Sunday, February 28, 2010

New Best Friends?


At left is Boots, a very sweet cat who has been on this property almost his whole life. He moved here as a young'un with a couple who rented my house some number of years ago. They later moved to Eureka, into an apartment where cats were not welcome (such places should be razed, if you ask me), so Boots stayed behind as a mostly-outdoor pet for my landlord. Then around the first of this year, they moved down to the Bay Area and couldn't take their assemblage of cats, all of whom are now under my care. The others all have their own "homes" (three in the barn, a fourth in a little doghouse on the back porch of the main house), but poor Boots was shut out of his usual accommodation on the laundry porch of the main house, and became homeless. Since I was feeding him (on my back porch), he started more or less living around my house. He and Reggie (pictured at rear) have never gotten along very well, but Boots was just so pathetic and such a lover that I couldn't keep him out any longer. So I started to let him inside when he wanted in, deciding to just hope for the best.

Pictured above is "the best." So far, it looks like Reggie has decided that he can share his comforts with his less fortunate (and considerably elder) brother. Please welcome Boots into our little family.