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After lounging around with her kitten yesterday, Pinky decided
to go outside to use the neighbor's yard as a litterbox. Then she
wandered out of the yard. A few minutes later, she returned carrying
a little white ball in her mouth. It was another kitten. She had
left the poor thing alone all day while she secured her position
in my closet. At first I wondered how she could desert her kitten
for most of the day, but soon I had my answer. The new kitten is
annoying. It keeps wandering all over the place, mewling with a
similar pitch and frequency as Pinky's own inimitable whine.
Plus this kitten is a little messed up. Its right eye was gunked
over with matted fur (at first it looked like it didn't even have
an eye in there. But I managed to cut off the mat and wiped its
eye out somewhat. But it clearly has some kind of conjunctivitis,
just the sort of thing I dread bringing into my home. But the resident
cats are so freaked out by the kittens, they won't get within arm's
reach of the nest. I just hope there aren't any more kittens out
there waiting to come inside.
With another kitten in the mix, competition becomes the name of
the game.
Pinky keeps lying around with her mouth open, winking at me. I
think she looks like Peter Murphy on the cover of his "Holy
Smoke" album:
I have no idea why I thought of that. I haven't listened to that
guy in years.
It's hard to see here, but the white kitten can't
open her right eye at all. I hope the vet can provide some medication
to solve this problem before it spreads to the other kitten, or
the other cats. If I didn't know better, I'd say Mr. Bones was the
father, given the white kitten's markings. But Mr. Bones decided
to have himself fixed to control the pet population. Bravo.
When they're a little stronger, both cats will need
a bath or something. They're kind of filthy. So my updated pitch:
anybody want a pair of kittens, or their mother, or a combination
thereof? I'm putting up $5, a big wet kiss, and a bowl of my delicious
papaya salsa. Let's play ball!
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