The downside of rural Italian life.
Another sod decides the local English soft touch is the place to dump an unwanted kitten. I went to the loo and heard screaming from the back garden. It's far too small to have climbed over itself. At least this time it isn't in a plastic bag.
(former) Tiny Dumped Kittens 1-8 have been living with me for between 13-5 years. I cannot do 9 cats. I am already enough of a cat slave.
My vet (also my mate), has already messaged me saying I can put up a poster in her studio. Again. But my past posters did not work. Anybody good at heartstrings tugging text and design that can help me create a poster that will maximise my chances of finding this tiny scrap a good home ?
Our one local cat charity is permemntly packed to the rafters and in the past they have been determinedly guilt tripping when I have taken them dumpees. Like I am the meanest person ever if I don't want to be utterly overrun by cats. So that is a non starter. If I go there I'll come away convinced I deserve to go to hell if I don't keep it.
I need a shit hot "good home wanted" poster.
And for tiny kitten to stop looking at me with big, mournful eyes. With added little fluffy tail.
And for DS to stop trying to name it. Doesn't even look like an Emma. Might not even be a girl.
NotEmma has at least escaped the "drowned in a bucket" fate of so many tiny unwanted kittens here. Can anybody help me capitalise on her "less than averagely awful" luck and maximise her/his chances of being somebody's spoiled moggy for 20 contended, spoiled rotten years ?
I will go and try and take a picture to help the creative juices flow. But NotEmma is quite scared and is under the duvet, curled into DSS's armpit. And my iPad does not have a flash.
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0nline · 20/05/2017 08:12
Melassa what would be a good search string ? Protezione dei Gatti, santuario per i gatti ? I'll have a look and see what running nearer the city.
NotEmma is tearing around my classroom. I brought her in to video her nether regions. Then she cried when I took her back to the bedroom. She has decided she/he quite likes humans and will SCREAM if denied their company. so she/he is in here with me while I try and prepare lessons. With a new kind of pen decoration "helping".
Massive purr for such a tiny kitty.
Oh god. She is eating her own tail 
Here is the video. There are several close ups of her/his privates throughout. It was easier than trying to take loads of blurry stills of wriggly kitty.
Try Gattili milano, gattili Brianza, gatti da adottare zona milanese or whatever other area you can think of. Although it looks like you'll be keeping her. One cat more or less is not going to make any difference at this point, it's not like you'll need to change your car...
Mermaid
Train ride from Milan. Or ... just one short, cheap EasyJet flight away.
Free tour (and kitten) of the part of Italy no tourist has ever set foot in. With castles. Genuine rice fields. Bird Santuary. Open air markets . Little old ladies who shout at you in dialect v. authentically.
Seriously don't understand why tourists don't come here. Is fab.
Apart from the fog
And the mosquitoes
And the insane drivers who think their tractor makes them immortal.
We also have Madonna Aperition infested Fake Holy Water place up the road that was on Italian TV and the entire country traipsed down the track to get cured at (not) a few summers ago.
Other attractions include tour of our Church of the Gay Sex in the Confessional Blackmail Plot that saw policemen dressed up in dog collars undercover, the priest de-frocked and Big Media Circus plus a Court Case.
Eat yer heart out Firenze and Rome
We are well worth a visit.
Entry fee: Adoption of cute kitten
Melassa You were one of the few on my side ! Don't join in with them. It is hard enough as it is when NotEmma is curled into your hair and batting the iPad with a teeny tiny paw.
I think she likes me.
She has you wrapped around her little paw!
You're not in the lodigiano are you? My friend managed 6 months before becoming suicidal. She was in a tiny village, everyone was related to everyone else and the social life revolved around one bar and one church. And the mosquitoes used to fly in formation after 9pm.
I've watched the video. You are fooling no one
This! Although after seeing that video, I am quite tempted to get on the easyjet website...
No I'm pretty sure it's an Eddie
Or Emilio. Or Enrico. Or Emanuele. Or Bob.
A little tiny baby boy.
Who looks like he had escaped from the 80s and brought his eyeliner with him.
His whiskers are twitching madly. Deep sleep, big dreams.
I have coo-titus. I coo at the pidgeons in the portico. It proves NOTHING.
Still not fooling anyone
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