We ended up trapping 5 cats but three were repeat customers who are so desperate for sardines they will get into a trap more than once. This means we are almost done with this colony after almost a year. Up next is one of the local trash disposal places.
Dovey is starting to act more like a kitten and less like a scaredy cat. She isn't fully adoption ready but she is getting closer.
English/German as always. Expand for full embedded album
Wir haben bei meiner Schwester vorbeigeschaut. Miez wurde von dieser süßen Dame beäugt
Usually Miez sticks to the nearby gardens but sometimes she follows me over there and inspects my sister's garden. Last time she was followed by a neighbourhood orange brain cell, this time this cutie showed interest in her there.
Normalerweise bleibt Miez in den umliegenden Gärten. Ab und an begleitet sie mich, um den Garten meiner Schwester zu inspizieren. Letztens wurde sie daraufhin von einem orangenen Kater verfolgt, diesmal hat sie dort die Aufmerksamkeit dieser süßen Katze auf sich gezogen.
She was quite shy and kept her distance, trying and failing to blend into the environment.
Sie war ziemlich scheu und hat vergeblich versucht sich versteckt zu halten.
Regarding this, she could learn a thing or two from Miez.
Hier kann sie sich wirklich von Miez Mal ne Scheibe abschneiden.
This was the closest the two of them got. Miez however was way more interested in the pampa grass waving in the wind like bird feathers.
Näher kamen sich die beiden nicht. Miez war viel mehr am Pampagras-Wedel interessiert, der wohl wie Vogelfedern im Wind wehte.
And this is part of why Maine Coons are considered the most dog-like cat breed.
Unter anderem hieran sieht man warum man Maine Coon nachsagt, sie seien die hundeähnlichste Katzenrasse.
Tiny kitten on a shelf with a lot number sticker looking at the camera Text reads: HE’S BACK IN STOCK!!
He meows. Makes hard eye contact but if I touch him , he gets mad and runs off.
What? What do you want!?!?! Why are you staring at me and meowing if you don't actually want me to do anything?!
He also seems to get mad and run off if I just look back at him and not try to pet him.
If I try to ignore him he just rolls around and sometimes does this little ridiculous "tantrum" deal where he will stand up and dramatically throw himself down and then roll onto his back. It's always loud cause he's a big cat. It can't feel very good. But he does it all the time.
Idk. Maybe he just likes being dramatic.
Anyway. Any cat whisperers who have figured it out, let me know.
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/196/p/1861791/the-lunatic
Hates flea killer stuff.
CJ, Captain Jack, isn't with us anymore.
He came as part of the three pack with Belka. CJ was completely fearless. To the point of problematic. His fearlessness was a great asset in helping tame feral cats. He was a teammate. He would let them know there was nothing to fear because he didn't know fear. He would give even the nastiest feral beastie a bath.
One time the power company knocked on my door. Then needed to trim the trees that were getting in the way of the power lines. Each and every one of those trees was a Bradford pear tree. They said "can we cut them?" and I said "can you cut them to the ground?"
They were very happy to do that for me. But then CJ disappeared that same day. We called the animal shelter and let them know that we were looking for this cat. A month later they got a call. They had gotten a call from their trapper. "I got this cat that was trying to play with the 18 wheelers delivering supplies to the Builders Supply. But I noticed after catching him that his left ear was deformed and then it was also tipped but you couldn't tell that because of the deformity." We can only assume that he hitched a ride on the logging trucks and ended up five miles away.
Animal control said "is it a dusty orange cat with a deformed left ear? We are looking for him."
That's how CJ became the rare tipped ear cat with a microchip.
He stayed with us for many years after that, but we knew his fearlessness but eventually take him. One day he didn't come home. He lived his best life every day and served as an example to us all.
This is the littermate of Tasselhoff and Lucy. She is the identical twin of Tasselhoff. The only way to tell the difference is that she has a slightly more pronounced maw and the end of her tail theit tail you can feel, but not see, a tiny fleshy bit at the end.
She will let you know if you are not delivering a sufficient amount of attention to her. She sleeps on that unused pillow on your bed and the moment she detects you are awake she will start pawing at you to let you in she needs petting.
She also doesn't have as many freckles as her twin Tasselhoff despite the fact that Charlie actually goes outside and gets sun.
Belka came as part of a three pack from the shelter. Free barn cats. We were just starting our homestead and we had a problem with field mice, cotton rats and voles because of the 34 acres of habitat surrounding our one acre.
Her name means squirrel in Russian. Just because.
As much as orange cats get mocked for their single brain cell Belka is here to prove that there are less intelligent cats. She spent the first year on our screened in porch because she could not figure out how the cat door works.
But once she did understand the cat door she proved to be the best mouser ever. In the seven years since she figured out the cat door she has never failed to bring home a rodent a day. She is the all time champ for confirmed kills.
Which also means that despite her extremely accepting nature and general brainlessness she has learned to recognize a syringe full of panacur and try to run if she sees it. She is not a fan of it but is constantly in need of it because the tapeworms love her.
She is old. We got her seven years ago. We don't know how old she is now but she is missing an eye tooth so she is probably at least 9 years old. We are making efforts to bring her inside so she can enjoy retirement. She gets wet food almost every day. But she still wants to go out. She craves the rats. She would have been a god in ancient Egypt.
When not out hunting she can be spotted sleeping above our dishwasher.
Produced "Topez" toe-Pez
This was a farel orange girl we brought in with the idea that we would tame her for adoption or she would become a barn cat. She had been through multiple fosters but her habit of destroying human flesh made us her last possible home.
It took a long time for her to chill even a little. Including a few months in my wife's bedroom by herself.
She has, despite her age, the cutest little kitten face. In the morning she will get on my wife's shoulder while my wife lets the ducks. geese and chickens out. She is free to come and go as she pleases (both my wife and Topaz) and after letting the birds out she will come and cuddle up with my wife as she drinks her coffee. Most of the time Topaz will end up upside down demanding belly rubs.
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You may have noticed that we have a surplus of orange girls. Only about 20% of orange cats are girls. Some put the number at about one in 3000 cats is an orange girl. Yet we have six of them.
I'm not sure but we probably have more orange girls than any household on the east coast of the United States. And we don't even keep each one we find. Some have wondered what is up with our area that results in so many orange girls. Just lucky I guess.
I'd love to have a male tortie but unlike orange girls those are ultra rare and I could never afford their vet bills.
Lucy won't come to you for attention. But you can always pick her up and make her purr.
Lucy's mom has a bob tail. Her sisters Charlie and Tasselhoff have bobtails. But Lucy is the odd one in the family with a full length tail. It doesn't seem to cause her any problems.
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