Letters to the Editor
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Give the cat to a farmer for a BARN CAT
Many farmers want aggressive, enterprising, healthy, immunized cats.
All cats have the instincts they need to survive on a farm, where there are mice to be fascinated upon, chased and eaten.
Put an ad into a newspaper like The Fencepost (Google it) or any of many other rural newspapers. Or, look at a map and find the closest farm community to your home. Google up its newspaper. Put in an ad for a BARN CAT, fully immunized and healthy.
If he has been neutered, don't mention it. This makes male cats lazy and farmers don't like it. They spay, but they don't neuter.
If you get no response, try a different newspaper or offer to pay $10 to anyone who will take your BARN CAT.
You will find many people who are interested. Any respectable barn or farm needs several cats. The farmers will not feed them; they will live quite well on the mice which the farmers want killed.
No sweat, what to do with your cat.
He will be SO HAPPY. My best wishes to your cat, who is obviously too sane to adapt to the hideous, confinement which city dwellers erroneously consider adequate for feline contentment. Of course, he is miserable.
I've rescued three feral baby kittens myself; they make excellent pets and are not more aggressive than "ordinary" non-feral cats if they are handled and loved before weaning.
All three are loving, affectionate house cats and have made excellent pets. I still own one and I gave the other two away after nursing them to health, giving them their shots, etc.
Once kittens are weaned and about half-grown, it is too late; you will never tame that cat.
Jan VanDenBerg