Kitty fiasco!

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Last night I'm chatting away with libraryvixen about Harry Potter theories, having a grand time, when Michael comes to the stairs looking pathetically lonely. I make my way down (this is about 11pm) (because I also have a date with Jon Stewart) only to look out my patio door to see a shocking sight.

I see my Great Dane Karma, standing there looking intently at a tiny kitten with every hair sticking up on her tiny body, back arched and pressed against the glass door. She looked like a cat straight out of a horror movie. It was quite scarey.

I open the door to rescue the poor demon kitty, but this makes the kitty run. Karma is a good dog, but she has a very strong chase instinct and hasn't been around cats since she was a puppy. So Karma cuts the kitty off and grabs her in her mouth and flips the kitty in the air. I was so afraid she was going to kill the cat. As I'm screeching at Karma like a madwoman, Michael manages to get her far enough away from the kitty for me to find her and scoop her up.

In case you don't think a kitten can kill you, think again. This one was super deadly. As I picked her up she managed to sink her fang all the way in to my finger. I literally had to insert another finger into her mouth and lift her fang out of my finger. She had several claws in the action too. I actually thought for a while that she might be ferile from the way she was jumping around the bathroom. It turns out that she was just scared for her life.

She's been in the spare bathroom ever since. She'll let me hold her and pet her now and she ate quite a bit of yogurt. She looks like she's probably 3 or 4 months old. I wish so badly that I could keep her. I fear the only thing that would keep Karma off of her would be a shock collar, and I'm just not prepared to do that. We'll go around our neighborhood tonight to see if anybody is missing her. If not then off to the humane society she goes. I call her Sizzles (it's from a very funny British cartoon).

It was funny, but I felt quite brave last night. I conquered a kitten. Victory for me.