Guess What!?
Journal Entry: Sun Jul 29, 2007, 7:53 PM
- Listening to: More Than Useless- Relient K
- Reading: Nothing
- Watching: Nothing
- Playing: Nothing
- Eating: Nothing
- Drinking: Nothing
I picked up a pigeon yesterday (yes I'm not kidding, I literally held him in my hands). It wasn't really all that hard even. He kept bumping into stuff (someone told me he was blind), he kept falling over onto his right side, and he couldn't even fly. So being the little trifler with nature that I am, I picked him up and brought him home (I named him Fletcher by the way). Anyway, Fletcher was mine for around two hours before my mom came home and insisted we take him to the ASPCA (but only after I told her the reasons why I picked him up.
Anyway, while we were at the ASPCA, this woman came in with a boxful of five lovely kittens who had been abandoned by their mother. The ASPCA said they couldn't take them in until they were at least two pounds each and old enough to feed themselves because they didn't have enough people to look after them. So in exchange for them taking Fletcher, we decided to be the kittens' foster parents.
It's been a rather harrowing experience. There are two orange tabbies named Matthew James and Nathaniel S., one light brown tabby named Hazelwood D. Brian, a dark brown tabby (the only female) named Eleanor Bavrit Lily, and one gray-and-white tabby named Severus (after the character created by J. K. Rowling). This means that I now have a total of eight kitties and one gerbil.
And as if life couldn't get any better, a friend of my brother's is giving us two abandoned, four-week old white kittens to foster as well, escalating the number of cats to ten. I'm so glad to play such a big part in these little kittens' lives (seeing as caring for them is my responsibility). I hope I get more opportunities like this in the future.