Guildedagain
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A cat showed up here one day - a few weeks ago - proof that God does exist but a little on the slow side, had been waiting for this for years now.
A fate cat.
So it shows up one day, meowing on a straw bale, it talked to me. I went back inside, washing the dishes, looking out the window I see the neighbor's senile pest dog - he went from seeing eye to senile - actually chasing this cat around the house in the snow. And this dog is a cat killer.
He's only there because the neighbor's are playing in the creek between our houses, so I go out there like a totally outraged parent, and I tell the gal/Mom "I don't care how you do it - a leash? - you dog will NOT be HUNTING my pet in my yard." The gal says the cat has been hiding in her rafters and the dog has been chasing it, but doesn't have a chance. If only they discouraged their dog from cat chasing going back 15 years now, it would have all been for the better.
That was the 1st encounter.
The cat finally came out of hiding, a kitten, all black with yellow eyes.
And there was a lot of meowing...
I still had 4 cans of cat food from our last one, just past date, cans of Taste of the wild, the best cat food out there IMO. So I started feeding it. It was skinny, and the temps so cold the food was freezing in the bowl. The cat was ravenous.
I had to check with a vet to see how much you can feed a starving kitten.
It turned out this cat had been seen as far back as fall, hanging around someone's garden north of here, but no one could get close to it.
It then tried to get adopted by a gal just across the field from that garden, she wanted this little black kitty desperately, but her pure black lab Ripper - would have been a neat pair - is a psycho, and she didn't stand a chance of the cat being hers, and she was tempting it with food. But her dog, it barks insanely when she drives by with him in the car, she can't even talk to you, you get the picture. The dog is freakin animal, and with a name like Ripper, no thanks.
So the cat made it to the next house, the one with the senile Border Collie/Aussie mix.
Then our house finally. I had been waiting for this for a long time.
Within a couple days it came in the house. Had to check everything out. It's pure black and can hide anywhere.
I weighed it, 3lb 10oz. Maybe 6 months old, female.
I read up on cats, from an old book called Cats of the Word, amazing book.
Female cats can hide kittens in the craziest places, for a couple weeks. Just a survival thing.
So then it goes through this metamorphosis where it becomes this incredible cat, like no other I've ever, so sweet. Cause it's a mama. It won't stop licking you, you have to tell it no.
Whip smart, even got left alone in the house a couple hours a couple days ago - because it was sleeping upstairs - when I went out plowing and wife was skiing.
Has never gone in the house.
Not a box user, I try to show it how much fun it is but no.
Holds it and goes out.
Mind you I do have claw marks everywhere, the cat has insane claws, named her Claudia - Clawed Ya! - originally but eventually settled on Iris.
This is a Domestic short hair, and unlike our last kitty the Siamese longhair Stash, not a hair comes off this cat, not a hair anywhere incredible! Didn't know you could have a cat without the hair everywhere.
And because of that, and that cats really can't be stopped, it's going upstairs and laying on the bed, which is always been a no no through the last two cats.
Has the run of the upstairs, could claw any guitar/case, but doesn't.
Actually lays at my back while I play and goes to sleep.
And so it looks like I venture into a new period of guitar photography, one with a cat in the picture.
Unthinkable.
But it just lays down, looks cute, and doesn't hurt anything.
If anything I should rename my gig Lucky Cat Guitars ;]
Btw, as some of you know, cats can really stretch beyond what is imaginable, this is why they invented tape measures.
Originally, it stretched to 25", impressive for a small cat, then 26" and yesterday 28"!
Now weighs a little over 5lbs, haven't weighed it in a couple days, but it barely eats the recommended 3/4 cup of food a day. That's because it's real food and not toxic filler garbage in most cheap pets foods.
This cat is such top grade material it doesn't even meow when it's bowl is going empty like some can.
It doesn't even meow when the bowl is empty but it will get your attention, and water, always lots of clean water.
This new love of my life has really made winter a lot more pleasurable.
Here is is, El Tigre ;]
PS This can can really look at you weird with those yellow eyes and when it sleeps it looks like it's dead.
Check out the claws!
And looking stupidly cute ;]
And it's gone to sleep, just like that. If you toggle back and forth between these two shot below, you can see the REM sleep movement of the tip of the tail.
And here's a weird eye look as well as the "dead look" combined ;]
Btw, the gene that make this cat all black, a "Self Black" or very nearly also makes these cats highly durable and resistant to disease, lasting 15-20 years.
Now to get it to a spay clinic before we enjoy the miracle of kittens ;]
A fate cat.
So it shows up one day, meowing on a straw bale, it talked to me. I went back inside, washing the dishes, looking out the window I see the neighbor's senile pest dog - he went from seeing eye to senile - actually chasing this cat around the house in the snow. And this dog is a cat killer.
He's only there because the neighbor's are playing in the creek between our houses, so I go out there like a totally outraged parent, and I tell the gal/Mom "I don't care how you do it - a leash? - you dog will NOT be HUNTING my pet in my yard." The gal says the cat has been hiding in her rafters and the dog has been chasing it, but doesn't have a chance. If only they discouraged their dog from cat chasing going back 15 years now, it would have all been for the better.
That was the 1st encounter.
The cat finally came out of hiding, a kitten, all black with yellow eyes.
And there was a lot of meowing...
I still had 4 cans of cat food from our last one, just past date, cans of Taste of the wild, the best cat food out there IMO. So I started feeding it. It was skinny, and the temps so cold the food was freezing in the bowl. The cat was ravenous.
I had to check with a vet to see how much you can feed a starving kitten.
It turned out this cat had been seen as far back as fall, hanging around someone's garden north of here, but no one could get close to it.
It then tried to get adopted by a gal just across the field from that garden, she wanted this little black kitty desperately, but her pure black lab Ripper - would have been a neat pair - is a psycho, and she didn't stand a chance of the cat being hers, and she was tempting it with food. But her dog, it barks insanely when she drives by with him in the car, she can't even talk to you, you get the picture. The dog is freakin animal, and with a name like Ripper, no thanks.
So the cat made it to the next house, the one with the senile Border Collie/Aussie mix.
Then our house finally. I had been waiting for this for a long time.
Within a couple days it came in the house. Had to check everything out. It's pure black and can hide anywhere.
I weighed it, 3lb 10oz. Maybe 6 months old, female.
I read up on cats, from an old book called Cats of the Word, amazing book.
Female cats can hide kittens in the craziest places, for a couple weeks. Just a survival thing.
So then it goes through this metamorphosis where it becomes this incredible cat, like no other I've ever, so sweet. Cause it's a mama. It won't stop licking you, you have to tell it no.
Whip smart, even got left alone in the house a couple hours a couple days ago - because it was sleeping upstairs - when I went out plowing and wife was skiing.
Has never gone in the house.
Not a box user, I try to show it how much fun it is but no.
Holds it and goes out.
Mind you I do have claw marks everywhere, the cat has insane claws, named her Claudia - Clawed Ya! - originally but eventually settled on Iris.
This is a Domestic short hair, and unlike our last kitty the Siamese longhair Stash, not a hair comes off this cat, not a hair anywhere incredible! Didn't know you could have a cat without the hair everywhere.
And because of that, and that cats really can't be stopped, it's going upstairs and laying on the bed, which is always been a no no through the last two cats.
Has the run of the upstairs, could claw any guitar/case, but doesn't.
Actually lays at my back while I play and goes to sleep.
And so it looks like I venture into a new period of guitar photography, one with a cat in the picture.
Unthinkable.
But it just lays down, looks cute, and doesn't hurt anything.
If anything I should rename my gig Lucky Cat Guitars ;]
Btw, as some of you know, cats can really stretch beyond what is imaginable, this is why they invented tape measures.
Originally, it stretched to 25", impressive for a small cat, then 26" and yesterday 28"!
Now weighs a little over 5lbs, haven't weighed it in a couple days, but it barely eats the recommended 3/4 cup of food a day. That's because it's real food and not toxic filler garbage in most cheap pets foods.
This cat is such top grade material it doesn't even meow when it's bowl is going empty like some can.
It doesn't even meow when the bowl is empty but it will get your attention, and water, always lots of clean water.
This new love of my life has really made winter a lot more pleasurable.
Here is is, El Tigre ;]
PS This can can really look at you weird with those yellow eyes and when it sleeps it looks like it's dead.
Check out the claws!
And looking stupidly cute ;]
And it's gone to sleep, just like that. If you toggle back and forth between these two shot below, you can see the REM sleep movement of the tip of the tail.
And here's a weird eye look as well as the "dead look" combined ;]
Btw, the gene that make this cat all black, a "Self Black" or very nearly also makes these cats highly durable and resistant to disease, lasting 15-20 years.
Now to get it to a spay clinic before we enjoy the miracle of kittens ;]
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- what a touching story - reminds me of our wonderfull - dear PIKI 
- we found him abandoned after summer - he lived to be 16 years old - wonderfull kitty 