anyone know about cats please?

[tigi]

A stray young cat is seeming to adopt us, and never having had one before, am a bit in the dark about 'cat stuff'!
She is very fussy, and adores the children, and is obsessed with licking hands and fingers.
Why does she do that, what does she want? is it something to do with her being young, and wanting a mother?
She will climb up me and hold my arm with her paws to keep me still for a good lick!

Any advice?

Thanks

She wants you to be her new mummy.

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she sounds a sweet, lovely feline. i think you should be her new family.

Cats are terrific creatures.

Aw! Cats do that as a sign of affection. How lovely - you should adopt her!

Probably a food idea to take her to the vet so they can check her over. She may also need to be spayed which is potentially expensive, depending on where you are.

(((Loves cats)))

LOL - a good idea - sorry

It sounds obvious, but please do be sure that the cat actually is a stray. Take her to the vets to be scanned to make sure she doesn't have a chip; and if she doesn't and is a stray and you adopt her, it is a good idea for you to get her chipped by your vet when you get her spayed. Cats aren't as loyal as dogs, and often go to someone's house just because they reckon they'll get food that way, which can cause no end of heartache for the poor family who owns them who then imagine all the worst sorts of things that can have happened to their pet (that or they're left shouldering the vets bills for when their obese cat develops diabetes because of all the extra food it's been getting!). I'm sure you'll have thought of all this, not trying to teach you to suck eggs

Yup - watch out - our cat used to go into the neighbours airing cupboard and spent most of the morning there !!

Thankfully neighbour knew that we weren't all bad !!

Hi, I have asked around, and told by several people that they don't know who she belongs to.I've been told that one lady by us has been feeding her, but she doesn't know that she comes into us as well, so I am treading carefully!

you really should have her checked over by a vet if you're going to keep her.