I started feeding stray cats

[Walleye]

7. My elderly cat was 16 or 17 when Patches started showing up a few years ago

I had been feeding a feral cat on my back deck which is on the second floor, the cats can climb up the pole. Patches obviously had been somebody’s house cat, he was about half-grown. He liked to dash inside whenever I opened the door and hide under the table, just for fun, and I had to dig him out. One night I heard a cat fight outside and the next morning Patches was weak and wounded in the belly. Took him to the vet and told her you might as well neuter him as long as he’s here and give him his shots. My older cat had died a few weeks before, and now patches has been my indoor cat for quite a few years. So you just never know with cats. I hope it all works out for you. The feral I was feeding had been trapped and neutered as a kitten. He still comes to my back door for supper and he’s 12 years old