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Fostering a cat?

  • 16-10-2016 5:30pm
    #1
    Nickie3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭


    Hi there I'm looking for help with dealing with my Dad's cat. My Dad has been in hospital for a month and isn't coming home any time soon. His cat, Pebbles, is about 7.

    She was always shy around me and my kids whenever we went to visit, she would disappear or hide. A tug on a tail from a child when she was a kitten may have lead to this.

    Since Dad has been ill, I've been feeding the cat. She is always delighted now to see me, looks for attention and is purring and affectionate now. She's obviously lonely.

    I often stay a while just to keep her company, she loves to jump in my lap or even lie beside me on the sofa grooming herself.

    She disappears most nights for hours on end. She eats outside and she even has a cat 'kennel' that I'm quite sure she only ever slept in when he had visitors that were allergic to cats.

    I would take her home to my house if I thought she was suffering. But my dad lives about a 10 minute walk from my house so I think she'd try to get back home. Plus I work full time so she would be out all day anyway.

    Any advice would be gratefully accepted.


Comments

  • #2
    Ms Doubtfire1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭Ms Doubtfire1


    kind of confused as to where the question is?


  • #3
    Nickie3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭Nickie3


    Ms Doubtfire1 wrote: »
    kind of confused as to where the question is?

    I don't know whether to take her home to my house or leave her at my dads house


  • #4
    Ms Doubtfire1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭Ms Doubtfire1


    bring her home. She's used to company and obviously misses it...:o


  • #5
    sillysmiles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭sillysmiles


    How old are your kids now? Are they at an age where they can understand to be calm and quite around her until she settles?

    I would try bringing her home in an evening and feeding her inside and keeping things calm and see how she reacts.

    I wonder if she spends all day outside anyway, would she be better off at your dad's during the day, where she has her own space and territory? Or would that be too confusing? I don't know. Is there roads that she'd cross to try get "home"


    (Hope your Dad gets home sooner than you anticipate)


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