The cats reaction

I was worried about the cats' reaction when the heavy machinery moved in.  I could not bring all of them into the kitchen nor did I know when the man I hired would arrive.  I had intended to at least bring in Paquito as he rushes in when I am carrying the laundry or takes advantage of any opportunity to come into the house.

By the time I heard the tractor, it was too late and I could not find any of them as they had rushed to seek shelter who knows where.  After he left I went outside to look around at the now void of any vegetation northern part of the property.

I called out to them and was surprised that the first one to come out of hiding was Nico the scary cat!  Next was Rudy while Paquito made me really sweat it out as he would not respond to my calls.

Blanca (momma cat) had been missing for two days and she stayed missing until she showed up this afternoon extremely hungry.  Have no idea where she might have been.

Anyhow, it was funny to see their reaction to the new landscape and also to the large pile of brush and shrubbery he left in the back of the house.  They went around smelling everything and of course climbing the pile.

Is it any wonder why I love Paquito!

New collar for Nico

On a prior post, I was so happy that Nico had finally allowed me to pet him.  Well, after that he turned back to being a scary cat.  I had bought three collars for my boys but Nico had eluded me.

This morning he must have been very hungry because he ran toward his plate and I was able to corral him and put his new collar on without a struggle.  He looks so handsome but would not pose for pictures. Hopefully, I will be able to get some soon even if I have to use the zoom lens.

His brothers had no problem posing with theirs...

Rudy and Paquito (my One Eyed-Jack)

My boys turned 6 months old

My boys turned 6 months old on Monday...my kitties are officially cats now.

Nico, Paquito, and Rudy

Nico finally let me pet him!!!

It took almost six months but Nico finally let me pet him today.  I have no idea why he would always run away from me even though I never did anything to scare or frighten him.  On the contrary, up until six weeks I, believed him to be a "she" and I tried hard to gain his trust so I could take "her" to be fixed.

Both Paquito and Blanca walk with their tail up in the air so you could tell their sex.  Rudy and Nico do not.  It wasn't until I was feeding them and I used Paquito's leg to lift up Nico's tail so as not to frighten him and confirmed he was indeed a male.

He has such a pretty face he looks like a girl...I had named her Katya. Now that I had confirmed him to be a male, I decided to name him Nico after a Bexar County District Attorney who has a cool name...Nico LaHood.

I am so glad that Blanca had three boys so I won't have a maternity ward here but I still plan to neuter them.

Blanca has become a bad momma cat

I do not know what is wrong with Blanca.  She was a good mother from the get-go.  She nursed her kittens way beyond what most momma cats do.  However, two weeks before I had her fixed she turned on them and would hiss and claw at them if they came near her.

I figured this would cease after she was spayed but that has not been the case.  Paquito (my favorite of the litter) was the one most attached to her and she clawed him in the only good eye he has left and I had to rush him back to the vet a few weeks ago.

Paquito with his infected eye after his
mother clawed him

I thought we had come to a truce. Her three kittens (who are not kittens anymore) would stay in the back porch by the kitchen door and Blanca would be by the front of the house where I bring her in to feed her in the enclosed front porch.

It worked out for a while but if I came back late in the afternoon...which I do all the time...they would all be waiting for me in the front yard and then all hell would break loose. These darn cats are training ME instead of the other way around.

If I feed the kittens first, she gets mad and comes and eats their food and of course, hisses and claws at them. The other two have learned to avoid her but apparently, Paquito has not. The last thing I need is to have him lose his eye and be left for blind.

All my life I have had male cats (one at a time) never female except for one I adopted after the people that rented across the street moved and abandoned her.  I even had her fixed only to lose her after a car ran over her shortly afterward.

Walter is still not back in his stable.  I am wondering if they sold him or he passed on.