Lonesome enough to check out the pet ads and respond to one for kittens -- there was a black one that sounded really great. So I taxied all the way to Cartierville to pick up the little runt, only to find out that she was, like, only four weeks old.
For those who don't know cats, this is, like, WAY too young to take a kitten away from its mother. It needs at LEAST another month.
But I, being the "cat expert" I thought I was, took her anyway. I named her Pika, which means "flash" in Japanese.
Well, we already have a cat, Lulu, who is about 6 years old. And I quickly found myself overwhelmed. This little kitty was so young it would have to be fed with an eye dropper every four hours. And I was looking at a month of this. So I put an ad on a bulletin board and someone responded and came and picked up Pika that very night. Thank God for Sue!
So that, I thought, was that. I was actually in tears when I handed her over to her new owner.
But apparently, she thrived. I had asked Sue to keep me up to date with photos etc. and she did exactly that.
But then two days ago, I got a totally surprise email: Sue and her companions were going on a wilderness trek for a few weeks -- would I take Pika (whom they had renamed Madonna)?
Well, garsh, OF COURSE I would take her. Sue told me I was the only one she could trust -- that made me feel pretty good.
So now, as I type, there is a fuzzy little monster roaming the halls of this quiet house . . .
I wanted to document her for Brigitte, but she is AS BLACK AS A LUMP OF COAL and is almost impossible to film. All that shows up are her little beady yellow eyes. That used to be blue.
This morning I filmed her, and by coincidence, I was playing her with the same little USB cord that I was playing with her the first time I filmed her -- almost two months ago.
So, here you see two visions of the same cat, in the same location, playing with the same thing just two months apart. Note how her eyes are BLUE in the first video and YELLOW in the second (it's not easy to see, but you can go here to see ol' Blue Eyes) . . .
She's adorable. But who the hell lets kittens go before 6 weeks? Glad she got through it.
ReplyDeleteShe just anointed a box of computer cables with a reminder of her existence . . . but credit to her, I took her and put her in the other cat's box and she used it immediately. So, no harm done!
ReplyDeleteNow she's licking the whipped cream off the rim of my cup of coffee. Whoever heard of a whipped-cream loving cat.
Every cat likes any dairy. Mine finishes the milk in my cereal bowl. AND cheese. Any cheese. Any time. Try it. They'll like it.
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