Reflections from Crumbly Acres: 😼 Cat visitors

Our cats are Cinnamon and Nutmeg. Both are tabby cats.

2024 – The cat came back

Feb. 27 – Harlequin tabby on spycam, front walk.
Mar. 1 – Harlequin tabby on spycam, 8 pm.
Attempt #1 at Capture
March 4 – Cat trap fail! Plus a video.
March 14th – Harley came by!
March 32 – Can't trap him. Trapped the cottontail.
April 3 – front deck.

2023 – Welcome to Pepper!

Feb. 15, 2:41 a.m. – First sighting this year!
Feb. 19, – Oregano visited just before the storm.
Apr. 5 – 2 a.m., in the night. Sprayed on the window. Meowing loudly.
April 8, near midnight – Pepper – Cinnamon is afraid to go out in the morning. The smell is there.
April 8 – busy lad on the spycam at midnight!
April 12 – He was back.
April 27th – 4:30 a.m. on the sidewalk camera.
May 5 – 1 a.m.
May 9 – 10:23 p.m.
May 12 – video front walk
May 22 – howling on the back deck at bedtime. Cinnamon was spooked.
May 27 – 10:27 p.m. lower deck
June 3rd – 8 a.m. on the lower deck checking out Fred. I heard him yowling.
June 5 – 9 p.m. Front step, spycam.
June 19 - 5:30 a.m., yowling outside the Muskoka Room. He ran off to the back 40.
Nov. 20 – We don't have a black cat! In the cold and dark. Long haired cat
Dec. 11 – Harlequin tabby: strange cat.
Dec. 16 – Same harlequin, 17:15 on the deck.
Dec. 20 – Harlequin tabby Back again.

R.I.P. Friday night, Sept. 15th, around 7 p.m. someone came by to ask if we had a black cat. I am wondering if it is the wandering Pepper. We haven't seen Pepper since June. It'd been hit by a car and was lying near our mailbox. JB and I went out and brought the little body in, and put it in a plastic garbage bag in a box. Joe took it to the vet Saturday morning. Hopefully he is chipped, but I doubt it, as Pepper was an intact male.

Our last sighting in June, 2023.

2022

😼UPDATE: It appears as if Oregano has left us. I finally realized that we've a new visitor cat. It is black with tabby undertones. I am calling him Pepper. He is intact, which isn't good for our male Cinnamon.

OREGANO

Jan. 6th, 2022 – He visited the mice friends.
Jan. 21, 2022 – back door 9:37 p.m.
Feb. 6th – back door, front deck, driveway, back yard.
Feb. 23 – with mice friends!
Feb. 24 – both back door and front deck.
Feb. 27, 3 a.m. – bird feeder: oregano cat
Mar. 1st – he attacked the turkey carcass on the back deck. Video.
Mar. 2nd – back deck and front deck tracks!
March 6/7 – Oregano 11:30, Oregano 2, Oregano 3, on both front deck and backyard.
May 3 – back yard on trailcam in garden
Oct. 14th – I had my first sighting of Oregano on the trailcam.
Oct. 18th – oregano on the driveway. He was surprised by the light.
Oct. 20 – Oregano was back, the light didn't scare him this time.
Nov. 5th – Oregano in the evening
Nov. 23 – On spycam
Nov. 28 – spycam: Oregano
Dec. 26 – Tracks in the snow.

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I was wondering if this one was out on weekends, when the tourists are up. With so many working from cottages that could be a possibility. This one doesn't seem to be feral, but who knows. It's out at odd hours. I can tell, as Cinnamon gets all mushy and want to go out to 'play.'

I began to feed it in January, leaving the cat house outdoors, with the heater, to prevent the food from freezing solid. I called him Oregano, as we have Nutmeg and Cinnamon, and he could be a sibling.

By the time I snagged him on the trailcam, I realized he'd been spraying the cat house.

I tracked him. March 2nd, and found he'd come from across the highway.

2021

Here are my Oregano sightings, beginning in 2021:

Saturday night late Jan. 9th.
Wednesday Jan. 13 (10 p.m.),
Monday Jan. 18th 8:42 p.m.,
Thursday Jan. 21, 3:54 a.m. Strange cat
Friday, Jan 22, 2:38 a.m.
Friday, Jan. 22, at night, 7:43 and 8:07. We knew our cats were in. Oregano strange cat
Sat., Jan. 24 at 3 a.m. , spotted by JL peering into the window from the dark.
Wed., Jan. 27 set off the light, as well as going to the tree house.
Sat., Jan. 30, 6:30 a.m. while deer fed
Monday, Feb. 1, 3:18 a.m.
Tuesday/Wednesday, Feb. 1/2, 2021;7 p.m., 6:20 a.m.
Friday, 1:13 to 1:34 a.m., Feb. 5
Friday, Feb. 5, 21:56 – 22:09 meowing!
Sunday, Feb. 7, 20:54
Mon., Feb. 8, food gone.
Wed., Feb. 10, 20:41
Sat., Feb. 13, 23:42
Sun., Feb. 14, 21:42, I saw him, talked to him.
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 21:12. I saw him at the front door at bedtime. He made eye contact, with his cute little furry cheeks.
Wed., Feb. 17, 8 p.m. I saw him running up the driveway.
Mon., Feb. 22, up at 2 a.m., the motion sensor lights were on.
Mon., Feb. 22, 21:23 he appeared. Warmer temps.
Friday, oregano Feb 26, 20:03.
Saturday, Feb. 27; 21:09, spraying our cat house (see photo below).
Sunday, Feb. 28; 10:37.
Monday, Mar. 1st; during a storm. I tracked him the next day
Wed., Mar. 3rd, a storm, 9 p.m.
Monday, Mar. 8th
Tuesday, Mar. 9th – he ate some food.
Mon., Mar. 15 – 6 a.m.
Tues., Mar. 16 – 1:49 a.m. mice friend, too.
Wed., March 17 – 8 p.m.
Oregano 📹 was back, Mar. 22.
Mar. 23 – 📹19:38 he's a frequent flyer!
Mar. 24 – 2:32 a.m. 📹Sprays where the cat house used to be.
Mar. 25 – 20:50 sprays bear.
Mar. 26 – 11:03 p.m. sprays bear.
March 27 – 7:42 p.m. , 11:25
May 16 – daytime: I spotted Oregano. It was about 6:30 p.m. and I knew our cats were in. He took off like a bat outta hell!
Nov. 3 – backyard in the afternoon: Clouds everywhere!
Nov. 6, front deck, 10:37 p.m.
Nov. 23 – under the bird feeders, 4:30 p.m.
Dec. 8th – tracks in the snow, and 📹on video.
Dec. 14th – bunny watching Oregano in the dark.

Saturday morning, Jan. 23, I unplugged the Christmas lights, and plugged in the heated cat house. My plan is to find out if he stays here, or not. Either he has a home, or he hunkers down in there. It's a 25 W heater, adequate for the cats.