Cute Little Tygra

Chapter 7 Tygra makes a friend

Tygra was playing outside he was finally all better and was happy to be back outside.  He was sure he heard something and went towards the sound.

Lion-o followed Tygra, he wondered where was he going? 

What Tygra saw was terrible a group of young rats were beating a female snarf with sticks. "Stop it!" Tygra said.

"Oh a little tiger cub I'm so frightened," the rat said laughing. 

Lion-o came and stood there with his arms crossed being big and older it was pretty good at intimidating children. "You heard him leave it alone!" Lion-o said.

The rats felt intimidated by Lion-o. "Sure it won't happen again," they said and ran off.  

"Is it okay?" Tygra asked when he and Lion-o looked at it.

"I don't know but we will ask Pumyra she is medic meaning she knows a lot about injuries," Lion-o said.

"She knows boo-boos?" Tygra asked.

"Yes and she help them feel better." Lion-o said and picked up the female snarf. 

They took it back to camp. "Son what happened?" Claudius asked.

"So rats were beating with sticks." Lion-o said.

"Meanies," Tygra said.

Pumyra took a look. "Good news is nothing serious, just a little shaken up." she said.

"So it okay?" Tygra said.

"Yes, she is fine," Pumyra said.

Snarf came over and sniffed her. The female snarf came up and rubbed against him and made content purr like sound. "I think she likes Snarf." Tygra said.

"Yes I think she does." Lion-o said.

They called the female snarf, Snarfette.

A few weeks later.

Tygra gave Snarfette a small piece of food. "Tygra would you stop feeding Snarfette so many scraps? It is making her fat," Lion-o said.

"Sorry," Tygra said.

Pumyra looked at Snarfette. "You know I think Snarfette is more than fat." she said.

"I think so too," Leonara said.

"Same here," Sirbriena said.

Claudius petted Snarf. "You little rascal," he said.

Everyone but Tygra understood. "What do you mean?" Tygra asked.

"We mean is she is going to have a litter of baby snarfs." Pumyra said.

"Oh but why is she fat?" Tygra asked.

"Because when something pregnant it means a baby or in Snarfette's case babies are in a mother's tummy and at the right time they will be in the world." Pumyra said.

"Oh, mommy did I grow in your tummy?" Tygra asked.

"Yes but in specail place in my tummy, it is called a womb." Sirbriena said. 

"How long was I in there?" Tygra asked.

"Nine months, then when it was time for you to be born some specail cats called midwives helped you out of my tummy." Sirbriena said.

"Okay," Tygra said.

Lion-o had a feeling Tygra was going to ask his mom where cubs come from. 

"Mommy how did I get in your tummy?" Tygra asked.

"Well sweet that it is little hard to explain to someone you age, let's just say it takes mommy and daddy to make a baby. Once you're older I will tell you more," she said.

"Okay," Tygra said.

A couple of weeks later Snarfette had a litter of four kittens. "They are so tiny," Tygra said.

"Yes once the kittens are a bit older they will soon go to families of their own." Cheetara said.

"How long will that take?" Tygra asked.

"A few weeks," she answered.

"Snarfette is our's son so we will make sure they go to good homes." Javan said.

"Okay daddy," Tygra said.