MY GARDEN IS PROTECTED !

things have gotten complicated.
EXAMPLE
my cocoa is cold.
once upon a time. i'd get up, walk 10 steps to the micro, nuke it n step back to my couch.
easy.
now, i'm afraid to make a move.
gotta recon the area.
ok, i see two kits trying to kill each other, across the room.
good. out of my way.
but i can't move til i know where everybody is.
i stick my hand under the couch.
yup, i'm getting attacked from under there, but i feel only one set of kitten claws, so one hazard still missing.
i look n look cause i want my cocoa.
i don't see kitten #4 anywhere, but if i start walking, i'll step on her for sure, making me leap in the air n fall flat on my face.
finally, i had a brain storm n felt behind my back.
as some little jaws clomped on my index finger , i knew the mission was a go.
i got up n rounding the coffee table, i near tromped on drifter, who was lying there exhausted from sheparding these kits.
i gracefully leapt over her, spilling cocoa all over while cussing the world.
finally got back to my couch safely, as everyone was cowering from
me in my mood.
that's how a one minute trip turns into a major campaign.
 
Yeah....but something tells me that you love it!! How could you not fall in love with these innocent little creatures?? I think we can tell from your posts that these guys have captured your heart.

I know the feeling. When Lucky springs on me from the shelf over my bed, and lands on my chest, once my cardiac rhythm is back to normal, we look at each other, and I know that he is just playing! Bella is much more sedate and regal, but she has some little quirks that endear her to me. In the morning, when I'm getting ready for work, she sits on the vanity in the bathroom, watching me and waiting for me to scratch her behind the ears and stroke her head,,,there is a definite ritual that I have to go through, or she will reach out and hang on to my shirt with her paw, pulling me back to finish. Lucky reaches under the shower curtain when I'm showering, and grabs my toes. I'm waiting for him to come in the shower with me. He will sit in the shower until I turn it on, then he jumps out on the mat and waits for me to get in, then sticks his head around the curtain and let's the water hit him in the face. Hasn't come all the way in when I'm in there, though. And when I come home from work, they run all around the cabin, jumping up on the couch, bed, wherever I'm going!! "He's back!! He's back!!".

Cats are great companions, and they all have very individual personalities.

I think you are hooked!!

Best Regards, Les
 
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susieqz said:
things have gotten complicated.
EXAMPLE
my cocoa is cold.
once upon a time. i'd get up, walk 10 steps to the micro, nuke it n step back to my couch.
easy.
now, i'm afraid to make a move.
gotta recon the area.
ok, i see two kits trying to kill each other, across the room.
good. out of my way.
but i can't move til i know where everybody is.
i stick my hand under the couch.
yup, i'm getting attacked from under there, but i feel only one set of kitten claws, so one hazard still missing.
i look n look cause i want my cocoa.
i don't see kitten #4 anywhere, but if i start walking, i'll step on her for sure, making me leap in the air n fall flat on my face.
finally, i had a brain storm n felt behind my back.
as some little jaws clomped on my index finger , i knew the mission was a go.
i got up n rounding the coffee table, i near tromped on drifter, who was lying there exhausted from sheparding these kits.
i gracefully leapt over her, spilling cocoa all over while cussing the world.
finally got back to my couch safely, as everyone was cowering from
me in my mood.
that's how a one minute trip turns into a major campaign.
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Totally worth it! You got your cocoa warm and you found all the kits and you didn't step on them or their Mom! 1 great trip around the obstacle course and a gold medal for Susie! The winner [emoji307][emoji307]

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Look closely. He just played with it the whole time I was working on the garden. To the point I felt sorry for it lol
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i never feel sorry for the nasty things drifter plays with.
they need to be dead.
my problem arises when she has one when i call her in.
she brings the mouse inside, to continue the game.
then, because she is a clutz, she often lets it get away to terrorize me.
 
i'm not feeling too gentle right now.
i've been without internet since last night.
i was watching johny carson n ignoring the wildlife.
then.a hoodlum gang of kits attacked my wiring.
i think they were using broken bottles n crowbars.
they killed the internet dead.
finally got the repairman in n it's fixed.
i have a new fashion statement brightening my room.
i have stapled chicken wire to the wall, 8' long, covering the wires.
 
i bet you guys think i have a kitty named drifter.
after all, i stroke her ,. brush her, watch movies with her.
i even swat at her when she bugs me.
with me, she's nice.
but the repairman came to OUR house yesterday.
she never met any other humans.
we are hermits.

now, i'm sure her normal inclination would be to run from a fight.
but, her kits were in the room.
no tame kitty here.
she puffed up to twice her size giving the fiercest hiss you ever heard.
she wanted this guy dead.
this was the first time i saw her teeth like this. usually, i see them when she yawns.
this did not look like a yawn
now, they claim cats can do 35mph, but i've seen her in action.
she's faster than that.
if she decided to rip out your eyes from across the room, she'd do it before you could blink.
i could never stop an attack once started, but i sure don't need a law suit.
i put my body between drifter n the kindly repairman that was fixing my internet.
the little bit,, hissed at me too, but she moved off n sunk to the ground.
she didn't hide. she wanted him to know she was there.
her eyes never left him.
had a kit wandered up, i'm not sure i could have stopped the carnage.
feral means feral, guys.
i live with a beast of the wilds, .
 
oh, dear. i'm raising a whole generation of
HELLO KITTYs.
the problem is i'm a polite person.
when somebody climbs up my arm,
to stare me in the face, nose to nose,
i always say HELLO.
every one of these kits thinks his name is
HELLO.
 
2 weeks from now, the kits will go into the garden for supervised play.
this will work until they learn to climb the 6' fence.
after that, i have no idea how to keep them alive.
i'm hoping they will learn how to come to call, like drifter does.
before, i was just worried about coyotes, but now i have a bigger problem.
my garden walls will keep out coyotes,, but stripes is living close by.
he is probably the kit's dad.
but i'm now reading that toms kill kits.
i need to get him to accept them.
i bet, by end of summer, i can tame him, but my sinuses tell me these kits have to spend days outdoors before then.
i don't want to shoot stripes.
he is not big like big cat, at 40 lbs, but he's huge for a normal cat. i think 15 lbs.
he is magnificent.
valuable livestock.
i just need to modify his behavior.
 
this wasn't bear's first attempt at programming.
last week, i came to my comp n saw the screen filled with computer code.
i can't read that, but i think he was reprogramming the software to his own preferences.
i have no idea how to do that.
i have no choice.
he needs his own laptop.
 
You've got yourself a kit who is an IT professional! How lucky is that? Not all Tom's kill kits... Maybe Drifter will meditate that interaction because obviously Stripes likes her. Maybe if there's plenty of food, he will not consider the kitties as competition for scarce food.

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ok, red. i'm feeding him everyday.
if the cause of aggression is food insecurity, i can remove that, at least.
he isn't emaciated like drifter was when we met. he must be a great hunter.
he left a mouse in front of my door, yesterday.
don't know if that was on purpose.
drifter never did that.
she never wastes food.
 
YOW! drifter just came in from her evening constitutional.
for the second day in a row, she brot a live mouse in!!

i have more mice in the house with this cat than ever.
at least yeterday's mouse got killed fast.
i think this has something to do with kitten training
 
susieqz said:
YOW! drifter just came in from her evening constitutional.
for the second day in a row, she brot a live mouse in!!

i have more mice in the house with this cat than ever.
at least yeterday's mouse got killed fast.
i think this has something to do with kitten training
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Yes that makes sense! And maybe stripes brought a present for you or drifter (or the kits?) I feel in my heart that it's going to turn out ok [emoji307] Cats don't bring mice out of aggression... Usually as a present or a peace offering....[emoji56]

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