Sunday, February 26, 2017

Sunday Stills


Cocomo and Romeo being wild


River and Donovan

Fabrizzio and Havana being silly

Roho and Gus playing
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Charlotte was feeling feisty


Norman trotting through the pasture

Bruno, Duesy, Baner, Havana and Remmy

Toledo and Rocky

Cuffie on the run

Happy, Sam, Paramount, Mick and Taco

Chance and Convey

Sparky and Sabrina

Nemo and Miel

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Propositioned

I guess I've written far too much about Oscar, and now Igor, as apparently news of their royal treatment has traveled. Igor's only been around for a few weeks, but I've been writing about Oscar for years. For anyone who doesn't know, Oscar is our feral cat that showed up a few years ago. He won't eat dry cat food, only eats certain flavors of canned cat food, he usually eats four cans of food per day, we're not allowed to touch him despite catering to his every whim for years, and he has his own heated cat house on our front porch. It's not a bad life for a feral cat we're not allowed to touch.

Every time I write about Oscar I start getting the emails and comments about him wanting to come in the house. Oscar does NOT want to come in. We've made the offer many times. We've left the door open for him, we've begged, we've pleaded. His answer is no and no and no. The only time we've gotten close to Oscar is the time a couple of years ago when we trapped him in a live trap so we could get him vaccinated and neutered. Oscar didn't let us touch him before that, and he has certainly not let us touch him since that time. He was so wild in the trap the vet had to gas him inside the trap before the trap could be opened. In addition, Oscar is a champion grudge holder. I mean, he's disappeared twice on us for a few weeks because we had the nerve to put out dry cat food for him. Both times he slapped the bowl off the porch and left for a couple of weeks. He's usually here every day.  I'm thinking Oscar will never,ever get over the fact that we trapped him and had his balls cut off.

Despite Oscar's haughty and demanding ways we continue to cater to him. Apparently our treatment of our feral cat got someone's attention as Jason received a rather interesting phone call last week. It was an offer that we absolutely could refuse. A local organization that traps and then spays/neuters feral cats called Jason wanting to know if we would like a few more Oscars? They would come already spayed/neutered. The only thing we would have to do is figure out what kind of food they will lower themselves to eat and I guess get each one of them a heated cat house and line them up on our front porch.

Jason couldn't get off the phone fast enough. No way was he volunteering us to live with an entire colony of Oscars and Oscarettes. I strongly agreed with his decision. Oscar is expensive and time consuming enough all on his own. We were laughing about what a selling feature it would be if we ever needed to sell the farm. "Comes with its own feral cat colony. The feral cats all live on your front porch in a row of heated cat houses. You won't find another offering like this one!"

If anyone thinks they need a few more feral cats we can hook you up. Oh, and I kindly request that you spare us the hate mail for turning down more feral cats. Jason and I have adopted more than our share of pets, from dogs and cats to goats, donkeys, minis and horses. And somehow the WebbPets are always expensive. Did I mention Oscar alone eats four cans per day? We've hit our charitable limit for now.

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the sunrise had lots of pretty colors

Dawn and Renatta waiting for breakfast

Cinnamon and Maisie

Traveller eating breakfast under a gorgeous sky

 Lily posed in front of the sunrise

MyLight and Cinnamon

B-Rad and Blu

Donneur and Silver attempting to remove each other's halters


Cisco and Levendi



Cisco gave me the "hey there, not doing anything" look when he noticed me

King and Hemi

Asterik and George

Bruno, Fabrizzio and Walden

Lofty and Gus

Merlin and Walden

Digby and Nemo

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Sunday Stills

Convey and Revy on the go


Rip

Toledo and Wilson

Remmy, Cino and Havana

Baner and Hesse

Baby

Gibson and Donneur

Flyer

Paramount and Sebastian

the World's Cutest Fainting Goats; Mina resting, Miss Lyle and Jo standing

Lighty and Blu

Homer, Trigger and Thomas

Maisie

Dolly and Traveller were almost hidden in the fog

Lily and MyLight sharing some hay on a foggy morning

Renatta