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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

4669.0. "JJ acquires a stray...." by JJLIET::JUDY (Oooh! A gladiator!) Thu May 23 1991 10:31

    
    
    	Well at least I'm in good company....Sandy, Carol.... =)
    
    	It seems that Cary and I have acquired a new friend.  When I
    	got home from work on Tuesday, there was a tuxedo cat in the
    	woods behind the house.  So me, seeing a cat, goes to see it.
    	I pet him (for some reason I think it's a he) for a bit and 
    	that's all it took.  He followed me out of the woods meowing
    	and just begging for attention.  I went inside and got some
    	food.  He was starving!  But he doesn't look malnourished.
    	Wolfed it down in no time.  Then came over to me looking to
    	be petted...and petted....and petted.  so I played with him
    	for a bit and then went inside.  Cary came home and I showed
    	him to him (he plopped himself in the side yard).  Sylvester
    	(as I've decided to call him) decided to finally come around	
    	to the front of the house.....and he hasn't left since!  He
    	spent Tuesday night on our front stoop....meowing and meowing.
    	He has a really strange meow at times....sounds like a young
    	child talking!  He was there when Cary got home yesterday 
    	and again when we got home from volunteering.   We didn't 
    	feed him yesterday.  He stayed on the front stoop again last
    	night but didn't start crying until this morning when it got
    	light out.  So I fed him and went to work.
    
    	I'll be posting notices locally about a lost cat (without a
    	description so I can be sure the real owners claim him if
    	there are any) tomorrow.  If nothing comes of it, well then
    	I'll be posting a notice in here shortly.....He is a total
    	love but we just can't have another cat.
    
    	JJ and Cary - Brandi, Sasha, Chloe, Audrey and our new friend
    					Sylvester
    
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4669.1WILLEE::MERRITTThu May 23 1991 12:418
    It's amazing how cats find us "kitty suckers".   Right now I am
    feeding two (J.C. and Van Gogh) which have been around all winter.
    I know these guys are strays and do not have homes.
    
    Good luck in finding the original owner.....hopefully he does
    have an owner and has just strayed too far.
    
    Keep us posted....Sandy
4669.2or new in neighborhoodDEMON::MURPHYThu May 23 1991 13:346
    Or maybe someone new moved into the neighborhood and he got out too
    soon.  He may just be trying to get his bearings not knowing the area.
    
    Good luck.
    Pat
    
4669.3Welcome Aboard!!!BUFFER::WESTONThu May 23 1991 14:4715
    
    
    Maybe he just did move??  I had a Tuxedo cat, (more than one...) and he
    took off sometime last year.  He should be about a year old and I use
    to call him Tux.
    
    Better you than me!!!!!!!!  I've got 7 to go!  Hopefully he belongs to
    someone. He sounds like a people cat and has been with humans before!
    
    Welcome, to the "cat-finds-us-no-matter-what"!----------Club!
    
    Carol
    			Scruffy and the smaller Dudley Road Gang
    
    
4669.4JJLIET::JUDYOooh! A gladiator!Thu May 23 1991 15:005
    
    	Yeah, I must have been wearing a huge neon sign that said
    	"distressed animal sucker" on it.....I really hope I can
    	find his owner.....
    
4669.5WILLEE::MERRITTFri May 24 1991 09:288
    I swear my cats are outside yelling to all the strays.....
    
           COME ON DOWN....THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!!!!
    
    
    Sandy   (maybe I'll name the next stray "bob Eubanks".)
    
    
4669.6JUPITR::KAGNOI'm51%Pussycat,49%Bitch-Don'tPush it!Fri May 24 1991 10:1513
    Sandy,
    
    Nikki and TK do that too, especially Nik.  Whenever there is a stray in
    our neighborhood I swear Nikki says, "C'mon onto my deck!  Mom leaves
    us PLENTY of food and water in the nice weather and there's enough to
    go around!!"
    
    The stray I'm feeding now eats Iams and Max Cat and canned food mixed
    with vitamins!  He's getting as big as my other guys!  He is also
    terrified of people and trap-shy, probably because he's been getting
    his meals out in the open for so long.  Gotta catch him soon, but the
    good food is really making him look less and less scrappy.
    
4669.7WILLEE::MERRITTFri May 24 1991 13:2815
    I'm making very good progress with one stray....J.C.  We're getting
    so close...that I even called the vet and asked him if he would
    keep the guy for 2-3 days and fix him, dip him, test him for feluk,
    look for ear mites (his ears are black inside), and last but not
    least...deworm him.   This guy has been in the wilderness for
    sometime.....and he deserves to be Number 8 in my household!!
    
    Hopefully within the next two weeks...he's off to the vets!  I just
    hope that the little bit of "trust" he has gained in both me and
    my husband...is not ruined when we trap him.   
    
    Who's next....you neven know who will show up in my doorway!!
    
    Sandy
    
4669.8JJLIET::JUDYMy body says yes but my mind says noThu Jun 13 1991 12:1214
    
    
    	Well he's still here.  There has been ads up at the grocery
    	and dept. store for two weeks.   And I just called the newspaper.
    	(Raymond is so small the paper only comes out once a week)
    	I'm going to stop off at the vet clinic (they don't have a number
    	listed) and ask them to post an ad.
    
    	If nothing happens within the next two weeks, I'll be posting
    	an adoption notice for "Sylvester".  He sat outside our door
    	and cried again last night.  =(
    
    	JJ
    
4669.9JJLIET::JUDYIt's leather weather!Tue Oct 08 1991 10:2716
    
    	I thought I had posted in here that Sylvester had disappeared,
    	but it must have been elsewhere.
    
    	Well up until last night, he was missing for about two weeks.
    	Cary came home from work last night and guess who appeared!
    
    	I didn't realize how much I missed him till he came back.  =)
    	He's very thin (again) and smelled like smoke.  Don't know
    	what that means though.
    
    	Anyhow, he's back and if anyone wants to adopt him, he's
    	still available!
    
    	JJ