I'm becoming crazy cat man.....
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Earlier in the year we took on Alan the cat. He'd been left behind when tenants moved on.
The last few weeks a cat has been getting in and stealing Alans food. It's a stray (nickname "scraggy cat") and looks quite underweight to me. Had CPL come over today and we caught it and they took it to the Vet. No chip. :angry:
So now I've been out in the rain and the dark building it a cat shelter to stay in while it gets used to us feeding it.
Realistically I don't expect the owners to collect him (although he's now on the CPL website), so as they have 180 other cats looking for a place in a shelter before him...!! It looks awfully like I've taken on another cat.
Good news is that Alan and scraggy cat have met in the garden before and no fighting or any aggression. So this could work. But do strays talk and bring their mates or something? Now they have started turning up...is this it? Am I destined to be that crazy cat man!
(P.s. anybody want a 5yo ish black and white cat that purrs when you give him treats?)
The last few weeks a cat has been getting in and stealing Alans food. It's a stray (nickname "scraggy cat") and looks quite underweight to me. Had CPL come over today and we caught it and they took it to the Vet. No chip. :angry:
So now I've been out in the rain and the dark building it a cat shelter to stay in while it gets used to us feeding it.
Realistically I don't expect the owners to collect him (although he's now on the CPL website), so as they have 180 other cats looking for a place in a shelter before him...!! It looks awfully like I've taken on another cat.
Good news is that Alan and scraggy cat have met in the garden before and no fighting or any aggression. So this could work. But do strays talk and bring their mates or something? Now they have started turning up...is this it? Am I destined to be that crazy cat man!
(P.s. anybody want a 5yo ish black and white cat that purrs when you give him treats?)
Jasandjules said:
Good man OP. Contact the CPL and obtain your new master....
Also, with enough food (perhaps using tuna or chicken) I am sure you could entice him into the house where he'll be a lot warmer and happier over winter......
Well the CPL lady seemed to say she'll be in touch. So I assume it'll be to say "You could just keep him..." Given I can't watch an animal starve to death I guess I'll have to.Also, with enough food (perhaps using tuna or chicken) I am sure you could entice him into the house where he'll be a lot warmer and happier over winter......
Yes we'll try and get him in eventually. Got to give him at least 24hours though for all the fleas to leave though before we work on it. (I think I now know where Alan was getting his fleas...)
Munter said:
Well the CPL lady seemed to say she'll be in touch. So I assume it'll be to say "You could just keep him..." Given I can't watch an animal starve to death I guess I'll have to.
I suggest you call them, the RSPCA told me they'd "keep in touch" and I only just found where they had my cat in time to prevent them taking some action which would not have been nice.. Instead I took her, and all her associated medical problems......Mubby said:
awwww what you gonna call him? 
ps. love the name Alan the cat haha
My first cat was called Dave. Seemed so natural to me by the time he was 12 that I was puzzles when folk laughed at his name. ps. love the name Alan the cat haha
Current one was adopted from CPL and they had already called her Sally. I didnt like the name but i doesnt feel right changing it :-).
Ahh bless, you've got two cats. We've got fourteen, at the last count, including two pregnant queens. None are actually ours, although they all think they are. We buy the cheapest cat biscuits we can find, and fill up a feeder every evening. They sort out their own 'pecking order', and treat the place just like a hotel, and I'm sure they tell their friends just where to get fed.
Jasandjules said:
It will only take her 2-3 weeks tops to learn a new name....... Our rescue understood her new name within about 3 days...I say new name because we didn't know her old name!
I've now had her a year - Sally's her name Bizarrely she can now see better than she could a year ago - but now and again she gets a bit grumpy with arthritis pain (tho mostly the pain killers she takes do their job).
ETA - she's partially sighted (but seems to have improved a fair bit)
Simpo Two said:
karona said:
Ahh bless, you've got two cats. We've got fourteen, at the last count, including two pregnant queens. None are actually ours, although they all think they are.
CPL safe house?We've only had one neighbour asking where her cat's nuts went, but hey, there's no such thing as a free lunch, come poaching my biscuits, watch your balls
Here he is. The little tyke. The OH is keen on Dave as a name!
I'd be happy to stick with scraggy.
Now we have his photo, it a case of see if anybody responds to the adverts in the press and on CPL website. In the meantime he's getting food and staying in my dodgy "rent by the hour" cat hotel on the deck.
I'd be happy to stick with scraggy.
Now we have his photo, it a case of see if anybody responds to the adverts in the press and on CPL website. In the meantime he's getting food and staying in my dodgy "rent by the hour" cat hotel on the deck.
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