The world of catblogging lost a giant last weekend with the death of Kevin Drum’s cat Inkblot. Kevin is widely acknowledged as the father of Friday Cat Blogging, and the very first picture was of Inkblot. In his honor, here is a picture of our cat Chloe.
This one is a burrower.This is Dido, whom we got at the same time as Chloe. Dido is a tabby like Hep, but considerably smaller and a little lighter in shade.
Maybe it’s because they’re both tabbies, but Hep has over the years really taken a shine to Dido. You’ll often find him snuggled up next to her or grooming her. It’s disturbingly cute.
Sam is a part of the menagerie because the people who lived behind us were evicted. We did not want another mouth to feed, but someone had to make sure this cat got something to eat when the neighbors were kicked out. She’s an outdoor cat for the most part.
She is a very sweet and friendly cat, but she is also a killer. Every day it seems some unfortunate small animal has met Sam’s claws. She leaves the carcasses where we’ll see them, because that’s how we know she loves us. (Either that or she’s telling us, “Stop feeding me and you’re next.”) Rats, field mice, squirrels, chipmunks, birds, small aircraft – Sam has killed them all.
Today we have a picture of the grand lion of the house, Hep Cat. Nearly 13 and still the meanest, orneriest so-and-so around. That gruff exterior masks an old softie, though – he loooooves our other tabby Dido.