We just got home from the vet's. We gave her the new kitten package, check for parasites, wash, flea and tick treatment, overall health check, and distemper shot. They say she's too young for the shot and the distemper shot. We're to bring her back in a couple of weeks. They say she's about 5 weeks.

She looks and smells much better. All the way home she crawled all over me, perching on my shoulder, resting on my folded arms, crawling under my chin. I think she was looking for a teat under my beard. No luck. She fell asleep snuggled into my folded arms.

By the way, we missed our diagnosis of "her" gender. She's the other one. I guess "he" will be all right. He does require a name change though. We settled on Mika (Mee-kah). The first syllable indicates the third something or other. Mika is a popular non-gender-specific name in Japan.