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Greetings friends,
It's been such a long time since I've been here interacting with you all. Before I get to the purpose of my thread I just want to let you all know that I STILL have my Brownie-kins and she's STILL just as spoiled as ever.
Now, as for my dilemma; Over the weekend my 10 year old son and his 8 year old friend came across an emaciated yet sweet and friendly stray cat. The cat seems to have made a home for itself on the front porch of an abandoned house half a block down the street from where I live. The house is on the same street as my house. The cat is a grey tabby and actually looks quite a bit like my Brownie. It has a collar but does not have a name tag. I just learned a couple of days ago that the elderly lady who lived in that [now] abandoned house had passed away close to 2 months ago.
I don't have any proof or confirmation of this but my theory is that this cat was perhaps owned by the elderly lady who used to live in that house and maybe the cat is sticking close to what used to be home. So twice a day (once in the morning and once at night) I would go over to that house and feed the cat. I would also sit there to keep it company and to make sure that it wouldn't get bullied out of it's food by one of the "REAL" street cats on the block. It is so emaciated that I can see it's rib cage and I can feel it's spine when I rub it's back.
Well my Brownie is an indoor/outdoor cat (which I actually don't like. I want to make her into a strict house cat if I can). Anyway, Brownie was outside earlier today and I had some of the kids on my street running around near my house saying "Here kitty, come here kitty". And they had their pitbull puppy with them as they are doing this. I'm thinking to myself "these kids better not be out there menacing my Brownie". I open up my front door and go outside and it's the stray cat from up the street. It was on the side of my house. It looked scared due to the rowdy activities of those kids harassing it. When it saw me it IMMEDIATELY ran up to me and cuddled behind me and slightly underneath my legs. The kids asked me if it is my cat and I told them not yet but I plan to make it mine.
As I walked back into my house this cat followed me inside. I gave it food and water and just as I was about to let it back outside it started pouring down raining along with thunder so I knew I couldn't put it outside in those conditions.
So anyway, it is still in my house as I type this. It's asleep in my living room. I have a Japanese divider that I put between my living room (where the stray cat is) and my dining room which leads to the rest of the house. I did that because Brownie is back inside and I know that I have to keep these two separate from each other until I can figure out what's going on. The first thing I'm going to do is take some pictures and circulate them among the local lost & found pets circles just in case it doesn't belong to the deceased lady from down the street. If nothing turns up then I am actually 97% sure that I am going to adopt it and keep it.
I have some questions though. Although the cat is kind of emaciated (for now, I'll fatten it up with nourishment and lots of love), it's still bigger than my Brownie; at least slightly, but noticeably none-the-less. Is this always an indication that it might be a male? I still couldn't get a good enough view to determine it's sex. Also, my Brownie-kins has a kind of drooping stomach ever since she's been spayed. This cat seems to have the same thing...a drooping, pouch looking stomach. If it's already "fixed" does the drooping stomach mean that it's a female and was spayed? Do male cats also get the drooping stomach after being neutered?
I wouldn't mind at all adopting and keeping this cat. It came in my house and made itself right at home. Before finally going to sleep it's been rubbing up against me and giving me all sorts of the signature cat head bunts. Oh, before I forget it also peed in Brownie's litter box. I didn't like that at all. I had a spare litter box that I cleaned and filled with litter just for this cat so it stay out of Brownie's litter box. But how awesome would it be if it's a male cat and it's already neutered? Talk about a gift from the heavens. What say ye fellow cat lovers?
Lastly, notice the title of this thread....Mr Wendall and his stray catS (plural). The appearance of this new stray complicates an already existing situation that I have with some other stray cats that I've been feeding for about 2 weeks now. It's a family of feral kittens (5 of them) and their parents. That's another story and a pretty long one which I hope to explain in another post later in this thread. I don't want to make two separate threads since it is one overall situation I've gotten myself into.
Much Love u guys and Thanks in advance for whatever feedback, guidance and advice you can offer.
It's been such a long time since I've been here interacting with you all. Before I get to the purpose of my thread I just want to let you all know that I STILL have my Brownie-kins and she's STILL just as spoiled as ever.
Now, as for my dilemma; Over the weekend my 10 year old son and his 8 year old friend came across an emaciated yet sweet and friendly stray cat. The cat seems to have made a home for itself on the front porch of an abandoned house half a block down the street from where I live. The house is on the same street as my house. The cat is a grey tabby and actually looks quite a bit like my Brownie. It has a collar but does not have a name tag. I just learned a couple of days ago that the elderly lady who lived in that [now] abandoned house had passed away close to 2 months ago.
I don't have any proof or confirmation of this but my theory is that this cat was perhaps owned by the elderly lady who used to live in that house and maybe the cat is sticking close to what used to be home. So twice a day (once in the morning and once at night) I would go over to that house and feed the cat. I would also sit there to keep it company and to make sure that it wouldn't get bullied out of it's food by one of the "REAL" street cats on the block. It is so emaciated that I can see it's rib cage and I can feel it's spine when I rub it's back.
Well my Brownie is an indoor/outdoor cat (which I actually don't like. I want to make her into a strict house cat if I can). Anyway, Brownie was outside earlier today and I had some of the kids on my street running around near my house saying "Here kitty, come here kitty". And they had their pitbull puppy with them as they are doing this. I'm thinking to myself "these kids better not be out there menacing my Brownie". I open up my front door and go outside and it's the stray cat from up the street. It was on the side of my house. It looked scared due to the rowdy activities of those kids harassing it. When it saw me it IMMEDIATELY ran up to me and cuddled behind me and slightly underneath my legs. The kids asked me if it is my cat and I told them not yet but I plan to make it mine.
As I walked back into my house this cat followed me inside. I gave it food and water and just as I was about to let it back outside it started pouring down raining along with thunder so I knew I couldn't put it outside in those conditions.
So anyway, it is still in my house as I type this. It's asleep in my living room. I have a Japanese divider that I put between my living room (where the stray cat is) and my dining room which leads to the rest of the house. I did that because Brownie is back inside and I know that I have to keep these two separate from each other until I can figure out what's going on. The first thing I'm going to do is take some pictures and circulate them among the local lost & found pets circles just in case it doesn't belong to the deceased lady from down the street. If nothing turns up then I am actually 97% sure that I am going to adopt it and keep it.
I have some questions though. Although the cat is kind of emaciated (for now, I'll fatten it up with nourishment and lots of love), it's still bigger than my Brownie; at least slightly, but noticeably none-the-less. Is this always an indication that it might be a male? I still couldn't get a good enough view to determine it's sex. Also, my Brownie-kins has a kind of drooping stomach ever since she's been spayed. This cat seems to have the same thing...a drooping, pouch looking stomach. If it's already "fixed" does the drooping stomach mean that it's a female and was spayed? Do male cats also get the drooping stomach after being neutered?
I wouldn't mind at all adopting and keeping this cat. It came in my house and made itself right at home. Before finally going to sleep it's been rubbing up against me and giving me all sorts of the signature cat head bunts. Oh, before I forget it also peed in Brownie's litter box. I didn't like that at all. I had a spare litter box that I cleaned and filled with litter just for this cat so it stay out of Brownie's litter box. But how awesome would it be if it's a male cat and it's already neutered? Talk about a gift from the heavens. What say ye fellow cat lovers?
Lastly, notice the title of this thread....Mr Wendall and his stray catS (plural). The appearance of this new stray complicates an already existing situation that I have with some other stray cats that I've been feeding for about 2 weeks now. It's a family of feral kittens (5 of them) and their parents. That's another story and a pretty long one which I hope to explain in another post later in this thread. I don't want to make two separate threads since it is one overall situation I've gotten myself into.
Much Love u guys and Thanks in advance for whatever feedback, guidance and advice you can offer.