So I live in a questionable neighborhood these days (not because I’m broke but because the house was new and pretty) and I’ve seen a few cats running around my neighbor’s house. My girlfriend and I formed a plan to get a couple, feed them, clean them up, and drop them off at a non-lethal adoption place. So a couple weeks back I asked about the kittens and he simply replied, “Do you want them”? Apparently the mother isn’t fixed and likes to party, so she has kittens quite frequently. But when my neighbor brought out the kittens, they weren’t the two I had seen running around in the earlier weeks. These kittens were tiny. We asked if they were old enough to leave their mother and the neighbor and co. told us “It’s cool, she’ll have more”. So we decided we needed to get those kittens out of that situation before they turned to a life of drugs and crime.
When we got them home we did some research and realized they weren’t more than 3 to 5 weeks old. Both seemed to have colds. We couldn’t get them to eat the canned kitten food we’d bought, and they kept sucking on my shirt, so we got them some milk replacement formula and began bottle-feeding them. This is something we had to do every 5 hours. But after a day of the bottle-feeding and a quick bath, the kittens actually grew a little and their colds disappeared. We took them to the vet and everything checked out fine. The vet told us they were about 6 weeks old. We’ve had them for about 10 days now and they have gone from a bottle, to saucers, and are now eating canned kitten food. They have learned to use the litter box and love playing with each other and taking naps on me!
The littlest one is a dark charcoal grey, almost black, and I named her Knight-Rider. She’s really funny and kind of looks like a bat, and purrs like she runs on a motor. The other kitten—light grey with white on his belly and nose—is a little beefier and has big cartoon eyes. I named him Carl. They both are really entertaining and have gone from barely being able to walk to running all over the house and climbing. (Couches, not rocks…Yet…)
We still haven’t figured out what we are going to do with them, we are currently looking to get them into a nice home. My girlfriend has two cats already and I can’t have pets. Let me know if you’d like a cute kitten or two.
And They like food, so buy some books!



