I sure hope Sticky's ok.

[Trogdor]

Well, some of you know about Sticky, a little black cat I found abandoned by my place in November 2007, which was a very cold night. Me and her been the best of friends since then. She's been missing now for a day and a half, and she has never been gone for that long of a time. I hope she shows up soon. O_o;

[Trogdor]

Holy Crap.

Sticky must have read my mind or something. 30 minutes or so after posting this, Sticky, out of nowhere, leaped into the kitchen window and started pawing the window, mewing, as if saying, "Let me in!!!!" O_O.

I am so releaved Sticky's ok. I'm wondered what the smeg she's been doing out there, since she's never gone from the house for more than 20 minutes at a time. O_o

[BeardedOne]

Aw, what great pix and what great news that she's home safe. :)

I've had some worries lately about one of the porch cats (Very similar to the tiger in your last pic) that has been absent for the past few days. She usually travels as a couple that I dubbed "Bonnie and Clyde", but only the latter, the boy cat, has been evident the past week. He sleeps in the basement sometimes, and I've heard him down there, bumping around, and seen him on the street and porch.

She's gone missing before, but never for this long. As many of my recent feline friends have been strays that I adopted (Or, as in the case of these two, adopted me) I try not to worry about them too much. My current 'house cat' is a stray that just walked in one day and decided to stay. She has gone walkabout a couple of times, but knowing all the good mooching spots in the village, has returned fat, fed, and happy each time.

Great news about the return of your 'Sticky'. :)

[Ecstatic]

TgirlTalk newest member: Sticky. Joined: 07/07/09 9:35 EST. So she must've read your post!

Glad Sticky's ok!

[kramtime1]

I hope those aren't porno mags on the floor.

[Trogdor]

I hope those aren't porno mags on the floor.

Naw, those are muscle and fitness magazines I have there. :)

And the white tiger is named Moocher, he's the oldest cat, and Sticky's the youngest, these two get along very well.

[Nikki]

meeeeeeeeeeeowwwww

[Trogdor]

meeeeeeeeeeeowwwww

~pets~ ;) :mrgreen:

[BeardedOne]

It's always nice when the pussies come home. :)

As mentioned above, I think I've lost my lady-cat. :( It's now been about two weeks and she's been a no-show. Her mate has taken to waiting outside the house until I leave for work, when he used to sit right by the door to wait for me to come out and put the food down. This tells me that he is wondering if I did anything nasty to her (He's always been shy/stand-offish).

I'd noticed that she'd been losing weight recently, so it may just be nature's course and she's gone to kitty-heaven. Still, it's sad to think that they won't be dancing on my porch anymore and that her bf will be alone now. :(

[Ecstatic]

Sorry to hear that, B1. Our white kitty, Jasmine, is in failing health: thyroid condition (she has to take medicine twice a day now, and dropped from 9 lbs to 4.5 lbs), cateracts, arthritis, recently had kidney stones. Poor dear, all she wants to do is eat and sleep with her head over her water bowl. But she can't/won't eat enough to gain much weight, and she just isn't the loving companion she was for nearly 16 years.

Her sister, the black tortoise-shell with the unlikely name Gilgamesh is in great health, and looks and acts no different at 16 than she did at 10. She can still jump to any perch at least 3 inches wide (she's a big girl, at peak about 12 lbs but now about 10--most cats either eat to obesity with age or get bored with food and lose weight), and can leap a four-foot span and land with pinpoint accuracy between glasses without knocking one over.

They are mixed breed, but primarily Maine coons. I have a feeling we're going to have Gilgy long after we lose Jazz.

[BeardedOne]

An update on our local pussy situation:

It has become clear that something large and hungry has come to our area and over the past three to four weeks our outdoor cat population has disappeared. :(

As mentioned before, my lady cat from the porch went missing just over two weeks ago and now her mate is AWOL. :( The food dish, which I usually have to fill twice a day, has remained full since Monday (Four days straight). I had at least two others stopping to snack, including "Charlie", the cat that looks like Hitler. None have been by this week.

When I got home from work on Tuesday I found a couple of the good ol' boys shootin' the breeze while taking a break from some landscaping chores. I asked them to look around and tell me what they saw. After a couple of minutes they both said "Nuthin'..." and then thought about it and said "Shit! There's no cats out here!". On any given day there used to be at least a half dozen puttering about on the block, sometimes more.

As if to confirm our fears, the town 'meatloaf' (The big, fat, lazy cat that lets the world revolve around him while he soaks up the attention we give him) was found in a neighbor's yard this week having lost a battle with something bigger than he was. Our 'Mrs. Kravitz' buried him in her yard with a nice brick-bordered garden around him.

Below is a pic I took just a few weeks ago of the three of them, my dancing porch cats and the 'meatloaf'.

[Ecstatic]

Oh man, that sucks. Any idea what the predator is, coyote perhaps? I've seen coyotes and foxes in our neighborhood (a few weeks ago a fox wandered into our backyard and just hung around for about an hour before meandering off), and I've heard tell of a fisher (or as we call them in New England, fisher cat) in the area as well. Our girls are strictly kept indoors.

[Jordan]

Trogdor, Those are some very cute Kitties!!

[Trogdor]

Trogdor, Those are some very cute Kitties!!
Well, you really want cute....check out S'mores, everyone seems to really like her.
I named her S'mores since she looks like a toasted marshmallow.

[Jordan]

Awww she is cute!!

[BeardedOne]

Perhaps the posting of cute cat pix is a good omen.

When I got home from work yesterday I discovered the meaning of the phrase "Raining cats and dogs"...Or at least the cats part of it. After several catless days in the neighborhood it seemed as though they were suddenly dropping from the skies. As I drove up in front of the house the lady cat (The one that has been missing for almost three weeks) strolled up from under a parked car and said "Hello", followed by her dancing friend, and joined by Adolph/Charlie (The one that looks like Hitler) who has also been ominously absent for the past several days.

Any idea what the predator is, coyote perhaps? I've seen coyotes and foxes in our neighborhood...

After the gruesome passing of our neighborhood 'meatloaf' cat, there was much speculation and many fingers point to a large fighter dog owned by one of the Mexicans. There was also some suspicion of foxes, as there are many of them in the area (I see them daily on my midnite drives to work), and possibly a mountain lion (Though rare in this part of the region, they have been known to wander down from the PA hills). I was leaning towards the wild-animal theory as dog attacks tend to leave more evidence.

The biggest puzzle is why the cats disappeared, en masse, so suddenly and why they reappeared in much the same way (I have since seen three others that had gone missing), yet have pretty much gone to ground on their return.

I now think the dog theory is correct and that the herd of missing cats is because they know how the meatloaf cat died and they've all been in hiding from the dog. I caught up with the Mexican fellow that works my yard and asked if he still had his dog (I believe it's a Rottweiler and I haven't seen it since it was a puppy, about two years ago) and I warned him that a number of my well-armed neighbors were ready to shoot it if they found it on the streets without a leash and/or human supervision. Not two days later, the cats reappear.

I'm guessing that the dog has been taken in and/or chained/leashed to limit his roaming and that the cats figured this out and returned to their usual prowling stations. My lady cat is noticeably upset, though. Whereas she used to come right up to me and let me scratch her back, she now waits until I'm out of sight to approach the food dish and is very jumpy when I reach out to her (Though she has always been people-shy).

To celebrate the return of the cats, I think Trog should post more cute pussy pix. :)

Hmm...'S'mores'. <Thinking> 'S'mores, Meatloaf, Cookie. I see a pattern forming: Men give their pussies names of things they like to eat/lick. :unibrow:

[Trogdor]

Ask, and thou shalt receave. :D