In honor of National Feral Cat Day, I want to introduce you to two of the kitties that are in our new neighborhood in Florida. NTM says he doesn't know if these two are really feral or not - they hang around the doorway of the lady who lives next door, meowing at her door at night and we think she feeds them, but we're not sure they ever get to go inside. NTM has put a bird bath on the ground, to the left of the sidewalk you see in the picture above, so that they can get a drink of fresh water any time they want. And so I can watch them drink from my window in the office, too!
The grey girl kitty we call Gracie, named after our friend Gracie from the Daily G's. The black kitty is all boy (if you know what I mean... in the un-altered sense of being a boy kitty) and since NTM seems to think he'd make a great boyfriend for me (what the hell is he thinking?), he is calling this neighborhood lothario Ramses. Now, since I am Isis and if NTM really knows his Egyptian mythology like he seems to think he does, it would have made more sense to call this black kitty Osiris, because that was the name of Isis's husband.
For the name Ramses to work, then I should be called Nefertari, and I'm not changing my name to suit some big-balled hiss-in-your-face scamp.
Anyway, on cool evenings, NTM opens up our screen door to let in some fresh air, and we get to watch Gracie and Ramses in our courtyard. Gracie likes to lie on the wall between the duplex houses, but sometimes Ramses will come right up and put his nose on the other side of the screen door. My brother Pete growls real loud when that happens and lots of hissing ensues. Here's a picture of Bella and Pete, watching for Ramses.
To find out more about National Feral Cat Day, please visit Alley Cat Allies. ~ NTM