Found cat - what on earth to do...

RosaBernicia

murphydog999 wrote: »

What a lovely thread this is, makes you go all gooey :j

Pickle is certainly in a pickle no more

^ Absolutely.

So glad you are keeping her - she looks like she could be a little sister of my big soppy mog.


Rosa xx

marmiterulesok

bazster wrote: »

We discovered from his microchip that our big boy was originally called Fluffy, which we thought was hopelessly un-original because he's...fluffy! We renamed him Dan, after Desperate Dan, because desperate is exactly what he was when we found him (or, to be more accurate, he found us!)

What an undignified name for a big tom!I wonder if he responded to it?

Spottedleopard

OP:

I don't think you should stop looking yet. It is holiday season- there is a chance that her owners could be on holiday and a neighbour was looking after her and she got out. You never know.

I personally would keep looking around and asking for a few weeks- there might be a broken hearted little girl or boy looking for her somewhere.

HeatherintheHills

Spottedleopard wrote: »

OP:

I don't think you should stop looking yet. It is holiday season- there is a chance that her owners could be on holiday and a neighbour was looking after her and she got out. You never know.

I personally would keep looking around and asking for a few weeks- there might be a broken hearted little girl or boy looking for her somewhere.

This is true, but as the OP has done a lot already to find the original owner and as the adverts are still about, there is really not a lot more she can do. Plus the poor little puss needed medical treatment for a digestive problem, so has possibly been on the streets for a little while.

When a cat hasn't been chipped it makes finding the owner so very difficult. If the owner is, or starts, searching the information is now out there for them to find.

It is just my own opinion but I think that Mystra has already done everything she could realistically be expected to do, plus a whole lot more.

mystra

Spottedleopard wrote: »

OP:

I don't think you should stop looking yet. It is holiday season- there is a chance that her owners could be on holiday and a neighbour was looking after her and she got out. You never know.

I personally would keep looking around and asking for a few weeks- there might be a broken hearted little girl or boy looking for her somewhere.

HeatherintheHills wrote: »

This is true, but as the OP has done a lot already to find the original owner and as the adverts are still about, there is really not a lot more she can do. Plus the poor little puss needed medical treatment for a digestive problem, so has possibly been on the streets for a little while.

When a cat hasn't been chipped it makes finding the owner so very difficult. If the owner is, or starts, searching the information is now out there for them to find.

It is just my own opinion but I think that Mystra has already done everything she could realistically be expected to do, plus a whole lot more.

I do keep thinking this, but on the other hand - it's very silly that the owner did not microchip the cat! Plus if the wobble is from injury (she's getting x-rayed on Monday) and she's not in pain means she's been in this state a good while and has healed - if you go on holiday for weeks and weeks and just expect that a neighbour to 'pop in' is enough for a very dependent little puss, and only just realise she's gone then it seems very irresponsible. I think i am very cynical being in London and seeing pets used as disposable objects so often i have become a bit over harsh, i know. There's posters everywhere in the area, with most vets/rescues - it's on local forums online and on Gumtree - there is nothing else i can do and i would be very dubious that any calls now would just be randoms trying to con me for a free cat or for dog baiting etc.

OH has gotten very attached to her and has decided that she's ours - the vet is pressing us to get her chipped etc in our name, and sort out vaccinations etc as she seems so settled in our home!

mystra

also, our downstairs neighbour and local cat sitter did a sterling job looking after her while we were away.... we had a decent holiday but all we could think about was our little Pickle and we couldn't wait to get back for a snuggle :j Luckily we're not the most frequent of holiday goers!(this was our first in over 2 years)

marmiterulesok

Glad you had a good holiday mystra and that little Miss Pickle is thriving.

I had a neighbour downstairs on the first floor who had a 19 yo,unchipped indoor cat.She used to let the cat on the balcony unsupervised and one morning realised that the cat was nowhere to be found.She had obviously fallen from the balcony and was not found.The woman said that she'd never considered putting a chip in as she was an indoor cat.

As far as I know,she never found her cat.She's moved away now.I was so upset for this neighbour,but more for her cat.

I suppose she thought it would never happen.

Fire_Fox

So glad you didn't spend your holiday worrying! And so glad Pickle has found her forever home. More photos please!

mystra

Well our little Pickle has had her x-rays done and there is no sign of injury :j

However this does mean that her wobble is neurological. The only way to find out would be a £1200 MRI which even the vet said was not worth it - it would only show things up that they wouldn't be able to cure, and she is in no distress or pain... it's 90% likely that she was born this way.

Meanwhile i am entering the crazy world of cat ownership... especially feeding - aargh! I want to give her the best for her but most wet food is full of rubbish, so thank goodness for Zooplus! the stuff they sell has much higher levels of meat and actually works out about the same as feeding the usual stuff like Whiskers/Felix. We're also giving her some dry to keep her good during the day (except she eats is straight away - waiting for an auto feeder to arrive, such a piggy!!). Going to look in to raw feeding as well. The vets very much into telling me she should be fed dry food all the time of a particular brand that they happen to sell... as good a vet as she is i do see right through that part.

She's spoilt rotten... i had my bonus from work this month... it's nearly all gone and i haven't bought myself a single treat :rotfl: also at least when spending so much on food all at once it will last a while. Getting her vaccinated and chipped next week and spayed in a few months (she doesn't go out so no emergency) as she had a general anesthetic for her x-ray - think she's had enough for a bit.

HeatherintheHills

I just love a happy ending :j:j:j