Cats

We have a new cat at our house. Her name is Pirate Bella because she has a bad eye and I call her Bella. She is a little calico cat that showed up at our house last Friday. My Dad found her when we were in town and she has just decided to stay. This morning on the way in from the barn Kacheekers was on the front step with a scratched up face. We brought him inside because it was cold out he could not close or blink his eye so it was freezing. We left him inside while we were gone and when Mom looked she said his eye looks like it is drying. Mom says she has never seen a cat lose an eye and now we have two in one week. We all think that Vidalia is the one who is scratching every one up. She is not very nice, she has scratched Raggles on the nose before so she gets in fights.

Raggles update 2

This is another Raggles update. He is out of the garage and running around the yard. He will let us pick him up pet him, he gets wet food, but not by the other cats because Vidalia still hisses at him and starts fights. Raggles comes in the barn and walks around our legs while we are doing chores. In the barn are holes that the bunnies that are out have dug and we thought that the tunnels might go outside. Once when Raggles and I were in the barn this week the door was closed because it was cold out. I went to get him because I had the door open. But when I was go he ran down one of the holes. I waited and then I heard my brother coming up to the barn talking to Raggles so I went out and there was Raggles. So now we know that the tunnels go outside.

The animals!

We have a lot of animals. I will tell you their name and about them. We have seven chickens. The names of the chickens are Carmel, Paige, Bellina, Black chicken (rooster), Wooten (rooster), and Non Speckly ( she is called that because we had a chicken named Speckly and got them confused). The chickens really like cat food, so when they are out of the coop they are on the porch at least once a day. Bunnies we have are... Runtiedunt who is white, Razor who has short fur and big ears and is brown and white , Brina who is brown and black and really poofy, Dawn who is black, Scott who has orange fur with some black flecks in it, Ear and a half who is brown, black, and poofy, and then two who don't have names. One is all white and the other is white and gray. We have six goats. Eeyore, my little goat, gets candy and rabbit food, Millie(mother) and Desdemona (daughter) a mother/daughter duo. Desdemona is all white with horns, Millie is some times white and some times brown it all depends and does not have horns. Calliope, she is white with black spots and horns, is Charlie's mom. Charlie is white and doesn't have horns and he really likes treats. Klaus is white with big horns and is our main buck. We also have three cats Kacheekers, who is black and white, Raggles, our new cat who is gray and brown, and Vidalia, who is very mean to the new cat Raggles. Then, we have our little cute Nikki, the little fox terrier, who likes snacks and sleeping under afghans.

Raggles update

Raggles, last time I talked about Raggles we were trying to catch him in the live trap. Well... we got him. Anyhow he has gotten out two more times. He now meows, I think to let us know where he is, and he is getting better at being friendly. The last two times he has gotten out he has been up in the rafters of the garage. He got away yesterday and when we came out to see if we could find him today and we got him to come down out of the rafters to have some food and get a scratchy scratchy (that is what we call pets). We are out of wet cat food and that's what we have been giving him, so today when we gave him dry food he was like what the heck, really? He loves the scratchy scratchy a.k.a pets. You just have to start petting and he will purr. We have two other cats Kacheekers, he is black and white and Vidalia, she is striped brown, gray, dark gray and black. Kacheekers is nice and will meow back at Raggles but Vidalia is not so nice, she even hisses at Raggles! It has been three weeks since we got Raggles so hopefully he will be friendly enough to let out of the garage in a couple of weekes.

Raggles

Last Friday we got a new cat. He was hanging out in the garbage dumpster where my dad's brother is a cook. They caught him in a live trap and my grandma brought him over to our house. We named him Raggles. He is striped light gray and dark gray. He was very afraid of us so we put him in a rabbit hutch so that he wouldn't run away and would learn that this is where he is going to get fed. On Thursday we thought he was tame enough to take him out of the rabbit hutch. We took him to the vet to get a rabies shot so he doesn't get sick and bite us. When we got home from the vet we let him out of the carrier in the garage and he ran to the back and hid. We are hoping if he gets hungry he will come out. It hasn't worked yet and we have feed him three times since Thursday. I all most caught him last night but he got away. So we'll see if we can get him to like us enough to come and let us pet him and eat.