Sophie’s taking her kittens outside the box.

Sophie has apparently decided it’s time to make me worry. She seems to have decided that her kittens need to spend time outside their box. Every time she goes to nurse them now she pulls them out of the box and onto the closet floor. This started last night. We were laying in bed and I heard a kitten cry out rather loudly. I peek into the closet and find Sophie out of the box, on the floor with one of the little black kittens. She’s pawing at it, rolling it over on it’s back, biting at it, licking it. The kitten wasn’t distressed or crying anymore so I went back over to the bed. We watched her a little bit with the flashlight and eventually she ended up back in the box with all her babies. First thing this morning she had four out of 5 of them out of the box. Then later in the morning she had another 4 out of 5 of them out of the box, she always seems to leave one in the box, at least it’s a different one every time, so she’s not specifically neglecting one or anything. She seems attentive enough but it worries me a little. As long as she puts them back into the box before she wanders off from them I think everything will be fine. I’m just afraid she won’t. Hopefully she knows better and is just getting them used to being outside the box. They do have more room to walk around and stretch their legs, and we did notice that if one gets too far away and cries she’ll carry it back to the others. It just seems to me like maybe she should wait to do this until their eyes are open.

I do know a lot about cats. I’ve been reading cats magazine and books about cat care and cat health literally since I was old enough to read them. As a young kid my favorite things to read were books about cats, true stories about people’s cats and strangely enough, reader’s digest, lol. No matter how much you read though, nothing can truly prepare you for what you’re individual cat may, or may not, do. That’s where time and experience comes in. Needless to say, I don’t have a lot of experience with mother cats. My mom had a couple cats have kittens when I was very young, like preschool-kindergarten age. Then in the 5th grade I fed a mother cat and played with her kittens every day until her owner was found. But I’ve never been truly responsible for all these tiny little lives. My biggest fear is making a mistake, or not seeing a warning sign. But I guess those fears fill the minds of anyone, be it the human watching over her cat and it’s babies or the human mother who has just brought her baby home from the hospital.

*sigh*

The movie last night was very good, of course, I’d seen it before but am awed every time. I am truly amazed with what Peter Jackson has done with these books. In these books Tolkien wrote an amazing, timeless, story about the fight between good and evil, and the sacrifices one must sometimes make for good to prevail. So many times people create these great books and someone comes in and decides to turn it into a movie, and far too often, they ruin it. My worst fear was this trilogy being one more set of ruined books. One more movie for later generations to watch and laugh at, to mock. Another movie that makes no one want to read the books. This director did not do that, he did not take the books and just make a movie, he brought the books to life. I think Tolkien would be pleased. On December 17th, the final movie will be released and you can bet your ass I’ll be there. 🙂

I’ve started keeping a paper journal in addition to this one. So many times I feel inspired to write and I’ve nothing to write in. Like last night for instance. I almost got up around midnight to write. My mind was working overtime, the words were spilling out of my head like mad but I had nowhere to put them except away. Next time I think I will get up because those words from last night are lost forever.

Anyway, I’m going to go e-mail my mom some kitten questions. I was hoping she’d get on AIM this morning, but it doesn’t look like she’s going to.

Good day. 🙂