Fraidy Cat Sees Red

Let me introduce you to Fraidy Cat. She came to live with us this May after my son got married. She had always been a very "one person cat," and until recently hissed at me if I even walked in the same room with her. Needless to say, she did not get along with my son's new family and their cat, so she now has taken up residence in my sewing/computer room.

We have made a lot of progress in the last three months. I can touch her, pet her, play with her and most of the time she is purring. She is happy to see me and my husband, because she thinks we will give her a treat. Initially I felt like I had to "pay the troll" a treat in order to get into the room where I work quite a bit of the time. Now she even jumps up on my lap while I am talking on the telephone.....I must say though, I am still hesitant to try to pick her up.....but I know she loves me and misses my company.

One night I saw a TV show about the different breeds of cats, and they mentioned that cats only see in three colors...RED being one of them, and that is when I realized that Fraidy did indeed see RED. She has become quite a bird watcher, but every so often she gets rather vocal. I usually get up to see what is out there, and most of the time it is a Cardinal. So this post is to share with you Fraidy's special RED friends.

Here is Fraidy curled up on her perch by the window.

And this is how the birds see her from outside.

Early on, the Cardinals seemed to prefer to eat on the ground,
and usually in the early morning or towards dark......not the
best time of day to get a good picture.

After a while they got brave enough to come throughout the day to the platform feeder.



And also to a smaller feeder.

Here they look like they look like they both had been
to the hairdresser and had new "hairdos."

When they are really hungry, they can come to the kitchen deck, but that doesn't happen too often. I guess I must have been late putting out the feeders that morning. He has kind of a worried look in his eye.

Here are a couple of other favorites from this past Spring