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Here is the Feral Tuxedo Cat, sex undetermined, that I am trying to capture before a predator gets him/her. You can follow the story in my Scrapbook since most of the photos are not really good quality since I have to take the shots as I can. This is the best one so far. [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]S/he did spend a good portion of both yesterday afternoon on the kitchen patio and this afternoon in the vicintiy of it and the palo verde tree to the east. Master BK had a screaming growling fit when it came up to the patio door yesterday. Master BK is OK with its presence as long as it stays on the chairs, patio table, and about 3-4 feet away from the door. S/he still won't let me come closer than 10 feet but is less prone to moving off each day. By the behavior and look, I am beginning to think it is a 5-9 month old male. There are a few cactus needles I'd just love to be able to pull out including one near the mouth you can see on his left upper lip, one on the shoulder, and one near the tail. I'm uploading two more photos to my Scrapbook which shows a cute little white spot on the shoulder which I will link shortly.
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What a cutie~! I'm working on catching a brown tabby and a solid black that I've been feeding.
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My aunt has a cat like that with the same white markings except he's grey instead of black and his white face marking reaches up inbetween his eyes. It's kinda strange because he has the same black marking on the side of his nose. 
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Hello. I am just wondering if I could use your picture for a project at school.
If you say no I totally understand, Private message me.
Thank you both ways, I understand that it is Copyrighted.
Thanks
By the way I love the cat! Good luck, but be carefull because it could have some deseases or something. It might hunt sick animals or anything but it looks like a semi-healthy cat. But you DO need it to be checked out!
Its a cutie
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Please explain to me what this project is. I would like more information before I make a decision. Thanks for asking and wanting to use it.
Yes, he was quite handsome. Yes, I have worked with ferals periodically over the time I've been here. I have a small animal vet who works with me. Most ferals out here in the desert wilderness don't live long to begin with due to our large perdator population (coyotes, horned owls, bobcats, and pumas, not to mention the dangers of rattlesnakes, bark scorpions, brown recluses, and black widows) and almost never have much more than parasites. There aren't enough of them to spread any diseases. I'm sorry to say that he disappeared March 30th which means a predator most likely got him. [link] This is a link to my Memorial to him but you can follow the other links there to read his story as it unfolded under his photos 2, 3, and Memorial. He lasted the longest of any feral I haven't been able to catch which was 19 days.
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The project I am currently working on is about environmental issues. We got to choose two interests from 10 selections, and one of them that I did choose was feral animals roaming in Australia.
I just needed a perfect picture like what you have posted. That would be the most handsome feral cat I have ever set eyes onto.
I remember how I used to have a feral cat roaming in my massive back yard, it was black. But it gave us GOOD luck to our old cat, who we did buy from friends. I am sad to say that she passed away during the family camp I was on, Janurary the 23rd. Something around that date.
Our feral cat was 3 times the size of a LARGE demestic cat. But sadly enough he passed away 7 years before my Old cat did.
(My old cat died at the age of 16 years. Let her RIP Chasing mice and lets hope she finds love in her new form. ((I bet she would be a possom)))
P.S. I am going to submit a picture of my old Cat. Milo. Turquoise / Tabby female runt. My little discount kitty. <3 her to death.
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Sure, you can use it for your project. I know as I thought he was a very handsome cat, too. 
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I hope you'll be able to save him/her.
The white whiskers look great against the black parts of his/her fur.
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Thank you, Maria, for your best wishes in capturing him/her. I need all the luck and good wishes I can get to do so before a predator gets him/her. I think s/he's a beautiful cat and would love to have him/her as a new addition to my family provided Master BK is OK with the idea. Only time will tell if I succeed. 
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I do hope you will be able get this beautiful boy/girl in time
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Thank you so much for the good wishes. Based on experience, I'll need them. Here's hoping for the best meaning I get to capture him. 
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That must be such a worry, I'll be thinking of you both
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beautiful cat!!! poor thing... i hate it people abandon pets...
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Me, too, Dave. I'm now in a race against time to see if I can capture him/her before a predator gets him/her. By the behavior, I am beginning to think it is probably a male but can't say for sure and since it holds its tail down and low like most ferals there is no way to check until I can get closer. I'd like to win this one since I apparently lost my black PrettyBoy of 2 years ago to the predators as he never appeared again just when I was finally able to briefly touch him.
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As for a little progress each day, I hear that.
I got a new computer so I a learning all over again. But not complaining!
The old one scorched itself to death. Common death for the model HP I had, I've learned. I was fortunate it lasted as long as it did. Now I understand why it was literally burning through chargers and cooling pads. That was all starting to add up to the cost of a new computer, literally.
Now I've discovered my old $10 thrift store scanner is too old to communicate with a newer computer. Aawwww...
Means I finally have a good excuse
to get a printer/scanner. I haven't had a printer set up, all this time. Now, just have to decide what to choose...
Izzie is at this moment having one of his high anxiety fits. He is sleep deprived. Sometimes he won't go to bed without me, and starts getting all frustrated and fussy. He makes me chuckle all the time, with different antics. I'm sure it is that way at your house.
mel Ugly little creature, isn't it?
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Fortunately for me, I have geeks friends who take care of my computer equipment and they don't usually get me name brands but what they think is the best available for the price. 
Yes, Master BK is definitely my one cat entertainment committee. However, he sleeps regardless of what I do, although it might be in my presence with him trying to stay awake to check up on me. I think he's given up on that for the most part and settles on periodic examinations of my ongoings. He looks so funny and cute when he fights to keep his eyes open to watch me and fails.
Meercats are rather ugly, for sure.
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One cat entertainment committee. GOOD one.
I'd never seen a Meercat before. Have to google it one of these days. You bring up a good point, make more geek friends!! Haaa
PhotoImpact -- something I hadn't heard of. But I do need to remember to throw in some research about photo programs. The one printer the salesman had and was suggesting to me had a bunch of things it does. Picking up stuff straight off the web, all kinds of things on a touch pad. It was practically a computer itself.
Master BK is more the norm. I've never seen a cat who would fuss around like Izzie does. Often he won't eat until I am there. He has all sorts of weird little quirky things. Of course, that in itself, is classic cat stuff.
Nice to "chat"...
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Meercats remind me of some sort of cross between ferrets, prairie dogs, and chihuahua dogs. Not the most pleasing overall effect.
PhotoImpact is a Corel product now that has almost the range of Adobe's PhotoShop but at less than a third of the price and is simplier to use.
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Good description of the Meercat.
The story I was told about Izzie was that he was the last "kitten" still running with his feral Mom. He was almost a year old, at least. They lived in an area where people knew of them, and finally caught them. They were taken to a shelter in another town which was where they were, near here.
I don't know what happened to his mother. I went to a big event with various booths and the Shelter had driven here with a converted RV used to transport many animals in cages. I guess just for that sort of thing.
I "bought" Izzie and another cat, who looked like a Tabby but with black and silver markings. I'd never seen anything like him. He was practically human in the way he communicated with me. I named him Jabez.
Izzie was Edward, and Jabez was Frank on their shelter papers. I kidded my girlfriends about the two new men in my life. Really played it up, before mentioning the 4 paws.
After having 2 cats that both lived 20 years, one year apart, I had lost 5 animals in little over a year. Broke my heart and my savings account.
Jabez ended up having Feline Infectious Peritonitis. That really tore me up. But, I was glad I had taken him. He was the most loving cat.
After the initial adjustment, he and Izzie loved playing together. Izzie knew before I did that Jabez was getting sick. He started being more gentle with his play, and licking Jabez a lot.
Jabez had been abused, and had been in the cage at the shelter for 8 months. He got a chance to be loved and show what a loving and wonderful cat he was. I was so sad after his death.
I may have gotten rid of all the pictures I had of him. I recently found pictures with just Izzie in them, from that time. Izzie was long, skinny and short haired.
I had another white cat before Izzie and she was exceptionally loving too. My aunt thought she was a Ragdoll.
Maybe it is something to do with the white cat personality?
Where was this feral tuxedo one?
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Ah, I know all about cat losses in a year. I lost my beloved black male Devon Rex RooCat in May to a bark scorpion sting, got a little straight eared silver tabby van Scottish Fold in Sept, and lost him to FIP in December. FIP kittens and cats seem to have the most desirable traits that we dearly love without exception. I've heard more stories about how wonderful FIP cats and kittens are than any other group of cats or kittens by color, breed, or whatever. There definitely seems to be something very special about the ones who get FIP. FIP kills between 5-10% of all cats including the big cats although cheetahs have the highest rate of any cat. It's caused by the feline enteric coronavirus which gets into the immune system and turns their own body against itself. It sounds like Jebaz was a silver tabby, too. Yes, I felt the same about my Dylan, at least he had a chance to be well loved and cared for.
I have no idea where Tux came from as he just showed up one day. I saw him lying under the palo verde tree at the back of the house in my backyard although the initial sighting was blindingly brief as he set new land speed records running the 10 ft. (1m) to go around the side of the house away from me.
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I'm so sorry to hear that, about your losses too. I joined dA late last summer. I don't think I realized you had lost your Devon Rex RooCat, especially so recently, and in a shock way like that. My other white cat, Isabella, was a sudden death. I got Izzie in the shadow of her death.
I could barely believe it when I read you just lost one to FIP too. And your description of cats that get the disease. Wow.
With Jabez, it was like our souls were bonded. It felt like he understood death, and was fighting to stay with me. Some weird things...
I had him for about the same length of time as you had your silver tabby. But he had just as much impact on me as the 2 that lived 20 years.
I had a long hair female Tuxedo. She was one of the 20 year olds. She had this intelligent defiance, and caution. I was devoted to her, and firm with her, like she was my child. I was fighting through the heartache of an infertile marriage at the time. If she wanted attention, she would do something she KNEW was "naughty"...Like get on the kitchen cabinets. If I didn't notice, she would make noise to be certain I saw her there.
But, I could say firmly, "get down" --- or whatever instruction, and she would. It freaked people out. My friends had never seen a cat that followed commands like she did. It was her defiance that made training possible. And my consistency with follow through, [give her tail a little pinch, which she hated, as punishment] when we were setting our boundaries, or rules. She could connect that with her behaviour, clearly. She also had a large vocabulary of different sounds. Even things that were not "meows" but certainly noises that expressed a variety of emotions, and attititudes.
The other cat would just roll up like a bowling ball if reprimanded. He didn't understand. His claim to fame was teaching himself to pee in the toilet. Seated just like a human, as closely as he could approximate that. Haaa
The tux, "Tirzha", also watched TV. I have a picture of her standing up, leaning on the screen, trying to catch race cars she was watching. When we put mirrors on the floor in prep for a move, she looked behind them, trying to find that cat. Then seemed to understand she was seeing herself, if that is possible? But she never stopped trying to catch the light-beam from a flashlight. She could not understand why her paws would not hold that "thing" [the light] down. I had so many games I could play with that cat. I posted one picture of her in my resource account. I think it is the one of her with her head inside a lampshade. She liked to stare at the lightbulb, and then pull her head out and look around, blinking. I think she liked seeing the spots in front of her eyes. It was the only explanation we could come up with. One funny cat! Oh my, the stories that come to mind...
I must get back over and have a closer look at your photographs and artist comments, but not this morning. I am trying to push myself back through to be a night-time sleeper again. I don't have a body clock at all. I have finally realized I am going to have to use an alarm clock to put myself to bed. I lose track of time. But this is already a very long note.
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