OUR CATS

We had three manx cats: "Little Bob" our beautiful rumpie male, "Bodie" our short tail female, Froggie and "Chloe, both female rumpies.  Bodie's tail is comical in that while it was being formed, instead of not being there at all, it curled around in a completely immobile tight curly cue a short distance from her rump, which flashed quickly when she was angry or excited. Ltttle Bob roamed alot and sometimes didn't return for up to four or five months at a time. Chloe was a beautiful black, white, and orange calico rumpie. Unfortunately, they are all gone now. Now we have a siamese, "Pokey".

"Little Bob", who wasnot so very little, is a black and gray tortoise shell marked cat that we got as a kitten,  which grew up to be a very big boy.  "Bodie" is a pretty little gray  cat with a white hour glass on her chest and neck and two white front mittens and two white back stockings.  She came to us at the same time "Axa" did, so they were raised playing together.  She thought she was a dog and we took to calling her "kittydog" because you will always find her with the dogs.  She even comes running when you whistle - just like the dogs.

< Check out the little face in the mirror - Isn't that the cutest little thing you ever saw?  It's Tigger!

"KittyDog" had her first litter of kittens on October 11, 2000.  She delivered 5 kittens, 1 rumpie, 1 short-tail, and three long tails.  One long-tail died shortly after delivery, so we only have four left.  Two are black and white, one is tiger striped (and looks just like Tigger on Winnie the Poo except he's gray), and one is gray tiger-striped with white.  One black and white, the biggest kitten,  and Tigger had long tails.  We docked their tails the day they were born so they would look like manx. I dubbed the runt of the litter, one of the black and white ones - the rumpie, "Froggie" because it was so fat its hind legs splayed out like frog's legs when it tried to walk.  I gave them a bigger play area and its legs have gained strength and are normal now.

Kitty Dog & Family

Froggie

Little Bob, Our rumpie male and Bodie, as a kitten

We gave away 3 of the 4 kittens.  We kept little "Froggie".  She is adorable and growing like a weed although she is still only half the size of the other three.  Now we ask you, isn't she adorable?

Little Bob is lost and gone forever.  We have not seen him for over a year, now.  We had Froggie neutered at 6 months.  Bodie had a second litter of 5 kittens - 2 jet black females and 1 jet black male, all rumpies, 1 gray tortoise shell (nearly spotted) male and 1 black with white male, both long tailed.  We docked the tails on the two males right after they were born.  We gave the two females away at eight weeks.  No one wanted the three males, so we had them neutered and kept them.  Bodie moved outside with them and taught them to hunt.  We gave up on raising the manx cats, since we couldn't even give them away and we had "Kittydog" neutered, but she continued to nurse the boys for several months afterwards.  She finally weaned them around 12/01/01 and decided she would like to come back inside with us.  The boys stay outside - we feed them (well) and they supplement that with mice they catch around our place.  They are indeed fat and happy!  But so are Froggie and Bodie.  They romp and play (when they aren't catnapping) all day!  They're something to watch! Two of the "boys" were murdered while we were away on vacation in July, 02, by our house sitter.  (Live & Learn!).  Tigger the tiger-striped male with the docked tail is the only survivor.  Froggie was nearly crazy wild when we returned home.  We put her out to go to the bathroom before bed on our second night home and she has never been seen again.  Coyotes, maybe. Shortly after Froggie came up missing, our youngest daughter, Maudy got a kitten for our granddaughter, Kameron, that was an exact look alike for Froggie!  It was a male kitten and they named it Sammy.  He not only looked like her, he had her  personality and her same fur type and he was also a rumpy!  It was so strange! A neutered tortoise shell orange male moved in outside and tried desperately to run our cats off.  Bodie has been missing now for a couple of months - whether she found a new home or is Yote bait, we cannot tell. We got a new long-haired kitten, Sophie, from our eldest daughter Nicole - whose cat had kittens - and she was so annoying that Tigger moved outside again for nearly 3 months.  He has now made friends and comes in and out depending on how bad Sophie gets with him!  Sophie had to be put down when Nick's mom was diagnosed with cancer and came to live with us.  She just couldn't adjust to the changes in our home and completely freaked out.  We have nearly as bad of luck with our cats as we have had with our gardening here!  But we keep on trying!

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