Updates From Posting Photos on my Facebook Page Part 1

Posted on January 8th, 2014-

The Shedley's

Mamma and her babies at dinnertime around 11 24 2013

Eating 12/3/2013 

They are getting bigger!

12/23/2013

Neighbor's (on our east side) cat, named Tiger. He stays over here most of the time now too especially at breakfast and dinner. I see him and Tinkerbell run from over there at his other home at feeding time.

Tinkerbell on 11/19/2013

Big Daddy on 12/3/2013

I can pet Big Daddy sometimes. Lately he has been hanging out on back porch railing. He has such a quiet voice for being such a big boy. I call him Big Daddy because he is very loving with the 4 baby kittens, fatherly like. And he loves his sister Tinkerbell too. They snuggle a lot in the shed in the round bed thing.

UPDATE : January 14, 2014

Big Daddy is becoming more loveable to me. He sits on back steps railing waiting for breakfast and dinner everyday and quietly says hi and lets me rub his back.  No chinny chin scratches yet, I figure about another month and we'll be good friends.

Shadow and Mamma on 12/3/2013

Shadow and Mamma Kitty on  are on the boat tarp, which they all love to play "tag" on. It's now ripped, but they still have the back area to play on. Shadow id from the other Mamma cat and was left behind. Mamma cat has adopted her though. Shadow is the first one I was able to pet. She is very loving but I can't hold her for too long.

Elfie on 11/19/2013

Sweet Elfie! She is the second one I got to pet, and the first one I got to hold. She loves cuddles every day. She greets me at the door ( so does everyone but they run to the feeding spot) and walks with me to the feeding spot each morning and night. She is such a sweet little thing. She helps me fill the water bowls too. We have 4 of them scattered around out here.

Elfie On 11/19/2013

All the 4 babies drank like this in the beginning! LOL Now they use the block.

Nala on 1/21/14

Elfie's other sister Nala looks like her with just a few differences in their mask. Nala is still afraid of me. She has let me "touch" her but not really pet her yet.

Tuffie on 11/19/2013

This is Tuffie! She likes to climb on the roof of the house with Simba and way up in the high branches of our tall tree. She is a brave and tough little thing.

Simba on 11/19/2013

Little Simba! As of January 8th 2014, I have finally been able to pick him up! He loves back rubs. I couldn't tell his gender until about 2 weeks ago. They don't hold still often enough for me to get pictures unless they are eating! 

1/9/2014

Playing on the log pile after breakfast this morning.

1/9/2014

Their food trays! Its easier to carry this way. A couple of kitties steal from others before eating their portion and I have to gently nudge them back to their spot. LOL

Dinner 1/8/2014

Babies are getting so big! Mamma must have been out mousing but she was back this morning.

I loved going through these photos again, it brought back so many wonderful memories! I will post more Facebook updates from the past tomorrow, and I hope you stop by again! 

~Kirsten~

In the Beginning........

We live out in the country and have been blessed with eight feral cats that migrated from the neighbors to live on our 3 acres. We already have five indoor cats, and with one being a diabetic, and all five of them on special food because of the diabetic, it is an expensive endeavor already. Now we are feeding the eight feral cats plus our east side neighbor's cat too.

Earlier Last Year:
Our neighbors’ (to the west of us) daughter had to move back home earlier this year because of her husband’s health issues (pancreatic cancer) and his inability to work anymore and the daughter had brought two strays with her. Then we noticed about a month or two after they moved in, there were 3 kittens over there too. We wondered if they would get them fixed...........

Then around August, I happened to look out my window and saw about eight more kittens running and playing under some cars the neighbors have parked out back.......Apparently they didn't fix the cat!!!

So fast forward to:
Around November 11, 2013, I was feeding this stray cat we call Missy Hisser, 

Missy Hisser  on 11/11/2013

(Funny name, I know, but when she rubs on us and talks to us she hisses instead of meows. Fortunately she has been spayed... I know this because she visited us in May and I noticed she didn't have any claws, and she looked familiar, so I called my other neighbor that lives to the east of us and she said that was the stray cat I gave her a couple of years ago that she had spayed and de-clawed and then it ran off! I had suggested NOT to de-claw the cat when I gave it to them. I don't think Missy Hisser liked the little dog they had, it always barks, but she likes to make the rounds in the neighborhood to see people and get a variety of life) and the 3 kittens from the neighbor’s house (to the west of us) who are about 6 -8 months old now, a black one and 2 white ones, came over whining and trying to get Hisser’s food. They were acting so hungry, so I fed them. They gobbled it up like they haven't eaten in days.

Shadow on 11/9/2013

So for the next few days I kept watching out my window to see if any of the people next door would come out to feed them, the daughter did a couple of mornings and one night and that’s all I noticed. So I kept feeding them when I fed Missy Hisser. Then Missy Hisser left in a about 4 days. I guess it was because she didn't want to be around the other cats, the last time she had stayed 2 weeks. So I stopped feeding the others, I figured maybe if I didn't feed them they'd get fed at their home. Maybe that's why I never saw her feed them, because she saw me feeding them. Well, the 3 of them came to my back door whining two nights later. When I fed them, they ate so fast that they were either not getting fed or not getting enough food. Broke my heart! My husband told me to just go ahead and feed them on a regular schedule.

I had been feeding the 2 white cats and black cat for awhile, and they had started staying over here, lounging in the fenced area and playing on the log piles. It is like a kitty jungle gym over here, so many things to climb up and on! One night as I was heading to the back porch steps, I saw 2 shiny eyes peeking up at me! It startled me because at first I thought it might be a skunk!

Tuffie on 11 18 13

The kitten was very hard to see because it was a tortoise shell and about 3 months old. I thought, 'Oh my God! It's one of the new kittens from next door!'

I spoke to it but it ran off back to the neighbors. 

The next day my husband went into our shed to get ice out of the freezer. He said when he opened the door, four little furry faces and the Mamma Kitty were looking at him from inside the crate I had put a blanket in for Missy Hissy when she was here. I figure the other kittens had told them there was food here so they moved in too. 

So what am I supposed to do? Call the pound and then they'd be put down? NO WAY! So the hubby said to feed them too. 

And so begins...The Chronicles of the Shedley Cats! 

Welcome to The Chronicles of the Shedley Cats!

This is going to be a fun blog, one where I will chronicle the happenings of my feral cat colony, who live in one of our old sheds, hence their name The Shedleys. A few blogs at first will be backtracking to get everything in one place, then there will be current blogs, hopefully daily, with fun photos and videos of all the precious cuteness growing up!

I hope you visit often and enjoy THE CHRONICLES OF THE SHEDLEY CATS!