we live in a semi rural area and have a cadre of local neighborhood cats that visit us. one in particular we've seen for about 2 years. the first year he had a collar and was very erratic as to when he'd come by and in bad weather he'd disappear for months sometimes to reappear in spring. in the 8 months he shows up for all meals. and is out in the worst weather no collar. we are thinking maybe he's been abandoned. we've had a number of houses sell in the neighborhood and there were two sales the month that he started showing up regularly for food. he actually will wait for hours on our porch for us to put food out for him. he's appears to be unneutered.
we are thinking we should grab him and get him to the vet to look for tags and maybe get him neutered and checked for diseases. but since he's waiting on our doorstep for us and only retreating a few feet when we put out food we're thinking maybe it should not be hard to make friends with him.
what are the steps you would take to try and befriend a kitty like this? we're actually pretty worried for him. he's a tiny guy and we have big owls, coyotes and eagles as well as fast driving jerks a couple blocks away.
the thing that moved me from being on the fence about him probably still having a home or not is one day I saw him dispatch a mouse. it was fast. and he ate it in like three bites. there was no toying with it.. none at all. I've never seen that behavior in a cat with a home.
we are thinking we should grab him and get him to the vet to look for tags and maybe get him neutered and checked for diseases. but since he's waiting on our doorstep for us and only retreating a few feet when we put out food we're thinking maybe it should not be hard to make friends with him.
what are the steps you would take to try and befriend a kitty like this? we're actually pretty worried for him. he's a tiny guy and we have big owls, coyotes and eagles as well as fast driving jerks a couple blocks away.
the thing that moved me from being on the fence about him probably still having a home or not is one day I saw him dispatch a mouse. it was fast. and he ate it in like three bites. there was no toying with it.. none at all. I've never seen that behavior in a cat with a home.