Aayda Chapter 2

Quiet morning out there, but cold.  It's going to get nasty out and it's not going to be pretty.  I picked up a rental yesterday due to someone hitting my cat mobile when it was parked back in December.  The car is a 2020 Jeep Cherokee.  Its junk.  I was supposed to get something comparable to what I have now, but there is barely any room inside.  And I am wondering about 4-wheel drive, now that we are due a storm this weekend.  I am hoping my truck will be ready within a day or two.  Not liking this new ride.

Here we have another chapter of Aayda's struggles before rescue.  Please keep in mind, this is mostly fiction, as we don't know the circumstances of how Aayda was placed in a dumpster, or by whom, nor will we probably ever know. 

A Guardian Angel – Aayda’s story part 2 
(by Joel Schmid)

   Previously we have witnessed some cruel behavior by three human children toward a new family of kittens and their mother in the frost hardened backyard of a house on Hudson Ave. Little Aayda’s makeshift home has been kicked over, sending her mom scurrying into hiding and Aayda’s brothers and sisters tumbling out into the bright sunshine of a chilly early winters day …

  

  Aayda felt her family’s flimsy box home crash to the ground with a jarring THUMP and watched as her mother scramble out its broken cardboard flaps to meet the attackers head-on. She could hear the plaintive mews from her frightened brothers and sisters as they also tried to claw their way out past the big floppy cardboard flaps of the box. She hoped her mother could chase away whatever had done this to them, but even more important than that was her instinct to run for cover. She was bounced, bumped, and jostled by her siblings as she fought her way out of the box and into the blindingly bright early winter sunshine. Since her eyes had been open only a few days she was not prepared to handle the massive environmental change between the shadows of the boxes interior and the giant light in the sky that was the sun. It was almost painful it was so bright, and she had to stop and blink several times as she crawled out of the box and into the frosty stiff grass in front of her.

She had just managed to sort out the difference between the brilliant blue of the sky overhead and the dull brown frozen grass in front of her when a tall shadow loomed over her. Hoping it was her mother she tilted her head back on wobbly neck muscles and saw with dismay that it was not from her mother, but from something so tall she could not even imagine what it could be. She had never seen a human before and had no idea what it meant for her or her family. Unfortunately, this human was not here to help her – as she would soon find out. She heard a loud HISSS and jerked her head to the right, tearing her wide-eyed gaze away from the human. She saw her mother crouched nearby looking fierce with her back arched and all her hair standing straight up in spikey clumps, her mouth open and exposing her gleaming fangs. Whatever these tall things were would surely run away from mother in fear she thought – but she watched in dismay as after only a few moments her mother tucked her tail between her back legs and began sprinting away from them toward a line of trees behind the human. Where was she going? How could her tiny brothers and sisters hope to escape these towering creatures that were destroying their home? (she had no idea her mother had already seen how impossible it would be to fight three humans at once and had followed her own instincts to flee instead) Before Aayda could take another step she felt herself gripped tightly around her middle by something warm and hairless – one of the human children had spotted her and had grabbed her - (the boy was hoping he could take a free cute little kitten home to his sister for her birthday) – and she felt her tiny paws leave the ground.

As soon as Aayda felt her paws losing contact with the ground she began to panic. She twisted herself violently in the human creatures grasp and sank her needle-sharp baby teeth as deeply into the human's hand as possible. The human let out a sharp cry and dropped her back to the earth like a hot potato. Aayda bunched her still wobbly leg muscles to make a dash in the direction her mother had gone but before she could the human whipped something brightly colored off the top of his head and used it to pin her cruelly to the ground. She meowed sharply in protest but the pressure on her back did not relent. She tried to twist back and forth to bite whatever was holding her but could not reach far enough to do it. Now the human folded his long legs in a squat and pried his fingers from his other hand between her belly and the frozen ground and lifted her high up and level with his face. Aayda had never seen anything so terrifying in her short life. The human was very angry at having been bitten when he had only wanted to give this kitten to his younger sister. He intended to punish little Aayda for this very harshly – although she had no idea that this was now her fate. She could hear the human boy shouting at her but, of course, had no idea what he might be saying. She cried as loudly as her diminutive lungs would let her over and over to the human to set her free, but the human was having none of it. The boy kept her tightly wrapped in his dirty blue and grey Dallas Cowboys wool cap while he carried her back toward his two friends. He was thinking this dirty little kitten had bitten him and he wanted to make it pay. He intended to ask his friends what they should do with her now. The other two boys also had a kitten - wrapped up tightly in their own hats to protect their hands. What did they intend to do with her and her siblings ? She had no idea – she just wanted to be back with her mother – undisturbed, napping peacefully against her warm fur.

To be continued …