I believe I've posted in other's threads about Juliet and maybe even Jose. Both were stray kitties that showed up on my back deck in the last year. First was Juliet. She would come to eat for several weeks, perhaps a month or two, before letting anyone get close to her. It took forever it seems to be able to touch her. When she showed up she had a bulging belly, that I assumed was kittens. She never gave birth, and eventually I was able to trap her in Morgan's carrier and take her to the vet. She had a severe hernia. That was repaired last May. Then she had to stay in a cage inside the house for a couple weeks so that she didn't do damage to the repair work and need another surgery. Her time inside made her more receptive to human contact and even though she is back outside, she's quite tame. Then last fall, Jose showed up as a feral/stray. Again it took ages for him to allow anyone to touch him. After weeks and weeks of feeding him, he warmed up SLIGHTLY, at least so we could scratch his head while he ate. Then one day when showed up with what looked a stick hanging from his tail. Upon closer inspection, it wasn't a stick. It was his tail that had been skinned of its fur. A plan had to be put into action to get him into the carrier for a trip to the vet for testing/shots/neuter/tail amputation. Again, he had to live inside in a cage for a week or so to keep the bandage on the tail. He got used to people and is back outside with Juliet, but is friendly enough to allow you to pet him.
Now...for the last month or so, a new stray kitty has been hanging around only at meal times. My 8 year old neice named him Gary. (I thought that was quite fitting as a found kitty name.) Well, Gary wasn't around for one meal time at all last week. Even though I'd put out his extra bowl of food every day. I didn't fill his bowl up this morning, but lo and behold, after feeding Juliet and Jose this morning and coming back inside, there was Gary waiting for Jose to finish so he could eat. I watched him walk to the food bowl and noticed what looks to be a limp. Then when he was leaving it looks like his back leg on his right side is hanging funny. I don't know if it is dislocated or if he'd been hit or what has happened. I couldn't see any sore places, of course my inspection had to come from inside the house looking out since he is no where near the stage where he will let anyone touch him. He barely lets me look at him without running. There wasn't any blood on the porch where he had been sitting. I'm going to have to try to find someone with a humane trap to borrow inorder to capture him and take him to the vet. That isn't an easy thing to do on a Sunday. Plus I don't know that I will actually be able to get him. There's no guarantee that he'll show up. I've also got to get Juliet and Jose lured into the house so that they don't get in the trap if I'm able to find one. Then I'm scared if he has to have a leg amputated, I don't know what I'm going to do with him. I cannot move him inside. Plus he isn't tame at all as far as I can tell. I'm sick with worry about him and just don't know what to do other than find a way to trap him and get him to the vet and go from there.
ETA: While I was uploading other pictures, I got this one off of my phone. It is a picture of Gary taken about a month ago just outside the back door.
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Good luck with Gary.
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