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This morning several new cats showed up in the yard.
I am starting to lose count (and hope) I set out a trap- not expecting much except to perhaps capture my own, but hunger drove one cat into the trap fairly quickly.
I ran him upstairs in the cat room where he has been serenading me since. He is skinnier than he should be, a mackeral tabby. Earlier, I went upstairs and sat down on the floor calling to him gently. He came right to me! Turns out he is neutered too! (TYG!)
So I got in my car and drove down my road and the back roads I knocked on every door asking the people if they have a cat matching his description- they don't.
He is either lost, or someone got tired of him (he has sprayed the cat room in his angst) and they dumped him off here. My other cats are not liking him much at all, and I am faced with what am I going to do with him? I will keep him up in the cat room for about a week to see if the others will get along with him eventually. Try to find him a better home in that time, and if nothing else, just turn him back outside minus the cat fights.
I just don't know what to do anymore. They just keep arriving here- it's maddening! I know that no one out there has the magic answer, but just earlier, when he was all curled up in my lap and purring away shows me that at one time he was a cherished pet? So what happened? He turned into a problem urinator and someone tossed him outside! He has already missed the litter box twice, so I started him on antibiotics after talking to the vet. But geez he is such a love and he deserves someone to take him in and love him back! Wish me luck that I can find this person- and not just some barn where he can earn his keep by catching mice.
I ran him upstairs in the cat room where he has been serenading me since. He is skinnier than he should be, a mackeral tabby. Earlier, I went upstairs and sat down on the floor calling to him gently. He came right to me! Turns out he is neutered too! (TYG!)
So I got in my car and drove down my road and the back roads I knocked on every door asking the people if they have a cat matching his description- they don't.
I just don't know what to do anymore. They just keep arriving here- it's maddening! I know that no one out there has the magic answer, but just earlier, when he was all curled up in my lap and purring away shows me that at one time he was a cherished pet? So what happened? He turned into a problem urinator and someone tossed him outside! He has already missed the litter box twice, so I started him on antibiotics after talking to the vet. But geez he is such a love and he deserves someone to take him in and love him back! Wish me luck that I can find this person- and not just some barn where he can earn his keep by catching mice.