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Advice needed on a possible stray/lost cat that followed me home.

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NaturalNature · 17/08/2012 20:16

Hi, I came across a cat earlier who was crying loudly by the side of the road. I knocked on doors and asked passers by but no one knows who it is. It is terrified of traffic and dogs beyond normal ranges and followed me home. None of my neighbours know it but have seen it before.

I have taken it in, told everyone I know, put a found poster up. Will do more tomorrow.

It is starving, jumpy but eating, drinking and cuddling. I don't want to put it out due to the heavy rain but don't know what to do?

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NaturalNature · 21/08/2012 19:34

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mignonette · 23/08/2012 19:45

Nature

He sounds great. My young followed-me-home male snores and rasps too. We could hear him snoring from the kitchen, the other day-He was halfway down the garden! Vet gave him the all clear respiratory-wise. -He is just a snorer.

EngeldinkHumpabert · 24/08/2012 22:24

Aww. Weirdly, he looks exactly like my cat, who came to me (well, my friend who initially took him in) in almost identical circumstances and who is a year old also. If I hadn't read that you were in Southern Scotland, I might almost have convinced myself they were from the same litter! Grin

Mine is now called Bert. It never occured to me to go through a long list of names to see if he ever answered to one......

NaturalNature · 25/08/2012 00:03

Well it's been 7 days sooo.............. I've got a cat Grin

There is a 2 year old tom, same type in the rescue centre local so could be from that litter wasn't neutered either

I can officially confirm he's stark raving bonkers and likes to propel himself straight through the cat gym, do handstands out of it, attack the mosquito nets, catch daddy long legs luffs him for that and goes to bed exactly at 9:30pm

I am drawing a blank on names and get aw bless the daft laydee looks

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lou33 · 25/08/2012 01:21

Congratulations :)

I hope someone like you would take my cat in (if he ever let someone get close enough to him that is.

Make a short list of names with your kids, write them on bits of paper, stick them in a hat or something, then pick one out at random, maybe? If I had thought of that with our first cat, life would have been a lot easier. He was mainly black with a white patch on his chest. The first suggestion was Ginger, the second was Snowball......... we finally agreed on Midnight Grin

cozietoesie · 25/08/2012 05:37

Congrats, natural. Smile

The name will arrive one day - and it will be so obvious that you'll wonder why you didn't know it immediately!

Sparklingbrook · 25/08/2012 08:11

Congratulations! I saw this and thought of you. Grin

I am liking the 9.30pm bedtime-I must tell Sparkling Cat.

GobblersKnob · 25/08/2012 08:19

Aw, just seen this, how lucky he was to find you Smile

No reason why you can't foster dogs when you have a cat, most fosters are crazy animal collectors (with a house full of 'failed' fosters Grin).s

GobblersKnob · 25/08/2012 08:22

Oh and maybe this will give you some help today. I love T S Eliot Grin

The Naming Of Cats by T. S. Eliot

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

NaturalNature · 25/08/2012 17:16

Gobblers Grin very true, my last cat had her official name and a very different nick name.

Sparkling Grin I'm avoiding the rescue centre like mad or I would end up like that.

Lou good idea but DS likes Omelete as it's gangsta.

Cozie argh I hope so, it is early days so I'm hoping that'll happen when we've got used to each other and his personality appears.

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cozietoesie · 25/08/2012 17:22

Strikes me that 'Effable' would be a very fine name indeed. He'd have to be a house cat though. No way you could go out in the garden and call that of a night!

Grin
NaturalNature · 25/08/2012 18:11

Grin would prove to the neighbours I am crazy cat lady though.

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Sparklingbrook · 25/08/2012 19:48

You may need this then Grin

NaturalNature · 25/08/2012 20:11

Sparkling Grin

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