Plum Settles In



Three days later: Plum's quite the resilient kitty.  Doesn't he have a noble face? 

I pulled off two more bloated ticks today, and think that he's finally free of the last of them (five in all).  He's spent most of his time behind the bins in the stall where we keep our cages and feeds.  Now that he's established a home base, I'm encouraging him to venture out a bit from the hot and stuffy barn.  I set up a cage across the stall door and he's enjoying scoping out the yard from the safety of his new perch.  When it all gets a bit too much, ie, dogs, other cats, geese or whatever, he can quickly zip back inside behind the bins.  As we're entering a heatwave (it's supposed to get up to 110 degrees by tomorrow), I'm relieved that he can get out to some light and fresh air if he chooses to.

Multi-Pass comes closer...

...and closer...

...while Plum wisely chooses to remain oblivious

Naturally, the other cats' noses are out of joint at the arrival of yet another feline. There's lot of hissing and some name calling (from a safe distance) on both sides, but no one wants to fight.  I'm confident that they'll all eventually work it all out with only a few scratched noses here and there.




The next step is to get Plum out to the vet for a complete checkup and his first shots.  He'll also be booked for the all-important surgery to have his own very small "plums" removed.  Shhh -- don't tell.

Yeah, and here we were wondering how to spend all that extra money we didn't know what to do with...