Help me please.....

7 replies

ChocOrange05 · 13/01/2010 22:52

Hi all

We have a small black cat that has been outside our house for a week or so now in the evenings (could be more as we were away over xmas and new year) and it basically cries really loudly and is chasing our cat. We have lived here 2 years and I have never seen it before, it is wearing a collar but I am a bit dubious about trying to catch it and read it (it runs away from me).

We don't have any neighbours we don't know apart from retirement homes over the road, but I will ask them tomorrow. I am a bit worried about it coming in through our cat flap as it seems very confident.

What should I do?? DH is away on business at the moment so I am feeling a bit lost.

Oh gosh, now its outside our window miaowing very loudly at the house?!?!?

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FluffyForLifeNotJustForXmas · 13/01/2010 22:55

Water pistol!!

HarrietSchulenberg · 13/01/2010 23:01

If you are able to read the collar it would certainly help. It might have climbed into a delivery van for a nap and found itself 200 miles from home. It might have frantic owners looking for it.

Alternatively it might just be a greedy blighter after your cat's dinner, in which case the water pistol would be a jolly good idea!

Bowddee · 13/01/2010 23:03

NO! Please don't use a water pistol in this weather!

CountryGirl2007 · 13/01/2010 23:05

go out with some food to encourage him to come over and read his collar, as the other person said he could have owners looking for him.

RedbinDippers · 13/01/2010 23:10

Try and read the collar, if it is a long way from home feed it and contact the owner, if not send it on its way. In my experience cats are cunning little sods when it comes to going after food and comfort. They are certainly capable of sneaking through your cat flap and stealing your cats food. The water pistol is my weapon of choice but that may be a bit cruel at this time of year.

AllThreeWays · 14/01/2010 00:24

The miaowing very loudly comment makes me think the cat could be on heat? If so it will go away again once over.

minimu · 14/01/2010 08:07

This is so weird yesterday at our house we had a small black and white cat with a red collar meowing pitifully outside our house. We brought it in and gave it some tuna, it was hungry and then it went up stairs and slept next to my daughter who was revising.

We put it outside later but it just meowed to come bakc in eventually we carried it around the village and people directed us to its house quite a way from us where we lived.

It is even odder as our old cat died on Christmas Eve and always used to lie by daughter in her room!

Flip