For those who don't know, I'm currently looking after a puppy for my friend at work who wanted rid of him, so I have him in my living room while I try to find him a new home. Because of this Pepsi has been living in the bedroom because I don't feel like they'd be able to be introduced.
For the past few days I've heard meowing coming from upstairs and assumed it was Pepsi making noise in the bedroom. However, we went out last night and when we came home and were stood in front of our house we heard yowling which couldn't have been Pepsi because we have double glazing and it was a really loud and clear sound. The house next to ours was drug raided a while ago and has been empty and boarded up for about the past month, however recently we've noticed their back door has been open so we assumed someone was squatting in the house. Today two old ladies came knocking on our door and said there was a cat trapped in the house as obviously the squatter has left and closed the door behind him
So me and Si went on a rescue mission, opened the back door and coaxed this poor little kitty out, gave him some food which he absolutely wolfed down and took him off to the vets to be scanned. He has no chip but he has a collar which the vet remarked looked like it had been on for a very long time. He's an entire tom, very skinny and raggedy and has a scarred patch on the back of his neck. I don't think being trapped in the house for the amount of time he probably was would be enough for his condition to be like that so I think he used to be someone's pet but he's been living as a stary for a while? However the old woman said the other day there was a man asking around as he'd lost his cat so it could be him, but he doesn't look very well looked after
He seems quite friendly, was rubbing up against my legs and didn't mind being picked up and put into the carrier so he might well be someone's pet.
He's currently in our bathroom
I'm going to put him up on some lost and found sites and poster our area, and I have the number for the CPL. OH and flatmate are very not happy with me at the moment
The thing is, because he's obviously used to being an outdoor cat, he's not happy with me either. I don't want to just turn him back out onto the streets but I don't know what to do otherwise!
