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Unexpected visitor
Jun. 28th, 2009 12:31 amIt has been a pretty good weekend so far. Yesterday I went to look at a house and all signs are pretty go. Today I worked a 7 hour shift in Auburn, which is less fantastic except it means I earned 7 hours of overtime, and money is never bad. After which I had a delicious salmon and asparagus dinner with friends and went to see Transformers, which was enormously fun, despite being a terrible movie.
Now I am home and somewhat perplexed, because there is a cat in my apartment.
She is not my cat. She was hanging around the back door to my apartment, waiting for someone to let her in, and slipped around my feet when I went inside. Then she followed me up the stairs and into my apartment.
She does not have a collar or a chip (that I can tell) but she is very obviously tame, a pet. She immediately started wandering around the apartment exploring, and purring and rubbing up when she is petted. I gave her some water and some warmed up ham and she ate them, but it's hard to tell from that whether she is really starving or not.
In approximate order of probability, she:
-belongs to someone around here and either escaped to explored the outdoors, or goes outdoors regularly and got locked out (I have not seen this cat around before)
-belongs to one of the new tenants who moved in today, and was ditched when they moved out of housing that allowed pets into housing that doesn't;
-belonged to a college student or resident who thought she was cute when she was a kitten, and was ditched when she started to grow up (I'd put her at about six months to a year old.)
She is very charming, and I would very much like to keep her, but I am probably going to have to put her outside before I go to sleep tonight.. Leaving aside the business of her not being my cat, this apartment has a no-pets policy, and even if it didn't have such a policy, I don't have any cat food or a litter pan.
If she continues to hang around my apartment unclaimed for the next few days, I might make inquiries to the local vet and pound, and if nobody claims her, I'll see if I can put her up somewhere until I move into my new pet-friendly home. But I'm probably getting ahead of myself here.
Picture of the cutie.
Now I am home and somewhat perplexed, because there is a cat in my apartment.
She is not my cat. She was hanging around the back door to my apartment, waiting for someone to let her in, and slipped around my feet when I went inside. Then she followed me up the stairs and into my apartment.
She does not have a collar or a chip (that I can tell) but she is very obviously tame, a pet. She immediately started wandering around the apartment exploring, and purring and rubbing up when she is petted. I gave her some water and some warmed up ham and she ate them, but it's hard to tell from that whether she is really starving or not.
In approximate order of probability, she:
-belongs to someone around here and either escaped to explored the outdoors, or goes outdoors regularly and got locked out (I have not seen this cat around before)
-belongs to one of the new tenants who moved in today, and was ditched when they moved out of housing that allowed pets into housing that doesn't;
-belonged to a college student or resident who thought she was cute when she was a kitten, and was ditched when she started to grow up (I'd put her at about six months to a year old.)
She is very charming, and I would very much like to keep her, but I am probably going to have to put her outside before I go to sleep tonight.. Leaving aside the business of her not being my cat, this apartment has a no-pets policy, and even if it didn't have such a policy, I don't have any cat food or a litter pan.
If she continues to hang around my apartment unclaimed for the next few days, I might make inquiries to the local vet and pound, and if nobody claims her, I'll see if I can put her up somewhere until I move into my new pet-friendly home. But I'm probably getting ahead of myself here.
Picture of the cutie.
