It's been about two weeks since the kitten incident.
One day I was coming home after a visit to the local Greek Orthodox church meeting with a few friends when suddenly we heard a little meow. In Jordan that isn't really a very rare incident, but as soon as I saw it was a kitten there wasn't much I could do. The cats here in general aren't very friendly, not like in Egypt were they would usually let you pet them. But this little kitten was too little to be scared and came up to us looking utterly pitiful.
I picked it up and asked my roommate who was with me if it was alright if I took it home. She said "One night only" and I said "Okay" with no intention of keeping it for one night only...
So we brought the poor thing home and gave it a bath. Unfortunately I was far to excited about the kitten to think about taking any "before" picture but have tried to render it through a paint program picture:
Not quite sure I did it justice...
But after three washes with mild baby shampoo it actually started to look like a kitten!
Our biggest concern (me and the roommates) was that we had to think of where he was going to live when we left in three months. This problem was solved the very next day when we mentioned to our teacher that we had found a stray kitten and he said he would love to have it for his baby girl when we leave.
With that main issue solved the roommates realized that the kitten was staying. We've even had the vet over for a visit and he declared the cat was a healthy, five week old male (six weeks now) and will have his first vaccine in a couple of weeks.
We still haven't quite settled on a name. He goes by Bissa a lot (Jordanian for cat). But Sorokh has also been suggested (Arabic for Rocket). We might have stuck to that name if we hadn't discovered that it is also used in street lingo for sexy chick... seeing as he is a boy there wasn't really any sense in calling him that...
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