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Skriven 2015-05-07 23:20:50 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38.0)
  Kommentar till text 26780 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Hi Ruth,

> all the edibles in our
>> yard (first, the cat food inside, then the hamsters,
> then any squirrels he
>> could grab, birds we'd find a fluff left laying around
> so we'd know of his
>> great hunting prowess obviously <grin>.   His appetite
> was incredible to me..
>>
> Good Fred.  Nice Fred.  Don't get between Fred and the
> food dish.(LOL)

hahahahaha you are not kidding.. he was very affectionate though.  I guess he
figured if he played cute and cuddly he'd get more food.  My daughter used to
take him for walks eh kind of folded up in her baby-doll stroller.. He put up
with it! And it was a site to see haha

>  Was he a stray when you found him?  Cats
> who lived wild as kittens will eat everything that comes
> along.

Maybe it was in his genes...His mommy was a stray that moved in with us,
pregnant and delivered her litter in our basement.. Nice of her haha.. we named
her Kitty because we had no clue where she came from, I think someone dropped
her off at our house - now I'm actually of remembering that yes, someone did
just that, and I remember thinking how cruel because she was so affectionate.
We had a German Shepherd, so I guess "they" thought we could use some cats
Lol... So Fred was found in the basement, along with his brother Neighbor and
another brother Percy, and a sister, Queenie. It was a beautiful litter..
Neighbor was a deep calico.. Percy was a yellow long-hair, Queenie and Fred
were well, alley-cat style grey/black striped cats .. but Fred had a gorgeous
singular mustache haha..

>> to his door every single day meowing like crazy until
> my neighbor game him a
>> bowl of food... and then another neighbor told me the
> same thing! Needless to
>> say Fred was no slouch when it came to size.. he eh..
> was a big kitty -  But he
>> could still move fast, and the crazy cat actually
> killed raccoon and brought it
>> home (dead) so we could see it (ugh).. Luckily it
> wasn't rabid for his sake...
>> geez.

> At least he didn't eat it.

I think most of their time together was fighting to the death ... after that
meeting with the raccoon Fred had to get his jaw wired, and had a tube in his
chest and a drain in his leg.. seriously, he came home with that raccoon and
literally dropped in front of us. We were amazed he made it home.. so was our
vet.. But the vet really did a good job, and Fred lived for a long time after
that.

>  Then again Raccoons aren't
> herbivores and wouldn't taste all that good.  Besides,
> who wants to chew through all that fur when you can get a
> bowl of ready to eat?

Yes and most time without fighting so desperately to get to eat the thing the
cat wants to eat :)

>> trying to dig under their fenced area lately..
> thankfully I think the two dogs
>> are two chubby to fit under the fence at this point.
> Maybe they are trying to
>> make it easier for the cats to get out? (doubt it hehe)
>>
> They probably smell something interesting on the other
> side.  Either that, or they're just diggers.

I think just diggers which is fine by me, because I hate trimming dog nails..
digging works on the nails :)

> make sense... Now if
>> only they'd remember keep their "toys" off my kitchen
> table :)

> Just as long as it's a feather and not the whole bird.

Yes, and NOT on the kitchen table Lol  I don't even want to think about that
picture <grin>

> One of mine brought a live bird into the house. Twice.
> Scared the tar out of the poor birds. :-)

We only had that happen once, and we're not sure if the cats brought it in, or
if it came in through the back door... for a while the dog door wasn't in
place, and we'd just leave the back door to the dog area "open".. like, who
would come in as a fly-by? hehe

Take care,
Janis

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