AN: this is part of a personal challenge/project filling all the prompts of past Kadam weeks, and posting one every day from March 28 to May 8th, 7 prompts per year 5 previous rounds (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 last two managed by vcg73) the first week of May 2-8 will present to you the offering for the Kadam Week 2021 you can search for more on tumblr
This is the offering to Kadam Week 2016 prompt 3: Kittens (or Puppies)
Once upon a time my life used to be clawful but once my two human parents got into it and it slowly changed into purrfection.
I used to be in a shelter, but one of the smaller kitties there, and maybe not purrty enough to catch people's eyes, it was unfurtunate that those two legged furless beings didn't have eyes as good as mine.
Well that, or I was just being left behind because I was supposed to find my furever home with my pawsome humans.
I have to say I couldn't have chosen better humans.
As far as two legged hopeless beings they were they recognised my pawer right away Kurt came to me first and said I was beautiful, petted me gently and lovingly and when Adam came clawser he too had been respectfur.
They let me smell them and they smelled similar so they must have been part of the same litter, the brightest clearly as they stayed together and were well fed,
When it looked like they were going to leave and furget me I did something that shocked the other furless caretakers.
I called for the two I had decided would be my humans, their smell was good I wanted more of that and of that warmth.
I tried to look as adorable as I saw other kitties did and looked at Adam who was looking back at me. Then the bright tall blond followed my lead and copied the same hopeful look into his own eyes, Kurt looked between us two and made a small sound of surrender before smiling and booped my nose once. Only because I was pawsitively trying to look adorable, but on the second movement I used my paw to swat the offending finger, making him laugh and picking me up in his arms.
They went talking more apawlling nonsense, humans surely liked their pawpers,
I kneaded my way into a comfortable loaf position and slit my eyes half closed purring my satisfaction...
Then it came the terror, I wasn't so sure about it, and allowed my ears to fall flat on my skull and let a hint of claws out to hold on.
After all it looked terribly like the same cage used to take me to the vet, and let me mice it purrfectly clear, vet is a breed of furless two legged humans of the worst sort, and the less of those were seen the better...
Adam, opened the door of the cage promising me that we'd just go home but I still wasn't so sure despite being willing to give my humans the benefit of the doubt.
I don't know where he found it but he had one of the delicious snacks that we rarely see around here. And I took my first leap of faith.
They promised we were going home, if they had tricked me there would be hell to pay and that was a pawmise.
Turned out my felines were right and my humans were trustworthy, they took me to my new domain.
We stopped on the way there to get the basics, appawently they were not ready yet for me.
But thought better than take me home without new important stuff, it wasn't the most expensive but it was mine, and they still managed to fix up a clean litter box and good food, and pawsitively moar impawtant… It was all mine.
Oh things were not purrfect all the times, after all this was life not a fairytail.
But we grew happy, they played with me, and I got cuddled close enough to hear their purrs.
Which were nice, not as strong and comforting as mine, but I guessed they could be taught so I demonstrated how it was done multiple times and they seemed to appreciate.
We often sat on the couch together, and most night there would be an undiscussed spot on the bed for me to sleep on.
There was one room of my domain that Kurt didn't like for me to get in, it took quite a few times of sneaking in for him to stop trying to prevent my entrance...
All in all it was not interesting being in there alone, so I just reserved the visit for when he or Adam were in the room, playing around their feet was a lot more rewarding…
A very small mew and a light tap of my paw and they were patting me scratching behind my ear or of Kurt was very stressed about something it was enough to be praised picked up and cuddles, his face nuzzling on my fur...
It was weird the motions were very much like cleaning but he never cleaned me up, it was ok though I could take care of my own hygiene on my own.
But I was a good housemate, I did try to take care of them as well, they often went into the bathroom and got out wet and smelling funny but I never called them on it.
They also had the most strange habits, admittedly they did pet themselves as well, though it was a mystery to me how that would feel without fur.
Worse were the nights when only one of them was away... Those were the nights where my presence was needed the most.
They both looked sad and were more than willing to be distracted, they were lucky to be part of my family so I always took great care of them.
I offered my purrs, and when that wasn't enough I even shared my pawsome toys… There were a couple that smelled oh so good, how could my humans not love it?
And they loved what I did for them, indeed they did. Every time I engaged them on those nights, they would smile and tell me all about this theatre thing that kept the other away...
But at the same time they both looked so proud, just like when I caught the lovely ball mid air when they tossed it for me to chase after...
In those moments they made me feel so good and happy.
As far as humans went I've been lucky, they never shout neither at each other or at me.
I never understood where they got their food, I never saw them went out hunting but I could smell the most delicious things from the kitchen.
And they even allowed me to taste some of it at times...
We changed houses a couple of times, one time we even went on a long long road trip. It was a cranky period, my domain had become the size of a long room, barely enough space to zoom, but we were sharing it all together so it was ok...
And then we got a huge place, with a garden. That's where we still are, and they got a new human with us too... Really smol, in the beginning, but the lil kit was just as part of the family as I was, and when he grew enough, that child started playing with me as well so I ended up having three humans instead of only two...
It had been a good life together, my furever family had been the best I could hope fur.
It didn't matter to them that I wasn't anymore as small or as fast as I once was, all three of them still found their time to cuddle with me and still loved me.
I never managed to teach Kurt and Adam how to properly purr, but I had not lost hope yet on all the three of them.
They all were still practising every day, so I've been sure that with some more work we'll get there one day. Even if it was going to take all my nine lives to see it happening.
When they brought me home when I was just a kitten and I fell as much in love with them as they did with me.
It has been now fourteen years and we are all feline as that first day they took me home...