{"id":14022,"date":"2018-01-13T04:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T10:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/?p=14022"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:28:56","slug":"cats-the-current-outside-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/cats-the-current-outside-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats: The Current Outside Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have two outside cats we consider ours. Walter allows us to pet and handle him. He gets his annual exams and his monthly dose of Revolution. We sometimes don&#8217;t see him for a couple of weeks at a time. I suspect I know where he goes, but I don&#8217;t know for sure. Zelda allowed us to trap her last year, so she has been spayed, examined, and got her first set of vaccinations. Although she&#8217;s here almost every day demanding a can (or two) of food, she won&#8217;t let us get within reach of her. She has been disdainful of the trap, so her vaccinations are, regretably, not current. She does get a monthly dose of flea medication ground up in her food. I&#8217;ve been able to do that for her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14026\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-06-09.41.39-3-e1515791358541-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"Walter\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-11-11.44.14-3-e1515791463568.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14023\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-11-11.44.14-3-e1515791449377-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zelda\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the cats the game camera captures. The ones that run if I walk around the edge of the porch.<\/p>\n<p>We call this handsome kitty, Black Swirl. He doesn&#8217;t have a real name yet (none of these do). I also haven&#8217;t seen him in several weeks, but I believe he&#8217;s a littermate of Nick&#8217;s, from Zelda&#8217;s second to last litter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2017-12-21-15.06.31-e1515791937154.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14029\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2017-12-21-15.06.31-e1515791910488-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"Black Swirl\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This kitty has been around the longest, I call him Orange Tabby. I was concerned about his health for awhile, but he seems quite healthy now. He also is a sprayer. I can get within about 15 feet of him before he runs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-03-13.19.44-1-e1515792131780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14027\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-03-13.19.44-1-e1515792112463-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Tabby\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This calico girl is a mama cat who spends most of her time 4-5 houses down the block having kittens. I spoke to the man who owns the house she hangs out. He does feed her, but he doesn&#8217;t consider her his cat &#8212; his cat lives indoors all the time.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a pretty girl. I haven&#8217;t seen as many kittens down there, so there&#8217;s a chance he got her caught and spayed some time in the last six months to a year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2017-12-25-16.16.34-e1515792390776.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14028\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2017-12-25-16.16.34-e1515792376483-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"Calico\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to make of this kitty. I call it Gray Sock&#8217;s Ghost, because it looks just like him. It may be a girl cat. Not sure yet. I was watching it through the window yesterday afternoon and decided to take it a can, but it bolted and ran as I approached the porch with the bowl in my hand. UPDATE: Definitely a boy cat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-07-06.08.22-3-e1515792533625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14025\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-07-06.08.22-3-e1515792518313-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gray Socks Ghost\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a couple months since I&#8217;ve recorded either the raccoon or the opossum on the game camera. I&#8217;ll be watching to see what this year brings for this class of neighborhood kitties. I&#8217;m sure some of it will be heartbreaking, but you never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have two outside cats we consider ours. Walter allows us to pet and handle him. He gets his annual exams and his monthly dose of Revolution. We sometimes don&#8217;t see him for a couple of weeks at a time. I suspect I know where he goes, but I don&#8217;t <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/cats-the-current-outside-crew\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,3],"tags":[115,395],"class_list":["post-14022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-cats","tag-walter","tag-zelda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_5550-e1513444552431.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16354,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022\/revisions\/16354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}