They have done it again!! Seriously my parents are not safe let out on their own......I can handle Tuck and Harley being rescued, but a kitten? Seriously??
It started with Dad going with Mom to check on the truck he was buying from his friends garage. I was left at home babysitting the boys ( SIGH)
As they walked towards the new truck a little ginger kitten walked up to them as bold as brass miaowing loudly and insistently. He had a couple of his sisters in tow who were timid and held back. Mom said hello to him and then ignored him as she and dad walked around the truck. This kitten did not give up and followed them everywhere staring intently into their eyes as he talked to them. The garage owner explained that he was one of the feral cats that lived under an adjacent building and that they were considered a nuisance and often ended up being poisoned. He had tried to catch kittens and re-home them with limited success. Dad took one look at Mom and stated "NO!" firmly. If I had been there I would have backed Dad up whole heartedly. Mom however just nodded her acceptance and bent down to say goodbye to the little guy, who was still following her everywhere and talking loudly to her, and wished him good luck. Then she climbed in the car with Dad and they drove away. 5 minutes later Dad got a phone call from the garage owner. He had said to Gus that if he caught the ginger kitten to give him a call ( without Mom hearing) Apparently they put the cat trap down and the kitten had launched himself into it!
And so my life was turned upside down by their return home carrying a cage with a hissing, spitting, ginger lion cub. The hair on his tail stood out so much he resembled a toilet brush! Though thinking about it now it could have been the result of having 3 interested dogs sniffing the cage!!
Mom and Dad prepared themselves for the long road for this little guy to become tame....It took all of 20 minutes!
Dad wrapped him in a towel and took him out of the cage and held him against his chest so he could feel his heart beat...5 minutes later he was lying there contentedly purring madly.
We all gave him a sniff then lost interest and went back to our own comfy beds.
The kitten was bedded down in a cardboard box and fell fast asleep.
I was blissfully dreaming in my bed when something woke me up....bleary eyed I looked around and nearly had a heart attack! I had given birth to a puppy!! Hang on..that is not a puppy...that's...that's......OMG !! The cheek of it... the kitten had decided to share my bed with me! Oh no,no,no.. not on your life young man! Mom came out of the bathroom to find me standing by her chair looking at her and then back at my bed in which an certain ginger young man had by now wriggled into the middle on my bed and lay on his back sleeping. " Mother... MOTHER!.. remove IT now please!!" I spluttered indignantly.
Mom lifted him out and I quickly got back into bed and made sure there were no gaps for him to sneak into!
Kitten was put back to bed... but 5 minutes later Mom found him lying back to back with Tuck in Tucks bed which given the size of Tuck was not the safest place to be. However before Mom could remove him Tuck woke up and realized he had a bed guest and obligingly got up, turned around and re-settled himself so that the kitten could sleep safely between his feet.
The following day The kitten discovered Harley was long coated and thus wonderful to snuggle into. Poor Harley would fall asleep and wake up with this feral kitten between his front legs or cuddled into his belly but from that moment on their bond was sealed. They play together, they sleep together, they check that each is okay and give each other little kisses when they greet each other. If Harley is crated as part of his training then the kitten will be found either lying on top of the crate or by its door keeping him company. When Harley was shut into a bedroom while workmen were in the house the kitten was found lying with his leg under the door gap resting his paw on Harleys as if giving him comfort.
Who would have thought two feral animals would have bonded like this...the world is a magical place at times.
I love their bonding with each other as it takes the heat off Tuck and I who watch their antics with amusement from the safety of our beds.
The kitten has been named Simba but only answers to Sim-Sim, so not only has he chosen his new Mom and Dad but also his own name lol
Despite Dad authorising his rescue Sim-Sim has adopted Mom as his human and will only sit on 'her' lap. Often Harley sits on the both of them to be included and its quite amusing to see him lying on Moms lap with a gold tail sticking out from beneath him followed by a reversing kitten who is trying to wriggle out from underneath.!
The week after Sim-Sim came to live with us Dad and Mom drove a friend back to the garage to pick up his car and looked to see how the other kittens were doing. Gus shocked them when he told them that the very night they brought SIm-Sim home , someone laid poison down and he found all the kitten dead the next day. It was almost as if young Simba at 6 weeks of age knew he was begging for his life that day.
Tuck and I are now glad that at least 2 feral souls are now in a safe place.
Love and Huggles
Ellie xxx
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