28 July 2007

MiScHu'S KitTiEs...


Look at them ! sooooo beautiful ! I have to give thanks to a special friend, my little sister Heather who named 2 of the kitties...
So the white one will be called "PULA" ,which is the name given to white people in Angola ...
The stripped one will be "SAMBU" which is the name the Maasai call anything stripped which has no specific name...
And the black one will be "DUMA" because Heather likes the name and means Cheetah in Swahili... perfect!
I was a bit worried some weeks ago, because Mischu took the kittens out in the first place...but Danika found th new place which was cool as well...it was the "tipi" Juran built to smoke his goat skins... The first place was getting too many visitors, so I understood her.

Yesterday, as I was coming back to my house in the woods to sleep (past midnight), I heard this little kitten crying behind my bed... It was one Duma... what about the others?!! What about Mischu ?!!! The kitten didn´t stop crying... hungry I supposed... and I started to be worried as Mischu was not answering my call... so after a while I decided to get some milk from the kitchen and check for the other kittens... They were at the tipi... But Mischu was still gone... 
I started to be concerned  and as I tried , not so successfully, to feed the kittens who were screaming in my ears and desperately trying to suck any milk from my hands, and no MIshu to be found... finally I gave up waiting and tried to put the kittens to sleep in my sheep skins...I guess they gave up as well... around 4 or 5am I woke up again with their desperate cries and I could do nothing more than praying...so I just asked God "please, you know where Mischu is now...tell her to come here..."
...and it didn't take 5 minutes, Mischu came running... I was soooo happy and relieved !!! Mischu ate some food and fed her children...and they all ended up sleeping next to my head on my bed

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

ooooooh! they are SO sweet!
kisses from berlin- we`re back from freakstock...
frauke