Soccer Dad

Week of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea

Year of the Cat - Al Stewart

In the "catbox"

Not much has changed with the cat. I was wrong, it was not declawed. (I guess that's how it could up and down the screen.)

After feeding it a few days last week, it had become too friendly, often trying to get into the house. Because of allergies, that's not possible.

Still, with the weather getting colder, we got an old hat box from one of the boys and put an old towel in it. That's where the cat sleeps.

My wife tried Craig's list and Luach.com, but found no "lost cat" announcements for our area.

I called animal control. The only option with the city would mean that the cat would most likely be put to sleep. That wasn't an option.

I tried a veterinary hospital. They gave me a possible owner and numbers of a few cat rescue outfits. No one called back.

My wife checked things out at work. One of her co-workers is involved in animal rescues and has pictures and is trying to get the cat adopted. My wife was told that it's possible that the owner decided to take the cat to a relatively nice neighborhood and abandon it.

It is a very well behaved cat. But since we stopped feeding it and started ignoring it, it stopped being friendly and started spending a lot more time in the catbox. I though it was simply getting back at us. But tonight, we felt bad for it and put out a can of tuna. It finished the tuna in 10 minutes. I'm guessing that it's been hungry and if we haven't been feeding it, no one else has been feeding it much either.

I hope someone will adopt it. We can't.