Hi,
for about 8 weeks now a cat has been visiting our garden. On his first visit he tried to eat the fish food that was on the wall so we took pity on him and gave him some cat food (we have three cats already). He seemed very, very hungry but we just assumed he was greedy. However, over time he has started to sleep in our garden and he is always around, sitting on the wall and crying. Now that it is getting much colder we are worried about him and want him to go home.
We can't take him in because we already have two 11 year old cats and a 5 month old kitten. Only one of the older cats goes outside, and he hates the new stray cat. They don't fight but our cat appears to be quite scared of him and sometimes won't come in when the stray's there.
The stray cat is not neutered so he is quite smelly and we think he has tics, poor thing. Because he isn't neutered he may well have wandered quite far and lost his way. He really is looking quite dishevelled.
We advertised on a local Facebook page but nothing became of it (one man said he thought it was his and then wouldn't reply to any further messages), so we took him to the vets to see if he had a microchip - he doesn't. So we rang every rescue centre within about 20 miles and everywhere said they couldn't take him.
We opened our shed for him to sleep in but he doesn't go in. There is a steel box sheltered in some bushes that we put there for our cat to go in when it rains and we aren't there to let them in, and the stray cat sometimes adopts that but mostly he just sits on the wall in the rain.
He won't survive the winter but we can't take him in and the rescue centres can't/won't help! Does anyone know what we can do?!