Reading Hawkeye's journal

Welcome Luna to the Harmon family. I need to take pictures, so bear with me. As soon as I get some, I will post'em.

She's a kitten of 3 months with white fur with patches of black and beige fur. We found her at the shelter and she was one of the smallest and surely the noisiest. All I kept hearing was 'meows' coming from her direction. They said she had been very small when she was introduced to the shelter, and they had to force feed her at first.

We brought her to our home, and this is the first day she's been here, and her reaction is less than warm, so to speak. :)
She has the habit of 'hissing' at you when you try to pick her up, though we've picked her up on numerous occasions and she's purred in our arms. I guess it will just take some time to get used to the new environment. We've closed her in one room so that perhaps she will adjust to that room first before we open the other rooms.

I was holding her, and she purred so loud. At a certain point, she tried to stick her head between my elbow and my body, I think so that she could rest her head while I was petting her. She's very affectionate too, but only when she's in that state. After you put her down and try to pick her up, she hisses at you and hides in corners. I'm a little confused about it, frankly. All I can guess is that she is just a little disoriented. Elena and I were about to leave to shop for groceries when we heard an unmistakable 'yowl' coming from the room where we placed the kitten. Poor thing was trying to scratch her way through the door. I guess we'll have to eat pasta only tonight. ;)

Any tips on how to introduce a kitten into a new home?

*EDIT*

I have to add that the cat just pooed on Elena while she was holding the cat. Ah good times. :D

I'll keep you guys posted.

If the world should blow itself up,the last audible voice would be an expert saying it can't be done

This post was edited by Hawkeye on Aug 25, 2007.

I have to add that the cat just pooed on Elena while she was holding the cat. Ah good times. :D

Ah thank you for pointing that out. The cat has however neglected to deprive also Neil from her poop. Really I didn't know whether I should cry, vomit or laugh.

Also, I want to point out that the little kitten is almost 5 months old (on the 10th of September), and not 3 as my adorable husband declared before.

She's had some diarrhea in these few days, and I hope that it is just due to the fact that her diet is changing. I don't know how many times she got fed at the shelter, nor her feeding schedule, so now we feed her at 8:30 with wet food, then I give her a little bit of crunchy stuff at 12, another bit at 4 pm, and then a regular dinner again with wet food. My aunt also said that we can add some well cooked rice together with the meat, so we'll see.

Today I went to buy a grid to put all over the balcony, so that she cannot fall in between the balcony bars. Right now she's enjoying the open space a lot; she keeps rolling over herself purring. I have heard only one hiss today to me, and that was when I introduced her to the balcony. I guess it is natural, considering that it was a brand new environment to her.

As far as a picture is concerned, I can use the one of the shelter for now, but Hawkeye will post some better ones later.