Major Grey has showed back up after a 3 week
period of going "missing"!!! Yayyy. I was
starting to worry he was no longer with us.
The other cats of my neighbor have been chasing him,
but laid off for the past week - the owner has
been keeping them "in" as she was away on travel.
So, he's been coming up
and getting VERY meowy and chatty with me at 8
am asking for Bfast!
2 days ago he even came up
the stairs to the back deck and asked at the
kitchen door!! I think he's not truely a feral, but
a cat that was once owned, or is partly tame
and lives over at the barn across the way.
All that meowing he does at me? Looking in the back door?
Now, if I could convince him *we're* not in the same
unfriendly category as the townhome row over... (where
his nemesis lives). My cats would accept him...
Maybe one day he'd even learn
to use the pet flap!! Lexi needs to show him how...
I've been taking in the food at 11 pm - last night
I had a masked bandit (racoon!) eating at 11 pm!!
So I took the food in, chased him off and decided to put it
out till maybe 10 pm latest - to give Grey a chance
for a bite at night without getting racoon over to
eat. I don't mind possums - but coons can be
nasty...
Meantime, little feral Zazou is settling in, eating better (I
feed fancy feast and purina kitten chow morning and night.)
She is using the large rubbermaid lid I am using as a litter tray. I fill it with
my hardwood stove pellets - and add pine cat litter nuggets
on top. She seems quite happy with it, though she digs and
flings stuff around!!
She is scared of me, but will now sit in the open in my presence,
and look out the windows of the ground floor
at the bushes and cats and birds outside (she is in the basment).
I am hoping she won't get aggressive over the kits - and will let me
handle them. She has a nice nest under the bed in the corner -
a sheepskin with lots of poly fleece on top of it.
I exchanged fleeces with my cats upstairs and zazou - so all would
have each others scents, making the kittens able to go upstairs and
back down to Zazou without too much trouble.
My other ferals - I am trapping tonight - to see if I can get Daddy male
cat... Growltiger the Grey! I didn't feed them yesterday,
so we will see how trapping goes tonight. It will be warmer
and cats should be active.
If I catch either of the cats I suspect of being with kitten
or who may already have HAD their babies - I may just
let them go if the large tummies are gone - meaning they've
had their kits already.
If they still look very fat however, straight to
the vets for an exam... then after keep them if they are healthy and
do for them what I am doing for Zazou.
Oh, and my feral cats are getting a mix of Purina Kitten Chow
and Costco's dry food. They also get 4 cans of wet
Friskies. I can't afford much better than that, and I think it
far better than scraps from the dumster ... alas.
period of going "missing"!!! Yayyy. I was
starting to worry he was no longer with us.
The other cats of my neighbor have been chasing him,
but laid off for the past week - the owner has
been keeping them "in" as she was away on travel.
So, he's been coming up
and getting VERY meowy and chatty with me at 8
am asking for Bfast!
2 days ago he even came up
the stairs to the back deck and asked at the
kitchen door!! I think he's not truely a feral, but
a cat that was once owned, or is partly tame
and lives over at the barn across the way.
All that meowing he does at me? Looking in the back door?
Now, if I could convince him *we're* not in the same
unfriendly category as the townhome row over... (where
his nemesis lives). My cats would accept him...
Maybe one day he'd even learn
to use the pet flap!! Lexi needs to show him how...
I've been taking in the food at 11 pm - last night
I had a masked bandit (racoon!) eating at 11 pm!!
So I took the food in, chased him off and decided to put it
out till maybe 10 pm latest - to give Grey a chance
for a bite at night without getting racoon over to
eat. I don't mind possums - but coons can be
nasty...
Meantime, little feral Zazou is settling in, eating better (I
feed fancy feast and purina kitten chow morning and night.)
She is using the large rubbermaid lid I am using as a litter tray. I fill it with
my hardwood stove pellets - and add pine cat litter nuggets
on top. She seems quite happy with it, though she digs and
flings stuff around!!
She is scared of me, but will now sit in the open in my presence,
and look out the windows of the ground floor
at the bushes and cats and birds outside (she is in the basment).
I am hoping she won't get aggressive over the kits - and will let me
handle them. She has a nice nest under the bed in the corner -
a sheepskin with lots of poly fleece on top of it.
I exchanged fleeces with my cats upstairs and zazou - so all would
have each others scents, making the kittens able to go upstairs and
back down to Zazou without too much trouble.
My other ferals - I am trapping tonight - to see if I can get Daddy male
cat... Growltiger the Grey! I didn't feed them yesterday,
so we will see how trapping goes tonight. It will be warmer
and cats should be active.
If I catch either of the cats I suspect of being with kitten
or who may already have HAD their babies - I may just
let them go if the large tummies are gone - meaning they've
had their kits already.
If they still look very fat however, straight to
the vets for an exam... then after keep them if they are healthy and
do for them what I am doing for Zazou.
Oh, and my feral cats are getting a mix of Purina Kitten Chow
and Costco's dry food. They also get 4 cans of wet
Friskies. I can't afford much better than that, and I think it
far better than scraps from the dumster ... alas.
