Cat Views

My grandson has a very acrobatic cat. She loves her Cat Tree House and spends a great deal of time performing regularly in it. One of her favorite tricks is to swing down from layer to layer and hanging over the edge. One day she went too far and found herself caught between the cat tree and the wall. Finally she extricated herself and decided playing on the floor next to it with her tail was safer but she soon got bored with that and was back in her cat tree. Once again she was entertaining us with her antics by swinging from layer to layer like a monkey. She really loves her cat tree!

We were having beautiful fall days; warm and sunny with gentle breezes. Our young cat, Sheba loved spending her time out in the enclosed patio. We purchased a new feeder for her, an Oval Double Diner. We purchased this feeder to put out on the patio since she was spending her days out there. After filling it with kibble we set it out on the patio to Sheba’s delight. The kibble was rapidly disappearing on a daily basis and we were puzzled by the fact that so much of the kibble was gone and yet Sheba wasn’t putting on any weight. After a week of constantly refilling her bowl, my husband came up with the idea of setting up the video camera to find out where the kibble was going. It worked! When we viewed the image on the video, we couldn’t believe what we captured! There was a mouse running as fast as it could with kibble in its mouth and Sheba chasing after it! The mystery was solved. The mouse hole was located and blocked. Her kibble was safe!

There once was a cat named Axelrod
Who really did love his Kittypod
In it he would lounge for days
There’s no hope of mending his ways
Ask him to come out and play
With him it was always “no way”
Comfy and snug in his condo mod
Axelrod really did love his Kittypod!

Fritz was a big black and white angora tom cat who lived with us on the farm when I was a child. He was supposed to be a barn cat, but his superior attitude and deference to my mother earned him a place in the house. Still…he was a “tom” and would often spend nights out sowing his “wild oats”. One rainy summer night he was yowling at the back door to be let in. He came in, but not alone. He brought a guest, a small undernourished female, wet and bedraggled. I grabbed a towel and dried her off discovering that she was pregnant! Naturally, we had to adopt her! I took over the care of “Missy” and tried to make her comfortable in a box in my room. She preferred to be in my toy box among my doll clothes. Mom bought her a beautiful knitted cat bed, I placed a doll blanket in it and she happily curled up in the cat bed. Missy accepted the cat bed just in time as 3 days later she gave birth to 4 beautiful kittens, one black and three black and white just like Fritz.

Fritz was a large, black and white angora tomcat who was part of our family when I was a child.  He had a friendly disposition, coupled with an attitude of superiority.  His favorite spot for his afternoon nap was my Dad’s big armchair.  Now, Fritz knew who the rightful owner of the chair was.  If he came into the living room, and Dad was in the chair, Fritz would just go to his Little Lotus Cat Tree for his nap.  But it was a different story if someone else was sitting in the chair.  Fritz would pace back and forth in front of the offending person; head and tail held high, meowing occasionally until whoever it was would get up and move, just to get some peace.  The conquering hero would then contentedly take over the soft chair in the sunny window.