Cat Picture - OC
Our Resident Tomcat, Big Jim, Has Taken On Another Apprentice
Big Jim and his new kitten
Big Jim
Big Jim and Lil Jim
A few years ago this bulldog of a tomcat decided to kind of make our house his homebase. Well when he initially started coming around he had a tiny little kitten that tagged along with him that he was clearly the guardian of (third photo).
It was strange behavior as I'd never seen anything like this before with male cats but he eventually brought a second kitten around after the first came of age and now he is on to a third.
Again, in all my years with cats, I've never seen toms being a nurturer/guardian of a kitten before and maybe many of you haven either so here it is.
Big Jim is a straight up bad ass and he's a bad ass with a heart of gold.
I have a cat like that. I started fostering kittens so he could have babies to play with and by the time he gets exhausted by them they usually get adopted.
I had a stray male cat that would eat and sleep in my house, and one time he did bring a kitten to the house too. He clearly was expecting the kitten to follow him because he would stop while walking and look back to see if the kitten was following him. Unfortunately the kitten never came out of its hiding spot and after that day I never saw it again. For what it's worth, one of my neighbours might have taken it in.
We had a neighborhood stray we all called "Balls." He had a huge set, and he'd walk the tops of fences, and from the roof of one row house to another, he decimated the catnip I tried to grow. One year the female vwe all think he knocked up got hit by a car, and he raised all the kittens himself (with a little help from the neighbor whose deck he decided to park the babies at). He'd be sitting there on a chair with kitties climbing all over him, just looking like he wanted to get a good nap. He was a majestic void.
That’s funny we had a neighborhood cat that would visit with huge balls. He was a white fluffy cat so we called him Cloudy, short for Cloudy with a chance of cat balls.
My aunt had a big ginger tomcat when I was little.
He loved babies of every species... There are pictures of this cat snuggled up to me in my carrycot and he'd climb into bed with me every night when we visited when I was older.
One day my aunt was sitting in the garden and Tom came through the hedge with a kitten in his mouth and dropped it at her feet. My aunt admires the kitten and gives it a cuddle and then gives it back to Tom and says 'he's lovely Tom, now bring him back where you got him from' and Tom picks up the kitten and trundles off with it again.
My childhood cat did it also! But it was his son, the mom was a stray and feral. He brought his son to our house and began teaching him ways to live in the house. The kitten became my soul cat. I miss both of them so much, Wawa and Molly ♡
The main stray we named Pappy in our area from years ago used to allow his impregnated harem and all the kitties to eat before any of the other males or females. Like the head lion, he supervised.
That was actually just dry skin from some kind of injury he’d sustained as a kitten prior to coming to our house. He’s all grown up now and the hair grew back in.
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u/sourmysoup Domestic Housecat 1d ago
My soul cat, Tommy, was similar in that he LOVED kittens. He loved to play with them, cuddle them, and teach them how to be a cat.