Okay, I just moved to my current town of residence about 2 weeks ago. Today I took an exploratory bike ride, and circled through the local cemetery. As I was rolling down the shaded, quiet concrete path, I came across a milk-white cat just sitting calmy there on his haunches.
He wasn’t an albino; his fur was completely white, but his eyes were light green. He was surprisingly friendly, which led me to believe he used to belong to someone, although he was obviously malnourished. If I acted calmly and moved relatively slow, he would let me approach and pet him, even pick him up. I’ve seen cats in worse condition, but I still felt sad at the shape he was in. He was rail thin, and his fur had that roughness you see in animals with poor diets.
I’m not really contemplating taking this cat; my apartment complex has a “no pets” policy. but I feel I should at least bring him a little food. I’m worried that he won’t survive, or worse. The cemetery is a pretty safe place though. It’s surrounded by a fence and is very large, so he is in little danger of getting attacked by a dog or run over by a car. For all I know he’s getting on all right.
You weren’t seeing an actual cat. You were seeing the ghost of a cat ran over by a car 20 years ago tonight!
Go back to the cemetery. You’ll find Fluffy’s collar in the exact same spot that you saw the cat!
J/k
In all seriousness, take the little guy to a shelter. No need for him to starve like that if there’s a place nearby that will find him a good home, like BooksWoods said.
Too bad you can’t keep him. A good mouser is worth his/her weight in Friskies! I live in a city and we had a stray cat come up on our porch one day (not quite a kitten, not full grown either). I fed it, hoping it would stay around our house and kill vermin but it got ran over that very night, which led to my first discussion with LittleSnoopy about how the kitty got hurt really bad and it couldn’t get better so it went to heaven to be with Jesus and lots of other kitties.
Unless the cemetary is five miles from the nearest habitation, are you sure he’s not just a local cat who uses the cemetary as a hunting ground? This time of year, a cat who hunts may have picked up a tapeworm and lost weight that just hasn’t been put back on after treatment. (And some cats do just stay thin.)
Besides the weight, what reason do you have for believing that the cat does not belong to the little old lady in the second house from the cemetary?
I recommend you adopt the cat, and then leave videocameras and tape recorders running at all times in your home. Once you die a grisly death (and of course you will – this screams ‘horror novel’) I’ll pick up the documentary evidence and write a “based on true events” story.
umm, i believe that’s white cats with blue eyes that are deaf. (actually, it appears to be many cats with (a) blue eye/eyes.)
i don’t know what the genetic link is between blue eyes and deafness, but apparently it is there.
and yes, in kindness, try to see that it gets fed and cared for. maybe feed it yourself for a day or two, just to see if you can figure out whether or not it actually has a home (and to build some trust). if it appears to be on its own, then recommend it to a shelter (if you can’t bring yourself to take it there on your own).
I don’t think this cat belongs to anyone. It didn’t have a collar, and the cemetary is not the kind of place an animal would just wander into. It’s kind of hard to describe, but basically, the whole place is fenced off. The cat would’ve had to scale a 6-foot chain link fence to get in.
I think I will try to feed him something tomorow, if i can find him.
Why are there fences around graveyards?
Because, (snicker) people are dying to get IN!!!
GET IT!!! BWAAA HAHA HA HA HA ha ha ha ,<snort>
I love that joke.
Did you Lizard have to scale a fence to get in the graveyard? So the cat didn’t have to either. Is there a grounds keepers place there? Did you go and try and talk to the old and semi-cohearent grave digger? Did he mutter seemingly meaningless warnings that will ultimately be very relevant to you.
Bringing him a little food is a nice gesture but if the cat came to rely on your good graces you’d be stuck hauling food the cemetery every day. I assume it’s not a great mouser or it wouldn’t look malnurished.
Bringing a scruffy malnurished cat to the shelter is most probably a death sentence to the cat if it doesn’t clean up real nice & cute & get adopted right away.
Taking it home temporarily, getting it fed, brought to the vet for de-worming, neutering, shots etc. and then finding it a home yourself is best. But by that point you’d probably want to keep the bugger. All that isn’t cheap. You sure the cat policy at your apartment isn’t negotiable?
If he’s been chipped and is just lost, a vet could check & maybe find the owner for you. Chipped cats often don’t wear collars.
I’ve thought about this 'cause I’m in a similar situation myself, except the cat comes to my house, I don’t have to go to him.
My question, also, is about how serious the “no cats” rule is. For instance, theoretically I may not keep so much as a goldfish, but in fact int his block they’d get serious aaobut dogs
but don’t actually mind cats.
And yes, the CelynCat was one I met in exactly the same way. SO I found that cat food get jumping into my shopping etc… and yeatrs later… still here.
