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Another Feral Cat at the Allotments

by Betty
(Walsall Rd Allotments, Birmingham, UK.)

Second cat at the allotments

Second cat at the allotments

A few months ago I wrote about a cat I fed at my allotment. Well now I am feeding two! The other started coming for food a couple of weeks ago.

The original cat still comes every day and is very confident with me now. The other day I saw her quite a distance away and called her - she came running over straight away!

I have not attempted to touch her, or the second one because I think they would still be too frightened.

This photo is the second cat, I love the colour of him/her.

Update...

Here is another photo:



I just happened to have my camera on me when I spotted the cat on someone's path. I'm sure she was posing for me!

Betty

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Another Feral Cat at the Allotments

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Jun 15, 2010
 To Betty
by: Ruth

Cats are wonderful, they are cleaner than some people !
It always amazes me too how cats living rough are so clean and how they keep their kittens clean also.
Betty you are obviously a true cat lover, you instictively know not to look directly at that cat, a lot of people wouldn't know that.
I'm sure eventually she will be as confident around you as the first cat you feed.
Well done you,I wish there were more people like you.
x

Kattaddorra signature Ruth
Jun 14, 2010
 Thank you
by: Betty

Thank you Finn, Ruth and Tracey for your kind comments.
I was very lucky to get the photo of the second cat. She isn't as confident with me as the first one but I find that so long as I don't look at her directly she does not run away.
I think it is remarkable that both cats look so clean, considering that they live outside in all weather.
Jun 14, 2010
 Very pretty
by: Tracey (England)

Hi Betty

She's a lovely cat; she's so pretty. You really did her justice; I'm impressed with your photography.

Also how lovely of you to feed them.
Jun 12, 2010
 Lovely photo
by: Ruth

What a beautiful cat,we'd call her a dark tortoishell and white and as Finn says,being that colour she is almost certainly a female cat.
It's very kind of you to feed those cats Betty.

Kattaddorra signature Ruth
Jun 12, 2010
 Tricolor
by: Finn Frode, Denmark

Hi Betty. With those colours it is almost certainly a 'she'. It's in the genes that male cats can't have black with the red/orange. You can read more on the page about Calico Cats

Male tricolors are very rare and usually infertile. I once had one that I believed to be male, but eventually Carl had kittens ;-) You can see her at http://www.raarup.eu/carl-picture01-en.html - she looks almost like your new allotment cat.

Once again thank you for helping the ferals. They need it.

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