I just realized that I haven’t done a cat entry in a while so… here is the State of the Felines Address!
They’re getting BIG. Finian is probably going to be the size of a Toyota Camry when grown and Cullen will be a magnificent tiger. His tail is already 3 inches too long.
On Sunday, Cullen tried to hang himself in the blinds cord and thankfully was only tangled for maybe a minute before I found him and untangled him. Then we tried to take Finian outside to play in the snow. He finagled out of his harness and bolted down the street. I finally caught him, zipped him into my parka, and took him home. He spent the next hour wrapped in an afghan on his daddy’s lap while I shoveled snow. Needless to say, my nerves were shot by the time the Superbowl started!
They have realized that they are tomcats and that one of them should ideally be alpha cat. Soooo… they are beating each other up for that honor and Finian is currently winning because of size and aggression. I have a spray bottle on me at all times to stop the fighting.
And that’s all for now. (Did you really think I was going to drone endlessly about them??? That’s what photo albums are for!)
I had a cat who looked quite a bit like the orange one in the picture. His name was Tim. Though he was a lovely being, he ran away a couple months after we got the dog. I guess that would’ve been in Fall of 1991. Tim then lived in the forest on the neighbor’s property, and the wild treated him well. He seems to have breeded, after he’d gone wild, with his sisters. He was a feline, incestuous, absentee father.
One day, a couple years later, when my neighbors were on vacation, I was heading next door to feed their cats (Tim’s children and relatives). I found him on the porch. As soon as he saw me, he ran around in two circles. I called “Tim!” but the wild had too much of a hold on him. I watched him run back to the forest.
I miss having cats. I shouldn’t be writing this.
Excuse me.
awwww! so so so cute! i love my bunnies, but i still miss having a cat at home (and I miss my kitties at my parents’ house).
i’m going to steal your kitties. *starts plotting*
oh, wait. i guess i shouldn’t TELL you of my plans…