This is a true story about two lost kittens.


When we got back from the softball game on Sunday afternoon, we were greeted by two black kittens.  Well, one of them had four white paws.  They easily could fit into the palm of a large hand.  They were moving all over and meowing like crazy.  One had an eye that wasn’t opened yet.

We had not seen a pregnant mama cat in our neighborhood.  We live on a dead end street, we have no traffic, no one drops off unwanted kittens.  Where did these kittens come from?  They were tame.  They ran after our legs.  They stayed under the car when we weren’t outside and ran towards us when we came outside.

After some phone calls and probing, we got our answer.  On Friday, we had visited our son’s home in Scott, Louisiana and had seen, at his neighbor’s, four solid black kittens, well, not quite, one had four white paws.  But, how could that possibly be?  They were in Scott, Louisiana, about 6 miles away.  They could not have walked here.

We noticed that the lawn had been mowed, Billy, our son, has been mowing the yard and wasn’t able to on his regular day, Saturday.  But, how?  Bill may have brought them here.  He loves BLACK kittens.  Why would he do that?  After a call to Bill, yes, he did come to mow.  No, he did not bring any kittens.  No, there are no black kittens playing in the neighbor’s yard.  Yes, he will go look under his hood to see if there is fur and blood.

“Mama, no fur, no blood, but I think I know how they got there.  There is a shelf under my engine (A Nissan Versa) and they could have ridden there.”

This all took about two hours, with church, in-between phone calls.   Gordon got the cat carrier and went back to Scott to return the unwanted black kitten and its sibling, the one with the four white paws.

Once back in Scott, the mama cat ran to their squeals in the cat carrier.  When they were released, she licked them over and then proceeded to bring them to the shelf under the engine in the Nissan.

What we figure happened is that she deposited them there on Saturday morning.  Four of them were on the ‘shelf’.  Two must have dropped off in transit.  Billy will put them in a cardboard box each time he uses his car.