One night Chris and I were sitting in our office, working on some homework. (I had convinced Chris to work 1 hour straight on some hard assignment without one distraction). Then we heard it. We tried to ignor it for a few minutes, but the noise got louder. We couldn't tell where it was coming from, so we opened the window. It sounded like it was right outside our window, and it sounded like something was dying. We both thought of our neighbors cat and ran to find coats and shoes. It was FREEZING outside. One of the coldest nights since last winter. We ran to my car to find my flashlight, took a little bit of panic digging to find since my car's dome light doesn't work (we needed a flashlight to find our flashlight). We ran around to the back of our building and a little lump of grey was trying to run to Chris as he picked the little guy up. He felt super cold. We took him up to our place and I sat with him in a blanket until he warmed up. We did a little research and figured he was about 4 weeks old, and too young to be away from his mother. He seemed to be on a constant search, even though his walking skills were less than pro, so we named him Diego after the little boy on dora the explorer (name by Chris). We tried to give him some milk, figuring his constant Meowing had something to do with food. But he couldn't quite figure out the whole milk in a bowl thing. He seemed to be able to smell the milk, go a little crazy, but he'd snort up a bit and start choking. He tried to suck on any skin of ours he could find. Then in frustration he'd start to bite. So we made him a little box and I ran to the store. 1 bag of cheap kitty litter and 1 free syringe later I had the kitten pretty well fed. It still was pretty hard to get him to figure out the syringe, but after a while I figured he'd eaten a lot. Surprizingly the kitten didn't make a noise all night, at least that we could hear. Chris put him in the farthest corner, white board over the box, then blanket, then 2 closed doors with pillows stuffed into the cracks.... so we didn't hear a thing. He was alive in the morning. So I faught some milk down him and we ran him over to our friends LeaDawn and Daniel early in the morning. (nothing was open before we had to be at classes). LeaDawn was nice enough to take care of him, then take him to a bunch of places to see who would take him. Finaly the Four Paws shelter took him in. In the end Chris got his homework done and we saved a kitten.
so i (Chris) tried to help Sommer with some typos and such and she wouldn't budge on the misspelling of the word surprise, or surprisingly. She spelled it "surprizingly" she then googled the word surprize because she said that it could be spelled "both ways". This is what she found and then read to me:
ReplyDeleteSurprize was one of the notorious Second Fleet ships to Port Jackson. At 400 tons, she was the smallest ship of the fleet, and was an unsuitable vessel for so long a voyage, proving to be a wet ship even in moderate weather. In rough seas and heavy gales the convicts “were considerably above their waists in water”, according to the commander of the guards. She had been chartered by the British East India Company to load tea at Canton for the return journey. In company with Neptune and Scarborough she sailed from England with 254 male convicts on 19 January 1790. Her master was Nicholas Anstis, formerly chief mate on the Lady Penrhyn in the First Fleet, and surgeon was William Waters. She arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 13 April 1790, and spent sixteen days there, taking on provisions. She was parted from her consorts in heavy weather and came in sight of Port Jackson on 23 June. Contrary winds blew here out to sea again and she did not make port until 26 June 158 days out from England. During the voyage thirty six convicts died (14%), and 121 (48%) were sick when landed.
nice try sweetie, but i win
hahaha you two are so cute, i can just see the little kitty being nourished back to health! sommer i saw you today! you walked right past my car on a cross walk and i was totally going to honk and wave but i didn't want to scare you or the people walking by so i didn't haha, but i feel like we haven't seen you guys in forever so we need to do something soon!!
ReplyDeleteWay to go on saving a kitten! and sommer i thought your post was great! I never noticed ANY typos! There is this neat party going on in rexburg check out this sweet blog it gives the details http://makeitandloveit.blogspot.com/2009/11/special-sort-of-sponsorgiveawaylocal.html
ReplyDeleteSommer I was so pleasantly SUPRIZED to find that you had saved a kitten and was SUPRIZINGLY astonished to find that amongst all that catastrophe Chris finished his homework. Yep. Love you.
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