Fri 23 Sep 2005

Friday Cat Blogging, and then some

Posted in Friday Cat Blogging at 3:00

From the back of the house, a chipmunk kept barking. I took the 6-month-old camcorder outside to try to find out why. All I saw was a cottontail rabbit, and I pointed the camera at it, although it wouldn’t move, which made for uneventful video.

I faded out on the rabbit and hit the Stop button. Just then, from the corner of my eye I saw something small running into our yard, and I pointed the camera at it and hit Record.

He made his way into our garden, and gave us a lean and hungry look before chewing on some rye grass.

Although he had no collar and obviously had not eaten well for some time, he was a friendly fellow, as though he had been someone’s pet.

We gave him leftover grilled chicken and milk diluted with water, and he devoured them. Next, he went to the back screen door and stood there, wanting to go inside. Curious, perhaps. And perhaps he wanted a home and was starting the process of adopting us.

We didn’t let him in that first day, and a couple of hours later, he disappeared. The next morning, he was back again, and I was glad to see him.

Pat and I had both worked as temps when we moved here in the late 1980’s, so maybe it wasn’t surprising when I began trying to come up with a name for him that this cat’s comings and goings reminded me of those days. It was as though we’d phoned a temp agency and asked them to send over a cat for the day. I began to call him our Kelly Temp Cat.

You can guess the rest. Ten years and lots of good food later, here he is, our Kelly Cat, who thanks to the Internet is known around the world as a Good Cat.

Photo taken September 22, 2005. Quite possibly The Greatest Cat Of All Time.

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