AbigailFerris
10-16-2011, 09:28 PM
<li class="list_spacer">Patch is a good-natured, shy neutered Domestic Short-Hair young adult cat. He weighed about 10 pounds the day he got away from Animal Kingdom Vet Hospital - their negligence. Could be less now that he's (presumably) not being fed on someone's back doorstep every day.<li class="list_spacer">At first look, you see a mostly white head, shoulders and legs. His "grey" is actually irregular, random grey tabby markings on his back and hips. If you see a "grey cat", it's not him.<li class="list_spacer">One of his shoulders (white) has a round sliver dollar-size grey "Patch" marking.<li class="list_spacer">Below one eye (light yellow with noticeable pink around lids) there is a dark, vertical line that looks like a scratch or a dirty scab. It's a bit startling if you're not used to looking at him. Just an odd gray-ish marking in his fur. Nothing wrong.<li class="list_spacer">He has a disarmingly impish demeanor, sort of an innocence. His personality is like Beaver Clever, Opie Taylor and Dennis the Menace all rolled into one. I'm just not sure how he'll be with strangers after this long. It took a few months of setting food out and walking away for him to start warming up and trusting me. Eventually, we bonded and he claimed me as his human. (We think we own them, don't we? I believe in many cases, they choose whom they want to adopt and own!)I've received calls indicating he might be camping out in the immediate vicinity of the Laguna Trail, off Morris Street. Since June 28th, I've been there tirelessly, numerous times a week, and have yet to see him.
My hunch is that he set out to try and find his way back to where we lived when he vanished: on Pharoahs Lane, off Burnside near Bloomfield Road. Please be on the look-out and if you're willing to lure him with some food, he'll probably hang around long enough for me to get there and pick him up. He won't let a stranger scoop him up; the best thing to do is give him space, and resist the urge to reach for him or pursue him. Just let him feel safe and he'll stick around.
He means a great deal to me and I'm hoping someone kind and compassionate has found him, even if they're not reading this. At least, if I knew he was OK, I'd feel better.
Thank you for any and all help,
Abigail Ferris
(707) 931-4411
My hunch is that he set out to try and find his way back to where we lived when he vanished: on Pharoahs Lane, off Burnside near Bloomfield Road. Please be on the look-out and if you're willing to lure him with some food, he'll probably hang around long enough for me to get there and pick him up. He won't let a stranger scoop him up; the best thing to do is give him space, and resist the urge to reach for him or pursue him. Just let him feel safe and he'll stick around.
He means a great deal to me and I'm hoping someone kind and compassionate has found him, even if they're not reading this. At least, if I knew he was OK, I'd feel better.
Thank you for any and all help,
Abigail Ferris
(707) 931-4411