Showing posts with label tortoiseshell cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tortoiseshell cats. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Cats





















They really love each other - of course, they are sisters: Garrida, the tortoiseshell cat, and Zarca, "the one with the blue eyes". Hard to believe, considering what they look like. Typical story: Mum is a Portuguese mongrel, Dad unknown.
They are now 3.5 years old and catch the mice. Zarca even catches rats. Garrida is more likely to catch mice, but never under stress, and never doing without her after-lunch sleep!


Zarca






Garrida








after-lunch sleep






Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Hoglet

Our hoglet is developing very well. 4 weeks after joining us the boy is weighing nearly 500 g. He is running around in his new preserve in the boiler-room. His old apartment is far too small for him now.
So we built a new preserve for him (1.10 x 2.20 m) with a lot of leaves and a nice den for his nest.
Eddie is always hungry, eating up everything he can get hold of. So we must take care to provide exactly the amount of feed that he needs.
Only our cat has a problem: she cannot understand that anybody else is receiving her feed. She was getting really depressive. So it is very important to feed her first, and then rapidly disappear taking the feed for the hoglet.
Oh dear, tortoiseshell cats are so sensitive!












Could there be any more food below the rim?