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Name: Gator
Status: Adopted!
Species: Cat
Breed: Domestic Short Hair / Mixed (short coat)
Sex: Male (neutered)
General Potential Size: Medium
General Age: Adult
Good with Dogs: Yes
Good with Cats: Yes
Good with Kids: Yes
Declawed: No
Housetrained: Yes
Description:

DOB appx 2008.  DSH orange mackeral tabby, neutered male.  He has a head tilt to the left, which is usually caused by eating lizards and/or mice (i.e., "game").  It is called Idiopathic Vestibular Syndrome and does not affect his health.  Gator gets along fine with other cats and is very sweet, loves to be petted. If you pet him and stop, he will bat at your hand to keep petting!!!

Here's his story, written by his rescuer!

I was at the gym Monday morning (11/15) and I got out of my car and I heard something crying and crying and crying.  I was like, "What is that???" because it was so loud and I walked around to the other side of my car and I saw this really cute orange cat and it's just staring up at me crying and crying like, "Please feed me!".  So, I felt so horrible and I walked in to tell the gym manager and she said , "I know..the cat." and I said, "Yes, we have to feed it...it's so hungry!" and she said they didn't have any food for it, but then I made her give it some oatmeal.  So, we took the food outside and the cat was hesitant, but then it came up and started to eat the oatmeal.  We went back inside and  she said the cat had been there since Thursday and has been crying non-stop, but they're not allowed to feed stray cats according to their lease.  She said that some of the people at the gym have been complaining about it so they called Animal Control, but Animal Control never came to get the cat.   

  
So,  I just couldn't leave the poor cat there to cry and I didn't want it to be picked up by Animal Control (and my gym is on a very busy road so I was concerned about it getting run over by a car), so ended up catching the cat and taking it with me to work.   I took him to the vet and it turns out he's already been neutered so I definitely believe he was someone's pet before and that they just dropped him off outside the gym last week (and that's why he was confused and lonely and crying so much).  The vet thinks he's about one-year-old.

Because the vet needed a name for him, I temporarily named him Gator because he's orange and he was so blue (i.e. crying) when I found him (and I'm a graduate of UF) :)

Contact: Mona at meowmail1@gmail.com

 

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