Monday, May 20, 2013

Tabitha's Gotcha Story

Me now.

You just heard from my brother from another litter Woody from Cats of Wildcat Woods.   Now it is my turn.

My mom Lily had me outdoors in her second litter during the fall of 2006. My bean Mom had tried to catch Lily before she got pregnant again with another litter but it didn't happen. She caught all the cats in the litter before me and brought them inside before we were all born. She was afraid the first litter would disperse throughout the neighborhood and she wouldn't be able to catch them to spay and neuter them.



Me with Twospot and Only


We (Only, Two Spot, Smidge and me) were born under the house in the crawlspace. I was very feisty. Mom bean picked me up when we came up to eat on the deck and I just hissed and spit at her even tho I was just a tiny ball of fur at 6-8 weeks old! She wasn't sure we were all done nursing and didn't want Lily to go into heat again so she left us outside with her for a little longer hoping to catch us all together.

We spent the next few months lounging on the back deck, playing with toys Mom bean left out and living a very nice life. Mom bean was going to be moving to another town and wanted to take us all with her. Mom bean had TNR'd the other feral cats and let them live out their lives in the yard but this time was different. She asked everybody but none of the neighbors would take on the responsibility of feeding and caring for us if she left us behind to live outdoors. She couldn't do that.

We had gotten very used to her by now but still wouldn't let her pet us. She would prop open the porch door and stand inside and we would come in to explore. Only and Two Spot either were dumber or smarter than us (not sure which) but she caught them first by closing the door while they were busy exploring and they were caught on the porch. We got all upset at first but then went back to life as usual.

One day Mom bean put Only in a carrier in the porch and opened the door for us to see. Even Lily went inside to see what was going on. Smidge and I followed Mom Lily and Mom bean closed the porch door! We were inside but not very happy. It took Pop and Mom beans hours to catch us all and put us safely in one small room so we could get used to them and being inside.


We all got moved to the new place and all my litter mates and Lily live with me in a cool shelter the beans made for us. Their house is smaller here than the old one so they converted the workshop and carport into a indoor playroom and screen porch for us to live in. We have all sorts of shelves and chairs to sit on and they spend lots of time out here with us. Pop bean uses the workshop - we gave him a small corner of it to putter around in.






Me with Only and Twospot all growed up.



11 comments:

Marilia said...

So so cute story!!!!!! Happy Gotcha Day!

Timmy Tomcat said...

Meow! That Mom Bean really really loves you guys to do all that. Dad bean does too. You all really grew up to be very good looking kitties

Angel Gracie=^o.o^= said...

So enjoy hearing about the Gotcha Day. Think these should all be published in a book. So happy that your have such a loving furever home.

The Florida Furkids said...

We're so glad you were Gotcha'd!

Raz and The Florida Furkids

meowmeowmans said...

It's so clear how much your mom and dad love you kittehs! How awesome that you all gotcha'd each other!

Headbonks,

Moosey

Cat said...

We are so glad that your mum persevered and caught all of you so you could make the move to the new house together!!!!

Oui Oui said...

Your mom worked really hard to make sure you have happy lives. How very lucky you are! You so easily could have been in one of the uninterested neighbor's yards. Yours are true love stories and we loved reading them. Purrs and thanks for sharing!

The Musings Of A Crazy Cat Lady said...

Thank you for sharing your great story. Your mommy is a great person to make sure you're happy. Purrs, Abbi Leala

Karen Jo said...

You are all very lucky kitties to have found such a great Mom and Dad to love you so much to spend so much time and effort to make sure you have happy lives.

Spyro

Kjelle Bus aka Charlie Rascal said...

Soooo HAPPY you all was Gotchad :)

Seville at Nerissa's Life said...

What a GREAT gotcha story! I, myself, was born in a neighbours' woodpile so I sorta know what you went through in gettin' your forever home. So very glad you got it.

Purrs,
Nissy