No its not a cuddly name for that special someone...well it could be, I guess. I was walking today in the blue ridge mountains and when I came to a footbridge to refill water (H20 very scarce up there). I heard a noise. Couldn't place it and it happened again from under the foot bridge, and it sounded like a cat. So I crawled under the footbridge getting myself wet and muddy and there was a little black kitten with blue eyes. I coaxed out with a 3oz packet of tuna fish, that it consumed completely, and proceeded to remove the ticks from its head. I thought I could walk on to the next town when it fell asleep but once the food and a quick nap the kitten took over and she wouldn't stay still so I had to backtrack 1.5 miles to the nearest road and hitch into town. No humane society there but I was told to try Troutville (the town I had walked through yesterday so backtrack of about 30 miles) which was a 13 mile walk by road...out goes the thumb again with no luck. I stopped in a diner to get my bearings and a nice man offered to give me a ride into town. So right now I'm in the comfort inn trying to figure out what to do with this gorgeous little black kitten. When I say little, its no bigger than my hand an probably less than 6 oz in weight. All of the public transportation services do not allow pets, there are no humane society, I may have to rent a car and take a brief trip back to new england and beg someone to care for the little beast while I go finish my walk. Guess Ill probably miss rhinos birthday bash and wont get to finish the 150 mile in 6 day birthday challenge. Oh well there are more important things in life, like being a decent person (unlike the person who ditched the little darling in the mountains.) Well I best get to it. Talk to you all soon. A blog on privies is to come...and its a good one I think. so stay tuned.
Update: I talked to everyone I could think of and Roy agreed to keep an eye on my new friend until I finish the trail. The difference in driving is 200 (going to Georgia vs Maine) so to avoid a road trip to Georgia later I'm going to head for Maine tomorrow. The plan is to be back on the trail in 5 days or less. This will of eat into my touted "3 weeks of ahead of the schedule" but I'm still kinda young and may be able to make it up :)
Time to get some sleep its going to be a long day tomorrow. The 6oz black hair blue eyed troll says "meow."
11 comments:
It seems you've found yourself a familar!
Woo! 100 Nerd Points for me!
BTW, once you feed a cat, you HAVE to name it. I'm pretty sure that's a law or something.
Seems like a long way to go to New England when George and I would be willing to "babysit" until you complete your walk. We don't want to keep your "familiar" though.
Love Mom
Aaron- Good luck with the kitten- I hope it works out. That's really good of you to take care of the kitten!
Ahhhhhh!!!!!
Want the kitty!
Can't have the kitty.
G*&&%@&dammit.
Good luck with it. I agree w/ Joe that you need to name it.
I would love the kitty too, but Jen is saying NO. I thought Matt would like the company, but she thinks our two feuding cats are enough. Maybe this is meant to be your kitty. Nice of your mom to kitty-sit! And good to hear from you...I was thinking we should be, and was starting to worry. Which I will stop now. Bless your good heart.
Lynne
Hey Aaron, It's Roy. Kay and I will watch Troll if you want. I tried to call your hotel and he transfered me to your room but no answer. Call me anytime and we can make whatever arangements necessary
Three cheers for Aaron's heroism for the small, meek, and undoubtedly super freakin' cute beasty! And three more cheers for Roy & Kay for being willing and able to assist in Aaron's adventure! Yay Troll!
Hey man,
I've been busy and just checked your Blog. Chatted w/ my housemate and if you haven't yet made it to Maine, we'd be willing to cut 4ish hours of your round trip.
We have a cat friendly home and are definitely willing to train a little kitty.
I'll ask around about other ways to get in touch w/ you.
-Pete Z
The troll is mine! At least till Aaron gets back. He will be trained in the arts of ferret wrestling, Buggie boxing, and Shnerful shoot fighting. He will be a mighty troll, his training starts once he gets out of quarentine which should be about two weeks.
Let me get this straight you:
1. Find cat in wilderness
2. Save cat from starvation
3. Spend many hours debating/figuring out how to deal with cat.
4. Travel to implement plan from point 3.
5. Return to AT trip (like nothing happened)
6. Leave training of said cat/troll to others until your return, at which point you have a companion that will be completely house-trained.
Nice plan. Rock on dude. -Jacque
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