Ginnie – Daily iPhone Photograph #113

It's almost as though cats believe that the camera will steal their furry little soul. I have such a hard time to get them to cooperate. It's blurry, but you can still see how cute Ginnie is.

We keep calling her a baby Hey-Spike. I think that he may be the Great-Great-Great (or something of that sort) Granddaddy of these little guys. Unfortunately, in his days as a "stray" (he wasn't actually a stray, just someones neglected kitty who chose to live in our back yard as opposed to home. We thought he was a stray, so we took him in. We learned the truth later.) he wasn't fixed and spread his seed throughout the unfixed (owned - shame on anyone who doesn't get their animal fixed, stray and feral) cat community.

Ronnie – Daily iPhone Photograph #112

Tonight's model, Ronnie. She always looks just a little bit sad. 

The Three Sisters Playing

Video shot in April of the three feral sisters - Patch, Tiny, and Little Cee - playing in the back yard.

Georgy – Daily iPhone Photograph #111

I'm a bit behind on the videos of Patch's little kitties. I'm making "Thirteen Days Old" now, and well they are actually four and a half weeks along already.

But these... they were taken tonight. I made Georgy the model tonight and spent time trying to get a good pic of him, while the others were just quick shots. The others will be models on other nights.

Georgy

Ginnie

Freddy

Ronnie

Candy – Daily iPhone Photograph #110

Candy clouds as the sun started to go down.

Eleven Days Old

Video shot on June 8th, when the kittens where eleven days old.

Whatsup? – Daily iPhone Photograph #109

Me: Hey Le, whatcha doin'?

Lelu: Just hangin'.

Ten Days Old

Video from June 7th, when the kittens where 10 days old.

Tiny is doing great!

Video of Tiny shot about 8 days after she had been returned to the outside. She's been very happy, and allowing us to get a bit closer. Occasionally letting us touch her head, but over all
she likes to keep her distance. She also love to stretch out and show of her shaved belly
(fur growing back) with her little scar.

Horse drawn buggy

Every weekend during the good weather months this horse drawn buggy goes past my house.
I hear the clip clop of their hooves though the window, and usually before I can catch them on
video they are gone. But today, I was able to catch a few seconds.

Time for bed – Daily iPhone Photograph #108

Mystics getting ready for bed, as are the rest of us.

Under the Canopy – Daily iPhone Photograph #107

Laying under our sun shade as the sun goes down and it get darker.

Morning Sky – Daily iPhone Photograph #106

The sky this morning when I was leaving for work.

Charging up – Daily iPhone Photograph #105

The view from my phone. Yup, I forgot to charge it.

The Moment Summer Arrived – Daily iPhone Photograph #104

Taken at 2.16pm, the moment summer arrived.

Inside looking out. – Daily iPhone Photograph #103

A little bright for 9pm.

The long drive home. – Daily iPhone Photograph #102

It's fathers day today. That involved a trip to the city in a crazy but beautiful rain storm -
thunder and lightning included.

When time came to drive home everything was clearing and drying up, with some
awesome clouds.

Hostas – Daily iPhone Photograph #101

Hostas in the rain.

Mommy and her Nine Day Old Kittens

Mommy (Patch) taking care of her kittens.

Nine Days Old

Nine days old and growing fast.

A Little Bit of a Struggle

A little cute moment of struggle for an eight day old.

I spy... – Daily iPhone Photograph #100

... my 100th daily iPhone Photograph!

Exit – Daily iPhone Photograph #99

Quick! There's the way out...

Annoyed – Daily iPhone Photograph #98

"Okay, will you leave me alone now."

It's raining ... – Daily iPhone Photograph #97

...it's pouring

the old man is snoor...

oh, screw that. i'm just sick of this crappy weather.

Curl up – Daily iPhone Photograph #96

Curling up for the night.

Running with Teaks – Daily iPhone Photograph #95

I actually didn't intend to take this photo. It just happened when I was walking Teaks on her leash. She took off running and I followed. I was holding my phone and had just taken a photo of something else.

I liked this one better.

Yes, I'm in the same pjs as last night.

Eight Days Old

Here the kittens are eight days old:

Stripes – Daily iPhone Photograph #94

Striped pj time.

Backyard Beauty – Daily iPhone Photograph #93

Yes, yet another picture of a flower in from the backyard.

Texture – Daily iPhone Photograph #92

It's dark out now and I don't really have any other ideas for a photograph.

Looking Up – Daily iPhone Photograph #91

Looking up through the branch of my favourite tree.

Sun's Out... – Daily iPhone Photograph #90

... but it's also going down.

One Day Old and Three Days Old

Tiny has healed and is happy to be free. The kittens are growing and doing well.

I should have reread and edited the text in the videos but... oh well.

One Day Old:



Three Days Old:

It's raining, again – Daily iPhone Photograph #89

It's definitely been a spring full of rain.

The Arrival of the Newborn Kittens

After Tiny went into labour and allowed us to get close enough to capture her, we were able to
get her spayed through the catch/spay/release program (it's not free, but is a reduced price).

We kept Patch with her for company, as the two sisters are quite close. Also, with Patch being pregnant, we wanted to keep her confined until she had her kittens as we didn't want to chance her having them outside and them becoming feral as well. Patch had her kittens the day after we moved them from out bathroom (we do need to shower every now and again) and put them in a very large dog kennel.

Despite how scared the sisters were, and the stress of everything going on around them/to them over those couple of days, they dealt with it all very well and stayed calm.

Abandoned Kitty

Video of an abandoned kitten I found in our currant bushes on May 23, 2010. If it hadn't been for how loud the tiny thing was crying, I would never have known it was there. 

We have quite a few stray and feral cats in our area. We do what we can for them, including trying to catch the feral ones to have them fixed in the local catch/spay/release program. We have three 8 month old feral girls we've been trying to get close to since their Mommy brought them around. (We were able to catch mommy when she left them on their own. She was once again very pregnant. We were luck that the local SPCA took her. She had 5 more kittens who the SPCA are trying to find homes for. They have fixed Mommy and she has been adopted.)

Video of Mommy and the three feral girls the first day Mommy brought the to the "food house".

I am certain that this little kitten was the first born of the litter of the smallest of the three feral girls. As we name every cat who turns up, whether they are in the yard for a day or decide this is their home, we call her Tiny.

Tiny curious about the phone, but wary of me

 She was extremely friendly that day and for the first time didn't run when I got within a few feet of her, and she actually let me touch her. When I petted her, I ran my hand along her tail and my hand came back with blood on it. I new she was in labour and was able to get her into a cat carrier. One of her sisters, whom we call Patch (for the patch of orange on her head), was also pregnant and would not leave her sister's side. We were able to get both cats into our washroom. It was about four hours after this that I found the kitten in the currant bushes.

Video of Tiny and Patch together. Tiny is the active one in the front and Patch is sitting under the tree.

We hand fed this little one every two hours overnight. The next morning we found that Tiny had given birth to a little black and white kitten, whom she was not taking care of. She had left it in a corner while she was cuddling with her sister in another area.

Luckly our vet was able to take the abandoned kittens and put them in the hands of people who knew what they were doing when it comes to hand feeding them.


There was a third kitten, however it didn't survive. It got stuck and suffocated before anything could be done.
Their mommy (Tiny) was then fixed as part of the catch/spay/release program and returned to us to release back into the feral cat colony she came from. We kept her with her pregnant sister (who has since given birth and is a good mommy) for a few days to allow her heal.

Tiny is now out and about and back with her other sister (Whom we call Little Cee - she looks a lot like her mommy whom we call CeeCee). Still as timid with us as she was before she went in labour, but she's far more playful.

Video of the three sisters together. Tiny is the one in the tree, and is the smallest when you see all three together. Little Cee is the mostly white one, and Patch is the one, well with the little patch of orange on her head.


We still have to catch Little Cee and get her spayed. She is the most cautious of us and has avoided all our efforts thus far. Patch will get spayed after her kittens a weaned.

Strangeness – Daily iPhone Photograph #88

Very strange, yet very beautiful flower in the yard.

Favourite Tree – Daily iPhone Photograph #87

This is my favourite tree. A very large Linden tree in our back yard.

Greener – Daily iPhone Photograph #86

Is the grass actually green, or do we perceive it that way?

Quick... – Daily iPhone Photograph #85

...make a wish!

*POP* – Daily iPhone Photograph #84

The alien looking pods are finally becoming the beautiful, orange, textured flowers I love.