We have a feral/stray coming around that we have been feeding with dry and sometime wet cat food for about a month.
We also built her a small insulted shelter, strategically placed on our patio..
I have seen her hanging around the small wooded area behind us for several years
But as we have bird feeders this year for the first time she has been coming around a lot.. Thus us feeding her and leaving fresh water.
She looks VERY healthy, well groomed, and clean, she comes around consistently in the morning and then again late afternoon, but sometimes we won't see her for a day or two.
She likes to sit under a bush outside of our living room windows, which faces a small wooded area, directly adjacent to the patio. (Just a few feet from the bird feeders)
She is okay with us "talking" to her telling her we love her with our cats and dogs thru the window pain while she is directly below us, and will let me come as close as a few feet away from her.. me on the patio, her peering thru an opening at the corner of the privacy fence..
This afternoon for first time, she hung out but didn't eat her food.. I was watching thru the glass screen door(which I've down several times with no problem) when she came up toward the bowl, but she looked at me funny and retreated back to the bush.
She hung out under the bush and even let me talk to her thru the opening and just looked at me, but never ate and then disappeared again sometime after the sun set..
She ate a lot this morning, and may be getting food someplace else but I really felt bad..
We think she lives someplace but we have seen her in the shelter at 430 am one night when one of my dogs woke me up so he could pee.. Also I should add it was bitter cold that night.
What do you think..? Feral or stray or indoor outdoor cat..?
Thank you so much for your input..
MC
We also built her a small insulted shelter, strategically placed on our patio..
I have seen her hanging around the small wooded area behind us for several years
But as we have bird feeders this year for the first time she has been coming around a lot.. Thus us feeding her and leaving fresh water.
She looks VERY healthy, well groomed, and clean, she comes around consistently in the morning and then again late afternoon, but sometimes we won't see her for a day or two.
She likes to sit under a bush outside of our living room windows, which faces a small wooded area, directly adjacent to the patio. (Just a few feet from the bird feeders)
She is okay with us "talking" to her telling her we love her with our cats and dogs thru the window pain while she is directly below us, and will let me come as close as a few feet away from her.. me on the patio, her peering thru an opening at the corner of the privacy fence..
This afternoon for first time, she hung out but didn't eat her food.. I was watching thru the glass screen door(which I've down several times with no problem) when she came up toward the bowl, but she looked at me funny and retreated back to the bush.
She hung out under the bush and even let me talk to her thru the opening and just looked at me, but never ate and then disappeared again sometime after the sun set..
She ate a lot this morning, and may be getting food someplace else but I really felt bad..
We think she lives someplace but we have seen her in the shelter at 430 am one night when one of my dogs woke me up so he could pee.. Also I should add it was bitter cold that night.
What do you think..? Feral or stray or indoor outdoor cat..?
Thank you so much for your input..
MC