Hi all.
Am after a bit of advice here - to start with, we have three cats already. A 13(ish) year old female and two 8 year old brothers. We live in an area with absolutely loads of cats, and we see a few regularly near our front door as they seem to sort of congregate. Anyhow, a new cat turned up a couple of weeks ago. A beautiful long haired little thing. Today we saw it for the first time in daylight and it had a really bad lesion on its neck. So bad that we called a friend who is a vet, and they advised we call the rspca. We did, and managed to trap the cat and get it to the vet. They think it's either been burned by a hot car exhaust or had a really bad reaction to something. However they think it's too tame to be a stray, but we cannot track down whose it might be. We have asked the nosiest neighbours and nobody knows. The vet has said that they will keep it overnight and treat it on rspca's authority, but will then have to try and find a shelter, and if they can't...
I feel so guilty that it may be someone's cat, but if it is it shouldn't have been out in that state (bad open wounds). It's not chipped and had no collar. Vet has asked if we will take it, but what if the other cats won't accept it? Also I have a baby and really don't want more cat hair round the place. But I don't want it to be destroyed or anything if they can't home it... what do I do???
Sorry that was so long 