Crowded

 In 2016, when I first met the cats near my workplace, I didn't know yet their relationship towards each other. I just remember that they liked to sleep in a basket full of things - it became a basket full of things and cats.

My feeling is that these 4 cats are a family, the mother and her three kittens.


I also remember that two of the kittens had very short legs.


And I also remember that there were one full calico, the partly calico from the basket above and a male, nearly white cat. Most of them disappeared very quickly and I don't know what happened to them.

The tortoiseshell cat which I show as mama-cat in other posts stayed and gave birth to many kittens which became my cat friends over the years until I retired from work in 2024. The full calico also stayed nearby.





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