Lucky

Last week we acquired the newest member of the mother cat’s litter of kittens. This kitten wasn’t just recently born(the mother has since been spayed), but found. We came home late to find the kittens all missing, so I had to search for them. Normally its not a big deal if they can’t be seen since they are usually around somewhere. But ever since the oldest kitten (sparky) had somehow climbed into a cardboard box belonging to a neighbor and the said box had been thrown into the large trash container by the Indonesian cleaners who keep the place clean we have had to be wary. Sparky was found two days later wandering around the container. He is not big enough yet to climb the stairs up to our apartment, this very fact is what stops the kittens wandering off too far. Anyway back to the main story, it was whilst searching for the kitten that I went to the most obvious place – the trash container considering past history. I found what I thought was one of the kitten in the dark and bought her up to the apartment only to realise that this was an unknown kitten, espcially since our kittens decided to come out of hiding and run back to the apartment. Before deciding to put the kitten back on the street where I found it Mrs. Klite had a look at her and realised that his kitten was about the same age and looks as the kittens we had. Also that the mother (midnight) did not hiss, scowl or threaten this stranger. So we assumed that this might be one of the many kittens that had been abandoned by the mother for the survival of the fittest. We took her the vet next day and checked her out since she has a limp where most likely someone has kicked her and she was painfully thin. This may explain the abandonment. There is no real mother daughter bond between them but the other kittens have accepted her. We call her lucky because she would not have survived much longer and was only found because when the other kittens had gone into hiding I had to search for them. Fate can be both cruel and kind.








Music of the moment : Bob Marley – Could you be loved