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Junior: RIP January 22, 2016 — 2 Comments

  1. The decision for an outdoor feral is easy. The consequences are sad, because we’ve enjoyed his company. If he had been known to be a good indoor cat and easily handled, he might have had other options. But after nearly a year, we could barely pet him. He was still too wild.

    Had Sneaky been positive, I would have brought her into the house and had all eight indoor cats vaccinated. She’s a known good indoor cat, but I haven’t been able to integrate her with the indoor cats yet. She was in the house the other night, and Ajax was giving her a hard time. Lady is always a problem. But Sneaky is more a pet than a feral, so she has earned a different consideration. For now, we’ll keep her FIV vaccination current. I thought we’d been doing that, but the vaccine isn’t known to be 100% effective, so they don’t give it except to high risk cats, which Sneaky and Walter are. I’ll have to make sure every time any of the outdoor cats go in that this is done in the future.