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Hello,
For the past couple of weeks, my family has been feeding a male stray cat that started visiting our home. During that period he has warmed up to us and gets pretty close to our screen door and asks to be petted, which we do. We've decided to take him in for neutering, vaccination, and deworming. Due to his friendly demeanor, we think he's adoptable; after he is fixed and checked to make sure he is ok, we will put him in an adoption center. I am pretty sure we won't need a trap, since he always tries to enter our house (and actually did once), so our plan is to let him in and keep him in one of our bathrooms. We have 3 cats and they will be kept away from him.
Still, we never done this before and we have several questions:
1. Is there any product we can use to discourage him from spraying the bathroom?
2. Our main concern is, since we live in an apartment, that he will meow and howl a lot, is this likely?
3. Our other fear is that he will become aggressive, again, is this something we should expect?
Sorry if the questions are a bit silly, we've never done this before. 2 of our cats are strays but they were kittens when we rescued them. The cat in question is a young adult.
Thanks in advance, we really want to help the little guy and find him a nice home.
For the past couple of weeks, my family has been feeding a male stray cat that started visiting our home. During that period he has warmed up to us and gets pretty close to our screen door and asks to be petted, which we do. We've decided to take him in for neutering, vaccination, and deworming. Due to his friendly demeanor, we think he's adoptable; after he is fixed and checked to make sure he is ok, we will put him in an adoption center. I am pretty sure we won't need a trap, since he always tries to enter our house (and actually did once), so our plan is to let him in and keep him in one of our bathrooms. We have 3 cats and they will be kept away from him.
Still, we never done this before and we have several questions:
1. Is there any product we can use to discourage him from spraying the bathroom?
2. Our main concern is, since we live in an apartment, that he will meow and howl a lot, is this likely?
3. Our other fear is that he will become aggressive, again, is this something we should expect?
Sorry if the questions are a bit silly, we've never done this before. 2 of our cats are strays but they were kittens when we rescued them. The cat in question is a young adult.
Thanks in advance, we really want to help the little guy and find him a nice home.