Well, last night was interesting with the cats all in various stages of fleeing in panic everytime a new boom was heard. The kittens ended up all huddling inside one of the many carriers in the bedroom, and this morning, Sinclair has diarrhea which I hope is just from stress and not anything else. It got so loud at one point, our roof shook! I have no idea what that boom was about. About 11:00 p.m. I noticed these beautiful blue and red colors flashing on our living room drapes. I thought to myself- what a lovely bunch of fireworks that would be to see…I opened up the front door to find a sheriff’s car lights flashing in our driveway giving a drunk test to a driver.
This morning, I went to feed everyone and in our back yard about midway between the shop and the house, I stopped cold. There a large ring of white fur mixed with grass. What struck me odd was this circle was large not small, perfectly circular. There were no other signs of battle, no blood no injured kitty- nothing to alarm me other than this crop circle of white fur.
I remembered last night right after it got dark and the booms started, seeing this white figure streaking low to the ground headed from out of the pasture towards the house. As all our cats were indoors, I figured this one to be the tom I have been trying to trap. I was glad to see he felt it safe enough to hide at our home versus darting out in traffic. The fur on the ground resembled his fur. I suspect he tangled with another stressed tomcat- my guess would be the shorthair mackeral tabby- and because he is younger and has more hair- he lost some of it during the battle. The circle is indicative of how toms fight- because they start in a wide circle waiting for one of the them to look away or tire so they can pounce. But again no blood- so hopefully both the cats made it out alive.
The fireworks here displaced a young mama raccoon and her two babies. They wound up eating dry cat food and bathing in the water dishes on our deck. All our cats are up-to-date on their shots and none of them minded the visitors. This was at noon yesterday! I was amazed the mama brought her babies up here in broad daylight. We purposely bring in the cat food at night so as not to attract the raccoons and oppossums to our deck, but since this happened during the daytime, we simply watched them through the windows. The babies were darling… No sign of them today. If we’re lucky, everyone is out of fireworks now.