Stubby . . .

When we first met Stubby, we thought there was something wrong with his legs as he would scuttle from place to place looking like his white paws here about an inch from his body. We soon discovered that Stubby was parnoid, attention deficit, and nervous . . . all at once and all the time! He still looks like a fuzzy caterpiller when he dashes from cover to cover to escape notice but we have seen him sprint off, legs at full extension.

His meow matches his personality. It is a raspy sound and he doesn't even move his mouth when he does it. In fact, he often moves his mouth independently of the meow. We see his mouth move and a few seconds later, we hear the meow.

After feeding and trying to befriend him for a couple of weeks now, he is still skittish. It's a miracle he doesn't have stomach ulcers because his meal time consists of quick bites of food, neck extension to check out the vicinity for danger lurking, a quick run into the bushes, a faster return to the food bowl and the routine starts all over again.