Following on from yesterday’s post, here are the other Visiting Cats who were each listed in four consecutive years.
These cats had something in common, and that was the direction from which they arrived. In all cases, they came across the fields at the back of the garden rather than from the fields opposite or to the side near the culvert. And over the fields at the back of the garden lay another house which also had an enclosed back garden and a terrace, and a human who fed cats.
Whether some or all of these cats ‘belonged’ there, we don’t know, but there were a few instances which made us think that whoever was feeding them was kindly disposed and the cats were friendly with them.
Visitor Cat was spotted using a diagonal drainpipe at this other house to access an open window in the upstairs wash house, hopping neatly through as though she had done it a hundred times before.
Sniffly Cat was more wary and less friendly, but Sabiħa was definitely used to humans and could also have come from the same garden as Visitor.
Sniffly (pictured above) had a short coat with lighter calico colours. Sabiħa was generally darker, although Visitor, Sniffly and Sabiħa would all have fallen within the category of tortoiseshell or calico cats.
And then there were Ghost Cat, Thundercat and BBC (Big Black Cat). Despite their differing appearances and characters, they could have been related in some way as they literally arrived together in a threesome, all went to the food bowls together to eat, and then all turned and left together, going over the garden wall and back across the fields to the other garden.
Ghost Cat (pictured above) was the boldest, and also the most food-orientated. BBC had a sweet disposition and fitted in well with the other cats; everyone liked him, whereas Ghost could be a bit pushy when it came to muscling in on the food bowls.
Ghost and BBC were reasonably friendly characters, but Thundercat was not – but then again he was an ambitious cat with alpha-male goals and ambitions, and that mentality would naturally have made him more of a loner. He became used to the humans and once again quite surprisingly fitted in well with the others.
And there were many more cats who came and went, some who we probably were unaware of as they visited under cover of darkness, but this post completes the run-down of the most regular Visiting Cats coming to The Cat’s garden, the drive and the front path over the longest periods.
