Sharing my new, live/real "baby"!!

Sunday will mark one week since I brought a new baby home.  

She has brought me SO much joy in just the few days she's been a part of our family.

This baby is alive!  REAL!  It breathes and cries and plays and, well...

purrs!  

Please meet 6 week old Yuumei!

Yuumei is Japanese for "dark" and "light".  She has a bit of white on her chest and I wanted something that would go well with her personality.  She does these hilarious "Kung-Fu" stances when playing!  

She was part of an orphaned litter that was discovered under a wood pile when their eyes just began to open.  The ol' farmer who found them cared for them, nursing them with a bottle.  

He did a good job!

She is eating from a bowl now and is not making such a big mess as she did the first two days.  She's only needed one bath, but I am still washing her face with a warm, wet paper towel.  She loves that.

 

The ol' farmer stated that this kitten was the quite, cuddly one.  

As we took Yuumei away,  I thought to myself, "Well, I may have wasted a bunch of money on all the toys I pre-purchased in preparation of my new baby.

But...she loves to play and she loves her toys AND the giant cat tower!  

And she loves to cuddle!  PERFECT!

She weighed 1 pound, 1.7 ounces her second day home.  She has gained almost 3 ounces since then!

She loves to suckle on the dog food!  LOL  The dog is not too sure he is willing to allow his food to be suckled on and constantly tells her to get out of his bowl:

 

She delights me and thrills me to no end.  

I bought her a little bed to sleep in when I am working in the nursery.  Of course, she had other ideas...

She looks like she is challenging me to just TRY to remove her from "her" baby.

Well I did and I should have taken a picture a couple of days later when she was happily sleeping in her own bed.  I should get her a small stuffed animal to cuddle with.  She has a blanket but maybe an animal will be good for her.  

Yuumei is independent and loving.  I am so happy with her!  

And not ONE potty accident all week!  

What a good kitty.

Mikah is still gone.  The city police have reported to me that there have been not only coyotes in the neighborhood but also foxes.  We have never had foxes here, just at our horse pasture.

I'm taking some scat be evaluated today. I found it on the back walk the day Mikah went missing.  

I would feel much better thinking she was some foxes' dinner than the nightmare I've been reliving that a human neighbor took her and caused harm to her, and to the other missing cats.

Kitty kisses!