Hello all, nice to meet you. I'm a cat owner myself & have been for the last 20 years, but partly the reason I've joined your forum is to ask for advice.
For the last 18 months, my elder daughter has been keeping an eye on a neighbour's cat . For the past few months ,the neighbours have been shutting it outside all the time, they both work full time & say they'd had a stray cat through their cat flap. ( They won't consider having a micro chil cat flap.) & unless my daughter lets it into her house, it seems to sleep in peoples' garden. They don't attempt to call it for its food or get it in at night.
She found out from talking to her immediate neighbours that people had felt so sorry for it in the past, & they'd been feeding it before she moved into the house 2 years ago.. In the winter, my daughter thinks the cat caught one of its claws on a fence & tore it badly. She told the owners who said it would get better by itself ! My daughter eventually managed to nurse the cat's paw better.
The cat never seems to want to go home & its owners never come looking for it. It was getting so thin, & she was so worried about it she's started feeding it high quality cat biscuits. She's been round to their house a couple of times & they can see her on the front door step, but won't answer the door.
In desperation, she went round again last week, & their attitude seems to be , it's an outdoor cat who doesn't like to come inside ( That's not true, it comes into her house for shelter especially when it's raining or cold )
Also when she said she was worried it was living on birds & mice, they said that's what cats do, they're wild animals !
She also said she was worried about the cat having worms & fleas & they just weren't interested ! She knows if she goes to the RSPCA, they will visit these people & give them a warning, but they're both very aggressive & unpleasant & only live round the corner from her.
She's quite prepared to take the cat on full time, but she doesn't think the owners would let her do that, they say it's their cat & not to make a fuss of it !
She wondered about ringing Cats Protection & offering to pay for one of their vets to check the cat over & give it worm & flea treatment . What do you think ? Would Cats Protection agree to do that ? Or is the RSPCA the only answer, it's breaking her heart, & she's helping it all she can at the moment, but she's sure it's got fleas ) :
Sorry for the long post, any advice would be very welcome !
Thanks once again
For the last 18 months, my elder daughter has been keeping an eye on a neighbour's cat . For the past few months ,the neighbours have been shutting it outside all the time, they both work full time & say they'd had a stray cat through their cat flap. ( They won't consider having a micro chil cat flap.) & unless my daughter lets it into her house, it seems to sleep in peoples' garden. They don't attempt to call it for its food or get it in at night.
She found out from talking to her immediate neighbours that people had felt so sorry for it in the past, & they'd been feeding it before she moved into the house 2 years ago.. In the winter, my daughter thinks the cat caught one of its claws on a fence & tore it badly. She told the owners who said it would get better by itself ! My daughter eventually managed to nurse the cat's paw better.
The cat never seems to want to go home & its owners never come looking for it. It was getting so thin, & she was so worried about it she's started feeding it high quality cat biscuits. She's been round to their house a couple of times & they can see her on the front door step, but won't answer the door.
In desperation, she went round again last week, & their attitude seems to be , it's an outdoor cat who doesn't like to come inside ( That's not true, it comes into her house for shelter especially when it's raining or cold )
Also when she said she was worried it was living on birds & mice, they said that's what cats do, they're wild animals !
She also said she was worried about the cat having worms & fleas & they just weren't interested ! She knows if she goes to the RSPCA, they will visit these people & give them a warning, but they're both very aggressive & unpleasant & only live round the corner from her.
She's quite prepared to take the cat on full time, but she doesn't think the owners would let her do that, they say it's their cat & not to make a fuss of it !
She wondered about ringing Cats Protection & offering to pay for one of their vets to check the cat over & give it worm & flea treatment . What do you think ? Would Cats Protection agree to do that ? Or is the RSPCA the only answer, it's breaking her heart, & she's helping it all she can at the moment, but she's sure it's got fleas ) :
Sorry for the long post, any advice would be very welcome !
Thanks once again
