My cat, made famous by a blog that included Raven and Nutsy, has disappeared.
My cat, who just came up to our house and made her home on our back porch 7 years ago, has gone.
My cat either found a better place to live and ran away or she has been done in by something larger than she was. We miss her. My husband even admits that he misses her. In fact, he was the one who told me to come see what was on our porch that day 7 years ago. A cat and two kittens!! He said, "If you give them some milk, they'll stay."
He swears that he said, "!!$$##&&%!! Don't you give them any milk or they'll stay!" But that is just the red-neck-expected response. He is really pretty gentle. Once we got rid of the two kittens which quickly turned into 7 kittens, we had the cat spayed and the job became easier.
Back to my guilt feeling. We were eating dinner a few nights ago and a big gray cat came right up to our door and started begging. He was looking right at me and saying, "I'm hungry! I'm friendly! I understand you may have a vacancy on this back porch." Hubby made that same remark again, "If you feed him, he'll stay. "
With his urging, I fed him. He was back the next morning begging again. He was back that night at 6:00 begging again. Morning and night for several days he has come begging. We had left-over cat food from the lost cat so why not feed this cat? He eats like he's starving.
But is he? Here's the thing I'm worried about. Are we guilty of attempted alienation of affection? Are we trying to steal someone's pet? Are we too quick to think that we have been handed another cat just like the one that disappeared. What do you think? Should we shun this cat? Shoo him away?
Here's his picture. This was made tonight after he'd stuffed his belly and was getting a little groggy and sleepy. He's a little cross-eyed too. 
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