Happy NOMS Day from the PDX pride!

Happy NOMS day!  We love watching the NOMS who visit us here at the PDX pride, because there are so many different ones!  We have birdies, including huge geese, and snakes, and dragonflies as big as birdies.  We also have some other very interesting NOMS who are regulars.  Would you like to see them?

These are Freya's special friends.  She loves to try to "catch" them from the inside of the sliding glass door.  There's one problem with this system, though!

They stay outside!  There's one who loves to sit on our front door handle and catch bugs on the door.  Sometimes, a froggie comes inside, and then we get to play with it for a while until Mommy catches it and puts it back outside.  One time, one tried to hide from us under the couch, but hopped out covered in cat hair!

Our favorite NOMS and part of our family is R.K.  Her real name is Raccoon Kitty, and she's blind in one eye.  Her mama lived here when our family moved here, and raised her in the backyard at the same time that Tuxie was raising the three feral kittens.  Now, she and Tigress are still acquaintances, and R.K. has taught her babies and her grandchildren to respect the feral kitties.  She still thinks she's an outside kitty, though!

R.K. saying hi to JJ.  Mommy Erin took this picture.  Don't worry; there's a glass door between them!

Here's R.K. with one of her three kits this year.  This was taken a couple weeks ago.  The kits now are learning to ask for food at the back door at night, with R.K.'s supervision.

Baby Love from the PDX pride

Thank you to Sammy for organizing this "baby love" day!  It's been wonderful seeing the baby piccies of our fellow tabby kittens and friends!  This is our first post as members of the TCC, so we'd like to introduce ourselves.  Tabby is 9 years old, Rori is almost 8 years old, Little Bit is 7 years old, Starla is around 8 years old, and Tigress is 3 years old.  Rori and Little Bit are half-sisters on their dad's side, and Starla is Little Bit's cousin.  We're all very excited to be part of this club!  If you want, please come visit us at our blog:  Furry Tails of the PDX pride.

Now, on to those baby piccies!  :)

Tabby at 4 weeks old with brother Carbon (5 weeks old), a few days after we came to our forever home.

Rori at 4 weeks old with Mommy Erin, just minutes after Mommy Karen pulled her out of the middle of an old tire in the neighbor's yard.  Mommy Erin had seen me and my brother running across the street!

Little Bit as a baby, probably about 9 weeks old, eating from the feral cats' food bowl on our back porch. At this point, I "belonged" to the neighbors.

Little Bit's sister Baby Chiba (now an angel kitten) and our cousin Starla (whom we adopted) at the same time as the picture of Little Bit was taken. We came from the same "home" as Little Bit. Starla was about 7 months old at this time.

From left to right: Hemming (adopted to a new home), tabby & white boy kitten (went missing as a kitten), Mama Leopard, Miss Marble (now an angel) and Tigress. This photo was taken on July 22, 2011, when the babies were about 9 weeks old. Leopard was about 2 years old.

Little Bit's baby boys, all grown mancats now and adopted to other homes:  Kai (off exploring already), Little Guy/Tiger, Squishy, and Cloud.  This photo was taken when they were three weeks old and came to live with us to be fostered.