The CAT room!

Aw, poor little snookums!

The best thing I can suggest is to find out when your local version of the RSPCA is open & (if they accept lost animals) get your son to catch it & deliver it there. Also try animal shelters in your area in the yellow pages. There should be one of these open on Sundays.
Taking it there is a better option than just shooing it away as the critter is likely to reproduce, say nothing catch diseases & spread them around. A real problem with strays. Bloody humans who don't neuter their cats!

OR you could consider keeping it! Assuming your son is willing to look after it & you're willing to pay vet costs to get it checked, inoculated against diseases, etc .... This could give you a warm glow!

I rather suspect that Our CJ would more likely get a warm glow from a ballistic solution . . .

Nah, I'm not going to shoot it. It has bonded with my son and vice versa. It's his cat now. I'm so looking forward to the vet bills.

Do you have any hope that your son will fulfill his new responsibilities?

Yep.

I'm glad to hear it . . . too many parents let such things slide, and then wonder in the future why their children are become irresponsible adults. My compliments to you, and to your son.

yeee HAW. Cjhsa gotten hisself a kitty cat.

He's a great kid. We rent our house and the landlord won't allow dogs, but cats are OK, except that I'm allergic to them and so's the wife...

But this cat kind of adopted us, so, I can't deny my kids the petable pet they never had (we have a hamster, a bird, and a frog). Hopefully the cat won't eat the bird, but he can have the hamster if he wants (apolgies to A2K).

REALLY?!



That's amazing, cjhsa!

Congratualtions! You must be a good dad!

... and you are going to get to like the cat! Trust me! The pleasure that your son gets will give you a warm glow ... & the critter will S-L-O-W-L-Y endear itself to you! I've seen this happen so many times! Hey, you put a big smile on my face! This is great!

<GROAN>

I'll post a pic when I can get msnusers.com working again (I know there are other places to post pics).

Awww! Makes me miss my warm Fuzzy!! Though Gus-the-bus was almost 4 months when we got him.

My sister and I used to throw Q-tips for one of our cats. He'd catch the little cotton wad at the end, fling it up, and the run and grab it... repeat process for hours. When he was younger, he could actually "catch some air" when he put all his effort into throwing that Q-tip !

he's sunk!

Are you talking about me? Nah, the thing hates me. But my son was so thrilled, I couldn't take the kitten away from him.

I did do one thing nice for the cat. I made a cat fishing pole. It's a stick with a piece of fishing line with a small cork tied to the end. Hours of entertainment for both cat and kids.

This isn't him, but it looks just the same.



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I don't know much about cats, but we gave him a litter box filled with shredded paper, which he seemed to like, but it wasn't exactly people friendly. So we got some real kitty litter, which perhaps he didn't understand, so he went into the kitchen, found a quiet spot, and went there. Grrr.

Huh! The mighty are in thrall! There IS karma!

Found the rest of his family today. The den was under a neighbor's house. I suspect the guy rototilled his garden and scared the mom-cat. She tried to move the litter, but this guy decided he was going to find his way back home and got trapped in our fenced in yard (standard CA). Mom-cat's been looking for him, but she has a big enough brood to deal with. He's ours now, damn the torpedos.

sounds just like himself who wasn't a cat lover and said we weren't keeping 'it' about our first stray - and came to love him - said it about our second and came to utterly adore her!