Humphrey – update

I’ve just come in from the garden where I left Humphrey running round chasing bits of leaf!

Thank goodness he’s better.  It took till the middle of the week before he was back to normal and now he’s wanting food every time he comes into the kitchen.

When we were at the vets I was talking to him about Humphrey’s eating habits.  Because he attacks every meal as if it’s his last.  We’ve always put that down to him being a stray for a while and not knowing where his next meal might come from. The vet though said he’d noticed that it happens sometimes with cats in large litters where there isn’t enough milk for all the kittens.  Or in small litters but the mum can’t produce enough milk.

Whatever – Humphrey always eats like food is going out of fashion and will be taken off the market.  Which means he gobbles and sometimes he doesn’t give himself time to digest it.  So he ends up being sick.  Wonderful!

And then his stomach is empty so he’s looking for food again!

Now he’s better we have to be on guard in the garden.  It’s baby bird time isn’t it and that means…

Not that he stops at baby birds.  We’ve had many a full grown wood pigeon’s innards and feathers scattered round the garden.

Can’t stop nature ‘red in tooth and claw’ – I just wish it didn’t happen on my doorstep.