Our Sweet Cats (well one is,anyway)

Hello and Welcome to a whole new month.  October !  What a great month as this is when the weather changes.  The breeze is a little cooler, more cloudy days, and no more hot,hot,weather (we hope).  Elviria is on the left and She is the sweetheart, very loving, very kind, well, if I could just get her to put her nails in when she is hugging me.  I swear she has never learned to do that and she always catches me off guard.  Now Edgar, the cat on the right is big, soft and you just want to pick him up and hug him to death.  DO NOT do that or you will see your death.  Not kidding.  He came to us on his own.  You see we have a cat and dog door so our animals can go in and out whenever they want.  Well, lo and behold one morning we woke up to meowing.  At that time we had Elviria, Eleanor (her sister,who passed this summer), and Baby.  They are full grown and this meow sounded like a baby kitty.  That is just what it was.  He's sitting on the kitchen steps meowing away and our other cats have made a circle around him.  Of course we go to pick him up, at least Jim does and he's a little scared, probably a lot scared and is scratching his arm.  Let's just say never did we attempt to pick him up again, other then getting him in a carrier and having him fixed. He let us know from the beginning he does not like to be held or even touched.  He does like to rub up against your legs but just don't touch him.  We have fed him and talked to him but never picked him up.  There have been a few times he has come in really tore up.  I mean it looked like a coyote (that's my guess) actually had Edgar's head in his mouth, that's how bad he looked.  He curled up on a blanket I had in the window and recovered. We made sure he had the basics and talked to him but then just let him be and he did recover.  As you can see he looks great.  Sometimes we call him Sparky.

Here is Elviria and Eleanor together.  They were sisters and like sisters had their moments of fighting, nothing bad but the occasional hiss at each other.  I know Elvira misses Eleanor, as do Jim and I.  We have thought about getting another kitty but then we change our minds.  We will just have to see.  Tootles