Cat Issues

Carol feeds the stray cats. I always say I am blessed that she takes in strays. However this past Wednesday, one of the strays caused a major problem

We have two inside cats, both were former strays. Oreo is a big black fat cat that was just a kitten when I rescued him at the lower water crossing in Dalworthington Gardens. I made the mistake of letting my girlfriend know about it at the time. She took the cat into her home. When Carol and I got married, she brought Oreo with her.

The other is Possum. She was the runt of one of a stray cat litter that Carol was concerned would not survive. She is a white and grey smallish cat. She was part of the problem on Wednesday.

I was coming into the house and there was what I thought was Possum in our mud room, I showed her in the house only to discover that we now had three cats in the living room. I had let one of the strays into the house.

This stray was not greeted kindly by Oreo and Possum. I reached down to pick the stray up and it let me know that it had no desire to be handled by scratching the heck out of my hand. The stray proceeded to run into our tool closet to hide.

Since Carol was not home, I knew that she needed a funny story on how I got the cat out of the house, not that there was an extra cat in the house. I grabbed a towel and found the stray. I successfully captured the back half of the new cat, allowing me to hold a screaming, yowling, flailing, biting, clawing creature towards the door. Possum and Oreo responded to this activity by getting into their own tussle.

I did get the cat out the door. Oreo spent the evening hiding under our bed and Possum would not come near me, but did continue to patrol the house to make sure the cat was gone.