what to do about strange visitor cat?
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| Wed, 12-29-2004 - 1:07pm |
I guess I just need a little help from other cat lovers.
We have three cats already and for about two weeks now we've had this really cute large male come to our house almost daily to "visit" with them. I checked him out by myself before I let our cats out there with him, he's very friendly and calm, seems like he's eating well, he seems clean and like he's taken care of. The only thing I noticed is that his ears are very dirty and he didn't seem to be neutered.
He gets along really well with our cats, its so cute watching them interact, our cats just get so excited when they see him through the window. (Ours are all spayed/neutered)
The problem is that last night I smelled cat pee in our kitchen and I couldn't find a puddle anywhere. Then later the stranger cat was sitting on the window ledge outside the kitchen and he sprayed the window while we were standing right there. I woke up this morning and the kitchen smells like cat pee again.
I would love to be able to say that we could take this guy in, get him neutered and give him a home. But I'm three weeks away from delivering our first baby and we already have a young cat who is a handful, I just don't think we can handle it right now.
I am thinking about getting this guy in a cat carrier and taking him to a no kill animal shelter. I just can't have our kitchen smelling like cat pee constantly, and I really don't like thinking that he's going to be out there making more unwanted kittens in the neighborhood.
I just feel guilty about it for some reason. I wonder if he's somebody's pet, but then if he were, why does he spend so much time outside and why haven't they neutered him yet?
What should I do? What would you do?

Chances are, if he's an adult and he's un-neutered, he's a stray - most people unless they are breeding a cat would have it neutered for that very reason - the unbearable smell of male cat urine.
I don't know if that's good or bad.