The Cat Distribution System

Yvonne Smith

Yvonne Smith

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This is how cats find their new homes, from what I have read. If the Earth knows that you need a cat (or cats), they send them to you in one way or another, and there are lots of stories online about people being adopted by cats this way, so it is apparently real.

For Bobby and I , it all started a couple of years ago when we had an Arctic Freeze hit the South right around Christmas of that year. We got cat food and some cat shelters, and put those out on our front porch for the homeless cats in the neighborhood to come and have food and a warm place to shelter.

Bobby opened up one of the little hatchways that go underneath the house, so the cats could shelter there, and hopefully, catch some of the rodents that live under the house.
Then, we decided that it made more sense to spend money on cat feed than rodent bait that poisons the rats; so we kept on feeding the cats, and more of them stopped by for meals and a place to sleep.

Last summer, one of the girl cats had kittens, and not enough milk to raise them, so we gave her extra canned food and i also bottle fed the kittens. So, now we have three happy part grown kitties who think they live in our house, and we have one window open just a little so they can come in and out as they please.

Who else has been found by the Cat Distribution System, and now belongs to their cats ?
 
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I'm still feeding the gray (blue) stray cat that I've been feeding for years. I'd love to take him in but I couldn't do that to Ella. Because I know I can't take him in, I haven't tried to make him a pet but he does let me touch him on the nose or the top of his head, and he sits near me while I am working in the backyard, and has rubbed up against my leg a couple of times. He was someone's cat once, but has been on his own for at least six years now.
 
Trying to be a bit careful with the animal’s desired designation, it might be a trans-cat.
The “could be” woke opossum comes on the porch and eats with the cats, sleeps in a cat house at times (not THAT kind of cat house), allows the kittens to play with its tail and after a meal it licks its paws to wash his / her face like a cat and is totally aloof and independent.

Now, as to what gender our grey trans-cat is is another question that I haven’t yet been able to answer. I dunno and I ain’t gonna try looking. We’re just not that friendly yet.
 
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The kittens , Magellan the Explorer, and the Twins, Simon and Garfunkel, are becoming inside/outside cats. They can go into their sleeping room from the front porch, through the window that is open just far enough for a cat to go through, and covered with a curtain to keep the wind out.
When we open the door to that room, then three little faces poke out and soon they are running all over the whole house, and happily purring on my lap.
These cats have NASCAR quality motors, and can purr at full throttle !
It is not unusual for me to have all three sleeping on my lap and purring, and also taking over my recliner when i am over here at the computer desk writing on the iPad.
They love watching YouTube videos about anything at all. (I probably have the only cats anywhere who know all about pruning tree collards and making tacos )
Their favorite thing is Cat TV, with all of the birds and squirrels moving around.
This is Magellan in front (also known as Jelly Bean), and the twins on either side, happily relaxing in my recliner.

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It may be my monitor (or my eyes), but in the first picture of your kitties they look like orange tabby cats. In the second picture they are a totally different color.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
It may be my monitor (or my eyes), but in the first picture of your kitties they look like orange tabby cats. In the second picture they are a totally different color.
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Yes, it is the way the color came out on the pictures. In the first picture, they all three look the same, and they are not. The twins are a lot lighter than Jelly, and he is like orange marmalade. In this picture the twins look even lighter, almost bluish.
In the first picture, they are sitting right under the aerogarden light, and I probably used the more intense color choice when I edited it.
Jelly is actually sleeping with his head hanging off the table in this last picture.

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Stray cats find my son. He has had as many as three at a time. They lived long happy lives but eventually died. Last year there were none left. Then a little tabby colored kitten showed up in his yard. He took it in. A month or so later, another kitten showed up. He says that she is the prettiest kitten he ever saw. Of course he took her in. I have no idea where they can from. Maybe the kitten fairy brought them. ☺️
 
One night, my mom was taking some ice cream down to one of our neighbors who had children, and she thought they would enjoy it. When she left, for some reason I said , “If you find a cute kitten, bring it home for me”.
She laughed and said she would.
We were both amazed when she came home with that beautiful white kitten in her arms, and never knew where it appeared from, but it was waiting when she got to the people’s house, and was not their kitten.
Mom made me take it around and ask, and it did not belong to any of the neighbors, so I got to keep it.
 
Shirley Martin said:
Stray cats find my son. He has had as many as three at a time. They lived long happy lives but eventually died. Last year there were none left. Then a little tabby colored kitten showed up in his yard. He took it in. A month or so later, another kitten showed up. He says that she is the prettiest kitten he ever saw. Of course he took her in. I have no idea where they can from. Maybe the kitten fairy brought them. ☺️
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Stray cats always seem to find me too. All the cats I have had over the years, except for 2, have always been strays.
 
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