{"id":118414,"date":"2009-12-31T02:23:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=137507"},"modified":"2009-12-31T02:23:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:23:30","slug":"meet-my-new-kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/118414","title":{"rendered":"Meet My New Kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mister kitten doesn&#8217;t have a name yet. We&#8217;ll cover that in the next post. In future posts, I&#8217;ll also share my experiences in <strong>introducing this new kitten to the resident feline<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/my-cats-resolutions-for-2010\/\">Choco<\/a>, who has been the only cat for six years!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137510\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/new-kitten-tabby.jpg\" alt=\"new-kitten-tabby\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to explain how you know when you&#8217;ve met a cat that&#8217;s supposed to be your pet. I&#8217;ve been thinking of getting a second cat for a while, but my husband has talked me out of it because we don&#8217;t have much spare housing space at the moment. Plus, we&#8217;re both concerned that Choco won&#8217;t get along with a new cat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve adored several felines up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/international-homeless-animals-day\/\">adoption<\/a> through the months, but none of them tugged hard enough at my <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-137512\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/kitty-new-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"kitty-new\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>heart to close the deal. Yet, today, when visiting family a few hours away, I was introduced to a kitten that had been living outside since it was born around five months ago.<\/p>\n<p>New kitty adopted me from the moment I held him. He was just the cat I&#8217;d been looking for &#8211; a super sweet, yet kind of exotic-looking brown tabby. A regular ole domestic shorthair with love to give.<\/p>\n<p>Most kittens would run around more, but mine was very content to sit lovingly in my lap until I just couldn&#8217;t stand the thought of not taking him home.<\/p>\n<p>The little guy was seemingly healthy, yet a bit smelly! Since he had not been to the vet yet, I swung by a vet&#8217;s office quickly just before they closed to get a <strong>leukemia and FIV test<\/strong>. Both were negative! My regular vet is off this week, but my new addition has an appointment on Monday to get vaccines and arrange for neutering.<\/p>\n<p>I must brag a bit too. My new kitten didn&#8217;t cry at all the whole two-hour ride home. He&#8217;s not complaining right now as he rests in his crate in the bathroom (away from Choco). Nope, he doesn&#8217;t appear sick, just laid back. Fingers are crossed he uses his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/review-litter-box-designed-for-feline-pine\/\">litter box<\/a> for the first time. Right now, I think he&#8217;s so very grateful to be inside where it&#8217;s warm.<\/p>\n<p>(Images via Peggy Rowland)<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/meet-my-new-kitten\/\">Meet My New Kitten<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mister kitten doesn&#8217;t have a name yet. We&#8217;ll cover that in the next post. In future posts, I&#8217;ll also share my experiences in introducing this new kitten to the resident feline, Choco, who has been the only cat for six years! It&#8217;s difficult to explain how you know when you&#8217;ve met a cat that&#8217;s supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}