About a year after our house fire our cat Spooky came down with feline leukemia and had to be put down. About 6 to 7 months after that our dog Buddy passed. We still have our big black and white cat Osama Bin Kitty.
Less than 4 months later my mother in law has me drive her almost 2 and a half hours away to pick up a gray cat that looked just like her cat Spooky. But oh this cat is so far from what the other cat was it is not EVEN funny. I have even taken to calling the cat CHURCH instead of Caylee, which is what her previous owner named her. I sorta understand why this cat acts like it's nuttier than a squirrel turd though. Her previous owner had gotten her as a kitten, had her all through college, but she got engaged to a man that had two huge dogs, and this guy you could tell HATED cats, and THIS cat in particular. The dogs would chase the cat through the house, and I honestly believe that when this woman was away that this guy would let his dogs chase the cat all over the place with no mercy. The woman revealed to us that it had gotten so bad that she had taken to locking the poor thing up in the utility room...all..day..long.
When we went to pick this cat up from the owner it took us another hour of waiting. Eventually the fiancee had to put on big old gardening/farmer gloves and corner it and grab it and (I might say, quite unceremoniously) shoved it into the crate. The lady admitted that the cat had a tendency to bite and nip and my ding a ling mother in law says "Oh that's just love bites." WHUT?! Ok..deep breath..step back..not my monkeys...not my zoo. LOL
We still have the cat. It doesn't act quite so crazy, but it still has it's Jekyll and Hyde moments daily. You can lean against furniture it is on (like a dresser) one day and not have a problem, but you do that same deal the next day..or even hours later...and the cat acts like you stole her Fancy Feast or something and will hiss and swat at you like crazy. Yes..I said Fancy Feast. And some dry brand (not positive of brand) cat food that has been bought for the cat for forever because it simply will not eat anything else/any other brands. We've tried. lol And some how this cat knows when it's litter is not Fresh Step...and will make DAMN sure to do her business in my mother in law's closet or under her bed...before she will step one dainty spoiled paw into non Fresh Step litter.
Now I'm on a crusade to get my mother in law to take the cat to the vet. I know she's old, but I've had lots of cats that lived to ripe old ages, but none of them, unless they stopped eating due to disease or because they "knew" their time was up, looked as skinny in the backside as this poor thing does. She'll eat a whole can of Fancy Feast and then snack on dry food pretty much all day off and on. But when you look at her from the rear she looks plum anorexic. So now I've found a couple of vet places that work with charity groups to get animals the care they need. If I had the money I would have taken the cat to the vet myself already. But for my mother in law it is not an issue of money. It's just an issue of denseness and believing that she knows better than everyone else in the world.
For example, I worked at a heating and air company for a couple of years. I had been telling her that she was overworking her system by turning on Emergency Heat setting instead of leaving it alone on one setting all day long and turning it up only slightly when she got home, and that the system was having to work overtime with the thermostat being holed up in her bedroom instead of in the middle of the house (you know..like in most NORMAL homes lol). She didn't believe me. So I had my boss, a man that had been working in the business for over 30 years, tell her the exact same thing, and all the in's and out's and why's and whatfore's....did she believe him...nope..cause she knows all! LOL
I just hope I can get her in and find out what is going on with this cat. I don't cotton to her personally, but I'm not one to stand around and watch an animal seem like it's wasting away and not at least try to do something to help.
I hope you find a way to keep her inside so she doesn't get hurt anymore.