Seeing Double

There are several Caitis in my life right now. My sister Caiti and Little Caiti are the two that I actually like. All the other Caitis started coming around in the fall when it was dark after I got home so at first it was hard to tell the difference. All the Caitis are varying shades of orange with white stripes and all about the same size. Thus the confusion.

Evil Caiti comes around at night. In the fall she came around several times. She's a little bigger than LC and much fluffier. That's the easiest way to tell the difference. I try to chase away any cats that I don't want to stay around here but at first it was pretty hard to tell the difference and I scared LC a few times (maybe that's why she won't let me pet her). This Caiti is evil because she scared the kitties. Anytime EC came into the yard my kitties would run and hide. And EC has stopped being scared of me. I would chase her away and she wouldn't run, just amble away. I need to get V after her.

Doppleganger Caiti look exactly like Caiti. Same color, same size same everything. Finally I started staring out the backdoor enough to notice that DC's fur is a little darker and his face looks kind of smooshed. But the kitties didn't seem scared of Doppleganger Caiti. They ignored him while he was eating their food, but they didn't hide.

Caiti Cinquo has only been around once. She was about Inky's size and her face looked exactly like LC's. I might have kept Cinquo - she was cute. But she ran away once I walked toward her and she hasn't been back since.

Tonight there might have been a sixth Caiti. I'm not sure yet. It was eating the kitties food so I ran to chase it away and it didn't seem to scared of me. It also had a very fluffy tail so it could have been Evil Caiti with a shave. I took the food and water inside and it hasn't come back. I hope the cat isn't eating the kitties food during the day. I'll have to watch for the cat to come back to find out if it's a 6th Caiti or not. Hopefully not.