Friday, I was sitting in my office working on my UCTC application essay, when I over heard my office mate talking about coming back from a trip to town,
"There were these 2 tiny kittens in the middle of the road, and I got out of the ATV to move them and they tried to follow me. It was so sad."
Of course being me, my ears perked right up.
"Where?" I asked.
She told me where they were, and it wasn't far from Xavier.
"They probably won't make it, they were so tiny," she added.
I went to talk to James, thinking he'd tell me it was a bad idea, and that the kittens would be fine, and they probably are hiding safely in the jungle somewhere, and that they were going to live.
"Kitten rescue mission?! Is this how you become Catwoman?" was his response. Not helpful.
As we approached the spot where Krista had seen them in the ATV, we slowed down. Sure enough, two sets of little ears were sticking up out of the middle of the road, huddled together tightly into a ball. Behind them, a couple trucks were steaming down the road. As we stopped the ATV, the kittens got up and pitter-pattered over to us, scarred and anxious. I scooped them up into a blanket and box that I had brought, and we turned around, and headed back toward Xavier.
I couldn't help but turn into a squealing pile of excitement. BABIES!!!
Back in the common room in the dorm, we unleashed the cute typhoon... and they were no bigger than bars of soap. I. am in love. This is, of course, a recipe for disaster and heartbreak... but i'll do everything I can, to make their lives happy for as long as I possibly can. <3
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