Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: blackcat on January 21, 2010, 10:33:32 AM
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There is a little black and white cat who used to live out the back of one of the restaurants in town. The restaurant has closed and been replaced by an antique shop so the poor girl no longer has a ready source of food. She is sort of the town cat, in that everyone knows her, but no-one is individually responsible for her (It really is a very small village by your standards, what I call town). As a consequence she currently has at least two kittens that she is also feeding, despite the loss of her major food source. She is in good condition and very affectionate. I can't do anything about her until I am in the house as I don't have anywhere to keep her, but hopefully I will be in in less than two months. I can, however sneak her food when I am in town.
How do you reckon Smidgen and Esther will cope with a new addition to the family? :scared:
But I don't want her to have to face winter on the streets, so am seriously considering picking her up, popping her in the car, and taking her home with me, so she can be spayed, fed and given a warm pozzy for winter. What do you reckon? (silly question, I know).
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well like you say silly question!! You are an intellegent woman bc, you know the score and I'm sure you will do everything to make sure Smidgen, Esther and the stray get off to a good footing
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Well done you for looking out for her BC :)
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BC, even if your cats aren't ecstatic about another cat in the house, maybe as this girl is used to "living rough" she could have a good source of shelter, warmth, food and interaction on your land.
To be honest, though I think you'd manage to integrate them fine. ;) :hug:
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well like you say silly question!! You are an intellegent woman bc, you know the score and I'm sure you will do everything to make sure Smidgen, Esther and the stray get off to a good footing
What she said! ;D
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Umm what about her kittens?
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Gill, if I can find the kittens, I will look after them also - get them down to the Cat Centre for rehoming. Have yet to sight them myself, have only learned of them yesterday by hearsay. Will have a chat to the new proprietors about finding them and getting them into care.
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But I don't want her to have to face winter on the streets, so am seriously considering picking her up, popping her in the car, and taking her home with me, so she can be spayed, fed and given a warm pozzy for winter. What do you reckon? (silly question, I know).
And you ask this question on here? :Crazy: ;)
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Well Done bc, what a lovely thing to do.....Its obviousl your gonna....Is there no rooms in your house that are finished yet....Just so you could pop a box, litter tray etc in? Hope you manage to find the kittens....how old approx are they, were you told of that? :shify: ;) :hug:
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The only 'finished' room doesn't have a door yet, and I am yet to seal the timber floor. The two back rooms that I assumed were catproof evidently are not, as I shut Smidgen in to keep the dog company the other day when I went out. When I came home, Smidgen greeted me on the driveway. :shify: Besides I make all manner of terrifying noises (power tools, hammering) in there during the day which would do little to help her settle in at present. She seems happy, healthy and confident at present, so she is not really in any major danger that I can see, unless the new proprietors take a dislike to her (hence the need to have a chat with them). I can use the time to let her get used to me picking her up and so on so that the removal is not too traumatic for us both. As for the age of the kittens - no idea, just a passing reference to two kittens in conversation with a newcomer to town (the new proprietors). I will head into their shop this afternoon for a browse and a chat.
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Keep forgetting where you are and its Summer at your end!!! :doh: :evillaugh:
Good on you anyway Jo! :Luv2: :hug:
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Yep, 24 today, according to the forecast :evillaugh:
The evenings are cooling down at bit in preparation for autumn, but the worst we have had so far was 4 degrees which is quite OK compared to what you lot have been enduring. There are a lot of empty buildings (falling down stone barns etc) in the town, so no shortage of shelter for a wee girl.
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i would say get the mum in to be spayed ASAP, and the kittens in for rehoming ASAP.
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sounds good bc.....gosh is autumn there already!
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i would say get the mum in to be spayed ASAP, and the kittens in for rehoming ASAP.
Thanks Firefox, I will keep an eye on things, but I really can not act right now. If you look at my thread (the project - aka marron house) you will get a better idea of the present living circumstances. They are not conducive to introducing a new cat and getting her settled in. Next week, for example i have a roof going on and the following week an electrician rewiring the old part of the house and running new wires in the extension. I hear what you are saying, but there are limits to what I can do right now.
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Bit of an update. Spent some time with the little girl yesterday in the park. She definitely does not have kittens (no sign of mammary enlargement at all) and is very flirtaceous.
She allowed me to pick her up but resisted me carrying her two steps to the seat. And jumped off my lap when I sat down. So getting her into a box will require a little patience, but not much. She did not use her claws, just muscular body language to say 'I am not happy with this'. Will stop and have a chat with the new people at the former restaurant. When I pick her up I will have the vet check if she is at all familiar or if she has a microchip, so if she turns out to belong to someone they will know where she is.
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Glad there's no kittens as Im sure you are! :wow: :hug:
I'd say she will be very food orientated so getting her in the box should hopefully go okay! ;) :hug:
Good luck with the vet check when you manage to coax her that is! :sneaky:
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I'm glad there are no kittens too. Hope all goes well at the vet and then you can name her ;) :rofl:
Mary
P.S. - Have the brooches arrived yet Jo?
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Erm, it seems she has a name. She is called (wait for it) Shadow! She lives in a house behind the restaurant, but apparently they neglect her badly (though I have to say she is looking remarkably healthy for a neglected act). They have had her speyed, so they can't be all bad. But this means that kidnapping her will not involve a main street public display as our quilting group will be meeting just around the corner from her home as of next month :evillaugh:
I think I will take her, and if they advertise her, will return her to her yard, discreetly. If they don't advertise, then I will keep her.
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:shocked: :( :shify: :sneaky: :evillaugh: Hope they dont miss her, could do with a name change though! :innocent: :hug:
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Indeed. It would get very confusing. Besides when I call Shadow I already get two cats bounding through the undergrowth towards me, in case they are missing out on something ... :Luv:
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need a name that is similiar :shify:
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Yes, will have to put some thought into that one. Shadow gets the guilts when I am rousing on Smidgen as it is ... :rofl:
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need a name that is similiar :shify:
LOL - No flies on you!! Heh heh!
Chandon perhaps! :rofl: