Funky feline fotos

It's been a while. Bert is well, although we did have an episode of him throwing up something in the house and a few episodes of poop indoors (he won't use his litter box). He is fourteen years old after all, so I expect some "senior" moments from time to time.

I caught Bert stalking some critter in the grass out by the pond on Thursday morning.

Since Callie died, Bert has been able to spend more time indoors. He gets along well with Tasha, so there is no longer a dog/cat conflict. Last year we noticed that, because we normally leave Bert's access to the outdoors open 24 hours a day, neighborhood cats were coming into the house and eating his kibble. There were even a few late night rumbles in the garage when Bert caught another cat in his territory.

Since then, I've been closing his window at night, locking him indoors until morning. That solves the neighborhood cat problem, but Bert was used to going in and out when he pleased, or when he needed to. So that might explain the poop episodes. I'm trying to get him used to going out and coming back in before I close the window, with mixed results. Sometimes it works, other times he goes out and stays out until the wee hours, and still other times he doesn't go out at all.

Over all, however, things are fine. He eats more or less normally and hunts successfully. His last vet visit this past summer was positive; the vet said he was in fine form.