A Blanca sighting

When Blanca...Paquito and Nico's mother...showed up at the house she did not seem to be a stray or afraid of people. I would say the opposite was true, she followed me everywhere even waiting for me to come back from wherever I happened to have gone.

After her kittens were born (Paquito, Nico, and Rudy) all three would run away when they saw me.  However, Paquito noticed how his mother didn't and would cry loudly when she wanted to be fed so he followed her example and allowed me to pet him.

He still cries loudly by the kitchen door or my bedroom window if he is hungry and feels I need to feed him. 😄

First, it was only little Katie who decided to try the same, and now little Nico is following in her footsteps.  It is so funny to have them meowing in unison. 

Yesterday instead of going out the kitchen door I tricked them and exited through the front that is when I saw Paquito walking on the southern cinderblock fence and wondered how it was that he was able to get there so fast? Turns out it wasn't him but his mother Blanca.  I seriously thought she had passed away as it has been months since I saw her.

As I mentioned in my main blog yesterday I had a snake scare.  I refer to them as kittens but they no longer are that. I have to go back and figure out more or less how old they are as Katie did not bring them until they were between eight to ten weeks old.

I am now afraid to go out the kitchen door. I will just have to be more vigilant in the future and hope my boys and Katie earn their keep and continue to keep creepy crawlers at bay.

Here is Katie the hero of the day!  I have no idea if she killed the snake or not as I did not go looking for it.

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Something is not right with Katie

For those new to my blog...Katie is a little stray that has been hanging around the house for about a year and a half. She is a pretty little thing with a bunny tail and this is the second litter she has had at Mom's house.

I have tried to make friends with her but like most strays who have never had the benefit of a caring human or even a place to call home...she is very leery of people and won't allow anyone to come near her.

I have noticed that for the past three days she has not wanted to eat. I thought perhaps due to the high temperatures she might be suffering from heatstroke or something. Like I mentioned before she takes off running if I invade her personal space.

Late this afternoon after I fed her now full-grown kittens I was curious as to WHY she did not join them. That is when I saw that one of her front paws was enlarged and that there was blood by the side of the old washing machine in which I feed her and her brood.

Katie with her enlarged paw

I wish she would let me help her. One of my dear friends told me to put Aloe Vera on her paw but there is NO WAY she is ever going to allow me to let that happen.

I have unsuccessfully tried to upload pictures of her paw this evening. This new Blogger is making it hard for us to use the "old version". If this keeps up they are going to lose a lot of older bloggers as we tend to not be as tech-savvy as the younger ones.

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