Kayla “Iacovino with an i”This is my new mastodon account! I’m actively migrating from my old geekstodon.com account. I’m excited to get back into the fediverse!
Jared@jared ❤️❤️ they are great! Compton just had SEVEN teeth removed. I’m sure he is feeling better for it - some were in bad shape. Here he is snoozing in my office after getting home from the vet. How are yours?
@kayla always happy to see Compton up(napping) about! Hope he wakes up nice and refreshed.
My kitty count has expanded a lot in the last few months. When I was low on cash over the summer after my disability was delayed until October, I briefly ran out of peanuts for the magpies. I discovered they would happily eat Penguins cat food. The ferals that live in my area noticed fairly quickly and now I take care of 4 extra cats + 2 sometimes.
@kayla The first of my ferals was Dorian Gray who, from what I have been told, has been living in the area for a while. He was the first to notice that I was putting out cat food, as he occasionally stopped by to drink. By the end of August, he was waiting for me most mornings when I put out food. He really really likes Silvervine Fruit, especially in powder form sprinkled on the ice.
@kayla around the same time, but was a little slower at picking up on my feeding schedule at the time, was Inspector Clouseau. The Inspector's got his name because it took him about a month to figure out that I only put out food during the day at the time. He is still the most skittish of the lot as, until recently, he only ever ate here if he hadn't seen me for at least 30 minutes. Can't get as close to him as the rest of them, but he no longer completely leaves when I bring food out.
@kayla the 4th one(I will get back to the 3rd), and currently 3rd member of the group, is Euler(full name "Dr. Professor Euler" with the included period). Euler's status is a bit of a mystery as he has a collar, but definitely hasn't been inside in a long time. He showed up once last May for about 2 seconds, and then suddenly reappeared in early December. He is cautious, but very clearly has been around humans before.
@kayla I originally thought he was just a visiting kitty from the neighborhood. His December appearance coincided with a day I put out catnip, which Euler is obsessed with. However, closer inspection of his collar, the texture his fur for the short period after he started letting me pet him, combined with how hungry he was, I believe I am the only one actually taking care of him.
@kayla the 5th(and currently 4th in the group) is Unicode X22. He started coming regularly in late December, but I apparently took photos of him last spring. I originally thought he was Dorian, as he appeared right after my normal cleanup like Dorian sometimes did. Was shocked when I saw the face in the second picture looking back at me.
@kayla X22 got his name because I thought the markings above his eyes(part of the tabby M) looked like single quote marks. """ is the Unicode Hex character for quotation marks.
X22's origin's are also a bit of a mystery. He has clearly been around humans before, but so far I have not been able to find any information about his activities before I met him. He has yet to let me pet him more than once, but never kept more than a meter distance from me.
@kayla the 2 extra are Ori Chalcos(pictures below), and Carl(Gauss) a long haired tuxedo cat who I don't have great pictures of yet. Ori appears infrequently, with their first appearance the same week X22 showed up. Gauss visits are slightly more frequent, but only averages about 1 visit a week.
@jared This is one of the greatest pictures of all time.
@kayla I wish I had more of him. Most of what I have of Inspector Clouseau is either from the surveillance cameras, slightly grainy quick shots, or from across the yard. First pic is I believe from the first time I for sure saw him. The second is from early January. The best sunlight during the winter is apparently up against the north fence. The little snow we got always melted there first, and they could climb the fence if they needed to get away.
@jared Way too cute 😍
