January 20, 2008

It is freezing out there! I have discovered the sleeping place for one of the cats I am feeding - Grey. So named because he is Grey with a white chest and socks. Apparently once he realized there was a steady food source here he decided it would be good to sleep here. He found a hole in a screen in the garage and has been sleeping on the car in there! Who knows how long he has been doing that - the garage was being used to restore cars and since it got cold we haven't been in there much. It was startling to walk in there and see him run under the car. So I decided the best thing to do would be to put some food in there for him. I don't want to kick him out - especially since it is so cold right now. This way he has some food in a safe area and the food I leave outside is more likely to attract other cats. I did include a litterbox, just in case. I don't think he is using it but feel better knowing that if for some reason he doesn't want to/can't run out he has somewhere to go. He does seem to be getting used to me - I think he sees me as the person who feeds him and so I am mostly harmless. He does seem to be neutered - there has been no spraying in the garage. Or he is really a she. The plan is to capture him one day and take him to be spayed/neutered and then release him back out there. I have seen him since I moved in 3 years ago so don't think he is a candidate for being an indoor cat. I think he is a true feral.