#but he did previously have access to our 3 indoor outdoor cats and they all got along

[emeraldbroam]

6.5 cats

So I feel like this is a tale tumblr would like and not just my various discord servers. Ie the tale of why when someone asks me how many cats live in our house I say 6 and a half

Roughly a month ago (1/8 to be exact) I exit my bedroom to discover a random fucking cat in the hallways of my house. Okay, not the first time not the last time, whatever. I trap my cats in their bedroom and open the cat door, no sign of the cat by morning so it's whatever, that's that, right?

Wrong

Also by this point I've already grown attached to my little scrunkly feral man, and nicknamed him Lucifer bc he looks like if you took my cat Lucy, made her into a stuffed animal, and then put her through the washing machine

Next night, guess who comes back through the cat door but Lucifer himself. So I decide fuck it and set out a live trap for him. However he has access to our cats food, so he just eats that instead and leaves the house

He fights with our orange cat during the next night, then no one in the family sees him for a week (but it's possible he's still coming and going)

The next confirmed Lucifer sighting is 1/28, and he allows me to come within 5 feet of him and doesn't kill me for sneaking up on him and poking his very cute butt while he's asleep (he was snoring....)

Then I once again have to leave for a week, during which time I hear no news of Lucifer bc I'm the only one regularly in and out of the cellar where he appears.

I arrive home today to learn that 1. it's very likely Lucifer hasn't left the house in the last 7 days, 2. my aunt and mom are now fully on board with trapping him, and 3. apparently there is cat shit all over the cellar.

I need to remind yall that this is a fully feral cat. 100% belongs to a feral cat colony and has never been a pet. Very likely he's in some way related to my cat Lucy who was adopted as a kitten from that same feral cat colony

Anyways there's a live trap laid and tomorrow I'm gonna go find an empty cardboard box to see if he'll use a litter box and some wet cat food to trap him and take him to the vet, cause he's my good feral boy and I'd say we own 7 cats but my mom insists thats "too many" and "over the top" so until I convince him to sit in her lap and purr, we own 6.5