1st July 08   I’m not quite sure how this happened, but as of Friday I seem to have two extra mouths to feed. The house now has quite a menagerie of critters; let me see… there’s 1 dog, 1 cat, 2 kittens, a few roaches, a small arm of ants, a number of geckos, millions of unnameable beetles and a hornets nest.
Yes, I did say 2 kittens. I couldn’t help it! They kind of adopted me ;-/
I was cycling past the Wat, coming home from work on Friday evening when two of the tiniest little kittens scampered out in front of me, seemingly on a mission to get themselves killed or something – as two big dogs immediately started chasing after them. Well, I couldn’t very well just let them suffer in front of my very eyes could i? So I yelled at the dogs and got them to back off. I got off the bike and walked the rest of the short distance to the gates, just to make sure the dogs didn’t come back.  The kittens, obviously realising they were onto a good thing, decided they would follow me home.

Bugger.

I don’t want 3 cats!! So I decided, seeing as my dog was being fairly tolerant of them, that I would just let them seek shelter in the garden and they’d be on their way soon enough. After an hour or so I looked out again; the pair of tikes had made their way up to the steps of the house now. Seeing as they appeared settled for the nights, of course I had to feed them something!
The next morning Patch and Scratchy had progressed even further onto the balcony. AND doglet had begun to chase after them, so now I am committed to caring for them, at least until they are big enough to venture out into the bog wide world solo. I tell you, I am spending more on animal food than human food right now! I’m hoping a couple of months should be sufficient and then they will be wanting to make it on their own again!
 I must be friggin mad! Next it’ll be cows, ducks, pigs or goats seeking shelter in hotel Kathy…