A couple of stray cats around here. First one is a tom named "Zorro" (just look at that mask!) - people here are scared of him because he's huge, and his build is really muscular. However, once you gain his trust, he's actually docile as an indoor pet. I suspect he might have been someone's pet but got loose, again...I encountered him as a kitten back in 2010, left him in a box and assumed his mom cat picked him up, then he reappeared sometime in late 2011/early 2012 as a huge, clean tom "knocking" on (actually, grabbing and shaking) the screen door on my terrace. Dumbass me opened it and he ran into my bedroom and slept under the bed, only to find it occupied (my indoor tomcat was right freakin' there, I nearly had a heartattack thinking they'd be at each other's throats). I pulled him back out, set him on an old basin with an old blanket in the terrace, and gave him food. He sleeps there every afternoon, if not on my car's roof if I'm home; sometimes he stays there at night looking down at the street instead of prowling ground-level. He's kinda gruffy right now, but if no one in the neighborhood responds to posters for him, I'll have him neutered, bring him indoors and clean him up (which will take more than a bath; might need a few weeks on Omega Magic on top of the NutriPet I'm spiking his food with), and find him a good home.
When I first ran into him, he was a kitten...then he disappeared for over a year.
This one I called "Grungie," as a "nicer" way to refer to the dermatitis on her face when she first showed up over here - bald head, dry, red, flaky skin - but it's cleared up well enough with a more proper diet of fish meat (even if just heads and tail meat left-overs). I'm arranging for some people to take them in, and I'll have them neutered/spayed on my own dime, just to get them into good homes. I'd not see them around but otherwise knowing they're in good homes, than getting scared whenever they don't show up for meals.
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The neighbors' "rescue" (as in they picked them up off the street, had the vet check them, no adoption fee) cat who runs out of their house after breakfast then sneaks in snacks over at my house before their real dinner at around 10pm. They call her "Mewmews," but my aunt next door calls her "Cat
pao" and her white rescue sister "
Siomeow," after
Siopao - the steamed, meat stew-stuffed buns that for the longest time were said to have cat meat in them. They're no longer taken seriously over here, but some people remind us that back in the mainland people actually do eat cats, and petnapping is lucrative especially when they can nab some exotic pets in Shanghai then sell the meat elsewhere.