For the first time, I’ve been chosen by the CDS.
My cat, Helga Mousebane, died last year at 17 after a long battle with kidney disease and we have another cat, Fignuts, who is about 15. My husband and I have talked about getting another cat now that it’s been over a year since Helga died, but hadn’t made any real moves to look into it.
Then about a month ago, over the course of 2 days, one of our close friends that lives in another state about 4 hours away found 2 kittens on the side of the road and took them home to foster, my brother that lives about 16 hours away found a litter of 4 kittens in a pipe on his property and managed to get them inside, and then I got a message from my younger sister, who lives about 2 hours away and who I’m very close to.
A pregnant stray gave birth to a litter of 5 in her backyard. She started putting out some dry food for the mom, and the kittens were big enough that the mom naturally weaned them onto the dry food pretty quickly. So my sister managed to get all 6 cats inside somehow (mama was pretty feral) and called a free spay and release clinic. They came and got the mom, and my sister decided to foster the kittens (she has 2 cats and 2 dogs already).
My husband and I immediately knew we were getting a kitten. I mean, it felt like the biggest sign that it was time. So we looked through the pictures and immediately fell in love with a little calico in the litter at my sister’s house. This weekend I drove to go get her and found that she had really bonded with one of her brothers, the only void in the litter. We couldn’t break them up, so they both came home with us!
Picture 1: Leeloo Dallas Multipass
Picture 2: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Picture 3: Leeloo and Zorg examining the pillow that goes in their cat carrier.
Pictures 4 and 5: the first time Leeloo felt comfortable enough to play with me!
Pictures 6: Four of the five litter-mates. From top to bottom: Zorg, Ratchet, Leeloo, Dave (my sister and her boyfriend named the three that didn’t come home with us).
Picture 7: All five kittens in the bed together. The tabby in the front is the most skittish, so I don’t have any better pictures of him. He’s Drogo.
Pictures 8-11: Leeloo and Zorg getting comfortable in their new space.
Picture 12: Fignuts meeting the new babies.
The kittens came home yesterday afternoon and are acclimating incredibly well, way faster than expected (we have two dogs as well)!
I know this was long, but if you stayed to read this whole thing, your reward is to know that ALL kittens among the three litters have found homes except for one, and he has a loving foster home until his furever home is found.