House Guest

We had a little house guest for about 4 days a couple weeks ago.

A little background first...

Monday morning Mark was greeted by 7 adorable baby kitty cats on the back porch of Arista.  We have no idea where they came from, if someone just dropped them off at our gate and they all wondered up or if they were born on the property.  Mark called and said "you've got to bring Jake up here."

Here are a couple videos of us meeting them that morning...
(sorry for my obnoxiously high voice!)

Anyways, we played and fell in love with all of them... knowing the whole time that they would all become "arista cats" and not a one kitty would come live with us.  The plan was for Arista to keep 2-3 of them but by the end of the day, we had found homes for 5 of them, leaving 2 for the winery. 

Fast forward to the end of the week...  the boys and I came to the winery to play and to see the kittys and we noticed that one of them wouldn't put any weight on her foot.  Cue a trip to the vet.  Turns out the SHE kitty was really a HE :) and he was suffering from a femur fracture :(.  The vet advised us to put her in a bathroom and confine her (to limit her mobility) until we decided on a "treatment plan" (which included a $2000 surgery- ah, no thank you!)  Cue bringing kitty home with us :)  Well, after 4 days of loving on this little guy and realizing that he could now never be "wild" at Arista and could not stay with us, I very cautiously put him on craigslist!  Thankfully, we found the perfect person for him to go live with.

All of that rambling to say, we loved having a little house guest for a few days.  Jake LOVED LOVED LOVED him.  Loved sitting perfectly still on the couch holding him, being ever so careful of his injured foot.  I love hearing him say "kiwee kiwee"