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Post by bazfaz on Sept 27, 2009 21:04:29 GMT
When we arrived at our new house on Tuesday we noticed there was a cat in the garden. The previous owner said this was just a cat that lived in the garden and lived on mice that it caught. She was telling porky pies. As a neighbour has confirmed, they have simply abandoned their cat and gone back to the UK.
Now it is a lovely cat, in great condition, very friendly. However we cannot take it into our home because Mrs Faz is allergic to cats and dogs. And we cannot feed it and hope it stays outside since it tries to get into the house whenerver the kitchen door is open.
Anyone want a cat?
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Post by lagatta on Sept 27, 2009 21:47:46 GMT
How evil those people are! (yes, I know about the quarantine and all for feline travellers to the UK, but still)...
Alas I live a bit far away. Do hope you find it a good home. I'm just livid about someone abandoning their furry friend like that. Grrr.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 27, 2009 22:02:17 GMT
Lagatta, your handle is well chosen.
When eating at a local restaurant last night we offered the cat to a French/English couple at the next table. Alas, they said they had already been approached by the previous owners and declined because of their dog.
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Post by imec on Sept 27, 2009 22:04:57 GMT
When eating at a local restaurant last night we offered the cat to a French/English couple at the next table. What kind of restaurant serves cat?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 4:50:08 GMT
Looks like you'll have to start cultivating mice in your garden.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 28, 2009 7:35:27 GMT
The problem is that we must keep the doors closed or the cat comes in. It raced inside when we got back from the restaurant on Saturday. Fortunately it is so friendly I was able to go upstairs and call it and it came to be stroked. So out it went again. There are fields beyond our garden so there will be plenty of small beasts for it to catch. But we cannot live in a house where we have to keep the doors closed all the time.
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 28, 2009 8:38:41 GMT
Good on you Baz for trying to rehome the cat. I hope for you and the cat that you are going to find someone very soon.
I cannot understand how people can leave an animal behind. I will never be able to understand that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 8:52:10 GMT
The problem is that we must keep the doors closed or the cat comes in. It raced inside when we got back from the restaurant on Saturday. Fortunately it is so friendly I was able to go upstairs and call it and it came to be stroked. So out it went again. There are fields beyond our garden so there will be plenty of small beasts for it to catch. But we cannot live in a house where we have to keep the doors closed all the time. Yes, well don't forget those Disney movies that show that a cat can travel 2000 km just to get back home, especially if it has chosen Mrs. Faz's pillow as the best place to curl up.
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 28, 2009 9:17:23 GMT
Shave the cat and keep it NOT
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Post by lagatta on Sept 28, 2009 9:31:04 GMT
Of course the cat wants to get into the house. You don't actually think it is YOUR house just because you bought and paid for it, now do you? Houses belong to the cat. Wish Mrs Faz could do something about her allergies, as this seems like a very good cat.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 11:06:59 GMT
I'm with lagatta. I've taken in so many cats in the past, some sick to near death and nursed them back to health. It's not true that a domesticated cat will live quite happily on odd mice that they find out in the fields. This way she will eventually get sick, will eventually get worms, (from eating wild mice, rodents etc).
If you can't keep her, and it would be good if you somehow could, (after all she is friendly and healthy, it's not as if you have to put that much effort into her right now), Then, please find her a decent home, I think it's the least you can do. All this isn't the cats fault. And like Lagatta says she feels that this is her home, and really it is.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 28, 2009 14:19:18 GMT
If this is the cat's home I wish she had dealt with the notaire.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 28, 2009 14:24:29 GMT
She'd have bit and clawed him (it was a him, if I recall?)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 14:35:17 GMT
It's true a domesticated cat cannot survive in the "wild" without irreparable harm . It is not accustomed to having to hunt for food and will eventually starve.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 28, 2009 16:50:40 GMT
Hmmm. I have to tell you that there is no possibility of our keeping the cat. Mrs Faz is allergic to them. Full stop. We are asking around if anyone wants a cat. Of course the cat will try to return to what it considers its home. But I think that if new owners feed it it will learn to love the new place.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 16:53:21 GMT
Can't you find a new home for Mrs. Faz?
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 28, 2009 17:47:17 GMT
Mrs Faz wants my food too
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 17:49:44 GMT
Oh, that cat is plotting revenge already. It has that look.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 20:21:27 GMT
Doesn't it though? And he/she is so beautiful,do you know it's gender? Surely someone will take it in,it looks very healthy and cared for. Maybe you could post that picture around some public places or the local veterinarian and or the like.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 28, 2009 20:25:36 GMT
It is a lovely cat and very friendly. In other circumstances it would be welcome. But.... It would condemn Mrs Faz to a lifetime of asthma. She could take an antihistamine tablet every day but after about three days she finds this not very pleasant.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 28, 2009 20:26:01 GMT
Ginger cats are usually toms, though there are exceptions. What a beauty; I'm sure someone will adopt ce minou.
And send a note for the cost of cat food to those nasty people who abandoned their furry friend - I wouldn't call a beautiful cat a "vice caché", but certainly a condition not specified in the deed of sale.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 28, 2009 20:30:37 GMT
The people who sold us he house have left no forwarding address or phone number. They come from Northern Ireland and have cancelled their email account. The estate agent we bought the house from won't divulge any info about them. It is frustrating.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2009 21:13:12 GMT
Maybe you could use some form of trickery. We desperately needed to get a hold of the previous owners of our house and same thing. Until,we told the real estate agent that we found something valuable in the house that we would like to see returned. The phone rang up almost immediately. (we had indeed found some gold jewelry the woman had hidden somewhere but also needed to talk to them about some other pressing matter.) That beautiful cat is more precious than gold.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2009 3:14:17 GMT
What's the latest on the cat?
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 1, 2009 7:06:18 GMT
The cat is still here.
Our neighbour on one side is French. She was horrified when she heard that the previous owners of the cat were leaving and abandoningt it. She feeds it.
The neighbours on the other side are English. They too were horrified. They were also amazed that the previous owners denied it was their cat and that it lived in the garden. Nonsense, they said, they had seen the cat inside curled up near the fire. We simply cannot do that as Mrs Faz would be condemned to a life of daily medication or she would suffer from asthma. These next doo people say they will ask among their friends if anyone wants a cat.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2009 7:34:39 GMT
That is good. With all of this recent talk of making rillettes at home, I was beginning to worry.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2009 10:33:48 GMT
Can I curl up by the fire?
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 1, 2009 11:39:00 GMT
Right now I am going to stretch by the pool. The cat passes us by, says hello, drinks a little water if any is lying on the pool cover, and strolls off about her business.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2009 13:43:21 GMT
It's good that you all are feeding her/him. Maybe one of the other neighbors could take it in permanently, or find a home for it?
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 1, 2009 14:47:02 GMT
We hope enquiries will bering someone who wants to give the cat a home but far away from us. It is no good (from our point of view) if the neighbours take the cat in because it would still try to get in our house. So we would have to keep the doors out to the courtyard and garden permanently closed.
When Mrs Faz visits a house with a c at she takes an antihistamine tablet. She can do this for 3 days, 4 max. She can'f do it for the rest of this cat's life.
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