General Discussion

We have a fourteen year old collared dove, who provides the soothing sound effects in our home, cooing continually from his enormous cage as he taunts and teases the wicked predators he shares living space with.

Two of the cats are very old ferals who were adults living in the woods when we moved to this property, so I have no idea how old they really are (at least fifteen yrs old, tho), but I trapped them, vetted them, and eventually tamed them; they are now loving house cats, but still very much on the wild side.

My third kitty is a dear little brown tabby who I brought here from Ohio after my dad passed away 11 yrs ago; she was a tiny runt kitten, half starved, hanging on my parent's screen door in the middle of the night, yowling for help during a terrific thunder storm. Soaked to the bone, we first thought she was a rat, except for the feline sounds she was making, ha! She was most likely also born to a feral litter from the woods behind my folks' place but is now a wonderful spunky cat, tho the underdog in our house, as she never grew up to normal size and the other two like to lord that over her...they are three times her size. Unfortunately, I will most likely be losing my sweet little Joey this week, as something happened to her while I was busy out of state this Spring and she is now close to death. One trip to the vet cost us an arm and a leg, only to be told what we already knew, that she is extremely ill and nothing much can be done. I am only glad that she found me in the first place and slept curled on my shoulder for all these years, a better friend I've never had. As she lies here on my lap, I already miss her.