It's been a year since a skinny, frozen little ginger cat announced his arrival by door-crashing the cat-flap door into Nancy's bedroom and getting in a fight with Napster the resident cat.
Looking at him now, you'd hardly think he could terrorize a cat that outweighs him by about four pounds... and on the whole they are getting along. Sort of. After a nervous fashion.
But he's still here, and gives every indication that he intends to stay. The most participatory of cats, Achmed (he got the name because he constantly sprang out to attack Napster -- he probably should have been dubbed Kato, after the martial arts houseboy in the Pink Panther) goes on hikes, rides on golf carts -- and car roofs, comes on all the wolf howls, and gets along famously with all the other animals on the property, two legged or four legged... with the exception of Napster. And the chickens. Who chase him down the stable aisle, wings and beaks extended. Kung Fu Bob the martial arts chicken will take on cats, and dogs!
We've never been able to understand why people 'dump' cats and dogs, abandon kittens and puppies. We know this cat lived out in the wild for at least a month before he surrendered to us, frozen, starved and -- of course -- infested with fleas. That's ALL in his past now! It's just over a year since he moved in. Looking at this picture, he's about as 'moved in' as you can physically get, don't you think?
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