Sick kittens (was Re: Book of Enoch)

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Regarding the kittens, I still have 2 comments.  First, if you must
shampoo them with flea shampoo, be sure and get a brand labelled
"kitten safe", as cats lick their coats a great deal, and so the
kittens will ingest some of the flea killer, so it must be a type that
they can tolerate.  Second, get some neosporin ointment for those
runny eyes.  Ask the druggist for "opthalmic" neosporin ointment, as I
am not sure all neosporin is suitable for use in the eyes.

My daughter's cat was a "road kitten" 5 years ago.  We were driving
home from a little church way back in the hills of Kentucky, where I
had been preaching until they found a full time pastor to replace the
one that let for the mission field.  It was early November, and my
wife spotted this little kitten in the grass beside the road.  She had
just been listening to the weather forecast, and it was suposed to go
below freezing for the first time that winter.  My daughter had always
wanted a cat, but she was only then getting old enough to actually
have one, so I stopped the car.  My wife opened the door and started
to get out.  The kitten looked skeptically at us, and hesitated for a
while, but then made up his mind and came to the car and jumped in.

He immeadiatley sunk his claws into my good wool suit and climbed up
onto my shoulder, where he remained for the rest of the ride home.  We
took him inside, and since he was so young, I put him in a closet in
the basement where he could stay and not get lost or hurt or into
trouble.  I put old blankets and a shoebox with some cat litter in it
in the closet.

This was not yur ordinary closet.  When we bought that house, it had
outside basement stairs.  The doors covering the opening were all
rusted an broken down.  The wooden door into the basement was water
damaged and rotten.  I considered the outside cover doors a safety
hazard, and the inside door a security risk.  I saw no need for the
outside entrance to the basement, as this was no longer a farmhouse.
So I removed the outside cover doors and poured concrete into the
opening after making a ceiling of plywood and installing re-bar.  This
made a very strong ceiling that doubled as an extension to the back
porch. 

Since this closet was technically outside the perimeter of the rest of
the house, and had poured concrete floor, walls, and ceiling, we used
it as a tornato shelter in times of bad weather.  Since the kitten's
first abode with us was in the "tornado closet", we ended up calling
him Tornado.

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