I have seen this one tabby cat walk around my house for a while now. I have always written it off as being one of the neighbors cats and if my daughter is nearby I grab her and let her see the cat. At her age looking out the living room window to see a cat is almost as fascinating as going to the zoo.

With the heat we have been having I try to avoid spending too much time outside. We are even having a drought which has turned my yard brown, eliminating the need to mow it. No complaints there.

Today we were coming home from Nashville doing some site seeing. (The Hermitage in Nashville is free admission with a valid military ID card). As we were getting out of the car that cat was there again. My daughter saw it and wanted to catch it so ran after it. My wife followed suit as I got the “baby luggage” out of the car. My wife yells at me telling me that the cat went into the house. Seeing I am standing in the door and was certian I saw no cat, I give her a puzzled look and informed her that she was wrong. Needless to say, I was wrong.

I walked around the house and she showed me where the cat went in. The foundation of the house has vents around it and in one location the screen protecting the house from allowing animals to get in has been damaged by the cable company. (They intentionally broke it to run a cable instead of drilling a hole). As a walk around I see the cat hop out then right back in. I try to look inside the hole but with no light it was simply a black hole. I ran to my car to grab a flash light and hear my wife scream again. This time she said “a kitten”. I run back and see this little kitten no more than 5-6 weeks old. It quickly ran under the A/C unit right next to the hole. I got my light and looked around and could not find it. I then peered into the whole and found the mother cat and a second kitten.

Seeing we just came back from site seeing in Nashville my wife had her camera with her. I grabbed it and was able to snap this shot after about 20 shots of nothing. I couldn’t find the second kitten, I am afraid that it crawled up inside the A/C unit. At least this is a rental, otherwise I might put forth some effort to get them out of there.