Meet Munchkin!

Many of you have been following the story of Munchkin, "the Sixth Kitten" in the feral forum. She had to go to the Vet today after being attacked by one of the other cats. She'll be fine, but she did have some ugly scratches and one gash in her leg.

She'll need antibiotics and some attention over the next few days, but thank God it wasn't more serious.

There's nothing here to give you any perspective, but there were only two pics left on the digital camera, so sorry they're not great. She's not much bigger than a hand, and she weighs just over 2 pounds now - despite being six months old. What a survivor.

She's SO MUCH cuter than she appears here!

We're going to foster Munchie when she comes back from the Vet.

Hope Lazlo and Shelly are willing to share the small space we call home!

I know my hubby bought a chip that holds tons of photos and he puts them on my computer so I never run out! I can even put the photos directly onto a disc.
Any way your rescue kitten is adorable! What a cutie!! I hope she has a quick recovery! I'm sure you will get a home for her fast!

Munchkin is cute! She looks a bit bigger than what you say in the picture. I guess it's true that film adds 10 pounds or in this case 5.

We do download the pictures - but we hadn't when he went out, and there were only two then. Then she got attacked, and he took her to the Vet, so this is all we got for now.

Here's one that shows her near a small rubbermaid container we put all around with water in them. Maybe that will help show just how teeny she is.

...too bad there wasn't an Oak leaf in the pictures - she's probably not much bigger than one old oak leaf!

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Very pretty!!:tounge2:

What a cute little lamb!

Munchkin is a very cute kittie. Glad to know she will be ok.

Nice pictures Laurie, you sure can see her feral side! Good luck with her!

What a beautiful little girl! She might still be a feral, but she has sweetness in her face. Give her a snuggle (or a scritch if she doesn't like snuggles) for me!

Christy

Oh Munchkin is SO sweet! Thanks so much for sharing her pics and story!

she's a cutie!

What a little sweetie!!!

I have not yet read about her story...but am going to go do so right now....I don't get much if any time to look around in the other forums here, because I am usually going through piles of e-mail notifications of new threads here in the lounge, when I have time to get online, and I feel bad for missing things in the other forums!!!

Munchkin is soooo cute!!

She is so adorable! Someone will surely fall in love with her.

Awwwwwwwww Munchkin is so adorable. One the cutest cats I've ever seen :tounge2:

I happen to think she is beautiful! I hope that she becomes the litlle love bug she looks like she can be!

LOL I call my cat 'Love bug' amongst other names.

Buttony Girl, Squeety Cat, Pie feet(!?), black butt, fuzzy butt, furry trousers, the list goes on.

OMG Laurie, what a little cutie!

Gary picked her up this morning while I vaccumed, etc.

She is SUCH a little lamb! The Doctor Gary and I like (there are four, I think, at this hospital) said that the other Doctor (the oldest one, the owner!) who told us she had all of her adult teeth and was 5 -6 months old was nuts. The guy we like thinks she MAY be 3 - 4 months old.

Whatever it is, she must have been abandoned young or I just don't know what. But at this point all we have to do is look at her and she starts purring and kneading - with all four feet! It looks like she's running in place.

We bought a large dog crate so Shelly and Lazlo could travel together. We never took that trip - but we have the crate. So we put all kinds of fluffy warm things in there - and that's where she is. With the door open. Gary made a "litterbox" out of a cereal box. We have litter and dirt in there, and it's covered with leaves (that's what she's used to from outside).

She won't use it. Yet. She's eaten and drunk a whole carton of cat milk mixed with water. She'll cave pretty soon!

But we take her out and pet her in our laps. Gary took her for a "bath" in the shower. She, of course, gave herself a complete bath afterwards (which was good to see, because we've never seen her groom anything other than her back legs). She's still a bit damp - but WOW is she soft and fluffy!

Gary is already telling everyone we've adopted a third cat. He's dropped the foster-parent thing altogether. While it makes me really pleased - I'm all in a quandry, because if we don't adopt her out, we can't bring Spooky in.

...and if you think we're having four cats in here full time - YOU'RE NUTS!

Well - we'll see.

Shelly has already introduced himself to Munchkin, and she didn't even get up from lying down. It's back to business as usual with him.

Lazlo has slunk out into the living room several times, but can't bring himself to be O.K. with Munchie. I've spent more time petting Laz today than ever (and he hasn't seen me holding Munchie on my lap, though I'm sure he can smell it). I'm totally reassuring him he's my number one. We're back to the tail up and purring - but we are NOT happy about the intruder.

I carried him in to the living room to stick him on the back of the couch to bird-watch (one of our favorite activities). He enjoyed it for a while - but kept looking over his shoulder to eye the crate perched at the other end of the couch. As he was getting down (across my laptop), he looked over at the crate and gave it a small hiss.

I think it's going to take Laz a day or two to be sure he's still King of the Castle.

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