Took a stray to the APL today...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The other night as I was leaving my daughter’s, a cat was running down the sidewalk. When we said, “hey there, Kitty” it turned and ran right up to us, meowing and rubbing against our legs. He looked to be clean, in good, and well nourished, so we thought he was a neighbor’s cat. He wanted to be picked up, and was very cuddly. But we were leaving in the car, so we set him down to resume his travels…but he wouldn’t leave. In fact, he immediately ran under the car and sat behind the tire! We dragged him out, tossed him in the fenced backyard to slow him down, and tried to leave again…but he found the hole in the fence and was back under the tires. So we picked him up, drove down the street to where we thought he belonged…but he didn’t live there. My daughter set him down and tried to get back in the car, but he ran after us. So she drove me home, with the cat happily curled up in my lap. He was so cuddly and loving and just thrilled to be held.

But my daughter has two cats, a Rottweiler, and just got a new German Shepherd puppy that day…she can’t adopt a stray. So when she got home,she left him outside, hoping he’d go home. No such luck. Next day, she picks me up late in the evening at the Rapid, with the cat in her lap. We call several vets, and shelters, but nothing is open. We go to a local police station, but we can’t get help there, either. And now we’ve noticed the cat has a sore behind his ear. And all he wants to do is cuddle…I’ve never seen a cat so cuddly and docile. She takes him back home, and leaves him in the garage (which has a couch…he was very warm and comfy.

So today, I have the day off, and my daughter asks me to take the cat to the Animal Protective League. She really doesn’t want him to be put down, and the APL is the only place accepting cats at the moment. I get there, and discover that you need an appointment…which they can give me in two weeks! I explain that he seems ill and injured…and they say they can take him right then. They are already impressed by his sweet nature, especially since they had just taken in a female calico who was nasty…they had three people trying to handle her! I had to pay $30 that I really didn’t have, but he will get medicine, and fixed, and healthy, and get his picture up on the website, and maybe a name, and hopefully a home.

If you are in the Cleveland area and need a very sweet cat, he’s a sweetie! If he wasn’t injured (just scratching from earmites, they said) and if I didn’t already have three, I’d have been tempted to keep him. I’ll try to post a link when they get him up on the website.
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It sounds like he probably belongs to someone in the neighborhood where you found him… did you put up posters in the neighborhood?? Someone is probably missing their cat very much right now :frowning:

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I took a dog to the APL once. He came out covered in weird symbols that don’t appear on my keyboard, but he could play poker like a madman.

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No, we didn’t…there really wasn’t time. We did drive around looking for posters. But the cat had been hanging around for three days by this point…free to head home at any time. The injury behind its ear was getting worse, and it was in such a weakened, docile state we didn’t think it would survive much longer. As I said, there was no way to take it into the house, and we certainly didn’t want to expose the other pets to it, for their safety and its… this seemed the only way to get it cared for. And it had fleas, I fear…I’ve got bites now, and will probably have to take steps to protect my cats…and the cat was never even here!

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i found a loveable stray on april 6th. she is so very cuddly. i was able to just pick her up.
she was very skinny, a bit dirty. i was facing quite the walk home with her when i realized the pet store 4 blocks away just may be open.

sure enough, they were and had an empty cage in the basement to house her until she could be checked out at the vets. she just wanted to be held and cuddled, very talky, and strangly not as interested in food.

the next day i got her an appt. at the vets. she was able to stay at the store until the appt. still more interested in cuddling and being with people than anything else.

she checked out at the vets, such a good girl with all they did. neg. to all the tests. she just needed de-worming and de-bug stuff. she didn’t show fleas on the flea comb. about 8ish months old, just under 5 pounds, redish-orange tabby with copper-cinnamon eyes. just gorgeous face, hardly any white fur.

soooooo, i brought her home to see if she would get along with stretch the superduper who desp. wants a wrestling friend. she is unbelievable sweet, cuddly,and a bit talky. is hissy and growly to the other furry residents, but doesn’t run or attack. she has put on a tad bit of weight. she is a very tall girl.

i’m leaning toward calling her coritsa the cuddly.