Don’t feed the cat

Jul 19 2008 by Our Correspondent, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

I HAVE a wonderful ginger cat called Monty who has three legs due to an accident in a car engine bay when he was a kitten.

He was nursed back to health by the RSPCA and the lady who found him injured. She was unable to keep him so we stepped in last March. Being timid he took a while to settle especially with our other cat Tashie.

Unfortunately Tashie was run over outside our house on Manor Road two weeks later and died instantly. (the driver did not stop and she was found by the kids).

Monty was then lavished with even more love and attention and really started to enjoy his routine of going out and over the considerably high back garden fence at night, exploring in the church yard and the school playground, and then coming in to get his breakfast before sleeping the day away on one of the beds.

On Monday he didn’t come home and my two very upset daughters set about putting missing posters up in the library and bus shelters. Late Monday night we were told he was hiding under a neighbour’s decking and eventually enticed him out minus his bright blue collar.

He came home and ate a large meal before heading back off into the night. Tuesday everything was back to normal but today he has not come home again. I have put another collar on him and hope he is just out having fun and doing what cats do.

My worry is that someone has decided he is cute and friendly and is feeding him and giving him a warm space during the day. Cats will go to the person who is feeding them at that moment in time and have no loyalty so I would like to ask the people of Golcar to be aware that the three legged ginger cat hopping his way around the village is a loved cat with all the creature comforts at home and beg them not to let him in or feed him and then he will follow instincts and come home where he belongs.

Lisa Craven

Golcar