So, this big fluff ball just showed up in the back yard.

[Siwsan]

I don't THINK it's a new feral. I'm pretty sure I recognize it as one that I haven't seen since Springtime. Of course, I could be wrong. I guess I'll just keep watch to see if it shows up, again.

[Texaswitchy]

1. The cats have marked your house.

I have a house like that.

The feral cats know where to get a meal.

[Siwsan]

5. This is the first 'additional' I've seen since Spring!

I see Skittish, Mittens the Kitten and Scooter, every single day. Spooky on most days and there's an occasional sighting of Bruiser, the big tomcat. But that's been it.

Early on there were a couple others (like this one, or one very similar) but I also saw a couple at the side of the road, hit by cars.

I am going to stock up on food for the ferals, next week, just in case the numbers do increase.

[Texaswitchy]

7. We have between 5 and 8.

All male.

Different colors.


A few have disappeared over time. but come back.

[fierywoman]

10. My mother used to say that she was sure that in cat language there was a sign

on the side of our house that said: You eat well here.

I'm pretty sure your house is similarly marked!

[happybird]

2. That one big handsome floof!

[femmedem]

3. What a beautiful creature!

I hope he has a home and just swings by sometimes for an extra meal.

[hlthe2b]

4. I think the "word is out" and from one to the next, they know your house to be a refuge.

[Casandia]

6. Maybe this little kitty is lost?

I’ll hunt the websites for Genesee County’s lost pets….. it breaks my heart though when I do this ….so many kitties are missing, OR have no home…..

[Polly Hennessey]

8. That is one gorgeous cat. On the outside looks healthy.

So glad for you Siwsan.

[Ocelot II]

9. "A kind-hearted woman lives here."

During the Depression hoboes would draw symbols on fences and walls indicating whether it was a place where other hoboes could get a meal. The hobo symbol for "A kind-hearted woman lives here" was a cat:



Maybe cats draw the equivalent symbol for other cats on your house.

[Siwsan]

11. My grandmother told me about 'hobo marks'. There was one on their house

My grandfather worked for Buick, well before the unions came along. My dad said they used to shoot squirrels to have meat for dinner. And, when the train coal cars went by the kids would jeer at the men on the train so they'd throw coal at them to shut them up. Then they'd take the coal home to heat the house. They were pretty poor but managed to share what they had, whether it was family or strangers.

There was one hobo, I think she said they called him 'Captain Jack', who would carve toys out of wood for my dad, as a sort of repayment for the food.

[Jilly_in_VA]

12. Oh, how handsome!

We have some kittens that look like that in the stray jail right now....in Virginia LOL

[hamsterjill]

13. Love that tipped left ear!

TNR!!!!

[Siwsan]

14. I'm hoping this beauty makes a return visit

There's another household that feeds ferals, at the opposite end of the subdivision. Maybe this is one of theirs, on a walk-about.

And I THOUGHT that looked like a tipped ear.

[hamsterjill]

15. He's a beauty.

I’m glad to see that someone is feeding (including you), and really glad to know that someone is spaying and neutering!!!

I’m involved in rescue/TNR and I am always glad to know someone else is helping in another area.

[a kennedy]

16. Wow.....all we get are the "left overs" from cats that visit the South side of our home to

deposit their poo. It’s like a cat litter box.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

17. Wow,lookit all that fur

Is he a maine coon ?
Sure looks like one
He is so regal and beautiful.