I adopted Addi from the Nelson Cheese factory in Nelson, Wisconsin. She was a cat that was living outdoors at their business. She is a beautiful silver tabby cat with some cream coloring in her hair. I had Addi for about six months, and she became pregnant by my cat Peter. Addi had five healthy kittens. Addi involved the help of my neutered Toms in babysitting her kittens along with their Aunt Nicole.
When the kittens were about nine weeks old, I gave two of them to a kind and loving home. I look at their pictures on Facebook, and they are living in the lap of luxury. She named the kittens Leo and Cleo.
I named Addi’s other three kittens Mr. Gray, Hilford, and Sherlock, and they are large and sturdy-looking neutered Tom. Addi was sleeping on a large cat mat the other day with Hilford and Nicole cuddled up together. I find Peter cuddled up with Nicole, Sherlock, Hilford, and Mr. Gray with his feet or head sticking out of the heated cat bed.
The cat family gets along with Faith and Cali but never cuddles up since they are unrelated. They like my cat Russ because he used to babysit Addi’s kittens for her, so he gets to cuddle up with them like he is part of their family.
My Related cat family is fun to watch because they care for each other and keep each other warm. They like to play games together and toss a catnip mouse to each other. Since I always had outdoor cats as a child, I never got to see how the inner workings of a related cat family worked until I could watch them in a house daily. The inner workings and concern for each other well being in a cat family are not much different than the concerns a human family has for each other well being. They watch over each other daily.
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