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Hi Everyone,
I'm new to this site and found it through an internet search on how to deal with moving a cat.
We recently adopted a stray cat (Buddy, female) that is about 30% (while we're at work)outdoors and 70% indoors (while we're home). We're in CA, so it's not too cold for it to be outside during the day. When she's outside, we make sure she's got a full bowl of food and water.
Soon after we adopted Buddy, we noticed that there is a much larger cat with a collar and ID tag in the neighborhood that waits until we are out of site and then devours her food before she's able to eat any of it. My first instinct was to chase the other cat away. Buddy is very small (7lbs) and would not even try to keep another cat away from her food. This other cat always seems starving and runs away very quickly as soon as it sees me. I've been trying to get a look at its tag because I'm curious who's cat it is, but it won't let me go near it.
This past weekend a couple knocked on our door and asked if we had seen their cat. Apparently it's their cat and they used to live in the house behind us. They moved about 6 months ago about 1.5 miles away, but can't seem to get the cat to stay home. They've caught the cat a couple times, but it keeps going back to the old house. I told her that the cat is there like clockwork - every morning when I let Buddy outside before I go to work. I told her she should just come over in the morning before I let Buddy out and we'll wait for the cat to come over. She's coming over tomorrow morning.
Here's the problem - the cat (now I know his name is Ziggy) has always been very skiddish, and the woman says that since Ziggy has been eating regularly - presumably Buddy's food that I put out everyday - he has been running away from her when she tries to catch him, too! I'm worried that she's going to come over in the morning and the Cat will run away from her too!
I could stop leaving the food outside for a few days so that it gets desparate enough to come to her, but that seems so cruel! The woman said poor ziggy has even gone back to the old house and scratched on the door, waking the new neighbors up in the middle of the night. Its obvious that when they finally are able to get Ziggy to the new home, they need to keep him inside for a while so he gets used to the new home, but how the heck are we going to get him there?!!!!
Any advice?!!?
Thanks!
Kate
I'm new to this site and found it through an internet search on how to deal with moving a cat.
We recently adopted a stray cat (Buddy, female) that is about 30% (while we're at work)outdoors and 70% indoors (while we're home). We're in CA, so it's not too cold for it to be outside during the day. When she's outside, we make sure she's got a full bowl of food and water.
Soon after we adopted Buddy, we noticed that there is a much larger cat with a collar and ID tag in the neighborhood that waits until we are out of site and then devours her food before she's able to eat any of it. My first instinct was to chase the other cat away. Buddy is very small (7lbs) and would not even try to keep another cat away from her food. This other cat always seems starving and runs away very quickly as soon as it sees me. I've been trying to get a look at its tag because I'm curious who's cat it is, but it won't let me go near it.
This past weekend a couple knocked on our door and asked if we had seen their cat. Apparently it's their cat and they used to live in the house behind us. They moved about 6 months ago about 1.5 miles away, but can't seem to get the cat to stay home. They've caught the cat a couple times, but it keeps going back to the old house. I told her that the cat is there like clockwork - every morning when I let Buddy outside before I go to work. I told her she should just come over in the morning before I let Buddy out and we'll wait for the cat to come over. She's coming over tomorrow morning.
Here's the problem - the cat (now I know his name is Ziggy) has always been very skiddish, and the woman says that since Ziggy has been eating regularly - presumably Buddy's food that I put out everyday - he has been running away from her when she tries to catch him, too! I'm worried that she's going to come over in the morning and the Cat will run away from her too!
I could stop leaving the food outside for a few days so that it gets desparate enough to come to her, but that seems so cruel! The woman said poor ziggy has even gone back to the old house and scratched on the door, waking the new neighbors up in the middle of the night. Its obvious that when they finally are able to get Ziggy to the new home, they need to keep him inside for a while so he gets used to the new home, but how the heck are we going to get him there?!!!!
Any advice?!!?
Thanks!
Kate