Hi,
I just wanted to share some pics and the story of the latest stray that my neighbor Susan and I are taking care of. His name is Oscar. I first saw him a couple of months ago, but he always ran when I tried to approach him, so I assumed he was at least semi-feral. Susan was able to talk softly to him and get him to let her pet him. Since then, he can't seem to get enough attention, so he must be a stray (or more accurately, an 'abandoned'). With my 4 cats and her 3, we're both overflowing right now, so we're hoping to get him fixed and adopt him out. The local shelter has a great program that offers a free spay, rabies shot, distemper, FIV/FelV check, and microchip for free to low-income families, so we're trying to get him into that.
My biggest concern is that it will be much harder to adopt him out living outside than it would be an indoor cat. I might be able to bring him in overnight and keep him in the bathroom, but I can't really keep him indoors long-term. I haven't talked to any of the local no-kill organizations, but I suspect that at this time of year they have their hands full with the kittens that are pouring in. If anyone has suggestions for dealing with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Anyway, here are the pics of Oscar:
Lounging around in the folding chair on the front porch
Here he is loving the attention I'm giving him. You can see he's pretty skinny. Hopefully getting fed consistently will help, but I suspect he probably has worms as well. Hopefully we can get that taken care of too.
And here's a close-up. The notches in his ear bear witness to some of the fights he's been in:
I just wanted to share some pics and the story of the latest stray that my neighbor Susan and I are taking care of. His name is Oscar. I first saw him a couple of months ago, but he always ran when I tried to approach him, so I assumed he was at least semi-feral. Susan was able to talk softly to him and get him to let her pet him. Since then, he can't seem to get enough attention, so he must be a stray (or more accurately, an 'abandoned'). With my 4 cats and her 3, we're both overflowing right now, so we're hoping to get him fixed and adopt him out. The local shelter has a great program that offers a free spay, rabies shot, distemper, FIV/FelV check, and microchip for free to low-income families, so we're trying to get him into that.
My biggest concern is that it will be much harder to adopt him out living outside than it would be an indoor cat. I might be able to bring him in overnight and keep him in the bathroom, but I can't really keep him indoors long-term. I haven't talked to any of the local no-kill organizations, but I suspect that at this time of year they have their hands full with the kittens that are pouring in. If anyone has suggestions for dealing with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Anyway, here are the pics of Oscar:
Lounging around in the folding chair on the front porch
Here he is loving the attention I'm giving him. You can see he's pretty skinny. Hopefully getting fed consistently will help, but I suspect he probably has worms as well. Hopefully we can get that taken care of too.
And here's a close-up. The notches in his ear bear witness to some of the fights he's been in: