Minimal nativity9/22/2023 ![]() In the first month, I caught Alucard batting around a small decorative tile with a cross on it, which he carried from my bedroom to the kitchen tile. How many small items can one kitten steal from the top of a dresser? As many as you leave there. Although Roman still thought he was top dog, Alucard now strutted around the house like he owned the place. After considering a number of options, Benton settled on Alucard, the name of one of his favorite anime characters. The first visit to the vet we learned that Rosie was an inappropriate name for our new male kitten. It took a few days for them to negotiate a truce. The first night, we kept them separated with the kitten locked in Benton’s room. “But she picked me and she needs me,” Benton insisted.Īt home, the new kitten took one look at our cockapoo Roman and growled and hissed at him. “Let’s maybe see some of the other kittens.” At three months old, they turned the now crazy kitten over to the local cat rescue organization. They didn’t realize you can’t roughhouse with a kitten like you can a puppy and expect her to not bite whenever she felt like it. They tried to raise her, but they weren’t cat people. A young girl and her grandfather scooped her up and took her into their home before she suffered the same fate. A band of street dogs attacked and killed her feral mother and all her littermates in a small Eastern Oregon town. It seems Rosie had survived a horrendous trauma. The warning sign, coupled with the wee one’s history, left me skeptical. When Benton turned to say something to me, the kitten waltzed onto his shoulder and perched, as if to say, “Mine.”īenton refused to even meet any of the other kittens available at the adoption event. She scrambled lickety-split to the top cube of the cat tree and peered out glowing-yellow-eye to Benton’s steel-blue eye. The adoption team helper carried the kitten-dubbed Rosie by her rescuers-into the visiting room. I think she’s the one.”Īs an added incentive, they were having a sale on black cats so his Christmas money from G’ma and G’pa would cover the adoption fee. ![]() Which surprised me because bites from his first cat Tom sent him to the doctor for antibiotics. The note on the tiny kitten’s cage-Warning: Bites-failed to deter my son Benton. Trouble for Christmas God’s Blessings – Alucard – Trouble for Christmas However, I decided that the best way to honor Lonnie is to post this story exactly as she published it in her compilation. Normally I would insert a lot of subheadings into a post, to make the SEO manager happy. My interactions with her when I submitted my story titled Trouble for Christmas were encouraging and uplifting. In memory of her, I decided to share a story of mine that she published in a compilation called The Cat in the Christmas Tree: A nd Other True Stories of Feline Joy and Merry Mischief, published under the name Callie Smith Grant as editor. ![]()
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