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i think that a lot of people have got rid of animals for a lot less.

she is a very very lucky cat.

and i just did a search on how you got her. this kind of thing could be part of the reason why she's been in and out of the rescues.
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I don't think it is. She shows no aggression whatsoever. This was a freak case of wrong time (dead of night while in a deep sleep) wrong place (belly).

I was told the reasons for her being rehomed were all to do with people being unable to care for her anymore. 1) a couple who divorced and their circumstances changed so that neither could take her; 2) an owner who got a new job and had to move and couldn't take her; 3) and elderly woman who became ill and could no longer care for her. I have no reason to believe it's anything other than a very unfortunate set of events for her. This shelter seems to be up front about any behavioural issues with the cats they rehome, and they said nothing other than she hates other cats and loves her people, and that has been my experience of her so far. I reiterate, she's incredibly soft and loving, and this seems to have been a freak case and just one of those things.
 
Vintage Paw said:
I don't think it is. She shows no aggression whatsoever. This was a freak case of wrong time (dead of night while in a deep sleep) wrong place (belly).

I was told the reasons for her being rehomed were all to do with people being unable to care for her anymore. 1) a couple who divorced and their circumstances changed so that neither could take her; 2) an owner who got a new job and had to move and couldn't take her; 3) and elderly woman who became ill and could no longer care for her. I have no reason to believe it's anything other than a very unfortunate set of events for her. This shelter seems to be up front about any behavioural issues with the cats they rehome, and they said nothing other than she hates other cats and loves her people, and that has been my experience of her so far. I reiterate, she's incredibly soft and loving, and this seems to have been a freak case and just one of those things.
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OH, i'm not attacking her. most cats react in some way when they feel 'attacked' in their sleep. it's the cats like one of the ones my mother stole that just don't react at all that are the unusual ones. he would sleep on his back, knowing that the toddler would take that as an invite for cuddles. peggy isn't unusual for reacting, you however are quite wonderful for her.

i'll be honest, i'd be considering whether a cat sould stay if noodle had done injuries like that bad when he did his night attacking. i've got kids though. and noodle went for feet - injuries from a cat attack on the feet of my diabetic other half might have been very problematic. he didn't show the same fear response after like he does when he's been setting boundaries either. was put off the bed, hopped straight up and snuggled right after.
 
I have found out about grey cat.

A man cleaning his car down the road just said that the cat belongs to the person at number 9. But they split up. The woman left, and since then the man there turfed the cat out to roam all day and never feeds it.

That'll be why the cat always hangs around outside those few houses. It wants love and can't understand :(

Car cleaning man sometimes leaves food out for it, he said, and I've seen my neighbour has started too.

What should I do?

Try to speak to evil number 9 man first? Ask him what's going on? Or just contact a shelter? I can't manhandle a cat into a carrier at the moment with my dodgy hand (plus I don't want its smell on Peggy's carrier because she gets stressed enough as it is). Maybe my neighbour has a spare one.

I just want to give it all the love. If I hadn't got Peggy I would let it come and live here, but Peggy viciously hates other cats.

I'm so sad.
 
I called the shelter in the end. Predictably, being the time of year it is, they're overwhelmed with mothers and kittens at the moment, on top of what they usually deal with. Nevertheless, they've written it all down in their 'outstanding' book and I'm to try to find out more information, like sex, neutered status, etc. At the very least, if it's an intact cat they'll spay/neuter it even if they have to let it back out again afterwards.

Now I know it's not being fed regularly, I've started leaving some food out for it. Next door seems to be leaving biscuits out, which it only picks at, but it wolfed down a big plate of wet food I left out earlier. I got some head scratches in while it was eating, but despite a tail raised happily in the air I wasn't able to see the relevant bits to tell what it is. Other than beautiful. It is beautiful.

Of course, maybe I'm making a rod for my own back feeding it while I work out what to do. Not least because another very scruffy cat turned up while it was eating. This one looks like a small maine coon, has a shaved area on its side and its fur doesn't look especially cared for. It's very timid, wouldn't come near me, and grey cat hissed at it to make it go away anyway.

I can't look after all the cats :rolleyes:






But I want to.
 
Well, whatever happens I'm going to sort out some kind of shelter outside for it so it has somewhere safe and dry to sleep in the short term.

My computer room overlooks the street and I can see this guy's house just a few doors down. He's been sat watching his telly all night and grey cat has been sat on the window ledge outside looking in, then stood on its hind legs pawing at the front door to be let in, then sat resigned on the dustbin. It wanders off for a while, but always comes back, desperate for its old home, clearly not able to understand why it's not loved any more.

It's breaking my heart.

If it had always been a stray, well that's one thing. You want it to be safe and loved, but you know it can look after itself for the most part. But this cat has had a home, and presumably had love. And it so clearly still wants it. It knows that house is its home, and it just wants to go inside.

I'm so angry with that man. Heartless monster.
 
That's so sad Vintage Paw. How that man can listen to a cat wanting to get in and do nothing is a mystery. He must be made of stone.

Little Orson has a limp. :(
 
Kittens are growing!! 1 week to homecoming

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Been sorting my yard out today to make room for a shelter for Dottie (what I have called grey cat).

She's got a voracious appetite. Hopefully over time she'll get a bit more comfortable with me. She's torn between being really friendly and really hissy atm. Poor love. She's sat kitteh-loaf style outside that cunt's door at the moment. I want to punch his stupid face.

I'll try to remember to take my phone with me when I next feed her so I can get a pic. She's lovely.
 
Got some pictures of her. She's tough to photograph because when she's not eating she's rubbing around my legs or being skittish.

I lured her to her new shelter with Dreamies. She stuck her head in and had a sniff, so now she knows it exists. I doubt she'll start using it straight away -- and she might never use it -- but it's there if she needs it.

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Vintage Paw said:
Got some pictures of her. She's tough to photograph because when she's not eating she's rubbing around my legs or being skittish.

I lured her to her new shelter with Dreamies. She stuck her head in and had a sniff, so now she knows it exists. I doubt she'll start using it straight away -- and she might never use it -- but it's there if she needs it.

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She's gorgeous. The man is a total cunt.
 
Me76 said:
She's gorgeous. The man is a total cunt.
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this. in bucketfulls.

Vintage Paw - the massively freindly and skittish thing sounds very common. stray cats aren't always welcomed and it's the really freindly ones we see - the ones that make it. and if the cat is always hanging about and arsehole bloke isn't letting it in, then he's thrown it out more than once. you know how cats become fluid when they want through an open door.

she is adorable though. i'd have a new cat if she'd been thrown out down my road.
 
She'd be mine if Peggy didn't harbour such an intense hatred of other cats. The house just isn't big enough to ensure they would both have their own space without crossing paths.

Peggy's getting used to watching her through the window. Maybe in time she'll come to recognise her and not be so agitated, and I might be able to consider an introduction, but I'm not holding my breath. The shelter staff tried to introduce Peg to the free-roaming cats twice while she was there over her 3 month stay and it was disastrous by all accounts. At the very least, at some point I'm going to attempt to get her in the kitchen so I can crate her up and take her to the vet for a check-up. I'm prepared to pay for her vaccinations and worming/flea treatment even if she's not officially my cat, and I want to make sure she's protected from as much as possible if she's going to be outdoors all the time.

You never know, someone else in the area might take her in. I hope so. She needs a lap to curl up on at night.

She reminds me of my childhood cat, Smokey. She was a Burmese cross something or another. Dottie isn't, obviously, but she has similar colouring. She does look to me like a young BSH. Her face is a bit rounder than I managed to capture in the pictures (although I believe it's the males that have the really round chubby faces), and her fur has that thick pile that has a tendency to stick out (it really needs a very good brush). But her eyes are yellow, not golden... My knowledge is sketchy but all the pictures I've seen of blue BSH cats their eyes are a really deep golden colour. She could be a cross, I suppose. Or maybe just a moggy doing a decent impression.
 
Spotty cat!!!
Gorgeous.

When I lived in a shared student house, we had a stray that we called Tibbs. It was a tabby, similar markings to Tybs there (no spots though). It was ever so timid, used to peer around the wall at the bottom of the garden but would scarper if you got close. We left food out every so often. Don't know what happened to the little mite.
 
Fantastic cats all. Vintage Paw you're a sort of cat patron saint, really, aren't you? It's lovely what you are doing to help the reject and keep the Peg calm as well. Poor Dottie :( ... but not as poor as her situation before. really admire all of your kindness to her.
 
Cloo said:
gsv found a bird well into rigour mortis inside our shut spare room wardrobe today. FFS, Vastra! :eek:
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You have my sympathy. It seems Mash made his first kill over the weekend as we came downstairs on Sunday to find lots of tiny feathers all over the kitchen floor, but no body :hmm: I assume he ate it :mad: :(
 
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