Lil Shaggy

Continuing on from the 3 lil kittens' story, there's only 1 surviving kitten. I guess God had plans for the lil dude, and it was my wife who found it alive and well amongst her pots of flowers and plants. That I think, soothes her pain and shock of finding the dead kitten a few days before. She wondered what to do about the surviving kitten, and I told her that we might as well keep the kitten inside the house, to make sure that at least the lil dude will get a fighting chance to grow up stronger.

When I got back in the morning, as soon as I saw the kitten at the pots, I took the lil dude inside. Since we didn't have any cage or proper place for safekeeping, I barricaded the lil dude inside the bathroom. I know it's a bit uncomfortable, and he didn't like it, but it's for his own safety.

The mother, unfortunately, has a lot of...er...admirers...haha...Yeah, the male cats seem to be waiting in line to get a piece of her. She's a pretty cat...haha...like a cat version of Erra Fazira, as I described her to my friends. We're worried and suspected that it was one of the male cats that killed the 2 other kittens.


We finally bought a cage for the lil kitten, just so that he has a place to sleep in, and to keep him from roaming around the house and leaving his...er..presents... :-) And we keep him in the house, so that no other cats can bother him except for the mother. We let him out whenever me or my wife is at the house. And the mother does come by to visit, whenever she's not with one of the "boyfriends"...haha...She nurses the lil dude, although I'm not sure if there's still milk left in her...How do I check that eh...??

Anyways, the lil dude is kinda thin, which worries my wife. So she bought some kitten food, and more food for the mother as well. At least if the mother is around, she can keep the lil dude company while he eats. Which she does, regularly...I think she's beginning to understand why we keep her kitten in the house, so she waits for her "visiting time", and when it comes, she uses it fully.

The kitten, we nicknamed Shaggy...after the character in Scooby Doo...When the others were around, he was the most scared of them all. Always hiding behind something either a pot, wall or even behind my shoes. So that's why we named him "Shaggy". But now, we noticed that he carries the traits of the other 2 kittens as well. Explorer like the kitten we nicknamed "Indy", always going around the house, trying to climb up the stairs to follow my wife, but can't since he's small. And he also carries the "space out" look like the other kitten, which we nicknamed "Putom"...It's kinda funny looking at him running around the house, and since he's so small, we keep reminding ourselves to look at our feet as we walk, as he tends to follow us around the house.

Hope he survives...Here's to Shaggy...the lil dude...