Summertime in Florida means daytime high temperatures in the 90s – it’s 94f / 35c right now (2pm) and that’s too hot for our cats. They go outside first thing in the morning when it’s still below 80f / 27c, and then come in once it’s too hot, until the evening … so right now all three are sleeping indoors.
And sometimes it’s still too hot, so in that case it’s best to stick a leg out!
Margaret recently decided it had been long enough with no cat in our home, and arranged to visit two “rescue” cats nearby (through Candy Cats); there was a pair who had to be adopted together … we then learned that the pair had been outdoor strays and had had a litter of kittens, with just one now left un-adopted … of course it ended up that we adopted all three! Here they are being collected:
Top left is the boy “Jack Jack”; top right is the easily scared and very fluffy girl “Jenny” (called “Jill” when we picked them up, but Margaret renamed her) … bottom left is the kitten “Flora”.
Here are the three a week later, when they were settled enough to be out and about – very much favoring Margaret (maybe because she feeds them?!):
And here’s an assortment of all three of them, over the last month …
By now, some five weeks since we picked them up, Jenny is still scared of many things (including standing up, and shoes!) while Jack Jack and Flora are bothered by very little … no doubt they will be keeping us busy for a long time.
We’ve cared for Chloe for almost 12 years now, and today we had to make the sudden and sad decision to let her go! Over the last few days she spent more time away in a quiet room rather than with us, then stopped eating, and by this morning couldn’t even drink her water … some consolation at least that the change was so rapid and hopefully her suffering wasn’t too awful.
Here’s memories of better days …
M&I / GBMINI 