Tonight he knows that yesterday he got let back out again. Last night he might have been worried that the bathroom was his new permanent quarters.
That does sound like there’s hope that it may eventually be safe to leave them unsupervised together in the house; at which point, yay! he can be a Cat of Your House!
Four sharing/fighting around our two feeders in North Vancouver! FG, do you leave a light on for them at night for warmth? I know they go into torpor (heck, so do I) but would they like a little heat after dark?
I do leave it on all night and, last year, one slept a few nights at the feeder during a cold snap.
My dog lives outside year round. Our winter temps do get below zero and sometimes stay below freezing for a few days. I line his doghouse in the winter with survival blankets (aka space blankets) – thin silver foil-like sheets that reflect body heat. Originally, I just stapled the sheets all over the walls/ceiling, but they shredded quickly. Then I cut up some old sheets, and made several mats with a space blanket wrapped in a piece of sheet. These hold up much better. I haven’t personally tested them, but the dog seems comfortable so I think they work through fabric. You can buy the same thing – advertised as a non-electric warmer for pets, which is where I got the idea.
Whether this is OK depends a great deal on the breed of dog. I’m presuming yours is one of the breeds that are suited for what you’re describing.
– as long as the thread’s bumped: @FloatyGimpy, how’s the cat doing?
Very well 
It’s warmed up after the cold snap but he still likes coming inside at night. He has a big play time, then food and snuggles and then goes to sleep. He’s very pleased with the arrangement and I’d love for him to be indoors all the time if I can get my dog used to him. I’m working on it!
Judging by that picture I would say so indeed!
– he may actually prefer being able to come in at night and go outside during the day to being inside all the time. Whether you’re in a location in which that’s an ideal arrangement for other reasons is of course another question.
Thanks for the update!
Ohmygoodness that belly fluff!
Good job, Raymond!
You too, FloatyGimpy!
How do you know this? Did the neighbors explicitly tell you that they no longer care for him?
About 25 years ago, we lived in a neighborhood and had an inside/outside cat. She was outside mostly during the day, but would come and go, and normally showed up to come in for the night. Occasionally she might be gone for a day or two. She was chipped, but we quit putting a collar on her because it would get caught on fences, low tree limbs, etc.
One day we were in our front yard, my son was playing with our cat, as one of the neighbors (mom, dad, and daughter) were out for a walk.
Their daughter comes running into our yard, screaming “Fluffy, fluffy, fluffy!!”
The dad says, “hey that’s our cat that we adopted about 2 months ago.”
I said, “From the pound?”
He says, “no, she’s a stray that just came up to our house, and we let her in and fed her, and she just kept coming back.”
I told him that we had moved here about two years previously with the cat and that she was definitely ours and that she was chipped. And that she had apparently scammed them into feeding her, and that she was being well taken care of at our house.
So maybe, your cat is scamming you into letting her in and feeding her, while she’s getting fed at her original home as well.
Who named him Raymond, you or the neighbors?
And why do you refer to your dog as dog and not by his name?
See the OP. The neighbors left the cat outside when it was 8 below zero.