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Nov. 18th, 2004 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewbearLord, but I'm a softie.
Tuesday night, my sister, her fiance, and I noticed this cat hanging out on our patio, meowing oh so piteously. It looks well-groomed and healthy, so we think that it escaped from someone's apartment and confused our apartment for its. We expected it to make its way back to its proper home by the morning.
We were wrong. It was here again all last night, and is here again tonight. Frankly, I'd take it in in a heartbeat except for 2 things: we haven't paid a pet deposit and can't really afford to at this time, and more importantly, I'm very allergic to cats. The longest I've been able to be in the same house as a cat was an hour, and that was with 2 rooms separating the cat and I at all times.
Anyway, since the cat looks like someone's pet, but isn't wearing a collar (we checked), I'm going to call the apartment managers tomorrow to see about options. In the meantime, I put out a small dish of water for it. I know that this will probably just encourage the cat to remain, but I don't want the poor thing to starve.
Gods, I'm such a softie.
EDIT: And it's such a pretty cat! It's body and head are smoke grey, it has white stockings on its back legs as well as white front paws. And it's got such a cute floofy tail! Gah! The cute, she keels me!
Fuzzy underbelly of EDIT: It followed me to and from the complex's laundromat, and I snagged a couple of pictures of it. Really, the only thing it seems to want is attention. When I picked it up to move it off my clothes basket, it immediately started purring. Plus, doesn't it look to healthy to be a stray?
Tuesday night, my sister, her fiance, and I noticed this cat hanging out on our patio, meowing oh so piteously. It looks well-groomed and healthy, so we think that it escaped from someone's apartment and confused our apartment for its. We expected it to make its way back to its proper home by the morning.
We were wrong. It was here again all last night, and is here again tonight. Frankly, I'd take it in in a heartbeat except for 2 things: we haven't paid a pet deposit and can't really afford to at this time, and more importantly, I'm very allergic to cats. The longest I've been able to be in the same house as a cat was an hour, and that was with 2 rooms separating the cat and I at all times.
Anyway, since the cat looks like someone's pet, but isn't wearing a collar (we checked), I'm going to call the apartment managers tomorrow to see about options. In the meantime, I put out a small dish of water for it. I know that this will probably just encourage the cat to remain, but I don't want the poor thing to starve.
Gods, I'm such a softie.
EDIT: And it's such a pretty cat! It's body and head are smoke grey, it has white stockings on its back legs as well as white front paws. And it's got such a cute floofy tail! Gah! The cute, she keels me!
Fuzzy underbelly of EDIT: It followed me to and from the complex's laundromat, and I snagged a couple of pictures of it. Really, the only thing it seems to want is attention. When I picked it up to move it off my clothes basket, it immediately started purring. Plus, doesn't it look to healthy to be a stray?
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Date: 2004-11-19 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-19 05:13 am (UTC)Also, it COULD be an indoor/outdoor cat, doing its time outside
I thought of this, especially since it didn't drink any of the water I put out last night, but why would it be so attention-starved? Not to mention why would it have fixated on our apartment.