All about Bob

Hi! I am new to this group but I would like to share a story. We had a
cat named Bob. My husband affectionatly called him Bob 'cause he had a
Bobtail. We think he had Manx in him. Anyway.. one day my husband was
in the backyard with Bob who was about 4 yrs. old and 3 new young cats
about a year old. All of a sudden Bob walking across the lawn stopped
and started digging. He put his paw down a hole for a second and came
up with nothing. Then he put his paw back down the hole and came up
with a mole!! He played with it for a minute or two and then carried it
over to the young cats and plopped it in front of them like "Here, that
is how you catch a mole! When I came home my husband told me the story
and as he was talking Bob was jumping around the yard like a jack
rabbit. I think he knew we were talking about him! He was a great cat

Adrian A...

Welcome to the group! I love the story and am looking forward to more.

Cheryl...

Welcome, and what a neat story about Bob. :)

for 17 years!

mlbriggs...

Bob sounds like he was a great cat. What are the other three like? MLB

Kats'n Us...

The other three cats where siblings: Linus, Lucy and Barney. We lost
Linus to kidney failure and old age about 2 years ago. Lucy and Barney
are around 16 now and doing well. Barney thinks food is the only thing
in life so he is overeweight. He doesn't seem to gain or loose just is
very plump. Lucy is thin but has always been a happy cat. She lost all
her teeth a few years ago but it is amazing that they adapt. These 3
cats where part of a litter of 4. Their Mom, we think, followed our
orange tabby cat named Odie home one day. She was in love with that
cat! Well she was pregnant at the time and wild. She only had three and
half legs. She was missing from like your elbow to paw of her front
right leg. After the kittens where born, we had her fixed and found out
that she was born with this disability. So we decided to keep her since
we felt she had survived this long, about 8 years, why not give her a
home. Of course since we are softies, we kept the kittens. They all
came out with normal legs. But since she was wild, they were to. This
made health care difficult. We did not realize that Lucy had bad teeth
'cause we couldn't get close. It took time... years to get to the point
of trust. At one time we had 7 cats!!! But they all got along and lived
great lives. Odie lived till 17... he is another story. I have thought
of writing a book on our cats. There is just fun stories. Do you have
many cats?

mlbriggs...

Just one. The current cat was a rescue that I took after my previous cat
died at 16. When I was in my teens we had quite a few cats but one is
more than enough for me now. She is a huge cuddle bunny. Best wishes.
MLB

meeee...

Nice to hear of all your cats!! Sounds like you have had some great ones,
thanks for sharing them with us!

Micha...

Welcome to the group

Nice story

Squarely Yours
Michael

polonca12000...

Welcome to our group! Soncek (Sunshine in English) is a domestic
shorthair tabby and white and is 7 years old. We live in Slovenia, Europe.
Best wishes,
Polonca and Soncek

Will in New Haven...

Here's to Bob and his mole seminar. Since the three youngsters weren't
his kittens, as I saw in a later post in the thread, it is somewhat
remarkable that he took the time to show them. For that matter, for a
male to undertake a nurchering and educational task like that shows a
remarkable kitty.

Micha...

When we lost Zwinkie in May 2002 due to kidney disease our Blacky
(then about 6 years old) was alone. So end of June we adopted two
little tomcats (Flori and Merlin, litter mates), aged 8 weeks then.
After integration - about 2 month later - Blacky came home with a live
mouse to show it to the little brats (He is not a great mouse catcher
otherwise). Wow, THAT was a new game to them! Especially Flori took on
the game of mouse catching. At one overnight foray he brought us back
3 mice. Unfortunately he disappeared in October and from what we could
find out we concluded, he had been run over at the main road (which is
quite a bit away, so we didn't thought, that Flori would roam that
far).

Squarely Yours
Michael

I told WooToo about Bob and she said that he better not bring HER any
nasty old live moles but then she understood that Bob is at the Rainbow
Bridge and WooToo says that he should say hello to our Mom. But not to
bring her a mole as Mom is human and wouldn't want one.

Great story.

Will in New Haven