I had a water fountain (several actually) and the thing was the biggest pain the rear to clean (and it needs constant cleaning). Now I use a pot, it's a lot easier to clean and fill every day or so...
I think it's pretty pointless. There's a pretty big supply of racoons out there, and they are perfectly capabale of surviving and multiplying in semi-urban environments. As soon as the ones you TNR (or kill, or trap and remove, or whatever) die off more will move in, they aren't being driven...
I don't think he is a seal point, I think he is more likely a seal mink, or a seal sepia, his body color is entirely too dark for seal point. I would lean towards seal mink, personally. With white, of course.
I have a comment and a question.
The comment: Silver is a dominant trait, any cat showing the phenotype need only carry one copy of the gene. Therefore, unless one of the parents is homozygous (carries two copies of the gene) for silver, in which case all offspring will be silver regardless of...
Free feeding is absolutely not an option. Kjartan is already a tub o' blub, any more food fed and he rapidly morphs into the furry Goodyear blimp. Zeno might like more food, but he is a healthy weight (not skinny), and he already eats nearly as much as Kjartan (at half his size). They are...
My cats have severe hunger issues. Every day (if I am there), around 3PM, Kjartan (the fat one), starts yowling for food non-stop. Normal dinner time is 6PM. He is incredibly pushy and aggressive, not to mention annoying. At most I can get a minute or two of respite by menacing him with the...
Given that you are on Long Island (near New England), he is probably just from the same basic stock that the Maine Coon was developed from (big shaggy farmcat stock).