The Ways of the KantryMan

The Saga of the Unemployed

The Kangaroo and wine country

Felix

This totally, well almost totally black male cat is the opposite of Wijna. We call hen the stress kitten. He’s always nervous, like waiting for something horrible to happen that would never come. We suspect that part of his fear is due that he had a father called Lucifer en grew up in a place with people living in difficult conditions. I began to make acquaintance with him after knowing that some times the people that had him didn’t have enough to feed him. I then began to visit this people and brought food for the cat. After a while he came to live to my place. Wijna felt that her territory was being invaded. She made life very difficult for him for a while. But guess what happened. Felix discovered that he had bigger teeth and nails than Wijna. Now he goes after her. Now they have managed to share the spaces together. Wijna has become gentler en Felix has some white hairs to show for his rough past.

Furry delight

Wijna

She’s the absolute feline boss in the house. Bossy and big, a really outspoken character and quite a few time a bad temper.

Through her kitty lives she has received many names, mini Stalin, the supreme, patrol kitten, mini monster. But a same time when sleeping time arrives she becomes the cutest thing in the universe.

We took her from the street; she had managed to survive for two years. One harsh winter day when I went to feed the regular stray cats that hang around almost every neighborhood in Amsterdam she came to us. I seemed she had enough of her wino life. That’s why we decided to call her Wijna (wino, female in Dutch)

Who can understand cats? Specially when you watch your couches destroyed, hair everywhere en some nasty scratches on your under arms. It takes just a cute look from them to acknowledge all their beauty and perfection. So I wonder if it’s true what they say that we don’t but they choose us.