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first, your issue. If Buddy needs and depends on you, even if he scores here and there, he's still your rat, i mean cat lol...even my 3 beasts sometimes, i have learned, will visit neighbors and have a snack and even a nap....but they don't need anything that isn't readily available to them at their 'home'....Buddy probably of the same temperment. As to my problem it concerns a 'Perfect Stranger' a feral stray cat who first snuck in open window the winter of '04/05, last year, to eat and run. 'It' (i have no idea if male/female, though its size suggest male) looked to have something wrong with its eyes; they looked full of gunk, or so i thought at the time-it was partially due to this that i allowed 'perfect stranger' to visit and, with last winter so very cold etc, to spend quality time being warm etc. Perfect Stranger feared any approach, shehe hissed every time i got near...also, my 3 lil felines disliked perfect stranger, alot....to summarise, i kept allowing PS to visit, eat and spend time in the safe house...over the months shehe became a regular visitor and became increasingly less ungracious in hisher snarls and hisses, until they're now largely a formality....my question is (when Perfect Stranger 1st began coming around, the idea was to trap the animal, get it treated and maybe find a home for it, 3 cats is the max here!)...anyone still reading can see that ad hoc is the policy at work in this milieu lol! Anyway, it was Perfect Stranger who gave my cats the sneezes...PS was sneezing earlier but seems to have gotten over it. Naturally, there was a concern about any illness PS could infect mine with (Missy 2 got her bad cold from PS, i'm certain, now Freddy has the sneezes, though it hasn't worsened into a cold) until Perfect Stranger sees a vet, there's no idea what shehe's carrying, and obviously this isn't a situation that can be allowed...the question is, what do the pet group experts think should be done? locking PS out really isn't possible now (just in terms of goodwill)...how does one handle a feral cat, even one who's been semi domesticated (perfect stranger does disappear for long periods, up to a few days, even now)? ...i've let this situation fester too long, i know, but being firm with cats, especially a homeless little guy...just isn't as easy as being 'flexible' :((((
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