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Walk a blockie for mental health and bone density… detour to avoid crazy neighbour… spy a familiar voidish form in the alley. Should not have walked there. Sure enough when I get home and shut the door he saunters past and hangs out a bit.
Edit: ok, the camera shows him coming around a few times a day even if I don’t come out or make noise.
Tough love is hard. I’ve stopped feeding or interacting with the cat and try to avoid him now I know he has owners. Trying to encourage him to stay at home and get cared for by his people.
But I am keeping an eye on his condition.
I feel like a monster for suddenly cutting him off. But he was refusing the medication and I was having stress dreams about him living in my house still contagious, multiplying into 2, 4, 8 infected black cats (like ringworm rings spread out). And in the dream my own girl was still alive needing to be protected from the infection.
I wish these arseholes would just treat their cat and give him some attention.
At least I’m no longer seeing him out in the middle of the night. Maybe my warning about the curfew stuck.