[Cyclefrance]

Cats are disloyal animals.

'WHAT!!!' I hear you exclaim.

Let me qualify.

We had a Siamese many years back. Always seemed to be devoted to us and our household. Never disppeared overnight, would go missing during the day, but, hey, cats explore and like to extend their territory.

By chance we happened to make friends with some neighbours about ten doors away as a result of meeting them unexpectedly on holiday one year. Some good time later, when our children were requiring a babysitter once, and we were strapped to find one, our new neighbourly friends' daughter, then turned 16, offered to help out.

She turned up and exclaimed - there's Suki!

'Huh?' Our babysitter was pointing towards Lulu, our Siamese.

Turns out that Lulu aka Suki (and probably aka a few other names with other neighbours for all we knew) was a regular visitor to them, partaking of the chicken and sardines that they would feed her when she dropped by - they even had a photo (several different ones actually) of her relaxing on their sofa.

Sometimes stray cats aren't exactly that. Since this incident we have discovered several other adaptive felines.

Nevertheless, it's good to know that there are people around like you who will take in a stray and give the cat a good home. Beware though, the possibility (as happened to my wife's aunt) of the sudden knock on the door and a distraught person standing there demanding that you let them have their cat back!

Good luck!