Stray cat on Crystal Palace Road

[Digbina]

My sons came home from their swimming class yesterday quite worried about a cat they saw. Before I call Celia Hammond, does anyone recognise this description - tabby, thin, fur is a bit scruffy, no collar?

[monkeyspanner]

seems a bit extreme to assume it's a stray just because it's scruffy.

Perhaps paper collar it first?

https://www.cats.org.uk/media/1283/com_1032_lost_and_found_collar_print_out_aw.pdf

[mima08]

We are a couple of streets away from CP Road but have a cat of that description come into our garden for months now - we started feeding it because it was getting thinner. Tried paper collar but it rips them off.

The cat here as a distinctive white patch on the front -I've attached some pics, too

[Digbina]

Thanks mima08. I will show them the pictures and take it from there.

Monkeyspanner - I will tell my children to be mindful of making extreme assumptions.

[hpsaucey]

If anyone's worried about a cat and has teied the paper collar there's always a 'scanangel' l9cally who you can get to come and check for a micrichip. See here: https://www.microchipcentral.com/find-a-scan-angel/

HP

[Sue]

Be careful, because I have twice "rescued" a very thin and scruffy cat (different ones) and on both occasions it turned out that they had homes and were thin and scruffy because they were ill.

In one case I was told by builders that the owner had moved and left their cat behind, but it turned out that somebody else in the street had then taken the cat in, which the builders apparently weren't aware of.