Lost cat?

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

Hi there,

I have a bit of a situation I'm hoping someone can help with. On Saturday, while I was moving, I noticed this gorgeous black cat with a small gold tag wandering on Albion Street (at the beginning, just off Central) and she stopped on my porch briefly. I noticed a name on the tag - Yakuza or something similar - and called the number on the tag, but got an answering machine. Left a message saying the cat was wandering around, cat wandered off, didn't think much about it.

Well, apparently, this cat is now in my old apartment, and no longer has the tag on. My landlord freaked and thought that it was my cat (I have a fuzzy black cat already), and is now freaking out because she doesn't know what to do with the cat.

So here's the question: 1) has anyone lost this cat recently? and 2) if nobody HAS lost the cat, does anyone WANT to take a very sweet, loveable cat home with them? I've already chatted with my boyfriend about it, and although the cat is adorable, we can't take her home with us.

I just moved to Watertown, and would really rather not have to return to the old place to deal with this; please buzz me at dani at tzk-design dot com if you have any information and I can give you my landlord's phone number.

Thanks in advance!

update: Turns out I was able to find the number by going into the T-Mobile website and looking back a few pages in my call listing. The owner is calling my landlord this afternoon. THank you all for your thoughts!

Comments

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

I actually agree with this. I've never been able to understand outdoor cats in a city; it's just too dangerous. Aside from the obvious problem of cars and drunken idiots at all hours, a number of the outdoor cats I've seen in this city don't even have FLEA COLLARS on.

[avjudge]

Indoor vs. in/out is a religious argument, so I don't bother entering it. I make up my own mind about my own cats & local situation. However, for the city vs. country/suburbs thing, seems to me a trade-off - the cars move way slower around my house here compared to rural northern NH or suburban western CT, and there are way fewer on our street than where we lived in CT, and I don't worry about coyotes, traded off against the risk from the human population.

I did microchip my youngest cat. I don't know what the odds are that the cat you found has been chipped (probably not high), but it might be worth a scan.

Anne

[adaptively.livejournal.com]

Indoors vs. outdoors may be religious among cat owners, but those of us out there who don't care for other peoples' pets defecating on our property, or don't like entertaining the idea of a rapidly growing feral cat colony in an urban area getting rabies, would appreciate your consideration as well. :)

Most animal rescues will no longer adopt out cats to people who say that they will let their cats roam free.