Gabe kitty too smart for my own good

eskielover · Apr 04, 2021 at 05:52 PM

Gabe showed up on my farm as about a 4 mo old kitten in 2019. I noticed something small run from under my truck to under my horse trailer. When I walked over to the trailer, he came bounding out at me, climbed my muck boot & leg & curled up in my arms purring. I had no desire to have another pet let alone a cat. I had just lost my soulmate doggie Leo 6 months earlier, & I had his older sister & younger brother both blind & Tawny had doggie dementia & JoGI supposedly had very bad hip problems & my horse had just been shipped here from Calif & was having severe allergic reactions to chiggers that were in the hay I bought (before finding the awesome person I get hay from now) & Izzy was having a hard time adapting to the high humidity here from the Ca desert she had lived in all her life. Too many vet Bill's I didn't need another critter to be responsible for.....

BUT this kitten connected with my heart immediately & he wasn't scared of anything on my farm. It was like he just belonged here.... so he has stayed. He is a constant companion. He makes sure he knows where I am at all times but at the same time, totally owns the house. He talks to me & let's me know exactly what he wants. He plays hide & tackle mom when she walks by & is the most unusual kitty I have ever had.

So last night I was tired when I got back from the barn & feeding my horse. I took the feed & water buckets out of my truck & put them in the garage. I CLOSED THE AUTOMATIC GARAGE DOOR, opened the door to the kitchen & Gabe ran out into the garage where he loves to explore (& find mice). I was exhausted & went up to bed, knowing I was going to sunrise service at church in the morning.

I was so tired I got up in time to throw on some churchy cloths. I opened the kitchen door to the garage & expected Gabe to come running in but instead I found the garage door wide open & kitty paw prints on the weed eater standing up in front of the garage door opener on the wall. I also found a dead mouse gift he left in my pathway through the garage. I walked to my truck driver door & there was Gabe meowing at me to pick him up to go inside for breakfast. Ok, I am going to have to do some garage rearranging so Gabe has no way of reaching the garage opener button. He has watched me enough to know exactly where it was & how it works. I noticed one time before the door was up 2 inches & the opener was crooked on the wall. This time I KNOW he knows how to open the door.

He loves to go outside sometimes & always greets me & jumps in my truck to explore when I get back from the barn if he is outside.

This cat has more personality than any cat I have ever had & a heart connect I never expected to find from my.little kitty buddy. I am sure glad he found my farm since at that time there was no one living around me in a mile both directions up & down the road & no one with property in back or or across the street from my farm. Maybe someone dropped him off....anyway, he is the perfect match for my little critter family & is really great & gentle & loving with my blind dogs. I lost Tawny 1 month before she turned 19 a year ago Feb & then adopted another blind older eskie that March. Gabe just has a personality that gets along with every critter on my farm. I knew he was good when I saw him sniffing noses as that little kitten with my 17.2 hand mare. He is definitely the little clown of the family

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