Meet General Grievous (Caden's kitten)
And the family kitten, Mrs. Norris
Everything was going great and the kittens were fitting in nicely with the family. Then we noticed that Grievous was getting sick about a week after we got her. This was on a Friday. By Sunday, she was worse, so we decided that we'd take her to the vet in the morning. But unfortunately, she passed away in the night and we never made it to the vet. We have no idea what killed her, just some random kitty virus. It was heartbreaking to tell Caden. They were best buddies. She slept in his bed every night. We buried her in the backyard and had a little funeral for her. It was the saddest little funeral that I have ever been too :(
We took our other kitty, Mrs, Norris, into the vet to get her checked out. They put her on antibiotics just as a precaution. She has done great since then. After a couple of weeks, we got the go ahead from the vet to get another kitten. Cierra's teacher from last year had a litter of kittens that she was giving away, so we went and picked out a cute little girl kitty that Caden named Luna Lovegood.
Well, I discovered this week that Luna Lovegood is not a girl kitty at all. She is a boy! We all double checked when we picked her out and we were all positive that it was a girl kitty, but he is most definitely a he. Caden has now changed Luna's name to Cedric (yes, another Harry Potter name.) The kitties are keeping us busy, but they have been a very good addition to our home. Tyler loves to carry them around and I can usually find one or both of them asleep in Cierra or Caden's bed at night.
All in all, it has been a good experience and I'm glad that we got them.
5 comments:
aw man. i wish you had left his name as luna.
That is so sad about Caden's kitten. Both of the kittens that we hand fed ended up dying very suddenly too. Online, some people call it "vanishing kitten syndrome". We tried to take our second one to the vet too after we realized it was getting sick like the first, but it was already too late, it was so sad. I'm glad that the sister kitten survived.
Cute pictures and you almost tempted me...but I resisted:) Besides Scott is still terrified of them.
Caden was totally terrified of them for a couple of days. But you would never be able to tell now that he was ever scared of cats.
So sad about the General, they are all so cute.
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