It's Confirmed

Yep, it's official. We're "That Crazy Family With All Those Cats".

It's been 6 days since we rescued the kitten from our neighbour's Wira. We're still looking for a new home for him but in the meantime we've managed to put together a little home for him in our garage.

No, I haven't put him upright on my shoulder and pat him on the back to burp him. I just rub his tummy after a feed and he goes "burp, buuuuuurrrrrp". A shallow used ice-cream tub has been converted into his litter box and he instinctively started to use it, woo-hoo. Then Daddy tied some paper at the end of a piece of string and let Adik play with the kitten using that toy. When Adik was done we just tied it in its cage and the kitten goes nuts batting it, gnawing it, swiping at it. He's also started to lap up water from a water bowl and was very interested in eating the dry kitten food so I think I can stop with syringe-feeding the kitten milk to him.

That's not to say syringe- or eyedropper-feeding is over for me.

Because this morning, Daddy found a newborn kitten in the drain right outside our kitchen, its umbilical cord still attached to it and the mother nowhere to be found. Yes, I know. I hear you saying, "WHAT?!?"

See, this is what Daddy refers to as 'cat teenage pregnancy'. The (real) momcat is one of the stray cats that tumpang makan at our house. She, along with 2 of her male siblings, generally get their food from us and even hang out in our garage and garden sometimes (I may have mentioned this before). We were hoping to get friendly enough with her and have her spayed before she got pregnant but obviously we were too late. We still haven't got friendly enough with her brothers to get them neutered.

So when Daddy foud it, he immediately cleaned it up and cut the cord. The problem with that, though, is that the newborn kitten now 'smells' of Daddy and could also be why the mummy cat isn't looking after it - it doesn't smell like her kitten!

We heard another incessant newborn mewing coming from our neighbour's house two doors down. We can't get to it, so we'll just have to hope for the best for that little guy.

I thought I heard a third mewing (in addition to the 2 distinct mews) but it was already almost dark at that time and we had a gazillion other things to do - feed and layan the 2-legged kittens, clean out the newkitten's cage, feed the big orange cat (Harun) not to mention various other household chores! Poor Thomas has definitely merajuk. Today he ate and then stalked off.

Thomas merajuk

When I went to feed the newborn kitten and clean its butt I got peed on. Funny, I'd forgotten about that stage of cleaning a newborn! Suddenly, looking after a one-month old kitten seems like an easy job.

Let's see what tomorrow holds for us.