FAKE SULTANS!

I was on the internet a while back looking up "Sultan", and while there are many Tuxedo Cats that may at first glance look like Sultan, consider THESE two....


A fat lazy copycat using Sultan's name... 

... and ANOTHER MUSEUM CAT !  An extra-tough "Fat Sultan" who controls the environs of the Bodie (Ghost Town) State Park Museum in the Northern Sierras!

Sultan Update...

Sultan is busy trying to fatten up for the winter (we've had to "restrict his rations") while remaining a cat who can leap completely over furniture and bounce a catnip mouse all over the room.  I've opened all the window curtains to him... he simply looks out, gets bored, and goes back to play in his Mouse City or enjoy the sun for a nap.

He also returned to my lap - the number one place he enjoyed at the museum - for the first time since he moved here.

I took him out last week for the first time since he moved in... he saw some wind, felt the colder air, and recognized that he didn't know this driveway and ran back in the house!

A radically different cat, but I do get deeply sad for him (as I mentioned in a previous Blog) that he cannot really have the totally free life that he enjoyed before without consequences.  He seems so happy... but I still wonder if he thinks of the past and the museum much.

Sultan at Play...

Sultan loves his Mouse City, which on any given day usually consists of the Mouse House (a large cardboard box with holes where the "mice" live); a smaller mouse condo, and at least two paper grocery bags that he loves to tear to pieces while he hunts the mice and then sleeps on.