Originally Posted by cjomomma
Now the poor baby has decided I'm his mommy. What do I do? I can't have pets here. Any suggestions?
If you can't keep him, you need to use a cat trap and catch him, and then take to Animal Control. Most of the humane organizations will lend cat traps. Call around. Better he gets to a shelter for possible adoption than living wild, being fed out of your back door.
I have had nothing but shelter adopted and abandoned cats and dogs for my whole life. I have several cats at a time, most found wandering as kittens or strays who adopt me, and we have 4 dogs, 2 came from rescues, 1 was a stray, and 1 came from a home breeder (questionable situation!). All are spayed/neutered. I used to feed ferral/stray cats at my other house (at one time I had 17 coming to eat), but someone in our neighborhood complained to Animal Control, and they came and trapped them all, including my own pets. I had to go bail them out of the shelter. And I got a lecture instead of a Thanks for feeding the strays. I don't do it any more.