Kitty Rescue Mission

We took in another cat...

 This is Fox.

 We found him at Rancho de los Niños, much like our cat Mancha. BUT... this cat was apparently given to one of the kids from the orphanage while they were trick-or-treating around the neighborhood on Halloween. What kind of crazy person gives a child a kitten while trick-or-treating?! Is that a trick? Or a treat? I'm going to err on the side of trick. That person didn't want the kitten, so they gave it to a child.

Well... guess what? The Ranch didn't want the kitten either. He survived there for about a week, a tiny rack of bones, before Ian and I were offered the little guy. They didn't want him, and wanted to give him to us as a gift. We had gone back and forth about taking him home on our own, but had decided that it would be too hard for me to take him home, get him cleaned up, and not keep him. THEN when we were offered the kitten... I knew there was no way we could leave without him that day.

This was not a new pet for us. This was a rescue mission. We got him all cleaned up, flea-medicated, food for kittens, and even a little bed to sleep in. Because he had fleas and we were not planning on taking him home, he stayed up in Ian's office. We did bring him down to play with Mancha, once the fleas were gone. It was fun and interesting to see how Mancha tried to get the kitten to play with him and, in spite of the size difference, how gentle he was with the kitten. 

We found a great home for him (which actually was quite difficult- people in Mexico have a lot of strange stereotypes about cats) with a girl that is a friend of a friend at the church we got to down here. She and her mother love cats and were glad to take him in and off of our hands. 

We only had him with us for a week and he hasn't even been gone for a week yet... And I kind of miss him. BUT I am happy that we did what we said we would do. Got him a bit healthier, kept him alive, and found a good home for him here in Mazatlan.