Yesterday’s mystery was solved, but it turns out there was more to the story. My human’s boyfriend saw the culprit in action and took some photos.
There he is, whiffing away!
You’ll have to excuse the photo quality — my human’s boyfriend was using the crappy iPhone zoom, because there was no way he was going to be able to get close to this guy.
He is actually a familiar face around here. My human sees him on the security cams all the time. But it turns out there is more to the story! There is another Tom cat, a tabby that hangs around by my nip garden too. He and the first guy had an argument one day, but the next day they were hanging out together. By my nip garden. They ran off when they saw my human, but we figured they were okay with each other.
But then she came along.
A couple of days ago, the humans heard a ruckus outside, in the front yard (thankfully, far away from my nip garden). It was the two male cats… and a third kitty. My human’s boyfriend found me to show me through the front door window.
Although they were hanging out together, the air was full of tension… and probably something else.
The dilute calico was in heat and she was playing the two cats against each other.
None of them looked pleased about being disturbed. The arguing and carrying on went well into the evening. My human is not happy about this — not because of the noise, but because she doesn’t like intact cats running around outside and procreating. When we get back from Palm Springs, she is going to get in touch with one of the feral cat groups and see if she can get these guys TNR’d.
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I hope everyone got snipped and tipped
Yikes! Those ferals are going to cause some kitten troubles we fear.
Mr Black Face sure looks like a Meezer Mix.
Mr Tabby is handsome, and Miss Calico , well she better make sure she knows what she is doing…sigh…
Hope your human can catch them, Summer. TNR would be furry helpful.
Uh, oh…maybe this is a show your innocent eyes shouldn’t watch Summer! We are surprised you have stray cats in your neighbourhood. We hope it all ends well.
the critters in the cottage xo
Poor little girl. I hope your hooman can get help for her when you all return. Keep us posted! AND those man kits definitely DO NOT need to be spreading their DNA every which way!
Purrz!
Selina
PS Any chance of the calico becoming a new little sis?
Callie looks like this might be her first litter. Hope your human can get them done otherwise you’ll have a whole feral colony on your property and that will cramp your going out time.
TNR is the way to go! No more unwanted kittens, and the fighting mostly stops.
Yeah, those guys need seeing to, and the young lady by the looks of things! I hope your Mu can get someone to come and help.
Maybe not perfect pictures BUT I think a picture showing an event is brilliant if it caputres some cat, or something happening. (like our ducklings, far from perfect but it told the story!).
Good Plan! Yous don’t wants a clowder of nip Nappers skulking around your bed! And TNR is a great thing!
Wes hopes yous catches them all!
Kisses
Nellie
Mee-you that poor Callyco…it iss not fun to bee driven bye hoarmoanss!
An thee mankatss must bee all stirred uppy all so.
Mee knowss yur Mumma will help them Summer. Lady Janiss iss a thottfull lady.
~~head rubsss~~ Siddhartha Henry~~
Well, you are definitely correct about what was going on in your front yard. What a cute little girl that is, no wonder those fellas are after her. She’ll probably end up with a litter of kitties that include offspring from both of these guys. Good luck to your human with catching them. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo and Cooper Murphy
Wow! There’s sure a lot of feral cat drama going on around there. We’re glad your human will get them all TNR’s. Especially that little calico.
OH Summer, I missed this yesterday. I hope your Human can get the Feral rescue folks out to help…
Wow, that kitty was totally sniffing your crop of nip!
I wouldn’t want to watch a love triangle in my yard! Hopefully they will all get TNR’d soon.
Getting ready to make babies.
We hope the three way love fest gets nipped (or should we say snipped) in the bud very soon!
We sure hope your human can get these guys and gal fixed, otherwise there’s gonna be more than 3 cats hanging around.
At least they were all buzzed on your nip, or things could’ve gotten really nasty !
Those are some gorgeous kitties! I sure hope your human is able to help them out. Summer, I think you’re a bit too young to be watching what’s going on between them too!
It looks like girl kitty is pretty young ; the boys are gorgeous ! We hope that they can be trapped and neutered. Purrs
OMG…sex and nip and rock n roll!!!
I’d say cats can never be bad … and one can never have enough cats … but that only works in the theoretical sense where all of the babies have loving forever homes like every feline deserves.
Wow a Spring drama in full heat! Oh I can only imagine the ruckus. Only takes a few seconds and she’ll be having kittens before long.
We are so glad to hear that your mom is going to try and TNR them. They are such gorgeous kitties. It’s kitten season. We gotta try and keep the population down. Thanks for helping! Purrs
Oh Summer we do so agree about the intact ferals. Once we had a few in the area when my peeps had their first cat, Milky-Way. They all loved to walk across the back porch teasing and taunting MW.
All there are quite handsome/pretty cats too bad they don’t have homes
Hugs madi your bfff
Thanks for helping the feral cats. They will end up being hurt or going hungry by no fault of their own. We care for a feral colony in our town, We get them fixed and feed them. Poor babies :'(
Gee! Not one but three cats!
WE also purr they can get TNR’d.
Purrs Georgia,Julie and JJ
Lot of action happening in your yard! We’re glad your humans spotted the ladycat so they knew to get them all TNR’d quickly. Have fun in Palm Springs! Our Grandpa from Kansas just left there.
Oh I hope they get TNR’d when you get back. They are good looking cats. They would be gorgeous kittens.
I would love to adopt the one with the black face, very cool looking cat. Around here we can borrow traps ourselves for a $50 deposit and then bring them in for only $30 to get fixed. I prefer to do it myself because state law says they have to be quarantines for 6 months if they have wounds or they euthanize them. Luckily, I brought Brody in so I was able to save him.
Yep, we are not looking forward to kitten season either.
Ah, the songs of spring!
That tom has quite unusual markings, doesn’t he?
Purrs,
The Chans
We sure hope they can all be TNR’d, and that that helps with all the tension and discord! Not sure if it will keep them out of your nip, though, Summer.
We hope fur a happy ending too.
When you have something nice it always attracts the jealous. We hope there is a happy ending for all three of them.
The calico looks young and most likely pregnant by now. The mottled cat with the crescent shape on his muzzle is gorgeous. Hopefully we won’t see his cute offspring.