A new baby is sleeping quietly on the end of the couch
She is weary from being placed in a box
wrapped in a net
to come the long two kilometres from the Haven
to her new home.
She is a pretty wee thing
and we shall love her.
Only nine weeks old she already has a very good purring machine
and a very strong voice when confined to that carrier.
The lady in the cat haven was dubious indeed about
letting two such oldies adopt! She tried to be polite about telling me that
the wee cat might outlive us, and, moreover she really had serious doubts about my walking stick. Twice reminded that a kitten might live twenty years, I had to reassure her by telling her my daughter was very fond of cats, and that I had a fair knowledge of kitten needs and kitten housing. Somehow I think suspicion remained: What would happen to the precious kitty when this old person goes into a nursing home? And here I thought that having pets was one of the ways of keeping very old persons minds in shape!