Orange Tabby...He Stays and His Name is Finn (Update with Videos Dec 31)

[N F C]

He actually understands how this kitty couch thing works. We weren't sure when we got it.
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Cat furniture is something my 3 have never figured out

Finn is a smartie!

 

[speckledhen]

Finn action pics caught on game cam. There were a lot more, but just him coming and going from the back forty. I was very worried for him last night, sounded like dogs were fighting something, maybe coyotes, barking and snarling went on for a long time and Finn was not around. He eventually showed up, though.

 

[N F C]

Glad he's ok and running around Cyn!

 

[speckledhen]

What a night! Finn drama! Last night, at 2 a.m., a cat "RAOUWWWWWW! RAOWWooWWW!" screamed out and we both jumped out of bed to see if it Finn was in trouble or laying down the law to another cat on our deck. Tom runs out calling for him and said to me to get my flashlight, meaning my tactical flashlight. I couldn't remember exactly where that one was so I grabbed my stun flashlight from my purse. It is a tactical type flashlight with a switch on the bottom that turns the head of it into a mini-Taser. I handed it to him and told him it was the Taser flashlight, but being awoken from a sound sleep, he couldn't remember that it turned on differently than my other lookalike plain tactical flashlight, which has an on button on the bottom and twists and telescopes to change from normal to strobe, etc.
The Taser has a switch on the bottom that turns the flashlight into a Taser and a small round button on the side to activate the Taser function. To turn on the flashlight, you use a small slide button on the side. Well...... you can guess. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!! He tased his own hand, LOL. It's a wonder he didn't drop it off the deck into the backyard. I finally found my other one and shone the light into the woods, hearing something run from our yard across the power line easement and saw two eyes low to the ground looking back at me, but it was too far to see if it was a cat or a raccoon or what. A deer crossed in front of the path of my beam at that moment, too, so I didn't get to see the animal turn away to glimpse the shape of it. Finn was unsettled the rest of the night, looking over the edge of the deck, going in and out, etc. He tangled with something that disturbed him quite a bit so I doubt another cat. ​

 

[N F C]

What an exciting night Cyn! I've never heard of a flashlight/taser combo. Not sure I could handle one without tasing myself like your DH did though.

Was Finn ok, no injuries?

 

[speckledhen]

What an exciting night Cyn! I've never heard of a flashlight/taser combo. Not sure I could handle one without tasing myself like your DH did though.

Was Finn ok, no injuries?

He seems to be, can't find any, but we'll inspect him more during the day. No blood anyway. This is one reason no one should forgo rabies vaccinations for their animals. You never know what your cat or dog will tangle with and rabies always shows up in this county in a fox or raccoon. Happens every year. One year, it was a llama that was found to have contracted rabies somehow.

This flashlight, except mine has a slide for the flashlight part so you don't confuse which button to press. If you're awake, that is, LOL. We got ours at a little outlet store for $10.

 

[N F C]

He seems to be, can't find any, but we'll inspect him more during the day. No blood anyway. This is one reason no one should forgo rabies vaccinations for their animals. You never know what your cat or dog will tangle with and rabies always shows up in this county in a fox or raccoon. Happens every year. One year, it was a llama that was found to have contracted rabies somehow.

This flashlight, except mine has a slide for the flashlight part so you don't confuse which button to press. If you're awake, that is, LOL. We got ours at a little outlet store for $10.
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Yeowtch! That would give a person a zing!

I never would have thought of rabies associated with a llama but guess that fits. We keep our cat's rabies shots up to date even though they're inside cats. Just to be safe.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, Mr. Finn just had a major cat fight with a gray tomcat that was digging in our garbage bags on the deck. This is 9:10 p.m., so pitch black dark outside. DH had just said he saw something jump off our deck and he thought it was a cat and he did see the eyes with a flashlight, but we saw Finn go out toward that area and went back inside, figuring the cat would just leave or was one that Finn was tolerating here. I heard a yowl a few minutes later, went out the kitchen door, and a cat jumped off the deck and Finn jumped down after him and with our flashlight spotlighting them, they were face to face screaming at each other, then rolling around in my azaleas. Then, my husband went down to see if he could dissuade the interloper and the gray cat tried to run, but Finn shot after him and the intense fighting continued to the bottom of the perimeter fence and then, outside the fence and onto the power line easement with us in hot pursuit, listening to loud yowling the entire time.

Finally, as I was getting closer to the action, I saw DH walking back up the hill by the light of his flashlight, and I called to ask if he had Finn. Finn was walking back up with him, looking behind him the entire time. He had lost his flea collar, but when we got him back to the house, we cannot find one single scratch on him anywhere. He really, REALLY wanted that cat to leave the premises! Yeah, so cats do get into garbage, we caught that one in the act and apparently, Finn didn't like it one bit, either.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Wow that's lucky he didn't have any scratches on him!

And Finn really showed him who's boss! Lol if he has any sense, he won't be back!!

I do sort of feel bad for that other cat though because he's probably a stray and hungry if he's desperate enough to go after the garbage like that. But maybe not, some cats are just fatties lol and he seems to lazy to hunt?

But I'm sure he will find another food source or learn how to hunt and be fine. Or he's probably not even a stray at all and just looking for some extra food ha

But anyway, he probably won't be back!!

Edited to take out the swear. Didn't think of it at the time.

 

[speckledhen]

Wow that's lucky he didn't have any scratches on him!

And Finn really showed him who's boss! Lol if he has any sense, he won't be back!!

I do sort of feel bad for that other cat though because he's probably a stray and hungry if he's desperate enough to go after the garbage like that. But maybe not, some cats are just fat asses lol and he seems to lazy to hunt?

But I'm sure he will find another food source or learn how to hunt and be fine. Or he's probably not even a stray at all and just looking for some extra food ha

But anyway, he probably won't be back!!

I think there may have been two cats here. DH said the one he saw at first that ran off the deck and sat by the bantam coop was skinny. But it was just a few minutes later when Finn caught this gray cat on the deck and he was pretty large. So, I doubt the cat my husband saw first would have then come back up on the deck at that point. Anyway, Finn was not having any of the trespasser, period. He seems to be a pretty tough cat! And of course, though Finn came to us at over a year old, he's been here for over three years now and he obviously was never a true inside cat, never a litter box type of cat. He always asks to go out to potty, has never used the bathroom in the house, never gets into the garbage himself, very well-behaved, but very used to being independent and on his own. So, he's very street smart...and territorial, even without his family jewels, LOL.