I had not heard from the other would-be owner for a few days, and I couldn't take the cat in to get scanned, so I bought a chip reader on Amazon. Results were iffy: all of our indoor cats are chipped, but it only read 3 of them. It didn't pick up anything on the Mystery Cat, but it did on a couple of the other freeloaders I mean strays. The other problem is once you do have a chip ID, it's not easy to look up. The free lookup services I found on the 'net only found one of the 6 chips I was able to read, and then it just points you to a registry, which to have to call to proceed further.
The lady called again on Saturday, and was going to come over Sunday to check out the cat. No show. She called again today and finally came by this afternoon. The cat was chilling in our backyard, and she starts yelling "PSSSS PSSSSH PSSSSP
" - every single cat was freaked out and headed for the hills. I was finally able to coax the cat back and brought him over, and she start that crap again, which freaked out the cat and he took off and hid. Long-story-short, she doesn't think it's her cat, and she definitely didn't make a good impression. That's how you call a dog, not a cat.
About an hour later I'm working on the Unimog and Mystery Cat just walks up and just climbs in my lap.
Yesterday he climbed up on the roof to watch me work in the yard.
I guess he's my cat now.
