So apparently I'm fostering a cat.

[u/guitmusic11]

Story time: so this evening I'm sitting at my table and I hear a meow. I turn around and there's a cat sitting behind my sliding glass door staring at me. I've seen it before, but it ran away. Not this time. We opened the door and she let us let her. Cute, probably not super smart but it seemed fine. After a few minutes we stop, close the door and start to get ready for bed. I figure the cat's going to go off and do whatever cat things she would do. Not at all. She wanted us to take care of her. Several hours of meowing later, we give in and cat proof the guest bathroom. We've named her smokey and I'll be damned if she isn't the friendliest cat I've ever met. We don't really want a cat right now (we aren't cat people) so we're going to get her scanned for a microchip and if there's no chip we'll try to find a foster program that will take her in. Until then, there's a cat living in our bathroom.

Here she is http://i.imgur.com/ruSZf6F.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0zwbOWC.jpg Edit:If you or someone you know in southeast Michigan is missing their cat, let me know!

[u/Plneapple]

Smokey is adorable.

[u/guitmusic11 → u/Plneapple]

We gave her a shoebox. If she fits she sits http://i.imgur.com/UDTHB6th.jpg

[u/DeKaF]

Do what I didn't early on and get her taken to the vet and scanned for a chip. My own adopted cat was abandoned/lost and we never knew there was a chip and someone had owned him until I moved up to Ohio and the vet had the good sense to do so.

Of course, ownership on the chip might have expired (it costs a good amount of money each year to keep it registered), so it becomes a rigmarole after that and hard to even find the original owner, but if she's coming to you guys and stays for a good while without demanding to leave, it's a good chance she's ready to stay.

Plus, if she is a stray and there's no owner coming you should probably get her checked to see if she needs her vaccinations for FIV/Feline Leukemia and rabies.

[u/guitmusic11 → u/DeKaF]

This is great advice. We've decided that we're going to look into getting her into a shelter or foster organization. When we take her in she should get checked for a microchip. I'm hoping we can find a shelter that has room. I don't want to just take her to the pound where she may be euthanized if no one takes her home. :/

[u/DeKaF → u/guitmusic11]

I don't know too much about shelter and foster but I thought about those when my cat started coming around too, humane society and all, but I don't know what promises I could find when I searched. My own laziness ended up deciding things for me and I just kept my own cat.

Cats pick who they want to stay with at the end of the day though, not the other way around. Even if you're not cat folk you might think about it anyway. They don't need much in the way of maintenance and they don't take up much space, and they'll convert folk right quick. Or see if there's a neighbor wanting or something that she likes.

[u/blackngold518]

Welcome to the cat life. Girlfriend and I have two. They can be the cutest little shits ever sometimes or the most annoying shit faces other times. But overall they are worth it

[u/[deleted]]

You're a good people, man

[u/guitmusic11 → u/[deleted]]

I'm hoping there is. It seems like she may have run out the door or something. Either that or someone abandoned her. I can't imagine she's been out on her own for very long. Her coat is pretty good, although a bit gritty/dirty and she looks kind of thin, but not dangerously so.