Kit the Cat is still hanging around! He’s been sleeping on my porch more and more frequently and eating here regularly. To help him stay warm, I put out a scrap of artificial sheepskin and some fleece fabric – it was obviously quite a hit! On very cold days I heat up a SnuggleSafe and put it underneath for him. The other week we had a nasty day when it rained/snowed/sleeted the entire day – he slept on his chair for a good 10 hours straight. Every once in a while he woke up, blinked, looked at the weather, turned over and went back to sleep.

He’s also getting used to me – I wouldn’t say that he LIKES me but he tolerates me. He certainly isn’t tame, and probably never will be – if I get a little too close to him he does the most convincing impression of a Halloween cat – ears out to the side and glaring at me!

Here’s Kit enjoying a mellow moment on his chair – he just woke for a minute to scratch an itch.

The other week I noticed he had a lot of hair missing from the upper inside of his left leg and some nasty scabs. I don’t know how it happened – that isn’t an injury you’d associate with a fight. It seems to have healed without incident and the fur is starting to grow back now, but its scary to think what would have happened to him had it gotten infected. He looks like any pampered house cat in my photos, but it’s a rough and dangerous life.