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| Name: |
Little Momma
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Age: |
Eight years old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Domestic Shorthair
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| Home: |
Killeen, Texas, USA
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About
eight years ago, at a job site outside the city, we began seeing
glimpses of a tiny cat someone had dumped. It turned out to be this
little gal. A few months old, wearing a pink vinyl, non-stretchy collar,
and although you can't see in the photo, one eye had an injury, and
one front tooth was missing. We fed her every day, but she would not let
us near. As she grew, the collar cut into her skin badly. I tried to
trap her, she was too smart. One day, she had gotten one paw under it
trying to remove it. She hopped around on three legs for a week, surely
in misery, and finally gave up. She sat on the steps one morning waitng
for the secretary to arrive, and allowed her to remove the collar. She
was friendly with women after that, but still wary of us men. We called
her "The Little Cat."
Eventually, we called her "Little Momma Cat". Much too young to have
kittens, she did so anyway. One kitten was healthy, She had him under a
structure where a sewage pipe had split, and when the kitten fell into
it, she retrieved him and cleaned him up. Of course, that resulted in
her becoming ill. She had finally become friendly with me, so I took her
and the kitten to the vet. She would never be a momma-cat again, but her
name stuck. Both were complete failures as indoor cats. After a few
months, I gave up. They can still come in through the pet-door whenever
they please, but will not. So Little Momma has her own little house. It
has a fan in the summer, heating pads under blankets with a heat lamp
above in the winter, a never empty dry-food bowl, and canned food twice
a day. She is a very small cat, and the others love to chase her around
the yard, but she hasn't any meaness in her. After all the sadness it
started with, Little Momma has lived her life as she pleases, and
enjoyed every day of it. She's just a very sweet little cat.
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