Yesterday I met a charming calico
Aug. 1st, 2015 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWho can't be more than four months old. I have no idea what she's doing away from her mama, living on a street with buses passing by every 15 minutes, buses that terrify her.
The ASPCA van is going to be in the area tomorrow, but alas, I couldn't find her. I'll take a look again this week, and if I see her, I'll feed her and grab her up a little sooner to get fixed. (I'm not keeping her, geez, but I will see if I can pawn her off on a neighbor. Otherwise I will put up some signs, as it's even odds that somebody lost her. She's skittish, but she's definitely not feral.)
On the feral front, our porch cat, Lola, has been acting odder than usual lately. She's always been more semi-feral than true feral, but now she follows me around (from a safe distance) and creeps closer when I'm interacting with other cats, as though to observe. I've had cats follow me around before, but they were all tame. I do not quite know what to make of this. I'm working somewhat haphazardly on reducing her flight distance. I have no idea what I plan to do once it's sufficiently reduced, but it passes the time.
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The ASPCA van is going to be in the area tomorrow, but alas, I couldn't find her. I'll take a look again this week, and if I see her, I'll feed her and grab her up a little sooner to get fixed. (I'm not keeping her, geez, but I will see if I can pawn her off on a neighbor. Otherwise I will put up some signs, as it's even odds that somebody lost her. She's skittish, but she's definitely not feral.)
On the feral front, our porch cat, Lola, has been acting odder than usual lately. She's always been more semi-feral than true feral, but now she follows me around (from a safe distance) and creeps closer when I'm interacting with other cats, as though to observe. I've had cats follow me around before, but they were all tame. I do not quite know what to make of this. I'm working somewhat haphazardly on reducing her flight distance. I have no idea what I plan to do once it's sufficiently reduced, but it passes the time.
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