I’ve always liked cats, but until recent years, I preferred dogs.\u00a0 Those festive felines have captured my heart in the last ten years or so.\u00a0 We have two Seal Point Siamese, Natasha and Ajax.\u00a0 Natasha came to us via PetFinder in Alabama back in 2005.\u00a0 She’d been in foster care for two years and has some quirks.\u00a0 Finally, this year, I believe she’s completely relaxed being with us.\u00a0 That isn’t to say she loves her fellow felines, but she’s relaxed as part of our home.\u00a0 Ajax was adopted as a kitten in early 2006.<\/p>\n
In the summer of 2010, a female cat adopted me.\u00a0 She was pregnant.\u00a0 We got her taken care of, fed her well during her pregnancy, and her kittens were born here in our parlor in September.\u00a0 Four healthy kitties.\u00a0 Three black and white ones and one white and gray.\u00a0 Three males and a female.\u00a0 I found homes for the mama cat and two of the black and white male kittens.\u00a0 We kept the black and white female and the white and gray male.\u00a0 They are Lady and Tarzan.<\/p>\n
Before going on our trip to Pennsylvania last October, a little orange kitty was screaming by the heat pump.\u00a0 That’s when I became aware of some neighborhood ferals.\u00a0 When we returned from our trip two weeks later, my efforts began to limit the growth of feral cats in the neighborhood.\u00a0 There were three adults and four kittens.\u00a0 I’ve trapped and spayed\/neutered two of the adults and released them.\u00a0 One of the adults still eludes capture, and I’m trying to capture her.\u00a0 I trapped all four kittens, and they’ve been spayed and neutered.\u00a0 I haven’t found homes for any of them.<\/p>\n
If you’re counting at home, you know we have eight indoor cats. I’m trying to capture one more outdoor cat to keep us from getting more outdoor cats, but I fear the last girl is pregnant, so we’ll have at least one more generation to track down and get spayed or neutered.\u00a0 If I can catch the kittens before they are three months old, they stand a better chance of being adopted than my current batch.<\/p>\n
I’m very lucky my husband loves cats, because eight stretches the very limits of his cat tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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