Do Cats Live Everywhere? How?

Premise:

In Hawaii cats still want to sleep on something soft and warm Cats still sleep anywhere

In my life I have experienced three feline generations that have joined us.  We thought that the first one was probably a part-species of Lynx.  I'll save my pictures of that 32 pound feline for another story.    One hoary bat and the monk seals were the only native mammals in Hawaii.[1] As you know, mankind was bound to ruin both ourselves and/or the Earth.  We began to ruin Hawaii in 500AD.    Right after we found out that sugar = money then the mongoose was one of the first mammals brought to Hawaii to control rats which lived in the sugar cane.    That's where this story begins because mankind brought cats and dogs in the 70's.[2]    All animals are feral.  Examples of feral animals that humans USE are some types like horses or dogs.  Humans can “tame” these animals like cattle until they are “suitable” in our opinions.    I did that with a total of three cats using a similar method.  I gave these animals food.  All animals including us just want to do two things: Survive long enough to reproduce.

Chapter 1 - The only chapter this time:

First, I rescued or adopted two cats from the “human society” administration.[3] These cats didn't have names like most human children.  I thought that the first one looked like a small bear so we named her “Yogi”.  The one that arrived next was mysteriously named BooBoo.

He likes that Mango tree.  He was born with that kinky-deformed tail.  He looked happy to see me.  He was a kitten caged in Humane Society.  Women have used that same trick – looking happy.  Nobody likes any imperfect animal.  He's will be killed in two weeks.  They need the space.

In Hawaii there aren't predators for cats and so they aren't forced to live indoors.  Because of, weather or at home in a fourteen store apartment in a crowded city a lot of cats are.    Our cats could live in or out – their door was always open so this is what the rest of their real world looked like to them.

This is the cats' world.  Ours is only the part where everything is amputated by the gardeners.  There are no walls but cats don't care anyway.  Their backyard goes all the way to Pearl Harbor.  This is their life and they don't pay for anything.

What normal people call a feral cat also joined us for the same reason.  Do tame cats feel threatened by feral cats? Not these.  When two cats will eat from the same bowl simultaneously then they get along very well.  The feral cat doesn't have to live with us.  Neither do the others.  Wow.  Their new society.  They just don't know they weren't euthanized.

Feral and Tame and humans.  We all do exactly the same.

Same as above comment but they both know that I'm there too.

Some humans think that physicians are useful.  Therefore, we think that veterinarians would be for cats just as well.  The cats did not agree.  The only way to accomplish this was to put a cat's food in their traveling cage.  Remember that these harmless little animals have sharp claws (Like Yogi the bear).    There were two cats that weren't a disaster.  But we were joined by one feral one that we called “Ranger”.     We went to the same vet all he time with two of our tame cats.  O.K.  Fine.  Then we took the feral in for his first try.  OMG.

My wife and I decided to take this cat in but this time I knew we needed more help    He would probably benefit by the same vet and so we needed to protect our own survival as well as the car's interior.    I'll tell you how it went.    My friends including my wife, know that I have a perfect garage that holds all of my perfect tools.  There was one of these tools that my wife still doesn't want to play with.  She's afraid of any of my welders but I have an electric-arc that she is terrified of.  What on earth did this have to do with getting us to the vet with a claw born feral feline?

Final Summary:

These are tough welding gloves needed to protecting my arms.  I used these to take the ranger to the vet.  The “nurse” saw my gloves and said, “Nah, we're professionals and we handle a lot of animals.”    I thought, “Yeah O.K.”.    We sat in the waiting room for fifteen minutes hearing something from the cat.  Eventually she came back out to the waiting room and while pointing to my gloves asked, “Ahem, can we borrow those?”

P.S.

Oregon Trail (In blue)

Everyone's life is very different.  I've heard a lot of my environmentalist friends that it's great that we have wild animals wandering mountains and Africa or Australia.  I guess that what the animals think too.  They wonder about our new frontier in our world.  Did Lewis and Clark[4,5] barely survive on their adventure to somewhere else?.    Now humans have only one place left.  Antarctica.  Hmmmm.    I've heard an old story about Mr Ed and they said, “If you wanna know what the horse thinks about – then ask him.”    I know what those cats think too.  Maybe the same as rhinoceroses.

This is a great place.  We're lucky to be alive.

References:

[1] Those seals are big - and they sun themselves on the beacn too http://traveltips.usatoday.com/hawaiian-islands-native-animals-100406.html [1½] Monk Seals are only found in Hawaii.  No other mammal can swim that far except one (Whales) Picture - has enough to eat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_society [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species_in_Hawaii [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_society [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail [5] http://lewisandclarktrail.com/101.htm