Hi! New here. First rescue.

Hi, my name is Katy. I have a 7 month old persian himalayan, and today had a stray tabby join our family.

I am new to strays, so please tell me if there is anything else I need to do. He is a big boy (I swear half mountain lion) and weighs in at just over 30 lbs. (he is not fat, very lean and healthy looking).His head is bigger then my husbands hand! Lol. He is neutered, so he was loved at one time.

I was getting my truck fixed, and was waiting in a room off the garage. I sat down and mr mountain lion walked up to me and rubbed all over me. I told the woman at the counter 'i love your cat! He's so lovey!' and she said you can have him if you want! He is a stray that's been roaming the area for a year. They let him hang out at the shop because the temps here in northern mn have been -20s. So of course I took him home...I'm a sucker for cuddly animals.

I ran to the vet and picked up some vaccines and dewormer and his own box, and gave them to him as soon as we got home. We then gave him a bath as he smelled like oil (my husband has some nice large battle scratches....not easy holding a 30lb stray in the tub....). I cleaned his ears and checked his fur. No mites or fleas! I then cut his nails (yes, he let me with no fight!).

He is now sitting on the couch with us and is on cloud 9 cleaning himself. Hasn't moved sence we let him in from the sunroom.

I have my other kitty in our room, and will alternate them for a week or so. I gave my Persian some booster vaccines and a new dose of the leukemia vaccine just in case, and want to wait a week or two before they meet.

By the way, we named him simba. It seems fitting, as he is HUGE and orange.

I also sprayed him with some apple cider vinegar, because he still has an oil smell from bin in a garage. I am hoping that kills it.

How do I add a photo? I would love to share pics!

Here he is on my sleeping husband.





And here he is after his bath. He has the perfect puss in boots eye trick.

One more. Sleeping with his new daddy. Like he's been here his whole life.

I am not letting them come into contact at all. Simba goes in the sun room when we arnt cuddling, and when he is in the house baby (my Persian) goes in our bedroom. That way they arnt sharing anything. I will get him tested before they meet. I just ran into the vet today, purchased the vaccines and wormer and left.

Its just so hard not to give him a few min of cuddles here and there. All this cat wants is physical contact with a human. When he's inside with us, he has no urge to walk around, just cuddle and nuzzle, and when I go out to the sunroom, he practically climbs up me. He loves to be held and carried around like a baby (a heavy baby!).

I feel so bad for him because he obviously loves being cuddled so much, and was dropped off out here in the middle of nowhere to be alone. I cant imagine how he must have felt.

Apparently that happens alot per the vet. ( I'm new to the area). People drive out here and
dump their cats on farms thinking they will be happy. All the local rescues are over filled.

Now what would cause a cat to grow to such unnatural sizes, besides getting into a GNC outlet dumpster?

My Persian is maybe 8 lbs...max (he looks bigger but it's all fluff) samba is a monster to us!

Thank you for the kind words. He had his first poo in his litter box and no worms visible or eggs. He had his wormer yesterday, so it should start coming out soon if they are in there (my dig gave birth to spaghetti after his wormer as a puppy).

He is inside on my lap right now. Introducing him to my 3 yr old while my 8 yr old is at school. Shes not touching him yet, but sitting next to us. So var all good. He was a little nervous at first, but now is purring and just watching her.

Learned something new! He loves his tummy rubbed! I have him on my lap and was petting his back. He flipped on his back and I massaged his chest and tummy. He started purring and kneading the air. He's still at it lol!

Sorry for the typos in my last post. My iPad auto corrects and it's hard to type with a cat adding extra letters during his kneading. Haha!

Feralvr- I bought a dewormer at the vet yesterday and gave it to him. It's the same stuff they give during an office visit. It's a bottle of orange stuff. I have 3 months worth of it!


Well.....we bathed him....didn't say it was easy....lol.

My husbands arms/hands look like they went through a meat grinder. And that's with gloves. After about 10 min of doing the twist and scratch, he grabbed the side of the tub and hung there long enough to scrub him down a few times. His wiskers were black from oil and dirt, and now he's all clean and sooo soft!

April- your baby is sooo cute! I love that type of cat! I actually prefer small cats....but this one had suck loving eyes, I couldn't say no. I actually never thought I would ever adopt a stray. I am more of a bred purebred type person, but there is just something about him, I couldn't just leave him at the garage.

I stand corrected. We now have spaghetti poop. Looks like the wormer is working....(gag)