Kitty

I was occupied doing some chores at home, when in the distance, I perceived a strange noise. I did not give it much importance, but a ray of hope lit up my mind.

¨That could be my dog, ¨I pondered.

My dog had disappeared days before after I had left the home for a few days. Strangely because I had been absent before and my dog had always remained at home until my homecoming.

Then he started heading towards where the noise was coming from. Some yards ahead a disturbing noise of an animal was distorting the calm of the country environment.  Approaching, I realized that a dog too big was stalking something too small.  Advancing more steps ahead, the whole scene revealed to me.  It was a small kitten, who frightened with its eyes wide open was defending himself from the angry dog.

When the dog spotted me, it stopped its furious attack to the defend less kitten and stared at me with its jaws and teeth exerting a menacing smirk. The kitty just stretched its legs high up, trying to stop the dog from attacking him. . I remove my coat and I approached the kitten. I wrapped it with my jacket and headed home.

The kitten was so little that it completely fit in the palm of my hand. On the journey from the place of the attack to my home, I had sufficient clues as what would have driven the kitten there. The kitty was only a few days or weeks old and he had already endure the hardest of times during its short days in this world.

We arrived home and immediately offered the kitten some food, which it did not even smelled. The kitty went directly to a corner in the house and laid down. It was around twilight, so I arranged a place for him. The kitty wrapped himself in the middle of the covers and fell profoundly asleep.

¨It must have been abandoned along with its brothers and he was one of the ones who could survive during these days, ¨I pondered.

The following day, the first thing I did was to go and see how the kitty was doing. I found it awake and standing on its four feet, but calmly staring at the wall without showing any emotions. I offered him some food, which it rejected. I realize that the skinny kitty was not use to eat much. Half of an hour later, it went back to sleep and did not wake up till the next day.

After one week from the date I met him in a dangerous situation, the kitten began to move around in the house, showing its feline instincts. The walls were not too high for him, as it could run from side to side with its tiny claws clinging to the walls. There was not a place that it had not already inspected.  

By this time, my kitty and I had become the best of friends and I enjoyed seeing him playing with a ball hanging from a thread in the yard.  It would jump over the table where I was doing something and that was an indication that my kitty needed someone with whom to play.