Good morning:

Chelle here.

Several weeks ago I trapped a medium sized to small gray tabby/white mix male.
He was
neutered, rabies shot, combo test negative. He bit the vet and was put in
rabies observation
for 10 days. I took him home and put him in a cage since I had two others in
the same room
with him, one who was sick and the other who was very dominant and may have
started a
fight. Medium sized dog crate covered with a blanket. He went used the box,
and on the third
day I noted much less stool in the box. He would not drink much. He would not
eat at all. I
put him back outside at 11:30 p.m. near my portch. I tried lots of stuff to
get him to eat, but
the vet said he would be in danger if he did not eat for more than 3 days. 2.5
weeks later he came back to my house. I feed him, but he is still very
frightened. He is not a dominant cat and is not a good food competitor. He
spends a few hours a day lounging around my portch, and he
cries so very much. I can't see any open wounds, broken extremities, he moves
well and runs
without a limp. Any ideas on what he would want with all the crying? All my
inside cats are fixed. He is fixed.

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"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights
which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.
The question is not can they REASON, nor can they TALK, but can they SUFFER?"
-- Jeremy Bentham