Growing up Leo.

In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful.

 

 

 

18 December 2014.

It was a horrible night, it was an awful night, a sad night. Could hardly sleep a wink, dozing off for an hour and then a peak at how the Leo is doing.

In the late evening we were chatting all of us, not checking the whereabouts of the kittens, when we heard shrieking a dreadful shrieking. The door was ajar. We all rushed outside, Abu put on the bakkie lights because there are no front lights and we knew the inevitable. The huge ginger from next door had come to pick a fight. “They’re not your size!” We were frantic could not find Leo. On our knees we looked under the pallets and there he sat not making a move, shaking, too scared to come out. Who wouldn’t be scared of such a scarred war veteran, bearing the battle scratches of many a cat fight?

After about forty minutes, after we tapped the tiling with his saucer and tried to coax him with soft gentle sounds, he creeped out and into my daughter’s arms. We did a quick examination- no blood, no patches. But his forepaw hung limp, his eyes were sad and nervous. He seemed to have escaped the jaws of the Gruesome but the cucumber trailing was deurmekaar, so he must have run for his life and scraped through the cast iron and through the cucumbers. Wolverine came closer and smelt his fear and licked his fur “you OK buddy?” and then stretched himself out and politely went to sleep without any pestering.

So here I am sitting quickly typing for the blog as the Leo tosses and turns to find a comfortable position. He scoots in reverse to find a way to lie on his good side and mew as he hurts. I put my best blanket against the wall and he leans over to doze off. Then I realise that the mosquitoes are having a go at him and place the chair overhead and drape the cake net over the chair.

I did not expect to feel so worried and concerned, so tearful. They are in our care and protection and he must have been frolicking through catnip and unexpectedly the Gruesome showed up. I walk around the house asif he will still be hanging around with a stone in my hands, “just you come close again! Alhamdulillah,  they are such a joy to have, shukran Waseemah.

So as the sky turns lighter and blue I want to get a bit of shuteye before we take the Leo to Kitty doctor, I do hope they can fix it and take away his pain. Make duah.

Plant food and take good care of your kittens.

 Yasmine