CATS!

Why do cats choose US?

While living in Julian, a Siamese cat adopted us....he was fed by our weekend neighbor, so then came to us. Since he was male, the kids decided to name him Michael. Soon after Michael came, we noticed a smaller, lighter colored Siamese cat. Paul thought I was just seeing the same cat, but low and behold, we heard some meowing under the house and found the second unnamed cat had two kittens. She proudly led me to them.... a calico and another Siamese. When they were about 6 weeks old, we found a home for them on a farm nearby as mousers for their barn. Paul saw them later when he did some phone work and they were happy as could be! The second time a cat adopted us, we were at a campground in Louisiana. There were lots of stray wild cats around and we kept chasing them away from our rig. When it came time to leave we did not count them.... but we should have, because when we got to Texas, we could hear a cat in the bins. But we would hear it in front, then in back, so we figured it had gotten onto the I beam. We felt it leave at night and return early morning. But we could not find it anywhere. Paul even dismantled part of the bottom to try to get it out. We only caught a glimpse of it one time, and saw only the bright eyes and large ears of a ferel cat. We finally moved across the campground one night after hearing it leave.... Third time was this past week! We set up the motorhome at My Old Kentucky Home State Park, sat down on our chairs to enjoy the peace, and heard a cat meow. Then we saw the Calico cat. She was very friendly and looked well kept so we thought she was a local. The folks across from us asked if it was ours and we said no, but she stuck by us, following both of us around when we were outside. They even fed her when she wandered over there when we left for the day. But she was always on our chairs, or table, or under our rig when we got home after a day out. I did let her cuddle with me... she was missing someone! We could not figure out why us? When we were getting ready to leave, she tried to get into the rig or the car. It was tempting. But we told her no, this is where she lived! About three hours after we left, heading north, on Friday morning we got a phone call that went something like this: You don't know me, but I am a student at Kentucky Mountain, and I have been missing my cat for about a week now. Someone suggested maybe she got into one of the rigs camped on campus.....Did she possibly get into your vehicle? Mystery solved!!! We told her where we left the cat (about 2 1/2 hours NW of her)! Later that night we got another phone call.... she had retrieved her cat and was SO happy.... I imagine the cat was too.

We have been here in Indiana now for a week and have kept busy. I almost forgot about posting this blog....until I started to think about the next blog! Yep..... it is almost Social Security time for me!!