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.

January 19, 2008

I renewed my ad in the Ulster Times. I am thinking of letting the Daily Freeman go - it is too expensive to keep an ad in it for a long time. No postcards yet - I hope to get them early next week.

January 17, 2008

I am not sure how but i have managed to lose a few days. I probably skipped a day posted but forgot and just added one to the last date.

I don't have much to post right now. I am still waiting for the postcards to be ready to send. I really hope that gives me a couple of hits. I have my fingers crossed that he is still in the area. He was here for a few months so I don't know why he would move on.

January 14, 2008

The postcards are printed and look very nice. They are getting the addresses printed now and will be ready to go by the end of the week. I have my fingers crossed that this will get me a good sighting.

January 13, 2008

It snowed last night - not too much but enough for a couple of inches. So far all of the calls I have gotten have not panned out. I have two more to investigate - all of them 11 miles away or more. I don't have good feelings about them but I need to check them out anyway - just to be sure.

January 12, 2008

I have retired all my cameras. I was only getting raccoons and it is supposed to snow tomorrow. I figured it would be better to bring them all in and then see where there are tracks tomorrow after the snow is gone.

I have gotten a few phone calls but none of them panned out. One is 11 miles from here - I am not sure that is viable. The lady only saw a black cat with 4 white paws. So far from here it could very well be a local cat she just never saw before. I am reluctant to dismiss it outright but I am not sure how to confirm it.

January 10, 2008

Last night my neighbor came over and though Roy was in her yard. It turned out to be Leo. That was pretty disappointing. I know the longer Roy is out there the less chance I have of getting him back.

Today I got a call from someone in Saugerties - which is about 30 miles away. It does seem too far, but if Roy was picked up it is not totally out of the possibility. I need to send the lady a picture of Roy so she can see if it looks like him.

I got the pictures from the camera - looks like I am feeding raccoons. I think I am going to try across the street next.