I've lived in the basement apartment of a house a little over a year and since I've moved here there has been a cat that waits in front of the door. He comes every night after dark and I have been feeding him a can of friskies every time I see him there. He has recently started to eat while I sit near him which is new because he would always walk away before if I did not go back inside after giving him food. A few months after I moved here my cat Chalupa who I had for ten years became very sick from lymphoma and died a little over a month ago. During the time that she was sick I did not even begin to consider doing anything more for the stray/feral I call Stu besides feeding him. While I was trying to deal with the loss of Chalupa I began visiting a shelter near where I work to be with other cats. I quickly adopted a few. I realize now maybe I should have waited and tried to help my friend Stu outside. Now I want to help him and I hAve found someone who is also interested in helping him but we are not sure how to go about this or if it is even a good idea. We don't want to traumatize him. We are not sure how he would be inside.also I really don't want to upset my new cats especially since one is a senior who has been vomiting frequently and have a serious health problem. The other person who work with is interested in helping him and possibly taking him in permanently however they are also not sure this is the right thing to do. We want to get him off the streets by winter. Last winter was like the worst in the history of Chicago and this cat somehow survived, even stopped coming when there was heavy snow and wet food would just freeze. That's all he would eat And it was probably too cold to wait for me to. One home or out to feed him. He returned once the weather got warmer. Since then I see him nearly every night. The other person who I work with currently lives in a place where he could only keep Stu in a crate in an inside porch area of an apartment building . He might be moving in a month or two to another apartment where hopefully he Stu can have his own safe room. We are both willing to pay for any medical costs for Stu and wAnf to have him fixed and treated for fleas, worms, vaccinations, tested for fiv and leukemia. We just don't hAve experience with cats like this and don't even know if we will be able to handle him or if we even should. Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!