Blue! The kitty-lover. The keeper of ducks (or is that geese?).
Blue, I have a problem. We feed and water the feral cats that come to our yard, but we are not cat-savvy.
It gets cold here. We have provided these wild kitties with a three-room cat house with two escapes, but they rarely go into it. They do sit on top of it, on top of the trash cans, on top of a stack of lumber, and on top of my car (it's in a carport). Females have gone behind the trash cans to give birth and raise kittens.
We keep a cat trap, in order to catch and get these cats to the vet to be fixed. We have never been able to catch a particular female, who get pregnant, but we haven't seen any of her kittens for the last three years.
This past summer, a very skinny, ragged, adult orange cat appeared and stayed. I named him Marmalade. He gained weight and looks great now -- except I think "he" is pregnant.
Any advice you want to give will be appreciated, but what I want to ask now is whether you know if a cat that had been so emaciated as Marmalade was can get overweight like that -- "he" is still skinny everywhere, except for "his" stomach. If "he" is pregnant, he should be giving birth anytime now.