Now I am just beside myself! (cat again)

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.........well, Tuxedo..the real sick cat I was caring for, threw a royal hissy earlier this week so I ended up letting him out before I could fix him. But....the appointment did not go wasted, I took "Moochie"..the other outdoor cat that has been hanging outside our backdoor for a few months....and got him fixed.

Well, we had Moochie fixed and kept him inside the rest of yesterday until 6am this morning. He's a real nice cat, obviously not a stray but not clearly cared for either. He has basically spent almost 24/7 outside our backdoor for the last couple of months so hubby and I were going to try to integrate him with our female cat. We kept him inside last night, and although he wanted out for sure, hubby made the final decision to "bring him in".

This morning AM was a bit too early to let him out, the vet said 24-48 hours. Watch the incision (neuter) and look for swelling, bleeding. Hubby and I both agreed that he would be more comfortable outside and not to worry, cuz he never leaves.

Well what did he do??? HE LEFT!!! I am absolutely beside myself cuz nightfall has come and he is still not here!!! I wonder what could have happened to him???? I feel like if he was outside and OK he would be here. I guess the best I can hope for is he is inside someone's house (his original owners), but what a coincidence that would be that he goes there now of all times. I just hope he did not have complications and is bleeding to death somewhere..

Keep your fingers crossed for me. I have spend lots of $$$ lately on cats that are not even mine!! What a shame to lose him now after I just got him fixed and his vaccs and his earmites taken care of!!:-( :-( :-(

On the upside: Tuxedo, even though I let him out into the great wide open, came back both days and I fed him. He still looks good, no eye drainage. I plan to get a trap and get him to the vet as soon as I can for neuter. He started spraying though in the house and hubby threw a fit. Plus he was digging up the carpet. Gotta love cats sometimes!!!}(
 
Oh gosh Janice,
What an ordeal you've been through. I am a huge animal lover myself and can't even imagine what you are going through. I am definitely sending out good vibes in hopes Moochie comes back to you!!!!

{{{hugs}}}

Rhonda
 
This is a plea to all cat owners - KEEP THEM INSIDE!!!!! You are doing them no favors by leaving them out to get hit by cars, attacked by dogs, etc. We have seen too many of these sad stories, and they are unnecessary.
Just Do It! :)
 
Honeybunch,

You're right and I agree with you 100%, but I also know how determined some cats can be to get outside!! OMG I have a part siamese cat, she is beautiful and I love her. But I have never seen anything like it, how hard she tries to get outside. She has torn up more screens, door and window than I can count. She gets a running start and throws her body against window screens to knock them out of the frame. And she's been successful! She's smart and remembers and keeps trying! Once she knocked a screen out of a second story window and JUMPED!!!!!!!!! She lived to tell about it too, w/o an injury!! She is OBSESSED with being outside. She gets in these moods when she wants to get out too, and is like a caged animal at the zoo....and she runs up the door frames in the house to the CEILING! So, I did what I never , ever thought I'd do and had her declawed (front) and believe it or not........she can STILL DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Once, last summer, she got out and stayed gone for almost 2 weeks. She came home , frightened and skinny but obviously she didn't learn her lesson becuase she still tries to escape. She was spayed as a very young cat, and is very much loved and cared for so I have no idea why she lives to get out of the house!!!
I wonder if anyone has suggestions or ideas as to why she does this or what I can do to get her to calm down or make her happy. I have , on occasion taken her outside with me on a lease and all she wants to do is eat grass, so I end up bringing her back in....where of course she vomits all over the carpets!:p
Anyway, just my 2 cents on the subject. :*
 
You know, I should know better than to assign human emotions to cats, by my God, if there was an animal species on the planet that I would describe as passive-agressive, it would be cats!

I love my kitties, but they can sure be horrible and I'm so sorry you're getting a heap of trouble from yours (and the "kind of yours")!
 
Well, he did come back. I think he is having trouble jumping due to the neuter. Weird, cuz the other cats I have fixed never seemed to. He can't even jump onto the couch, but he can pull himself over the block wall so apparantly he is having a hard time with his hind quarters??

Honeybunch....neither of these cats are mine by the way. My cat is an ONLY indoor kitty. I am TRYING to fix these cats at the very least. No, I am cleaning up the mess of some OTHER irresponsible pet owner. I would love to keep them both inside with me eventually. I LOVE them both and would love to be the one to shelter them and take better care of them, but both have to get healthy first and back to their old selves.

That and my you-know-what female needs to be more accepting!! LOL:)

Anyway, all is good for now. Whew, now I can rest! }(
 
I think he is having trouble jumping
>due to the neuter. Weird, cuz the other cats I have fixed
>never seemed to. He can't even jump onto the couch, but he can
>pull himself over the block wall so apparantly he is having a
>hard time with his hind quarters??
>
Maybe he'd had his "parts' for so long, that it feels really strange for them to be gone? He could be not "in pain," but anticipating some pain because of that "odd feeling" that is now back there. (Not having been a cat, nor had b***s myself, I can only guess.)

I'd keep an eye on him, though, to make sure he doesn't have an infection or hasn't managed to pull out his stitches or do some other mischief.

As for "Moochie" at least, you may not consider him "your cat," but I think he considers you "his person." ;-)
 
Kathryn, LOL...........How do you think "Moochie" got his name??? I am pretty confident that he "owns" several people that he mooches off of.

He is just so cute though, I can't help it. Maybe I can get some pics!!:D
 
Yes, please!! My MIL has a cat named Moochie who sounds a lot like yours. She's had him for several years. Huge gray seal, is what we think he really is!
 
>Kathryn, LOL...........How do you think "Moochie" got his
>name??? I am pretty confident that he "owns" several people
>that he mooches off of.


When I was a kid, we used to feed a black " stray" that we called "Blackie" (original, huh?). He was a full-on Tom, but hung around our place a lot, sitting on the outside sill of our kitchen window at times, and coming to the front door, then to the back door, to get fed. One day, he did his old " front door, then back door" trick, and Dad said " he thinks different people live here." I said " nope, he thinks YOU think he's a different cat!"

We later found out that he had " owners" (as responsible as the ones who own your "Tuxedo" cat, and they called him " Blackie" as well!

He also fathered (I'm sure) a stray we called "Star" because he was all black, except for a star-shapped white spot on his chest. He had HUGE wide shoulders, and a very narrow butt, and when he meowed, it sounded like a tiny kitten ! (He was putting all his energy into his big, macho shoulders, I think!).
 
My mom thinks my 15-lb tubbo George sounds like a kitten instead of the huge meow she would expect when she sees him. (My response of course by now is that the poor guy is 4 years old and I should hope his grammy recognizes his voice by now!! But I digress...) George puts all his energy into the love he gives us all the time. I can't mind it when he walks (stomps) on my bladder in the mornings, since he ends up curled by my face, his head on my pillow, so I can rub his tummy. I love that little guy, and his sister too.

Was it really a star?? I love that!

Off to go wake them up so I can give them kisses now...:*
 
Ha, that is funny Kathryn.

You know, I was browsing the internet and found a site that had a forum where they were talking about cats..ferals, strays...bunch of people like me (didn't know they existed) and you know what??

Every single cat spoken of on that forum had some lame name...like "Blackie" or "Thanksgiving" or "Moochie" or "Tuxedo" (let me guess?..he is black and white). Thanksgiving??? YOU GUESSED IT! The "owner" found it on Thanksgiving. I think they get these less than original names because we really don't intend to lay claim to them. Like, they are just visitors at our house. Until they won't go away, we love them to death, and now realize we seem like idiots when we refer to our cat(s) as "Fat Boy".

Hmmmm...names for cats I have cared for/fixed/vaccinated/fed in my short lifetime..(watch out: They are all VERY original, LOL)

"Little One"

(he was a feral albino kitty that it took me years to socialize so he would run through our house to live in our garage during the day)
"Fat Boy"

"Preggers" (whatdya think happened to her??)
"Tigger"
"Blackie" aka "Goober" (that is my indoor kitty, so fat she looks like a light bulb:)
"Dark Baby"
"Light Baby"
"Hisser"
"Grey Kitty" (there's been two of them)
"Tiger" (he has a collar so you can't blame me for that one)
"Moochie"
"Big Blackie"
"Orange Kitty"
"Crazy Spot Kitty"
"Baby Maddie"
"Baby Riley" (these last two were named after my niece and nephew)
"Sammie" aka "Sammiegirl" (my beautiful siamese that I had to put down)
"Boots"
"Stumpy" (she's our "special" kitty...not playin' with a full deck if you know what I mean) So cute tho..

Currently, still alive, my mom cares for (they are now officially hers), "Fat Boy", "Dark Baby", "Baby Riley", "Boots", "Stumpy". She puts up with them cuz many of them were my fault as far as who "took them in". At my house it is "Blackie-Goober", "Moochie", "Tuxedo", sometimes "Crazy Spot Kitty", sometimes "Tiger", sometimes "Grey Kitty". All the rest either dissapeared or died of sickness or something.

Boy, listing all those cats now and I really do look like a crazy lady!!!!:D

They had that lady on Oprah that had, like, 90 cats in her house and the whole audience was just grossed out and appalled. It was some sort of pet acquiring sickness or something. But I actually thought what a nice lady to have taken in and saved that many animals. She had dogs too. I am telling you.............ME.........if I had never married hubby!!!}( }( }(

Sometimes I think I need to quit with the animals because it really tears me to shreds when anything happens to them!!!:( Pets are just wonderful addition to our lives!!
 
I married my DH in large part to avoid the certain title of Crazy Cat Lady.

He knows, and he's okay with it. :D It's mutual in our house, he got to avoid being Crazy Cat Man.

Hey, at least we have each other!

Love the list, Janice!! It sounds like my list of people at the gym. "Crazy Running Girl" etc.
 
They had that lady on Oprah that had, like, 90 cats in her
>house and the whole audience was just grossed out and
>appalled. It was some sort of pet acquiring sickness or
>something. But I actually thought what a nice lady to have
>taken in and saved that many animals. She had dogs too. I am
>telling you.............ME.........if I had never married
>hubby!!!}( }( }(

I saw that show. What I thought was odd is that they made her give up ALL the cats, even one that was around before her daughter was born. I thought that was unnecessarily cruel!

There are " cat collectors" who seem to have a psychological obsession with collecting cats. But usually they don't take good care of them the way this woman did. At the shelter I volunteer at, I hear stories about (!#&# people with mass quantities of cats, all unfixed (I can't even imagine ONE unneutered male in the house), all sick and inbred. The latest was a couple who lived in a trailer (!) with over 80 cats. And the man was sitting outside smoking and laughing at the people who came to pick up the cats. Most of them had to be euthanized because of illness, but they had to keep a certain number as evidence for a court case against these people, and while they were housing these cats, they couldn't take in any new ones beause of space limitations, so any new ones that came in had to be euthanized. (In cases like this, I believe in human euthansia! LOL!)
 
I've decided that 7 is the number of cats that turns one into a "cat lady" (so, with 5, I'm safe... for now!).
 
OMG, Kathryn.......those stories make me so mad!!!!;( ;(

Fortunately I missed the end of Oprah where they told us she had to give the cats up. Wow, that makes me sad. How could she give ALL up?? I would have never been able to do that!

Your right, anything over 7 and you are a nut! I will add however that I have never had over 4 cats live-in residents of a house! Right now I am at an all time low of 1, but TRYING to integrate "Moochie". My female kitty and him got in a fight today. She accidentally got out of the bedroom and opened up a can of you know what!!!}(

I wish I knew how to make these cats like each other. Thankfully, maybe, "Moochie" is a lover, not a fighter. But I don't think my jealous kitty cares!!!:eek:
 
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