Well, I had some unsettling news today.
The whole time I have had this baby, I have had this nagging question in the back of my mind: if there was one baby, were there possibly others?
I had also been kicking myself for not giving the woman who brought her into the store my phone number, and/or getting hers, so that I could let her know how things were going. At the moment that I took the baby from her there in the store, I was in a little shock and awe at how
new she was and I was focused on getting her home (a 45 minute trip) so that I could get her warm and something in her tummy.
Anyway, today when I was in town, I went to the store where I got her with the intention of leaving my phone number in case the woman happened to come in again. The same guy who was working last week was working today and I asked him if she had happened to come back in and he said, "Yeah, about fifteen minutes after you left - with another kitten."
Ugh. I wish I had been able to get that other kitten. While having this one little thing has been a lot of work, and I've had a lot of worry and been on a bit of an emotional roller coaster, raising a second one really wouldn't have been any more work - you know, just a couple of extra minutes at each feeding and potty work and I could have cuddled both of them at the same time.
I'm not a big fan of single animals. Under natural situations, kittens are rarely raised as singles but grow up with litter mates and I can't help but feel that it would have been so much better for both of them to be raised together.
The guy at the store said the woman bought the milk replacer and bottle and was going to try to raise the baby herself. She had made it very clear to me that she had zero experience in such an undertaking - I hope she was able to get some help, either by researching on the internet or by finding someone knowledgeable to help her.
Anyway, I left my number at the store; hopefully I'll hear from her.
I went looking for a wind up clock. Did you know that you can't
find wind up clocks anymore? At least, not at my local Wal Mart. I couldn't even find the clock department, it was that small (I also don't shop at WM very often) - I guess everyone uses their cell phones nowadays. So....there was not one single wind up clock there - everything required batteries. I wasn't even sure a battery-operated clock would "tick," so I bought the cheapest one, brought it home and put a battery in it, and it does make a sound. I wouldn't exactly call it a "tick-tock" - and it is very quiet - but I have it in with the Baby now. Hopefully it gives her some comfort.
She weighs a little over three ounces as of today. Not enough to call it 3 1/2 ounces, or even 3 1/4, but she is slightly on the positive side of the "3."
It looks like one of her eyes may be trying to open.
And she's getting more markings - besides her grey ears, she's getting some kind of grey markings above her eyes and it looks like a grey spot on the top of her head, right smack dab between her ears, is forming. She may be getting some striping on her legs, too.
It might be time to be talking about a name, 'eh?
I'll try to get some pictures tomorrow; I couldn't find a USB cable that would work but I bought this little card thing my son said would work. I'm kind of a doofus about some of this stuff (a lot of it) so I'll have to wait until he gets home from school to show me.
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Been there, done that. I had Nubians 25 years ago.
