FOUND CAT: Black and White cat - South Shields area, Tyne and Wear

Thank you so much for the update Catlover68. It was great to get some more information. Nobody has come forward to claim him on any of the sites we have advertised him on. He has been with us a couple of months now and we have offered him a forever home with us. Progress has been very slow but having followed the experts advice he has gone from hiding almost constantly to spending lots of time with us. He adores being petted and sitting in laps. One by one he has gotten used to us and although he is still very skittish if he gets a fright, he has come on leaps and bounds. We adore him and have named him Sméagol after the Lord of the Rings character because he reminds us of him from some of the facial reaction he pulls and the way he acts. He has had visits to the vets to get him healthy. His FIV test came back negative. He has now been neutered and does not caterwaul almost constantly now. His coat is much improved, he’s cleaner and loves to sleep in warm comfortable places. We are slowly introducing him to our existing older cat, Jinx who doesn’t like him. Sméagol wants so much for Jinx to interact with him, but Jinx is 14 and can’t be bothered. We felt a bit mean to Jinx bringing another cat into the home but honestly we felt like we might be condemning Sméagol to life in a shelter because of the way he looks and behaves. Plus we love him and think Jinx will accept him if we keep introducing them correctly. There has not been a serious fight. We do hope Sméagol has a happy ever after with us. If anyone else knows anything about him I would love to hear. I have no idea when or how he lost his tail or piece of his ear and am curious whether they were gone when you used to see him about Catlover? We also learned he was hanging out on the estate near Downhill Infants school for several months.