There's a little stray tuxedo cat that's been hanging around the homestead for the past week or so. I've noticed her from time to time, but it's only in the last few days that I've really paid attention to her. This cat is hilarious. She's a talker. Every time she sees us outside, she meows and meows.
What we discovered recently is that she's also insanely cuddly. I let Merlin outside one day to do his business, and spotted the cat lurking near the shed. Uh-oh, I thought, Merlin's going to take off after that cat, and the cat's going to claw his face off. But I guess the past year of cat cohabitation has softened Merlin's views on felines, because he just sort of looked at her and went on. The cat, though, had other plans. She trotted right up to Merlin and, to my surprise, started cuddling him like crazy! I've never seen a cat do this. Wacky. So, the other day Merlin and I went outside and the cat came out from under a tarp, and I took these pix of the encounter.
Merlin has this look here like he's being accosted by a Jehovah's Witness.
Super cuddle action in progress.
Awww.
Now Merlin's starting to get all up ons. Get a room, guys, yeesh.
"This seems so wrong, but...this is the most action I've seen in my entire life, so what the heck."
Cat setting a few boundaries.
"I'm outta here."
I decided right then that if we ended up keeping this cat, her name was going to be McLovin.
At the moment McLovin's fate is unclear. It's obvious that she belongs to someone, or did at some point, but as far as I can tell the only place she goes at night is into the crawlspace beneath our trailer. She has a flea collar but no tag. We've decided we're going to keep McLovin, but with two cats already in the house we can't bring her in until we get her to a vet, and the earliest we can get in is Tuesday. So we're just going to try and keep her fed and hanging around until then.
I don't know what's going to happen. McLovin could end up wandering away, or we could go to the vet and find that she's been microchipped, in which case we'll need to track down the owner. If all goes well, though, we'll be adding Cat #3 to our household next week, and we'll be well on our way to Crazy Cat Peopledom.
