My loving bed buddy Yowie The Yoga Cat passed away several months ago, and I miss him terrible.
Where has Yowie Yoga Cat BEEN?
I know you all wonder how Yowie Yoga Cat has been doing with his CAREER. Actually he’s been doing a lot of photo shoots lately.
I Was Here All The Time
Yowie Yoga Cat Parking
I Are Serious Cat
But Sometimes Shy and Un-Imposing . . .
Yowie Yoga Cat with his new fashion hat
Yowie Yoga Cat is a sexy thinking guy
Yowie Yoga Cat ends his day in the bath
HOWEVER . . . Nowdays, when he isn’t posing for a photo shoot, he hangs out with BUBBA his best friend.
BUBBA, Yowie’s friend (c) 2017
And he also hangs out with CHICKME, his maybe sometime girlfriend
CHICKME (c) 2017
One renegade chicken
Renegade chicken. She’s SO idependent
I had recently started letting my chickens out of their pen to roam the yard. I have a privacy fence, and after blocking the undersides of all the gates, not including hawks, it was a pretty safe place for them to roam if I didn’t let the dog out of his pen.
So I let them out and watched to see where they hung out. For the most part they stayed at the back of the property which is where thiere pen and nests are at. They scratched everywhere, the compost pile was a favorite, as was under the flatbed and trailers in the backyard. I introduced them to the winter garden which had nothing in it they could destroy.
They had a whole lotta chicken fun. And I cut down on the feed bill quite a lot. They got bugs, and grass, and seeds to eat all day long. They got to roll in the dirt, flap their wings, run a good distance too. But when I’d come out to take a head count, (I’ve got six hens), there was always one not with the flock that I would have to search for.
Today I went out to check on them and that renegade chicken was at it again, only this time I couldn’t seem to get her to come when I called, even though five of the hens were eating chopped apples and leftover spaghetti as a treat. I came back out later, I heard what I thought was something from under one of the junk cars in the yard. Worried that maybe a racoon or possum had started living in a trunk, I checked.
Nope . . . no chicken. And I’m worried about her because she isn’t staying where I can find her.
I went around and looked under all the vehicles, the trailers, anywhere one might find a chicken hiding. And low and behold, under the BACK side of a trailer, was this very silent chicken. She wasn’t unhappy, or hurt. She wasn’t laying an egg. What she had done was to scratch out a hole in the dirt under the trailer and hunker her body into it. She didn’t seem to be nesting.
What she was doing was to just plain take a spa dirt bath. She was happily contented to just wiggle around in the cold dirt and bathe in it. I mean she was in total chicken heaven too. Her eyes were glazed with this enjoyment I’ve not seen anywhere so intense.
And she seems to just be that type of personality, a chicken that is a renegade, independent “doesn’t need the flock” kind of gal. But I think I need to mark her with a scarlet “R”.
Chickens don’t like unfamiliar things
I don’t LIKE new stuff
I had some white breadcrumbs that I put in the blender to take out to them, and went out to the chicken pen to give them to the hens. And I found something out quite by accident about my girls (the chickens).
I bent down to sprinkle some on the ground as I do every day with thiere regular crumbles.
They backed up.
I put some in my hand because they will eat directly from my hand with gusto.
They backed up again, looking upset. “Hey! that’s not food!”. They just did not TRUST those bread crumbs.
I finally got them to eat some by pecking with my finger at it like I always do. The bread crumbs are lighter color than their crumbles. But it taught me something about the discerning eye of a chicken.
And possibly the discerning eye of most people. I know people that act that way about a new idea, a new food, a new thing they didn’t have experience with. I just had to show them that it was good for them.
Baby Chicklets are so darn cute!
Eggs, eggs, eggs, on my mind . . . (I must have eggs on my mind)
I had chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl many years ago. I went through the whole learning process with fowl homesteading. I lost a few, got too many, learned how to fix them when sick. I learned what to do with predators, owls, rats, stray (and not so stray) dogs, possums, etc. I learned the hazards of buying them at swap meets and how to treat the leg mite you get that way. How to treat chicken colds. And how to mercifully put them to rest when they needed to be. I knew what breeds I liked, and which might be problematic. (no nervous Polish chickens or Leghorns for me)
After years of doing many other things I kept looking at chicks in the feed store. They had a chick corral with 5-6 stock tubs full of all kinds, even Banty chicks. Three years passed, each year I looked at chicks.
Baby Chicklet
Although I knew my husband did not relish cleaning a chicken house, I kept asking if it was okay if I made sure I did all the chicken chores. No chicken was going to come between me and my husband. But this year, with grocery costs, and the fact that I knew chickens would eat all the leftovers that the dog wouldn’t eat, like salad trimmings and make eggs out of them, I asked again (while at the feed store).
He said yes this year, and I bought six pullet chicks (female chicks). They happened to be a breed that is easily sexed at birth by color, the Red Comet. When grown they look kind of like a Rhode Island Red chicken, but instead are red or gold and white feathered. The breed I really like are a dual purpose breed called Buff Orpingtons, but they weren’t available at the feed store.
Home made chick brooder from plastic tub
He helped me find a container to keep them in, a Rubbermaid tub. I put it in a room with a closed door to keep the cats out.
I clamped the red heat lamp to it, installed a thermometer close to where it was hottest, put newspapers in the bottom,
filled the feeder, and the waterer, and put the Chicklets in it.
Here they are snuggling in my coat . . .
Chicklets snuggling in my coat and learning to be tame.
It’s been a week, and they are so far doing fine. However I did find that half of them were much younger. You can see by how long the wing feather are on the younger half. Here are pictures of the difference.
The younger baby chick wing feathers, still pin feathers.
Baby chick older wing feathers same day
The difference in the way they act is that the younger ones sleep more, and want to snuggle more under your hand. The younger ones are also not as strong.
It’s going to be several months before I have eggs. They do have to grow up and be old enough to lay them, which gives us time to make the chicken house and pen. While looking online for more chicken information, I happened upon my old chick supplier Murray MacMurray Hatchery, (or McMurray) and found out they have a new thing. They now sell older birds, and you can buy almost laying age pullets singly for WOW, $17.95 or so. They are expensive, but you don’t have to wait months for eggs. I may get some few more chickens from them that way.
You can also get fertilized eggs from them, and put them in your own incubator. But I didn’t live in an area that I could have a rooster, and didn’t have an incubator.
HONEY BEE and HONEY FACTS 2
Honey bees can gather the nectar in more than 300 flower types in the United States.
A honey bee must tap 2 million flowers to make 1 pound of honey.
The average worker honey bee makes 1 1/2 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
A honey bee visits between 50-100 flowers during one collection trip.
To make one pound of honey, honey bees must gather 10 pounds of nectar.
Honey has a tendency to granulate due to its natural properties. Granulation does not affect the taste or purity of honey.
Granulated honey can be restored to liquid form by carefully placing the jar in a pan of very warm water. (not too hot, cause that can ruin the taste and the vitamins and enzymes)
Store your honey in a dry cupboard. Do not refrigerate honey. Cold temperatures hasten granulation.
Honey does not benefit from pasteurization because it is naturally low in bacteria and other microbes.
Honey contains no fat, no cholesterol, no gluten and no sulfates or sulfites.
Honey is primarily composed of carbohydrates.
Honey is a natural sugar and is easier to digest. Honey is 100% pure and natural. It is made entirely by honeybees from flower nectars.
For all inquiries regarding the use of honey in medical conditions such as diabetes, weight control, etc., please consult your physician.
Honey was found in the tomb of King Tut (fl. c.1350 , king of ancient Egypt, of the XVIII dynasty) and was still edible since honey never spoils.
Due to the high level of fructose, honey is 25% sweeter than table sugar.
Honey is created by honey bees who mix plant nectar, with their own bee enzymes and then evaporate excess water.
Honey has different flavors and colors, depending on the location and kinds of flowers the bees visit.
To the ancients, honey was a source of health, a sign of purity and a symbol of strength and virility.
Nectar can contain 80 percent water, which the bees fan with their wings to evaporate most of.
Honey is antiseptic, antibiotic, and acidic
Natural honey will form into granular sugars
Honey can be used as a preservative
Honey can be used as a sugar substitute
Honey can be used as a facial beauty mask
Honey is used by some people for allergies. But supposedly only honey from your local sources
NOTE – I understand from hearing from other sources that honey should not be fed to children under the age of 12 months. I’ll research this further.
QUEEN BEE ESCAPES !!
I finally got the third hive installed yesterday, but not without a wierd problem. I had everything in place to put the last bee package into the last hive, and brushed the bees off of the queen cage. Normally, you pull out the cork in the candy end, and there is still the candy plugging the end of the queen cage. Then you insert this cage between a couple of frames and during the course of a few days the queen eats herself out and goes into the hive.
Problem is, I took the cork out, and there WAS no candy in it. The queen crawled out, and FLEW!! My-O-My was I upset. I partially covered the top of the hive in case she wasn’t in there and wanted to come back, and made a frantic phone call to the people I ordered the bees from. Worry, worry, worry.
My bee hive setup.
They told me that they had run out of regular queen cages, and this one was called a “California cage”. No candy in this one. The way I was supposed to put the queen in was to take the cork out and immediately put my thumb over the opening to prevent her from escaping. Then I was to push the cage into the front of the hive and let her crawl into the hive. Gee, I would have never figured that one out.
Anyways . . . he said that I should observe for three days, and listen to see if they were keeping a low hum instead of an upset hum. If not he’s see about getting me another queen. Okay, now I know what to do here. That did help, and I calmed down.
Now you know how that one goes . . .
YOGA YOWIE IS AT IT AGAIN!
Cat surfing can be hard if you are less than yoga FIT
Yowie yoga cat career continues . . . He is now deeply getting into . . . SURFING! (He always did like the Beach Boys)
Yoga Cat asks for his bath
Yoga Cat is Stolen and possibly Hotlinked
Yowie hangs out here in the bathtub. If he can’t get me to give him a bath,then he diddles in the water while I take one myself.
UPDATE: Yoga Cat Yowie has found his picture stolen and posted on another website that did not ask him if it was okay to do without any link back to him and his stories. Therefore Yoga Cat Yowie found it necessary to have his photographer make sure his photos were labeled with the copyright notice that tells people it actually is. Those would be the people that don’t read the notice on the actual page.
In addition, Yoga Cat Yowie believes this picture to be hotlinked to. Which is considered to be tacky and not permissible unless permission is obtained. AND in addition to all that Yoga Cat Yowie only found this out by sheer accident searching on the wide wide web. He is sad and totally can’t believe people are that greedy. Personally, his photographer isn’t too surprised.
WHAT IS HOTLINKING? HERE’S SOME LINKS:
http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hotlink
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotlinking
What is Hotlinking and Why is it Bad When You Do It Without Permission?
COPYRIGHT LINKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice
https://www.copyrightwitness.com/copyright/p03_copyright_notices
http://reddotblog.com/debate-should-you-watermark-images-you-are-posting-online/
http://www.photoattorney.com/2007/07/watermarks-can-be-music-to-your-ears.html
http://reddotblog.com/debate-should-you-watermark-images-you-are-posting-online/
I’ll post more on this subject, but right now that’s just the bare minimum. Just to let you know, the website that did this was one I came upon quite accidentally, and I have sent them a take down notice. They make a huge deal about all their photos being “public domain”, and I know mine are NOT public domain. I own the copyright to each and every one of them.
This website is one of those duplicates that have no real subject matter, are full of pictures of furniture, and decorating, and everyone else’s photos so that they can generate loads of traffic on the backs of other peoples work. If this keeps on I’ll probably out them on my blog, but right now I’m just waiting for them to fess up and take my picture of Yowie off their web page of “CATS IN BATHTUBS” And they have several other websites and each one has the same page as this one.
Right now, I’ll see if they’re hotlinked since I changed the picture, it should show up on their website as the new one.
HIVE BEETLES KILLED LAST HIVE
Rest in peace my girls . . .
Well, it finally happened. I lost the last hive I had. It was weak anyways, and ultimately didn’t make a queen in time to make babies and store enough honey. But to add insult to injury, the robber bees that ended up dealing the last blow were probably from a previous hive of mine that had swarmed. Big, healthy bees that came back to get the last honey.
HOWEVER, all is not totally lost, because I’ve read that hive beetles can’t survive outside the hive in the winter. That they need the warmth of a huddle of bees to keep them warm. So, anyone know anything about this last bastion? If it’s true, then possibly my bees didn’t die in vain. Possibly when I get my new order of Russians, they will be able to start new without any outside varmints to eat them alive . . . We will see.
Yoga cat still Yoga-ing
Yowie is so laid back. Here his recent Yoga poses
Yowie is so laid back
He is so laid back that you can decorate him like a Christmas tree
Yowie wears bananas sometimes
Go figure, he’s adopted, maybe that has something to do with it.
Freeman hive beetle trap and nematodes arrived!
Italian bees from Georgia Bees
Got my beetle trap. Unadvised and as I did the frames, I used a glue gun to track down any cracks in the construction to prevent the beetles from hiding from the bees. I only found the normal amount, just along the sides and bottom. Did not do this on the grooves for the sliding tray by the way, so that the tray will slide in and out as designed. It is hot, hot, hot, here in West Tennessee. My nematodes also arrived, and I am watering the ground beneath my hive patio before I put them on the ground. Hope they lived through the shipping in this hot weather. I looked at them under high magnification and can just make out masses of them in the gel packs. But I can’t tell if they are moving . . . They are very tiny and hairlike.
Leave a comment at the bottom of the page. I like that the mostest.
Small Hive Beetle help
SMALL HIVE BEETLE EMERGENCY INFORMATION !!!!
This information needs to get out there to the bee community as soon as possible. I am posting this in the midst of doing my own control measures right now.
I am a hobbyist beekeeper, have been keeping hives since about 2008. I started with one hive and in four years they multiplied to six. I did have hive beetles here and there, but did the hive bottom and top traps which kept them (I thought) in control.
This year I had to go on vacation and before leaving I did the normal honey thing and put an extra empty super just below the uncapped filled one because I didn’t have time to do anything else before leaving town. I did this on all the hives, even the ones that were splits from the spring. I was worried about swarming and them running out of room to store honey. I assumed the uncapped would be capped when I got back in a week, and I could just take it off the hives.
Soo . . . I got back, checked the hives, and several of them had very little bees coming and going. One hive swarmed (JULY), and this alarmed me also. Several days later one of the strongest hives had HERDS of bees on the front hanging off of it. I thought maybe they might just be that way because in the heat, (we’ve had a drought and over 100 degree temps), they were just hot.
My husband said they were also going to swarm, so I got into my suit early in the morning and started opening hives. I found that every hive was overcome and slimed with beetles, larvae, and I only had one queened hive left out of five.
One hive had ten forlorned bees in it, some beetles, ants, cockroaches, and the beginning of moths.
The second had 50 or so bees in it, and lots of beetles.
The third was FULL of larvae, beetles, and a handfull of bees.
The fourth had no bees and was full of larvae and beetles
And the fifth and remaining hive had bees on the front, beetles and larvae inside, and was slimed just like the rest. However, it had a queen and the bees were pretty strong.
THE NASTY CLEAN UP (EQUIPMENT AND PROCESS)
I started with the most infested, and when I pulled out the beetle oil trap that was underneath, I swear there was a layer of beetle larvae two inches thick, which I poured into hot soapy water to kill them. I also knocked any stray beetles into this and put the lid on each time in between checking to see if anyone crawling out needed to be smashed. It was midmorning, and the temps were in the 100 plus degrees. Hot, hot, hot, work.
I also used a modified vacuum cleaner which my husband made up to suck up all the beetles that tried to get away. This works VERY well by the way. The nozzle was made about 1/2 inch in diameter with an adaptor. Shoo the bees away with your hand before aiming, not the nozzle (grin) The vacuum works GOOD.
RESCUING THE LAST HIVE
I then got a fresh hive body, fresh frames, and one fresh super with fresh frames in it, set it next to that hive of the hive that had a queen left and lots of bees. I brushed as many bees into this hive, trying not to brush beetles into it (an almost losing battle), and with a large and small empty totes ready with hot soapy water in them. I scraped the ruined comb and as much of the larvae and beetles into the smaller one, and then put the frames into the larger one and covered it with lids as I worked.
I cleaned out beneath the infested hive and then put it also into the tote when I got all the bees moved into the new one. The I moved the whole mess away from the area and placed the new clean hive with bees back in the original place.
PUTTING IT ALL BACK IN PLACE
I cleaned the old hive bottom beetle trap, replaced it with fresh oil. That night I researched like a mad person about what causes what again. I found a bunch of new information on the life cycle of these nasty beetles, and it gave me a start on how to go about what I needed to do to start over again.
GO TO THIS LINK PLEASE. I am telling you Mr. Freeman and his beetle trap website http://www.freemanbeetletrap.com/menu_page has one answer that make a bunch of sense, and that IS. Bees can herd beetles and contain them to a point they can’t get on the honey and lay eggs so much. His trap has no ledges for beetles to hide on or in, and this helps the bees to get at them, knocking them into the oil of the trap. I have a beetle trap, but it has ledges on it. I ordered one today for my remaining hive. He called me back and spoke with me extensively, and was really great in answering all my questions about his trap and any other beetle information.
He also says dusting with powdered sugar enrages the bees so that they chase beetles into the oil. Good point, and I did that also. And yes, they did get mad at me for it. (Dummies)
MY INFORMATION AND NEW DISCOVERIES
As we power washed the dirty frames and equipment, and attempted to kill the larvae and beetles, we discovered several things.
Bee hive frames getting ready for powerwash because of beetle contamination
THEY ARE DASTARDLY HARD TO KILL.
Some say use water and drown them. I use HOT SOAPY WATER and drown them (it shocks them). Some say use 50/50 bleach solution. Yep, it works, but not totally in that concentration. Some larvae still survived for some reason, so I used full strength on em. I earlier tried several spray cleaners, and chemicals from my kitchen and bathroom cabinet and they just annoyed them. The larvae I swear can SNORKLE!
MR FREEMAN IS MORE THAN RIGHT ABOUT CRACKS AND CREVICES THE BEETLES HIDE IN
THE GROOVE ALONG THE BOTTOM AND TOP OF THE FRAMES
As we cleaned the frames, we found larvae down inside the grooves of where the plastic foundation seated, both bottom and top. Some were not big mature larvae either, and would be easy to miss on first glance. There were bunches of them all along those grooves, and you might think you had a frame cleaned and then see them crawl out 2 minutes later. They use these cracks to breed and hide from the bees when they are chased.
Hive beetle garage
BOTH OPENING CRACKS WHERE THE FOUNDATION MEETS EITHER SIDE. The bees had frantically tried to propolis (seal) all such cracks, and it was heavy here.
NAIL HOLES, AND PARTS WHERE JOINTS MEET These are tiny, but each one has a place that a few beetles hide, and so do the larvae.
Yet another dirty corner where they reproduce
MY RECOMMENDATION (which may not be expedient for commercial beekeepers at all) Just examine ALL cracks there, in your hive body, and especially in the lid. I have eliminated ALL inner covers, because they are just places for the beetles to hide from the bees. But I am not an expert on this and it is only my personal decision born of paranoia.
I went to Walmart and got a large hot glue gun, long hot glue sticks (ten packages). We cleaned most of the nasties, propolis, extra wax, and bugs off the frames. Put a large piece of cardboard on the kitchen table and a spotlight. Then proceeded to hot glue every darned crack in the equipment and frames.
Set up to close cracks against hive beetles
This takes a lot of time, but when you are through, you are eliminating places for any varmint to hide. We filled all around the plastic frame foundation, both ends, top and bottom, nail holes, etc . . . In the case of those plastic frames, filled all the casting holes on each end.
Bee hive frame corner after closing cracks with hot glue
NOTE ABOUT PLASTIC FRAMES:
They don’t have cracks around the foundation part of the frame, but when I took them out of a beetle infested hive, each casting hole held not just several, but at least 15 beetles were hiding from the light. I killed them with a five in one tool, sharp end wallowing it back and forth until they were crushed. But those are the holes that take the most hot glue to fill and sometimes you got to go over it several times to find all of the missed spots.
My husband and I are still in the process of doing this, and if I had know this before I put the hive back together, I’d have not put the frames in unglued and fixed. Too late, they are building new comb on them right now and I am reluctant to disturb them, lest the queen get killed in the process.
He is now taking the foundation OUT of the frames to clean them, then I scrape them and rinse. The crack where it rests, top and bottom harbor larvae and beetles to the max. My husband is a gem of a man, and is doing the hardest work to clean up this mess.
PRESENT CONCLUSION
I’m telling you, I’m so mad at these bugs. They eat baby bees and eggs, and you end up with no queen in the hive. Which is why I now have only one queened hive out of five. I have extreme sympathy for the commercial beekeepers that did not see this coming. I thing someone needs to manufacture or invent some new equipment that has less crevices and cracks during this invasion. I am resolved that I will not give up beekeeping.
Last bee hive standing after 5 hives overcome by hive beetles
My last bee hive has no drawn foundation, but it has a queen, plenty of healthy bees, and all they have to do is fight off the beetles and store enough honey for winter. Poor things.
ADDITIONAL NOTES, PARASITIC NEMATODES
I have also ordered 10,000 predatory nematodes, which are hive beetle larvae predators that negate needing poison, to apply
beneath the ground around my hive area. I have been told they kill the larvae in a horrible way, which suits me to peeces.
Bee hive frames clean of hive beetle contamination
I am pressed for time and right now can’t post all the links, but search on small hive beetle, traps, solutions, information, etc. But I will tonite try to post this in as many places as possible. There are SO many bee websites, blogs, and places online.
Bee hive brood boxes and supers that had been used before hive beetle contamination
We are inventing things and brainstorming existing traps and additional ideas as I speak, so take heart. I think it’s the backyard beekeepers that have more time to do so. We aren’t all scientists, but combining all the information everyone has helps to get solutions. Good luck to all of you beekeepers out there and I’ll keep in touch if I or my hub invent something more that helps with the beetles.
UPDATE: I have ordered my Freeman Beetle Trap, done dusted the bees with powdered sugar, been feeding them, and they seem to be in pretty decent shape. Also ordered some nematodes, and am considering putting some of those CD case traps baited with roach bait under and around the ground way under the hive area. The CD cases have openings that are way too small for a bee to enter, and I’ve heard they work good too. (no poison IN the hive in other words)
UPDATE 2014: See my other posts on what I did later on.
https://jewelant.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/small-hive-beetle-sweeper/
https://jewelant.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/hive-beetles-more-updates/
Cat Bath Curtain Tackle Attack number ONE & TWO
He will knock off all your shampoo, scare you out of your wits, and hang around for more action!
And then there is the second round . . .
If you got a cat that does that kind of stuff, let me know.
You can leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
Cat Yoga For The Rest Of Us, or Yowie Cat Yoga
Cat Yoga is latest thing in cat exercise. And my cat is a Yoga cat-fool. Yowie Cat Yoga is the way to go.
Here’s some photos of him in action on an average day. Keep in mind,our routine to watch tv was that you had to kick the cat out of the chair each night before you could sit down to see the news. He was a SQUATTER of CHAIRS and a USURPER of THRONES. But you gotta luv him, he’s kinda cute.
Shall We Begin?
SHORT POME
He even gloated when we passed.
He reveled in the smell of our ____________
He coated the chair with a sheen of white hair
in revenge for us moving him out of his lair.
He would scrunch, stretch, twist, and contort
Until I decided he had invented a sport.
Warm up gradually . . .
Reverse Extension of the spine . . .
Arms over your head, look cute, curve right . . .
Roll to right side, deep breath, and relax . . .
Back to left stretch paw, curl leg and tail . .
Look for Audience appreciation . . .
Stretch Paws To The Sky . . .
Stretch upper body and paws . . .
Retire to beach towel and wait for fan mail . .
AN ORPHAN IN THE BUSHES
My job was to trim shrubs behind a commercial building that day. I arrived at daybreak, the sun was barely up and the night lights were still lit. I took my first pictures of the day to record what the foliage looked like before I began to trim.
I got all my tools, the wheelbarrow, the bags, and started up the walk. Soon I saw there was somebody keeping me company . . .
I soon saw there was somebody keeping me company
The streak of white color dissapeared behind one of the rose bushes up against the building and I realized that it was a kitten. I got down on my knees to peer under the bush he was hiding in and stretched out my hand and called him.
He was a wild baby kitty, but not totally. (Somebody had been feeding him at lunchtime.) I ran back to the car and got part of my sandwich (the meat part), and ran back to feed him. He ate it all, even a french fry.
He watched with suspicious curiosity
I started walking around to see what needed to be done to the flower beds. The kitten watched all this with suspicious curiosity. Getting food every few minutes had him soon following me around asking for more.
He soon started following me around
I wasn’t surprised. He had no Mommy anywhere that I could see. I found out later a mother cat had been seen carrying him across the parking lot and dropped him off there never to return. He was an ORPHAN BABY KITTYKAT.
He was starving …
He was starving, and looked better than he was because he was a long haired kitten, and the fur disguised the ribbyness of his tiny little body.
I could tell he was a Purrson of importance
But his personality told me he was a purrson of importance, sooo. . . He came home in a cardboard box when I left the job two days later.
My other cat was not so sure about this newcomer
My other cat was not so sure about this newcomer. He hissed a lot, and spit a lot, and cussed a lot. Then he just left the room disgusted.
I put him in a cage for his own safety
I put him in another room in a cage so that the big guy wouldn’t eat him. A time out was needed before it was discovered that he was really a friend and not an intruder.
At first, curiosity at a distance
He was allowed out only under supervision and then recaged at night. More and more freedom as he was accepted. At first it was just curiosity from a safe distance. But in the end, after a few weeks, they became more and more friends . . .
In the end they became friends
After a week of the big cat being pounced on, and the little cat getting smashed on, and a bunch of spats, there was a truce. But in the end they got their act together and became companionable friends.
HiHowAreYa
Welcome to Jewelant’s Blog! It’s a blog about all my interests and anything other interesting. Got cats, videos, honey bee information, garden pictures, cartoons, militaria, antiques, chickens, and funny stuff. This blog has evolved to encompass hobbies I’m presently messing with, and things I have to do with, and, and, and, whatever pops up in the future. Currently I’ve not been blogging for a long long time, so maybe it’s time to get back into it. I don’t sell anything off my blog any more, but do sell on Ebay. My store link is https://www.ebay.com/usr/jewelant/
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