uh oh, we have a lotto winner

Today was difficult, first off my iPhone wouldn’t turn on yesterday so I thought it was busted.  I went to Telcel this morning to find out.  Lo and behold, when I was demonstrating to the guy in reception I saw a brief battery flash in red.  He wanted to send it off for an estimate but suddenly I remembered that I’d been charging it with a taped together cord upstairs so perhaps it wasn’t really charging.  I decided to take it home and use the other cord first.  I was right, it’s fine now.

On the way home I went to Chedraui for a lot of stuff.  As I was walking in I heard the most pitiful wailing, at first I thought it was a child or maybe a bird.  It was coming from the area outside where all the carts are kept.  I went on in, shopped and when I came out I heard it again.  The viene viene guy who was helping me put the groceries in the car said it was a kitten.  Oh but no, I couldn’t stand the pitiful cries.  I went inside and got a box and bought a half glass of expresso milk from the coffee shop in front and went back out.  A teenage girl tried to help me catch it but the kitten was under a couple hundred lined up grocery carts and we could barely see it.  But, we could sure hear it.  This kitten has major league lungs.

As we were trying to catch it, it ran across the lot and under some parked cars.  It was hot and the asphalt was really hot, I know this because I had just been on my knees in the parking lot for a long time trying to cajole a terrified kitten to come out.   We managed to get it to run back under the carts where it at least had shade and wouldn’t get run over.  I poured the milk in a couple spots under there and told the young girl that I lived nearby and would come back when it was calmer.  Today is a holiday as well as the quincena when most people get paid and this afternoon the store was jammed with shoppers and the lot full of cars.

waaaa... waaaaa....

I came home and told Mimi and we went back with a can of fish and a towel.  When we first walked up all was quiet and I was afraid it had already been hit by a car or gotten by a dog.  We started calling and the howling began.  As we tried to get to it, it ran again across the lot under a car but one of the viene viene guys came from the other side and when it ran out Mimi caught it.

So, another kitten has won the pet lotto.  This one is the image of Tita but loud and very affectionate.  It’s not a feral kitten, it purrs and rubs on you and cries for attention.  We aren’t sure if it is a boy or girl so we’re being vague with the pronouns but we think we will name it Raui (Rau-eee)after the store.   As the evening has worn on, it has developed a limp and swelling and now will not put its right front foot down at all.  We decided it was healthy enough not to call the vets in on a holiday and we’ll take him tomorrow.   He or she has fleas (ugh), probably worms and the foot thing but other than that is in good shape, not at all starving looking.  I assume that it was dumped there in the parking lot.  It looks to be about 6 weeks old, barely weaned and it still kneads and tries to suckle on your hand.  It ate a bowl of chicken and stock though and used the litter box so we are hopeful.

Tita is not happy about this.  She came in and sat on the table and stared and growled at it while it was mewling full volume and running around the office.   We aren’t letting her any closer until we get it checked out and it is stronger.

full and finally quiet