Hey Lady, throw some of that over here

A couple of years ago Mommy Marbles appeared in the back yard. My mom, who ALWAYS told us 'DO NOT FEED STRAY ANIMALS' started feeding her. Well, lo and behold, soon one cat was five. To make a long story short, I convinced mom to trap, alter, and release the cats. The kittens were the easy part. Before Marbles was trapped she got pregnant again and had another litter of 3-4 kittens. Feral cats don't have a long life span but they can reproduce at an amazing rate. I won't get on my soapbox but if you have any feral cats, the alter and release method is far better than euthanization. Anyhoo.... back to the original story.... Mom feeds these cats outside but they come to the kitchen window several times a day and she gives them turkey lunch meat. Yes, my mom buys turkey lunch meat for these cats. In fact, one day while I was there, we exhausted the supply and John made a special trip to Wal*Mart for a couple of pounds. No Joke. LOL She loves those cats and they love her. I'm digressing again.

I can't find pics of all of them but the colony includes Marbles, Ollie, Scamp, Boots, and a couple of others that I can't recall the names of right now. The black cat is Ollie and the tiger is Boots - the daddy of the kittens.

The board in the front of the pic is the window sill. This pic is taken with the window open. The cats will come to the sill and you can pet Ollie for a second but the he runs. The others are all totally feral. They are all at least two years old and have had this routine for that amount of time. No rehab for these felines.

Ok, again, back to the story.... so..... after watching the cats get this yummy turkey, Elsie quickly learned that she could get a little closer to the action via the back of the couch outside of the window in the Florida room.

Almost every time mom would open that window above the sink, Elsie would get in the window in the Florida room. A couple of times she walked the sill behind the curtain and poked her nose out by the microwave.

If you read my blog, you've seen this pic of mom before. I posted it again so you can see how the windows are in the house. Elsie loved that window. Kinda like her own drive-thru.