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Siwsan

(27,291 posts)
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 02:16 PM Nov 2023

I just had a new neighbor stop by, asking if I've seen their missing cat

A big, Polydactyl male striped Tabby named Thunder. I haven't seen him but will definitely keep on alert for a new, 6 toed fur baby. She was referred over her from my across the street neighbor who knows I take care of ferals.

Hopefully Thunder will wander by.

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I just had a new neighbor stop by, asking if I've seen their missing cat (Original Post) Siwsan Nov 2023 OP
I think this is a great compliment to your care for all the little ones. niyad Nov 2023 #1
Your ferals will be unimpressed by his name, which I think is great Warpy Nov 2023 #2
I once moved with an indoor/outdoor cat prodigitalson Nov 2023 #3
Some only take a few days to acclimate and memorize where the food dish is Warpy Nov 2023 #4
Did he ever turn up? chowmama Nov 2023 #5
Not here, unfortunately Siwsan Nov 2023 #6

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
2. Your ferals will be unimpressed by his name, which I think is great
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 04:48 PM
Nov 2023

and will most likely chase him away from their turf and their regular food supply (you).

I hope he's chipped, that's the best hope s/he has of getting the kitty back again.

Cats are really attached to their home territory, so poor Thunder might be trying to go back to their old place, even if it's hundreds of miles away.

prodigitalson

(2,884 posts)
3. I once moved with an indoor/outdoor cat
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 04:56 PM
Nov 2023

She was a spayed female but still worried she'd run off and get lost from the new place. I kept her solely indoors for the first few days but her demands to go outside became insufferable. Everything was fine. She hung around the immediate area when outdoors. But she didn't have a bunch of other cats around like the OP. Thunder might leave and come back in a year. Cats are interesting.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
4. Some only take a few days to acclimate and memorize where the food dish is
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 05:25 PM
Nov 2023

I always gave my cats a couple of weeks. I wanted to be sure.

I might have let the World's Dumbest Tomcat (TM) out, but only after a few days of cleaning up his messes when he'd get into the litter box, hang his arse over the edge, and do his business on the floor. Yeah, I used newspapers, but jeez. At least he wasn't too stupid to ask to go out when he needed to go.

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