Hi there, I am Debbie from Houston. I guess it was the end August last year we were outside and kept hearing a meowing sound.
Finally located the source, a little stray cat. She was starving.
We had ony had dogs, birds and fish all of our lives so did not have any cat food around. All our dog babies have since gone and we only have the bird now, anyways - we were going to give the little one some dog food we keep on hands for passer biers in the neighborhood and figured she would go back where she came from.
Well she stayed, so we figured ok - outside cat we would let her stay if she wanted to. Couple of weeks went by and she was still here, so it was only the right thing to take her down to our vet and get her shots and help keep her healthy. Another month went by had to take her back for her 2nd round of Lukemia proventiive shots ??
By then she was starting to grown on us, so then we took her in to be spayed, as there are a lot of male cats that roam.
So now our little stray cat that was going to be an outside cat has been given a chance to come inside. Ok, so she can stay in a night every now and then. When we get up she eats and I put her outside, well she figured out when she eats the next step is to go outside so she decided she could hide somewhere and I would not have time to find her before heading out the door to go to work.
So now she is a full time house cat, and only goes outside when she wants to (which is not very often) but we love her.
I know nothing about cats but trying to read as much and just learn by trial and error.
I believe she is what is called a Tortise Shell, she is georgeous - well anyway to use she is.
Did not really intend on keeping her, so just gave her KITKAT as the name, but call her kiki and if she so desires, she may come to me when I speak her name but that is only if she has a mind to.
Here is her picture
Finally located the source, a little stray cat. She was starving.
We had ony had dogs, birds and fish all of our lives so did not have any cat food around. All our dog babies have since gone and we only have the bird now, anyways - we were going to give the little one some dog food we keep on hands for passer biers in the neighborhood and figured she would go back where she came from.
Well she stayed, so we figured ok - outside cat we would let her stay if she wanted to. Couple of weeks went by and she was still here, so it was only the right thing to take her down to our vet and get her shots and help keep her healthy. Another month went by had to take her back for her 2nd round of Lukemia proventiive shots ??
By then she was starting to grown on us, so then we took her in to be spayed, as there are a lot of male cats that roam.
So now our little stray cat that was going to be an outside cat has been given a chance to come inside. Ok, so she can stay in a night every now and then. When we get up she eats and I put her outside, well she figured out when she eats the next step is to go outside so she decided she could hide somewhere and I would not have time to find her before heading out the door to go to work.
So now she is a full time house cat, and only goes outside when she wants to (which is not very often) but we love her.
I know nothing about cats but trying to read as much and just learn by trial and error.
I believe she is what is called a Tortise Shell, she is georgeous - well anyway to use she is.
Did not really intend on keeping her, so just gave her KITKAT as the name, but call her kiki and if she so desires, she may come to me when I speak her name but that is only if she has a mind to.
Here is her picture
Welcome Debbie!
That happened to us too! ...only we didn't have dogs or a bird. A member of TCS, StefanZ has this wonderful way of putting it - cats have a wonderful ability of "pleasing themselves in."
We call that experiential learning. 
Milky 
y Horacio 
te saludan!!!........
