Comment on Discussion Thread 🦉 Saturday 28 February 2026

• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All legal measures were used to contain the situation and it’s now “contained” but they do remain slightly unpredictable and do concerning things. And even if I could prove wrongdoing, which I can’t, that doesn’t help little man if he got targeted.

  I hoped to move away taking Melbcat with me but I wasn’t able to. Now I’m just freaking out about this one.

  Keeping him inside would involve essentially kidnapping him and locking him in my bathroom for quarantine while constantly cleaning with chemicals and regularly bathing him if possible. Ringworm is very infectious and can stick around in carpet for like 18 months. The stress could make him sicker. And I have a brain that spirals around contamination.

  But whatever. I’ll continue feeding him to try and bolster his health and discourage him from catching birds or eating anything dangerous. Declutter and clean the shit out of my house to try and get rid of an infection or stay on top of another. I’ll improvise a winter shelter.

  And being as he easily let me pat his belly, I’ll start testing the limits by trying to pick him up for a second at a time. Gauging whether I can get him in a carrier.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you don’t know he has ringworm,

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t confirm, but he had a bit of patchy hair loss that looks similar and I developed the textbook ringworm lesion on my knee where he touched.

      It’s responding to the appropriate treatments on me so that’s very likely what it is and he’s the most likely source.

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