Black and White Kitty - Day 79 - Daily Haiku

Black and white kitty
playing hide and seek for days
make yourself at home

Cori MacNaughton

A few days ago, as I was preparing for Marek's arrival later that night, I was idly thinking that I would like to have another white cat with black spots, as I was missing Edit and Miod, our two black and white boys.

That evening, as Marek and I were sitting at our respective computers, he looked outside and spotted a black and white on our front porch, looking in at us, and said, "Oh! We have a kitty outside!"

I took a look, then went to get the cat some food, with Marek muttering under his breath, "I'm an idiot! I shouldn't have said anything!" He beat me onto the front porch, but the cat took off as soon as he opened the door. I put some food in a bowl, where we could see it from the window, and came back inside.

The next morning, on my way to take the goats out of their stall, I spotted what looked like the same cat, curled up face down in the weeds, near the overlook above the barn. Initially I thought he might be dead. But when I started toward him, he looked up, spotted me, and took off running. I was sorry he/she was so skittish, but glads/he was still alive, and put more food out for him/her that night.

Then I saw no sign for a couple of days. We do have transients, who just wander through and are never seen or heard from again, but I was hopeful this one would stick around. After all, Miod just showed up in our back yard, when Lolo was still a puppy, and this one looks enough like him that it could easily be a sibling or other close relative.

Last night I went to chat with one of our neighbors, and while we were talking, he asked if the little black and white cat was ours. "No," I said, "but I am trying to make friends with him." Russ recently adopted a small female cat, after one of his clients literally moved out of state and left the cat locked up in their house, and he said the black and white cat had been hanging around on his place as well.

I had already put a large cat carrier on the covered porch at the studio, near where I had seen the cat sleeping, and put a fluffy towel inside, as we are expecting rain off and on for the next several days, and I wanted to make certain s/he had a warm and dry place to sleep. So I decided to move the food to the top of the cat carrier, so s/he would be likelier to actually get the food, as on our porch it is more likely to get snagged by Lolo or one of our cats.

Today, on the way to get the goats out, I checked the cat carrier, and was gratified to see a tiny paw print on the white towel, so he had at least investigated the crate. And once I was in the barn yard, I spotted him -- almost on the top of the hillside in front of the studio, where he could easily see me coming and going along the driveway, and he stayed there as I tethered Semafor and made my way backup the hill. And he stayed put as I passed his hiding spot and continued up the hill toward the main house, where I got him some food and water to bring back.

He was still in his spot when I returned, but just as I was getting ready to put down the food, Musica rubbed my legs, and I knew she would get the food before he'd have a chance. So I took her to the main house, and by the time I got back, he was gone. But by now, Lolo and both cats were in the house, so he would at least have a good chance of getting the food himself.

By the time I came back to put the goats in for the night, he had yet to show himself again, but since he has been around for the past five days, my guess is he'll be back for the food come nightfall.

Who knows? We may have just found our new barn kitty. ;-)

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The first image is the not-so-great photo I took of our current guest kitty, taken from across the barnyard, with him turned partially away from me. I took this with my Samsung Note 8 smartphone.

The photo of our dog, Lolo, and our late cat, Miod, I took as they were cooperatively begging at the dinner table, despite our longstanding rule of not feeding them from the table.

You can see how much that deterred them both. This was probably taken with my LG V10 smartphone.

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