Héméra 🌹🌿 Republicana💛😺🇦🇷...

Yesterday, a kitten abandoned the food I’d bought it so it could follow me instead. I’d heard it crying in the weeds beside the road on my way home. At first, I couldn’t see anything. Then a small black-and-white face appeared between the stems. It had dirt around its nose and paws barely bigger than the end of my thumb. I crouched down. It came a little closer, stopped, and cried again. There was a store nearby, so I bought a pouch of kitten food and came back. It was still there. I put some food on a clean lid and stepped away. It started eating before I’d finished opening the pouch. I thought that would be enough for now. Its mother might be nearby, and I didn’t want to take it away from her. I left the rest of the food and started walking. A few steps later, I heard it behind me. It was hurrying along the pavement, trying to catch up. When I stopped, it stopped beside my shoe and looked up. I carried it back to the patch of grass and set it beside the food. “You haven’t even finished.” It sniffed the lid. Then I stood up. Before I’d taken my second step, it was following again. This time, it climbed onto the toe of my shoe.