Sharing the Cats

Rain!

January 14th is my one year blog anniverary! It's been a fun year getting to know so many wonderful friends all over this big wide world. Blogging sure makes the world seem smaller!

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Our beautiful snow has all disappeared again, washed away by rain and warmer temperatures (45ºF today/7ºC). This picture was actually taken last Saturday, during a really heavy downpour. We had steady rain during night, but only a little today. They're predicting freezing rain for later in the week. That means ice, and we hate ice (unless it's soothing a sore muscle)! Snow is preferable to ice any day.

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Tuxedo jr.

Yesterday we gave away 3 of our beloved cats. Tux Jr., his handsome brother, Max, and Abigail, one of Zoey's daughters. If you click the link you'll see Zoey with her babies.

One of our neighbors, Danny, called and asked if we still had any cats we wanted to 'share'. He boards cows and raises some heifers, and had recently noticed a very large rat in his barn, along with the usual mice. Now he could live with the mice, but the rat offended him! There's only one cat in his barn and he had mentioned last summer that he could use a few more. Sometimes it takes a fellow a while to get around to things :)

He actually had his eye on Jasmine and her siblings, but we were completely attached to them by that time and were not about to give them away. In fact, we had trouble deciding which cats we could actually bear to part with, so a few weeks later when Sophie brought her litter of 3 into the barn we designated them as "Danny's kittens". That way, we could get used to the idea of giving them away right from the start.

They were about 5 weeks old at the time and pretty wild so we set about taming them. Sophie always hides her kittens until they're several weeks old. Lily was the little female calico in that litter.

If you've been visiting recently you'll have read that she was one of the two cats killed by that nasty raccoon. After much deliberation we decided to give away Abigail in place of poor Lily.



Max on a frosty morning in October



Sweet Abigail



Tux again being cute and cuddly

Chloe, Sophie & Olivia

Sophie is the middle cat in this picture. She's one of the two cats who had a leg bitten by the raccoon (Toby was the other). Penicillin shots had them healing very quickly but then Sophie began holding her leg up close to her body and limping. She had developed an absess. Ross gave her another series of shots which healed the infection, but she still holds the leg up and it seems she's going to have a 'gimpy' leg for ever after, poor old girl.



Tuxedo the 1st

This is our original Tux who, sad to say, made a bad judgement while crossing the road out front last May, so he's no longer with us. He was a lovely boy. Tux Jr. sure looks like his dad, doesn't he? But neither he or Max have the extra toes like their dad.

If you click Tuxedo's name you'll see him being a bad cat last April.

Danny stopped by today and said the kitties are doing well. Abigail follows Danny's youngest boy (I think he's about 10) around the barn. She loves him to pieces because he cuddles her all the time, and like Zoey, she's a real cuddle cat. Max and Tux are taking a little longer to get used to their new surroundings and have been a bit timid. They'll come around I'm sure, because that young man just loves cats and he'll win their hearts before too long.

Meanwhile, we're down to 13 barn kitties!

We miss those 3 of course. I'll have to go and visit them :)

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!