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September 08, 2005
Kitty quandary
I swore I wasn't going to feed ferals anymore, because I didn't want our place to become headquarters for a colony of sick cats. Friends on a farm a couple of miles away have precisely that problem. They feed 'em; they can't catch 'em; even if they could catch 'em, they can't afford to take care of them; and the colony is really appallingly sick. So once we had Fred indoors, we quit feeding the ferals. Geraldine and Bart have nevertheless kept close tabs on us all summer, hoping the food would reappear.
And yesterday I broke down. The inner door was open whilst I was feeding our four-cat crew, and then I heard some piteous meowing. It was Bart, sitting on the porch by the screen door, watching Fred eating and crying for some. Yeah, I took some food out for him. And this evening I fed Geraldine.
I really don't know where all this is going. These are gorgeous cats. Both are small; Geraldine is grey with white accents; Bart is a black polydactyl with a white chest smudge. People see them and say, "My, that's a nice cat." But nobody can take either of them in.
Including us. We have four, and hard experience has taught us that's our upper limit.
But if somebody wanted one, we could trap 'em the same way we did Fred. And Fred, after three months indoors, is an adorable, happy housecat. Somebody? Somebody? Speak right up!!!
Posted by senioritis at September 8, 2005 07:42 PM