School Kitties

ShyShadows wrote about a memory where she saw a monkey in her parents car. This reminded me of the kittens…

My younger son was six and we were on the way to school, as usual running a little bit late. He was in the back seat and suddening, I heard mewing sounds. “What is that noise?” I asked?

“Momma, there’re kitties in the car!” came the voice from the back seat.

I laughed. “Of course, there aren’t!” I said cheerfully. More mews. “My goodness, you are doing that well. “

I said. “It sounds almost real!”

“Look in the morror, Momma!” and he was holding up an obviously newborn litten, with its eyes tight shut, mewing pathetically. I had left the car windows down overnight, and our pregnant cat had decided this was a good quiet place to have her kittens. And, by chance, she was out of the car when I left.

Now remember we were on our way to school, and there was no way I could turn back and take these kittens home. It was an early-morning dury day for me and if I had cone back home, a classroom of rambunctious seventh graders would have been unsupervised. So, I went on to school and got my kid to call his father. Fortunately, for the kid, he was willing to come to school, pick up the kittens and take them back to the carport where, by now, the mother cat was getting frantic. {If it had been me asking him, he would have been “too busy.”}

I had carried the kittens into school with me in a cardboard box and by the time he came for them, they were the source of great interest to the students. He put the cardboard box on the carport back at my house, and fortunately the mother car immediately moved in with them with many purrs of relief…

When the kittens were old enough to leave home and be adopted, I carried them to school again. The first students to bring me notes from the parents that the kid could have the “school kitty” as they were called, got to take them home. By the end of the next day, they had all found good homes…