Here is Sprout. He has been hanging around a ladys house for months & months & she had got one of our traps (not that anyone knew about that, but that's another story) anyway, she used to be a CP volunteer and I spoke to her a couple of months back about this cat (and she announces she was given a trap last summer to catch him, but never did) I said if he's feral, we can't take him, but if you catch him we'll neuter him and see what he's like.... Well yesterday we got a message to say she thought he was unwell and she had trapped him, so he went to the vets but they just blood tested him & we've had him to monitor him because the lady thought he was quiet & possibly sneezing. He will let you handle him & pick him up, but he's unsure. He came to me last night and has not eaten since the lady fed him on Sunday evening. (Vets didn't feed him & he has decided not to eat here last night / today) I've not heard him sneeze at all & he appears in good health, although he stinks & he is just how you would imagine a stray Tom to be, his white bits are filthy in places. His coat is greasy & dirty, but I like the old tom cats like him. We wanted to pick a name to symbolise a grubby old man, so we came up with Sprout
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