Flies. Summer. Ugh.<\/p>\n
Why is it that flies WANT to come inside houses? They are only around outside when it’s warm … no flies around in the Winter. So, in the Summer, when the house is COLD from the Air Conditioner, why do they come inside? Just to be pests. Sit on the ceiling, sit on the ceiling fan. Sit on the curtains. Buzz at the window, trying to escape to the outdoors, only to NOT go out when you open the door for them. They go deeper inside the house at that point, or to the corner of the wall away from the door opening, or some such thing.<\/p>\n
Enter Strider. My most favorite kitty. Strider and his sister, Dixie Blossom, were adopted from a shelter the end of December 2001 (they were part of a cat colony, captured as young kittens in June 2001). They are both beautiful, similarly marked though very different from each other. They are charcoal gray with silver markings, tiger-ish, but not tabby markings. Strider has more straight lines of silver. Dixie Blossom has more swirls of silver. She is also darker looking overall, with decidedly tabby markings on her chest, in silver.<\/p>\n
Strider is lighter charcoal overall in appearance, but his ears … silver … beautiful silver ears. His eyes are haunting, frightening to look at actually. Unless you love cats. And know that cats love you.<\/p>\n
Strider is a name from Lord of the Rings trilogy. Aragorn’s nickname as a Ranger.<\/p>\n
What does Strider the cat do? How does he have anything to do with the flies? Ah, he catches them and eats them.<\/p>\n
Hurray for Strider!<\/p>\n
We are so happy to have this brother and sister duo. I am so glad for them, and feel very fortunate to have them in our household. Why did they grow from kitten-hood to nearly adult-cat-hood without any prospective owners? I don’t know. They are lovely pets.<\/p>\n
And Strider has replaced Bleu. Bleu ran away a few years ago, an old cat, he was my baby. He was 11 and the door was left open down in the basement, by accident. Never saw him again. Strider is my buddy. He is such a lover. He has healed that loss for me.<\/p>\n
And he eats flies.<\/p>\n
What more can one ask for?!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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