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Hello all! This is my first time posting and also my first time really interacting with a cat (my da is allergic to them so I could never have one growing up). This is probably going to end up being a long post, but I wanted to give you guys and idea of the cat so you can help me determine if what I want is also what's best for Kitty.
My fiance and I first saw the cat around Halloween, right up against the glass door. It caught me dancing by myself and it seemed intrigued.
Since then we have been feeding it daily. I see it out during the day, it seems comfortable with human voices, it used to spook when I opened the door and only come for the food later but now it just goes around the corner of the covered outdoor chair, I feel like we both know I know it's there. We have made brief eye contact without Kitty running away, though I learned to avoid eye contact later online. It's posture started pretty low to the ground and although it doesn't walk with it's tail up, Kitty seems a lot less tense now. It even was up on the railing while it watched me prepare it's food. It still waits for me to close the door most of the way, but didn't seem to mind when I propped it open a little while it was eating so it could hear us. We even ate with the door open once or twice before it decided that was too much. I sit with it while it eats and mostly it doesn't seem to mind. I would love to get to the point we can eat lunch together with the door open and no barrier between us.
All of this is to say, we have fallen for the cat and worry about it outdoors in the cold and we live right next to the train tracks. I also worry what will happen when we inevitably move and the house we live in (typically the family summer home until COVID) stands empty for half the year. We've done a lot of research and know it will take a lot of time and patience if we were to domesticate the cat, but we are very willing. If the general consensus is that the cat is better off outdoors, we will continue to feed it until we have to go, but I would love to provide it with it's forever home. Oh, also I think it's been fixed because it's left ear is clipped. I have so many more questions but for now I'll stop here.
TLR: Is this cat totally feral or does it have the potential to be domesticated?
My fiance and I first saw the cat around Halloween, right up against the glass door. It caught me dancing by myself and it seemed intrigued.
Since then we have been feeding it daily. I see it out during the day, it seems comfortable with human voices, it used to spook when I opened the door and only come for the food later but now it just goes around the corner of the covered outdoor chair, I feel like we both know I know it's there. We have made brief eye contact without Kitty running away, though I learned to avoid eye contact later online. It's posture started pretty low to the ground and although it doesn't walk with it's tail up, Kitty seems a lot less tense now. It even was up on the railing while it watched me prepare it's food. It still waits for me to close the door most of the way, but didn't seem to mind when I propped it open a little while it was eating so it could hear us. We even ate with the door open once or twice before it decided that was too much. I sit with it while it eats and mostly it doesn't seem to mind. I would love to get to the point we can eat lunch together with the door open and no barrier between us.
All of this is to say, we have fallen for the cat and worry about it outdoors in the cold and we live right next to the train tracks. I also worry what will happen when we inevitably move and the house we live in (typically the family summer home until COVID) stands empty for half the year. We've done a lot of research and know it will take a lot of time and patience if we were to domesticate the cat, but we are very willing. If the general consensus is that the cat is better off outdoors, we will continue to feed it until we have to go, but I would love to provide it with it's forever home. Oh, also I think it's been fixed because it's left ear is clipped. I have so many more questions but for now I'll stop here.
TLR: Is this cat totally feral or does it have the potential to be domesticated?