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it seems that next door have moved and have sold their house, but have left the cat behind. It's an outdoor cat and always has been and I have been feeding it for the past 2 weeks. It can't come in here, as the dogs would kill it, but I have been feeding it on the wall and it now likes a good stroke from me! I think we have adopted it....bless I have to admit I wasn't a great lover of cats, but this one has grown on me! Thing is next doors house has sold and new owners will be going in at some point and the cat always sleep on the leaves in the garden, whether its pouring down with rain or not! It's quite long haired and parts of it seems very matted. Anyway all I wanted to ask is, as my dogs get regularly de-fleed, would I be ok to put some fleeing stuff on it for cats? I really dont want to catch flees from it, though I dont even know if it has flees! On the weekend we are going to sort the outside toilet out and clean it out and put a bed in there, so if the cat wants to it can sleep in there. What do you think? I dont want to take the cat to a rescue or anything, as it's pretty old and has always slept outside and I shall always make sure he is fed.
 
What your planning sounds good, if the cat has always lived outside and you are putting a bed in your outside toilet he'll most likely use it. It'll be quite stressful for him to go to a rescue and move into a new home.
 
Yeah I did think that. I know he's over 10 years old, so I think it would be cruel to try and put hime somewhere else. When the owners lived there, it only went into the house for very short periods of time, then just stayed out the back.
 
I think a cat house (outdoors) is a good idea - somewhere warm and dry where he can go. If he is old, you could put a snuggle safe in it in winter.

Usually fleas are more common in indoor cats, I think, because of the central heating. Cat and dog flea treatment is different strengths and doses so I wouldn't use dog stuff on him just in case. Same with wormers. If he's handlable might be worth a trip to the vets - they can treat him, worm him, and if necessary de-matt him all in one go!

Sophie
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Be EXTREMELY careful about what flea stuff you put onto the cat, even mild dog flea drops can be toxic to a cat.
Maybe ask the vet for a good cat treatment.
Good luck with the old fella.
xx Stef xx
 
I think what your doing sounds good. But I dont know if you all have an ASPCA but if you do you MIGHT want to give them a call, because most people who abandon their pets can get arrested. Just a thought. But if you really do like the cat as much as you say you do then by all means I think you should go right ahead and keep it. Its probably better of with you. Seems like you'll take real good care of it. :)
 
Thats such a lovely thing to do for the cat. They hate change and will appreciate things just staying the same.

Fleas can occur in any cat so it is definately worth using a flea treatment on him. Frontline is fine, he may have ticks too as the weather is warming up a bit now.

Its likely he has worms too so at a later date you could worm him aswell. I always use Milbemax as the tablets are so small they are easily eaten tucked inside a bit of fish/chicken ! There are however spot ons now to worm cats with though they dont cover the full sprectrum of worms. It does save the old claws in the hand though !

A matted coat is agony for a cat - its equivilant to us going shopping wearing one size too small shoes. It pulls, pinches and hurts. A good vet will clip it off (no GA needed) and it should take some time to regrow. By which time he'll be all snuggly in his new little house !

Remember a house becomes a home when you've got a cat ( and dogs and chickens and guinea pigs........................etc etc)
 
your so good!x>>
MY two cats live outside, as my dogs would also kill them, or try anyway....their bed was in the tack room with their food bowl, but as tack is expensive i needed to lock the tack room, so i needed to move their home! i started calling them to the shed at food time and gradually left their bowls there, then moved their bed in, and it worked a treat, they go where the food goes! so i reckon you'll have no problem getting him settled in the loo!
mine are long haired and i have to brush one of them about twice a day, it just takes a few mins, and he even rolls over and stretches his legs up so i can get under his arms properly, that's where the matts seem to start on him, by just doing that bit of him regularly it seems to keep them under control.
good luck, i never had cats before and never thought i'd get them as oh swore he hated them, then they appeared..:(|) and now even he adores them, they are such lovely pets!
 
gp lover said:
abandon their pets can get arrested.
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I think it is more likely that it was the classic situation that an outside cat like this one just cleared off with the upheaval of the house move, removal lorries etc? They probably couldn't find it.

They should have left a contact number with neighbours though - perhaps they have. Have you asked if any of your neighbours have instructions to catch the cat if they can!
Anyway, I suspect that the cat was FAR more attached to the neighbourhood, free food and his own territory than ever he was to his human owners. Leaving it behind was probably (if neighbours were informed) really the best option for the cat. It sounds like the sort of cat that would have run away from a new home.
I think your suggestion of bed in the outside toilet is really fine. He'll soon find it!
 
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