Snowshoe Cat Invasion
In late January there was an abandoned cat that would come around our back door. One of our neighbors had moved out and left the cat behind. We would try to call the cat inside but the cat was a little wary of people and we could not get near her.
We started to leave food outside the door for her and she would come around and eat, but as soon as she heard anyone coming near she would take off into the back woods. After a couple of weeks of this we noticed that she was looking pregnant.
The weather was getting cold…(even here in Florida we were getting sub freezing temperatures) and I knew that she and her kittens would not survive the cold spells that we were having so using food we managed to lore her inside. This took several days to do.
Just a couple of days after she was inside she had four kittens. You can see the picture below of these little darlings.
After some research on the internet, I discovered that the cat was a Snowshoe cat. Apparently it is a cross breed between a Siamese cat and a domestic cat. The breed is considered rare because the snowshoe gene is not a dominant gene.
Out of the four kittens, only one was a snowshoe the others looking more like the father cat, another stay tiger cat in the neighborhood. After 6 weeks, the kittens were all given to good homes and the mother is still here until we can get her spayed so that she will not have any more kittens.
We will then let her go back outside. She is a very vocal cat and is driving us crazy with her constant meowing. I will miss not having her in the house, but I know that she prefers to be an outdoor cat. I will keep on feeding her as long as she stays around.
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