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BIG GUY
You may or may not see Big Guy. This is what it looks like to be snubbed
by a cat. His owners moved a few years ago and they left him behind. We sometimes go months without
seeing him. He's more apt to hang around when it's cold (he goes under the house and sleeps on the furnace) or when
he wants a break from catching mice. Havent been able to pick him up yet, just barely able to pet him.
I hope to trap him some day and utilize my coupon from the SD West River Spay/Neuter Coalition.
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| Back home in one of my favorite sleeping spots |
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In loving memory of
Tiger and Smudgie
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A friend up the road found Tiger when he was only a couple of weeks old. He could not find
his mother or other kittens and didn't think he would survive. I offered to cat sit for him when he had to go out of
town. I bottle fed him for 3 weeks. He came by three separate times to get Tiger. The 3rd time I finally
told him I could not give him up. Tiger loved people, especially men. He was extremely affectionate and drooled
when he purred. He "read" the paper every day with Lee, my husband. He was a large cat and I could never
figure out how I could wake up in the morning and find him stretched out on me -- he was so gentle.
. . . he was only three
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| Unsuccessfully tried to hide from camera |
Some friends of ours found kittens in their barn. For some unknown reason, the kittens did not want
the little black kitten in their litter so he would just sit nearby. We brought him home hoping he and Bailey
would bond and maybe even ease Bailey's mourning. This picture was taken two weeks after we brought him home.
Bailey is like Kahlua's older brother, teaching him his bad habits and so on. They sleep and snuggle together all
the time. After another few weeks, Bailey stopped looking for Smudgie.
By the way, we found Bailey several years ago, very thin and after feeding him for about 2 weeks, he
crawled up on my lap and that's when we discovered he had no claws. He's been in the house ever since. We were
unable to find his owners.
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THE PERILS OF PAULINE - Lost and Found
We starting seeing her off and on starting Sept 2007. Was able to feed her from a distance from time to time
and finally, she got closer and closer. Got her in the house and saw that her tags had a Louisiana phone number.
Called her owners, Cary and Eileen who had visited this area June 2006, which is when Pauline got lost. Anyway,
after getting an abcessed canine tooth pulled, we put her on a plane home 2 days later. Her owners actually lost
their home in hurricane Katrina (Pauline survived that too) and bought an RV to travel in for awhile. They were reunited
Feb 3, 2008! Pauline even remembered her favorite places in their RV.
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| Waiting to go home |
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| My mom really missed me |
We lost our 2 mousers summer of 2007. As employees, they were
hardworking and reliable, catching hundreds of mice over the course of their short lives. Tiger and Smudgie were
not "just cats". They were beloved members of our family. We miss so much about them, their companionship,
funny personalities, affection, much more.
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| Tiger chillin' after a hard day's work |
Smudgie was another feral cat. His mother brought him to us when he was about 8 weeks old, he was the
only kitten she had left. She disappeared a week later. It took awhile to gain his trust. He ended
up never trusting anyone but us. He preferred coming into the house by climbing up the posts on the back porch
and through the door on the upper deck. He too was very loving and affectionate and did this little dance when
excited and happy. After he died, his best friend Bailey kept looking for him and calling for him multiple
times a day. After 4 months we had to do something to ease Bailey's pain, look below and see what we did to help
him through his mourning.
Smudgie's bright light was extinguished in barely two years.
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