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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Sleeping Under The Stars


This chocolate colored cat prefers to live outside.
He comes in to eat and get a drink and back out he goes!
Even during the cold winter, he's curled up in a chair on the
back porch.  Summer nights I find him sleeping out in the
grass, like he is in this photo I took one morning this week.  

35 comments:

  1. cute :) but in winter I think maybe he comes to your house :)

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  2. That's the life. When I was growing up, we had a huge clover lawn.....my sister and I loved to take a blanket and lay on the soft clover and watch the stars and sometimes even sleep there.

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    1. We had a lawn like that, too! Soft and sweet smelling. But you could easily step on a bee, which I did more than once! Cloud watching is especially nice laying on the ground. :)

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    2. Yes, I had a few bee stings cause I loved mowing the lawn barefooted with that old push mower. My feet were tough back then.

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  3. I suppose you must be used to seeing this. At first sight he looked quite dead to me. Oh dear.

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    1. I thought he was dead, too. haha. What cat does this? He must have been covered in dew.

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    2. Apparently your cat does! Did you google that hotel?

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    3. That hotel is absolutely wonderful! I want to go there! :)

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  4. Hi Betsy- gosh I've never seen a cat like this before ... he's obviously happy ... and then deciding the porch and a chair is better during the freezing nights - makes sense ... cheers Hilary

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    1. Yes, he must be happy. He's free to do what he wants. Wouldn't be my first choice though. haha.

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  5. I have a cat that is the same. He comes for food and drink, but will not come into the house. He started coming about 6 months ago. I named him Jack. I don't think he has a home.

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  6. When I first looked at the photo I thought uh-oh. Glad Cocoa is live and well! Beautiful colour. I guess he is just an outdoorsman! Footloose and fancy free.

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    1. Oh, I wouldn't have shown a dead cat. haha. But I did think the same thing when I looked outside.
      Crazy guy. He's a true guard cat. Very territorial and takes on anything twice as big as he is. So funny.

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    2. Well that's odd. I wrote in my comment that I didn't think you'd show us a dead kitty, but it isn't there. Ghost editors!

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  7. Nothing better than a great cat. :)

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  8. Likes to be one with nature even in snow
    Sure one brave kitty when the white stuff is all aglow

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    1. Only a few times did he sleep inside.
      That was when it was well below freezing at moontide.
      He slept just inside the flap
      so he could monitor the entrance gap. haha.

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  9. Don't think I have ever seen a cat sleeping out in the yard. Cocoa must feel safe to do that. My cat wants to go outside for about three seconds...she is definitely spoiled to the indoors.

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    1. Isn't it weird? I've seen him napping out there during the day bu thought he was enjoying the sun. He isn't afraid of anything....well, except getting his flea control once a month. haha.

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    1. He was! It was about 7 AM and I think he slept there all night!

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  11. That is interesting that he prefers to sleep outside and only comes inside to eat and drink. Sleeping in the grass is probably a lot cooler...especially if you all are having these "dog days" hot and humid days like we are right now.

    My package came today...thanks so much!

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    1. He's been here since he was a kitten, too, so it's not like he had lived outside for years.

      We're humid...so very humid. ugh.

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  12. I saw this article about black kitties going brown. You might be interested even though I doubt it applies here. I never heard of such a thing. https://www.vetknowhow.co.uk/blog/why-is-my-black-cat-turning-reddy-brown I would sleep out on the lawn if we still had one and I thought I wouldn't be accosted by some thug. It isn't that bad here but I guess I sleep better behind locked doors!

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    1. Thanks for the article...I'll be interested in reading it! He looked brown as a kitten. I call him a black cat but when he's up against our black cats you can really see how brown he is!

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    2. Very interesting article! That photo of the one cat that is very red is amazing!
      I'm pretty sure our cat food contains tyrosine but I'll double check! Thank you!

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