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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

These are the 'Konradshofen cats'. Konradshofen is a small village in Bavaria, where I often go on holiday. The farm that I stay on has eight cats (although it varies from year to year). They aren't, of course, my cats, but I love them almost as much as Ginny, so I thought they deserved a mention. (Yes, Ginny, I remembered to say 'almost'.)
I've put their pictures up first- I haven't got pictures of them all- and then I'll explain the relations between them underneath.

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Obelix is at the back, Daggy to the left and Mucki to the right.

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Puschl, looking as gloriously furry as ever.

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Isn't she gorgeous? This is Mimel. She's probably about a year old by now, but she was only about three or four months old when this photo was taken.

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This cat is half wild, and she's known only as 'Die Wilde'- the wild one. This photo was taken without using a zoom. That doesn't sound very important, but getting that close to Die Wilde is something of an achievement! I've stroked her without her running away- once- but she's basically feral.

So...
Mucki is Daggy and Puschl's mother. She may be some relation to Obelix, but I don't think so.
Die Wilde isn't neutered. The farm that I stay on feed her sometimes, but she hunts for the main source of food, and it by no means a pet. When cats have litters of kittens, they often leave one or two because they can't feed them. Die Wilde is slightly more intelligent than that- she leaves her kittens where she knows they will be found by the people on the farm. The second to last litter she had, there was a tom. He's now Ginny's age, but still the size of a kitten, and catches any infection that's going around. They don't expect him to live for more than a couple of years more.
In the latest litter, though, she left behind Mimel. Mimel, at least when I last saw her, is a very healthy cat. All the other cats, except Die Wilde, have been neutered, so Mimel is remaining uneutered to produce the next generation of farm cats. She's really sweet. I hope that next time I go to the farm, there will be another litter of kittens there! 



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2005-01-16 [Alfie]: awwww wow those kitties are soooooo kyooote!!!

2005-02-08 [catelfemma]: Thank you!

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