In Canada we celebrate Victoria Day on May 24th. When we were kids we'd chant "The 24th of May is the queen's birthday...if we don't get a holiday we'll all run away!" Traditionally it ends with fireworks, and last night our neighbours set them off up and down the street just after dark. I knew...

With cats, you never know where you stand. Recently Mooch our resident stray and another neighbourhood cat got into a fight on our veranda. We broke it up quickly so he wasn't harmed, but for everal days Mooch acted timid, bolted his meals and wouldn't sleep in his specially heated veranda...

Last night around 8 pm Mooch, our resident stray, showed up on the veranda for his evening meal. He was just about finished when a chubby black and white lookalike charged up with her eye on his food, and he took off. It was Sally, the cat next door. A close relative had given her to...

Some of you RPCA members are also members of Mooch's fan club. Mooch is the little feral tuxedo cat who's been with us for over five years now. He lives on our veranda, eats his many meals there, gets his back scritched, and sleeps in a special cat house under the table equipped with a bed and a...

It's been awhile since I brought you fan club members around the world up-to-date on the life of Mooch, our resident stray. He has now survived three bitterly cold Canadian winters, eating up to five catered meals a day on our veranda and sleeping in a heavily padded and blanketed chair equipped...

Many of you here at RPCA from all over the world joined the fan club for Mooch our little tuxedoed resident stray. There are several writeups and photos of our little gentleman cat in Flippy's website, including a new one posted yesterday. It's about how Mooch has become much more friendly in the...

I've posted before about Mooch, our little tuxie stray who shows up two or three times daily on our veranda for food and water. Until now he's been shy and has kept his distance under the furniture until the food is set down. But recently when I get up early about 5 a.m. to feed him he's almost...

I know how much our Three Indoor Girls like to be brushed, so I figured Mooch our resident stray would too, even though he may never have been brushed before. That's why I bought him his very own pet brush, the kind with little metal spines embedded in rubber. I used it for the first time today...

If you'd like to follow the day-to-day activities of Mooch our resident stray, join Twitter (if you haven't already) and after you do, read what he posts in his account. It's called "Moochkitty", and he's using it for a blog. If you can't reach it by entering "Moochkitty" in "Find people", then...

Here I am, writing again about Mooch our resident stray. In a previous post I said that hairless patches had developed on his lower sides. We were worried that Mooch might be a female, and "her" breasts were developing prior to having kittens. Not so. A family member who worked in a vet's office...

Mooch, our resident stray of over four years now, has discovered Twitter and is using it to keep a blog. If you'd like to follow the daily life of a stray cat, you can read what Mooch says about it. Please tell me if this link doesn't work for...

For about a year, Mooch our resident stray, would roll back and forth on our veranda before he had his meals served to him. But for the past month he stopped rolling and immediately got down to the important business of eating and drinking. Now, this morning when he got his 5:15 am meal, he flopped...

Here I go again about Mooch, our resident stray. I entered him in a competition by EverCats, a website devoted to kitties. He won as today's (August 26) DailyCat. His description & photo will only be on the website today, and possibly tomorrow. Good on you, Mooch! http://evercats.com/the-daily-cat/

It's been a very slow process. When Mooch our resident stray came to us starving just over four years ago, seeking our help, he'd hide under the veranda table before he'd venture out to eat the food we'd leave for him. Years have gone by and a couple of months ago he finally let me touch him...

You've heard about Mooch, our resident stray kitty who for over four years has lived mostly on our veranda, gets many meals a day from us and sleeps a padded veranda chair bed that's heated in the winter. Now you can follow Mooch's day-to-day activities because he keeps a blog on Twitter, updating...

Mooch, the tuxedo resident feral stray who lives on his human's veranda, now has his fan club on Facebook. The Mooch Fan Club was started in the newsgroup rec.pets.cats.anecdotes a couple of years ago, and now has dozens of members in almost every continent of the world. If you're a member of...

I haven't written about Mooch, our feral cat who lives on our veranda 24-7 where he gets lots of meals, naps and affection. You can read more about him at his Facebook page, and his Twitter site, where he writes about his daily life with us. He also has a fan club here at...

As I write this, Mooch our resident stray is enjoying his fourth - or is it fifth? - meal of the day on our veranda, so I'll make this short so I can return to the window to watch for neighbourhood feline food- stealers. I'd like to let you see a new item about His Furry Majesty, thanks to Flippy's...

I hope you don't mind another post about Mooch, our resident stray, but I can't resist writing about the little guy. During the past few days there's been some welcome sunshine in this bleak Canadian winter, and Mooch is taking advantage of it. After he eats his first afternoon meal he sits on the...

Mooch, our resident stray, is really enjoying his scritches these days. Again and again he strolls from his food over to me where I'm sitting on the veranda, walks under my legs, and stands there waiting. When he's had enough petting and scritches he circles back to his food, then back to me, and...