Baby Ketsele

Last week we were walking home, and we saw a tiny black kitten roaming around. There was a lady that kept picking him up when he started going into the street and putting him back on the sidewalk. I asked her what happened, and she said that she came across this kitten, but she doesn't know what to do with him because he keeps going into the street. His eyes were still shut and she didn't want to leave him to roam into oncoming traffic.

At that point, a herd of kids gathered. I offered to take the kitten off her hands, and the lady left. I tried to put him in the "cat driveway" hoping he'll recognize his home and stay there- or maybe that his mother would come get him. But no. He just ran out again and again.

So I had no option but to take him home. The kids were thrilled! They kept looking at him, asking questions... I searched a little online for information. I didn't know how to feed him, and didn't have any newborn kitten formula or bottle. So I tried regular milk in a medicine dropper. After a few tries, he did take some drops.

After the kids went to sleep, my husband took the kitten to its place and waited with it for a while until the mother came and carried it off. :)

The kids were a little disappointed the next day when I told them the ketsele went home. Gedalya kept insisting that it went to "Gedalya's home!" and didn't want to hear that it went to ketsele's home.

For a few days we kept looking to see if we can spot him in that driveway, and today we did! He's the one jumping through the bush in the middle of the pictures, and his mother is the brownish cat next to him. :)