I put batteries back in the trail cam, and left it out where we trap cats to see who might be left to take in to be fixed. The cats aren’t very cooperative with showing their ears to the camera. Mostly I see sides and tails!

It has been a rough few weeks with the weather being uncooperative, then my youngest was sick with Flu A for two weeks (yes, she had a flu shot, but back in September). I’m hoping we can get back to fixing the cat colony soon. There should only be a handful left (famous last words, ya know).

I took the cover off the puzzle, and within two minutes the table sprouted a cat. I feel that she is looking at me thinking “this is my rightful spot, I dare you to move me”.

My suburban princess cat likes to come into the backyard with us. She gets quite sassy about it, but has to be watched carefully that she stays in the fenced part. She did not grow up here, and is no match for the home-grown true country cats in the neighborhood, let alone the raccoons or coyotes or bobcats. Well, I wasn’t watching carefully and she slipped through a gap in the fence.

Look at this cutie, who is part of the colony next door. This photo is prior to the surgery to get the cat fixed, now the cat is sporting an ear notch to show there is no danger of this one contributing to additional colony numbers. Not sure where the point genes came from, since there are three other cats of the same age (so I assume are from the same litter) who are torti and orange. So I had to look it up. The “points” are a result of temperature dependent albinism. “A Seal point cat is actually a black cat with the Himalayan mutation altering how the melanin is developed and displayed”. (https://vibesfromaveterinarynurse.com/2018/05/03/siamese-genetics/) So Mr Tom is a flame point, which is an orange cat with the Himalayan mutation. Neat. And explains how you can have tortious shells, blacks, oranges, and points in a single related colony.