A sturdy and powerful orange male cat looks up from where he is sitting in a wooden greengrocer's fruit box, lined with garden netting. His eyes are narrowed and he is wary of humans, but the box under the olive tree in the garden is just too good to give up easily.

Saturday, one of the early Visiting Cats and a firm favourite of The Cat herself. Even the most hardened feral alpha-males could not resist a box 🐾
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A black cat with almond-shaped green eyes sits loaf-style on an elevated stone step atop a wall under an olive tree, looking down at the human with wide eyes, not wishing to move but at the same time poised to dash off if the human gets any closer.

Muffin observing the humans from what he considered to be a safe distance. Although he became less wary and more relaxed with the humans around, he was never off his guard with us there.
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A dilute calico cat looks at the camera. She is sitting up, and not completely relaxed, as though she is ready to flee if the human gets any closer. She has a little grey fringe and grey ears, peach shading around her eyes and over her nose, and a white chin, front and legs.

Sundown did become less nervous and wary, but she was never really relaxed around humans 🐾
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Spooks: Hey Pete, why is your tail bald?

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A black-and-white cat (with a black mask around just one eye continuing up over her head) stands in the drive and licks around her mouth with a long, pink tongue.

Phantom had just enjoyed a mid-morning snack in the drive. There was food and water available 24/7 in the drive, the garden and the front path 🐾
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A garden with some green grass, and a metal rail running approx 12 inches from the ground. Over the rail is balanced an old piece of hardboard which become bent into a U shape through being constantly damp, making a rudimentary tunnel for the cats to play under and on top of. Hiding under the hardboard is a small black and white cat, waiting to pounce on a playmate.

Don't tell anyone I'm here - I'm going to jump out on someone.
Moonstruck, always happy when she was playing 🐾
I put this old, bent piece of hardboard over this rail for Lightning to play with and it ended up serving many generations of cats.
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All good things…
Mittens came in for first feeding of the night (I pick up the kibble around 3. I don’t have the heart to starve them all day, as she was discovered starving). Will try again in an hour.
#blueskycats #OperationRescueMittens #feralcats

Daily Kitty
…because all that is good and optimistic revolves around kitties. Mittens and Her Kitten, Earli 🩷🐈🐈‍⬛🩷
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Dandy Grey, a younger grey-and-white cat, wheeling round to get closer to an enamelled feeding bowl containing pate which Pippin, a dilute calico cat, is diligently working her way through.

Dandy Grey wondering whether it would be advisable to try and muscle in on Pippin's pate. Pippin wouldn't have admonished Dandy (he was her little brother, after all), but on the other hand she wouldn't have moved over.
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A young cat sits atop a water tank under an olive tree, staring ahead. He has a white nose and cheeks, an orange forehead and ears, and a white chest. Behind him is a window with paw-marks clear to see.

Sherpa weighing up the potential for an assault on an unsuspecting playmate. The window behind him is covered in paw-prints! 🐾
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Raven, a fluffy one-year-old black feral cat, lies in the garden on an upturned wooden fruit box which has a hardboard base (now the top) which has sagged in the damp, and is supporting Raven's rear end nicely. Behind them are yucca plants, long grasses, some upturned plastic barrels, and the stump of a fruit tree.

The cats like to lie on the upturned greengrocer's boxes as it kept them dry from the heavy dew on the grass in the early morning. Crates with hardboard bases sagged in the damp and were the cats' favourites - like a comfy old sofa with sagging springs 🐾
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Neighbourhood bad boy NVQ lurking in the drive, waiting for his next victim. NVQ was ruthless and ambitious and staunchly feral 🐾
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Synchronised washing in the afternoon sun from The Cat and Ana Half-Tail (aka Number One Son) 🐾
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The Cat soaking up the morning sun on this day five years ago ♥️🐾
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Swift enjoying the cosy enclosed box for her post-breakfast nap.
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NotNVQ on top of the garden wall. He was a big, powerful cat but not aggressive in his character, although he would fight if necessary. He wasn't friendly, but on the other hand he didn't cause too much trouble, and the other cats seemed to like him 🐾
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After 6 months with us growing from a small kitten into a confident young cat, Lightning disappeared. 15 months later, he returned. He sat in the fields, we looked at each other, then he turned and walked away. He wanted us to know life was good 🐾
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A calico cat sits on a porch between a dilapidated rocking chair and a pile of straw.

Le Petit Monsieur's sister, wondering if she can get breakfast early. She has a modeling gig and doesn't want her boyfriend & brother tagging along.
#moggymonday #feralcats #calicocats #catsky #catsofbluesky

Well yes, obviously that was where you were going to sit, CoffeeCat 🐾
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"Many cats live outdoors, without identified owners or stable protection. Although often referred to as #StrayCats or #FeralCats, they are also known to those who care for and about them as #CommunityCats. They often depend on people who feed them and provide shelter for them."

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Pascha and Raven planning mischief, no doubt 🐾
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Yes, there is a cat!
Sundown thought that branches topped with grass cuttings made a lovely bed 🐾
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A fluffy orange boy eating breakfast on a table. He has a bald patch on his sides, probably from matting.

Mr Honey (already been #TNR’d) has some bald spots on his sides, idk why, but he has been more affectionate with me when he comes to eat. He actually let me pet him and give scritches. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #FeralCats

A NoKings protest sign reads, "All Our Cats Hate Fascists" There are some letters of the statement transformed into cats, such as the O in Our, and additional artwork at the bottom of the sign shows two cats with their own protest signs. One reads "Tacos Suck". The other "Mor Luv Thx"

Blinking, smiling, tiny brown tabby, Tiff,with an ear tip on her left side, lies posed for a portrait.

Tiff would like to share her favorite sign from #Norfolk #NoKings. You're welcome, Tiff. I made it.

#Caturday #Feralcats #TNR #AdoptDontShop

A beauty to behold - Blackfur, son of The Cat and stealer of hearts (well, mine, anyway).
He had a way of knowing things he had no business to know, if you understand me 🐾❤️
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A rare photo of Cosmos, brother to Sundown and Moonstruck, on the garden wall. Cosmos was not keen on humans and wary of their presence.
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"No" Is Its Own Kind of Freedom A true encounter about trust, wildness, and knowing when to let go

A true encounter about trust, wildness, and knowing when to let go.

"No" Is Its Own Kind of Freedom
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Experimental evidence of changing #habitat use and activity of native #prey during invasive #mesopredator population control zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #feralcats #invasivespecies #nativespecies #conservation @wileyecology.bsky.social

Il-Ħadd passed through every so often. He remained staunchly feral and preferred not to have humans around, so this is a rare photo 🐾
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