Wednesday 19 September 2007

The Princess and the Street Cat?

It's very unfair, i tell you.....
Very unfair that in my third-floor flat, a semi-fat (and growing fatter) beautiful semi-persian (well her mom was part persian, her dad was a stray).....CAT is allowed to loaf around, sleep to her heart's content and eat a lot of whiskas cat food, in short, live in relative cat luxury, while downstairs at the foot of my building, a tiny bag-of-bones kitten must starve because the shawarma man doesn't give her any leftovers to eat...
She was sitting on a cracked plastic chair when i saw her yesterday....i'd seen her before, with a sibling....stroked her, and then went off home.....and as i turned to look back at her i saw the very moving picture of two kittens playing with a backdrop of several cars moving in a line past my building....
My mom and i have been visiting her to give her some cat food since then...she is so small...and so very weak....she was sitting near my building when i got back from school today....and she went meeeeeeew and meeeeeeeew and meeeeeeeeeeew and i explained i had nothing to give her today and petted her some more....
It IS unfair....and the sad part is i can do nothing....
Why don't we have a Feline Friends branch here? It's an organization in Dubai (which is 4 hours drive and a whole different country away from Muscat) which houses and cares for stray cats. Muscat is ridden with more strays like this one.....someone please help.....
Do not worry, nameless cat, you'll find someone, something....

i agree this has been a rather sad post....at least for animal lovers.
but everythime i look at that kitten who is so small, but still so sweet, and i come home to Maheen (afore-mentioned part-persian spoilt feline), i feel guilty.
It's akin to how i feel when i see slums in Mumbai.

2 comments:

Anki said...

umm why dont u feed the cat
buy a pack of whiskies or buy some fish or whatever cats like
why cant the cat find u uuuu

Mystique said...

yea i did feed the cat yesterday...
i have a cat at home too, so i got enough and more whiskas,i'm pretty sure my overweight princess can spare some.