Here we are, 2016, and a fresh batch of KITTENS!
Where did they come from? Read on.
Back in December a tiny, malnourished kitten showed up at my house. I couldn't touch her of course but she showed up faithfully each day to eat. Because she was so small I named her PeeWee.
As she grew I noticed last month she was showing a belly. OH NO! Not knowing how far along she could be I just kept an eye on her. Sometimes I'd have to go looking for her to feed her and when I couldn't find her last Saturday April 9th, I thought she could have had her kittens.
But then I couldn't find her Sunday or Monday. So on Tuesday I went searching. I looked in every building in the neighborhood and crawled under houses. Nothing. I had one last place to look and one of the neighbors went with me.
I was appalled at what I found.
A woman had been feeding cats, lots of them, WITHOUT spaying or neutering! I mean TONS of cats. The above neighbor allowed me to go into her mother's back yard (beside the woman's house with all the cats) to look for PeeWee. No PeeWee but I spotted kittens at the entrance to the basement door. I was able to catch one before the other's skedaddled under the house. When I got the kitten home I started calling it Care Bear. It is black and within 24 hrs. the little booger stole a friend's heart. He is disabled and not yet on his feet. So I promised I would do what I could to keep him until his disability came through.
Here is a pic of him and there is a video up on the
youtube channel.
And he has commandeered my chair:
So I went back to the lady with all the cats and mentioned a very pregnant cat I saw. Her and her husband both said "Take them all" and I said I only wanted the pregnant one. Well then the woman went back and forth and finally said I could take her. So I went back the next day, Wed. 13th, and the woman didn't know if she was going to let me have her. After promising no harm would come to her and in fact I would get her spayed and KEEP her after the kittens were gone, she finally grabbed the cat, the cat resisted, she pulled on the cat's tail and then leg when it tried to get away (now at this point I'm about to slug this woman), the cat got away. Then the woman tried to tell me the cat was afraid of the carrier and me. I kept my cool and politely asked if she could try again. That once she has the cat I would take the cat from her and put it in the carrier.
So once she was able to pick up the cat again she refused to let me take her, instead opting to dump her into the carrier. I had to tell myself "Breath Michelle, just breath" because once again I wanted to slug her.
Instead, I asked about the other cats in the yard and who could possibly be the mother to the kittens. She said it was a black cat named Skittles.
I asked if I could take her when I came back for the other kittens. Oh my gosh
! One would think I was Charles Manson
! She finally agreed but
only if I agreed to also take a cat she had inside who was in heat, a two year old. I told her I'd be back Sunday to get Skittles and this other cat. That I would
try to raise the money to have BOTH spayed and return them to her.
Here is a pic of the pregnant cat I picked up and her video can also be found on the
youtube channel. Her name is
NuNu.
Don't you know that AFTER I get NuNu all settled in, I go outside and hear a familiar cry. PEEWEE! And just like that she reappears.
Now I don't want to get all preachy or anything but I felt God purposely didn't allow me to find PeeWee because he intended for me to find these other kittens and NuNu. Believe or not. But I don't think it's coincidental the moment I get NuNu to my house and find those kittens that all of a sudden PeeWee shows back up!
I'll give an update this weekend on Care Bear's siblings, their mom Skittles and the other cat I'm supposed to get.
