Hi Everyone
Glad I found this forum, I thought I had a unique situation but must have read 5 or 6 threads already with stories similar to mine! A little over a week ago a stray cat showed up in our yard, pretty scared of people and everything that made a noise at first but its warmed up to us a lot in the past week to the point where it comes running to us whenever we're outside and rolls over to get its belly rubbed. I think its pregnant and got dumped, its mid section looks a little too wide to me compared to every other cat I've ever seen. None of the neighbors know whose it is, a call to the humane society said nobody had reported a lost cat, and now one of our neighbors is getting mad that its "scaring away all of his birds". Personally I think thats great, because his "birds" drop bombs on my truck all the time but the past two weeks its been clean
So my wife and I are hoping to be able to adopt the cat into our home. We've already got two dogs, but the cat doesn't seem to be afraid of them so maybe it will work out. I've got a large (4'x6') dog crate I'm going to set up in a back room tonight, the cat let me pick it up yesterday so I think I'll be able to get it into the large crate for the night, then get her to the vet for a checkup tomorrow. And then we'll see what the vet says and what happens after that...
Glad I found this forum, I thought I had a unique situation but must have read 5 or 6 threads already with stories similar to mine! A little over a week ago a stray cat showed up in our yard, pretty scared of people and everything that made a noise at first but its warmed up to us a lot in the past week to the point where it comes running to us whenever we're outside and rolls over to get its belly rubbed. I think its pregnant and got dumped, its mid section looks a little too wide to me compared to every other cat I've ever seen. None of the neighbors know whose it is, a call to the humane society said nobody had reported a lost cat, and now one of our neighbors is getting mad that its "scaring away all of his birds". Personally I think thats great, because his "birds" drop bombs on my truck all the time but the past two weeks its been clean
So my wife and I are hoping to be able to adopt the cat into our home. We've already got two dogs, but the cat doesn't seem to be afraid of them so maybe it will work out. I've got a large (4'x6') dog crate I'm going to set up in a back room tonight, the cat let me pick it up yesterday so I think I'll be able to get it into the large crate for the night, then get her to the vet for a checkup tomorrow. And then we'll see what the vet says and what happens after that...