Allen's New Pets

Pusa has her first generation of kittens which are now ready to have their own. They are Muningning and Maripusa. Even now that Pusa already has her 2nd set of kittens, the 2 older ones still breastfeed on her. What an amazing Mother!

When the 3 new ones are born, Pusa got the older 2 and put them near the newborns. However, the older ones dont like to stay in her delivery bed. They ran away. They only breastfeed when Pusa is out in the open.

If a newborn kitten has 3 colors, called tortoiseshell, older males or even the mother kills it. It is said to rule over every cat in the neighborhood if allowed to grow. We don't see 3-colored male cats. Pusa is female tortoiseshell so able to mature. Fortunately, her 3 new ones are free of tortoiseshell. They are now transferred twice and now near the kitchen, maybe ready for eating foods other than her milk.

It will be a big problem again for the people in the house to clean the kittens' mess in the mornings, while they still don't know the house rules. By the way, Muningning is an old soul cat. She thinks wisely. She pees at the hole in the sink or the drain in the bathroom. Have you seen such cultured cat even without training! An old soul...can you say more.

This is Allen always fond of the outdoors.

Pusa before getting pregnant the first time

Pusa, Muningning and Maripusa

The 2nd set of kittens, unnamed yet, newly opened eyes

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Experiences with Allen

Allen is my 10 year old nephew. He is in grade 5. I appreciate Allen very much because he can play on his own even when he was younger. His older sister, Eriel, doesn't like his things. They are diametrically opposed. One likes sweet catsup, the other prefers it sour. When one likes a food fried, the other wants it with soup. One likes 'tuyo', the other one 'sapsap'. Allen wants the tartar or mayonaise for his burgers, Eriel requests hers without any. Moreover, Allen eats more viand and less rice, and the opposite is for Eriel. If someone has a strong liking for something, think of its opposite and you will not guess far! The only thing they eat together is fried chicken and both love Max's sizzling menus. A lot more follows in contrasts...

During weekends when i come home to visit them, Allen and i normally make this small trips on the roads. We call it 'pasyal'. We sometimes venture on more difficult paths, once he calls it extreme pasyal, the road was muddy, slippery or weedy, because only Kiko's horse uses that path. It was a farm path very far from the main road. Our pants were full of 'amorseko', 'mangkit', 'kulutan' etc. These are the plant propagules which attach to your clothes that touch them. It assured them of species perpetuation because you carry them far from the source and deposit the seeds wherever you 'pagpag' them.

These past holidays Allen and i tried our 'pasyal' again. He introduced me to the habits of insects which i discovered he probably has been observing all his young life. In a small tree are some termites along the trunk. He said these termites are eaten by the orange ants, which in turn makes its house on top of the tree by enclosing some leaves with some materials to make a hole inside for their habitat. Then, he said the orange ants (we call 'lisa-lisa) are killed by the big black ants resembling 'hantik' but not really 'hantik'. He can actually hold the black ants on its back and put them near the orange ants. We basically put the prey near the predator to easily observe the drama.

I asked him what then happens to the black ants. Who are its enemies. To my amazement, he already knows the answer. He pulled me somewhere to look for some small holes half a centemeter in diameter at the opening. Even without the ants entering it he is already familiar with them. We just waited for sometime and there was the black ant coming out. Very near the hole entrance was a small spider net, maybe 2 inches diameter. The spider is said to be the predator of the black ant. Very wise spider, making its house near the black ant's door. And, we really observed the food chain in action that few hours in the morning.

Allen is an amazing kid. He is a scientist in the making, maybe! Be it ants, spiders, birds, chicken and cats, he definitely is interested. I hope he will easily survive the future generation's challenges.

Success with the counter

I really am not good in reading computer instructions. Earlier i tried to get counter but not successful. Yesterday i tried again, hurray, successful! Today i looked at it and it registerd 202 views! Less my 2 views that means i got 100 views that fast! Could it mean someone tampered on my counter! Dennis maybe, hoy, did you add numbers to my counter!!!!

How come nobody put any comment at all. I am totally surprised! Are there ghosts in counters too?

Our place in foggy mornings
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Kids, dogs and kittens!

Allen's pet cat has 3 kittens. He called the 2 females as Muningning and Maripusa! Talk of creativity! We had a very good laugh with his choice of names. I think he was inspired by Wowowee's dancers Luningning and Mariposa. The male is called Shrek, you know from where that is. The kittens sleep with him often, and they are very comfortable with Allen's rough handling. Maripusa even stays on his head.
The kittens are very curious and probably think they are not cats. Look at how curious Muningning is when Eriel cuts the grass. Eriel was even alarmed when she almost cut its hand, because it touches the scissors while at work. They really made the kids' vacation more exciting.


Those are just some of their antics, aside from the constant chasing of its own tail. Allen was very worried because Maripusa eats toads and lizards, because its mother taught them that. However, Muningning and Shrek dont like it raw, instead they want the normal cooked fish leftover. The kittens and Jopet (Allen's pet dog) also play with each other. Because Jopet is like a father to the kittens, it teaches them to play and doesn't get impatient.
Dogs and cats even join Allen in flying his kite.

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