We have some kittens. We acquired them kind of by accident - a woman from the village who we know vaguely came round while I was out and asked Alex if we wanted them. She has a very strong Ariege accent and is almost incomprehensible to us and she seems to find us equally hard to understand as our accents are wrong even when we get the words right. So Alex thought he had said to come back later when I was here and we'd have a think and a look. When Alex told me she was coming back with the kittens later I said we couldn't take them, there'd be no-one to look after them when we want to go away etc and the house needed to be more done so we could have a cat-flap etc. But as it was when she turned up with them they were so cute and tiny we took them anyway. She said all we had to do was feed them and give them a box to sleep in outside - that's what they were used to.
They were riddled with fleas and so tiny that we didn't feel we could leave them out so they spent the first night in the utlity room. The next day we went off the the vet and got them defleaed and cleaned up a bit. The vet said they are probably about six weeks old but it's a bit difficult to tell as they haven't been very well looked after and were probably a bit small.
We've had them a week now and they are brilliant. Now that they are clean and being fed the right food they have really come on. Even Alex, who has never been keen on the idea of getting a cat and only really agreed to keep the mice away, is totally won over by them. We are still keeping them inside at the moment until they have their injections and get a bit bigger - it is going to be terrifying when we have to let them out. It's almost like having a newborn again for the first time - never being entirely sure what to do for the best.
I went to Foix today to apply for French driving licences which went remarkably smoothly. It was market day in Foix and the sun was out - it's actually quite a lovely town in the summer.
They were riddled with fleas and so tiny that we didn't feel we could leave them out so they spent the first night in the utlity room. The next day we went off the the vet and got them defleaed and cleaned up a bit. The vet said they are probably about six weeks old but it's a bit difficult to tell as they haven't been very well looked after and were probably a bit small.
We've had them a week now and they are brilliant. Now that they are clean and being fed the right food they have really come on. Even Alex, who has never been keen on the idea of getting a cat and only really agreed to keep the mice away, is totally won over by them. We are still keeping them inside at the moment until they have their injections and get a bit bigger - it is going to be terrifying when we have to let them out. It's almost like having a newborn again for the first time - never being entirely sure what to do for the best.
I went to Foix today to apply for French driving licences which went remarkably smoothly. It was market day in Foix and the sun was out - it's actually quite a lovely town in the summer.
