Tale of a walking Toast!

Thinking of some bread or drinks for celebration? Then you’re totally mistaken. Let me introduce my 2 years old Pet Cat, a living Toast! 




It was During Ramadan,2022. A stray adult cat randomly visited our home one evening. It was scared at first but me and my brothers approached her, fed her and made her comfortable. She started coming home regularly and at some point she started to sleep in. I wanted to name her “Shiro” but she had ginger and gray fur too, so my brother named her “Shinko” instead. After Eid that year, we noticed that she was pregnant and was soon to deliver her kittens. We were so so excited but i was also concerned about her health. I didn’t know how to properly take care of her. I did everything I could. 



July 7th,2022. Shinko was feeling pain at midnight. I knew that was the day. I prepared a place for her to be comfortable. But she chose a corner right beside my bed and stayed there the whole night. When i woke up in the morning, i was heartbroken because 2 of the kittens did not survive. They were born prematured. One did and it looked exactly like Shinko. We started to take extra care of both of  them.

 



As you can see toast has mixed fur that makes her look like toasted bread. So we named her TOAST. 





She was healthy at the beginning but when she was almost 2 months old, she started suffering from eye infection and lack of nutrition. She was very weak and used to refuse eating anything. One day even my uncle said that this kitten would not survive for long.




 I was scared to death. I ordered cat foods and milk formulas for her but she was hella stubborn. I forcefully made her eat the catfood and eventually she happened to like that one. She started healing By the grace of the Almighty. Soon she was her old self. Joyful, naughty and so so energetic MaShaAllah. 


Toast and her mother Shinko



On 14th sep,2022, Toast fell off our balcony, we live on the the third floor. She wasn’t badly hurt but cut her mouth area. That was the first time i felt hurt without myself getting hurt. I knew that I had already loved toast limitlessly. Toast kept growing up with all of our love and care. 


sleeping w me every night


As a toddler toast was very energetic and playful. She was the cutest companion for me during my HSC days. I couldn’t get back on my feet if she wasn’t there with me. I have unlimited snaps of her playing and taking naps on my study table throughout the whole night while i used to study for my exams. I’m thankful to Allah for sending her to me. 



                        My ultimate study partner 




Toast has always been introvert, which I believe is because of her siblings unfortunate death. She loves to play alone , sits alone in peace. She loves the chairs of our dining room to procrastinate !! But toast doesn’t like to sleep alone at night. From the very beginning, she’s been sleeping with me on my arms. This will always be my favourite activity with her.



June,2023, Shinko had 3 more babies. And as expected, toast did not want to share her mother. She was furious. We almost had to isolate the newborns so that she wouldn’t hit them. Of course toast wouldn’t actually hurt them but she was really really jealous. I still somehow managed to make them get along . 







             This is toast with her baby brother Coco



Making all these memories,Toast kept growing up and she made a new friend named Buchi, a Persian male. But at first toast was as introvert as she could be, totally didn’t get along. Buchi kept persuading her and finally they became friends!! After buchi returned to his home, toast felt sad for some weeks. She was about to be a mother. It was huge. I was so excited and concerned for her at the same time. And after 2 months, she had 4 beautiful kittens among which only 3 could survive. My heart broke for toast after that loss. But she still has 3 babies to take care of. Life goes on. Toast is now actively taking the best care of her kittens and I’m nursing her. 





This is so overwhelming for me. From watching toast being born to her delivering her own babies, I definitely went through this amazing journey of love and attachment. I have so much more to tell,so many more memories to share,my whole Snapchat gallery is filled with her. This is only a small portion I have attached.I love Toast, Shinko and now my grandkittens with all my heart.❤️


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