A palm-sized cat was discovered on the street, hungry and alone, at the start of this year. He was picked up by a local animal rights activist and taken to the Wrenn Rescues Center in Los Angeles, but it was too late.
The kitten (called Mouse) weighed just 240 g as a one-week-old at the age of four weeks. Erin and her son Chris, both foster care volunteers, offered to assist. Erin describes him as “covered with fleas, recuperating from an eye condition, and severely underweight.”
The kitten was a skeleton and the size of a mouse.
“We fed him with a syringe because he almost stopped eating and did not take a bottle. He was fighting a cold he caught earlier and was taking medication. Weight was gained slowly, by the gram.
As soon as the kitten recovered, he immediately showed his character. He jumped on the man’s shoulders after each feeding and climbed onto the handles to be stroked.
He proceeded to stroke a silky blanket with his paws while purring loudly. “His true personality shines through. “What he lacks in physicality, he more than makes up for in personality,” Erin says.
“The mouse is little, but he probably considers himself to be rather large. He is the personification of persistence. He gets up after being struck down. He tries and tries again, but he never gives up!
Having matured, the striped boy became that still frame. At each weighing, he begins to swing in the scales until he flies out of it and then scrambles back to repeat everything again.
“He’s very passionate about his antics,” says Erin. “By evening, he stretches out on an office chair, showing that his lanky body has grown a little more.”
The Mouse keeps everyone entertained with his never-ending antics. You never know what he’ll come up with next.
“He has so many old and new toys,” Erin continues, “that he picks out a couple and then can’t decide which one to play with.” He takes the phone from my grip while playing about. Attacks anything that moves with his wild gaze.”
A woman’s own cat assists her in certain ways with the socialization of a restless kitten. With a tabby kitten, Red O’Malley is exceedingly patient. He unleashes all of his shenanigans on him and is always ready to cuddle his small pal to keep him company.
“The Mouse had no friends as a kid, and it appears that he absorbs all of O’Malley’s caresses.” “You’ll virtually usually find these two napping together.”
When the foster mom is working from home, Mouse insists on helping her.
“He jumps out of the ambush, attacks my fingers, and in every possible way demonstrates that this is his table. Pushes the keyboard and mouse aside, sits down, and just sits and watches with a regal air.”
Only when the Mouse retires to his bed does the energy drain halt.
“He’s finally a regular weight for his age, but he’s still at the bottom!” He’s still as wacky as ever, making our new adopted children and us giggle every day,” Erin adds.
