Category: Hachitaro News

Around 8 p.m., Sunday, July 16th

‘Bring the eye drops!’ Chris said to me from the entrance hall. I thought he wanted to give it to Kuro, so I brought it to the entrance hall… then I was shocked! He was holding a kitten that still couldn’t walk well! Its eyes were covered by dried eye mucus and couldn’t open, and he looked weak. It seems his mother cat Moku abandoned nursing him so he was crying in our front yard. (She is also Kuro’s mother.) She gave birth to (at least) two more slightly bigger kittens, and she probably took them with her. When Chris gave eye drops to the kitten, then him sprayed him with ‘The Protect’ (which the maker says is almighty water for animals) on his eyes, and wiped his eyelids, he could open his watery eyes. He sometimes sneezed, too. We knew he was a perfectly sick kitten.
‘If we leave him outside, he will die, don’t you think? Anyway, shall we take him to the vet tomorrow. Haa.’

We really knew he would be a lot of trouble, but we took the kitten inside our house.

Nursing milk for kittens. If you don’t have it, it should be all right to give them ‘Acadie’. (This is milk for people who can’t nicely digest the usual milk.) So it said in a book on how to bring up cats that I had been reading by chance. I went to three supermarket around our house to get the milk. I didn’t see any milk for kittens in the pet products sections of those supermarkets and a drug store, so I finally bought Acadie. He still can’t drink milk in a dish, so I gave him warm milk using an injector we got to dissolve Kuro’s antibiotics in syrup.

He did a small piddle twice in the corner of our living room, but we put a piece of pet sheet there, and he peed on it after that. He is bright baby, isn’t he!

His name at the moment is Byô (Byôki = sick in Japanese) But we felt sorry for him, so we changed his name to Chibi (Chibi = small in Japanese)

His weight today – 312g
–YS, 16 July 2006

16 July 2006