Three weeks ago, we posted information about a female black cat that was found by Wallingford reader, Jim. Thanks to Marianne at Friends of the Animals Fondation, we’re able to provide you some good news about her:
Jim (the finder) contacted me and the West Seattle based cat rescue group I volunteer with. Jim brought Li’l Missy (now June) to meet me at our vet earlier this week. June was given an exam, vaccines, treatment for parasites, and a combo test. Yesterday she had a dental with an extraction. She is actually a very sweet cat. She loves to be petted and gives headbutts. June does not really care for other cats. She is about 7 years old and based on the fact that she is not pregnant or nursing, appears to be spayed.
Jim has been very wonderful and supportive. He and his wife made a very generous donation to us at Friends of the Animals Foundation (www.fafseattle.org) to care for June and the other rescued cats and kittens we take in and adopt out.
June will be given a few days in foster care to recover from her dental extraction and then go to Next to Nature in West Seattle and wait for a home.
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I walked home from Fremont yesterday & this cat looks a lot like a cat pictured on small ‘lost cat’ signs I passed. I can’t swear exact location, but around 38th just E of Stoneway.
Right, female Bombay type black cat. The difference is, the one in sign on the telephone pole has been missing since April 16. By then, the one we’re talking about here had been hanging around Jim’s neighborhood for weeks.
The black cat is the same cat shown in the poster. If you know who has her, please contact me at 206-839-9060. I have been searching for her for the last two weeks. She may have appeared lost earlier in the month because she wounders the neighborhood but always returns during the day and at night. Her name is Okie not June.
Have any thoughts about why she would stop coming back?
Andrew, are you telling us that this is YOUR cat?
Other than your say-so, what proof can you offer?
Why did she have a broken tooth?
Why was she always so hungry?
Too bad you hadn’t provided her with a collar and tag or an ID chip. I’m sure you have wonderful excuses for your irresponsible stewardship of this poor cat.
She’s not your property – she never was. Her new friends will take better care of her than you can imagine.
Try collecting stamps as a hobby. Stamps have no needs.
Folks, can we take a step back and breathe on this one? This seems like one of those cases where it’s easier to be rude/mean to someone on the Internet than you would be if they were your neighbor, living nearby. In this case, they’re both.
@Jim, Andrew is obviously somebody who has a cat who he loves and is missing. Whether he chose (or should have chose) to microchip him, I imagine it would hurt a lot to be attached that way and lose your cat. Even well-cared for, loved cats get broken teeth. I had a cat that I loved for 19(!) years, he had a broken tooth since he was 2. It doesn’t mean I didn’t cry when he disappeared or that he was unhappy in any way.
If it is Andrew’s cat, it should go home to him. If it’s not, then let him see it and find out it’s not. Where’s the harm?
The way I understand it, it’s out of Jim’s hands, and it’s academic what we think. I assume you bumped this up two days with no comments so that we could resume our philosophical musings.
Andrew’s story is not just that it had a broken tooth, or he for some reason let his cat wander around with no ID. According to his account,
1. it was coming back home regularly during the 2 or 3 weeks when Jim & his neighbors were taking care of an apparently lost and hungry cat, and
2. it stopped coming home around April 16.
That kind of thing didn’t happen to your cat, I can infer this from its 19 year lifespan.
Okie was returned to her home yesterday. Neighbors will continue to watch out for her, as good neighbors should do for each other.
Thank you mehud for doing the right thing in returning our cat. You made no judgments as to what you may have thought about Okie’s behavior or condition. Thanks to all that chimed in with good advise on what may have appeared to be a stray animal. Let me elaborate on what caused Okie to visit around the corner on Greenlawn Ave N.
1. She was kept at home throughout the winter until March when the weather started to improve and she wanted out. She is an indoor/outdoor cat and I would not lock her in the house to her misery. She is also in the habit of following us when we walk the neighborhood.
2. There are 5 other cats on Densmore that are always out in the neighborhood hunting for rodents that come up from the garbage dump on 34th St. These cats and Okie keep the rodent population in check.
3. Okie slept and ate all of the prior winter (2011) and gained way too much weight while indoors. I placed her on a reduce diet to keep her weight down and healthier than the prior winter. Her appetite led her to visit anyone who was willing to fed her more. The rodent population on our block is probably low with all the indoor/outdoor cats that we have. Lesson for Jim, don’t feed animals that you know nothing about. You are only inviting them to return for more.
4. Okie has a beautiful coat and looks like a 6 year old cat when she is actually over 11 years old. Mehud said she thought she was 6 because of the condition of her teeth. One cracked tooth doesn’t represent neglect. I have seen many children under ten with cracked teeth; doesn’t mean they are neglected.
5. Our house is on the west side of the block and many of the cats prowl the backyards between Densmore and Greenlawn. I am not surprised she found her way to a food source around the corner in Jim’s yard.
5. Jim, thank you for your donation on her behalf. I have reimbursed mehud for the full amount you donated. Alas, I must say you appear to have more concern for a cat than the people you communicate with. You have a nasty, sarcastic and rude approach to your neighbors. This and your judgmental comments (when you know none of the facts) makes for a rather unpleasant manner. You must not have many friends with how you talked to people. Okie will continue to explore the neighborhood and hunt. Please do not feed her and she will not return to visit you. PS She is tagged and chipped.