This is Bassie, he’s been living in our neighborhood for a few years, and we’ve been feeding him for about 2 years. He was very skittish, but over the summer, he started making his presence known and waiting for us, at some distance, to put food out when he was hungry.
At first, we couldn’t approach him or say anything to him without him running away. But he gradually let us get closer to him - with an occasional hiss - and we started giving him wet food when we saw him. It took a few weeks of wet food, but he finally let me touch him, and now he has done a complete 180 and is one of the sweetest, most affectionate cats I’ve ever known. We initially thought he was feral, but now we think he was abandoned.
My wife is allergic, so I’ve cleaned out a spot for him in my climate-controlled woodworking shop. I plan to put up a dividing wall and section off about 100 sqft for him so he has a clean and quiet spot when I’m working out there. He has a cat door now and can come and go as he pleases, but he spends most of his time in our backyard. He is a good gardening companion. He will sit quietly near me when I'm working and hop up on my lap for cuddles whenever I take a break.
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