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Scruffy is a true alpha male of a cat – there’s no such thing as a fight he can walk away from. As a result, he’s a mass of scars and injuries… even has a broken fang. He’ll come right up to me and weave in and around my feet, all friendly-like… but attempts at petting him result in blitzkrieg attacks to sever fingers. He seems to have successfully claimed my home as his turf… Buttons the cat hasn’t been seen a two or so weeks, and the last time I saw Mark the cat was a bit short of a week ago as a Siamese-colored blur across my back yard, followed by a very scruffy blur in hot pursuit.
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He doesn’t look very happy, does he?
Scruffy reminds me of “Nisse”. A common swedish catname.
He strolled around close to my house for a year. A very big cat, dirty, always with a lot of scars and wounds. Terrified of people and pestering my two cats, and attacking me if I came to close..
As timed passed the cats seemed to be, not friends, but on speaking terms. They actually often sat in a triangle 1 m apart, quiet, looking at each other, having a serious cat chat.
Eventually Nisse accepted even me, i:e me, the food provider, but he ran away if another person showed up.
One snowy november morning as I was going to work, he sat outside the door and moved in. As my other cats watched, he inspected the house, checked the food, the litterbox, before going to sleep in my sofa, just like that.
He never left the house for a couple of months, he was a little bit shy for my girlfriend, but came to turns with her as well.
His wounds healed and he showed to be the most friendly and beauttiful cat as could be. He was all muscles and I must admit that I was a bit careful when handling him, but ne never showed any signs of attacking me again.
He must have been abandond, or got lost somehow. He was a real housecat “inside”.
He lived by us for six years and always looked at me, with a little bit of sadness, as your Scruffy does.
Who is the most intelligent.?It should be me, but there is something with cats that makes me wonder.
Scruffy doesn’t look all that large in size for all his aggressiveness; but then again, neither did Hit Girl in “Kick-Ass”. 😉
You really feel sorry for cats that get abandoned after living in a house when young; the true feral ones that were born in the wild and grew up there probably are a lot better at taking care of themselves and finding food.
That bottom picture isn’t an unhappy look it’s the “where the hell is my food, human?” look 🙂