7 p.m.: Wellll, I was going to catch up on blogging tonight since K. is working late. But at the end of the dog's last soccer session in the yard, I heard mewling in the giant stack of empty, dusty boxes in our garage. Turns out a local stray cat is giving birth in there, despite the fact that our dog has never given her a warm welcome. At this point, one kitten seems OK and two are dying a slow death. How Juarez...

10 p.m.: The kitten born with its intestines outside of its body is no longer alive, but the kitten rejected by its mother has been resuscitated and has fought its way to the teat. Both the sickly kittens fought long and hard, though, out in the cold. How Mexico...