Came home from town and pulled in to park. I noticed a black kitty on the garage floor running around, and I thought “Scrud..Mike must have let it out when he let the dog out.” I get out of the car carefully and it darts under the truck. So I snap my fingers and give my kitty call praying it will respond (because sometimes they don’t) and he darts out. I scruff him, because I don’t want to get scratched and the black kitties don’t come outside.
I carry him to the back of the house and deposit him on the back porch. He immediately launches himself on poor Brook who has come to say hello to me. He is growling and jumping at her, and I am thinking “What in the world?” All my cats love this dog. Then the other cats come running and this sets the cat off even further!
I grab a towel off the washer and drop it over the kitty. I lift it up and look it over to see if it got hurt or injured. That’s when I notice, this is a TOM! I don’t have black kitties that are?Toms. Also his fur is all wrong. Of the black plague I have left- I have two long-haired kitties and 2 short haired kitties. This guy’s hair is medium with a curl in it.
Dang it! He’s not even mine! He is the same size as the van kitties, looks to be the same age. I grab a carrier and plop him in.
He is now inside the Intro Cage in the enclosure and he devoured a whole can of canned food and attacked a big bowl of dry. I tried to get the bowl away from him because I know he is going to be sick later, but he growled at me.
He is owned by someone, or he was because he is perfectly fine with me as long as I am not messing with his food bowl. When I shared this with Mike he laughed and said- “At least it’s not a pregnant female!”
Ah dear MA… you really do have something that make’s them come to you, call it cat magnetism if you will.
Hi from Johannesburg – South Africa. Found your blog while I’ve been surfing looking for a site to help me and my man build ‘cat trees’. I have a feral colony at my work which started with 17 cats trapped, neutered and released 12 years ago and has now come down to only 3 males – big fat happy cats. No other cats have moved in tho I have seen a ginger boy come around after dark but not on a regular basis. At our holiday home 2 hours from Joburg I have another feral (her mom who was tame had her in the wild so was not able to ‘home’ her and mom has subsequently passed away I think of feline AIDS) and neighbours keep her pellet bowl filled. The reason for a cat tree is the 2 kittens I have rescued outside our house where they were dumped, ginger boy & girl. My cats don’t go out at home as I prefer to ‘know’ where they are – we have not had kittens for 12 years (just had my old boy put down as he had cancer and still have my old girl who was a feral) so now these 2 new maniacs need to be amused and I am hoping the tree perch is going to do it. I would so love to be able to build them an outside enclosure, maybe one day but in the meantime off to the drawing board and lets see what we can come up with for Jinx and Duke. How do people surive in life without any cats to share the day with. “Cats are like potato chips, you can’t just have one”