They look just like Tom, our neighbour’s cat from down the hill. Tom likes it better up here so he has moved in permanently and is either hunting, is fussing over visitors, is in the garage asleep in a cosy spot amongst bales of straw or he is brave enough to come upstairs to sleep on the spare room bed. The dilution of the gene pool thing must be an absolutely massive force.
Even though we have no woodland around here much, apart from trees sheltered in every really deep allt it takes our cats no more than ten minutes, often less to go out and catch a mouse, and then they just go straight out and get another, when they are in the mood. This kind of behaviour is seen when some of our cats are dumping rodents in the house for kittens or for the cats who do not catch. There really is a lot of food out there for a cat, even where it is not forested.
