I have a mostly-Persian one-Titus-and I feed and care for one belonging to a neglectful neighbor who is only here at her weekend cabin about once a month-I’ve already put a collar on him and plan to abduct him when I move in the next months...
Good on the planned abduction!
Thank you for rescuing and kidnapping the kitty. You’re a good person! People who neglect their pets — well, there’s a special place in hell for ‘em.
That term brings back nightmares......
I lived in an apartment for almost 23 years and one night when I had to go outside to my car, there was a cat on the front porch that was obviously hungry.
So I quickly ran upstairs to get a bowl of cat food that I had left over from my previous cat and took it back downstairs. It was then I noticed that someone had put a zip-tie collar on the poor thing when it may have been a kitten and the cat had grown into it to the point that it was literally being choked to death as evidenced by its bulging eyes and the zip-tie embedded around its neck.......
I then ran back upstairs to get a pair of wire cutters but by the time I had returned, the cat had left..........
I will never forget the tortured face on that poor cat for as long as I live..........
Good for you! And best of luck on the abduction.
I think that outdoor cats very often adapt just fine to indoor-only life. We ended up rescuing and then adopting a battle-scarred orange Manx at one point. (He was hiding in the bottom of our apartment stairwell — he must have seen a sign in cat-ese reading: “Suckers live here! Inquire within!” with a huge laceration on his back, evidently from a run-in with a car.) At any rate, after he healed up, Samwise would pad over to the door once in a while when we were leaving, take a good look outside, and then go back and jump on the couch. It was pretty clear where he wanted to be! LOL!