For the last two
years my husband and I along with the neighbors have been caretakers
to a cute five year old tabby cat that was left behind when his
people moved. We all put out food and water for this cat and have
opened up our heated garages by installing a cat door for the abandoned and stray cats. Along with the garage shelters many of us have bought outdoor
cat shelters for these animals that were left behind by their people.
We all wanted to adopt this cute tabby cat but couldn't.
All of us were over
our pet limit and could not officially adopt this cat as the pet laws
are very strict where I live and if you break them you risk of
having all of your pets taken away by animal control. So we all follow the
rules and do our best to take care of the abandoned cats in our
neighborhood.
Last winter we found
this tabby abandoned stray cat outdoors when it was in the single digits.
Husband picked him up and put him in a cat cage in our mud room for
overnight, it was too darn cold outdoors and this cat could have
gotten frostbite. So the stray cat stayed in the cat cage, that was
located in our mud room, where a door closed off the rest of our
house, for three days. Then when the snow melted and temperatures
was warmer the cat went outdoors again.
The cat went back to
his routine and all of the neighborhood watched out for him. Then
in September of 2014 I had to put down three of my cats due to cancer
and diabetes. Then in December we adopted this stray cat and got
him neutered, vaccinated and provided him with flea and parasite
treatment.
He came indoors to
live with us and while he seems to like it, he does miss going
outdoors. For the next three months we intend to keep him indoors so
he knows that we are his people and he has a home .
We would like to let him go outdoors to play in our yard. But we fear that he will run to the home where he was born
to look for his former people, they are
not there and the “new family” could care less about the former
cat who lived in the house. So it is best that the abandoned stray cat relate to us as
his new family.
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