Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Feral Kittens

 Back in late March or early April I made the discovery of 3 kittens in my barn with a mother cat who I had seen hunting around the ranch. A few weeks later they were still there and kittens were getting big. Then some time later I see increasingly skinny kittens wandering around outside. No sign of mother cat. I couldn't stand to see it. Nature can be very cruel. I began to put food & water out for them.

Mother cat never returned.

I had 3 kittens for awhile until about August first. Then the all black kitten vanished.

Now I have Annie, a female tabby and white. And Stalker, all black with one white dot on his chest. Outside cats. But they are getting older, i.e. sexually maturing. Uh oh.


I didn't ask for these babies. I have had no luck in finding a local person to adopt one. The local cat rescue is full. My house cat is very offended at their presence. Stalker often squirts by me into the house when I go out the door. I scoop him up when Holly greets him with a loud hiss. These two are friendly, loving, healthy, 5 month olds.

 Where is their new home?

Friday, May 01, 2020

Yukon Jack

     I regret to report that AM Yukon Jack passed to the great green pastures of eternity yesterday. He was 34. "Jack" was a 14.3 hand Grey Arabian gelding of mostly *Raffles (English) breeding. I got him from his breeder, Al Marah Arabians in Tucson, Arizona in 1990. He was saddle trained in Duncan, Arizona and lightly ridden during his lifetime because of an accidental hock injury sustained as a colt on a ranch near Williams, Arizona. His most striking feature was the bloody shoulder on his left side which is said to denote particular bravery in the animal, from a Bedouin legend. He put up with me for 30 years, so I guess he was brave. His coat was always soft as puppy hair.

     Fair breezes and few flies to my big puppy!



Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Birds

We spend too much money feeding wild birds, but they are so cute, we can't help ourselves. These are finches I think.