Look at those spots on her stomach.  She was definitely a mixed breed of something.

She’s doing really well.  Still a little groggy today from the pain meds, but other than that, she is doing fine.

Delilah After Spay

Delilah, our adopted rescue kitty really seems to like Sascha, my German Shepherd.  In truth, Sascha seems to like the kitty as well.

However, I wonder what Sascha must be thinking?  “Why’s this kitten playing with my ear?”  Why am I in the crate when the kitten is attacking me?”

Kitten Playing With Dog's Ear

Once playing with Sascha’s ear got boring, Delilah just decided to lay down on top of Sascha’s crate.

Kitten Watching German Shepherd

Leecy was taking a little cat nap, and of course Delilah decided to join her.

I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to get some more pictures.  After I snapped a couple of quick test shots, Delilah barely woke up and presented a nice BIG yawn.

For a rescued Kitty, I’d say she’s got a pretty good life so far!

Leecy Napping With Kitten Yawn

Sascha seems to be the most bonded with Delilah as she follows her everywhere and licks her at every opportunity.

On the other hand, Maggie, being true to her character, doesn’t seem to care one way or another about another animal.  It’s people she’s most interested in.

That is, until Delilah decides to go in between the dog’s crates!  That’s when Maggie starts whining, probably asking why she has to be in a crate when the kitten doesn’t:-).

Kitten Bonding With Dogs

She and Chloe get along great, as well as her and the dogs.  In fact, her favorite playmate (other than Chloe) seems to be Sascha, my German Shepherd.

We also got her a new toy today.  I think she likes it.  She carries it around the house.

Delilah Jumping After Toy

Delilah Jumping But Misses Toy

We decided to let Delilah out to play, hoping that she is almost over her respiratory infection (she goes back to the vet on Friday).

Surprisingly, our other cat Chloe decided it was time to quit hissing at the kitten and that it would be more fun to play with her.

So the cat and kitten are running around playing with each other then both get tired.  Leecy announces that she is going upstairs (to do what I don’t know).

A couple minutes later I heard this sound coming from the kitchen.  I thought, uh oh, the kitten has gotten into something.

So I dash in the kitchen looking for Delilah.  I open the pantry and she’s not in there.  I could swear it sounded like she was behind the refrigerator.

I yell for Leecy, “Leecy, we’ve got another animal emergency, the kitten has gotten behind the refrigerator!”

As I’m listening to the sounds coming from around the refrigerator I’m thinking to myself, “how the heck did the kitten get behind the refrigerator?”  There was no way she could have jumped up to the top of the refrigerator (a little taller than 6 feet).

I decided (don’t ask me why) to open the refrigerator, and there is Delilah, staring at me, probably asking why she was put in the refrigerator.

I yell back up to Leecy, “Leecy, you closed Delilah in the refrigerator!” (she was only in there maybe a couple of minutes)  Despite the funny story, Leecy felt pretty bad.

Lesson learned for the day.  Always look before you close the refrigerator door to make sure your kitten didn’t jump inside.  As an additional reminder, we now have a note on the refrigerator door to make sure the kitten is safe before closing the door:-).

That’s my animal rescue story for the day.

New Tabby Delilah

Leecy took Delilah to the vet today just to make sure everything is okay.  Now before I tell you the results, I did suspect that something was slightly amiss with the kitty.  As it turns out, Delilah has a respiratory infection, and it is infectious.  Our vet didn’t think it would be a huge ordeal to treat, but we do have to treat her for 2 weeks and keep her away from our other cat Chloe.

Now Delilah has been moved upstairs (just like Madison was).  Leecy and I take turns playing with her and visiting her.  I’ll be the one who has to give her the twice daily medications (I have that role for all of our animals that get sick).  For a sick kitty (she sounds a little hoarse today) you wouldn’t really be able to tell.  She still loves to play and jump around.  She still has absolutely no fear, she walked right in to every room upstairs (which she had never seen before), tail held high, and just went to explore.  She even looked at herself in a full length mirror and just stared at it for a couple of seconds, then kept on walking.

Oh well, another day, another animal rescue:-)

What originally begins as typical scratching post behavior explodes into using the human form as a scratching post and climbing tree.  Less reliable news sources suggest that these kittens are trying to make a new fashion statement.

We have received no photographs of these encounters…er..wait…I’m getting something in my ear piece.  We just may a photograph of this bizarre behavior after all.

My New Kitten Hat

In talking with high-ranking governmental sources about this phenomenon, our sources are stressing that this event is nothing to panic about.

To become a full blown epidemic, these kittens must not only exhibit the behavior above, but must experience the kitten trying to suckle off of a “moob” (man boob).  This has only occurred 1 time to the individual above, and we repeat, this is no cause for alarm.