Kitty!!

After Pam left on Saturday night, she had a little fiasco with a kitten. I woke up on Sunday and she told me she had a crazy story for me. Storytime began and it turns out that Pam had gotten a call from a friend saying something along the lines of "there's a stray kitten on my front step and I don't like animals so can you please take it?" I guess Pam and Hana went to get the kitten and brought it home only to discover that the thing was infested with fleas. She said that I come and visit since I love animals, but I wasn't about to go anywhere near a flea infested kitten so I declined.

The kitten is no longer a flea ridden beast, so I decided today I'd bike by on my way home from work and see Pam's temporary addition to the animal house. There are always a lot of animals at her house. I think there are eight roommates, two cats named Pander and Dante, a silly little dog named Penny, and a tortoise that spends its days endlessly trying to burrow out of its cardboard box. To add onto that, Navi occasionally visits, and there also seems to be a constant stream of ants designed specifically to drive poor Pam straight up the wall. The ride home from work was especially windy so I arrived more tired than usual and was happy to have a little break before the rest of my ride home. Pam opens the door and there is this little kitten with huge ears hanging from her hand, staring at me with the most curious eyes in the world. When I was inside, she put him down and he commenced to sniff my shoes, chew on my bike cables and cogs, and purr up a storm. He had the most unique coloring because rather than being striped, he had spots in a stripe pattern. He's also the color of various hues of sand. It's hard to explain, but Pam said that he reminded her of the little ridges that sand forms under shallow water, and its a description that really fits the bill. All in all, the cat was a little tyke, and while I do eventually want another critter running around my place, now is not the time. Besides, my fish tank is most positively green, and I should spend my time figuring out why rather than dragging new cats home.