They waltz into our lives... They waltz into our homes...

Well, so much for Baloo being somebody's cat. I know he's not feral (that's for darned sure!). He disappeared for a few days, but he's also an unaltered male, so that makes sense. He's been back for several days now, and tonight it just happens to be pouring rain.

Okay, no problem. He's got plenty of porches to sit on, and that's fine. He can be out of the rain, no problem. It's not cold tonight, and he's not going to get wet.

Then DH and I come home from our day out, and he's sitting on a neighbor's porch. He takes one look at me, and the next thing I know, he's *in my lap*. Wow! Okay...

I gather up my things from watching the rain and petting Baloo, and start to head into the house. I've got to get Whisper and Reagan away from the door, because Reagan is admiring the handsome tom (as is our next-door-neighbor's female cat, I might add ). I open the door to head in, and suddenly there are *two* gray cats in my living room. Now how did *that* happen?

Ack! DH and I had just been talking about my plans for Face. "No more cats." Well Baloo decided that just couldn't happen...

Not that I mind, mind you. It's a lot all at once, believe me, but I figure that these babies need loving homes (or fostering, for that matter) and they're coming to us for a reason -- we love animals.

Neither of us is upset about the situation. If he wants to go out, that's fine. I'm just going to grab Whisper's collar and put it on Baloo and get Baloo a tag tomorrow so that we can try to either find his owner or make sure that if something happens to him before we can decide if we now have three indoor and one outdoor cats, people know who to contact.

Go figure! Such has become our lives.

Such a handsome boy.

At this point, DH and I think he was abandoned by a previous tenant of our house, too He just made himself right at home (Reagan did the same thing, but it's like he knows the house).

Oddly, if nobody contacts us about him, we're going to have to get him a collar... For sure, because he and Whisper are just about identical!

He's beautiful. Are you going to get him neutered, or wait until you know if he "has someone" already?

He's getting neutered either way. Our neighbor was saying that she's loathe to give him back to somebody who left him outside unneutered in order to propagate more kittens in the neighborhood, and besides that, the poor buddy is *starved* for affection.

If we see an add, we're going to charge a "finders fee" for neutering and shots. But either way, it needs to be done just to make us comfortable with him around the house, too, and especially in case he "breaks out."