Getting bigger.
In what is possibly unethical, my sister took two of the kittens to take care of for a while. I’m not worried — I’m a few minutes away, and she’s very conscientious about animals. She took the ones with eye infections (don’t know why), so my house is now full of only healthy cats! It’s like a miracle. (The eye infections are being treated, and if they don’t clear up soon I’ll phone the vet. Again. My friend’s cat had some eye infection that ended with the eye all but hanging out of the socket, and blindness in that eye, though he’s otherwise healthy now.) The two kittens I have left cuddle right up and sleep with me, the mama cat comes to my bed a few times a day[1], and Matilda continues to avoid them, but she’s avoiding *fewer* cats, plus she gets super high calorie baby food treats all the time.
The downside to healthy kittens? Active, jumping, playful kittens all the time.
[1] She’s the sweetest, wonderfullest pet cat. How could someone have just dumped her? She barely meows, only snores, doesn’t try desperately to escape, doesn’t claw stuff, just sleeps and cuddles. She loves to be held or to sit on your lap. She sleeps with you! Sure, she got pregnant and had 5 kittens, one of whom keeps deleting my blog posts, but since the owners didn’t neuter her, the pregnant thing is their fault anyhow, and the blog post thing is unpredictable, and who even knows if the earlier owners blogged?
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:37 am
I’m glad you have healthy kittens again :) Are you going to want to keep them now?