Catamania
By dorjac
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I looked out of the kitchen window this morning (sunday) to see Spooky (my name for a very bold,even brazen, feral she cat) launch herself at the Hazel tree several times and scrabble at the bark, in a zany way, and then leap down. I went to get the camera. She was up the trellis on the workshop when I returned. She flung herself off there and shot up the Viburnum then slowly descended. She rounded off her performance with a drink of water out of the butt bucket. Then departed over a 7 foot wall. At the moment she is very furry, even a bit plump. She visits a ground floor flat next door for food, and a stroke from the man of the house, and food from the lady but never stays long. This morning Monday around 9am I saw a very pretty young vixen on top of the gazebo lookiing very watchfully down, then a horrible, scruffy old dog fox ran across the garden and into the shrubs. If she thought by getting high up, she was going to escape her suitor…..no luck. He suddenly appeared behind her. Then there was a chase round the garden…I decided there was to be no daylight mating and howling in our garden. I stuck my head out the back door and shouted and they fled. I wonder what is going on with urban foxes, that the caution not to be seen, they once had, is fading.
Up and then…
Down Dttp://media.growsonyou.com/photos/blog_photo/image/93629/man/IMG_1919.jpg!
You need a drink after a a mad frisk on a breezy morning.
The blackbird needs his fix of grapes. Normally these are removed and eaten by us and put out on birds tables or trays. Our garden helper was ill with a flu like cold and could not prune the vine. Starlings, mostly, love them and are slowly taking them off the vine.
22 Jan, 2012
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Great fun to watch!
22 Jan, 2012
Ours always have a few mad moments and it`s very amusing to watch...
22 Jan, 2012
Sounds like a crazy cat, Dorjac. Perhaps she felt that spring was in the air. I wonder if her plumpness will mean that kittens are on the way? Then you will have fun and games in your garden!
22 Jan, 2012
She's been the 'street cat' for 2-3 years GEE. Her main aim in the summer is to get upstairs undetected and have a furtive snooze on a bed. You go upstairs for something, this grey and white projectile hurls itself down the stairs, then stops dead to see if you are going to shush her out of the house. I think she's trained them next door to give her a favourite food! I said she was brazen.
22 Jan, 2012
I thought kittens too Gee!
22 Jan, 2012
This morning its more foxes. A pretty young vixen (first 2 pictures) and a horrible old dog fox with a big patch of fur missing over his left haunch in hot pursuit. At 9am in broad daylight. I think he had evil designs on her, poor pretty creature. So I shooed them off.....
23 Jan, 2012
What an exciting street life you have, Dorjac :) I love seeing your foxes. Millie and Stanley came face to face with a turbo charged badger during our evening walk on Saturday. Millie was all for chasing it so I had to hold on tight and hope that I would stay upright. I was glad when it disappeared into the hedge :)
23 Jan, 2012
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Young cats in particular all seem to have a 'mad half hour' at some point in the day. This looks like one! Maybe our equivalent of going to the gym?
22 Jan, 2012