Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for December 14, 2021

Maybe that’s where the term “fat cat” comes from.

She gave them my neighborhood.

They are kind of cute guys. So, ask them to stop by.

We had a freeloader cat when we moved to town. He was quite a character, and very friendly. Then he started having diarrhea. Turned out, he’d talked our (ahem) kitty-corner back fence neighbor into giving him a bowl of milk most days. Cats mostly cannot tolerate milk past kittenhood. We tried to explain that even a good treat would tend to make him fat… after some negotiating, she agreed to give him TWO of the little treats that we knew he could tolerate.

We have a certain several scavengers who stop by trying to codge a meal off of us.

Our neighbour’s cat has already found one.

… and yet they want to still belong to no one – they want to roam free.

My daughter came across a cat in her neighborhood that was like that!!!

Well, you can comes to our neighbourhood. We could uses some talking cats here too.

Seems purrfectly reasonable.

My neighborhood had a cat problem. I counted ten cats in my backyard at one time. Someone complained to the lady that was feeding them. Not long after, the cats were gone.

I just love how the cats are drawn! So cute!

My neighbor and I both adopted one. We trapped, neutered and kept. :)

Well, I know of a nice, assisted living building populated mostly by elderly ladies….

we have several cats like that.

Dave obviously knows nothing about cats or he would have known that the last line would be “they belong to us.”

Lived on a tropical island for awhile, we had a rat problem, so cat who showed up and had kittens in the garage was welcome. We managed to catch and neuter all the kittens, but mom was too smart for us. They did keep the rats away.

Ancient wisdom: A cat’s home is where it had its last meal.

Try Istanbul (for evidence watch ‘Kedi’)

This goes on the fridge. Fluffy, Slinky, Zeus, Bully and Gin approve. :)

I know of three other houses in the neighborhood who let my cat in there homes. Not only does he con them into feeding him, he’s also been known to bed down and nap. They have our number now and will let us know he’s there or when they let him out.

One of my favorite cats over the years walked in through the cat door and adopted us.

There is a stray cat that I have been feeding for around five years. He comes to our back deck once or twice each day. He waits patiently, knowing he has me well trained! A few other cats have discovered the bowl but most of them are posers. They behave like cats who are used to people and we see them only in spring, summer, and fall. We see the other one through out the year and in all kinds of weather.

One drawback, skunks, raccoons (once) and oposums help themselves if the bowls are out too late. There was an opossum throw down last night over the small amount of kibble left in the bowl. Boy, do their mouths and teeth seem sharp. Survival of the fittest is harsh!

I know of a place just like that, but it’s probably nowhere near you. But keep looking – there are more places like that than you may think.