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My friends and bandmates met up with Lil Bub and her family today.   They were recording an album for their band, French Goodbye, in Lil Bub’s recording studio. They also met Cooper there, another studio cat.      

These past few weeks there has been a few deaths from the colonies. Dice was euthanized. Betty was found dead in her backyard.   This can be difficult, but at least we know what happened to these cats.   One of the hardest things for a feral cat colony caregiver to deal with is the “unknown.”… Read more »

New cat sighting!   Thankfully, these guys are indoors. They were pretty fascinated with me and smelling the air outside. It’s hard to keep track of the cats outside, and so many people here have in/out pet cats to add to the confusion.   But these felines are staying put indoors. They just wanted to… Read more »

A little toilet humor, if you will.   My 24-hour, year-round day job is as a Flight Attendant.   One of our duties during the flight is to let the pilots out of the cockpit when they request a bathroom break (get it? duties?). For this reason many pilots refer to this task as letting them… Read more »

Every year my friend and bandmate, Julia, from The Columbines hosts a Halloween party where a bunch of our friends and bandmates dress up and play as another band. This year she decided to make it a fundraiser for the colony cats and called it A Feral Fete. She has done this before.   The event… Read more »

The Feralvilla is now made out of a new material that they recommend painting.   I always tell everyone about the Feralvilla. We’ve had one in our back yard for years. The cats love it, and for the cost, it is worth every penny because all you have to do is assemble it. Well, and now paint it…. Read more »

Thanks to all who came out for last night’s Feral Flowers Design Class at Forget Me Knodt. The Feral Flowers Project this year has been very successful. Between this class and selling the garden flowers all season at the shop, we’ve raised over $1000 so far for the medical care of our colony cats. And there are… Read more »

Just because I’m out of town doesn’t mean I stop thinking about the cats. Jim totally understands this, and accepts it for the most part. At this point he gives me updates without me even asking first. These past few weeks have been full of updates from him:   “The Feral Villa has arrived.” Which means he… Read more »

After a week in Mexico I was pleasantly surprised to find summer is still here in Chicago. The leaves are turning colors, but the feral flowers are in full bloom.   The cats in my yard were regularly fed while we were away, but I think they noticed we were gone. The garden path was… Read more »