as of this moment we are now a 4 cat household. as i sit here typing our newest temporary addition is laying on my lap, purring contentedly and appears to be trying to suckle on my arm. I originally thought she was licking me, but the slight kneading of her tiny claws on my arm as she was sucking taught me otherwise. She's an adorable baby calico around 3 months I would say. It's too dark now for me to take a pic (my camera's still broken) but she looks something like this:
but with a tabby face. I'm gonna take a pic of her tomorrow so we can make up flyers....i'll share with you then. She has what i originally thought was a decorative collar, now i think it kinda looks like a glow in the dark flea collar (it's green) and she kinda smells like flea powder or something.
The story of how she ended up sitting in my lap goes like this:
Kevin and I went out tonight to run a couple shopping errands. we got back to the house around 9:30-ish. I opened the back car door to get the bags and a little furball shot past me into the backseat. I had never seen this cat before around the house. I tried talking to it to coax it out, which made Kevin wonder who the hell I was talking to. He came over to check and at first freaked out thinking it had been in the car from one of the stops we made. I reassured him that was not the case. That it must be a neighbor's cat.
Once we got her out of the car, she proceeded to follow us up to the front door and tried to walk right into the house. She was so friendly. Even before we saw the collar we figured she had to be lost and not an outdoor cat or a stray at all. I eventually had to pick her up and hold her while Kevin got the bags so she wouldn't sneak in the house. That's when I saw the collar. Like I said, I thought it was decorative so we went to the side of the house to get some light and check for tags or other identifiers. (the front porch light is out...have to change the bulb) We couldn't find anything on her.
I tried having her follow me down the sidewalk a little ways to see if she would head home. No dice. so I led her into the backyard and into the garage. I figured that would at least be some shelter for her until she decided to go home. I came inside, we took care of kitty stuff (litter boxes and feedings) and settled in to watch the football game. That's when we noticed she had jumped up into the window flower box and was watching us. Kaguya and BC examined her for awhile. After about 20 minutes I asked Kevin if it was alright for me to take some food out to her. He agreed and I did. We both knew we really couldn't bring her in. Even tho it was cold, she had a home and we already had 3 kitties in house. And with BC shut up in the backroom (he's been hissing at Kaguya and starting tussles) we didn't want to close off another room to Kaguya and start to freak her out with all the cats.
When I brough the food out she jumped down and practically attacked the bowl. And about 10 minutes after I came back inside she went right back up to the flower box and curled up to fall asleep.
Around 11pm Kevin made the executive decision to bring her in. It was getting deathly cold outside and she wasn't showing any signs of leaving our flower box. So we got the litter box we had stored outside (which we were going to bring out anyway for the new cats...they are POOPY!!!) and set up the back puter room (where I am now) for her. I went outside and picked her up to bring her in. She was so cold and shivering. I honestly don't think she would have lasted if she had to stay outside.
And so....here we are with a 4th cat. It's only temporary tho. Like I said, I'm taking her pic tomorrow and making up a flyer. Kevin's going to get them posted around town and I'm also going to post in some of the local yahoo groups I belong to. I'm sure whoever she belongs to is a nervous wreck tonight. I know I would be.
