I agree MollyBlue. If you feed a cat for a week, you belong to that cat now.
I agree MollyBlue. If you feed a cat for a week, you belong to that cat now.
Well, if they are micro-chipped is one way to tell. If you frequently see them in same yard or hanging out on someone's porch, that is a subtle clue... while cats like to roam and hunt, they also are pretty territorial, so if they are owned, they may visit others, but should tend to hang out in a general vicinity. Some cats have wised up to the benefits of co-ownership and will adopt several families in a single area... and that gets pretty tricky. Some people don't realize that if you feed a cat 7 days a week, for weeks on end, that it becomes their cat. They think, well, we never wanted another cat, or this cat doesn't come inside or doesn't let me play with it, therefore it is not our cat... but I think maybe the cat has other ideas.