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Well, final update I guess.   Crowley went to the vet today.  No microchip, so he is ours to keep.  He has a perfectly clean bill of health, no fleas, no worms, no nothing.  He weighs a bit over 8 lbs and the doctors guess he is about a year old.  He will be going back on next Thursday for an...

Friday proved to be very interesting/exciting.  My wife and I got all of the stuff we needed to set up a spot for the cat and we saw him(nope, not a her) a bit earlier in the day chasing a rabbit through the woods next to our house.  It got on up into the evening and I was starting to think he...

It isn't great but this would be the "best" picture I manage to snag:

The kids are 10 and 12, I have told them that we are taking care of the cat and it may/may not be moving in(didn't want to get their hopes up).  They are with us every other weekend and a couple of days  during the week.  I don't think it will be an issue for them, but I was trying to get a...

The dogs do stay out back exclusively, they are too big and unruly for the house.  I don't have any plans to introduce the cat to the dogs.  We have a game room, but we do have kids in and out quite a bit so the current thought is to just use our bedroom - no ideal but that is where we are at...

Last night she showed up for supper.  She was sitting on the low wall on our porch and I was able to approach her and sit on the ground near the food bowl.  Taking the advice from here, I didn't try to pay her too much attention.  Eventually she started grooming herself and then rolling around...

So far, no cat tonight. We have some severe weather brewing so I suspect she is hunkered down. It looks like most of the food was eaten during the day and we either for a hair ball or a bit of bird as a tip. I couldn't really tell.

It is funny both my wife and I had apparently been having the same thoughts about the cat for days before we fessed up.

No, I don't know the sex of the cat yet - I'm leaning female but I have no basis for this at all.  We decided this morning that if the cat lets us take it in, we will get it to the vet to get fixed and it will be indoors at least part of the time(I guess how much depends on the cat) .  My wife...

If I could swing it, I'd prefer to get to the point where I could just get her in a carrier.  I'd just have to buy a trap if I went that route and I'm sure that trapping the cat around the house would not go over well with the cat.  If the cat does indeed take up residence with us, he/she will...

For the sake of keeping it simple, I'm gonna call the cat a she from now on.   Anyway, she was on the porch again this morning but split when my wife opened the door to put the food out.  She did stay close though b/c we could hear her meowing.  When I was leaving for the office, she was...

We got home from dinner and he/she was on the porch with the food. It didn't hang around once we got home but it's a start.

Came home to a fresh killed bullfrog. If anything, this cat is effective.

Ohh good idea, I've always wondered about coons in the neighborhood, but never seen one or any sign of them, but I will just take it up before bed.  It seems to like the porch for the evenings, or part of them.  Maybe the shelter or chasing the moths.  Got me.   I'll check back in as things...

We got some food and bowls at lunch.  I suspect we'll set them up on the front porch since the cat seems to show up there every evening.  It is out of the way of normal traffic in and out of the house, but also near the front door so if things progress that route it is near an entrance and exit...

The cat seems in decent health.  In my mind, it has been around the house like 2 weeks, maybe 3.   Mind you, we haven't gotten close to it really but I've seen him/her quite a bit.  It looks more or less clean and the cat's coat seems ok.  Logically, I would think if it is cared for in our...

Hi, sorry if this post gets long, but all of this is new to me and I'm not sure what is going on/what needs to be done.   We live out in the county a bit and the last 3 weeks or so, a cat has been kind of loitering around the house.  If we go outside, it takes off.  It seems to not want to be...