My day trips have been cut a bit short because one of my kitties may be sick. I say “may be” because there are a bunch of subtle signs which may or may not mean anything. Like me, they are getting older and a bit more “creaky”. Complicating the puzzle is that I don’t know which kitty is having the issues. They are both acting pretty normal so this has prompted a visit to the vet and blood panels. Not cheap.
Editor in Chief
Rocky, our Editor- in- chief, went first. I should have preliminary results in a day or two.
Then it will be Smokey’s turn. Smokey is actually the older of the 2 cats so statistically , he should be having age related issues before Rocky but who knows. We all age differently.
Smokey
So between worrying about the “boys” and finding myself cash poor from the vet bills, I haven’t been able to explore too far from home.
But even with those restrictions I still managed to run across a bit of urban wildlife. Last year I watched a Ground hog all summer as it nibbled the grass right next to busy route 44.
I saw it a couple of time this summer but not as often as before…until today. I think I know why it hasn’t been quite so prominent. It has a family. Today there were 3 of them. One larger one and 2 smaller ones.
I’d tried to photograph them before but they seemed more skittish this year than last so I tried something different today. I parked across the road in the Wendy’s parking lot and tried to time the pictures between the passing cars.
The bigger one has a much darker face and head. It’s a big one!
Something scared them off before I got the camera set up but I waiting around and pretty soon 2 of them came back out. Clearly the traffic doesn’t bother them.
I didn’t see the third one again.
