{"id":7349,"date":"2014-07-12T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:22:50","slug":"cats-nature-abhors-a-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/cats-nature-abhors-a-vacuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats: Nature Abhors A Vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12164\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/EK000608-1-e1461803227642.jpg\" alt=\"Big Gray\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" \/>Yes, this means another cat has stepped up to share Sneaky&#8217;s feeder with her.\u00a0 Big Gray, the cat who only seemed to show up for the coldest of weather, has returned.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been here for three days now, and the food is no longer lingering in the outside feeder.\u00a0 He looks healthy but maybe a little thinner than the last time he was here. I talked to him this morning, and he listened. He&#8217;s curious but skittish.\u00a0 He seems to like to lie on the side porch just under the game camera.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to entice him with Fancy Feast.\u00a0 I brought that and the Furminator outside with me today and rewarded Sneaky for letting me Furminate her with a can of Fancy Feast.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t believe Big Gray would make an appearance, but I suspect he may have been close enough to smell it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12155\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-12-08.36.12-1-e1461803442430.jpg\" alt=\"Fur\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seemed like she had another cat hiding in her fur.\u00a0 I hope she feels better with this undercoat pulled out.<\/p>\n<p>All the kitties have had a quiet week.\u00a0 My five with me have been relaxed and the four with Mr. L have been relaxed.\u00a0 Rossie has spent most of her days in the garden window.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certain to disrupt all that when I return to San Antonio next week, and that is mildly distressing.\u00a0 I like hearing that Rossie is in the garden window and accepting attention.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like that when I return, she&#8217;s virtually certain to retreat to underneath the rocking chair in the bedroom.\u00a0 Is it me or Lady causing her to do that?\u00a0 I&#8217;m tempted to board Lady for two weeks to see if she&#8217;s the only factor in Rossie&#8217;s reclusiveness.<\/p>\n<p>When I return from San Antonio, I plan to attempt to trap Big Gray to get him tested for FIV, neutered, vaccinated, and released.\u00a0 He looks healthy, and I&#8217;d like to help him stay that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, this means another cat has stepped up to share Sneaky&#8217;s feeder with her.\u00a0 Big Gray, the cat who only seemed to show up for the coldest of weather, has returned.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been here for three days now, and the food is no longer lingering in the outside feeder.\u00a0 He <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/cats-nature-abhors-a-vacuum\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12164,"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],"tags":[113,363,108,115],"class_list":["post-7349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","tag-feral-cats","tag-nature-abhors-vacuum","tag-sneaky","tag-walter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/EK000608-1-e1461803227642.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349","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=7349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15535,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions\/15535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}