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I think you're right. (S)He will henceforth be known as Scotty
It looks like a Scottish fold.
Waking up early paid off. He showed up at 7am, seemingly well fed - I've never seen a kitty bolt for a bed so quickly and curl up. Food sure, but a bed? Ahh well, he's back and he's not going anywhere until he's fixed!
Good luck with Junior.
Are his ears folded in like an envelope sort of?
Yup.Are his ears folded in like an envelope sort of?
While it is possible that (s)he is a Scottish Fold, it is also sadly possible that (s)he has suffered ear hematomas, related to having earmites or an untreated ear infection.The ear structure can be damaged and cause permanent "folding". If it seems borderline feral, then it wouldn't have had any medical care ya know. One of my own cats, who used to be a stray, has one folded ear due to this and I have seen both ears "folded" in cats like this that came to the animal shelter I worked at. Often the ears are "folded" not so neatly or are kind of shriveled, but not always. One shelter cat who'd had hematomas this got adopted super fast because he looked like a Scottish Fold, so I guess it had a sort of twisted silver lining in that case. >__<
I'm sure we can wrangle the carriers from somewhere - if not the shelter I'm sure friends/family who have cats will have some we can borrow for a couple days.
This is the only Scottish Fold that we've seen and based on its behaviour I think it's been on the street for a long time, as mentioned previously it's borderline feral. Very aggressive(?) behaviour compared to the other strays we've encountered. It's not as though it's attacking anyone but it walks into our apartment without showing any trepidation and when Mama does her dominance display it shows absolutely no submission but readies to fight instead. We've also witnessed it yowling when there are no other cats around. On the flip side it's very fearful of humans - any movement from me and its out the door and over the fence in no time flat.
Once we get things sorted with our family we are going to try to cage trap it the other 2-3 strays and get them into no kill shelters.
The supremely skittish white/brown tabby has been coming around more frequently too. We haven't seen Missy since the snow storm, signs of her but not actually seeing her. Maybe she knows that round 2 is coming
Edit: Missy is back inside exploring & eating