That's how it started. I saw this LARGE cat, yes, yes, out the back door. So I feed him, knew he was a boy! And he kept coming back, I know, who wouldn't when your getting pretty good food. So then he started to sleep on my swing on my deck. Now that can't happen, why sleep on a swing when I have a house full of beds and couches. So I say, "Gary.... should I trap him?" Sure. So I do, and I get him, boy is he a heavy one. I get the cage in the house, just about need the tractor for this one. I get him in, let him settle down, and he falls asleep in the cage! I call Gary, "GARY, THIS IS NO STRAY CAT HE'S SLEEPING" Well let him out, he belongs to someone. So I let him out of the cage. We only have Callie and LuLu at this point so it's boy against two old ladies.
He proceeds to look and like this inside joint. But Thomas needed to be fixed if he was going to come in and visit and live with us. So I pay to have him fixed. He still wanted to go outside, how can I keep a 15 pound cat INSIDE, so he would go in and out and in and out and he didn't like when we had the fire on, made him too hot so he would go out and sleep on the swing with snow on him. That was not going to happen, so I open the back door, scoop him up and in the house he came. This went on for a bit, as time went on his stays IN the house were longer then his stays outside, Thomas came to us in January 2010 so he did the winter thing of in and out and then summer came.
Well what 'stray' cat would not like a shore house! with a full screened in porch with couch, so yes, Thomas took to sleeping in the porch, I fooled him in thinking he is being 'let out' when I open the door to the porch! This winter came and Thomas didn't ask to go outside to 'cool off'. During the summer of 2010 he would ask to go outside, he did, I let him out but got yelled at from Gary to not let him out, what if he gets in a fight or hit by a car. I know, I know, well trust me every time Thomas went outside and was gone for over a hour, if I didn't pray to the Cat God to get his fuzzy Butt in the house! And thanked the Cat God every time he came back in.
Thomas was almost named Teddy, if you all remember the Teddy Ruxpin talking teddy bear that is what Thomas's face looks like. Thomas is a gray tuxedo, another handsome little fella like George. Perfect little cuffed paws and a nice little tuxedo bib. I couldn't name him Teddy, every time I did I thought of the Kennedy's.
Thomas had to let his girlfriend pass, LuLu. He did ok after her passing, he still had Callie. Callie has cancer, she has hyper-thyroidism and the tumor on the thyroid there is a 1 to 2% chance it will ever turn to cancer, well poor Callie fell into that percent range and will not be with us much longer. Callie did her job in this world, when we trapped Martha. OH didn't I mention Martha, well I wonder how that happen.
Till next time, the life and trapping of Miss Martha............
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