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"Yard cat" - getting bigger for winter - growing winter coat.
Googled this - nothing to do with lower air temp' - it to do with less daylight hours.
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Ok Arnie.
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You can have the chair mate.
Stray "yard cat" stays here at the workshop.
It arrived here "out of the blue" as a timid kitten - intact in June 2023 - with its first teeth. Very small and very hungry...
It now on its second set of teeth - reckon it maybe 20 + months old.
(it well fed now)
We have been feeding an errant cat since last January. He sleeps in my neighbours barn but visits us for food. Socialising him has been a trial of patience and fortitude for me, he has very sharp claws. After 10 months he has finally allowed me to scratch and tickle his chin and cheeks and occasionally sleeps for a few hours on the previous feline incumbents bed on a landing, however a window must be open or panic ensues when he wakes. We took on strays before him but this ones been on the wild side for a long time, in the winter he was still in good condition and well groomed apart from a bout of coryza that left him looking snotty and with claggy eyes.
I am told that recently homeless domestic cats look dishevelled and that only the tough or adaptable find their way and look after themselves over time Then again I was told that you should always wait for the unsocialised cat to approach you for affection, in our case this was not correct, my patience wore thin and I quietly placed my fingers on his cheek and stroked him, he leaned into my hand, that took eight months mind. He is almost entirely black and has a very round cute face with a perpetually surprised look, like a Louis Wain sketch.
I am told that recently homeless domestic cats look dishevelled and that only the tough or adaptable find their way and look after themselves over time Then again I was told that you should always wait for the unsocialised cat to approach you for affection, in our case this was not correct, my patience wore thin and I quietly placed my fingers on his cheek and stroked him, he leaned into my hand, that took eight months mind. He is almost entirely black and has a very round cute face with a perpetually surprised look, like a Louis Wain sketch.
In 2017 this was undeniably the hardest cat in my district, imported from Britain to smote any and all transgressors who trod upon his loosely defined territory. He was a bonny looking cat but truly a savage and tuned in a few French interlopers during his tenure.
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Oh Yeah... He does look like "he could handle himself"
He has a wide flat face - what "make/model is he"...?
Serious looking cat that mate....
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That is a loverly photo...
This is a better photo...
This is photo of one of my customers "special needs 15yr old boy" feeding our workshop "yard cat" on a Sunday morning.
That is photo of a divorced man - fetching his child from his toxic ex wife - taking him swiming on a Sunday morning and bringing him to feed our "yard cat" - and the "yard cat" being lovey back to the boy. Then they off to the boys Nans for Sunday dinner.
"Proper people on here will applaud the fathers and the yard cats patience"
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Allegedly a British Blue shorthair, he had no papers to say so, he was a gift from a friend. He was indeed a very confident cat.
I recall "news" stories from the 1990's with people in affluent areas of the USA punting cats on or abandoning them because they no longer matched the decor. How much urban myth and how much truth I have no clue.
