I wasn’t in this morning but The guy next door knocked and said to my wife “I think your cat is in my garage”.
He was laid behind a pile of stuff in there but came out when my wife went in and called him.
My neighbour has checked his garage several times. we didn’t realise the side door had a Gap at the bottom that Joe is likely to be able to squeeze through so whether he has recently moved into the garage or he has been using it as a base to explore I guess we’ll never know.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time standing In front of their garage door this past week to hear him in case he was in there but there’s be no sound.
So far he’s demolished some biscuits and half a tin of tuna fish 🙂 going to run him to the vets for a check over but he seems absolutely fine. Mind you, his sister is giving him some grief .. Hissing at him!
I just need to let the whole estate know now that he’s home!
He doesn’t look too concerned that he ruined my week off….
Our ‘house cat’ wasn’t ‘kept’ in the house, she just purrferred (see what I did there?) to not go out much & hardly ventured out of our boundary.
That fluffy black one that wanders around here with impunity seems to have no home but comes into our house at will & has even been trapped in our bathroom for an afternoon!
Mind you, his sister is giving him some grief .. Hissing at him!
Woah, woah, woah!
Are you sure you have not now got a replicant cat? Or a voodoo possessed cat? His sister may be on to something you know..
They’ve sorted their differences … They were due their boosters so they both got bunged into a cat carrier for a trip to the vets. No room for squabbling in that!
Joe’s made himself comfortable in his usual sleep spot. Looks like he’s lost a bit of weight too so every cloud 🙂
So, are you going to lock him up now or let him be a natural cat ?
Well the problem is I don’t know if he’s been in that garage all week or if he’s been out and about being a ‘natural cat’ as you put it …
For all I know he may have been in the garage all this time without venturing out and exploring.
Male black cats can be wanderers and explorers. A neighbour’s cat much like yours would roam all around the neighbourhood and sneak into everyone’s house. Kept getting into my house and would get into everything. Always wanted to climb on top of things for some reason. I knew another that went for miles to return to it’s old home when the owners moved to another town.
Maybe if he’s really looking for a quiet place, away from the other cat then he might appreciate having a box to himself.
You could make some kind of wooden box with holes for air and a safety hatch to let him out if he gets stuck.
But the clever part is using one of those cat flaps that’s opened by an electrical signal from the cats collar as the main door into the box. He’s got his own collar that lets him in and out of his box as he pleases, without interference from the other cat.
Though, cats also appreciate some shrubbery placed next to the cat flap as this helps them scope for any danger before they step ‘outside’
Glad he’s back. Had one that looked like him that i had for my birthday when I was 7 he left one day when I was about 10, I put up posters etc after a few weeks I lost hope and just assumed the worst.
6 months later he wandered in the cat flap like nothing happened!
My mum’s cat was been missing for 4 days, just been found dead on a neighbour’s front lawn. Beautiful little brown burmese. 14(?) years old. Her brother’s in a state. Same litter, been together since birth. 🙁