Friday, November 6, 2009

felines of Fall


I'm not sure why "they" say the "dog days of Summer"...but if Summer has gone to the dogs, then Fall is certainly the domain of cats. Our two little lions aka tiny tigre' are frisky and as happy as can be with the cooling change in the weather. As their human "attendants", Dino and I visit with them regularly in their "habitat" and think up ways to keep them amused. It is amazing what you can do with recycled items...lumber scraps became a climbing "tree", broken bricks now border a kitty Zen rock garden, a horse water trough turned upside down is a feeding platform, and scraps of rubber stall mats make cushioned landing spots. Today we turned another piece of rubber flooring into a sort of swinging cylinder large enough for both cats to lounge/play in. It is just slightly less than obvious that as a child i wanted to work in a zoo.


A little over a year ago, we had no cats and no "plans" to change that...then we were sent a little angel. That's another story, a good story, but for another time. Happy with our good luck charm of a barn kitty; we did not go looking for a second cat. But the universe had other plans. Plans for us? Maybe. Plans for our first cat, Cowboy...definitely. Plans for the lovely and talented Ruby...well, let's just say maybe SHE planned the whole thing!

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