My Cats
For most of my life, I've owned cats. Currently, I own three cats. When I lived in Montana, they all went outside in the daytime, and I brought them back inside at night so they didn't have to have confrontations with the predators and scavengers (like wolves, coyotes, raccoons, mountain lions, bobcats, owls, and others). They're great mousers, and aren't too bad at catching and devouring birds either. We occasionally got a snake in the yard, and they were pretty good about killing them also.
Now that I live in Seattle, they've been living as indoor cats. It's a little hard for them to live in such a confined space when they used to have a large yard, but maybe later in the future I'll have a place where they can freely roam.
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| Butterscotch |
Butterscotch really thinks that she's the queen of the castle. Jean and I got her in 2010, and that was a story in itself. Apparently some knucklehead threw her and another cat out of a car window going about 70 miles per hour along Jackrabbit Road near Belgrade, Montana. The witness to this incident tried to get both cats but could only catch Butterscotch. Fortunately she wasn't badly injured, and was just scraped up a little. Since Jean worked at a veterinary clinic at the time, she got word of this and adopted her. We figure she was already about 1 year old by the time we got her.
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| Thunder |
Thunder is a huge cat! He's about 20 pounds, and he isn't a fat cat either! Jean and I adopted him in 2011 when we fostered a litter of kittens. He's very gentle and affectionate. As a Siamese flame-point, he has the softest grey eyes. This cat probably has the closest relationship to me.
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| Storm |
Storm is Thunder's litter mate--his brother. Storm was the smallest of the litter of cats and now that he's an adult, he's about 12 pounds. The rest of the cats in the litter are pretty huge! Storm is very intense. He purrs very loudly and demands a lot of attention for a short period of time before he runs off and does something else. At night, he is likely to sleep like a person with his head on the pillow next to mine facing me.
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