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Before

After

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The two pictures featuring the cat’s acclimation cage were taken before she trashed it and after she trashed it. She trashes the cage during the night. In the “after” picture you can see the food bowl in her bed, and the red blanket that she has pulled down into her litter box.

If there is any good news to report it is that she is eating very well. She is on an antibiotic regimen for a fairly serious endometrial infection and I want to make sure she takes her pills. I have been giving her Wellness canned food, Purina dry food and wrapping the pills in bits of canned sardines and tuna. She barely touches her food during the day; she appears to be a night eater. There was no evidence of food after I removed the bowl from her bedding these last two days.

Whatever doubts I had about her being feral  vanished after I showed the cat to my friend Cindy of Charles River Alley Cats. She noted that the cat does not blink when we look at her; she said that is a fear response. You can see the cat’s wide-eyed look in the photo below. She is a good-looking girl, especially for a cat that lives on the street. We don’t believe she was owned, but Cindy suspects that  somebody may have been feeding her and perhaps her kittens, which the vet said she had about 10 weeks ago. I am going to post her photograph in the neighborhood and see if I can find out if there is a feral colony in the area that somebody is feeding.