I’m Rakshana, a pet parent to a 2-year-old female cat named Blacky. She has beautiful black, shiny, glossy hair. She gave birth to four adorable kittens on January 12th, 2024. They were cute newborns.

Since my family moved to our grandma’s house for my mother’s medical treatment, we left the kittens with their mom at our home. My dad used to come at night to feed the mother cat with cat food and then leave for our grandma’s house. This routine continued for two weeks.

One morning, when my dad and I came to clean our house, we were shocked to see blood stains all over the floor. We felt very frightened as we searched for the kittens. We found only two sitting outside our home, too scared to come inside. After a few minutes, another kitten also came, with no wounds, and we were relieved. But our hearts still searched for that one more kitten.

After 2 hours, the mother cat, Blacky, brought the missing kitten with her. She had bumps on both sides of her head and an ear infection. We applied ointment prescribed by a vet, thinking the infection caused the bleeding. The kitten seemed okay, so we left her with her mom and went to our grandma’s house.

We couldn’t sleep that whole night, and we came early morning to check on her. She ate well, and I applied the ointment again. She seemed okay, and I stayed with her all day, comforting her. But then she started eating less and couldn’t walk properly. She was completely bedridden, and we feared she would die.

My dad thought she wouldn’t survive, but my inner heart told me to take her to the vet. The kitten’s willpower somewhat made me believe she would survive. That evening, we took her to the vet, and after examining her, the vet shockingly revealed that she had a hole in her head from another cat’s bite and abscesses on the other side. We were afraid, but the doctor gave us confidence.

The vet gave her local anesthesia, made a minute cut on her head, and extracted all the abscesses. They gave her trips and syrup to give her for five days. It was heart-wrenching to witness, with so much blood loss. I also felt dizzy but drank water and was okay. The vet gave us ointments and syrups to give her and told us to give her soft foods.

She was very tired and sleepy, and I didn’t sleep for almost three days as I had to feed her between 3 p.m. and the middle of the night. She couldn’t loudly meow, so even a small sound from her woke me up. Usually, I have heard that for newborn human babies, it will happen like this as the child will cry and the mother will be awake at night and feed the child that itself a difficult task but look here the kitten will not even meow loudly and I still have to wake up by hearing the small whispering sounds she makes and syringe feed her and comfort her also. Then, after three days, she slowly started meowing, walking, and eating on her own. We were all happy to see her progress, and we continued her with the medicines prescribed by the vet.

After 5 days, she was a normal, happy kitty, happily playing with her siblings. It’s a happy ending to a beautiful real-life story. I’m sure it will touch your heart, as it touched ours. Experiencing the term ‘medical miracle’ in real life is heart-touching, and I’m sure any pet parent reading this would agree. 

A big shout-out to all pet parents – you guys are warriors.

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