My wife and I adopted 4 ferals last August now at almost a year old and all of us in a new house they really have turned into full time happy house cats. Each one with their own personalities......anyways......only two weeks in the new home and I hear this sound from one of my cats like i have never heard before, he was sitting in the window and a big tom cat had found his way to our porch. HOW DO THEY KNOW that I will feed and take care of them???
The new TOM clearly was someones pet at some point because of how friendly he is. He is missing a front big canine tooth, his back looks crooked, his eyes are full of gunk and he sneezes a lot!!!
Our new neighbor is a vet tech and after looking him over she says he is in good shape, the mouth is not infected because of the missing tooth and although his eyes looks nasty she doesn't think he has an infection as he is not running a fever.
The new cat has a GIANT head, and is clearly intact the vet tech says that his head is so big because he is a Tom and probably and older cat. He just looks funny because his body is skinny and he has such a huge head.
With already four inside cats who probably won't take kindly to the new cat we plan to keep this cat feed and sheltered outside. We live in the south where it is already 80 degrees during the day and 60 at night. I did make a nice box of old clothes for him to lay in (which he does sometimes) He is also out of the rain on our porch
anyways now that I have the background out of the way here are my questions......
1. My neighbor says other people in the neighborhood hate cats and animal control is always being called and cats are sometimes being trapped. Since I have rabies tags for other indoor only cats would it hurt to put a collar around this new fellow and one of the unused tags to ensure he doesn't get nabbed and then put down?
2. How long do I wait before taking the cat in to be neutured? I am not 100% positive that he is not just lost and would hate to go beyond just feeding someone else's cat.
3. Is the vet tech right and possibly his big head is just because he is a TOM?
4. How do we ensure he sticks around? He seems to disappear at night and I have seen him on other neighbors porches throughout the day.
any questions or advice is most welcome. We never set out to have 4 cats........so whats one more?
The new TOM clearly was someones pet at some point because of how friendly he is. He is missing a front big canine tooth, his back looks crooked, his eyes are full of gunk and he sneezes a lot!!!
Our new neighbor is a vet tech and after looking him over she says he is in good shape, the mouth is not infected because of the missing tooth and although his eyes looks nasty she doesn't think he has an infection as he is not running a fever.
The new cat has a GIANT head, and is clearly intact the vet tech says that his head is so big because he is a Tom and probably and older cat. He just looks funny because his body is skinny and he has such a huge head.
With already four inside cats who probably won't take kindly to the new cat we plan to keep this cat feed and sheltered outside. We live in the south where it is already 80 degrees during the day and 60 at night. I did make a nice box of old clothes for him to lay in (which he does sometimes) He is also out of the rain on our porch
anyways now that I have the background out of the way here are my questions......
1. My neighbor says other people in the neighborhood hate cats and animal control is always being called and cats are sometimes being trapped. Since I have rabies tags for other indoor only cats would it hurt to put a collar around this new fellow and one of the unused tags to ensure he doesn't get nabbed and then put down?
2. How long do I wait before taking the cat in to be neutured? I am not 100% positive that he is not just lost and would hate to go beyond just feeding someone else's cat.
3. Is the vet tech right and possibly his big head is just because he is a TOM?
4. How do we ensure he sticks around? He seems to disappear at night and I have seen him on other neighbors porches throughout the day.
any questions or advice is most welcome. We never set out to have 4 cats........so whats one more?