I won’t dripfeed so apologies for the long backstory.
I had a cat for 22 years. I am a cat person. DS was born when DCat was 20, so for 2 years he was around cat, touched cat and grew up with a very furry environment.
When DCat died we said no more pets for a while. A year later, at 3, DS went into the home of a dog and with no warning at all had an acute and severe asthma attack. A&E blue light job. It isn’t the only dog he is allergic to because he has less severe but obvious symptoms if we even go in a car where a different dog has been. We are very very vigilant to avoid dogs (due to the acute and severe nature of the attack) and DS is now 8. We’ve always wondered if he is the same with cats but a) hoped not due to earlier exposure and b) daren’t risk finding out. Note we lived in the house that the cat had lived in for another 2 years but moved when DS was 4.
Minding our own business, going about life, and for reasons unknown to us this little cat arrives. She is small, fed (as far as I can see), clean, very used to humans and for some reason is also very very very determined to get into our house. We have NEVER let her in or fed her, not even once. DD (10) will stoke her if she’s playing in the garden but the cat is very affectionate and absolutely adores DD. When we come home from school Cat comes running miaowing. She spends hours every day miaowing on the kitchen windowsill or at the kitchen door. She stares at us through the door all evening and scratches at the living room door all evening (see photo!!). If DD or I go out to her she will literally jump from the wall or garden table to DDs shoulder. As I speak she is outside miaowing at the door.
I’ve been round circa 25 houses in the direction she most commonly comes from and everyone sees her but no one knows who owns her. So....
What do I do to locate her owner? I don’t want to take her to a vet, I don’t have a pet carrier for a start.
Should I put a note on a collar and put it on her? Would that work?
In light of the above, I don’t want to claim her as I am 80% sure she is owned but if she was your cat wouldn’t you want to know she was trying so badly to invade ours! I want them to know i haven’t fed her or tried to steal her!
DS has allergy testing at the end of Oct, but IF (if if if if) it turns out she’s a random, what are the chances of him being allergic to dogs but not
Cats?
Thoughts on the above, please?
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Alabasterangel6 · 08/10/2019 19:51
grandma i’d love to accept she’s ‘chosen’ us as she’s gorgeous, but if I were her owner I’d be mighty pissed off that someone had pinched my cat and probably be the subject of a ‘this CF has stolen my cat’ thread 
Also, as I’ve said, at this time I can’t risk any animal indoors due to a chronic asthma issue which is triggered by dogs and therefore has the potential to be triggered by cats too. We need to get the allergy testing done at the end of the month to know this.
My first cat arrived under similar circumstances. He was an huge grey 'complete' tom cat in very good condition, very friendly and just wanted to spend time with us. We didn't feed him - but he appeared every day and spent all day with us. He then vanished for a few days and when he turned up again was injured. We took him to the vet who treated his injuries and told us to keep him in for a week. When we told the vet that he wasn't our cat, the vet responded 'He is now, you've got the vet's bill'.
OP - I'm sure you don't need to be told that she's gorgeous .
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