So last night Saskatchewan was on Tornado alert and in the midst of a pretty awful storm, Lighting every 2 seconds and thunder that shook our place. Now as I was going to bed I heard a cat crying very badly, I thought maybe one of our cats was lost/hurt herself so I went upstairs to check it out. Both cats were just fine, slepeing away obviously not in peril. I went back downstairs but still heard the crying (over the storm!) So I threw on a shirt and opened the front door... In the middle of this storm that was throwing hail and torrential rains i found my neighbors kitten outside their door. Having been there for at least 20 minutes it looked like they were not going to be doing anything about it anytime soon so I went outside and grabbed the little fellow.
I took him down to our bathroom and dried him off, grabbed him some food/water and used an old shoebox for a makeshift litterbox for the night. He is a very very sweet little boy (can't be more than 6 months? I remember the same cat a few months ago ran out of their house and into ours very cute) He was purring and talking with us as we tried to figure out what in the world to do with him.
Our resident cats of course went on high alert hissing at the bathroom and freaking out a little, but this was a matter of saving the poor kitten so we will deal with our babies forgiving us later. But now the question is... what do we do? The cats owners obviously do not care too much about him, letting him be out in the storm and not even looking for him. He is NOT neutered which again makes me think they can't care too much as even if he was just an outside cat (who they shouldn't have in our complex as it's not really a good place for a kitty to roam outside) They still should have had him neutered so he isn't making strays.
I don't want them to have him back as I can tell this will keep happening and they just don't have what it takes to raise a cat right. I have contacted all my friends who would make a decent home for him but no word back yet. I don't want him to rot in a cage at the SPCA but it seems he would even be safer there than back in their home.... What do I do?
I took him down to our bathroom and dried him off, grabbed him some food/water and used an old shoebox for a makeshift litterbox for the night. He is a very very sweet little boy (can't be more than 6 months? I remember the same cat a few months ago ran out of their house and into ours very cute) He was purring and talking with us as we tried to figure out what in the world to do with him.
Our resident cats of course went on high alert hissing at the bathroom and freaking out a little, but this was a matter of saving the poor kitten so we will deal with our babies forgiving us later. But now the question is... what do we do? The cats owners obviously do not care too much about him, letting him be out in the storm and not even looking for him. He is NOT neutered which again makes me think they can't care too much as even if he was just an outside cat (who they shouldn't have in our complex as it's not really a good place for a kitty to roam outside) They still should have had him neutered so he isn't making strays.
I don't want them to have him back as I can tell this will keep happening and they just don't have what it takes to raise a cat right. I have contacted all my friends who would make a decent home for him but no word back yet. I don't want him to rot in a cage at the SPCA but it seems he would even be safer there than back in their home.... What do I do?