Stray Cat In My Back Yard

i was just joking about the litter box and peeing...Certain cats just like the tub...Had a cat who liked the acoustics of the tub when she sang

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This is the stuff you guys need to teach me...I know NOTHING about cats. This is quite a learning curve I'm going thru here.

How much are you supposed to feed them?

She's well past the danger point of starvation but now I think she might be getting fat. I also got her on dry cat food finally but I still give her some canned salmon & canned cat food.

I'm also sure she was abused....she's extremely aggressive, especially with others.

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Kitty is very timid & she has a twitch in her back that suggests to me her tail may have been broken.

I very lightly massage right where her spine meets her tail & she looks like she's in therapy...if I put a hair too much pressure she runs away...but when I do it just right there is such a relief shown on her face.

Awww, you're a good one....


Enjoy your star, you deserve it....

Enjoy your star, you deserve it

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Oh wow!

Thanks :)

Kitty taught me something about prepping.

How important sleep is!

When I first let her in the house she was sleeping like a dead cat...I'd go mess with her & she wouldn't wake up.

I figured she wasn't getting good sleep being outside for months & now I saw the two things you need to get a good night sleep...

Safety and warmth!

Kitty must have been sleeping with one eye open the whole time she was outside.

Expect at least 14 hrs of sleep from a cat, totaly normal, not odd at all OPIE. You're doing a grand job and bonding rather well by the sounds of it. Trust is a wonderful thing, as you're finding out with that big hear of your.

Expect at least 14 hrs of sleep from a cat, totaly normal, not odd at all OPIE.

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I'm learning that.

But she doesn't sleep as hard as when she first came into the house...when I hold her hand she wakes up now...back then she didn't wake up even when I turned her body over.

One time I had to watch to see her breathing to make sure she didn't croak.

It's funny...now that she understands "holding hands"...as I slowly pull my hand away she sometimes uses her claws to NOT let go of my hand :)

As I move my hand back into position she retracts her claws.

2 hours ago I stepped outside & saw another cat in my back yard.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

NO!!!

Last Edited by Mental Case on 11/18/2019 11:19 PM

Time for the prestone

I've lived in this house for over 20 years & never had a cat inside my fence before this summer!

Cat fat chart. It’s a meme but i think it’s pretty helpful. [link to imgur.com (secure)]

Also... put out some empty cardboard boxes. They LOVE boxes.

Good work being a friend of the kitties. Maybe that kitty will learn to trust you and become like Cinnabon the cat.

I think Hemingway said "One cat leads to another."

Massage her paw pads, get right into the grooves. They luuurve that sooooo much. What colour is she?

Massage her paw pads, get right into the grooves. They luuurve that sooooo much. What colour is she?

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I do that...she didn't like it at first but now she does.

She's black & grey with a little spot of brown on her back...tiger stripes.

She's growing alot now with proper nutrition...I just had to go out & get a bigger litter box. She loves it :D

Last Edited by Mental Case on 11/20/2019 01:32 PM

I let kitty out in the back yard & she starts munching on leaves...do cats do that?

Can eating leaves hurt her?

We have 2 barn cats that we feed and take good care of, any stray that wonders onto the property gets iced with a .204.

Nah. Worst that'll happen is she'll puke (she will anyway, it's their occasional pastime) and she'll be off to investigate something else.

I’ve got all 3 lmfao just seen two of the big ass raccoons about 30 min ago followed by a fat ass opossum...

We got a foot of snow last night.

After I got done plowing & shoveling...kitty was asking to go outside...I thought, this could be good for a yuk :D

So I open the back door & kitty is looking in bewilderment. She steps out & into the snow wondering WTF?

Then she jumps off the deck into the snow & starts bounding thru it all the way across the yard to the tool shed. She digs a hole in the snow & goes under the shed.



She stays under there for about 20 minutes & came bounding back to the house.

I wonder if she has a friend living under there

Last Edited by Mental Case on 11/27/2019 08:30 PM

Liberal cat lovin pricks make me sick... I exterminate all cats in the outside, and any raccoons around buidings.

Liberal cat lovin pricks make me sick... I exterminate all cats in the outside, and any raccoons around buidings.

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She was almost dead & begging for my help. Poor little girl couldn't even eat solids at first...I fed her soup for the first 2 days.

Read the thread.

whatever they want.... is how much. I don't like most canned foods for mine.. I feed them highly dried... at least 4 varieties so they have choice.. and they eat what they want.

I also give them some tuna fish for breakfast each day as a treat and change... Human tuna fish.. not that god awful canned shit for animals.

thank you for coming back! I remember this when you started your story.

where are you.. I am in Northern Denver Metro area and got 15 inchs.

I never exterminate any animals which come around and I have walked with foxes and coyotes.... At my old place I fed them all. I maintained a breakfast buffet as I called it.. and since racoons are evening feeders they got dinner.

Since I moved. not allowed but I do put out some things I can't eat for the neighborhood crows.. we have a lot and a bit for the one squirrel that comes by...

Raccoons have to eat too.

Plus, they are actually smarter than dogs.

Don't give it hot sauce.

It's probably smarter than you.

A fuckwhit neighbor is feeding stray cats.


Count on it!

where are you.. I am in Northern Denver Metro area and got 15 inchs.

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Minnesota.