Fishing early this morning off of a concrete pier on a local river, I noticed a tiny black kitten clinging to a barnacle laden piling. Most of the people fishing knew it was there but simply didn't care or didn't know what to do about it. My father called my mother who was at home and asked her to bring out one of our 30 foot long shrimp nets. It was barely long enough to reach the kitten below but eventually we scooped him up and got him onto the pier, he was soaked and shaking profusely, tried to walk but kept falling. We got him home and put him in towels in a box with a heat pad on one side, and he shook for about an hour. We held him and warmed him, and petting him and he was fine with it when wet and weak, but once he got dry he turned on us and wont let us touch him, hisses when we come near.. It was a complete turn around, is this a result of being frightened and weak? Or is simply his constituation as a feral? He's about 8 weeks old, do you think we can tame him and save him?
2006-09-04
09:08:33
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