Tuesday November 15, 2022 Pic of the Day.

In November 0f 2008, a neighbours barn burned down killing 8 horses, and leaving a mother barn cat and her 5 kittens homeless. Nobody was too concerned about the cats, and after another neighbour called me and told me the story, I went and got the mom cat, and she went and got all her kittens and brought them back to my place. I made an outdoor house for them all in an old steel wagon/cart that I lined with old, clean wool blankets and covered with a garbage bag, folded up pen and a log to hold it all in place. I was not able to catch the kittens - they kept running into the woodpile gaps - so I made the cart up for them until I was able to catch everyone a few days later. You can barely see the kitten I later named Leon in the corner of the woodpile behind the cart right under the tarp - he is an orange tabby, so you really have to look, be he is watching me take this picture. This was a very remote area that my log cabin was in, so it was dangerous for cats. The dark woods you see in the picture was literally hundreds of square miles of dark woods, marsh land and untold numbers of lakes. This was in an area south-east of Algonquin Provincial park in Ontario, Canada. Of the mom cat and the 5 kittens, I still have 3. The mom cat (her name was Mumma-Puma), the kitten Leon in the picture, and his sister Chessie have passed away, but I still have Daisy, Elly-May and Andi. You can see Elly-May this month in yesterday's picture, and Andi in the picture from Friday, November 11. They are 14 years old now, and having health issues, but still going. To go from being barn cats in a remote, wooded area to being long term coddled house cats is quite the transition, but they have managed.

Today's Quote: "Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private." - Leonard Michaels

Picture Taken: November 2008.