We have a tiny yet mighty addition to Team Shredder.Yesterday our pals Anna Joy Springer and Ali Liebegott came knocking on our door with this little dynamo. They found him in their wall. They were hearing tiny meowing sounds and thinking either the new house was haunted or they were both insane. They searched high and low, inside and out, for days, and found nothing. The meowing would stop, and they would think the kitten was dead, and then the next day it would start again. They bought a special ladder and went to the roof and attic crawlspace, and Anna crawled all the way under the house in the dark scary place where corpses and unspeakables reside. Nothing. More meows, then they would stop again. Repeat entire cycle of searching, giving up, searching again. They even called the animal rescue patrol, who did come to the house, but while the lady was there the kitten was silent, of course. Finally after drilling increasingly larger holes all over the wall, Anna cut out a section with her jigsaw, reached in, and pulled out tiny dancer!
They took him right to Doctor Candy, our neighborhood vet, who said he was in amazingly good health FOR A THREE WEEK OLD KITTEN WHO WAS TRAPPED BEHIND A WALL FOR FIVE DAYS! He wasn't even too dehydrated. How can this be?
We can't figure out how he got in the little 1-foot space between the studs, and there is no sign of his mom or siblings. Nor can we figure out how such a tiny dancer could be so tough.
Anna has tentatively named him Carson.
Other possible names so far:
Tiny Dancer
Tiny Bruiser
Little Toughie
Nigel
Junior Nigel
The Baby
The Baby currently resides at the nursery otherwise known as Sea Monkey's apartment. Sea Monkey's doing round-the-clock feedings, while also tending the emotional landscape of her other two cats, Cherry and Buddy Otis, who are deciding whether or not they can deal with the new addition to their household. We'll have to see. The Tiny One may have to go live with another friend. But for now, he's in the overprotective hands of Team Shredder.
Below: Nigel or Carson at the healing bosom of Sea Monkey.
