Our
Family
Our story...
Steve
was the first.
A feral/stray who we left food and water outside
for starting in 2003. We couldn't even touch him
for weeks,
but now he loves attention and is a full time
indoor cat.
Blackie. was another wild feral cat we took care
of.
She was very wild and preferred the wilderness to
our home, most of the time.
She loved corn on the cob and both she and steve
would eat a whole bowl of popcorn each!
She became pregnant before we got her fixed and she
made her birthing room in our closet!
Out popped Munchie Boy and Munchie Girl!
(Thank goodness she only had two kittens!)
Blackie was a great mom,
Steve wasn't crazy about having to share his house
with more fur balls, but he endured...
Blackie actually let the kittens feed for almost a
year!
But once she stopped feeding them, she decided to
have nothing to do with them.
She stayed away most of the time, and would growl
at her kids when they came close.
When we moved, Blackie obviously was happiest
staying where she was, but will never become
pregnant again!
Larry was another stray
He loved playing on the stairs.
He scared us to death one day....
We usually leave doors wide open here,
and had screens that our cats could go in and out
through...
One night he snuck into our house and we heard a
big scream from a cat....
We ran in and found a big puddle of blood!
We found all of our cats and they were fine.... so
we looked for Larry.....
We finally found Larry, whom looked fine but we
immediately took him to a vet,
who said he had a bladder infection, so we got meds
for him .
Larry needed help and decided a good way to get it
would be to tell us...
which he did...
He looked a lot like Steve.
But he liked to pick on Munchie Boy all the
time,
sending us into the woods to pluck Munchie Boy from
the tree tops,
even after he was fixed... so when we moved, he
stayed with another family in that area...
There was one other stray around for a few days...
an orange guy, very shy, but he must have sick
cause I found him
sleeping forever more in our yard one day........
and buried him under some bushes...
About a year after the Munchies were born, somebody
let four kittens loose in a busy parking lot.
No way could we let them stay there, so we brought
them home with the intention of finding them
homes.
HA!
Well, we actually did try, but we couldn't find
anyone.... so
we added Shaggie, Blackfoot, Bug, and Guido to our
permanent family.
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THE CATS STORY...
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