Five Kittens, One Kitten, No Kittens

This is Grace.  Doesn't she just melt your heart?  Her story is amazing.  So you know that the mother cat had five kittens behind the garage.  I was away after the first day, but Kathy fed the mother cat for about a week, and the cat seemed to trust her.  The night I returned from Tucson, our neighbor, Judy, ran over the minute we pulled into the driveway, and said "They're GONE!"  The mother had taken four of the five kittens, and disappeared!  She left this kitten behind!  We were stunned!  Judy said that it had been more than an hour, and the mother never returned.  So we brought this kitty inside and the next morning bought a kitty nursing bottle and formula and began to feed her.  We went to the local animal shelter and asked if they had a nursing mother.  They did, but the mom already had enough adopted kittens.  Then late this afternoon I got a phone call from Judy, and she said her veterinarian said that her sister in New Jersey knew of a nursing mother with "space."  So I raced to the office on Long Island with Grace, and by now she is in New Jersey.  She will be there probably until the end of May, and then she will be returned to us.  It is much better that she lives with a litter, to learn to socialize better.  But we are missing her already!  Just look at how cute she is!