Sunday November 01, 2020 Pic of the Day.

Whenever I think of November, I think of the time I took in a mother cat with her five kittens after the barn they lived in burned down just as winter was setting in. I just want to mention, this picture was taken through a plexiglass window that had screening on it, so the picture is very poor. This is the day or so after I brought home all six cats and made a home for them outside so I could coax them into the log cabin in the woods I lived in at the time. Actually, I should be honest and say that I thought I was getting a mom cat and two kittens - that is what I was told by the neighbour who told me the cats were living under their front porch after the barn burned. I made a makeshift house for them, then I went and got the mom and the two kittens (not easy to catch), and showed them where to live. I had put food and water in it for them. Then, to my surprse the mom left the kittens in the house I made, kept disappearing, and coming back with more kittens until there were five. Not only that, she had to go up my drive, along a dangerous highway, up another laneway, get a kitten, and come back the same way. I watched this almost passing out in fear as she was walking along the road's gravel shoulder with a kitten in her mouth as logging trucks and cars went by at high speed. And, on top of that, she had to cross the highway each time she made the trek. She was so brave too. She did not drop the kitten she was carrying as the trucks loaded with logs would go by her about 3 feet from her. If you know what a fully loaded logging truck sounds and feels like as it blasts by, you know what a noise and ground vibration that makes. I aged about 10 years that afternoon. I should also mention, most of the road shoulder had a two foot high bank of plowed snow, keeping her very close to the road's edge. This picture was taken when they had come out from the makeshift house for a walk. Mumma-Puma (what I named the mom) was nursing, and she was so very happy to not only get all the food she could eat, but warmish water, as all the local water was frozen over and she needed a lot because whe was nursing five kittens. The kitten is Andi. Mumma-Puma is gone now, but I still have Andi and two of her sisters. Her brother and one sister passed away in 2018, the same year Mumma-Puma went. A very nice family of cats, but they do seem prone to health problems.
Taken: November 2008.

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