zygote23
pfm Member
This is Little Martin Black.....he turned up at mine around a month or so ago resplendent with natty dreads, worms, fleas, approximately a pint of slug slime on him and a voice like a banshee.
It took me a week of sitting on the back step calling him and coaxing with a few kibbles before he would get close but he never seemed to go far from the house.
There is a cat flap in my garage door which has no flap and my own cat uses it as one of his summer homes when it is too hot inside. Little Martin Black made himself a bed in a box in there so I left some food each day. Eventually he would eat in my kitchen if the door was open and slowly he braved the sofa to sit beside me each day whilst I read. Oddly my old cat William seemed to tolerate this new imposter!
I took the chance and brought him to my vet who confirmed no microchip and no reports locally of a missing cat. We both agreed he looked about a year old, very underweight and very much endowed with the biggest set of cat maracas we'd seen. A call to the local cats protection and we agreed a date for his spaying. THEY SHAVED HIS ARSE! I've not laughed as much....I've looked after many cats over the years, all Toms, and never has the vet left any with no bum fluff!
Anyhow ...Little Martin Black seems to live here now. He is free to come and go like my own cat and they seem to have a truce despite the crazy kitten half hour in the evenings. My main worry is that I may have taken in a bottomless pit. I have never seen a cat demand nor eat as much in my life...I am hoping he is merely eating to repair his body which as well as being underweight when he arrived was and is still covered in bites and scratches!
He's also very difficult to get a good pic of as he just looks like a big ink blot.