Spanish moss is not the only thing that grows on our trees…
This is our semi-wild cat—treed by one of our other cats. Would it be too much to ask for all of these strays to just get along? I am “permitted” to feed her, but no touching is allowed! However, I did manage to capture her a few years ago to have her spayed.
Hey sounds like my indoor cats! I am “permitted” to feed them as well, no touching unless they come sit on me, then I HAVE to move so they can fit on my lap or there’s a fit. Oh and I am expected to open the porch door – open and shut – about 100 times a day (they have a cat tree on the porch, don’t go outside).
That one is very pretty. I’m glad you got her spayed.
My cats are all fat now and expect to gorge themselves as they please. When we left I put two 5 gallon buckets of water and a huge salad bowl of food on the kitchen floor (I measured over 10 days’ worth of kibble). Someone checked on them mid-week and they were fine. Two of the three look pregnantly fat. I caught the male sitting on the scale this morning and it said 14.4!! He should be 10lbs, and the females 7 and 8.
If I left out a salad bowl worth 10-days food, it would all be eaten within one day by ONE cat. Then she would play Exorcist! That happens to be her favorite game.
Aww; she’s so cute! I love all black cats. Have you caught many strays before and had them fixed?
Becky, I have 8 stray cats. All have been spayed or neutered—2 1/2 of the cats live in the house! Sally, the Siamese cross, comes in & out so she is the 1/2 indoor cat.
Whenever possible feral cats should be caught and neutered/spayed. Cats are ply-estrous, which means they pretty much are cycling all the time. This equals bountiful opportunities to get pregnant over and over again. our neighbors have a regular kitten factory going on in their barn. They are so wild I have only had luck catching one and that was more like a voluntary surrender. I got him neutered and then I couldn’t get him to leave!
You are absolutely right—they are cat factories. That is why all cats that come for a meal are spayed/neutered. Unfortunately for us—none want to leave!
The coons (another factory) are captured and transported across the river to the Ocala National Forest!
Is this ever elusive Florida black panther? 😉 Very cute, though looks like she’s giving you the evil eye in the last photo. Carole, you rock taking care of the strays in the proper way!
I wish people in our neighborhood would quit feeding the strays as they just feed them and don’t try to take them to the vet or have them captured for spay/neuter. We ended up with a “very ill” cat in our garage that our neighbor was feeding. Called the sheriff’s dept. as I thought it rabid, really, really scary. Sheriff arrives, sees the cat and animal control is at our door within 20 minutes! That’s a first. Had to bleach the entire garage floor as the cat had a highly contagious upper respitory disease.
Only after the ordeal did the neighbor fess up to having been feeding her. Really, you’d think she could have at least taken the poor thing to the vet. I’m sure it was a house kitty at one time that someone abandoned. Broke my heart but the kitty was so bad looking the sheriff quickly scrambled back inside the house after seeing her. She was trying to get inside the house… JH
Evil eye? Julie, that is her normal look! She is rather cranky, like me.
Tiki and her sister (black cat) arrived before hurricane Charlie—but couldn’t get near either one of them. They were only about 5-6 mos. old. I guess after Charlie, Tiki decided that she had enough of FL outdoor living of eating lizards, etc., so the day before Francis, she moved into the house. Has been inside ever since!
Momma and her five kittens arrived on our dirt road after Jeanne. By the time we could capture Momma AND kittens, she was down to three kittens.
Sally, the Siamese cross, arrived with her tiny kitten about a year later. Found the kitten a great home. Since I am partial to Siamese cats, Sally was a keeper.
While we were in Germany, Hannah arrived. She is definitely an older cat that was obviously dumped here. Considering that she does not go much past our buildings, I know that she did not stray from home.
Next time Rudi comes to stay, I’m sending him home with a new playmate!
Peter wouldn’t let me back in the house if I came home with another pet. We do love Siamese, my flute teacher in undergraduate school bred them and we had Hunan for many years. Great cat!
By the way, it’s Charley, 😉 (otherwise our cat would be named after my former graduate school flute teacher at FSU). We have the original hurricane Charley rescue and he lives up to his name! JH
Oh NO! You are not getting Sally—Rudi will be coming home with one of the Cranky cats!