Today was mostly quiet. I ran a little bit of errands this morning then focused on time in the office much of the day.
Tonight, Luciana thought that we should go exploring and see if we could find Fritter and her kittens. We know that she has them stashed somewhere, but we have no idea where. So we did some exploring and when we did, we stumbled on four more kittens hiding in the pile of metal on the far side of our garage! How have these kittens been hidden for so long? They aren’t as old as the kittens that are in the house, but they are reasonably close to them in age.
Our best guess is that Cruller is actually a mom and not the father of our other kittens and that she just helped to watch over them for Fritter. We took out food and water for these “new” kittens and Cruller was with them. They are living very close to where she spends her days. I can only imagine that she stays close enough to get to them in seconds, but around the corner of the garage so that they can’t see her so that she can teach them to be independent. We’ve been seeing her for months and never saw her pregnant. We are so confused.
So now we have even more kittens to watch over. Four is so many, and we are certain that Fritter had hers in the last three days. So there are likely three or four more newborns still hidden somewhere as well.
We watched some of the second season of H2O Just Add Water tonight. We are increasingly frustrated with the show. It started off acceptable, but it really goes down hill and the main characters start to become offensive caricatures over time. It has a lot of potential, but in reality, it isn’t good at all. The girls liked it when they were little and watched it with Clara. But now seeing it as older teenagers, they see that the “protagonists” are cruel and offensive stereotypes. Not a good show for children. It’s definitely a show targeting young girls and provides a message that girls are dumb, only care about boys, and need boys to provide everything for them. By the end of the second season, not one of the girls was able to maintain a job without her high school boyfriend either getting her a job, being her boss so hiring her, or just paying her family’s rent so that she doesn’t have to work. Not one is self sufficient or have any utility, while every boy on the show is gainfully employed and constantly there to “save them”. It’s really over the top.