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Hi All,
We've been adopted by a male feral!
I suppose I should say "we've adopted", but it sort of feels the other way around.
How this fellow knew that we were going to be a food match not sure, but he sort of decided that day one.
We are a young couple living in India. When we moved to a new place, Mr. Billu (that's a local slang for male cat) came over. We were moving into a new apartment, lugging our suitcases in, I suppose he snuck in while we left the door open. But one moment we are dragging our stuff into an empty flat, next moment there is cat sitting by our dinner. Now he is quite a handsome fellow, and I am a bit of a Cat Lady, I have owned a dog before, but I really love cats, so he stayed for Lunch, and tea and dinner and the night, 6AM he wants to go out. This is turning into a routine, when we get back from work Billu is by the door, its eat, drink, sleep and then 6AM out again (I suspect its for his routines).
In India unfortunately cats aren't treaded that well. There's no RSPCA to take care of them. If I report to local authorities, he will be taken into a shelter and probably murdered(I won't call it euthanized) and he is such a handsome fellow, I can't imagine him being .....
We are a working couple and in any case Billu doesn't like staying indoors unless we are there neither is it safe. He personifies "curiosity killed the cat", day one he climbed onto a 8 feet cupboard, no handles, no other furniture near it, and then couldn't get off. He seems pretty comfy being out during the day. Adoption is not really and option, most people here want a pedigree in pet which they abandon when it seems to eat too much, or shed too much, or need to be taken to vet, basically as soon as they realize its a living animal not a soft-toy.
Any suggestions as to what we can do for him?
We've been adopted by a male feral!
I suppose I should say "we've adopted", but it sort of feels the other way around.
How this fellow knew that we were going to be a food match not sure, but he sort of decided that day one.
We are a young couple living in India. When we moved to a new place, Mr. Billu (that's a local slang for male cat) came over. We were moving into a new apartment, lugging our suitcases in, I suppose he snuck in while we left the door open. But one moment we are dragging our stuff into an empty flat, next moment there is cat sitting by our dinner. Now he is quite a handsome fellow, and I am a bit of a Cat Lady, I have owned a dog before, but I really love cats, so he stayed for Lunch, and tea and dinner and the night, 6AM he wants to go out. This is turning into a routine, when we get back from work Billu is by the door, its eat, drink, sleep and then 6AM out again (I suspect its for his routines).
In India unfortunately cats aren't treaded that well. There's no RSPCA to take care of them. If I report to local authorities, he will be taken into a shelter and probably murdered(I won't call it euthanized) and he is such a handsome fellow, I can't imagine him being .....
We are a working couple and in any case Billu doesn't like staying indoors unless we are there neither is it safe. He personifies "curiosity killed the cat", day one he climbed onto a 8 feet cupboard, no handles, no other furniture near it, and then couldn't get off. He seems pretty comfy being out during the day. Adoption is not really and option, most people here want a pedigree in pet which they abandon when it seems to eat too much, or shed too much, or need to be taken to vet, basically as soon as they realize its a living animal not a soft-toy.
Any suggestions as to what we can do for him?