Can’t resist telling you a story about that gray male cat. Years ago we saved a large number of felines from a bad situation. Many of them were kittens, very frightened little kittens. Tig-Tig, was one of the adults among the rescued group. He volunteered to be a surrogate mother to the whole crowd of babies for an entire year. He was their rock and their protector. They slept all over him, “nursed” on hunks of his hair, and gradually became socialized with the humans around this place. After about a year, with his “babies” full grown, Tig-Tig reclaimed his life and moved out to the barn where he has chosen to live ever since. His work now is to make sure ground hogs don’t make holes in the horse pastures. He takes his job seriously, but he never kills the groundhogs.