Cats

One day as I was exploring our yard (this was soon after we had moved in) I heard a loud meowing coming from some bushes. I walked over to investigate, and, lo and behold, there stood1 cat. It was a brown cat, like the one in the picture. Mom said it was probably a stray, so I made friends with her and named her Isabella.
A few weeks later, we discovered that Isabella had 6 kittens. We children were delighted, but for some reason Mom didn't seem to be quite so thrilled.
The kittens grew, we tamed them, one of them dissapeared, he was a male so we assumed that he had been driven of by the other males (we had 2 others).
Then, one day, we saw our cat 'Butch' carrying a mouse, a rather large, funny shaped mouse across the yard. Following, to congratulate her on her catch, we discovered that the 'mouse' was, a kitten! We had a hasty confrence, and renamed 'Butch' 'Annabella' After her mother who she looked exactly like. Annie for short. She had 3 more kittens
Soon, two other cats had kittens, 4 each. Ha, ha, that ads up to a grand sum of 19 cats.... two missing (Issabella dissapeard soon after she brought us her kittens) makes 17. That, is a lot of cats. (you should have seen our yard when the nieghbor's dogs decided to come over. The air (trees) was filled with hissing spitting cats! ).
Well, over the years, we have gained a few, lost a few.... and now we have seven.

Tags: Photo, Cat, Kittens