I've posted a couple times now, so I thought I'd introduce myself and the cats.

I'm a fairly new to this cat thing. I have rabbits and been involved
with rabbit rescue since '95. Since we lived in an apartment and had 4
bunnies, we didn't want to push it and add a cat to the group. I
promised hubby when we bought a house we would adopt a cat. And, yes,
yes we did. In fact, the cat came with the house. A little grey tabby
showed up at our back door a month after we moved in. 3 months later,
she brought her two 6 - 8 week old kittens to see us.

We contacted the local feral group and on their advice trapped them
all. Momma got spayed and chipped and released into our backyard. The
girls were brought in and socalized. You can see pictures at
<http://pics.livejournal.com/~bisky/>. The kittens (they'll always be
kittens) are now almost 2 years old.

Momma is still around. She's slowly being socialized to us and being an
indoor cat. She's learned to knock on the back window when she wants to
come in. As time goes by, she is getting more and more comfortable with
humans. Her *favorite* thing is to come inside and use the scratching
post. Now that the weather is warm she spends less time in the house,
but she still comes in for catnip and toys and gooshyfood!

Amelia Rumblepuss is a mostly independent cat, although she likes
sitting next to me on the couch. She's the quiet one, but she's gotten
into the most trouble. She's had a number of adventures, including
being stuck in the winerack (there's a picture), stuck in a plastic bag
(very scary for all of us), out all night alone because she wouldn't go
into the trap.

Valeria Ticklewhiskers is vocal and very assertive with us humans. The
first time I picked her up she *purred* and it seems like she's never
stopped. She follows us upstairs at night and waits for us both to get
into bed and then jumps up and demands to be petted. After she's done
being petted, she'll hop off the bed and go downstairs to find her
fluffy ball. She then brings it upstairs to us, announcing she's
brought it by meowing loudly. In the morning, she brings it back
downstairs. She talks to us a lot.

The other cat on the picture site is Mojito. He was a feral tomcat who
got along well with Momma cat and I didn't have the heart not to feed
because he was so skinny. He was never quite as social as she was, but
he knew who supplied him with kibble and would often sit right by his
bowl as we were filling it. He got hit by a car this spring and we
still miss his pretty grey face.

There's one other feral in the area that we know about. He's a pretty
black cat. When Mojito was around the black cat wasn't welcome in the
yard, but Momma cat doesn't seem to mind him here. I think we're on the
edge of his territory as we don't see him every day and he doesn't seem
to often hang out here. I think someone else is feeding him, as he
doesn't come by every day for a meal and he's not really skinny.

Sadly, we are now bunnyless. My oldest and last bunny went to the RB yesterday.

I hope to get to know you all better. I do recognize at least one
person from the bunny group.

bisky
Amelia, Valeria, Momma Cat (aka Lady Grey)