Our Two Japanese Bird Watchers

These are the other two members of our cat family....Ezra and Nehemiah. In the 1990's our youngest daughter spent almost 10 years living in Japan. While she was there she purchased a beautiful Chinchilla Persian cat who she called Genki to keep her company. This is a picture that was taken of the two of them by a friend who was a photographer.

During the last three years of her stay in Japan, she lived in an apartment in Yokohama at an intersection where five major highways came together. One night, above all the noise from the highways, she started hearing some kittens crying.....One in particular was crying very loudly. Sometime later she discovered these two little kittens that had either been lost by their mother or abandoned by someone outside her apartment; and, you guessed it, she took them in.

Ezra & Nehemiah

When she returned to the USA early in the 2000's, of course, her cats came with her, and they all moved to Missouri. Late in 2003 she met the young man of her dreams, the only problem was, he was allergic to cats. By that time Genki had died, but Ezra and Nehemiah needed a new home. So, of course, I said, "You get the guy, and I'll take the cats." And that is how these two Japanese litter mates came to live in Indiana with us when they got married.



They still like to cuddle together when they sleep just like in the picture she originally set to us from Japan. Although they don't look alike, so many of their mannerisms are alike. Ezra, the black and white one, definitely can cry the loudest; while, Nehemiah will talk to you,--particularly if he thinks it is time to eat and you haven't gotten out of bed yet.

They both enjoy birdwatching from our screened-in

porch in the summer. All our cats stay inside,

so they are no threat to the birds.

So here they are.....Ezra with a headache

,,,,,,,,,,,...and Nehemiah just worn out

from watching all those birds,

and trying to keep all those squirrels

out of the feeders. (I wish!)