Ginger tabby cat on Ryedale - who's is it?!!

[seanmlow]

A stunning ginger/tabby cat on the Ryedale area keeps coming into my house!

I left the back door open to get some fresh air the other day, and when I went up into the bedroom - there it was on the bed! I don't mind, since I love cats, but it did not seem to have a collar so was interested to know if it belonged to someone.

She/he doesn't look very thin, so I was assuming it was being looked after! Anyway, the cute thing waits outside the backdoor everyday at the same time I come home from work!

[scotslass]

Might be too far away but there are some posters up around Ondine/Ogalander/Adys for a missing ginger cat (called Blaize I think).

[seanmlow]

Oh right - I may have a look at the posters to see if it is him/her.

Thanks

[jimbo1964]

Sean.. Is it an enormous fluffy thing? If so It regularly parades along our section of cemetary wall at the back. I think it may just be taking advantage of your hospitality.

[seanmlow]

Jimbo - sounds like it! Ha ha! Thought I was the only one it liked!

[Sue]

Oh God, this has brought back terrible memories of when I saw this very thin cat every day in ED on my way to work, eventually I started asking around and someone in the road told me it had belonged to someone who had moved away and left the cat behind several months before.

So - I took it home, bought it cat stuff etc - a few days later, notices appeared down the road that someone had lost a cat matching this cat's description.

So - naturally, I immediately went to the address in question and said that I had the cat and of course would bring it back.

But the owner spent about twenty minutes accusing me of being a cat thief, and I couldn't get across that if I actually had intended to steal her cat, I would hardly have come to tell her that I had it!!

It was all quite disturbing .....

Apparently the story I had been told was true, but this woman had taken the cat in subsequently, and the reason it was so thin was because it was ill.

She also accused me of feeding it normal cat food (which of course I had) which would make its illness worse :-$

I will never take in another apparently stray animal again - probably :))

What is about ED that attracts mad people? (I don't exclude myself, of course :)) )

[Siduhe]

Sue, I sympathise - along the same lines, my cat is strictly an indoor cat - she's a former show cat who came to live with me when she "retired" from churning out litters of pedigree kitties. She doesn't do rain, dirt, mice, spiders or anything other than look gorgeous and demand lots of love and attention.

Still didn't stop someone calling the RSPCA on me once alleging I was being cruel by keeping my cat indoors all the time...apparently they could tell because the cat was "always at the window looking out". Apparently it didn't occur to them that she might be sunning herself and/or watching the world go by. :'( Who are these people?

Although the look on the lady from the RSPCA's face when my cat leapt up into her arms, covered her in blonde hair and rolled over to have her (ample) tummy scratched was pretty priceless.

[sakwhita]

We've had a very big ginger (with a bit of white) cat in our back garden chasing and biting our wee fella. I've been to the vets twice now cause of that cat. 100quid it's cost me so far. I've seen it chasing my cat in the garden a couple of times now, if I catch it I am going to give it one almighty kick in the balls.

On another note. We had another cat (black, white and maybe with a hint of ginger) coming into our flat every day for 2 weeks. Was coming right into the flat at night. Had to get a infra-red cat flap fitted to stop it coming in!!!

[KalamityKel]

Sakwhita have you considered spraying the offending feline with water? or maybe chucking a bucket of water at it? (minus the bucket of course)

It may sound cruel but it'll teach the bugger a lesson OR send it round to mine... our monsters take great delight in terrifying the locals (cats) even if it is just through the window ;-)

[dottyeel]

Siduhe Wrote:

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> Still didn't stop someone calling the RSPCA on me

> once alleging I was being cruel by keeping my cat

> indoors all the time...apparently they could tell

> because the cat was "always at the window looking

> out". Apparently it didn't occur to them that

> she might be sunning herself and/or watching the

> world go by. :'( Who are these people?

I'd rather someone took the time to call the RSPCA and it turns out to be a mistake than have people turning a blind eye and an animal suffers. It is a hassle when unfounded complaints are made but for every well kept and loved animal there are many many more who need people to call the RSPCA on their behalf.

[susyp]

i can't believe the rspca came around for that - lots of people have indoor only cats. Mine isn't but she spends most of her time looking out of the window at the front !

[Siduhe]

dottyeel, you make a good point and my original post may have come across as a bit flippant. I certainly don't mind someone making a genuine mistake, however I question whether calling out the RSPCA because you know a neighbour keeps an indoor cat and you take a personal position that it's "cruel" is a genuine mistake. This wasn't a question of her looking thin, or mistreated, but simply because she was being kept indoors and the person who called the RSCPA didn't agree with that.

It's also pretty misguided IMHO - there's lots of evidence to show that keeping an indoor cat away from traffic, FIV, poisons and the like (not to mention out of your neighbour's back garden) is a good thing to do. It won't suit every cat or owner of course, but it works for us. I guess what was most upsetting was that person didn't come to talk to me directly about it. I could have explained my reasons for keeping my particular cat indoors and let them make an informed decision to call out the RSPCA.

But as you say, no real harm done, and on balance better for them to come out than not.