On a warm afternoon, Brett was outside cooking on the BBQ when he heard a meow coming from the back corner of our yard. This was a different kind of meow, so Brett responded with a meow of his own. Slowly, a black and white cat emerged from among our rose bushes and began to slowly circle toward Brett. Steadily the circles became tighter and eventually this mystery cat was brushing up next to Brett's leg. After the BBQ was done, Brett left a small piece of fat and meat for the cat who looked pretty skinny. Well, the cat has never really left our backyard since and waited on our back porch for six days until we fed him again. Then we named him, Theo. He passed the test to stay by allowing all of our boys to pet him, pick him up, and play with him. So now we have a backyard cat to go with our front yard cat, Max. Realizing that Theo was about 8 months old and would probably have problems getting along with Max, marking his territory, and fighting with other cats if we didn't do something, we made an appointment to get Theo neutered. He made it through the surgery successfully and apparently hasn't held it against us as he still resides in our backyard.
This is where Theo spends most of his time, on our back step.
I think Theo likes me.
See he can look all prim and proper too.
