Meet Kevin

Here’s are a couple of photos of “our” stray cat, who I’ve tentatively named Kevin.  He didn’t like me poking around his rear end, so he could possibly end up being a Katie, but I think he’s a neutered male:

I’ve been feeding him at our front porch feeding station for at least the last three or four months, and he’s never had a collar, and doesn’t have a microchip.  I feed him quite a lot of food (he gets about twice as much as I give our pets), and he’s not getting fat, so I have to assume I’m the only person feeding him.  He’s completely adopted our property as his own… he has a nest in a bunch of tall grass, he has a den under some palm fronds, he drinks from the pool, and spends afternoons waiting for me on top of one of the concrete walls.  I could never get more than about four feet close to him until the day I brought out the miracle can of wet food, and that day he ate from a spoon I was holding, and within three days I was petting him and picking him up.  Our daily feeding routine includes me bringing him into the laundry room for a few minutes of “cuddle time”, then he trots back outside through the garage and eats on the porch.  I’ve tried to convince him to just stay inside the garage, because I hate how cold it gets at night (and I assume he’s outside), but he won’t have it, and I’m not in any position to insist right now.  I’ve put a collar on him with our phone number as a way to try to contact any possible owner he might have (and to save him from our deadly city shelter), but I’m assuming that soon we’ll end up taking him in for vaccines and a microchip.  If I didn’t have our current fat farm fosters I’d bring him inside, but for now, I only have room for him outdoors.  I hope he never goes missing without explanation, as I’d have a tough time forgiving myself for leaving him outside.  He’s a gorgeous, friendly cat, weighs about 15 lbs., and has beautiful teeth (so I assume he’s young).  Let me know if you’d like to add him to your family and I’ll arrange his transportation!

On a related note, I’ve been using a large Rubbermaid dog house as a cat shelter on our porch, but it’s really too large to be practical, and it’s tough to keep warm.  Instructables.com has this plan for making a small cat shelter out of an insulated cooler, so it’s something I’m going to try to make before next winter.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 01/05 at 10:58 PM

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  1. If only you could put him on a plane and send him to the UK. He is gorgeous!!

    Posted by Char  on  01/06  at  05:04 PM

  2. What a handsome kitteh he is!

    Posted by Helly  on  01/06  at  05:15 PM
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