{"id":1384,"date":"2006-11-10T19:35:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T23:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/11\/10\/the-kitten-with-the-m-on-its-head\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:20:45","slug":"the-kitten-with-the-m-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/11\/the-kitten-with-the-m-on-its-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kitten with the M on its Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the middle of a coaching call yesterday (training a trainer on DISC theory and workplace applications) when a post-it was stuck onto the desk before me.  It read, &#8220;Did you say that it was ok for your son to bring home a kitten? Call hubby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, I never said that (of course), but I had to continue with the call for almost another 45 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>When I was finally able to call home, it turned out that the kitten signal wasn&#8217;t from Ben (6) but from Evan (24). He was &#8220;sure that I would want him to&#8221; bring us one of a litter of very young kittens that were abandoned at the back doorstep of where he works. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m not sure the timing is good for a pet, but I&#8217;m sure you know what happened we saw this little creature:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/mstripe1.jpg\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/mstripe2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The cat &#8211; Ben wants to call it &#8220;Stripe&#8221; or something that starts with an &#8220;M&#8221; &#8211; was shaky and scared last night, so I ended up cuddling it out on the couch all night. Of course, he\/she seemed to think that 4 am was the perfect play-hour.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this cat is too young to be away from its mother. He (or she?) won&#8217;t drink any water or milk (should I try Similac? I actually have some). Some dry kitten food and a few bits of Ben&#8217;s Eggo is all the kitten has had. I&#8217;m not sure if it knows how to use the litterbox, but there&#8217;s been no activity of any kind in almost 24 hours now. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to call the vet tomorrow, but any sharing of the kitten wisdom would be welcome. I&#8217;ve not dealt with one this young before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the middle of a coaching call yesterday (training a trainer on DISC theory and workplace applications) when a post-it was stuck onto the desk before me. It read, &#8220;Did you say that it was ok for your son to bring home a kitten? Call hubby.&#8221; No, I never said that (of course), but I had to continue with the call for almost another 45 minutes. When I was finally able to call home, it turned out that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/11\/the-kitten-with-the-m-on-its-head\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,20],"tags":[3191],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mommy-stuff","category-personal","category-photo","tag-kitten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}