Stupid feral cat

**madhen** · 07-26-2009, 12:07 AM

I have had a visitor to my door almost every night for months now. I finally gave up and named her Schroedinger. She is VERY wild, and this is the best pic I could get of her.

**pollypurebred39** · 07-26-2009, 12:18 AM

She's very pretty mad Hen. Good luck with your new kitty. She must have sensed that you had a kind heart. After all your life and home are full of living creatures. She must have known you'd develop a soft spot for her if she persisted.

**Palooka** · 07-26-2009, 12:22 AM

Ha, when I read the title I was getting mad thinking it's not the cats fault. lol. Thanks Madhen for being kind. I am sure in time as she gets to know you she will calm down. I have one that loves my deck and visits daily.

Cute name!

**kaurand554** · 07-26-2009, 12:46 AM

She is beautiful :-)

she knows you have a kind heart and a great home; pic means love you would be upset if she did not show up at your door...........(for the treats I am sure you leave her)

**mauimagic** · 07-26-2009, 01:41 AM

Another member of your household Madhen!! She actually looks quite peaceful and happy on your step - staking a claim to the space perhaps!!

**frugalfranny** · 07-26-2009, 02:11 AM

NO madhen.......I would say she is a pretty smart feral cat.

She knows a pushover!

Been feeding her haven't you? Just another critter for your kingdom! Don't I even recall in another post you fed that 'stupid feral cat' TUNA??? oh yeah...she is stupid all right........think it might be 'dumb like a fox'.........

**mauimagic** · 07-26-2009, 02:18 AM

Well, the truth is out now. Tuna? I'd sit on your porch for tuna!! She's just adding spice to your life!!

**madhen** · 07-26-2009, 02:20 AM

She gets fed very well. The first time I met her, she was tearing open my garbage bags, looking for scraps. She was half-blind, and I probably could have caught her, since I was almost right on top of her before she heard/saw me. She had obviously been in some sort of attack, and her ears were all torn up, her eye was infected looking, and her whole torso literally looked as if she had been put through a laundry wringer. She half-dragged herself away from me. Since that day, she has been getting canned catfood (and recently, when I ran out of catfood, canned tunafish) twice daily, and I leave a dish of dry catfood (this week's special: Felidae) out for her (and the chickens, who love dry catfood). As you can (kind of) see, she is much improved, although her ears didn't grow back (obviously) and she is blind in the one eye. Her fur came back in ragged tufts, and she still looks "lumpy" when she walks.

The first time I tried to feed her, when she showed up on my deck, she tore down the stairs and ran all the way up the slope, past the goldfish pond, and disappeared in the bushes between my property and my neighbor's property. A few days ago, she walked a few steps down on the stairs, and, when I said hello to her, meowed back at me. So, we are making incremental progress.

Some day, she is going to trust me enough to let me catch her, at which point we'll pay a visit to the vet to see what is up. Meanwhile, that pic is of her in her favourite basking spot on my deck, taken through a security screen, so she didn't know I was so close.

**madhen** · 07-26-2009, 02:29 AM

Well, mauimagic, it wasn't FRESH tuna!!

Have a LITTLE self-respect!

I deny any feelings of affection for the cat, and insist that I am only feeding her out of a sense of obligation. And when I call her "little Schroe-kitty", it is just to build a false sense of security in her, so that I can catch her and bundle her to the vet, to ensure that she isn't carrying some weird disease that might be communicable to my chickens. (And she is terrified of my chickens, btw.)

And the pic was simply to document this creature that seems to have attached itself to my home, since I've mentioned her multiple times in my Ranch Diary blog.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

**frugalfranny** · 07-26-2009, 02:39 AM

Originally Posted by madhen

Well, mauimagic, it wasn't FRESH tuna!!

Have a LITTLE self-respect!

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

So........whoop-tee-dooo.......not fresh tuna. Was it albacore?

maui and I will both be on your back porch some time this week.......please feed us tuna!!!!!!!!

**madhen** · 07-26-2009, 02:53 AM

Okay, we know who the tuna "ho's" are in this bunch!! I never thought a can of Starkist could be such a temptation!

**frugalfranny** · 07-26-2009, 02:57 AM

OOOOHHHHHHH.........the things I will do for tuna!!!!

**frugalwarrior** · 07-26-2009, 07:58 AM

I caught ours w/ ham. I put it in a carrier and attached yarn to the door. I ran it under my door and yanked it once she was in. We were both surprised when I caught the mom insteand of the kittens. She is probably too old for an inside pet but maybe a barn cat. She will spray in your house (experience). Ask around if your vet will check her out because there are feral colony keepers.They keep secret so no one dumps cats on them but rescues would prob. know. They could get her shots and check her out. I would say she has worms esp. if she has fleas. You need a blood test. And good luck on that. Do you have any other cats because Feline Leukemia can spread thru spittle. No you can't get it.

**ilovechocolate** · 07-26-2009, 08:19 AM

Bless you for helping this kitty! This is the way we've gotten all of our critters---they just sort of show up and stay and we feed them.........

She is really pretty. And I bet she will end up being a good pet.

**craftypam** · 07-26-2009, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by madhen

Well, mauimagic, it wasn't FRESH tuna!!

Have a LITTLE self-respect!

I deny any feelings of affection for the cat, and insist that I am only feeding her out of a sense of obligation. And when I call her "little Schroe-kitty", it is just to build a false sense of security in her, so that I can catch her and bundle her to the vet, to ensure that she isn't carrying some weird disease that might be communicable to my chickens. (And she is terrified of my chickens, btw.)

And the pic was simply to document this creature that seems to have attached itself to my home, since I've mentioned her multiple times in my Ranch Diary blog.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

There is a place in heaven for people who take care of Gods creatures