I think I'm developing a communication skill with the ferals

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I was, in one neighborhood, often called to help coax strays out of sheds or drain pipes and trees. I used a series of techniques but was always successful within a half hour. The mom call always gets their attention for good or ill. I can purr at them too. I learned cat techniques as a kid and they can always tell that I am a cat person, makes them more willing to come to me.

The cat in mu home currently, Mikey, is in rehab/training to be more accepting to being an older cat who needs to stay in the house at night. He already does that in winter but he needs to learn that he should do that in the new locations his two humans now inhabit. (I rented an apartment in a larger house and he never saw the partition once it was in place, he was sure that my place was part of his house but I didn't mind. He even moved in with me for a while to avoid his mom's new puppy.) She sold the farm and we all had to move. Mikey trusts me more so after trying to survive in a much wilder environment, because he's a jerk about going outside before dawn, he ended up full-time outside at her new place. He had too many predators after him and no good shelter. After seeing how beat up he was getting, when I went to visit, I brought him to my place to heal up and learn to be an older cat with benefits.

We're working out the new routine, he's adapting, somewhat reluctantly but we're making progress.