Such kind advice

I am so grateful to have received this advice from an anonymous person by email today.

Let me reproduce it here for the benefit of everyone.

Dr. Chan, Firstly, congrats on the good work on Joanie, read about your concern about Joanie running away from your house back to Old Klang Road. Dr. Chan, from my experience with relocating cats and to keep Joanie from running away from the safety of your home where you can feed and monitor her welfare, do keep her in a cage in your garden for a full 3 weeks without letting her out AT ALL so that she can be familiar with the sight and smell of the surroundings as well as your existing cats. After 3 weeks of full confinement, let her out of the cage into the garden only when you are around outside and watch over her for an hour and put her back into the cage. Do so for a week. After that, let her out only when you are in the house daytime for half a day and then put her back into the cage. Do so for another week. After that depending on progress, let her out during daytime but be sure to cage her again latest by 6pm (not later … very important because cats are nocturnal and will go wandering out at night and you may not be able to catch her after that). Keep her caged from evening till next morning for several months. Also, when you feed her at ALL times, put the food on the bowl inside her cage so that she eats there at exactly the same time each day. This is to ensure that she always goes back to the cage. If you follow this STRICTLY, the cat will stay. And if it gets bashed by some aggressive cat and chased away, immediately look for her and cage her morning and night for several days for her to calm and settle down and conditioned all over again.