One cold rainy night,
this beautiful stray grey
finds a warm shelter.
Several years ago, Jim installed a cat door so our orange kitty could come and go as he pleased. The orange cat passed away. Even though our current cats don’t use the door much, we kept the door open.
An hour ago, I saw a very dark cat shape, much too tall to be our black Pyewacket, hovering over the cat dishes.
She is a very tall very gaunt kitty. She has now eaten 4 little food packages. I think I may have been adopted.
update
She went out, then came back in at 2am this morning, ate more. To avoid risk of cat fights, I kept her in the room with the cat door. No one has claimed her and I expect her to return. Name suggestions are welcome. I’m toying with “Grimalkin” which would compliment “Piewacket”.
Awwww.
Nice kitty cat. 😉
Andrew
She is very nice. She was around last summer one day also. I took a photo and sent it around the subdivision to see if I could discover who owns her. That way, if she gets lost, people will know where she roams.
She’s much skinnier this time. If she is a true stray, she is amazingly friendly though. (My cats didn’t fight with her, but she and Mo sort of made frightened sorts of meaows. She went back out the cat door– which she doesn’t know how to use very well.)
I figure if she’s really lost or stuck outside, she’ll be back later. If she has a home, she’ll go there.
If you do adopt this cat, be careful about overfeeding. A house cat that is fed regularly will usually only eat what it needs, but a stray may eat everything you give it.
Talking about the weather…
Nice looking kitty, BTW.
Seablogger has an “scary” prediction about this winter’s weather
http://www.seablogger.com/?p=17100
So independent
The cat who walks by herself.
Food, shelter, and luc.
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Piewacket?! Now I understand. You went from “Bell, Book and Candle” to the real dark arts (climate science).
DeWitt–
The reason I think this cat is abandoned is she ate four packages of food. Our Mo is very, very, very fat, and he doesn’t eat like that.
Kim–
This cat reminds me of another cat who adopted us about 5 years ago. He was really big, black and skinny. He was also, very, very male. The first year he hung around, I put a note on his collar, and his owners called. Since he was out all the time, I offered that if they didn’t want him, I’d adopt him. They said no. Their kids liked him. He just didn’t like to stay inside. (This was true about that cat.)
So that cat just used to travel between his “real” owner and my house. The real owner lived in another subdivision so he was traveling about 8 blocks. When November came around and we could see the cat was out in the all day and night, Jim built him a “cat hut” out of foam insulation. The cat would sit in there and wait for us to get up in the morning.
One a night when the temperature was something like -20F he learned to use the cat door. I woke up and there he was on the couch!
Then, 1 year later, I went on vacation for two weeks. When I got back, I could tell he was underfed, undergroomed, and stressed. So, I called them and the owner said “Oh. We moved. We knew he had a friend around, so we just left him!” So… I said. “Well, then can I adopt him?” (I was pretty angry with them because if they’d at least called we would have made sure the cat was fed for those two weeks!!)
They agreed the cat was now mine. We named the cat “Biggie” and had him neutered. (He retained the giant head which the vet told me was typical of adult toms. I hadn’t known that was a feature of tom cats. Females and males neutered young have smaller heads.)
Unfortunately, he’d caught feline leukemia and he died about a year and a half after that. We called him “biggie” and considered him to be a National Basketball Contender. He was unbelievably long and tall. When he was skin and bones from illness, he weighed 15 lbs!
This grey kitty is so similar to him. Tall, skinny, pointy face, long tail — except grey and with a small head.
I wonder if she’ll come back today? Or if someone from my neighborhood or the next one over will claim her? Anyway, I worry that she’s been abandoned just like Biggie was. She is so friendly that it’s obvious she is or has been a house cat. But four packs of food?!
She probably has tapeworms. She doesn’t look old enough to have developed hyperthyroidism.
DeWitt–
I think I met her earlier this summer, but she didn’t break into the house back then. She was smaller this summer, so I suspect she is maybe 1 or 2 years. (My impression is cats take 2 years to be fully grown. Although, they are nearly full size at 1 year.)
Black Cat Spikey
Always runs up the stairs
Daddy’s home
(I was going to write a cat vomit cleanup (which I did this morning) haiku, but thought the better of it 😉 )
Andrew
from oftwominds
Wherever you are (Protagoras, October 14, 2007)
Wherever you are little cat I hope you’ve found
A stone warm in summer sun to lie on
A sleepy giant in a soft bed to tread on
A hidden nest in the long grass to sleep in
Liver seared in butter, still bloody, to dine on
And a deep quiet grave
Like the one in your own wild garden
Michel–
That makes me want to cry for my lost Biggie and Orangie!
stray cat in house
enjoys nice food
new family adopted
The best cat I ever owned was a stray that adopted us. An orange tom, the golden retrievers of the cat world. He was about a year old, and so thin he looked like a fuzzy rope. Now, 12 years later, he’s huge in size, 17 pounds but not fat, still friendly if a bit slower, a destroyer of mice like few others. Keeping him was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Good luck with this one, Lucia.
Has to be “Gavina”.
Considering the recent goings on, how about something like “Biffy”?
Bruce
Here’s a cat belonging to a blog acquaintance we can all recognize, this picture taken after a “boxing” match 😉
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/taminos-cat.jpg
And here is our current cat, “Minners” shortly after I read excerpts of Kaufman et al to him:
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/minners_cat.jpg
Gavina? Gavin’s Pussycat already posts at Tamino. Anyway, I bet Gavin isn’t a cat lover.
Anthony [21179]
Until a few years ago we had a cat, part Siamese, part Heinz 57, called AL. He was absolutely fearless, one of his favourit targets being the neighbourhood raccoons which he attacked mercilessly, so that we were the only garden around to actually have apples on our trees. AL survived as dust-up with a local coyote, wound up with four puncture holes around his head and neck, and required heavy duty surgery to make him look half presentable again. He climbed trees like a squirrel, head first both on the way up and down. At the end of his full and varied life [and a credit card worth of vet bills] he looked not much better than your specimen.
He is now chasing raccoons in cat heaven [in pacem].
Al sounds like a real cat!
Anthony Watts (Comment#21181)
Contact Daniel Boone. We found his hat!
We may choose our pets
But reality shows
Cats choose their own boss
Exsultate!
Gloria in te Domine!
Gloria! Gloria!
Respect Life
WHO DEY 😉
Andrew
Since I was History major and most of the math stuff that goes on here flies right over my head (although I come here often), I shall comment on the cat. She is one beautiful animal.
nice thread.. but only 16 syllables in the UK…. guess it’s
“be.you ti..full” .. in the US
Based on cat color and blog topic, I’d name the cat “Cloudy”. Also consider “Storm”.
Although “Haiku” and “Blog” could also work…
But first consider the cat’s personality. Some cats with complex personalities need sophisticated names like “Maimonides”. On the other hand, simple straightforward cats without many moods need simple, youthful names, like “Skippy”.