Ooh.

I walked carefully into the bedroom late last night to avoid waking Susan and there was Charger nestled on her legs, and Nightstar curled up right below my pillow.

So I crawled even more carefully into bed to avoid waking any of them and tucked myself in next to Nightstar.

She soon got up, stretched, and settled down on the outside edge of my pillow. So I put my arm up around her to prevent her falling off the bed.

And we all stayed that way for hours. I know because I lay there smiling in the dark, listening to Nightstar purr until I finally fell asleep.

Tags: cat love

Yesterday I went to one of those parent-teacher meetings that schools have at irregular intervals, so that parents and teachers can both get a better idea of “what that idiot who’s screwing up a perfectly good child looks like”. Or something.

Anyway, there were all these teachers sitting in chairs about 6 feet away from each other all the way around the wall of the gym, with signs on the wall to indicate their name. Somehow I got a picture in my mind of Jennifur as a human-sized cat, sitting upright in a chair talking to two concerned parents, with her tail wrapped loosely around the chair legs, and the matching sign on the wall said “Ms. Jennifur”.

I got the giggles really bad while sitting by myself, which I’m sure did nothing to enhance my reputation at the school, which is already considerable :-)

Tags: Jennifur

Today Steven went outside to get the mail. On the way, he saw one of Darkly’s kittens (who are still quite small and fluffy). He put some food in his hand and the kitten came over and ate out of his hand! He carefully reached over and pet him/her on the head and s/he finished eating and cutely ran away.

But wait, there’s more!

After getting the mail, he noticed Darkly sitting on one of our cars watching a bird on the ground. The bird, meanwhile, was watching another one of the kittens. Darkly stalked, the bird got nervous and took off, but Darkly landed on it in midair!

She walked off very proudly with her catch.

Tags: feral cats, kittens

Last night I was just dropping off to sleep when I heard a terrible yelp. You know the sound a little dog makes when someone steps on his tail? Like that…except we don’t have any dogs.

Susan had stepped on Yang by accident (after clearing the path, too, but he ran back in front of her in the dark). It sounded so hurt and forlorn! But he was okay.

Tonight I heard a similar sound, though not so plaintive. It was Yin and Jennifur getting in one of their dustups again. Nobody seemed hurt either, but it’s a bit scary when you know they’re not just playing around.

Tags: cat fights