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In my country Turkey shelters are not enough so there are a lot of stray cats roaming around. Most are vaccinated and sterilized then released. If they live in a caring neighborhood, make their first year alive, they usually get by. I find them more clever and endearing than cats with homes. Amazing how cats can adapt to many situations.
This girl (5) lives in the vicinity of my mom's summer house in a complex with 50 houses and a common garden
She is the same age as my cat minish, from the same place where I decided to adopt her as kitten. She has no name, her brother's are gone but she gets by, fed by the few people who stay for the winter along with 10 other cats (competition).
Last weekend we opened the house for season. She knows my mom so she came by, asking for food and to be let in. She didn't come close past years because we used to bring minish along who is extremely territorial. this time no minish (opportunity)
So we had a chance to meet more closely. We made her parasite applications and feed her on the porch where she comes as clockwork 3 times a day. Other times she hangs around the house where she grew up, they don't give her food but she knows they are safe to be around.
She is extremely sweet, very good mannered and had even developed a trick of her own, standing on her hind legs raising paw for show.
This week I noticed that she probably had watched minish in past summers. She sits and lays down at exactly the same spots as minish does. She also raises one claw to the fly screen like minish does when she wants in. But doesn't insist as minish does.
Do you know and strays who has learned how to get by?
This girl (5) lives in the vicinity of my mom's summer house in a complex with 50 houses and a common garden
She is the same age as my cat minish, from the same place where I decided to adopt her as kitten. She has no name, her brother's are gone but she gets by, fed by the few people who stay for the winter along with 10 other cats (competition).
Last weekend we opened the house for season. She knows my mom so she came by, asking for food and to be let in. She didn't come close past years because we used to bring minish along who is extremely territorial. this time no minish (opportunity)
So we had a chance to meet more closely. We made her parasite applications and feed her on the porch where she comes as clockwork 3 times a day. Other times she hangs around the house where she grew up, they don't give her food but she knows they are safe to be around.
She is extremely sweet, very good mannered and had even developed a trick of her own, standing on her hind legs raising paw for show.
This week I noticed that she probably had watched minish in past summers. She sits and lays down at exactly the same spots as minish does. She also raises one claw to the fly screen like minish does when she wants in. But doesn't insist as minish does.
Do you know and strays who has learned how to get by?