Archive for October, 2006

Oh Happy Day!

Friday, October 6th, 2006

This morning while doing the breakfast dishes, I heard a rather raspy meow. It sounded like Cleo! I quickly turned off the water and leaned toward the open window calling “Here kitty, kitty, kitty…” I heard him again!
Looking below the window, I saw him crouched by the tree. I grabbed my shoes, put […]

End of our walk in the woods

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Earlier while taking Lei for a walk in the woods, we came upon three coyotes! They were some distance ahead of us on the trail, but when I stopped walking (once I spotted them) they all three turned toward me. Lei was behind me investigating a smell and thankfully she didn’t see them. […]

Cat population changes

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

I was sitting here this morning after going outside to feed the critters and thinking about the difference in the feral cat population here. When we first moved here from Alaska over twelve years ago, there were feral cats everywhere. Funny Face, so named because of her odd black and white markings on […]

Multi-cat home expenses

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Sharing a recent email:
Dear Mary Anne,
My name is Patrick and my wife and I live in Illinois. There are feral cats all around us as we live the farm life. People see we have acreage and suddenly there are cats everywhere.
Monica (my wife) wants to bring them indoors. We read with great interest your articles […]