Some good news with the outside cats, this morning!
When I headed out this morning to feed the outside cats their warm, softened food, I kept an eye out for the kitten that was acting kinda sick.
The first place I checked was in the shelf bed it normally hangs out in. It was empty.
After I finished putting the food out, I finally spotted it.
It was eating on its own! This is the first time I have seen it eating since we first noticed there was something wrong with it. Even when we brought it into the old kitchen to give wet cat food, it was more interested in cuddles, and yesterday morning I was feeding it with a syringe.
This is a huge step forward! I even saw it moving to the other tray to eat, then some of the adult cats got a bit too pushy.
Not this one, though.
This is the cat that we aren’t sure where it came from. I asked the girls about it, and they’ve seen it hanging around for a little while, but don’t really recognize it, either.
When I saw that it was in the sun room, eating at one of the trays, rather than hiding in a corner of the shelf shelter, I took a chance.
It was facing away from me while eating, so I was able to reach down and start petting its back.
That startled it, and it stretched its head way up to look around, but didn’t run away. When I started to scritch it’s neck, it finally turned to look at me, but did not run away.
Shortly after, it actually came up to me, wanting more pets!
This actually confirms to me that it not likely one of our cats from last year, returned, which was one possibility. If it was, it would have been one of the more feral ones that we’d never been able to get close to. I also would have expected it to be an older cat. This one seems barely more than a “teenager”.
That it actually took to pets so quickly suggests to me that this is probably a cat that got dumped in the area. There’s no way to know for sure. It may even be a yard cat from one of the neighboring farms, though if it were, I would actually expect it to be more feral, not less.
If we can get to where we can handle it, we can look for things like an ear tattoo.
It’s nice to have some good progress with the kitties!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 