

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Ohhhh snap, talk about an ethical conundrum. Also, this makes you wonder how many other rescues are actually accidental cat thefts. Though with some perspective, you can say that there is every chance that this kitten was left there to see if it was actually weak as the mother suspected and wither it would survive a few days alone and prove its strength or simply not…
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Look, just as we’ve said before, there is a good chance this kitten would not have made it on their own all those days that their mother had left them there. So in all reality, this heroic hooman saved a feline life that would not have been suited to the wild world outside. So the conundrum is rather null at this point. Had the kitten been healthy and or the cat momma returned much sooner, then maybe there would be an issue. But as it stands, this person is a legend.
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