I would always feed the birds on my back deck, and one day, I happened to see a cat in my yard eating corn on the cob. I went and bought cat food and started feeding the cat in my yard. Then I noticed I was feeding 4 cats.
Then one day, they started to go missing one by one. The only one left was Dipper. I think the neighbor down the block was poisoning them. I opened my back door, and Dipper started to come into my house. My husband enclosed our back deck so she could go outside but not roam the streets.
She has lived in our home since. She is still very feral as she is not a lap cat, but she does let my husband and I pet her on her terms.
LYNBROOK, NY
