Nekojin
05-29-2008, 03:10 AM
So, a week ago, one of the warehouse guys at Andara's work came into the office from the Warehouse, carrying a box. Inside was a very tiny kitten, apparently abandoned by its feral Mama Kitty. Nobody else at Andara's work wanted to take the kitten home and tend to it. So, Andara did what I would have done - she took the kitten. Being that Andara's place of business is an Electronics surplus seller, the only things that should be in the warehouse are connectors and widgets. So, her name is Widget.
At the time we picked her up, we figure she was about 4 to 5 weeks old. Her eyes didn't focus well, and she didn't walk more than a step or two at a time. I could hold her in my hand with no problem. She hadn't been weaned, so we had to get cans of KMR to bottle-feed her. It was difficult at first, since she didn't recognize the bottle's nipple, but after a few days of it, she caught on, and now recognizes the bottle by sight.
Now, a week later, she's much larger (almost twice her size of a week ago), has a voracious appetite, doing climbing and kitten-running (run three steps, fall over, turn around, run three steps, etc).
What's REALLY amusing is that PetCo has a couple of pictures in their store of a cat that looks like what Widget will look like in a year - almost exactly the same markings. She's grey all over with faint tabby markings, black points, and white paws, nose, and belly.
So, enough with all the text. Bring on the kittehpix! All of these were taken over the course of the weekend. The colors on the pictures are a little off - the camera we used sucks.
http://i30.tinypic.com/jkywap.jpg
http://i30.tinypic.com/358ntoz.jpg
http://i28.tinypic.com/35i3bti.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/wvdcnq.jpg
http://i28.tinypic.com/2i8ip8h.jpg
http://i27.tinypic.com/1erihj.jpg
http://i32.tinypic.com/j64tgo.jpg
At the time we picked her up, we figure she was about 4 to 5 weeks old. Her eyes didn't focus well, and she didn't walk more than a step or two at a time. I could hold her in my hand with no problem. She hadn't been weaned, so we had to get cans of KMR to bottle-feed her. It was difficult at first, since she didn't recognize the bottle's nipple, but after a few days of it, she caught on, and now recognizes the bottle by sight.
Now, a week later, she's much larger (almost twice her size of a week ago), has a voracious appetite, doing climbing and kitten-running (run three steps, fall over, turn around, run three steps, etc).
What's REALLY amusing is that PetCo has a couple of pictures in their store of a cat that looks like what Widget will look like in a year - almost exactly the same markings. She's grey all over with faint tabby markings, black points, and white paws, nose, and belly.
So, enough with all the text. Bring on the kittehpix! All of these were taken over the course of the weekend. The colors on the pictures are a little off - the camera we used sucks.
http://i30.tinypic.com/jkywap.jpg
http://i30.tinypic.com/358ntoz.jpg
http://i28.tinypic.com/35i3bti.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/wvdcnq.jpg
http://i28.tinypic.com/2i8ip8h.jpg
http://i27.tinypic.com/1erihj.jpg
http://i32.tinypic.com/j64tgo.jpg