kitten problem of the moment

Every couple of days, one problem is solved but she generates a different one.

The current problem: at this stage you have to lock her out of wherever you’re sleeping. She’s such an aggressive biter now; I’ve had my nose, ear, and cheek bitten pretty hard (though she’s lost the early habit of clawing my lips, thankfully). Those are really sharp little fangs, and she can’t be trusted to treat me well if I’m incapacitated by sleep.

Problem: she seems to sleep during the day while I’m gone, and is in no mood to sleep further while I’m there. So she cries outside the door for 20 or so minutes while one attempts to fall asleep, and it sounds almost as mournful as when she was abandoned in the alley. You just have to steel yourself to it and keep her locked out, because otherwise she’ll bite your face multiple times whenever you start to fall asleep. Luckily, in the morning she never seems resentful, just happy to see you again.

Oh yeah, she hasn’t had rabies shots yet. I’d better arrange for that. It’s the right age. What if I escaped death from an actual rabid dog in 2008, only to catch rabies from my own kitten in 2011?

Incidentally, rabid dogs are pretty scary when you encounter them face-to-face. The one that attacked me wasn’t yet in final-stage mouth foaming, which only happens very near the end when they lose the muscular ability to swallow. But he/she was already in a zombie-like state of mental degeneration, making weird right-angled turns in parking lots and attacking everything that moved for no reason whatsoever, including me. Egypt has quite a lot of rabies, so you can’t mess around with animal bites here.