We’re still debating a name for Rescue Cat #4, a six-month old female that we brought home Thursday morning. She’s not really still a kitten, but still verry kitteny (is that a word?). She had been living in a territory that included the Kahala Beach Condominium and parts of the Kahala Hotel, from the condo side over to the Plumeria restaurant. The problem is that a federally-protected Fairy Tern was found dead at the condo, reportedly the result of a cat attack, leading the condo management to begin trapping and removing free-roaming cats, and there were quite a few.
This little lady stood out for her friendliness and lack of fear of people. She is now safely stashed in our small spare bedroom, adjusting to life indoors before being introduced to our three other cats.
I installed an infrared cat cam in the room to track her movements, and caught this little scene early Saturday morning shortly after midnight. For those interested, it is a Wyze Pan Cam v3. It pans across the room and records when it senses motion.
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Wow what a cutie pie! I thought she looked more ‘calico’ in the first photo of her in the cage. So she’s mostly white? I hope Kinikini likes her. I predict she will bond with Bessie.
she’s darling. i’ve noticed the mice reaction to the ring camera i installed to catch their movements where we’re trying to live trap them in our storage area. We’re up to #50, and I’m convinced they’re coming in daily but for the life of us, we can’t figure out where…..anyway, I’ve noticed when the mice look at the Ring, they’re noticing the two adjacent red dots and assuming predator and some of them whisk themselves away pronto, resulting in my relocating the camera so that the red “eyes” aren’t directly in the view of the mouse checking out the baited traps. I couldn’t figure out the sudden movement after they made eye contact with the camera until I went out there and looked at things from their perspective….those two red spots look pretty scary when you’re a prey animal…LOL.
Every time I see the two red dots on the Ring doorbell, it momentarily scares me too! Do you have unscreened pipes in the storage area exiting the house, either through a roof vent or through the sewer? We discovered that our contractor created a small, inaccessible crawl space above some vent piping exiting the old roof. We also have an old washtub that we never use anymore so it was dry. We saw a mouse pop its head up in the washtub, so we knew they came in there. Solution was to plug the drain with steel-wool sold at Amazon (not dish-washing pads) because mice can’t chew through. We can’t figure out how to get the steel wool into the old roof vent pipes, though. I also got non-toxic, mouse-repellent peppermint spray from Amazon and spray it into the crawl space every couple of days. I don’t know if it works, but so far have only had 1 visitor that hasn’t returned. I’m looking into getting a Ring camera to mount near the crawl space.
I left out we lost my mouser in March, he’d turned 15 and had developed some intestinal health problems that got the better of him. We’ve had mouse problems ever since. I feed wild colonies of dumped kitties over here on the BI and I’m searching for a friendly recently dumped kitty to replace him…..
Condolences on the loss of your mouser buddy. 15 is a good, long life for a kitty. We had one that almost made it to 20, but the others never made it even to 15. We didn’t know one had diabetes and sadly he died at 10. I didn’t know cats could become diabetic so we didn’t get him treatment soon enough. Since then we watch like a hawk for symptoms.
She is adorable! You and your wife are such kind souls to save these cats.