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davis_squareIs this your cat hanging out on our porch for the past two nights, or do you know someone missing him??? He is a healthy-looking, friendly, medium-to-large sized short-hair with light orange/buff tabby (striped) coloring and yellow eyes. Has a black collar but no tags. Well-fed, obviously has a home somewhere but he seems to think that he is lost or doesn't know his way back to it.
We found him loitering on our porch on Cameron Avenue at the West Somerville / North Cambridge line. He's been lingering since 9:00PM on Saturday 11/16.
Please call or email if you are missing him. We absolutely cannot keep him and will have to contact animal control if he is not claimed soon, as our land-lord has forbidden any more animals on the property.
305-849-0968 or [email protected]
We found him loitering on our porch on Cameron Avenue at the West Somerville / North Cambridge line. He's been lingering since 9:00PM on Saturday 11/16.
Please call or email if you are missing him. We absolutely cannot keep him and will have to contact animal control if he is not claimed soon, as our land-lord has forbidden any more animals on the property.
305-849-0968 or [email protected]
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Date: 2013-11-18 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-18 06:26 am (UTC)(An individual can't unless you somehow have a chip reader??)
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Date: 2013-11-18 06:36 am (UTC)Vets, shelters, and animal control tend to have them. I'd call a nearby vet and if they don't have a scanner they should know someone who does.
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Date: 2013-11-18 01:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-19 01:07 am (UTC)The vet isn't going to just take the cat away. It's not their job, and they probably don't have space anyway.
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Date: 2013-11-19 02:11 am (UTC)Do people actually take the time to bring roaming cats in to get them checked for chips? I feel like I'd have a hard time justifying spending the time on that, although I'm appreciative of people who do.
The whole chip thing kind of mystifies me, really.
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Date: 2013-11-19 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-19 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-19 01:37 am (UTC)And an update - the cat disappeared for most of today, showing up only once this afternoon and then taking off again. After the comments from the other folks who seem to live nearby, I'm starting to think he's just a friendly neighborhood roamer who decided that our porch looked like a good snuggle spot for a few nights and now he's moved on.
If he shows up again for any extended time and our land-lord makes a fuss about his loitering, I have few different folks who've offered to adopt him. While I would never want to give away a cat that has a real home, I think if he's here for 3-4 consecutive days and doesn't disappear in the middle, he's genuinely in need of a better (indoor) home.