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This cat runs and the neighborhood killing animals and angering the neighbors by putting dead rabbits under their porch.
I spoke to the neighbor after finding the owner, but they firstly cussed me out and secondly said it's impossible to keep a cat indoors. Nonsense.
It's illegal in our town to have a free roaming cat, and it is also against the HOA rules. I looked up these rules and laws, and it is clear, and also applies to cats.
Well over the past months we fed this cat who seemed starving, and we like him. If he runs outside he's back 10 minutes later and we let him back in. After all it's 100 degrees outside.
His owners said they want him, but they didn't take care of him, he was always roaming the neighborhood, and killing and eating the local wildlife - rabbits, birds, anything he can catch, and causing a nuisance to the neighbors. When we confronted them, he didn't show up at our door for one morning. But the next morning, there he was again, but a little bit skittish, like he had been beaten.
He had viscious claws and when we first met him, resulted in many scratches and bites. We got many hand and foot wounds, but we trained him to stop, and later cut his long 2" claws in the front that looked like they had never been trimmed. Now, he is no longer dangerous to us because he doesn't scratch or bite. He's not skittish anymore either.
For awhile we would feed him but then put him out in the evening. In the morning, every morning, he would be waiting on our front porch. He didn't like being put outside and wanted to stay inside and would jump out of my arms and run back inside! So, eventually we got a couple liter boxes and let him stay inside.
He's basically been in our house for months now, with the exception of occasionally going outside for 10 minutes here and there but always coming right back and running in our door, plopping down on the cool hardwood in the kitchen, panting from the heat. But even when it's nice outside, he's back after a short while. On a rare occasion he'll stay out at night, but be waiting in our front porch in the morning.
Most of the time he hangs out with us in the couch or on my blanket on my desk which I put there for him.
We're basically his sole providers now, and he's happy.
Here's the problem: we've decided to move an hour away. But, we would like to keep him. The owners may not be happy with that, since they basically want to own him but want the neighbors to feed him and take care of him. Some neighbors may kill him though if he started killing rabbits again and putting them under their porches. It's also illegal and against HOA, and he could be hit by a car. He certainly doesn't want to live with them, he escapes them and doesn't go back.
How do we keep him? We move next week.
I spoke to the neighbor after finding the owner, but they firstly cussed me out and secondly said it's impossible to keep a cat indoors. Nonsense.
It's illegal in our town to have a free roaming cat, and it is also against the HOA rules. I looked up these rules and laws, and it is clear, and also applies to cats.
Well over the past months we fed this cat who seemed starving, and we like him. If he runs outside he's back 10 minutes later and we let him back in. After all it's 100 degrees outside.
His owners said they want him, but they didn't take care of him, he was always roaming the neighborhood, and killing and eating the local wildlife - rabbits, birds, anything he can catch, and causing a nuisance to the neighbors. When we confronted them, he didn't show up at our door for one morning. But the next morning, there he was again, but a little bit skittish, like he had been beaten.
He had viscious claws and when we first met him, resulted in many scratches and bites. We got many hand and foot wounds, but we trained him to stop, and later cut his long 2" claws in the front that looked like they had never been trimmed. Now, he is no longer dangerous to us because he doesn't scratch or bite. He's not skittish anymore either.
For awhile we would feed him but then put him out in the evening. In the morning, every morning, he would be waiting on our front porch. He didn't like being put outside and wanted to stay inside and would jump out of my arms and run back inside! So, eventually we got a couple liter boxes and let him stay inside.
He's basically been in our house for months now, with the exception of occasionally going outside for 10 minutes here and there but always coming right back and running in our door, plopping down on the cool hardwood in the kitchen, panting from the heat. But even when it's nice outside, he's back after a short while. On a rare occasion he'll stay out at night, but be waiting in our front porch in the morning.
Most of the time he hangs out with us in the couch or on my blanket on my desk which I put there for him.
We're basically his sole providers now, and he's happy.
Here's the problem: we've decided to move an hour away. But, we would like to keep him. The owners may not be happy with that, since they basically want to own him but want the neighbors to feed him and take care of him. Some neighbors may kill him though if he started killing rabbits again and putting them under their porches. It's also illegal and against HOA, and he could be hit by a car. He certainly doesn't want to live with them, he escapes them and doesn't go back.
How do we keep him? We move next week.
