{"id":284,"date":"2008-11-22T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=284"},"modified":"2009-02-27T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:31:30","slug":"houseguest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/houseguest\/","title":{"rendered":"Houseguest"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a small furry houseguest.\u00c2\u00a0 Chances are good that he’s just a guest, and won’t be living with us permanently, but we’re certainly enjoying his company while he’s here.<\/p>\n

So here’s the story:\u00c2\u00a0 my coworker Susan has a neighbor who found a four month old kitten in her yard.\u00c2\u00a0 The neighbor says that the kitten must have been outside for a couple of days, and he literally leaped into her arms.\u00c2\u00a0 The neighbor and her husband\u00c2\u00a0are decidedly NOT pet people (I think one or both of them has allergies), and they walked the neighborhood hoping to find the owner of this kitten (and took him to a vet to see if he had a chip implanted, which he didn’t).\u00c2\u00a0 Ultimately, they talked to Susan and her husband, and knowing that Susan and spouse had a cat, they somehow\u00c2\u00a0got Susan fully involved in trying to find a home for this little guy.<\/p>\n

After a few days, the neighbor was getting antsy, and told Susan that if a home wasn’t found for the kitten, he’d be going to a shelter – or maybe back out on the street.\u00c2\u00a0 The deadline was 7 PM last night, and Jim and I decided to rise to the occasion and foster the kitten until we can find him a good home (and we have several “hot” leads, so, please, no one volunteer right now to take him!).<\/p>\n

We picked the kitten up this morning; our vet was kind enough to stop by and examine him an hour later; and he’s proved to be both very healthy and very, very good natured.\u00c2\u00a0 A star patient for Dr. Reiner: after having blood drawn for the feline leukemia test, he purred madly and waited patiently for the next procedure.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn’t blink after being given a pill for his worms.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn’t complain about being given a rabies shot and feline distemper shot.\u00c2\u00a0 Got a bit frisky after having his claws trimmed, but one claw did <\/em>get trimmed a bit short and bled a bit, so we’ll forgive him.<\/p>\n

After passing the physical exam (no feline leukemia, no fleas, no ear mites), the vet gave us clearance to let Max roam the house freely and interact with Ophy and Pippa.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s a scrappy little fella, and has arched his back and hissed a bit at the girls, but so far no fights have broken out.\u00c2\u00a0 At the moment, all three cats are with me in the dining room, by the woodstove.\u00c2\u00a0 And yes, I know, we probably shouldn’t have named him, but it’s hard to just call him “Cat” or “Buddy.”\u00c2\u00a0 Max suits him.<\/p>\n

Here’s a photo of the cutie, a talkative little lovebug who weighs almost five pounds at barely four months of age, and has extra toes on every single paw (click on image to enlarge):<\/p>\n

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We have a small furry houseguest.\u00c2\u00a0 Chances are good that he’s just a guest, and won’t be living with us permanently, but we’re certainly enjoying his company while he’s here. So here’s the story:\u00c2\u00a0 my coworker Susan has a neighbor who found a four month old kitten in her yard.\u00c2\u00a0 The neighbor says that the … Continue reading Houseguest<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc","category-spare-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}