What a difference a few weeks makes.
Little Biscuit had a brutal start to life. The adorable gray-and-white tabby kitten was born to a stray mom in late July but was orphaned when her mother and a littermate were run over by a car.
The kitten wouldn’t have been long for the world if a kind passerby didn’t spot her while en route to work. The passerby brought the traumatized kitten home and entrusted her care to a neighbor, Natalie, a 31-year-old copywriter in Dallas, Texas. Natalie works from home and was best-equipped to raise the baby cat, who would have still been nursing from her mother at her age.
The indomitable spirit of a kitten
Natalie and her husband, Amir, immediately took to their new kitten.
“She wasn’t shy like our other cats (had been) when we first moved her in, and would sit on our laps for hours,” Amir told Front Page Meews. “I think it’s because she was so young.”
Amir, a bread baker, shared a photograph of Little Biscuit immediately after the couple took her in: The kitten was scraggly and wild-looking with a spotty coat and a bruised nose. She seemed to regard the camera with suspicion, keeping her tail tucked down.
Feeling protected and safe in dad’s lap
A second update from a week later showed the little one was progressing and had already come to trust her new parents. The newest photo, which Amir shared to Reddit, showed the kitten curled up on top of him, snoozing away in a pose with an unmistakable meaning to humans who care for cats: “I trust you. You’re a good human.”
By late August Little Biscuit had fully settled in. Her coat had taken on a lustrous shine and a new photo showed her settling in to a choice spot in front of a window to watch cat TV with the couple’s other felines, Beaver and Barbara.
“She’s doing well, finally starting to grow especially since we gave her deworming medicine,” Amir said. “She’ll definitely be the fluffiest cat we own.”
