Where kitties go...

o, I'm not talking about outside, in fact I only stepped outside once today and that was to tell Dave that our neighbor called to say that he wanted to come and pick up his trailer. Why do we have it, you might be asking. Well it's for the horses, rather he brings us about 180 bales of hay for the horses every year that lasts us pretty much until the end of winter. In payment for it, we let him store soybeans in one of our grain bins. Pretty cool deal if you ask me. Any hay we get from him after that Dave pays for, until the next trailer full.

Well, that wasn't my excitement for the day though, heck no. It was time to change the cats' litter boxes. Such a fun thing to do, yeah right!

I told myself after Velcro died, man I loved that cat, I cried for a week after he died. Anyway, after he died, I told myself that I did not want another cat. Then I told myself only if it was another tuxedo because I thought it would be like Velcro. Well, that quickly changed after two feral cats gave birth to kittens on our property, one in the stable stall that we keep hay in. The first one I saw was another tuxedo and I got excited, so much so that I ran in the house and excitedly proclaimed to Dave, "We have a tuxedo!" He was cute too, along with the other four kittens.

I never intended to have four cats, Patches came a year later under similar circumstances, but one morning when I went out to feed them, one was missing, a mostly white one, the one I really wanted to keep too and in it's place was this little tiny calico. She was the kitten of the other feral cat. Our best guess is that she replaced the other kitten who was the largest of the bunch with this tiny one. We never found the missing one. But so that no more disappeared, Dave and I collected up all of the kittens and took them inside. I was really upset for a long time over that one kitten disappearing and for while, I told myself that I couldn't accept the new kitten, but slowly and surely I did and now she is my favorite. I swear she even has Velcro's personality. She has turned out to be the cutest little cat too.

Anyway, the one thing I hated about owning a cat was changing litter boxes. That was the main reason I told myself that I didn't want another cat. I should have known better, but you already know, we now have four.

Oh, and if you're wondering what happened to the other two, Kenneth our youngest son has them. Their names are Charlie and Shadow.