This pretty one. (The sun makes it look white but in ordinary light it is actually mostly a light orange colour)
I'd better start at the beginning, Saturday February 27th.
I let Bob out (on a leash) into the garden in the morning as usual and as he went straight to a planter in the corner up popped a cats head, the one in the picture above. It stayed there a while then went over the wall into Audrey's, a neighbour, yard. I kept check on it during the day and when it came to rain I took a old table around to Audrey's and put it where the cat was for some sort of shelter.
Didn't see it at all on the Sunday.
Monday dawned and there it was on top of Audrey's porch where it stayed all day and night. I thought perhaps it was sick and couldn't get down so I'd called the RSPCA earlier in the day and they told me it would have to be up there for 48hours before they could do anything. Meanwhile I called at the home where I'd been told it could belong several times over the weekend and Monday/Tuesday, but there was never anyone home.
I'd put food down for it, smelly food, but it never came down for it which reinforced my idea it was stuck, so as it was still there after the 48hrs had passed I called the RSPCA again. An officer came out, got up there, checked the cat out and then let it go. She said it wasn't injured, was well groomed and in her opinion it would find it's way home. I put a notice with a photo up in the village but no-one has been in touch as yet.
Saw it once or twice after that in the daytime but then one night, late, it turned up as I was out back with Bob. Put Bob in the house quick and put some food in a saucer for the cat, went out and waited around while it ate because there were a couple of other cats around which I thought may have been chasing it. They went and I went in the house leaving the cat finishing off the food.
Next time I heard it before I saw it, the meowing gradually getting louder the nearer it became. It had no fear of Bob, winding around the both of us. As I was trying to get Bob in the house the cat was also trying to get in. Again I took some food out but this time it wasn't interested wanting only to come back in with me. And that is how it has carried on ever since, now and again it will eat, mostly not.
I've tried all sorts of things to avoid it when letting Bob out at night. Turning the automatic lights off, being very, very quiet, but it always knows somehow. I even took Bob out the front garden last night, but it knew. The meowing coming closer and closer and me trying to get myself and Bob back in the house before it got here. It went around the back then and was meowing at my back door. At least when I took the food out it ate it this time.
I don't want another cat but even so if I had the room I would take it in or/and if I just had Bob, or just Ebby, but the way things are I cannot. I've made a little shelter thing out back but it hasn't used it as yet. It doesn't seem to want food that often either, I'm happy to put food down for it but it is a little annoying when it is left.
Taking to a shelter is not an option, firstly the local ones are all full and secondly I have no transport to go further afield. I will most likely get in touch with the RSPCA again after the holidays and see if they can come up with any suggestions.
It is both freaking me out and breaking my heart because I can do no more.
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Originally Posted by Karen
Well, I hope the cat has another home somewhere around the area, but he/she seems to want to be with you. I know you can't take another cat in, though.
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