What's New with the Pussycats?

Click on the pic for a better look at Murphy

I know the main thing on your mind this weekend: What's going on with those feral cats in Evanier's backyard? Not a whole lot that I can see. Lydia is in her little house most of the time. Murphy (above) drops by for a few hours a day and spends most of them as far from Lydia as is possible be in that yard.

Here we see him (or her, the gender still being undetermined) way over on the other side of the pool, nowhere near her. But Murphy "talks" a lot and occasionally, he seems to be communicating somehow with Lydia, albeit from some distance. I remember when I was like that with girls.

When I put food out on the back porch, Lydia scampers over and eats her fill, then washes a bit and trots back into her abode. There seems to be an understanding that if she leaves food in the dish, Murphy can come over and partake of whatever she didn't eat. Since Lydia doesn't mind, I guess I don't mind. But Murphy scampers back to his/her side of the pool if Lydia comes back to eat some more. Murphy also flees if he/she sees me looking his/her way. The above photo was taken from some distance with a real good lens.

A third, larger cat also showed up the other night for a quick snack but by the time I could grab the camera, it had disappeared. It will have to be around more than that before I consider it part of my little mob out there, give it a name and refer to it with a more human pronoun than "it." It's only fair.