How I Found My Cat, Or Did My Cat Find Me?
Me getting a cat was a very exciting and a complex story, so let me start from the beginning…My friend’s Mom has a dog and a fish (a big animal lover) but also rescues kittens which are on the road from time to time. Right now she has rescued about 2–3 kittens and sent them to the shelter, except one… my Burrito!! (who is supervising me as well as sitting on top of me as I write this 😂) Now, let’s get back to the story, my friend’s mom was taking her dog, Caramel out for a walk and saw a tiny kitten who was crying, you’ll never guess where!! Under a road side shop (super dirty I know!!). She thought the mother cat may have left the kitten for a while in search of food (although I suspect this Mommy cat just went for street shopping at Hill Road and lost track of time). That evening it started to rain really heavily so Aunty went to check on the kitten. The kitten was still there and howling away drenched in the rain (heartbreaking moment I agree 😭) so she rescued the poor thing (Poor thing then, wild teething beast now). Now comes the problem, she already has a dog at home, like I mentioned before, so she could not keep the cat for more than a few hours. She tried reaching out to an the animal shelter close by, but unfortunately there was some viral infection spreading there, so they were not taking more animals. She told my mom and my mom said she would come and see the kitty and then decide if we would adopt him!! I was in the play area playing with my bestest friend….Nandini (she lives in the same building where I live and she has a very old and grumpy cat). My mom came down and told me we may adopt this cat and we are to going to see it right now, so as any cat lover would be, I (and Nandini) were thrilled!! We ( Nandini, my mom and me) went to see the little puffball, and the moment he crawled out of his basket my heart melted like chocolate in the sun, it was the cutest and the most fragile little thing ever!! My mom also fell in love with the cat and voila we had adopted the kitten!! I wanted a cat ever since a knew what a cat was and I was soooooo excited we were finally getting one!! Nandini was also very excited and happy for me. Nandini and I went up to my house and stayed there with the cat. I called Nyasa, another building friend of mine (just a side introduction, Nyasa has done a PHD on Cats, since there are around 6 cats in the building who are taken care of by Nyasa and her dad. Yes, our very own Cat Queen!). We made his bed in a basket and a makeshift litter box too. The first night, he stayed in my room. My dad put him in his basket and closed the lid at night. Early next morning, dad came into the room and opened the lid so that the little cutie could roam about and use the litter box. When I got up, the first thing I saw was a tiny head poking out from the basket, it was the cutest thing everrrrr!!!!!!!! When I had seen him for the first time, he was wrapped up in blankets and looked exactly like a burrito, and now you know why he is named Burrito. The story went on from there to now where in he became a big monstrous beast in just 9 months and in those 9 months he managed to become overweight as well!!
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Note: Wherever I have mentioned Burrito as a he, I did not know it then, I only knew it after his first vet appointment. Until then I thought it was a girl and we had named him Hope! Because he made all my hopes and dreams come TRUE!!!
See you in my next blog…I hope you had fun reading my cat’s crazy story!!
