#14 Adopt a Cat Month
June 26, 2013
When Jordan, who's quite allergic, heard about today's holiday she quickly replied, "We ARE NOT getting another cat!!" And she's right, two is a good number.
Today Bnaya and Chess got some new toys from our friends and boy did they LOVE them!!
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| Chess is loving his new squishy ball! |
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| Thank you D, C, and triple Rs! ;) |
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| Bnaya got a new ball too! |
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| She was having a time trying to figure it all out. |
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| "Oh, I think I'm liking this" |
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| All fours up! |
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| In swoops Chess to steal Bnaya's ball...somehow his wasn't as fun as hers. haha. |
It seems that today is an appropriate time to tell the stories of how we came to adopt these two lucky things! There are cats everywhere here, so many, that it's a sad situation because they usually don't make it very long.
Bnaya's story - September 2012
Toward the end of August, as I was walking through the medina (old city-perhaps my favorite part of town) with a new friend, we spotted a stray kitten and I stopped to gawk affectionately at the pitiful creature like all girly-girls are entitled to do.
Upon seeing my actions, my friend says,"Do you want it? If you see a cat and you want it, you can just take it."
No, I didn't just take the cat, but I began to consider it. A few weeks later, Beth and I had decided that we wanted a kitten to keep us company, something to come home to and care for - It may sound silly, but it really is the little things when living overseas that make all the difference.
We searched and searched for the perfect fit and finally found a small kitten hiding out next door to a friend's house. Little Bnaya was a clever little kitten, too! One evening, while we were trying to catch her she quickly hid under a nearby car. And of course we looked most odd crawling under cars and squatting down to grab her, so there were plenty of locals who joined in on our cause. One guy moved the car, but then Bnaya ran into someone else's courtyard. They let us in to look for her and we ended up going around and around the house, but she successfully avoided us. We decided to give it a rest and look again the next day.
The next afternoon our friend found a paper airplane that the neighbor had sent over the wall with a secret message that said,"Need backup to catch the naughty cat! The cage girl and glove girl are required. Meet at 17:30 ...message sent by air force from the neighbor's fields..." We were impressed with the wittiness and English proficiency of the letter.
We were finally able to secure the scaredy cat and Beth snatched her up by the neck then looked frantically at us as if to say, "I got her! What do I do now?" So we all yelled, "The cage, the cage. Put her in the cage!"
It took Bnaya some time to adjust to her newly refined lifestyle and she's still a little skittish but she sure is a sweet girl and loves to catch bugs!
The ironic thing about it all is that we now live in the very house with the courtyard where we rescued Bnaya.
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| Baby Bnaya |
Chess story - May 2013
One cat was more than enough for me, but one day on our walk home we found the tiniest little kitten crying loudly. Poor little Chess was stuck in a trash bag. We don't know if he was thrown out in the trash or if he got lost looking for food. It quickly became quite apparently that he'd been away from his mother for quite some time. So we took him to the vet, then fed him from a syringe for several weeks. It's a wonder he survived, but now he's growing too quickly!
It took Bnaya a little time to figure out what Chess was...It was like she didn't even realize that she was a cat until she saw a little one. Now they are the best of friends!
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| Palm size baby Chess |
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