Oliver!!

All I heard that one-day when I was born was the never-ending squealing of my brothers and sisters. All I felt though was the warm, rough tongue of my mother and the heated fur that covered her enormous body. Taste was a different matter though the only thing I’d tasted was my mother’s homemade milk, which starts our little, adventurous story, for this made me curious of the other kinds of tastes that were floating about in the outside world that I still had not discovered. I was only 3 weeks old when I tried to use all my strength to open my eyes. Unbelievably I saw light for the first time months before my brothers and sisters would even be able to open their eyes. My mother was flabbergasted at my shining, big, green eyes. For the next days, I spent them wandering around sniffing and pawing each curious shaped thing that I could reach with my stubby, little legs.

One day, though, I woke up early to find one of the strangest things of all the things I had seen so far, coming with some other strange thing that I supposed my mother ate. The thing was shocked to see me awake, but smiled at my presence. Whining for food was next on my daily list, and when my mother finished her food I got first dibs on her delicious, filling milk. She bathed me for what seemed like an hour to clean up the milk I had around my mouth and to wash my knotted, sticky fur from the night.

In a few seconds after I finished my bath my younger sister, Anna, woke up and started squealing so loudly for her breakfast she awoke all the other kittens who screeched about breakfast, also. While my brothers and sisters were finishing up I took my daily route throughout the place or room that I was living in. There was, as always a curious big, white thing that was even twice the size of my mother, and a hole that could fit all five of us kittens and our mother with room, still, for two more kittens!! I sniffed the floor and found new exotic scents all about the room, some smelled like the thing that I had seen this morning, others different. It was soon time to play with my brothers and sisters…………………..