Mister E

[elainegrey]

Christine caught Mister E, the orange stray/abandoned cat, and he's in our bathroom now.

Reviewing some sites at http://tenacious-snail.livejournal.com/637444.html

but advice would be lovely.

He should see a vet and then be placed with someone for fostering? He (i haven't checked) seems fairly sweet -- i'm guessing abandoned.

(Some part of me suspects we now own a third cat.)

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[elainegrey]

I did not get your observations about potential possessiveness to Christine "in time:" we got the orange fellow to the vet yesterday afternoon and he's been left for flea dips, deworming, virus checking, and to be neutered.

My guess is most vets figure if they have a un-neutered dog or cat in their hands and it's not breeding stock, they should convince the owner to fix them at that time.

My biggest concern about keeping him is that our cats stay on our deck: this guy knows how to roam. I don't want to contribute to the Orange Cat Mafia that worries Christine and i. It seems that it's just orange cats in our section of the complex that roam around, get under cars in the parking area, come visit our cats, and get into fights and so on. (And it's not like these guys are related, at all! We know the owners of a couple of them...)

But yes, i suspect we have a cat even though i don't want another. Christine's hand was throbbing last night, where Mr M bit her in his territorial excitement, which leads me to worry she did get infected. (She sees a doctor this morning for something else and the on-call doctor suggested waiting until that visit.) We circulated the flyer by email to the neighborhood list and we'll post them around this morning.