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Forgive my ignorance but you are in Iraq? Where in Iraq?

Yes, I'm in Baghdad. Right in the middle of it.

Thank you for your kind comments. I'm a civilian contractor. I work in support of our troops - they do the hard stuff.

I'm not sure how modern the vetinary medicine is here but I'm sure it's nothing like what we have back home. Our security guys are just supposed to take our kitty to them when the kittens are about seven weeks old.

We're actually looking forward to having kittens to play with. Of course, the mother cat is also very playful. We have a little putting green on our compound and she leaps in the air chasing after the balls when people are putting.

My brother had that going on in Afghanistan a couple years ago. Started feeding 3 cats skinny strays that hung around his tent and by the time he left there were *ahem* seven more well-fed cats with even more on the way. Hope the next round of soldiers also liked cats. He's in Mosul right now, haven't heard any feline news yet but it's only been a month. If they're there I may have to start including bags of Friskies in my care packages again.

Meanwhile, back here stateside, this little baby came into my life a few weeks ago when it was being taken to the vet's office at three-and-a-half weeks while we were there getting flea drops for ours and the two that belong to the brother in Iraq. The baby stayed at my house for a week while daughter-in-college was visitng and now he lives about 1400 miles away. It's been two weeks. I want to take a trip so-o-o badly. I just know I'm going to be a wreck if I ever have grandbabies that don't live near me.

We're sure he's not deaf despite being a white-cat-with-blue-eyes, thank goodness. College daughter is going to have his eyes checked at his first vet visit in a couple weeks because of the reflectivity you see in the pics. Also one of his irises seems to be a greyer blue and the other a brighter blue. Wonder if they're truly different also or if it's the retinas behind them making them appear different. We'll see.