My place was broken into.
Yeah. I didn't even realize it til late last night.
The sad thing is the home invader hasn't left yet and is free loading off me.
Ha. Yes its a cat. Broke in through the top of the cat yard, fell in might be a better description.
I didn't even know til last night, sitting in my chair, innocently watching TV. There was a commotion at the window box cat run that leads in from the cat yard. I see a long hair black cat jumping into the house from the run.
My first impression was an apathetic "That's not one of my cats." I didn't want to get up out of my chair.
He ran back out into the cat yard. But I got a video of him in the run.
Great, eh? I knew something was up because Jack has been acting out, pee marking and he only does that when he's in close contact with an unfixed boy. Like when one comes through and sprays the cat yard from outside it. Rascal, the black short hair, is still spray marking the neighborhood. Every day.
I had a cat break in before and it was quite difficult to catch him. I finally did, got him fixed and let him out. This time of year the unfixed boys are roaming and fighting and looking for sex. This boy could have been chased atop the cat yard by Rascal then found a gap in the top and dropped or fell through. It's only six feet to ground.
We have so many really lousy cat owners, irresponsible and lazy, shove their cats out the door, don't see them for days or weeks, howl like a victim if something bad happens to the cat they don't even take care of.
Anyhow I took four cats I caught yesterday to the private clinic today. Nice older woman feeds them and ran into someone in the cat food aisel of a store who gave her my number so she could get the fixed.
The mom is a short hair calico, but all three of her now young adult offspring have long hair.
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| Bandita |
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| Churo |
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| Taquita |
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They're over at the clinic now being fixed. I guess today will be spent concocting a plan to nab the home invader.
The breaking in cat knows a good thing when he sees it. Do think he “belongs” to anyone?
ReplyDeleteI don't know. The neighbors who feed outside don't know him. I closed the cat yard off with him in it, then took a long nap. Afterwards I couldn't find him out there, so he may indeed have an escape that is accessible which means I need to survey the cat yard better, for breakdowns in my containment. The cat yard is old and its components are old, so I would not be surprised. I opened the cat runs back up to the house because my cats were upset over being locked out of the cat yard.
DeleteI guess a cat invader is better than a human one.
ReplyDeleteMany times better.
DeleteIrresponsible pet owners really irk me! They are cruel, in my view, and think nothing of the well-being of their "pet". I put pet in quotations because I don't think they should have an animal at all.
ReplyDeleteGreat work on these beautiful cats! Thank you so much for caring, and for all you do, you really make a difference in these cats' lives!
I was worried by your first couple of lines.
ReplyDeleteIs the invader still in the cat run?
I lost track of him, Andrew. He was, I thought, contained in the cat yard. I took a long nap, and now can't find him anywhere. He may have found a way out.
DeleteIf the cat breaks in, then getting fixed is their own fault, really.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he wants fixed! I think I saw him last night in the cat yard, so I still have to figure out a way to catch him, without overly stressing him out.
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