When we went on our cruise at the end of last month we decided to go to Ft. Lauderdale a day early to reduce the chance that car trouble would cause us to miss the ship. We stayed at a hotel called Hyatt Place which was close to the cruise terminal.
About an hour before we planned to go out to eat, I walked down to get something out of the car. On the way I crossed paths with a little gold cat. He was very friendly and freely let me pet him but he seemed to be on a mission. He was looking through the bushes and picking things up to see if they were edible. I felt bad and was sure he was starving but I had nothing to give him. I went into the hotel but the only thing they had at that time was pastries.
While at dinner, I ordered the steak. I thought that was the best thing on the menu for bringing back leftovers. I ate about half of it and cut the other half into small chunks and brought it back with us.
When we arrived back at the hotel we found the gold cat, along with a tabby cat, in the bushes across from the front door of the hotel. They were eating dry cat food from a bowl that someone had tucked away in the bushes. That made me feel better but I still thought they would enjoy the steak better than the dry food so I gave a piece to each of the cats. The gold cat ate his right away but the tabby was timid and delayed long enough for the gold cat to take both pieces. The tabby had backed off so I threw a piece to her and I set the container down on the ground. The gold cat would grab a piece of meat, retreat to the bushes and eat it, then come back for another piece.
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The next morning, after breakfast, we went outside to wait for the shuttle to the terminal and the gold cat was out there. The cat just seemed to want attention at that point. We also learned from one of the drivers that the cat is a female named Puma. That surprised me a little because most gold cats are male but obviously not always. It also is another plus for people who believe gold cats are friendlier. I may have to rethink my position on that.
Kudo’s to the Hyatt employees who decided to not turn a blind eye and are taking care of these kitties.
Update 10/26/2017: After rewatching the video, I believe the employees might be wrong about the gold cat being female. Do you agree?
Bad Cat Chris 
Glad to hear that the Hyatt employees are feeding these kids…..bless their hearts (all of them!).
Pam
Even though bad people dominate the news, there are good people everywhere.
Kudos to the Hyatt…our face resort in QLD also has a house cat they took in as a stray…makes the heart happy hearing people care…and steak was a lovely gift too 🙂
It was nice to know that there were good people taking care of the cats and I figured they could use a steak every now and then.
*fave…phone+fat fingers=spelling errors…
Haha, I do that all the time. 🙂
Ugh…:)
Ft.Lauderdale and Miami have a lot of stray cats………are you familiar with Christine Michaels from Riverfront Cats Miami? She does a lot of work in the Ft.Lauderdale/Miami area (Deb Barnes does too), helping these cats. Glad that the Hyatt employees are helping too! catchatwithcarenandcody
I will have to check them out.
What a pretty little cat! But yes, she is thin.
That is why I thought she was starving.
Oh me cats and kittens dat kitty be sooooooooo skinny. Fank you fur feedin’ her and da hotel employees too. She is so adowable.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
She is very friendly for a stray too.
Maybe sumday sumpawdy will decide she needs a home and take her in.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
That would be nice.
That’s so kind of you to feed that kitty and her kittens. People at the hotel are nice to let her stay in the area. Purrs
Yes, a good way to judge any business is by the character of their people and these were good people.
Oh gosh so skinny :(. Glad you found the poor little one
I’m glad she is not starving like I thought at first.
True. Still incredible thin tho 😦
What a nice treat you gave those cats. We’re glad they’re being fed.
That girl really loved the steak.
I am glad they are being fed. We have an orange female 🙂
I think about 1 in 8 are female. Something like that. Male calicos are much more rare.
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For Throwback Thursday I wanted to continue posting about ferals at my old job but I found some ferals while on vacation so I thought I would repost this instead
I love this guy… what a wonderful color his fur has… I’m glad you have a heart for those in need… even when you are on a howl-i-day…
Watching him eat that steak was best part of the day.
I am glad they are fed, but I hope they have been fixed and given flea treatment. That was sweet of you to feed them steak.
I never learned if they were fixed. I hope so.
This fellow raises gingher cats, and , as you will see, they are mixed sexes. (I believe you are correct about ginger cats usually being male.
I had a male ginger tabby before I got Andy and Dougy, the Persian kitty brothers, and still think they are about the prettiest, nicest cats around!
I believe the chances of a ginger being female is 1 in 5 or 1 in 6. I don’t remember but it is much more likely that a calico being male which is something like 1 in 200. It does seem gingers are friendlier than most but I have yet to find proof of that.