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My Daughter's Cat. She was in a rescue group for about 8 months or more .. my daughter kept seeing her there month after month ......
Dora and Floydd stare Winston down.
Winston held his ground near the garage door, and finally decided to retreat inside.
The perfect spot for an afternoon nap is in the diningroom window.
Plenty of sun and the radiator is right below the window, making it a wonderfully warm place to snooze out.
... this is MY spot on the couch!"
Dora tries the old Jedi Mind trick on me to make me think I wasn't just sitting there a minute ago.
I just got up to get a fresh cup of coffee!
I had to giggle the other day when I walked past the dining room window and noticed Dora sitting outside on the window box staring in at me.
Dora is making the most of these sunny days, soaking up the heat off of the flagstones in front of the basement doors.
Picture #3 of Dora's Ornery Day
Dora was sitting on the front porch surveying the front yard, when she spotted Vinny coming up the steps next to the root cellar. She immediately walked down off the porch and sat right at the top of the steps to challenge him.
Vinny was not phased, and I was waiting for him to knock her around a little, but he decided not to get into it with her, and after a minute of hard staring decided to cut off into the garden and go around her, giving her a wide berth!
Small tortoiseshell
The small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) is a colourful Eurasian butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Adults feed on nectar and may hibernate over winter; in warmer climates they may have two broods in a season. While the dorsal surface of the wings is vividly marked, the ventral surface is drab, providing camouflage. Eggs are laid on the common nettle, on which the larvae feed.
Description
It is a medium-sized butterfly that is mainly reddish orange, with black and yellow markings on the forewings as well as a ring of blue spots around the edge of the wings. It has a wingspan ranging from 4.5 to 6.2 cm.[1]
Technical description
A bright foxy red ground-colour; the forewing with 3 black costal spots, whose interspaces are yellow, there being a larger black spot in the middle of the hindmarginal area and two smaller ones in the disc between the 3 radial and 2 median; hindwing with the basal half black; both wings with black submarginal band bearing blue spots. Underside of the forewing ochreous, with the costal spots as above, the apex and distal margin blackish; hindwing brown, basal half black with dentate edge, the whole surface with darker pencilling; at the distal margin of both wings contiguous dull blue lunules.[2]
The small tortoiseshell is the national butterfly of Denmark.[3]
Range
It is found throughout temperate Europe, Asia Minor, Central Asia, Siberia, China, Nepal, Sikkim Himalayas in India, Mongolia, Korea and Japan, wherever common nettle, which their larvae feed on, is found. There are a few records from New York City which, however, are believed to be of introduced insects.
When I call the cats in for dinner, they'll all usually come wandering in through the cat flap in the front door...except Dora.
She prefers coming in through the south side window in our diningroom. When it's warm enough, we leave the window cracked so she can come and go, but it's been way too chilly to keep it open this early in the season.
Dora doesn't want to hear about it, and has no problem letting everyone know she's not pleased with this whole situation.
In the end, instead of trying to lift her down off her perch on the little shelf in the trumpet vine next to the window box, I acquiesced by going in the house and opening up the window from the inside, so she could step inside.
This little story should pretty much let you know who really runs the show around here at Cat Hill Farm!
Dora continues to be annoyed with me playing "Kitty Paparazzi", however what does she expect, when she puts herself in such terrific lighting?
Do you think Dora needs to go on a diet?
Just look at her! She's almost as wide as she is long!
Honestly, we don't feed her that much, but if we don't keep an eye on her, she'll push the others out of their bowls or just wait and go around and finish up anything they leave behind.
I've even seen her nibbling kibble from the dogs dish!
It's tough to regulate the diet of one cat in a multi-cat household.
I'm hoping this won't cause her health problems down the line!
She also needs a good brushing! She is NOT a fan of being groomed.....can you tell?
lol....if you're wondering, the dog is walking towards her and she's giving "attitude"!
Bless little Dora's heart!
She isn't very fast, or coordinated for a cat, but what she lacks in hunting skills she certainly makes up for with enthusiasm!
She spends most of her days watching, and stalking squirrels. She never even gets close, but it doesn't seem to dampen her enthusiasm for the sport!
These days she's quite busy, because the squirrels are working OT out in the yard, gathering up all the black walnuts that have fallen all over.
I found this program about cats on Netflix this a.m.
I was sitting having my coffee and watching the tv, when I noticed Dora sitting at the end of the couch totally glued to the screen! Every time the scene changed, and a different cat came on the screen, Dora's ears would perk forward, and her head moved with the movement of the cat on the screen.
She was transfixed!
Weekly Theme: Frames
Week 33
Taken August 20, 2017
Title: Misty's Tunnels
Notes: I had this shot in the back of my mind this week, but I didn't know if Misty would oblige me. Then as I was considering what to do, there she was, gazing out at me waiting for me to engage her in some play. Sorry Misty, but the camera came out first! :-) She was a good sport and was happy to watch me and everything else around her for a bit. Of course her tunnels also make a nice frame around her for this week's theme too!
February 16, 2014. Prim faces: Sweet Face, Grown-up Face, I-Hate-Paparrazi-Face, Lazy Face, Contented Face.
Dora found a nice patch of catnip and decided to indulge.
When I chided her for being a "Niphead", she told me it really wasn't any of my affair!
My pet, Lakech, died yesterday.
She fell off the window, on 8th floor.
I'm so sad. =[
I'll miss you, dear!
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There seem to be loads of these about this year. They are in my front garden. They are in my back garden. They are all around the paths by my house.
They all seemed to have arrived at once!
How can you look at kittens and not smile?
I was looking through my files of kitten pictures from just over 2 yrs. ago. Where has the time gone?
Here are a few pics of my furry kids when they were still small.
Have a great day peeps!
Stella is adjusting to life among the holiday decorations.
She likes to stretch out in the window sill, but now there are "things" there.
We put a towel on top of the radiator, which is nice and warm.
She seemed pretty content with the arrangement.
Her other favorite spot is in the drysink.
During the holidays the drysink is host to an army of stuffed Christmas Frogs.
I have not unpacked them yet.
Stella is never happy about the frogs sharing her space.
We do our best to arrange them so that she has plenty of room to settle down in the middle.
Ive explained that they're only going to be around for about a month, and that she's just going to have to get over it!
The ceramic Christmas tree in the window is one of those Christmas treasures near and dear to my heart.
It was my Grandmothers.
They are just BAD!
Being born right here in the house, this is the only world they know.
They are comfortable in their environment and it's more than obvious that they view anything they come across within these 4 walls as something put there just for their amusement.
My decor has become much more austere since they've come along.
I've put most of the knick-knacks away (.....well, the one's that survived!)
I;ve taken down curtains, gotten rid of all the house plants and replaced the couch!
They work together as a team!
I'm helplessly outnumbered!
the entire Sally Clan was out in the yard enjoying the awesome weather.
Thru the years Dora has had a parting of the ways with the rest of her family. I'm quite sure that if it were up to her, she'd be an only pet (the dog's on her list too!).
She especially has a bug up her behind when it comes to her brother Vinny.
If he even looks her way these days, she hisses at him, as if to say, "Don't even THINK of messing with me!"
He is pretty much unfazed with her outbursts. He looks at her like she's lost her kitty mind and walks away.
Look at her face here.
She's just waiting for him to turn around so she can give him a piece of her mind.
'Sorry I haven't been around today. I had a busy morning and then felt melancholy all afternoon because of a sweet lady I met this morning.
You see, I haven't been involved with cat rescues until this year. And the things I've seen & people I have encountered has really opened my eyes....some good and some not so good.
This kitty was rescued by a lady [see below] six months ago when she was only eight weeks old. Today I was asked to go pick up this kitty and take to the vet......and after being spayed/ vaccinated/ micro chipped etc Cheyenne will go to our no-kill cat shelter.
The lady below took care of her since the cat was a tiny kitten. But sadly she is letting the cat go because she says she cannot afford to keep her.
Her duplex was small but reasonably clean. Cat toys, food and kitty beds were provided for this sweet girl.
When I carried the kitty out to my car, the lady cried uncontrollably because she was so attached and didn't really want to let her go. It was heart breaking. Her tears haunted me all day. Some seniors are on a fixed income and just don't have the funds to care for their pets. At least Cheyenne will be rehomed at a young age [ she's only 5-6 mo's old] and hopefully a cat loving person will adopt her quickly.
This lady also has a Chihuahua and says she may be giving him up too. 2nd image below.
Dora sitting on the window box outside the dinningroom clawing on the screen, as Stella looks on from her comfortable spot on the radiator.
Dora could jump off the windowbox and come around to the door and come in through the cat flap, but it's more fun to make the humans open and shut the window!
This series of shots tells it's own story, and you would think that the answer to the question would be that it's Dora's couch.
Raven learned a long time ago, that dealing with "the claw", which all cats seemed to possess no matter how big or small, can not be handled in a physical way. If you move in to shove the cat out of the way, it will nail you. Her tactic is to stand just out of reach of the cat and bark incessantly in a high staccato voice (majorly annoying!), until the cat jumps off and heads away in disgust. It works every time!
About 2 minutes after this series of pictures was taken, Raven was settled quite comfortably on the couch.
Dora was no where to be seen.