there's a friendly cat who comes to my 'feeding station' (my window). he already appears to be fixed, doesn't spray, etc. So he may have an owner, but if so, how can i find out? The nearby neighbors don't seem to know (they think he's my cat since he spends so much time on my stoop!), so here's my idea: I put a collar on him with a note asking, "If this cat is yours, please call ######." My notion is, if nobody calls for a week, I'll take him in and find him a (real) home.
I'm trying to figure the best way to make the note and attach it so it doesn't fall off or get smudged, but I'm also wondering if this will work. One the one hand, if he has an owner, the owner sucks, cuz he's out on the street almost all the time, even in the dead of winter. On the other, if he doesn't have a real owner I know I could get him adopted fast (he's a big orange tabby), so I'm doing him a disservice by leaving him out there.
Part of me wants to just nab him and see what happens, so will the collar thing just cause more trouble? But I don't want to incur the neighbors' wrath if i'm wrong. Has anybody ever tried this?
here's his picture (you can see one of my ferals in the bg:
I'm trying to figure the best way to make the note and attach it so it doesn't fall off or get smudged, but I'm also wondering if this will work. One the one hand, if he has an owner, the owner sucks, cuz he's out on the street almost all the time, even in the dead of winter. On the other, if he doesn't have a real owner I know I could get him adopted fast (he's a big orange tabby), so I'm doing him a disservice by leaving him out there.
Part of me wants to just nab him and see what happens, so will the collar thing just cause more trouble? But I don't want to incur the neighbors' wrath if i'm wrong. Has anybody ever tried this?
here's his picture (you can see one of my ferals in the bg: