Once Aunt Tina gave me my name “Socks” I began to hear my name at meal times. The Lady, who is now my mom, would sit a plate down in front of me and sternly say, “Socks, eat your food and keep away from the other cats’ plates.” She would catch me trying to steal their food after I finished my own dinner. After watching me try to sneak more food, the Lady, who is now my mom, began to give me bigger helpings. I guess she realized I was used to eating large meals, MOL.
As the summer drifted on and the air stayed warm till late in the night, I would sometimes creep into the garage when the door was open. A few of the other ferals were sleeping on outdoor furniture cushions that were turned into cat beds. The Lady, who is now my mom, would see me laying in a corner by myself and say, “Socks, as long as you don’t bother the other cats and don’t go to the bathroom out of the litter box you can sleep in the garage.”
With this new information in my head, I began to slip into the garage to beat the summer heat, get a cool drink and a few nibbles of hard food. The Lady, who is now my mom, had assumed I was already neutered as she saw my ears tipped. Little did she know that my ears were not tipped at the vet but by tom cats during mating fights. So even though I now how a secure place to rest my head at night and eat good meals, the call of nature would lure me out to find a mate. I would be gone for two or three days and then reappear and the Lady, who is now my mom, would say “I thought something bad happened to you, I am glad you are okay.”
My pattern of staying in the garage for a week and out for a few days continued throughout the summer until I happened upon a tom cat who was able to get the best of me. He scalped one side of my head, took a chunk out of my ear and left me with less fur and bleeding. When I managed to make it back to the garage of the House of Ps, the Lady, who is now my mom, exclaimed “Oh my what happened to you.” She called to my daddy who at this point had yet to get really close to me. He walked up to me and actually touched me and I let him.
Socks In The House of Ps 