Urgent - Magic the cat

[Thehooperman]

I agree it's the right thing to do but I don't think a week is sufficient time to determine whether the cat was homeless or not and then decide to get it neutered and chipped.

The cat is unlikely to have gone back home if it's being given food elsewhere.

I do hope there isn't a young child waiting at home for their lost pet.

 

[Ra Ra Ra]

I agree it's the right thing to do but I don't think a week is sufficient time to determine whether the cat was homeless or not and then decide to get it neutered and chipped.

The cat is unlikely to have gone back home if it's being given food elsewhere.

I do hope there isn't a young child waiting at home for their lost pet.

Fully Agree!!

 

[henryscat]

I agree it's the right thing to do but I don't think a week is sufficient time to determine whether the cat was homeless or not and then decide to get it neutered and chipped.

It was "at least a week". You can pretty much tell if a cat is being looked after properly or not by things like state of its coat and its weight. Not rocket science. If you read what was written you'd see that efforts were made to find out if it did have a home to go to.

The cat is unlikely to have gone back home if it's being given food elsewhere.

I do hope there isn't a young child waiting at home for their lost pet.

Oh please...

I think the welfare of the cat comes first before some very unlikely imaginery waiting child that you've just made up.

 

[Floss]

A cat is very independent, sounds like it made it's mind up to move out of it's original home and in with Lisa if it kept turning up every day, maybe it was being treated better otherwise I'm sure it would have gone back home if it had wanted to!

 

[Thehooperman]

A cat is very independent, sounds like it made it's mind up to move out of it's original home and in with Lisa if it kept turning up every day, maybe it was being treated better otherwise I'm sure it would have gone back home if it had wanted to!

Does that make it ok to take ownership of it after such a short period of time?

I agree to taking it in if it is genuinely homeless but just think it's little too early too assume it is.

 

[Thehooperman]

I agree it's the right thing to do but I don't think a week is sufficient time to determine whether the cat was homeless or not and then decide to get it neutered and chipped.

It was "at least a week". You can pretty much tell if a cat is being looked after properly or not by things like state of its coat and its weight. Not rocket science. If you read what was written you'd see that efforts were made to find out if it did have a home to go to.

The cat is unlikely to have gone back home if it's being given food elsewhere.

I do hope there isn't a young child waiting at home for their lost pet.

Oh please...

I think the welfare of the cat comes first before some very unlikely imaginery waiting child that you've just made up.

I haven't just made it up, I said I hope there isn't a young child.

How would you feel if it was your cat and someone else had taken it as their own?

 

[Nicedave]

I agree it's the right thing to do but I don't think a week is sufficient time to determine whether the cat was homeless or not and then decide to get it neutered and chipped.

It was "at least a week". You can pretty much tell if a cat is being looked after properly or not by things like state of its coat and its weight. Not rocket science. If you read what was written you'd see that efforts were made to find out if it did have a home to go to.

The cat is unlikely to have gone back home if it's being given food elsewhere.

I do hope there isn't a young child waiting at home for their lost pet.

Oh please...

I think the welfare of the cat comes first before some very unlikely imaginery waiting child that you've just made up.

I haven't just made it up, I said I hope there isn't a young child.

How would you feel if it was your cat and someone else had taken it as their own?

I had an imaginary friend once but I lost him when we moved. I hope someone took him in and he is not in some home or worse still wandering the street. His name was Keith

 

[joshua]

I had an imaginary friend once but I lost him when we moved. I hope someone took him in and he is not in some home or worse still wandering the street. His name was Keith

Don't worry Keith is curled up on my sofa as i type, he has a very peaceful life and is well looked after although i did have him neutered (it's for the best).

 

[Nicedave]

I had an imaginary friend once but I lost him when we moved. I hope someone took him in and he is not in some home or worse still wandering the street. His name was Keith

Don't worry Keith is curled up on my sofa as i type, he has a very peaceful life and is well looked after although i did have him neutered (it's for the best).

Probably was for the best he was going to train for the priesthood

 

[age'd parent]

Well known saying:

People don't own cats, cats own people.

 

[Floss]

As long as the cat is taken good care off! If the previous owners were that concerned they would have advertised it being lost with a picture of him.

 

[Floss]

A cat is very independent, sounds like it made it's mind up to move out of it's original home and in with Lisa if it kept turning up every day, maybe it was being treated better otherwise I'm sure it would have gone back home if it had wanted to!

Does that make it ok to take ownership of it after such a short period of time?

I agree to taking it in if it is genuinely homeless but just think it's little too early too assume it is.

I don't think cats take holidays, so when is the right timescale to make a decision a week, two weeks?

 

[Vault_girl]

Liz, I would recommend listing "mgaic" on the following websites along with pictures:
http://www.animalsearchuk.co.uk/found_a_pet.php - this is used by vets in Stafford
http://www.lostmycat.org/
http://www.nationalpetregister.org/
http://mymoggy.com/

The following is also advice from battersea dogs home on what to do with a found cat:
"What to do if you have found a stray cat

Please read the following advice if you think you have found a stray cat:

Avoid feeding cats that come into your garden unless they are clearly underweight
Cats roam over wide areas so ask your neighbours to see if they know who the cat belongs to
Put a paper collar on the cat asking an owner to contact you if it is their cat.
If the cat is approachable, take it to your local vet who will be able to scan it for a microchip
If you haven’t found an owner within a couple of weeks try and rehome the cat through your local rescue centre
If you decide to keep the cat make sure you consider the commitment and responsibly of owning a pet."

unneutered male cats can walk MILES in search of a female. he could have come from anywhere in Stafford not just a few streets over. I'm glad he has found some lovely people to look after him, but a week is a short time for an unneutered male to be missing from his own home and there may yet be a family looking for him. When I took in a male cat last year we left him (without feeding him) for 3 months in the garden before fostering him - there are plenty of wild animals for cats to eat and he was rather rotund from catching mice when we eventually gave up the search for his own family. He's now living with my parents but his "found cat" listing is still up on the websites. If we ever did find his family we'd be sad to see him go but glad he was reunited with them.

I am slightly concerned on how fast you have moved on this but at least he is with loving caring people. it could be a lot worse for him!

 

[Flibbertigibbet]

This is one of the many reasons we made the decision to keep our new kitten indoors when we first had her. Our front door also opened onto a busy road. We now have two very happy, healthy and very loved cats, a girl and boy, both chipped, both spayed/neutered. We have family members who's cats have 'disappeared', only to discover a 'kindly' neighbour had decided to 'rehome' them, keep them inside, give them new collars (whilst removing old ones) because the cats kept going back into their garden (because they were feeding it, d'oh!) so they assumed that meant the cat wanted to live there. It was only because they were chipped they were found again.

I have to agree with everything vault girl has said. If the cat is not yours, don't feed it. If it looks malnourished take it to a local vets, even if the cat is not collared/chipped the vet may know who the cat belongs to.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095389/Cat-war-ends-victory-teenager-judge-rules-shes-rightful-owner-feline-went-walkabout--woman-fed-months.html

 

[lisseylee]

Imagine if he has gone back to his previous home. The owner will get a shock. LOL

Not quite sure I know what a magic the cat looks like though. Is it perhaps black and white and likes to mark its territory? We have one round here that's taken to p*ssing up my front door. When I caught the little b*gger swaggering down my drive the other night I sent him packing only for him to stop half way down my drive and defiantly p*ss up my car. I really hope his name is now magic.

bit of chilli powder or cayene pepper will put a stop to that -liberally sprinkle it in his preferred scenting areas.

 

[Ra Ra Ra]

This is one of the many reasons we made the decision to keep our new kitten indoors when we first had her. Our front door also opened onto a busy road. We now have two very happy, healthy and very loved cats, a girl and boy, both chipped, both spayed/neutered. We have family members who's cats have 'disappeared', only to discover a 'kindly' neighbour had decided to 'rehome' them, keep them inside, give them new collars (whilst removing old ones) because the cats kept going back into their garden (because they were feeding it, d'oh!) so they assumed that meant the cat wanted to live there. It was only because they were chipped they were found again.

I have to agree with everything vault girl has said. If the cat is not yours, don't feed it. If it looks malnourished take it to a local vets, even if the cat is not collared/chipped the vet may know who the cat belongs to.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095389/Cat-war-ends-victory-teenager-judge-rules-shes-rightful-owner-feline-went-walkabout--woman-fed-months.html

Very well said x

 

[lisseylee]

This is one of the many reasons we made the decision to keep our new kitten indoors when we first had her. Our front door also opened onto a busy road. We now have two very happy, healthy and very loved cats, a girl and boy, both chipped, both spayed/neutered. We have family members who's cats have 'disappeared', only to discover a 'kindly' neighbour had decided to 'rehome' them, keep them inside, give them new collars (whilst removing old ones) because the cats kept going back into their garden (because they were feeding it, d'oh!) so they assumed that meant the cat wanted to live there. It was only because they were chipped they were found again.

I have to agree with everything vault girl has said. If the cat is not yours, don't feed it. If it looks malnourished take it to a local vets, even if the cat is not collared/chipped the vet may know who the cat belongs to.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095389/Cat-war-ends-victory-teenager-judge-rules-shes-rightful-owner-feline-went-walkabout--woman-fed-months.html

Very well said x

Completely agree,

 

[Trumpet]

Imagine if he has gone back to his previous home. The owner will get a shock. LOL

Having his b*lls cut off was probably a bit of a shock to the cat too!