accidental pet owner: A Kitty!!!

Couple of days ago and I really mean Sunday, we came home from the church around  9pm to a loud meowing from the house porch...we have a porch ohaha, I forgot to tell that we've moved to another city but it's very close to the old neighborhood that we used to have. still GHETTO. haha. but at least we have a living room. ya know, city life.

ANYHOW, the husband and I went on to searching for this tiny, miserable meows...like it's lost-helpless-and-dying all at once. It was dark and we really meant to find a kitten instead of a monster pretending to be a kitty. 'Good enough, after a few second of search we found it [indeed a kitty] in one of my suede shoes... scared, wet and shaky. HOW bad are the kids in my new neighborhood!! ... we know they had put that poor kitty though the tiny hole on our gate, rolled the screen to one side that only tiny hands could fit in!! argh....  these kids also rang our doorbell weeks after we moved it until it busted. argh argh.

FRIDAY. First night, we tried putting it out coz cats here are just roaming, wild creatures...unless they are bred or something, they just stay on the rooftops of houses, and we thought MOTHER cat will just get the poor thing. SO we left the kitten on the street [heartless as we are] though it was crying, we pretend not to hear like it's normal and kittens that arent bred are dirty, they could be carrying diseases or whatever.

THE next day SATURDAY at lunch...after hearing, cars, trucks, children playing and everything...we heard the tiny cry...still out there on the street was that poor little creature. I looked at my husband in a "awwhh" kind of way and he said, "alright...if you want it I'll get it but you will take care of it" ... I took a can of milk from the pantry, hurriedly open it and then poured to a bowl. The kitten is grey, brown, stripes... ugly cat I thought haha, but it's... tiny and hungry, my heart is breaking into small cracks I cannot ignore... BUT then it wont feed on the evaporated milk I gave it, silly me... but I had nothing for a cat...it was actually mine...that was my milk....

LATER in the afternoon, after church choir practice...around 9pm.. THE husband and I are bothered that we haven't fed the cat all day and that it wont feed on canned, for human milk... also, it was helpless to feed it using a spoon...A SPOON. A SPOON? we are geniuses.haha doesnt work for a 3 week-old kitten.

We looked for medicine drops and bought full-powdered milk... kitten substitute milk isnt available at the stores we went to, so we decided to give it BEAR BRAND MILK...

THe dropper...after 4 sips...the kitten is done. HE cant suckle into it coz it was plastic... I'm growing frustrated and sad, that I dont want it to die. The medicine dropper didnt work either.

SUNDAY. Tried again to feed it before going to the morning service...4 sips and thats all... crying and tried my best to put it to sleep until we left the house.

LUNCH time came that SUNDAY and KITTY was gone. Just like that GONE. We noticed the screen being rolled to the side again and we knew... kids got the kitten... after all the work we've done!! They took my cat :(

MONDAY. Guess what? he was back... i was in denial, but I'm actually happy it's back... the husband.. not so sure about it though haha... still... frustrated at feeding it... it cried and cried until it sleeps and then wakes up to crying again...walking about the porch... I tried cotton balls, I tried making a hole to the rubber end of the medicine dropper.. nothing worked.. I was afraid it would die... and so, I went online, went to YOUTUBE... found this video... [youtube has everything.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJ49NEH-y8&feature=share

I saw this and I thought this would solve my problem!! So I asked a friend who owns many cats...19 cats in the house... [yeah, true strory]  of where to get those feeding bottles with tiny nipples for kittens and she told me to go to this MALL and it was great that it was near to my place.

TUESDAY. So we went there this morning... found the store...Animal House at Market! Market! ... 'found the feeding bottle and I'm bit taken-aback by the price... it's 380 pesos... OMG, the things I could buy with 380 pesos [it's around $ 9.50] ... made from Illinois. That's what. But it did solve my problem...though he was squirmish... I had to force feed it...but the nipples are soft so I know it wont hurt his mouth :) I bought gloves also coz his paw nails [whatever you call it] are like raven claws...

ANYHOO.. here's what the feeding bottle looks like...if ever you encounter an unexpected delivery...

and here's what Kitty looks like on the FIRST day... um.. we ought to name it : Mayor [haha] Like.. "where is the Mayor?" ... "feed the Mayor"

[aww... in my suede shoes]

 [spoon feeding...didn't work]

HUWELL... I hope he survives, but the moment I saw him feeding properly... finished a table spoon of milk and his tummy fat... I think it'll survive :) I really like how he waits near the gate when we come home and cries loud when I'm near the door to get him... aww... I'm a pet owner now.. by accident, to an orphaned, ghetto cat :D

xx
Sassy