New rescue**Update**

[smokey the elder]

You should have kept the name Tootsie, in honor of the Dustin Hoffman character! Good job getting the kitty off the streets.

[mruffruff]

Smokey quickly came of the cage. He gets along well with the other cats simply by acting superior to them! The dogs are just large objects to walk around/under. I've given him full run of the house for the week end. He doesn't get on the counter tops, doesn't run for the door when it's opened and has no litter box issues. I think he'd like a better grade of food, but he hasn't been starving himself.

He hasn't tried to use the cat flap or doggy door. Likes to be stroked, but isn't interested in being a lap cat. He's quite satisfied to snooze on a chair or next to the big dog on a sofa. A very low maintenance kind of cat.

He has long legs, a flappy belly pouch and a few thin spots on his back legs and tummy. I suspect he's more than three years old, but who really can say?

Now to find him a good home.

[moosmom]

Now to find him a good home

Looks like he's already found one!!

[mruffruff]

Since I took in another stray Friday night, that would bring my total to 14!!!

I HAVE to find homes for some of them, especially Smokey. All of the others have claws but so far they aren't bothering him. On the other hand, Mac is. Mac is a 16lb gray tabby who thinks I'm his property. Smokey wants to be friends, but Mac hisses and smacks at Smokey.

The newest member is Tinker, who I trapped and vetted about a month ago. He is a sweet gray tabby with white chest and tummy. A real lap cat.

Both would make excellent pets. The rest need special work to overcome their various grades of fear of people.

[Freedom]

Bless you for taking in another one. What a lot of felines! I find 7 a handful. Wonderful work you are doing.

[krazykitties]

if the cat is male, what was the thing about the obvious nipples?

[mruffruff]

He has some bare spots on his tummy, but he doesn't seem to have a reason for it---no fleas, surgical scars, etc. When he was rolling around, I saw the bareness and 'assumed' female.

Smokey just left to go to a possible new home on a trial basis. Hopefully the cat at the new home will accept him. Smokey wants to be friends with every other cat, so it all hinges on the resident cat.