The Feral Cat That I Feed Is On Top of The Roof Of My House….

Didn’t come to eat yesterday at all and I think only once the day before. I was calling & calling & thought I heard him meow. I looked through the fence at the neighbor’s junky patio and no cat there. Sometimes hides there when it’s really windy & cold, it got down to 9 F. Last night. Heard something on the roof last night while watching TV and sounded like a squirrel walking around but they usually don’t do it at night. I don’t know how the cat could stay up there without eating and sleep there when it was so windy and the temperatures so low and no shelter. I don’t know what to do. Put the ladder up against the house when we saw it up there after I brought the boy home and didn’t see him, before that I put a plate of food on a plastic lawn chair and held it up trying to lure him down and he wouldn’t come down. The boy is out there now with a ladder and food trying to get it down.

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Driver2 · M

Probably was threatened by another cat or something else . I feed one too and he does go on my roof. I think they like to be high up to see around them.
He will come down to eat they are very smart .

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Driver2 Yeah I think so but it’s probably been 48 hours since he ate. How long can a cat stay on the roof in subfreezing very windy weather and no shelter and not eat? Dangerous. I got good food for him too and he knows it.

Driver2 · M

@cherokeepatti he must be scared maybe a bigger cat is after him
I don’t know much about cats I’m sure someone here does .

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Driver2 I saw a cat in the neighborhood that i hadn’t seen before but to stay up there for days and nights without eating is ridiculous.

Driver2 · M

@cherokeepatti I agree

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Driver2 I got some random cat off the roof of the house about 15 years ago by luring it with a plate of food. Put up a plastic chair after holding the food up and letting him smell it and got the cat to come to the much lower roof on the covered deck and he jumped down in the chair and then got on the grass and ate up the food. This feral cat I’ve been feeding for years and lets me pet him sometimes but won’t come down.