"As I gently massaged his face, he quickly drifted off to sleep, contentedly snuggled up in his little kitty purrito for a while." Recognizing the importance of having a feline mother figure for the kitten's well-being, Kristen placed him with another nursing mom who had a litter of younger kittens.

Although the tiny runt is now seven weeks old, he remains smaller than his new siblings who are approximately four weeks old. "He integrates perfectly with his surrogate mother and siblings, always snuggling up with them. He's looking and doing much better, although he's still quite small,"