No dice January 26, 2007 ~ 10:24 am
Posted by Julie in : Da Cats , trackbackWell, we still have only one cat at Casa de Julz this morning.
Rick and I went out last night around 6:30 to get the cats. As soon as we got there, the friendly one bolted out to say hi, but the other one was MIA even after I opened a can of cat food (normally a sure fire way to attract his/her attention). We looked around for about 10 minutes while petting the friendly one and encouraging her to eat, but no sign of her sibling. We decided, after some talking, that taking her without her sibling would not help either of them. She would be miserable and skitsy one would likely freeze to death without her body heat to cuddle up to. We decided to go back to the house, eat some food, and come back later to try again.
Around 8:15, I set out again. I got to the building and noticed that someone had set out fresh cans of Friskies for them, and a few bites had been taken, but now neither cat was around. I called for them a couple of times, but zip. A guy out walking his dogs saw the cat carrier in my hand and asked if I was looking for the cats. I said I was, that I had wanted to take them in since it was so cold. He told me he thought they had access to the basement of the building, since the past few nights he and the dogs hadn’t seen them as the temperatures dropped. (The cats definitely had access to the tunnel under the building where the super takes out the trash, so this is actually pretty likely.) He told me this is what the feral cats at his workplace did, and it’s what the feral cats at my workplace do as well. I hung around a little bit longer, didn’t see any sign of them, and headed home.
I think they’re okay. I hadn’t realized until we were hanging around the building looking for them last night how everyone in the neighborhood keeps an eye out for them. Several other people stopped by while we were there the first time to pet the friendly one, and the cans of Friskies appear on a regular basis. They may have been abandoned, but now they’re everyone’s pets. I’ll still keep an eye out for them, though, just to make sure they’re okay.
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I love that everyone in the neighborhood is watching out for the cats! Pet people are THE BEST.
Looks like this is how it was meant to be. God as a way of telling you what you should be doing. Looks like He let you know on this one.
It’s always such a difficult choice when there’s stray cats around, to take them in or not. Don’t you have some time of animal shelter to take them to though?
Esther~Not anywhere nearby. I would take them in before I took them to the shelter, but I honestly think they’re okay. If they were nowhere to be found last night, that means they holed up someplace to keep warm.
Vince~Yeah, I think so.
Lisa~This is the kind of neighborhood where we all know each others’ pets and stop to play with them all. It’s a good place.