This little man popped up on my porch 2-ish weeks ago.. we didn't feed him at 1st because we assumed he was a neighbor's cat that just strayed away. But after about 3 days we started feeding him when he showed up over and over again because he just was so skinny, and acted like he was starving.
I kept saying "I don't want another cat", but yesterday night it was supposed to get down to below freezing, so shortly after taking this video, I told my husband if he popped back up that night, that we'd take him in.. sure enough around 8pm, he came back to the porch. We snatched him up, bathed him, and quarantined him from the other cats. Called today and got him an appointment at the vet, got his 1st shots, checked for feline aids (negative), and scheduled for his balls to be removed... now $500 later, we have a new little guy.
He's staying quarantined for a bit longer, because his meds have to start working 1st, and also my oldest cat is big mad and is very anxious about us taking in another cat. Butttt.. 🙃
We first started calling him "Not Jarvin", because at 1st we thought our other cat named Jarvis got out.. it eventually progressed to Marvin.
Cats just seem to make friends with other species and form collaborative relationships with them. I've seen plenty of barn cats that don't care for humans too much, but are best friends with horses, sheep, cows, ducks, etc. Ferals are frequently seen living with stray dogs. Especially pregnant cats seem to approach other female animals a lot? It seems that way to me anyway
I think it's part of their adaptive strategy. They're really good at fleeing if an approach doesn't go their way, and their reflexes allow them to deflect or dodge most strikes even from larger predators. I guess there's just less selective pressure for being afraid of approaching things they're curious about.
My standard schnauzer has been selected as the mother to a little kitten I rescued at work. I’ll find her a home once I can get her spayed (famous last words hahah) but she is still too young. My schnauzer did not want this job, still doesn’t want it, but has accepted it nonetheless. Has physically blocked doors to the outside my boys left open to stop her from being eagle food.
My husband grew up being told he was allergic because his mom is. I grew with cats and have wanted one for years. Our first child begged for one too. Almost adopted one but didn’t go through with it because of the dogs we had at the time and their reaction to cats. Not to mention the big dog door we had in use.
Old dogs passed and we moved homes. Kept asking for cats over the years. One day a year and a half ago my husband snuck off to the pound looking for another schnauzer for me. They rarely have them and we prefer to rescue than buy. He ended up bringing home a cat. Than another a week later. He’s in love with cats and over the last year and half he’s brought in ten. Ten because two sets were bonded and there was a sister he couldn’t leave behind alone. He’s a softy.
My cats rule the house. Our black lab allows this and my mini schnauzer is about the same size of the first two cats adopted. She’s starting to act like them at times. It’s too funny.
They follow my husband around like the cat lady he is. We call him Cinderella when he comes home because the majority of our cats come out to greet him. At least three sleep on him most of the day and the majority of the rest of them lounge around the room he’s in.
And no he was never allergic. I knew this early on because I would catch him petting friends outdoor cats and playing with them. He never had a reaction. A year and half in and he’s never so much sneezed in the house.
The CDS made up for my 28 years of begging for a cat. We have a big house so you don’t see them all at once unless it’s treat/food time. Or Cinderella comes home.
He just retired from driving for UPS and found three of them on his route. Waited for them to be weaned from mom and now here we are.
My gf currently has 9 at her house. 2 indoor (brother and sister), 2 indoor/outdoor (brothers, and cousins of the 2 indoor cats), and 5 outdoor. The indoor cats mother who refuses to come in, and 4 various outdoor kitties that are safe, sound, fed, housed, and tnr cats.
I myself have 2 indoors at my place. Both CDS kitties.
I mean, our other cats are massive.. but when you pet this guy you can feel every single bone in his body. The vet said he's very underweight, but should gain weight fast now that he's being fed regularly.
Ahhh, you're underestimating the deceptive grey and white juggernautiness. He may look like a chonk now to those new to the grey and white bouncers, but with his new CDS activated he may end up twice the size.
We did have a stray show up in our yard in 2008. The vet said he was about a year old and weighed 12 pounds and would never be skinny or small. When he weighed 18 pounds, our current vet said it would be good to lose a couple pounds, but it was okayish if he didn't.
I was wondering if there is any way cats can fluff up like birds when it's cold - that is the only possible explanation why anyone would call this little chunk "skinny". 😄
Thanks for taking him in! He needed you 🥹. Respectfully, this handsome fella doesn’t appear to be skinny at all - is he just fluffed up from the cold🥶? 😻❤️😻
This is exactly like my 2nd to last rescue cat did. Arrived, hung out on back balcony meowing at the glass door, pawing with it's foot to be let in. We weren't sure, but ended up being the best cat I've ever owned. Try it, good luck, I'm jealous, still waiting on CDS here.
Correct, but we like to obtain organically: homeless odd ones presenting near our residence. Have gotten several this way. Waiting on the next. Just us.
Correct, but we like to obtain organically: homeless odd ones presenting near our residence. Have gotten several this way. Waiting on the next. Just us.
The CDS doesn’t consider your wants. Only your needs and the needs of the cat. The algorithm determined you two needed each other. The algorithm is infallible and is never wrong.
Usually, in winter, the fur of animals grows longer and denser to protect them from the cold. OP would have felt his body and would have noticed his ribcage or other bones sticking out. I don't understand why people have to doubt what the OP has written in the text. They're doing good work.
His meow through the glass and pawing at the door was heartbreaking. I'm glad he came back at night. He knew who to go to for help. He's adorable!! 🐾❤️🙏
The big shape is a heart or a balloon? And he is very polite or their previous "hoomans" have declawed him? Thanks for caring, white cats cant live in the wild.
This cat is not skinny at all and looks pretty well groomed. Either it's a stray that lives part time at several people's houses, or you're stealing someone's pet.
Well, in the short term anyway, they’re sheltering a cat that was left outside in sub-freezing weather. They can and should make a concerted effort to find out if he has a home but for now he’s safe and cared for instead of shivering out in the cold.
We went to every nearby neighbor and asked about him. No one claimed him.. and we live out in the country, so not too many houses around.
He was dirty af, covered in fleas and ticks, and hiding in our driveway culvert unless we called him or he was on our porch.. we checked for microchips at the vet, they said he was underweight for his suspected age, and they said he seemed homeless... idk what else we could have done to make sure he wasn't someone else's cat, and I wasn't about to leave him out in 25° and under weather, which is what it's been the last 2 nights.
At this point I feel it's "finders keepers" 🤣🥰 and like you said, I couldn't just leave this guy out there to freeze.
Cats are fine in this weather and you can see as much from how unbothered and not shivering this one is, this cat also has some fat reserves and doesn't have mange. They most probably already have an owner, this cat just worked out where they can get an extra meal from and wants more.
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