I realized that I never presented our cats here! They are not really mine since they live with my mother (and not really hers either, story below), but since I see them every time I go home to visit, they feel like my cats too.
So meet Doof (because he's silly) and Mounette (Doof's mother), She's the white one.
Their story is a bit sad. They belong to a neighbor who moved in 2 years ago, with these crazy ideas of being the typical farmer type. So he has chickens, a (failure)vegetable garden, 2 dogs, and the 2 cats. But to embrace the 'farm' mentality, the cats live outdoors, and are supposed to fend for themselves, with an occasional bowl of food. They were scrawny, underweight and miserable looking creatures. He loves his dogs, who live indoors, and takes them with him as soon as he goes away for a weekend or vacation. Meanwhile the kitties have no food, and no shelter other than a shed he leaves open.
So we started feeding them, then letting them in the house during the day when someone is home. We slowly gained their trust, and their appearance really improved. Now they have beautiful coats, and are well fed and happy. My mother took pity on them this winter when it was below freezing (and down to -5°F!) at night and let them stay indoors. Doof is still an outdoor cat at heart, he loves to be out roaming. Mounette is perfectly happy to spend all her time either on the sofa or at the foot of mom's bed.
But Doof is much more cuddly, his mother tends to have a bad attitude if cuddling is not done on her terms.
Sadly they are not officially 'our' cats, but the neighbor really doesn't give a sh*t about them. Either we watched them starve, or took care of them. It'll be sad the day he moves...
They LOVE sleeping on the hot radiators!
Introducing the kitties!
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