Moonlight Plus Two Cats

As I had said, Moonlight, the goat, came with the property., as did two cats.

Now we have always been animal lovers, but the animals inside our house have been dogs for a very long time. The last time I had a cat was when I was very little. And here we are with two cats that have a history.

The cats were born in the attic of the house. When they were not very many days old, they fell down between the inside wall and the outside wall. Mama cat tried to get them out but could not so she left them. The owners hear the kittens but could not believe that they were ‘in’ the wall. So up in the attic they went to look for the kittens. They found the place where the birth had taken place and then the hole where the kittens fell through and into the wall. To their credit, the owners, who had just redecorated the room where the cats were, took a saw and cut a hole in the wall to retrieve the cats.

Off to the vet with these tiny kittens. Their eyes were not opened yet, so you know they were very young. Yes, the owners were going to keep them – putting them down was not an option. After all, they had just cut up a wall that had cost them a good ‘penny’ to have redone and custom painted. There were two little females and one smaller male (who did not survive the injuries from the fall). Thus, these two kittens were declared a new breed of cat – Arizona Wall Cats of unknown lineage.

Hand feeding the kittens, their personalities soon became apparent. One was independent and wanted to do things for herself (she is the one that looks like a Siamese); the other, who is beautiful as well, but definitely not Siamese in appearance, was laid back, and would eat as long as you would let her.

One of the interesting things about the Siamese, Sam, is that she has twenty two toes. Yes, you read that correctly, she has twenty-two (22) toes. On her front feet there are six toes each whereas on the back feet there are five toes on each foot. She would walk on snow just fine! The other cat, Sophie, has the normal number of toes and can barely walk at all, rolling is more like it!

These cats are as different as night and day. Sophie still will eat and eat, where Sam is a hunter. She is out most of the night hunting gophers and other ground critters that are not welcome around the garden. Yes, she eats the cat food but small amounts and spaced out over the day time.

Sophie has the classic fat cat. You cannot get her to run around and play. She wants you to pick her up and put her on your lap as she cannot jump that high any more. We have moved her food station up so that she has to jump up to a platform (very solid) to eat. I think that is making a little difference. She is now pretending to hunt birds. (Don’t be upset, there is no way she could chase down a bird; unless, of course, the bird fell over laughing at this fat cat waddling after him.)

Nevertheless, she is quite lovely although fat.

The other one will jump on our laps and sing us songs of her huntings and then curl up and take a nap while still on our laps.

They are very different from each other. You would never guess that they are sisters, unless you heard them fighting!

Well, I started this HUB with a reference about Moonlight, the goat. Suffice it to say, he does not like the cats and the cats, both of them, stay out of his way. Very strange, but we all have our likes and dislikes, don’t we? I guess the cats do too.