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Stray cat won't leave

12 years ago

I just can't do one more pet. I just can't. This beautiful, young, calico cat showed up about a month ago and won't leave. I've tried to ignore it. It spends alot of time in the barn and just wandering around the property.

But my son came home for a day, and I didn't know it, but he started playing with it and giving it water. Dang!
Now it's sleeping on the porch and hanging around closer to the house.

It even climbed a tree to get to wren house, but we stopped it in time.
No local animal shelter. I don't know what to do........but I do know I'm not going to endanger my birds with this cat.
Ho Hum......what to do. And you know there is such a surplus of cats out there, nobody really wants one more stray.

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starlinka
12 years ago
If cat is friendly, make some good pics and post on craigslist.org (section "community" - "pets")
surya55_gw
12 years ago
Your poor birds! I know you said there's no local shelter, what about other nearby towns/ villages/boroughs? Do they have one that can take this cat? I can't imagine any good coming out of this with this cat around your birds. I hope someone else comes up with a better idea for you. Good luck and let us know what happens.
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catherinet
Original Author
12 years ago
I have such mixed feelings. I don't wish any animal harm.....except maybe ticks, mosquitoes, raccoons.....etc.,......haha

It's probably too much to hope for, but it might be gone.......but I doubt it. I live out in the country. It was sleeping in our garden-way cart on the porch yesterday (so cute.....) It saw me looking through the window and started meowing, so I closed the drapes. Later, I opened them, just in time to see something chasing something at a high rate of speed. Not sure who was chasing whom.........but I didn't see her again until the evening, down by the road. Hopefully, she's found her way to someone else's house.

My son lives about 90 miles from here and he's offered to take it to a no-kill shelter. I hate removing it from it's environment.........but all my insecurities would probably vanish if I saw it killing a bird.......or a chipmunk, etc.

There are enough predators out there, without adding stray cats.

Thanks for your support!
claireplymouth z6b coastal MA
12 years ago
That's great that your son will take the cat to a no-kill shelter. Who knows, maybe he'll keep the cat himself.

It sounds like the cat was someone's pet and this is not its normal environment anyway - better to give it a chance to be adopted (before it gets pregnant if its an unaltered female).

Claire
catherinet
Original Author
12 years ago
I agree.......the last thing I want is a bunch of cute kittens around!! My son already has 2 cats.....so I don't think he wants another........ Can't blame him.

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