This is Ocean. She is a siamese cross who is about a year old. She has the most angelic blue eyes.
She’s from a coffeeshop across my street. She is a stray cat who does not know she is a stray. Every person or passerby is her friend and she shows them her eagerness to be loved. She is full of love for everything around, even her fellow coffeeshop cats with whom she shares the scraps on the dirty coffeeshop floor.
Ocean is so tired. She has been pregnant 2 times in 6 months. Her first litter of 3 kittens were lucky - the kind people in my neighbourhood took them in and gave them lovely warm homes. She loved her kittens but knew she let them go to good hands. These kind people planned to sterilise her, but she was pregnant again before her sterilisation was due.
She gave birth to 4 beautiful kittens underneath a filthy, oily coffeeshop fridge. She was so afraid for their safety in the dirty, hectic coffeeshop but she had nowhere else to go. The outside is a busy carpark, there was nowhere to hide. She was alone and afraid.
I had been monitoring Ocean’s movements and I knew she had given birth when she went missing for 2 days. I found Ocean and her kittens 3 days after they were born. I could not bear to see them in the filth and grime of the coffeeshop floor, so I decided to bring all of them back to a cage at the back of my house. I was amazed at what a deeply sweet and trusting nature she had - she was a stray who hardly knew me but she let me carry not just her but all her kittens too. She never struggled. She looked into my eyes for a long time before she let me touch her babies, and then, just trusted that I was trying to help her.
Mother and kittens struggled to survive for a few days…she was very weak, dehydrated and undernourished. I prepared Ocean the best meals possible, a hand-mix of holistic cat kibble and wet food, made into a warm porridge. I fed her a few times a day, for she did not seem to be able to eat or drink much at one go. Even in her weak state, she nursed and cared for her kittens non-stop. She fed, groomed, hugged and keep them warm without interval.
Within a week, Ocean’s health improved - she got more active, had more energy in her movements and began to interact with us in the sweetest ways, always waiting patiently at the backdoor for a stroke or a caress. 2 weeks later, the kittens eye’s fully opened and they started to show signs of shiny coats, alert senses and responsiveness to human energy.
Its been 3 and a half weeks since I brought Ocean and her babies back from the coffeeshop, and she is restored to health, and happy. But I fear that Ocean and her babies may not be able to stay for long - the 15 cats in our compound have displayed hostility to her and the babies, and my own cats have already begun to express their unfriendliness and anger. If only they could understand peace and love.
The kind an ocean does.
