
Meet my stray, Patchouli (Choo Choo, or Chooch). I've been feeding her since I bought this house 3 years ago. She is friendly and spayed, so she must have been someone's pet before they abandoned her.

Chooch has a phobia of being inside the house -- she'd probably been forced to be an outside cat. Every winter I carry her inside, but she's miserable and angry and just wants out. But lately she has finally made a change -- she's been coming in the house regularly and staying for hours at a time, even lounging with me on the bed!