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Originally Posted by SexyCassandra
It truly is sad. I didn't realize how attached I was. I do feel terrible wondering what I could have did better. I just keep telling myself some things are just out of my control.
Unfortunately my best wasn't good enough this time. Sucks.
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SC, from what you described you pretty much did everything anyone could do short of starting an IV drip. There is nothing you can do for a tiny creature like that short of providing warmth and nutrition. Its own immune system needs to do the rest and in some cases it is not strong enough. Even when cared for by their mothers some kittens will die. It just how things are. I would not say that *your* best was not good enough, I would say that anyones best probably would not have been good enough in this case. It just was not meant to be.
I know you can be disappointed to see the kitten die in your hands but if it was going to die anyway it was a lot better than dying abandoned and starving or attacked by another animal on a street. It may be that the best it could hope for in this world was to experience a few days of love and nurturing and you were chosen to be the vehicle for that. You should be proud of of being the kind of human being who would care when could so easily have chosen not too.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.