Cat-mandu

Yesterday we met Richard for a summer picnic dinner (the veggie combo from Kathmandu Kitchen) at the Davis Farmers Market Picnic in the Park. He updated us on all his numerous bird sightings, and I did some sketching of the crowd. At right is a drawing of the not-so-good Irish band that was playing then.

Another cat update: this morning we trapped the orange cat that was in the vicinity of Carlos and Blake when we trapped those two kittens last week. The cat turned out to be male—not the kittens’ mother—and Pica took him in to the vet today to be neutered. Debbie, who’s the goddess of Davis homeless cats (she runs the adoption service Feline Lifeline), saw him at the vet and thinks he’s potentially tameable enough to be adoptable. We don’t have the setup to work with him inside, so our plan is to release him outside and try to befriend him with food. He tested negative for FeLV, and they think he’s about 11 months old. Right now he’s the exclusive occupant of our bathroom as he recovers from his surgery overnight.