New2view's Blog   Life on The Blue Marble

It doesn’t know me, and I don’t know it, male or female. But it has been a local feral cat entity for years.  I only know its black bob-tailed butt. It may or may not be the same one that came up on my back railing and peered at me in a kitchen window when I first moved in 8 years ago.

Indeed that cat peered into my kitchen, and me, as if inspecting who had moved in.  And not many weeks afterwards as I was sitting on my very private rear sundeck, the same cat came struggling past with a dead rabbit in its jaws that was equal in size to the feline itself  to my amazement!  It was no-less similar to an African leopard carrying a recently killed gazelle to tree storage!

That was year’s ago, so I’m not sure if the current feline is the same one, or perhaps even the offspring of that highly efficient hunter.

In any case I only see it in fleeting moments, as I did tonight.  A ghostly image disappearing around my garden shed or garage. Leaving a remnant of canned salmon or sardines may be well appreciated but not acknowledged by my shadowy neighbor.

But how it has so-far managed to elude regular known predators including coyotes, raccoons, and eagles, not to mention freezing nights, for years, is hard to image, perhaps a case study for military scientists.

In any case it will continue to have my deep admiration for its independent survival skills.

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