Sugar Bear

So, Sugar I think is for sure my favorite of the strays, along with Spaz who I am worried about as I haven't seen her in days.  I'm sure I like him because he seems to like me as well.  Today I was on my porch and he was coming up the steps behind me, so I stepped one foot out to the side to make a path between my legs so he could go up to the top.  He sorta stopped for a bit, and kinda contemplated if it was really OK to walk UNDER a human.  Well he did, and then he even leaned over to my leg, and I started petting him and he was REALLY leaning in to it with his head and pushing his back up towards my hand.  He also sniffed at my cat Orion through the door, and they were both good with each other.  Orion is still a kitten, no more than 9 months old I'd say, and I believe Sugar isn't more than a year old either (the neighbor said one of his litter mates froze to death during the rough winter we had) so I'm sure that helps.  Sugar is just a very loving cat- though he needs to watch that.  He's definitely skittish with humans, I have to somewhat trick him into letting me pet him till he remembers he likes it- but he was rubbing up on Milk (who is his mother, from what my neighbor says) and she was NOT having it and bit at his ear to get him to back off.  It totally didn't work, he kept rubbing up on her so I just started petting him again so he'd leave her alone.

I think when I get my promotion (or when my boyfriend gets home) I am going to look into building them a little shelter in the back yard.  There's a slab of concrete (you can see in one of the pictures in a previous entry, Spaz is laying on it) that I could clean off and build a little something over top of.  Possibly just buy a kids play house that I would be able to install a cat door and a lock on.  I worry because I think some of the neighbors are shooting at the cats with B.B. guns.  So if I could have a lockable shelter for them, I could feed them in there so they would hang out there and hopefully stay more safe.  We will see what I can manage!

~Kakers

Eventful I guess

Well today was a relatively eventful day in Kitty Land.  Milk was not herself.  When I went outside with their food she had her claw stuck in poor Sugar's ear.  So not like her!  Then I was petting Sugar (and he was rather enjoying it I might add) and she looked at me petting him and BIT ME.  She didn't bite hard, she didn't break the skin or anything.  Thankfully!  Then she had the nerve to start begging for food- "girl you just literally bit the hand that feeds you!" was my thought.  She was fine after that though.

Anyways here is Sugar Bear enjoying his lovins for the day...

Also today there was a newcomer.  I have seen this cat around before sometimes very briefly, this time he stuck around and grabbed a bite.

And Marx wasn't hanging around the porch at first.  I had 5 kitties, all four white ones and CiCi.  Marx has been making me unhappy, he tries to control which other cats eat and I am not allowing him to do it.  He doesn't decide who gets to eat my food, I do.  So if he goes to try and swat another cat away from the food, or today when he was being unfriendly with the new cat, I just snap my fingers and he takes notice.  The other cats are comfortable enough where they take notice that I am snapping but quickly go back to what they are doing (plus I am glaring at him, so they know I am not intending it towards them!) and he looks at me and stops being a douche or runs off.

Anyways here are the four white cats (you can see Cream's gimpy tail though it's not obvious from the picture how it is short and bent at the end.) and Cici's tail and Marx finally coming up to the group!

Welp that is all for today.  I love kitties a little bit too much LOL

~Kakers

Rain, Rain, Go Away!!!

It's definitely been a wet evening here in Suffolk... I got home and it was pouring rain!  It died down quickly though (of course, as soon as I got inside.)  And I went out to check on the kitties.  Long story short I ended up with 3 white kitties running around my house while my cats were locked in my master bedroom.  Since it was raining, I let some of the cats eat inside.  Sugar, Splenda, and Milk all took me up on the offer.  Marx tried to- but he's a bit of a bully with some of the other cats so I didn't let him in.  He doesn't choose the pecking order around here :P

Later, after the kitties got out of my house (they were a little startled when I went to try and get then out of the house, the poor things.) It had stopped raining and so I fed them some more, along with Marx and CiCi who had come by.  Sugar has let me pet him quite a few times, as with Milk.  I felt her belly again... I love feeling her pregnant belly :)  AND!  I even got to pet Splenda!!  She stuck her head up throught between the steps to get to a food bowl and I came from behind.  She didn't startle at all, I don't think she even realized I touched her.  Sugar sure does like getting pet, though.  It's cute he kinda looks like... "you are a human I am not supposed to like you touching me!" but then he leans into it.

So, am I crazy for thinking about adopting 4 stray/feral cats?  I know the answer is yes particularly given that I have 3 cats of my own.  But they are such sweet cats.  *sigh*

I really am just too much of a crazy cat lady!!

~Kakers