Look What The Cat Dragged In

In addition to the small "petting zoo" we already have ( 1 dogs and a cat ) came this little kitten. It sat next to Blake, our cat, in the yard one day. Our suspicion was, that Blake is the "Daddy", since he has been roaming around and the kitten looked just like him, haha. Possibility is that the kitten followed him home as soon as it was strong enough to do so. Blake abided it and Mia, always playful, thought it was a new toy and chased it under the building, where it stayed the remainder of the day.

The next day we thought it had left and we got in the car to leave. We pulled out the drive way and stopped to get the mail before hitting the road. While I got the mail out of the mailbox, the loud miaowing could not be ignored. I couldn't see the kitten anywhere, but it sounded real close. Hubby heard it too. We looked under the car...nothing. Then hubby popped the hood, and there it was...sitting on top of the battery. He picked it up, carried it back to the house and sat it down near the bushes, and we left.

Several months ago our oldest daughter's cat died. She was heartbroken. When we told her about the kitten, she went outside to look for it and found it under the grill of the neighbor's car. She fed it and played with it and the next day announced she had been thinking about naming it. Which meant...she wanted to keep it:-). We all were fine with that, as a matter of fact, I already had a name in mind myself, haha. The only concern was, that it might get itself killed by the preference it had developed for car-engines! Solution: it went in a large cage till it was bigger and we would go from there. After closer examination we found out it's female. Daughter picked a name for her. Her name is Ruth:-)

That was for that moment. But there was more to it then just this! Wait till you read how "she" turned out to be a "he". grin.