That’s his call. We haven’t been down to a single cat in this family in 25 years. There’s room for sure. It is Kitten season too. Who knows who might wonder into our lives or backyard.
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Love this! Keep us posted. Photos loved and appreciated 
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Those chubby Orange Tabby’s… Haha…
Ollie is on a controlled diet now. My vet said she was going to kick my ■■■ if she ever sees him heavy.
Orange cats are at greater risk of Diabetes due to weight. Had one in the past that did. Not doing that again. Over 10K injections over his 14 years with us.
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I intended to upload this back in February
But life got busy.
Anyway, Porthos and Freya wish everyone ( especially Ollie ) a belated happy Valentine’s Day.
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He’s really not chubby, it’s his pouch and the way he is sitting. When he is standing he looks normal weight. He doesn’t care for most people food, just a little taste of turkey or roast beef, very occasionally. But I did not know he would have a higher risk of diabetes so I will keep an eye on his figure.
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Wasn’t kitty shaming… Sorry if it came off that way.
How much is he tipping the scales at? My diabetic was 24lbs at one point. He was a gigantic cat (frame), biggest I’ve ever seen in my life. But about 8lbs overweight…
Ollie is 14lbs now. Trying to keep him under 16. That’s his “goal” weight for his size according to my vet.
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He did look a little hefty in the bottom pic because of how he was sitting. He would not cooperate with me weighing him, I cannot pick him up, only his favorite human can and not for long. A lot of feral left in this cat.
He’s only been to a vet twice, when he first ‘moved in’ for good, to get ticks removed, tests, shots and chipped. Second trip was neutering. Both times we had to use a live trap because he will not allow us to put him in a carrier or a box or anything. We ended up with bloody hands and arms when we tried the carrier.
Both times with the trap we withheld food except for what was in the trap, he held out until the 3rd day when he finally went in for the food and the trap snapped shut. I felt awful but it had to be done.
So now he is overdue for shots but he is completely an indoor cat, he has not been outside since he came back with the ticks, a few pounds lighter, very hungry and thirsty, after going awol for a week.
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They obviously are best buddies! That is a great picture.
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How much did you have to pay them to pose in the shape of a heart?
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They did it all by themselves. I can’t get them to do anything that they don’t want to do.
The unfortunate fact is that I was slow with the camera. Two seconds before this pic they were literally cheek-to-cheek
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Ugh… I hear you on these ferals…
It’s so frustrating, especially when you know they might need help and there’s virtually nothing you can do to get them out of the house or into a carrier. Even if you do get them into a carrier, they often freak out.
We got Charlie into a carrier about 2 weeks before he really got weak and he freaked the hell out and ripped 2 of his nails out trying to get out and bled all over the place. We let him out and cancelled our appointment.
He could be handled and was such a lap cat but something about outside and being confined drove him nuts.
He wouldn’t let me give him meds or anything orally. I did get a mild liquid sedative from the vet but I couldn’t get him to take it and I ended up wearing it attempting it.
The vet wouldn’t give me something to inject him with to sedate him even though she’s sort of family. I’m a pro injecting cats after the diabetic cat and I know I could have done that but she refused for obvious reasons (safety / liability). Offered to sign a release but it’s not her practice so we couldn’t go that route.
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Get a cat they said, it will be great they said.
Ollie just chewed through the ethernet cable I ran for my son’s room. Ordered a new one but in the meantime, in under an hour, I was able to splice it back together again and it’s running at 942 / 1000 on a hundred foot run.
I even impressed myself with this bush-fix… 
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So … not your day job … right?
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It may not look pretty but it works. Works so well, that I’m leaving it and holding the spare cable for just in case in the future.
Don’t have shrink tubing this small for a proper, handsome looking repair. Further, these wires are so small that I don’t even think I could have used it. This is cheap Amazon cable (100 foot), for $16 and a flat cable at that, making the wires even smaller.
It’s great quality too. LOL - The wires (colors) are in different places in the sheath just a foot away in the run. That blew my mind and had me guessing at which one of the 4 white wires should be connected to which one of the 4 white wires… It was a miracle that I got this right on the first try. Did the dance of joy when the light lit up on the router when I plugged it back in.
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Nordson Medical (link) would disagree.
I’m fairly certain that I know why Ollie chewed that Cat-6 wire in your son’s bedroom, after Kara passed forward to meet her sibling Charlie in Kitty Heaven; be that as it may, if you ever need shrink tubing to fit this or that task, please don’t hesitate to ask for a free sample from me.
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Thanks… Good to know. Hoping not to ever be patching cables like this again…
Kara and Ollie lived very separate lives, in separate homes (same house / different floor). Like need to go outside to go from one to the other.
She hated him and they hadn’t seen in each in quite some time prior to her passing.
He chewed through the wire because he’s an idiot. LOL
MIL has grown attached to him so we will be sharing him it looks like. She’s heading up to the mountains for 6 months in May so we shall see where he is when she gets back. haha…
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To be fair, we should probably recognize that he was smart enough to find that you and yours were willing to offer up more comfort than he’d found before y’all opened up your hearts and took him in from the mean streets he was born upon.
Folks like you and yours, in my estimation, are quite deservedly to be saluted for an embrace of selflessness.
ETA:
P.S. - I shall keep a good thought in mind, and a prayer or more, that your MIL comes back from her annual trip to the mountain cabin both hale & hearty, so that y’all continue to enjoy her companionship.
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Thank You. Appreciate that. She’s heading up this weekend to open up and test the well pump which is always a little nerve wracking after a long winter away.
I generally don’t even kill bugs / spiders. Any they get in are collected and let go (unless I’m really busy) - LOL
I can’t even stand seeing plants suffer believe it or not. My 76 year old sister in law sent a gigantic peace lily to the funeral home when my FIL passed last summer. We brought it back here and had it on the stoop for the summer. Then the fall hit and it started getting cold. It survived the first few frosts but it was definitely taking its toll on the poor thing. Nobody had room for this gigantic thing in their house (up / down). My MIL was just going to let it go because we didn’t know what to do with it.
So I decided to take it into my basement / office where I work. It’s been under an LED grow light since Nov. Right now it has 6 flowers on it and is thriving. Will be going back outside after Mom’s day for the summer. Back into my office in the fall.
I didn’t realize that Peace lily’s can live 20+ years. Also, they normally only have 1 or 2 flowers. This thing has 6 right now so I’m doing something right.
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THIS.
This IS The way.
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