We missed the normal publication time for Friday Felines, but Mark is scheduling this post for 11:59 pm Friday night so technically we’re still on time.
This is Smokey’s affectionate side.
He hops up on the sofa between us and settles in with his head on one of us, purring away, waiting to get his head scratched. He seems like such a sweet kitty.
And then he goes outside and terrorizes Chloe. He chases her around until she jumps up on one of the deck railings, and then he sits and waits for her to come back down. Sometimes it sounds like he’s killing her. He also chases poor Dusty around. The truth is that the outside cats haven’t had such a good life since Smokey and Sylvester came around.
We are thinking of relocating Sylvester and Smokey to good homes. That seems really backwards, since they are both more like the kinds of cats I’m used to, but since Chloe, Rusty and Dusty were here first, we feel an obligation to them. It would be really hard to find homes for those three, especially the two semi-feral ones. I really hate to do it, since I have a relationship with Sylvester and Smokey (Mark not so much).
I hope you can figure out how to keep all of them, and keep them from terrorizing each other.
I’m not sure how we can ever get Smokey and Sylvester to stop picking on the other cats. For some reason they seem particularly interested in Dusty, maybe because he’s another male. It’s really too bad they don’t get along better.