Kitty

We had a little bit of an adventure with a kitty! We were driving home last saturday evening after going out to dinner, and in the middle of a busy road we saw an adult cat run across. I thought that was kind of weird, and then we saw it go back into the road and there we saw a kitten! The mama cat and her kitten got across the street and went in to a Taco Bell parking lot. We followed them into the parking lot, they seemed so lost. Well long story short, we ended up catching the kitten and the mama cat ran off.

We estimated the kitten to be about 10-12 weeks old, which is plenty old enough to be away from its mother. Acutally usually the mother 'kicks' kittens out after that age. The kitten (a boy) was very scarred and was hissing like crazy. He took a few days to warm up to us, but eventually got a little more friendly. But still very unsure and nervous. It worked out really well that we got him, we never planned on keeping him, just taking him to Alec's parents house and trying to integrate him with all their outdoor cats. When we got there this weekend it became very apparent that kitty was not going to fit in and do well. Thankfully one of Lauren's (Alec's little sister) friends was willing to adopt our little lost kitty.

It was fun having a pet for a little while though, but if I am going to have a cat in my house I want it to be a bit more friendly than this one was.

In this video, we were trying to see if kitty would hiss, haha. It was his favorite thing to do I think, but he calmed down enough I guess at this point. Kitty was always on alert and never trusted us! We each had our fair share of kitten scratches from his little claws, but a few days later we got him purring and feeling a bit more comfortable. Sorry for our 'weirdness' in the video!