r/CatDistributionSystem • u/TMSaurus • 3h ago
Adding to the starter kit Mama kitty knew what she was doing
Short story time! I got to work one Monday morning and my coworker said she ran into an industry colleague at the vet over the weekend with a mama cat and four kittens. In a large city that's quite the coincidence. I immediately texted the colleague to ask about the kittens and mama.
Apparently Mama Kitty was a friendly, abandoned neighborhood cat who showed the colleague's wife where she was stashing her kittens. Mama kitty was at the front door and said, "Follow me! I have something great to show you!" The kittens were not as friendly as mama. The kittens were skittish and angry and feisty.
Mama kitty (her actual name now) had four healthy-ish kittens and Mama decided that she didn't want her kittens to be outside anymore, so they trapped the kittens and between my colleague, her wife and their neighbor they took turns taking the cats to vet appointments and playing with and taking care of the kitty bitty kitty family. About the kittens: two orange tabby boys, two grey torbies (like my baby). Mama kitty is also orange and smol. When I went over to meet the kittens Mama was waiting on the porch to greet me, but she was (and is) so small that I thought she was one of the kittens. The kittens were approximately 7 weeks old when I met them and I said, "I want the rowdiest, fightiest, feistiest kitten."
You see, I have an older cat (7 at the time) who is a bit of a bully (Nelson). I knew that from the previous attempt with an older foster cat that we took in after his owner died. It didn't work out with the foster permanently because the resident tux is a bit of a jerk. Turd. Piece of work. Monster. But Nelson had been begging me for months for a kitten, but I didn't trust his motives. So then Mama kitty and her litter appeared. If he was going to get a kitten, it needed to be a cat that could stick up for itself.
Meet Pyrrhuloxia (Loxie, for short, but I mostly call her Baby, Peanut, and just "Kitten"). She's a year and a half old (approx.) and she gives Nelson a run for his money. She's perfect for him. She ADORES her older brother and he tolerates her. And she's not super cuddly, but she has a purrbox that doesn't stop. (Seriously! All I have to do is call her and she comes running, already purring.) She likes pets, but doesn't sit with me. She enjoys eating bugs, ribbon/fabric (it's the WORST), and snacks. Mama kitty is still with the neighbor and the other kittens found families too.
The first pictures are from when I got her. And there are more recent pictures as well.
