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

This morning when I woke up, Jennifur was looking out the window. Not just “out”, but “down”, so I figured she was watching someone. I crept over and saw a feral cat we call Little Kitty, who’s kind of a petite patchy calico, and who we think might be not only female, but pregnant as well.

Little Kitty also spooks easily, so as soon as she saw me she took off around the corner.

The odd thing about this is that Jennifur usually growls, hisses, spits, or otherwise attempts to convince outside cats to go away. While Jenni has been mellowing lately, this particular habit is pretty ingrained in her purrsonality, so I suspect that either (a) we’re wrong and Little Kitty is a male and Jenni likes him or (b) Jennifur actually deigned to talk to Little Kitty, because that’s exactly what it looked like she was doing.

Tags: cat behavior, cats, feral cats