In outdoor cat news…..

Posted on November 20, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Black and white cat, Cat, Cold, Garden, Learning, Life, Loved, Outdoor cat, Tuxedo cat, Waiting, Well fed4 Comments

Talking to a friend about our outdoor cat I explained that he’s generally in our garden which is about the size of two terraced houses and their yards…. There are lots of other cats about that come and go (I fear for the bird population but they have plenty of cover). There’s a shed and a summerhouse, two cat beds and cushions. He’s a big cat, twice the size of my other two, well-groomed. Tidy, but not a dominant cat which is why I think they can integrate…

He comes in and sleeps sometimes but he’d found a space on the settee and now the indoor boy cat sleeps there. I will have to find him a new space, it all seems to be about territory. I also think he gets too hot when we have our heating on. He will eat, then mooch over to the back door and yowl to be let out… Such is the life of an abandoned out door cat, we want to love and care for him, but he hadn’t made his mind up fully about us.

The sun shone eventually…

Posted on November 19, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Cold, East, Leaves, Photo, Rain, Sky, Upstairs, View, Weather12 Comments

Looking out of the window this afternoon, the sun came out and the sky cleared. Much more sparkle than my drawing first thing in the morning. Soon the view will clear further when the trees shed the rest of their leaves. Mind you, the rate the ivy is climbing up the wall the window might be covered over!

Tonight is meant to be very cold and the outdoor cat won’t come in, he’s busy running round the garden, but he’s got a warm bed in the shed. Tomorrow it’s due to rain again… No more blue sky….

Comfy cat

Posted on November 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black and white, Cat, Gold leaf, Painting, Sleeping cat, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Sleeping cat (I can’t quite see the title), lying on a stripey cover with gold leaf patches. Another small 6×6 painting, done a couple of years ago. Acrylic on canvas.

My cat is lying on the settee now in almost the exact same position. It’s like he’s time travelled from there to here….

Christmas ‘cat’ctus

Posted on November 15, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black cat, Cactus, Cat, Cat doorstop, Christmas cactus, Flower, Indoor plants, Kitchen, Photo6 Comments

On the windowledge. Photo of one of my Christmas cactuses already in flower (I think because the light levels have been low) and a metal cat doorstop which I prefer to be able to see rather than using it to prop a door open. I’ve also got cactus cuttings growing in water, must pot them on….

Two boys, one sofa

Posted on November 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and White cats, Cat, Indoor and outdoor, No fighting, Peace, Together, Tuxedo cats2 Comments

It’s happening, the two boy cats tolerate each other enough to share the settee!

The time we have taken gradually introducing them over the last few weeks. Indoor and outdoor cat are within a meter of each other…. They might be at either end of the settee but the outdoor cat had to jump up past the indoor one. No hissing, no spitting! Great

Only a little longer

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Cone of shame, Patient, Poem, Poetry, Recovery, Short poem, Sitting, SweetLeave a comment

Patient cat patiently sits

Waiting for the day

His cone of shame

Will be removed

When he is better

Recovered

Relieved

Then

With one bound

He will be

Free!

Friday 13th

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black cat, Flood, Friday 13th, Funny, ladder, Mirror, Silly, Superstitious7 Comments

Someone asked me whether I was superstitious of the day. I’m not really but I thought I would write a response :

I’m staying indoors in case a black cat crosses my path, climbs up a ladder, meets a magpie, has a fight, knocks over the ladder, which lands on a crack in the pavement, breaking the wing mirror on my car. The ladder also breaks my window and snaps the stop cock on the way down……

Now where did put my rain coat incase we have a flood….?

Cat sketches

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cats, Drawing, Life, Quick sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

A few sketches of two of our cats. Cats move and I found it difficult to capture the ones where they were moving. Especially with black fur to draw, some of the patches are not the right shape or position, but if you are not aware of the image of the original cat it’s not as important? They are very sketchy..

‘Together’ today’s prompt

Posted on November 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white ink, Cat, Drawing, Embrocation, Objects, Pain relief, Sketching, Tenners, TV remoteLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers sketch prompted by ‘together’. This is a collection of stuff together on the chair arm. It is a was hard to decide what to draw, the prompt makes me think of groups of people, family, friends. Clearly I can’t do that. Also cats, if they were together, but our cats scatter to the four winds, unless they are play chasing each other. So I gathered a few things on the chair arm and this was the result.

Outdoor cat asleep

Posted on November 11, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Autumn night, Blogging, Cat, Cold night, Life, Outdoor cat, Photo, Stray8 Comments

He came in, asked for a love, sniffed our boy cat. Thought about getting on my lap. Then he walked over to the settee, kicked a toy mouse for about thirty seconds (holding it with his forepaws, kicking with his back legs), then his eyes closed and he gel fast asleep!

Meanwhile my boy cat watched proceedings but remained inside a cardboard box we’ve given him to curl up in. The girl cat is lying over the radiator on her cat tree.. What happens next?

Mallaband-Brown

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