Dante

Octover 10, 2008

So we now have a kitten, it didn’t take us very long to miss having a cat around. We did not just go out and find a kitten to buy, we rescued one.

The day before Chuseok Fallon called us to see if we were thinking about taking in a kitten (which we were). She told us that one of Wim’s students had found a tiny kitten separated from his mother. Without committing to anything, we went over to check out the poor baby.

Once we saw this poor baby, skinny, tiny, and dirty, we could not resist. I hadn’t had a kitten around in a very long time, and Cody has never had a kitten around.

We didn’t name him for about three weeks because at first he was so small and frail, we were afraid he wouldn’t last very long., but I told Cody if he survived, he would be able to pick the name.

Luckily for us, Dante gained strength quickly and started acting like a normal kitten. We took him to the vet after he had gained some strength, and he was healthy, but he had some sort of a fungus (like mange) that made some of his hair fall out. Now, after about two weeks, shampooing, cream, and medicine, his hair is growing back and he has grown at least twice his size. He can now climb the furniture and the stairs and is now always trying to attack us in his sleep.

We came here thinking we wouldn’t get any pets, but we obviously didn’t last very long. We will be taking many more pictures of Dante as our little monster gets bigger.