I Found a Cat!

toosepin · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:45

Hey OcUKers,

For over a year now, there has been a cat floating around my neighborhood. It doesn't have a collar but looks reasonably well looked after. Nobody seems to know if it belongs to anybody but previously multiple households have chucked it some food + water every now and again.

Recently a lot of the original tenants have moved out from my area (houses bought out to be turned in to fancy apartments) and the cat has seemed to be wandering around looking sad and hungry.

I've just come in from Uni and it was lying down on my front door step so I let it in. I would quite like to give it some food + nourishment before it goes on its way.

So what do I feed it? I heard a crazy story that cats don't like milk.

It's taking a nap on my sofa at the moment. I'll upload a pic in a mo.

PS: I've named it Collin. I don't know if it's a he/she/heshe but Collin really is a great name.

toose

EDIT:

Sinque · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:47

It's now given your sofa lice!

Food wise, fish. Tuna etc.

vincent1989 · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:47

dude...he cats have wotsits...thats how you tell...

my cat liked milk

firewallblocked · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:49

Milk isn't ideal for cats. My cat likes it, but the litter box looks bad if I give him milk.

vincent1989 · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:50

firewallblocked said:
Milk isn't ideal for cats. My cat likes it, but the litter box looks bad if I give him milk.

my cat never had a problem with it, nor soya milk

edit: you can get 'proper' cat milk, however i assume this is just a clever ploy by whiskas to get you to pay over the odds for cow s milk

Hobgoblin · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:50

the fact your using past tense may suggest otherwise Bringer.

it doesnt settle with their stomach much at all. water, boneless fish. or any chicken scraps from sunday (boneless as well)
usual catty things.

iCraig · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:51

Won't it attach itself to you now?

I don't think you're supposed to feed and water a cat in your house, let it sleep in your house etc, if you have no intention of keeping it.

vincent1989 · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:51

Hobgoblin said:
the fact your using past tense may suggest otherwise Bringer.

it doesnt settle with their stomach much at all. water, boneless fish. or any chicken scraps from sunday (boneless as well)
usual catty things.

no...the fact i'm using past tense suggests he is dead

at the ripe old age of 19 btw

yhack · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:51

My cat vomits after having milk.

iCraig · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:52

yhack said:
My cat vomits after having milk.

What kind of milk have you been giving him on those lonely nights?

vincent1989 · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:52

iCraig said:
What kind of milk have you been giving him on those lonely nights?

sickening :/

toosepin · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:53

Sinque said:
It's now given your sofa lice!

Food wise, fish. Tuna etc.

Haha, I do love a good scratch

dude...he cats have wotsits...thats how you tell...

I don't think we're bonded enough for me to pick him up and take a gander just yet.

toosepin · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:54

iCraig said:
Won't it attach itself to you now?

I don't think you're supposed to feed and water a cat in your house, let it sleep in your house etc, if you have no intention of keeping it.

Collin's taking a quick power nap now - I'll see if he's hungry when he wakes up.

vincent1989 · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:54

toosepin said:
I don't think we're bonded enough for me to pick him up and take a gander just yet.

another good tell is if it looks like he's trying to mark territory

toosepin said:
Collin's taking a quick power nap now - I'll see if he's hungry when he wakes up.

cats dont take power naps, they take power wakes

ScarySquirrel · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:55

KEEP IT.

Feed it water and while it is asleep pop out to get some nice cat food for it

Droolinggimp · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:56

Get a can of wiskas cat food feed him/her a quarter of it in the morning and another quarter in the evening/afternoon and leave a bowl of fresh water for it all day everyday. One tin of cat food should last for 2 days. Thats all they need, Half a tin a day. If it drinks a lot of water it could be diabetic. So need to keep an eye out for that, very important.

[DOD]Asprilla · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:56

I just give my cats water and they seem perfectly fine.

One of them will only drink from the watering can in the back garden these days, but he was always a little simple.

Water and cat food, tuna for a treat.

You're not supposed to give them pork based meat, but anything else should be fine.

yhack · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:56

iCraig said:
What kind of milk have you been giving him on those lonely nights?

Only the best

Mat · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:57

toosepin said:
For over a year now, there has been a cat floating around my neighborhood.

Wow! a floating cat!

1)Take in floating cat
2)Feed it cat food
3)????
4)Profit!

4p · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:58

my next cats gna be called optimus prime