Posted on 06/07/2012 2:30:41 PM PDT by donna
I had zero cats, then the foreclosures started. People just left their cats behind. Now I’ve got 3-inside cats, and 6-outside cats that I’m feeding. I’ve had them all neutered except for the 2 I can’t catch, which means I’m still in big trouble.
I could live with that. For once, someone would do a serious housecleaning, LOL.
Ours are rescue kittehs, got from two different places. Mis Olivia is shipped, but they want $50 to decode it for us. That’ll have to wait. Miss O has most, if not all of the Maine Coon markers. At 2 years old and 16 pounds, she’s large and in charge.
Norman is 18 months, and has all the Coonish characteristics except tufted ears. Norman’s about 14 pounds, and he’s still growing. He doesn’t meow - he goes, “eee eee eee”. He’s probably not a full Coon, but his personality more than makes up for it.
Hey look! It’s Fred! This explains a lot.
If you’ve tried a ‘coon trap and they’re trap shy, I have to agree. You’re screwed. The only thing to do is shoot them, and I could never bear to pull the trigger.
You might try HS and see if they have any more expert trappers. If they are on you for food, there’s a chance with the right expertise.
I have a couple of kitties who are listed as Maine Coon in their medical records. The boy is 23 pounds, the girl is 17 pounds.
They are not Maine Coons. Their mother was a tiny 8 pound short hair tabby.
I have a cat which is part desert lynx. Beautiful but stupid. Rather wild but loves me.
My problem is, when you have that many cats around, one of them is always ready to panic and then they all do.
Beautiful and brilliant!
great story and I love your dad....LOL
Please add me to your kitty ping list... I love cats!
Welcome aboard!
We had a feral cat in the neighborhood, who kept having kittens. According to our neighbors, she'd been there around 6 years. She had one batch of kittens after we moved in, which our neighbors caught. On the next batch of kittens, I would go out and place food... then we borrowed a trap from the neighbors, and I would put food inside it. When I finally armed the trap, the feral cat would carefully step over the trigger plate and eat the food. But then, her son bounced in after her, landed on the trigger plate, and we got both at once. Then it was off to the vet to make sure Hissy (the feral) would never have kittens again. We eventually caught the other two kittens, as well.
Those kittens were about 4 months old, and the two girls still act a bit feral (they're now 6 years old). The boy is the sweetest, most trusting kitty ever. He's also polydactyl. Hissy apparently calmed down a lot after being spayed, and our neighbors adopted her.
As far as I could tell, the father was a long hair black and white domestic cat. I don't have pictures, but 
this cat resembles them. They don't have the ear tufts, the boy is tabby and white, and the girl is grey and white. And, speaking of my big girl--she needs her thyroid med. She gets so cranky without it!
It seems to me that all the boy cats are very lovey-dovey. My 3-inside cats are a brother, a sister and their mother. I’ve never observed multiple cats before and it’s very funny. At night, they play a sort of silent tag/hide-and-seek with each other.
Sometimes they end up in one room walking in circle until one of them makes a break for the door, then it starts over in a new room. The only sounds are their claws pulling on the carpet as they dash about.
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