TCJpart46 Special Feline Edition:

THE CREW:
...not every creature with 4 legs has hooves at WW, cats are a perfect accompaniment to a stable yard, they keep the critters at bay and are very entertaining...

You have already met the cats, furily intermingled amongst the horse blogs, slinking their way through Tom & Henry's legs and always being about when stuff happens.  Now it's time to share some recent shots of each of the players, with a short bio and list of characteristics.

We have 3 cats: so lets see the so-called 'mog shots'

LEMMY:

Lemmy named of course after the famous Lemmy of Motorhead, loves Countryfile, Springwatch and anything on Animal Planet, and typical of a boy, loves control of the remote, and the snugly blanket!

His friends call him 'vintage' because his fur has a smoke grey tint near his skin, and it's black at the tips, giving him an unusual colouring.

Rescued off the streets as a kitten, far too young to be separated from his Mum, spent a week at the vets, looked after by Sam, and re homed with us....

Lemmy also likes puffa jackets and anything soft he can sleep in/on/under....you know cats!

John and Lemmy enjoy shopping on-line and  playing Halo Reach on the x-box.

Lemmy jumps on the table when you're distracted by food and when you're not looking will lick all the butter of your bread...he prefers lightly salted!!

He will stand on his back legs with his paws around your neck or on your shoulders and but you in the nose with his nose...we call it the 'nose-but'

COCO:

Coco 'the stealth' Rand.  Black as the soot in our chimney.  She's big, but you'll never see or hear her coming.  She sleeps in a comfy cat bed on the fridge in the feed-room, making certain no little critters try to sneak a nibble of Tom & Henry's dinner.

Left on the streets of Leigh on Sea as a kitten of 5 weeks old, rescued by MediVet in Southend and re homed by our vet's assistant Sam in Danbury with us.

As Coco's full name suggests she's a ninja, you can never spot her and real tangible evidence of her existence is rare.  Photos are few, in fact, no-one but John and I have ever seen her...but here are a few shots.



...a rare sighting, the mini beast of WW, a glimpse and then she's gone.

She's fast, and can catch a sparrow in mid flight.

MIN:

Min likes the daredevil life of tree climbing, bath edge perching and the ultimate in feline adrenaline fulled activity, running between Tom & Henry's legs in the yard, even when they're walking...very tricky timing-related problems easily tackled by this speed-demon.

Min named after my Grandma, ('Min' was her nickname). Min was born in Burnham, and came to us via the wireless Internet mast installation man...from Burnham.

As you can imagine therefore she already embraces the country lifestyle!



Min is a lunatic!

She will launch herself from the windowledge in our bedroom onto us lying in bed to wake us up, a cat moving at terminal velocity will do that - have you ever seen a kitten moving at 130MPH?

She slept in John's hood when she was small enough, and now she's not...sleeps on his shoulder like a wrap, compare the photos below: one as a kitten, and one now (she's not 1year old yet).

She jumps on our heads in the morning to get us up, I feed them before I go out to do the horses every morning, but at the weekends I have a lie-in.  Min still wants me up at 5.15am, and 7.30am is just not good enough!

It really doesn't get cuter than that xxx

WW cats:

favourite places to sleep: on us and anything we're reading, looking at, concentrating on, typing on.....on top of the wardrobe, in the wardrobe and boxes particularly if they contain tissue paper

favourite food: mice, tuna in brine and Felix fish menus...yogurt lid lickers include Lemmy and chewers of cardboard club members include Min

favourite music:  they all like 80's stuff particularly Soft Cell, Depeche Mode and Yazoo (well, who doesn't?), some Nickleback, Korn and Green Day too

favourite TV stars: Bill Oddie, Spike Milligan and John Craven (they just love him in Countryfile)

favourite colours: anything light, they love jumping on John the most when he's wearing a light shirt in the mornings when they have muddy paws, thus forcing him to change...they can't do it to me I've  only worn black since 1982 (hence the music taste)...well black, and some shades of dark grey if I'm feeling wild!

favourite book: A Street Cat Called Bob, a recent read, this is a very moving story about friendship, the cats loved it...and anything written by Assimov, they love science fiction

hero's: anyone who works at the RSPCA or Redwings Horse Sanctuary, Sam the cat rescuer/rehomer and James Bowen.

Have tissues at the ready.