Meet Firenze! (http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/pronunciation.htm) We have decided to keep the kitten. Afterall he did find us - which is fortunate for him because NJ shelters are kill shelters and only keep strays for 72 hrs. After we finally managed to catch him he spent a week in his create getting adjusted before we could give him a bath and take him to the vet, but now he is doing well. We didn't want to get too attached in case he had some horrible fatal disease. The trip to the vet was a group trip. We took our little orange visitor to get checked out and to get Buddy and Ginger check ups and shots. Everyone got a clean bill of health (give or take Buddy's ear infection) so we could introduce him to the other pets and let him explore the house.
He didn't fight having a bath and we discovered that he was in good shape except for a few fleas so that was a good start.
Once he started to adjust he spent most of the weekend frolicking around the living room - mostly with the dog.
One of the smartest things we did was to use Loki's old crate to give Firenze his own mini litter box, food, water and apparently jungle gym. It gave him a place of his own where Ginger and Buddy couldn't overwhelm him, but he could still keep an eye on everything. It also is making the litter training much easier. For now at least he can always get back into the crate if he wants to and has to stay in it while we are out of the house or asleep. It is good for everyone.
The socializing Firenze with Buddy has been much more successful than with Ginger. Ginger makes ferocious rumbling growing noises every time she sees Firenze. He on the other hand is curious about her and when I picked her up and she meowed, he ran right over to see what was going on.
And being smacked in the head for trying to catch her tail doesn't seem to have phased him at all. All the excitement did tucker him out and fortunately a big, fluffy, newly groomed Buddy was happy to share the privilege of sleeping on the couch.
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