In the first [post](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/abandoned-by-his-mother-found), I told you how we found Fuffi, **a little kitten abandoned by his mother**, during a weekend in Santa Maria di Leuca, 370 km from my home. ||Post Link: [Abandoned by His Mother, Found by Us: The Story of Fuffi / La Storia di Fuffi (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/abandoned-by-his-mother-found)| |-|-| I interrupted the story of Fuffi with the first visit to the vet, which was our first stop as soon as we returned to the city. After leaving the vet, my wife went to work while my daughter and I went first to a pet store to buy a bottle and milk for kittens a few days old, and then we stopped by a pharmacy to buy the antibiotic cream that the vet had prescribed to treat Fuffi's eye infection. Before going home, we stopped at the garage where my sister was waiting for us with a soft blanket in which we wrapped Fuffi. The blanket had a positive effect because Fuffi stopped crying for a few minutes.  I left Fuffi in my sister's arms while I went upstairs to prepare milk for Fuffi. In the next photo, you can see Fuffi's first feeding from a bottle instead of a syringe.  This was the moment when Fuffi ate the most milk (20 ml), **stopped crying completely, and gave us his first purrs :)**. I took a cardboard box, put Fuffi inside, and we went up to the house.  From that moment on, a daily routine began consisting of: - feeding every 3 hours - stimulation for his needs - antibiotic cream for his eye morning and evening - constant warmth - lots of love and cuddles I was very happy to see my daughter taking such good care of Fuffi. My daughter is 11 years old and she fed Fuffi most of the time during the day, while I almost always fed him at night. In the next photo, my daughter is holding Fuffi as he drinks his milk.  I had never seen such a tiny kitten drinking from a bottle, and I can assure you that it was a truly beautiful and amusing sight, because every time he fed, Fuffi would move his ears too :) On Fuffi's first day at home, we weighed him: **85 grams!** **A real “little thing” when you consider that 85 grams is more or less the weight of a slice of bread.** After the first two days at the beach, during which Fuffi drank very little milk and cried almost continuously, perhaps hoping for his mother's return, **the crying finally became a distant memory and gave way to long sleeps**.   A kitten like Fuffi, who is about 10 days old, needs constant warmth, and my daughter was a great help in meeting this need because, especially in the early days, she often held Fuffi in her arms.  Fuffi started drinking more and more milk, and we moved him from the box to a carrier with the entrance always open. Fuffi began his first, albeit **brief, explorations around the house** and, between stumbles and falls, became more and more confident.    During the first week, we also had our first concerns because Fuffi wasn't pooping. For this reason, we went back to the vet, who gave him an ultrasound and suggested he might have an malabsorption disorder. Fortunately, the day after the vet visit, Fuffi pooped, and we breathed a sigh of relief. During the first visit, the vet told us that if Fuffi made it past 7 days, he would be out of danger. We took Fuffi to the vet on June 30, 2025. I took the next photo on July 12, 2025, and as you can see, Fuffi is drinking milk from a bottle but is already bigger, **weighing almost 250 grams and having successfully passed the critical week** indicated by the vet.  Initially, my wife and I were sure of only one thing: we had to save Fuffi! But we didn't know whether to keep him because we already have two cats. In reality, even though we didn't want to admit it, we already knew that we would keep him with us, but we made the final decision when an association asked us if we wanted to give Fuffi to a couple in Rome. **Fuffi is now, in every way, a member of my family**, which consists of me, my wife, my daughter, and three adorable cats: Cuki, Mia, and Fuffi! Oh, I almost forgot, we discovered that **Fuffi is deaf, but love doesn't need to hear**... **But Fuffi's story doesn't end here...** because it will continue in the next post. I hope you liked my post and thank you for taking the time to read it!  **All photos in this post were taken by me with my Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G smarthphone** _{The English version of this post is translated from my italian writing via https://www.deepl.com/ but is revised and edited manually by me}     # La storia di Fuffi: da 85 grammi alle prime esplorazioni