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Hi,
I'm new to cats. My neighbor's cat comes and sits in my patio chairs all the time. It's insane! Our patio is the only finished patio nearby, and its gone a nice stone/brick flooring unlike the other houses. We also have some patio chairs near a corner of the patio, and two huge pine trees provide great shade in that area. The cats get in through a hole at the corner of the fence. While I don't mind them chilling, I just want a few answers.
1) I almost ran over one of the cats the other day. I noticed and stopped in time, but I realized it was the same cat that chilled in my patio. The owner (my neighbor) seemed to be trying to catch it, but it just ran across the street. Why did it run away from its owner rather than towards him?
2) Why are they still scared of me? I gave them dry cat food (which I got from a friend since I do not own pets) and they ate it. Twice I did this, yet when I try to leave food for them when they're in the patio they just run away then eat when I'm gone. Why?
3) How can I become friends with them? Like friends enough that I can pet them? I feel that the owner is not very responsible...He constantly is outside without a shirt, and judging by the blinds and what I see from his windows....they're like a dark, stained kind of yellowish color (the blinds). He is also a beer belly for sure (I've seen bottles outside his door before). His cats are ALWAYS outside no matter. They are in one place or another, but outside constantly. I find them, like I said before, either on my patio chairs or behind the bushes in front of my house (I live on an end unit townhome).
Please help me out! I'm just trying to get the cats to feel comfortable and as safe as possible!
Thanks!
--MachinimaZ
I'm new to cats. My neighbor's cat comes and sits in my patio chairs all the time. It's insane! Our patio is the only finished patio nearby, and its gone a nice stone/brick flooring unlike the other houses. We also have some patio chairs near a corner of the patio, and two huge pine trees provide great shade in that area. The cats get in through a hole at the corner of the fence. While I don't mind them chilling, I just want a few answers.
1) I almost ran over one of the cats the other day. I noticed and stopped in time, but I realized it was the same cat that chilled in my patio. The owner (my neighbor) seemed to be trying to catch it, but it just ran across the street. Why did it run away from its owner rather than towards him?
2) Why are they still scared of me? I gave them dry cat food (which I got from a friend since I do not own pets) and they ate it. Twice I did this, yet when I try to leave food for them when they're in the patio they just run away then eat when I'm gone. Why?
3) How can I become friends with them? Like friends enough that I can pet them? I feel that the owner is not very responsible...He constantly is outside without a shirt, and judging by the blinds and what I see from his windows....they're like a dark, stained kind of yellowish color (the blinds). He is also a beer belly for sure (I've seen bottles outside his door before). His cats are ALWAYS outside no matter. They are in one place or another, but outside constantly. I find them, like I said before, either on my patio chairs or behind the bushes in front of my house (I live on an end unit townhome).
Please help me out! I'm just trying to get the cats to feel comfortable and as safe as possible!
Thanks!
--MachinimaZ