Last night William asked when we did we get 7 baby kitties living on our porch? I told him that this was news to me because I only thought we had 6…. but after about 4 who really is counting right? He said that it was down by the bottom of our porch so I’m guessing that Reno found another one in the barn and brought it up to the house to put with the rest. But this little kitty is pretty wild and I had my doubts on keeping it around.
So when I got up this morning to give them all breakfast, I could’t find this new little kitty. Again it didn’t surprise me because she was pretty wild and I thought that maybe she ran into the garage or back down to the barn. I looked around for her a little bit and then off to work I went. The sad thing about all this is after I came home from work this afternoon I found her laying beside the steps just off our porch. I think during the day that maybe she fell off the porch and got really hurt. I felt terrible and honestly I still feel bad. The little kitty was still alive when I found her and was in the process of dying. Now mind you this is at 3:30. So I sat with it for awhile and tried to pet her when she died. After about 5 minutes I thought that this cat sure is taking a long time to die and I’ll check back on it later. So about every 10 minutes I’d go outside and sit with it and pet it and think.. OK, it’s now going to die. But it kept going. I know the right thing was to help it die, but there’s no way in the whole world that I could do that, so I just kept checking on it. I had to go to an appointment @ 5:00 in town so surely it would be dead when I got home right? Yea, not so. Well it’s 9:30 pm as I’m writing this post and I see that it’s not going to be much longer and she will be dead. I know that it’s probably not in any pain and is just literally on it’s last breath, but holy cow I’m really feeling kind of sad for this little kitty. But as for the rest of them? Well they’ve been getting scrambled eggs with warm milk in the morning and their night time snack is kitty food soaked in milk. When they’re done they all have these big round bellies that kind of make them look like how baby birds look before they get feathers. I’ll try to snap a picture of them tomorrow to show just how fat they are. I had to give two of them baths tonight because they literally sit in the bowl when they are eating. William said that they he thought that they all kind of nurse off of this one little kitty and it looks so weird. I’m thinking they’re just licking off the eggs.
I’m also including in this post a really easy salad recipe that I got from Daryl’s niece last year. I absolutely love this recipe and even thought I’ve just made this last night, I’ve almost got this whole bowl ate. 🙂
Cook noodles (it doesn’t really matter how much – just end up with about a half of a bowl), add vegetables, I also add cheese, ham, olives, & tomatoes. You can add just about anything that you have in your refrigerator that you like. Then pour enough Italian Dressing over it to cover it all. Put it in the refrigerator for about 2 hours and Shazam! your done. The picture doesn’t really do it much justice. 
you are doing such a great job with the 6 kitties! it’s likely that the 7th one wasn’t going to make it no matter what you did, or if you had found it earlier. it had probably been without mama for too long. do you even know where mama cat was or if she is still somewhere around? hopefully reno won’t bring her to the porch if she’s not breathing! i’ll never forget when i went to pick my daughter up from a friend’s farm and one of their dogs came running out of their barn with a full grown cat in it’s jaws! you can guess the rest… they desperately needed barn cats, but that one dog of thiers was determined that they not have them!