Last Thursday evening we had to go to the vet's urgently because Canelle wasn't feeling very well. She was constantly vomiting, didn't eat or drink anymore and was clearly in pain. In the end, she turned out to have a severe infection in her stomach and intestines and had to be kept on a drip against dehydration. With tears in our eyes we had to leave her there, the poor thing...
But while we were sitting in the vet's office during the examination, we noticed that all of his animal cages were filled with little kittens, 3 of which had been abandoned and found by the road. One in particular immediately attracted our attention, poking his grey little muzzle as far as he could through the bars and indicating with his tiny paws that he wanted to play. Which I obviously did. He was just soooo cute and friendly... I had great difficulties putting him back in his cage when we returned home. The next day we went back there to see how Canelle was doing and... exactly the same story. Eventually Christine persuaded me not to get too attached to the little kitten because we already have four cats to look after. But I just couldn't forget that poor little sod. So after a lot of moaning and grunting, Christine succumbed and yesterday evening we went back to the vet's in order to collect him. :-)
I named him Tobi, which is indeed quite close to "Thomas", but I couldn't think of anything else that so much reflected his high an playful spirit. So here he is... barely 6-7 weeks old. Nevertheless he already managed to scare the living wits out of Flora, even though she must be at least 5 times as big. But he charged at her like a brave knight and she was forced to withdraw. :-) Hopefully he'll become the protector of our domain now because Flora and our two Norwegians are just too... cowardly..., even though they're so big and Canelle can be a real fury but she's simply too small to make an impression on some of these stray cats that roam the neighbourhood.
Welcome, little Tobi!
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