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| Ms. Liddy |
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Liddy and Midnight love to travel together. I have noticed that Midnight tends to rub up against Liddy. So they must be good buddies. They never had babies together as we had Midnight fixed while Liddy was busy being conjugal with another cat, pushing out litter after litter. Midnight is feral. I got the impression from someone that Liddy started out tame, but she has become skittish since her abandonment by a neighbor of mine. She won't let us come near to her.
She comes to eat daily (did not for a while). And will sometimes eat two bowls of food at one feeding, which I'm really glad for. For awhile, after long absences, she would come, hang out here, but not eat anything. I was starting to wonder if there was something medically wrong with her. Now it's just that she does not seem to look very healthy. However, she has looked worse before (her hair was falling out in places in the past). So I'm feeling somewhat positive for her now.
A neighbor of mine who lives two doors down helps me tend to the homeless ones. She has strong suspicions that even recently over the summer coyotes have been coming into our neighborhood, killing and eating skunks. She hears the coyotes' sounds. And she hears squeals from the skunks. Of course, this is the way of Nature. I love the skunks, too, but the food chain is what it is. And it makes me very concerned for our homeless cat colony. So far, we have not lost any since this past winter. So I guess there must be enough skunks (and maybe rabbits, etc) to satisfy the coyotes for now. I am hoping that our cats are learning how to avoid the coyotes as they are hunting the skunks.
If any of you have stories about coyotes or other predators related to homeless or stray cats, I would be interested in your posts.
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Debby Taylor
DTConsult@cableone.net
5 comments:
Those two are awfully cute and I'm glad they are friends. Two of my twitter pals got ate by coyotes last year and it made me very sad.
Midnight and Liddy are beautiful cats. I hope they, and the rest of your colony - will be all right this winter. Coyotes are very scary predators.
Lovely cats. Love how Liddy sticks her tongue out!
I bet Liddy would soon retame if she were to find herself inside! It's a sign of amazing adaptability I think that once tame cats become feral in their behaviour and sometimes tame up again. Midnight looks like a real panther!
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Actually meant to mention my Oliver here - he was living rough and took a year to trap - he behaved 100% feral - wouldn't eat if I was within 30 yards, would run if there was eye contact et al. Once trapped within 24hrs of him coming back from neutering, he was sniffing my toes as I lay on the floor in the room with him. For about a year after that his behaviour was like a six month old cat. I wonder if semi ferals once back inside again revert to the behaviour of a cat the same age they were when they went stray/wild? That often puzzles me, have seen it with other cats we've trapped and homed too.
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