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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / December 2006Surprise in the Garage
I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling through the screen like a maniac. (He is such a little scrapper). So I put some Fancy Feast under the truck, left the door cracked. The food was gone this morning. We get cats dumped out all the time, but this one is different. It just looks like "someone's cat." It's well fed, has a nice coat. Just does not look like the ones we've gotten before. That weird because our closest neighbor is over a mile away. Well, I guess if you went "as the crow flies" it would be more like a 1/2 mile. I wonder if a cat would wander that far away from home. I would really like to think it belongs to someone so I don't worry about it being out in the cold :-( I guess I should go just knock on their door and ask. But what do you all think? Do you think a cat would stray up to a mile away? The hunting is very good here, because I feed cottontails and the back yard is full of them at night. I thought maybe that's why it was hanging around. Sherry It could be someones cat or it could be a fresh dump job or drop off. Hopefully if it stays and you can not find an owner you could rehome it. Prayers and purrs. >I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you >please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >Sherry I read somewhere they have a five mile range from home base. Don't remember where I read that. Lee > I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you > please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Sherry On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:29:02 -0800, sriddles wrote: > I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you > please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Sherry Quite a few years ago, I rescued "Oliver" a huge white male cat. He had been hanging around the complex in the dead of winter for several days. A neighbor had called and asked if it were my cat. I put out food and a covered box and it did come again. I called several rescue groups. One called back and sure enough the owner was looking for him. He had come over a mile away and crossed a couple of major streets. It was a happy reunion. The woman told me that Oliver had a pin in his hip from being hit by a car. She still let him out "because he like to visit neighbors." Best wishes. MLB > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:29:02 -0800, sriddles wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > hit by a car. She still let him out "because he like to visit neighbors." > Best wishes. MLB Well, then it is certainly possible this cat crossed prairie land that far to come here. I still think it's somebody's cat. Just gut instinct. I've handled so many cats I've kind of been able to develop an eye for cat that no one is taking care of. But I could be wrong. Like Kraut said, maybe it's a fresh-dumped cat. Sherry > Quite a few years ago, I rescued "Oliver" a huge white male cat. He had > been hanging around the complex in the dead of winter for several days. A [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > hit by a car. She still let him out "because he like to visit neighbors." > Best wishes. MLB I'm not going to open the "indoor/outdoor" controversy again, but some cats, once accustomed to going out, are almost impossible to keep IN! Despite five years in an apartment where if she did get out, she found herself in a hallway with no open exit, Melisande STILL tries. Since my doors now opens directly to the outside (not even a screen door), I have to practically WEAR a squirt-bottle of water! (And shut them in the bathroom when I do laundry, since the washer and dryer are in a closet off of the patio and the patio walls aren't nearly high enough to deter a cat!) > > Quite a few years ago, I rescued "Oliver" a huge white male cat. He had > > been hanging around the complex in the dead of winter for several days. A [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > the washer and dryer are in a closet off of the patio and > the patio walls aren't nearly high enough to deter a cat!) We had one like that. He was an old tom cat stray who wasn't even neutered until he was probably 10 years old when we got him. Our neighborhood at the time was fairly quiet although it did have some traffic. But this poor cat. It honestly turned into a "quality vs. quantity" of life issue. He yowled at the door 24/7. I could not bear it anymore. I ended up letting him out then trying desperately to find him a home as a barn cat. OTOH, my cats adjusted pretty well to the outdoor ban. They fussed a little, but they'd forget. After many months of not seeing the skunk again I do let them out now if they really kick up. So I think it varies cat-by-cat. I still think if the traffic was as heavy as the impression I got from the post, me and the cat would have been in a constant stand-off. I'd be too afraid to let him out. Sherry > I'm not going to open the "indoor/outdoor" controversy > again, but some cats, once accustomed to going out, are > almost impossible to keep IN! Our Muriel was the other way round. She spent her first few years as an indoor cat (in upper-floor city tenement flats) and appeared to have no purr, as well as being fiercely territorial about her chosen pieces of furniture. Within a week of moving to this house, with access to the outside through a catflap, she had learned to purr and was a lot more relaxed about letting the other cats share her space, though she didn't go outside for very long or for very far (mainly to the garden wall so she she could pose for passers-by to stroke her and tell her how beautiful she was). She's still the same seven years later; she hardly goes out at all now, but being able to is what counts. Her moment of glory as an outdoor cat was when we took her on holiday to a cottage on Mull, in the western Isles of Scotland. Not only could she go outside in a wind that nearly lifted her off her feet, she could have staring matches with sheep. And win. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 > Her moment of glory as an outdoor cat was when we took her on holiday > to a cottage on Mull, in the western Isles of Scotland. Not only > could she go outside in a wind that nearly lifted her off her feet, > she could have staring matches with sheep. And win. That's not surprising! How many staring matches with your cat have YOU won? >> Her moment of glory as an outdoor cat was when we took her on holiday >> to a cottage on Mull, in the western Isles of Scotland. Not only [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > That's not surprising! How many staring matches with your cat have YOU > won? I think that is why Jake "hates" Kayla. Even a cat can't stare down a Border Collie. Jo I'd just ask them. Cats can certainly stray quite a ways. Hmmm. You didn't take your sign down, did you. > I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you > please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Sherry > I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you > please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > yard is full of them at night. I thought maybe that's why it was > hanging around. I have heard tell that an intact male will go far more than a mile searching for girls, so it wouldn't hurt to knock on the door and ask if he's theirs. I hope he is, otherwise he is very lost, or more likely, another one dumped. I'd be surprised if a cat that was fed and looked after well would travel a mile to look at the cottontails. Have you room for another? Tweed > > I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you > > please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Tweed Well, it turns out he (or she) isn't theirs. No, I really am over my limit for house cats now. (5). I couldn't tell if he is wild, or just afraid of me and is really a tame cat. I do have a nice barn with 3 neutered feral barn cats. He's welcome to take up out there, but I'm not sure they would let him join their little colony. If he's tame, the shelter isn't too crowded right now so he'd have a good chance. I'll get him a home one way or another if he will just come back and let me catch him. I do love black cats though. I've never had a solid black one. He looks very panther-ish. He looks like a Dimitri to me. :-) Sherry >>> I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you >>> please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > black one. He looks very panther-ish. He looks like a Dimitri to me. > :-) Let's hope he sneaks his way into the barn colony. This might suit him best if he is very shy with humans. Tweed > Well, it turns out he (or she) isn't theirs. No, I really am over my > limit for house cats now. (5). I couldn't tell if he is wild, or just [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > catch him. I do love black cats though. I've never had a solid black > one. He looks very panther-ish. He looks like a Dimitri to me. :-) Ah, you've already named him. We all know what that means.  SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you > please. Oh, Sherry, you are such a cat magnet. I do think cats can wander far, but if it has wandered this far from home, maybe the cat did not like it there. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you > please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Sherry We are purring and sending best wishes that the kitty has a great onetruehome, Polonca and Soncek > I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you > please. [...] > That weird because our closest neighbor is over a mile away. Our neoghbour across the road lost a cat (a young Somali female who'd come into heat for the first time) and found her about a mile away. I was a lot more surprised that the neighbour managed to track her down than that the cat had got that far. The first photo on my cats page <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/Cats/> has Ishmael posing on the kitchen table with a newspaper bearing the headline "Ostriches survive night out in Leith". That was a rather bigger surprise-in-the-garage story. Leith is the port city of Edinburgh, it's mostly built-up with lots of Victorian tenements. Somebody heard an odd noise out the back of his house one night and found an ostrich wandering around the back lane. Somehow he managed to tempt it into his garage (presumably he had a bag of ostrich food in his kitchen cupboard ready for this eventuality), slammed the door on it (which I would have thought would annoy the ostrich enough for it to kick the bejesus out of his car) and called for help (there's an entry "Ostrich Disposal" in the Yellow Pages???). No sooner had Them Whose Responsibility It Is To Deal With Pissed-Off Lost Ostriches done the needful with that one when they got another call from half a mile away saying somebody had found an ostrich chick wandering round another back lane in the middle of the night. They seemed to be a mother and baby. I think the zoo got them. They never did find out where they came from. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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