Well, not really brand new…the vet says that she’s about 8 months or so old. But new to the Bodoni household.
My husband, who will tell you loudly and repeatedly that he doesn’t like cats, went to the mechanic’s shop to see about his driveshaft or something similarly manly. While he was there, a rather scrawny grayish-black cat begged for his attention. He learned that the kitten had just shown up a while ago, eager to be petted and fed, and that the mechanic was about to take her to the pound. My husband (who doesn’t like cats) decided that we had room in our home for one more cat. So he took her to the vet’s, where she was poked and prodded and tested and bathed, and then brought her home. She spent a few hours in the cat carrier with the door open. She was probably wondering what else the day had in store for her. After a bit of a nap, she started wandering around the house. She found the litter box, and the water dish. Either she doesn’t like our cat food or she isn’t hungry. Or possibly she just hasn’t eaten anything in front of us. At any rate, she spent the evening snuggled up against my daughter, who loves cats, or my husband, who will say he doesn’t like cats), getting petted. The two adult cats are very, very upset. This is an intruder, they keep saying. Don’t we recognize the enemy when it purrs at us? So far, there’s just been hissing and growling, but no actual fighting. The kitten hasn’t been making any aggressive moves, and I expect that the adult cats will soon become accustomed to her.
Right now, though, I’m having to pay a LOT of attention to the adult cats.
Oh, and my husband, who doesn’t like cats, has started calling this kitten HIS cat.