Cat LOVE!!!

As regular readers of my blog will know, Snuffles was my feral rescue kitten and he was simply adored by us all. Unfortunately he met an untimely end, but the 7 months he spent with us left an imprint we will never forget. My heart has been healed now by the 2 kittens we adopted from the cat shelter 2 months ago, but Snuffles will never be forgotten.

Andy is about 2 years old and is always on his own mission. Here he is relaxing on my bed, after coming in filthy from exploring the veld after it burned.

Gary (the girl!) is 4 years old and has a weight problem. Our cats are very gentle, and seem to be targeted by neighbourhood cats who come into our yard to terrorise our cats. From one of these encounters she picked up a permanent injury to her shoulder, and I can see the extra weight is making it more painful. We have put her on a diet and she is not terribly happy at the moment.

Cat (her name) was our queen. She was a regal wild cat who tried to look after everybody in the family by bringing food for us all. I found a segmented bird's wing with a litter of Gary's kittens once, and the bottom half of a baby bunny next to the cats food bowls, among many other gifts she brought us. For the humans, the gifts were left in the passageway to all the bedrooms! One day she simply never came home and we never found out what happened to her.

I was guided to these 2 adorable kittens. Once we saw how close they were at the shelter, even though they are not related, we had to adopt them together.

Peaches is the pale ginger male cat and Smokey is my little lady. Last week Peaches didn't feel well, and Smokey cleaned him all week long. Last night Smokey was playing outside and one of those horrible neighbourhood cats that terrorise our cats threatened her. Smokey screamed and screamed until the whole family ran outside to her rescue. The terror made her wet herself and Peaches wouldn't leave her until she was clean and calm. We had a similar incident a few weeks ago and that time Smokey's bowels let go and I had to bath her. We have set up a trap for the terrorist and when we catch it we will remove it to a faraway location. We have done this twice before.

What is personal space???

Cats keeping me company while I work! (In the last picture Gary was keeping me company when I was taking photos of wildflowers for Steemit!)

And lastly, Peaches The Pasta Monster!!! If Peaches comes into contact with pasta of any sort, all pretense of civilisation is lost!!!

I love cats, I always have. My dream is to one day to open a cat shelter where I could care for abused and neglected cats and allow them to live out their lifespans care free and happy.

 @onetree