A few weeks ago I came home to see a small adult cat huddled in the bushes near my house. I went to check to see if it was injured and it hissed at me and tore off. Since then I have been setting out a days worth of food and generally the cat comes by a few times a day and finished off what I leave out, so I think I am it’s main or only source of food.
It will not let me anywhere close and is extremely skittish and wary while it eats which makes me think it’s feral. But it could also be a cat that was dumped and is just fearful. Today when it came by it sniffed the food and walked away, so it either found food elsewhere or was perhaps has a home and was fed there. Which of the three do you think it might be?
My neighborhood generally doesn’t have many wandering cats, and animal control will trap and pick up any that are reported. Our Minnesota winters are brutal and deadly for cat living outdoors so I need to figure out what to do with this cat. I have already posted signs around the neighborhood and placed an ad on Craig’s lists with no response and I am trying to figure out what to do, whether to call animal control, try to trap the cat myself or just wait longer into fall.
Advice appreciated.
It will not let me anywhere close and is extremely skittish and wary while it eats which makes me think it’s feral. But it could also be a cat that was dumped and is just fearful. Today when it came by it sniffed the food and walked away, so it either found food elsewhere or was perhaps has a home and was fed there. Which of the three do you think it might be?
My neighborhood generally doesn’t have many wandering cats, and animal control will trap and pick up any that are reported. Our Minnesota winters are brutal and deadly for cat living outdoors so I need to figure out what to do with this cat. I have already posted signs around the neighborhood and placed an ad on Craig’s lists with no response and I am trying to figure out what to do, whether to call animal control, try to trap the cat myself or just wait longer into fall.
Advice appreciated.