The Story of Elvis (5)

The Story of Elvis (5)

“Kitten, where have you been?”

I stroked the head of the little tabby cat. This time, it stopped running and looked up at me.

Tears were flowing from its eyes.

This might be a disease. Its eyes were leaking that kind of yellowish liquid, which made me feel sad. Besides, it had fleas on its body.

I was not afraid at the time. I wiped the kitten’s eyes with a tissue.

I gave it another piece of fat meat.

It ate it voraciously, swallowing it with a whine.

I felt so sorry for it.

Because this time the tabby cat was obviously sensible. It was no longer the arrogant and unruly tabby cat.

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This tabby cat became more powerful after it became pregnant.

It often caught mice all night long.

Then it slept during the day.

It might be because I gave it fat meat to eat and helped it clean its eyes.

It became very attached to me.

I often woke up in the morning and found that the tabby cat had placed a mouse under my feet.

I knew that it was going to give birth, so I gave it more fat meat to eat.

During that period, my family bought a lot of meat, and the butcher gave away a lot of pig lungs and livers.

I tore the pig lungs and livers into pieces and gave them to it.

In this way, it became even closer to me.

One day, it was bulging with a big belly and kept calling at my feet.

Then it looked up at me from time to time.

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I already had some experience at this time.

I guessed that the tabby cat was about to give birth.

I followed it.

The place where it gave birth was a circle of firewood behind our pigsty, which had a lot of cypress branches and wood.

It didn’t know where it got some wing-shaped feathers like duck feathers from and piled them in the nest.

Then it lay in the nest and meowed.

I squatted there to accompany it. There were

a lot of mosquitoes in the pigsty, and they were smoking bacon next to it that day, so I was sweating all over.

I looked at it, and then touched it with my hand from time to time.

It was calling and its belly was moving. At that time, it was still very thin and its belly was bulging.

I didn’t pay attention in the middle of the process, and it gave birth to a baby.

Pink and tender, like little mice.

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the first one was laid, it cried for a while and started to lay the second one.

At this time, my cousin came too.

There were also my cousin and a cousin from the next room.

They heard that the tabby cat had given birth, so they all came to see.

As a result, the tabby cat seemed to be startled.

It stood up and crawled into the cypress branches.

I quickly asked everyone to go out, and then my cousin and I took care of it.

Not long after, it came out again and gave birth to two cubs.

20Unfortunately

, one of them may have died

because it was scared. I was very sad to hold that one, but it still died. In the end, it gave birth to three cubs. I got some milk powder, mixed it with boiling water, and then beat an egg in it. It ate it up and was very happy. This litter of kittens became my greatest joy that summer vacation. We would basically go to see how the kittens were doing every day. Unfortunately, one day I didn’t pay attention. Two of the kittens were missing. I asked my cousin and the children around, but they all said they didn’t know. Finally, the gagong said that they were taken away by a weasel.

21We have quite a few weasels. There were a lot of weasels at that time, and weasels can catch mice. We have bacon here, so there are a lot of mice, so weasels naturally followed. Unexpectedly, it did not eat mice, but caught two kittens. I was heartbroken. However, there was nothing I could do. This tabby cat was very wild. Less than a week after giving birth, it often disappeared again. At that time, its kittens were still very small. It was difficult to see it again later. After more than half a month, we started school.