Neighborhood PSA: Do you recognize this cat? Oliver is an outdoor cat – he is not lost.
If we had a nickel for every time someone sent us a photo of this cat being reported as “lost,” we’d have a lot of nickels!
Meet Oliver, a 3-year-old ragdoll cat who lives on N Street. Oliver is an outdoor cat, meaning he likes to roam around and explore the neighborhood.
On Thursday, Oliver was dropped off at C-6 on West Broadway – yes, Oliver ended up in the clink. His owners looked at Oliver’s tracker to discover he was far away from home.
According to his owner, Chelsea, he loves to be out of the house and meet new people in the neighborhood. “He loves to lie down in front of people on the sidewalk to say hello.”
Ever since Oliver was a kitten, he was an escape artiste constantly leaving the house. The owners made the decision to let him have his freedom and allow him to roam with the help of a tracker. “Letting him be his best self outside during the day makes his a much less grumpy cat. He comes home a few times a day for food and at night to sleep on his chair. He has a GPS tracker on his collar, wo we can see where he is at all times. Normally, he travels only in the City Point area,” adds Chelsea.
That is until Thursday, when a well-meaning neighbor put Oliver in a car and drove him to the BPD station on West Broadway. “We got so nervous because we looked at his tracker and he was all the way down on West Broadway. “When we got there, he was having great time hanging out with the officers who took great cared of Oliver.”
Chelsea did add the following bit of advice to neighbors who see Oliver. “He is a big storng boy that can scratch and bite. Folks can pet him when he stops to stay hello but they shouldn’t try and pick him up. Our phone number is one his collar if anyone is worried about him or if he’s being a nuisance.”
Maureen Dahill is the founder of Caught in Media. Once a longtime wardrobe and prop stylist for brands such as Rue La La, TJ Max & Hasbro, she is a devoted lover of vintage clothing, Martini Mondays, Castle Island, AND a 4th generation South Boston native.
This happens wayyy to much , go on Patch or Neighbors in smaller communities i swear ppl are taking street cats just to put add out and pretend there hero’s and in reality they just don’t agree w/ outdoor Cats! You see ad after ad for cat seen today or if anyone lost cat I saw in my garage? Get a life …
What a beautiful cat Oliver is! It’s great that he’s being taken care of, and that people are being advised to be careful with Oliver and not to try to pick him up.
Btw, I’m an exotic birds person, who not only had budgeriers when I was growing up, and afew years after I’d grown up, but after going for a number of years without any pets, I had a playful Noble Macaw, named McGee. who passed away due to unknown causes 2 months short of his 20th birthday, in early February of 2010.
After taking some time to mourn McGee’s passing and to do some research on exotic birds, I began asking around about pet stores. All roads pointed to Bird & Reptile Connection, down in East Walpole, MA, right on Route 1 South. I visited the birds, looked at a Goffins Cockatoo, which is one of the smaller cockatoos, did some research, and after reading some rather frightful stuff about cockatoos, decided on the African Grey Parrot, instead.
I was going to get a Timneh African Grey Parrot, which is slightly different colored than the Congo African Grey Parrots, and two hundred dollars cheaper. Shortly before the Timneh African Greys were due to arrive in the store, however, the store’s owner forwarded me an email that she’d received from the breeder somewhere down in Florida, that the baby Timneh African Greys that were due to arrive at Bird & Reptile pet store had been killed by the parents, and no body knew why.
Fortunately, the manager of the store and her husband went out to Albany, NY to pick up 2 baby Congo African Greys, and that she’d be able to sell me one of the Congo African Grey Parrots for the price of one of the Timneh Greys, which would’ve been $200.00 cheaper. It was a sweet offer, which I immediately took her up on. On Saturday, April 10, 2010, they were due to arrive in the store, and I drove down there to pick out one of the Congo African Greys. The smaller of the 2 Congo African Greys immedi ately tried to climb up the front of my shirt, and I immediately had a connection. I purchased the Congo African Grey, and she was put on reserve for me. One of the staffmembers of the pet store took a small sample of blood from her toenail, and sent it out to a lab out in San Diego, CA, that specializes in testing for a pet’s gender through blood samples. It turned out to be a girl, who I named Aziza (she was born on 2/1/2010), I’ve had her since, and she’s great. She talks, whistles, and mimics various sounds including the touchtone phone, the timer, the microwave, and the sound of a bus or truck backing up, quite nicely. Since African Greys tend to whistle, she even whistles the Jet gang whistle from the 1961 film version of “West Side Story. She’ll be 15 years old next month! Wow!
Does anybody else on here have beloved pets at home? Just wondering.
Oliver’s such a beautiful cat! Wow!!
Domestic cats, allowed to roam free, kill billions of songbirds every year in the US alone.
I know that you won’t post this, but you should not promote behavior the wreaks havoc on our ecosystem. Just saying. A responsive PSA would note that domestic cats are destroying the songbird population in the United States. One third of song birds in the US are endangered or in serious decline as a result and the problem is largely due to irresponsible or under informed pet owners. Think of that next time you hear the songbirds sing, then imagine a world without it. All the best.
…”The songbird of my generation”, so……
Cats have a right to be here, too. And to be outside, they certainly aren’t killing all the song birds, and maybe “survival of the fittest” applies here. Did you see Oliver kill a bird? Not all cats are killers anyway!
I’m looking for our cat. we live on N Street and lost “Whitey” about a month ago. he is an older mostly white with other mixed colors. He also is an escape artist. There is a reward for his return.
I don’t want to see songbirds killed, but I don’t think anyone has complained about songbirds or any birds being found dead on the streets in South Boston. So, my guess is that Oliver is not killing any birds.