Jack the Cat

There’s a stray cat that lives outside my building. And the past couple of nights it’s been below zero and I’m so terrified that she is going to freeze in the middle night. She’s a stranger danger cat, meaning she is pretty scared of me at this point. I went to the grocery store to buy kitty food and treats to charm her, and thus far it is working. While she was out exploring yesterday I set up a bed in the open faced shed in my backyard. I took a box left over from moving and set an old bathmat inside and made a bed out of some raggety towels my mom sent for me to use as rags. I left some treats in the bed so she would get inside and test it out. This morning when I left to run errands she was sitting inside the bed and she looked relatively content! When I came back she was still in her bed so I ran inside and got some more treats and slowly crouched down and layed them on the ground in front of me. It took her a couple of minutes to warm up to me, at first she would take a treat and run away and eat it, then come back for another, but after a while she slowly approached and stayed there to eat the rest. I think it will take her a while to get used to me, but I hope that she does, she is pretty adorable!

As soon as she does get used to me I want to take her to the animal shelter, apparently Heidi's daughter works there, random, but cool and very convenient! So I'm hoping to take Jack, that's what I've taken to calling her, to make sure she is healthy, and get her shots etc. I really hope this works out, I could use a friend!