It might be me being a bit blonde, but why do you have to put the cat back where he came from Dawn ?, why cant you get him to a rescue ?, surely he is going to be extremely stressed going back to a situation that he thought he left and you know what other cats are like they wont know who he is and he will have to go through the whole fighting for position rountine again. I understand that he needed vet care, but surely it would have been better to have left him where he was until a permanent place could have been found for him. I might have got the totally wrong end of the stick here that is not unusual for me
Got the totally wrong end of the stick....the cat needed vet care and I'm not going to leave a cat that needs help regardless of my plans...I do cat rescue but I am meant to be packing it in, other that I am chocca, financially....absolutely skint and I mean skint, he will be fine going back as he's only been away a few days. The area he is from, he has been there all his life and everyone knows him, he is being fed and basically all he needs is a bed which I am still working on. All the rescues in this area and probably around the country are full to bursting, we are now in full swing with kittens coming out of everyones ears and when anyone has phoned anyone in and around my area, my number gets given out. I'm in the middle of trapping some ferals for spaying/neutering....the old guy literally lives across the road from a large rescue, they gave him my number telling him they hadn't got the resources or the time to take a trap over the road so these cats could be sorted
These people get plenty of donations.......I don't and I'm a one man band. If the cat has to live another winter out which I am trying to avoid I want him to be "as healthy as can be"......he has had his coat dematted which would have been uncomfortable for him and he's been deflead and wormed, his teeth are in a mess which willl make it uncomfortable for him so he's having them done today.....so no, leaving him would have been heartless in my eyes.....this way, he has a better chance at coping with life on the outside if need be.