Shadow and Light. – An Unorthodox Halloween

Meet Shadow.

I first noticed Shadow around Halloween. And, it being that time of year and all, I didn’t think a whole lot about seeing a new black cat out in the neighborhood. It was the season for black cats and all.

It wasn’t until a few weeks ago when I saw Shadow again. Out the door on my way to work, I heard a couple cats fighting. And, there was Shadow fighting with a neighborhood cat. Once they saw me, the one took off, but Shadow came running over, begging. His tail had been obviously run over, and his stomach showed obvious signs of a recent weight loss.

Me being a sucker and all, I obliged, more to keep him out of under my car than anything else.

He was waiting when I got home. And thus has begun our time with Shadow.

Turns out he was sleeping in a barrel I found along the side of a road, I picked up to eventually make into a cauldron (somehow fitting), up till it filled with snow and ice, anyhow.

What’s troublesome was not a stray, rather a lost/abandoned pet. He’s been de-clawed, and fixed. No collar. No lost pet ads in the paper as of yet.

Very friendly, most likely litter-box trained, though we can’t have a 3rd in our house to actually know. He was obviously around both cats and dogs before, as he doesn’t mind our cats at all, and just watches the neighbors dog when it’s loose.

The kids started calling him Shadow, and he immediately responded to it, so it’s a very good chance that was his name to begin with.

If anyone knows of a lost cat, or would like what is sure to be a good house cat, please, let us know. Otherwise, maybe it’s a sign for Halloween.

And, last night was the luminara display at a local Cemetery.

So much snow, you wouldn’t even know it’s a cemetery.