Missie & Crickee
They lick each other and act like good sisters should.
Missie's mother was found as a stray behind an office building, and she was pregnant, gave birth to four kittens. We kept Missie, and she's the best mouser ever! When she was a kitten, she would climb out of her play-pen using some of her extra toes just like thumbs. She doesn't bother chicks, poults, goslings or ducklings, doesn't even watch them. She catches her mice and voles (even chipmunks!), but if she doesn't eat them fast enough the dog will for her. She's around eight or nine years old.
Crickee was a stray found behind the same office building (it's a communal cat drop off
). We took her in, her yowling all the way home because she was in heat. The next day I found out she had worms, and let's just say she went to the vet to be spayed (and get deworming pills) soon after that! Worms are all gone, and she's actually pretty fat now. She eats like there's no tomorrow, because she had been left without food so many times. She WILL eat until she pukes, so only small meals at a time. We think she's about... Three years old? She is the total opposite of Missie, because she's never caught anything in her life. She tries, but she wouldn't know what to do with it if she had caught it.
They're both very happy to be indoor-outdoor cats until winter hits, and then they both turn into lazy lumps of fur.
They enjoy long naps, and sitting in front of the pellet stove for warmth.