Animal Anecdotes 5 : Tiger the returning kitten

As of writing now,  I can hear a few tiny meowing from Tiger coming out from our front lawn. Tiger's out of the blue return to the house has becoming increasingly annoying and rather disturbing to whole household. The reason being:

A: the last we saw Tiger and his family ( a cat mom and another brother kitten whom had famously got stucked inside our car's rim) was when we chased the family out from the drain ( that was in late April this year)because the kittens were literally littering the place with foul feces and the smell permeates right into the family living room.

B: we NEVER at any condition allowed or invited or welcome any animals in this case a cat to make our home their home because knowing cats, they are good for only asking for food and pooping around the lawn. Also, not that they are going to protect or provide any kind of returning security for us unlike what a loyal dog will do. It is one of those take and no giving relationship that we had gone through many times with most cats that we had.

C: Tiger came unannounced and unexpectedly crying desperately for food and he looked like he has seen better days with runny nose, ticks, dirtied eyes and scrawny looking because its ribs are showing. The kitten has even the nerves to try sneaking into our front door whenever there's a chance and I never understand why. Why for returning after more than a month? Why keep coming back after we had chased him out again? Oh why?

Another part reason to Tiger being consistent and relentless about sticking around the house was the fact that I gave him food. Oh yes I did! One major mistake done. However you tell me, how can you have no mercy seeing a wailing kitty, looking very hungry, dirty and skinny just like in these photos below and go on about in life like nothing is happening right in front of you?

[caption id="attachment_950" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Tiger eating the left over fish I was making a fuss about in the morning because someone in the house didn't eat it and left it to be thrown away. Luckily Tiger the kitten came along."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_951" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="He got his name from this Tiger Poster by WWF he was eating on. That piece of paper was picked out by chance and what do you know it had to be a Tiger poster. On a side note, do support the Tiger mission by WWF wil you!"][/caption]

We are still contemplating on what to do with this cat. Someone got a bright idea to throw it far away from the house so that he can have a chance of the real life outside our home or more accurately, quit popping around the house and pooping around as well. If you are in my shoes, what will you do with this poor kitty?

Animals Anecdotes 3: Kitty in the rim

This is one of the rare occasion when little kittens or any cats in general will do when they switch into the panic mode. Never mess with a panic, scared animals. In this case a kitten. This little kitten hissed and literally screamed its lungs out as we tried to help it get out. This is what happened to it:

[caption id="attachment_804" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Little kitten stuck in between the rim. It is wet, panicky and most definitely very agitated."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_805" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Kitty in the rim with one leg out"][/caption]

We thought hosing the kitten out with water would eventually helps it to slip out and get the heck out of the rim. But it only helps to make the kitten wet and scared more than anything. Later on, it finally struck to us that ,"Oh yeah, cats hate water right?". A very smart move indeed.

Until a couple of wasteful minutes later, we decided to stand away from the stuck animal and went inside the house. Probably it can slip out on its own if we just keep clear of its view. True enough, minutes later, we heard a tiny meow right on the front door. It was the wet kitten calling out for its mother I suppose. The next seconds as we appeared out of the house, the kitten was gone and there I was thinking , "You better not hide in those rims again or we are just going to get moving along with you stuck between it."

We never saw the kitten again for the next couple of days until weeks later, I saw it playing around with its mother, looking all happy and healthy at my neighbour's house just back door.The mother cat is missing a kitten and God knows what happened to it. The lesson here is never mess with a panicky kitty because man that little creature can really hiss and scowl.