I got a gift yesterday!

While I was out feeding my colony, the Most feral cat showed up. He is still intact so he roams. He's also extremely shy and sly. I haven't been able to get near him for feeding, he normally waits till I'm inside the house before he even goes near the food. His name is MONSTER and he's a huge orange tom.

Yesterday I poured out the food and sat on my back stoop while they all ate. I try to be there everytime so they'll all grow to trust me. Anyhow, I'm sitting there and here comes Monster. He comes to the bottom of the stairs, drops a dead mouse, head butts the stairs, and takes off back to the fence. I was shocked! And thrilled! He's accepted me into his family!

Now if I could just trap him!

Sandy

Congratulations! It definitely sounds as if he's accepted you. Now you'll probably get gifts from him on a fairly regular basis. We used to have a feral that did that, but he unfortunately didn't always stop at mice or rats - he also brought a koi, guinea pigs, and (lunch) meat stolen in the supermarket parking lot.

WOW! That's neat. Congratulations on your acceptance!

Wow that is awesome! It also seems he respects you, good luck catching him!

Jcat- I laughed out loud reading the part about stealing lunch meat, lol!

My gosh Sandy! I got little tears in my eyes reading what Monster did! What a beautiful cat way of acceptance.

OMG , how wonderfull . My congrats to you
I am sure in time you will catch him .

That's great! Hope you can trap him soon!