Noticed the motion sensor light in the backyard was on, and when I went out to check, as I'd suspected it was Monty. He came up to me but backed up when I bent down and inched up to him. But when I then returned with food, he was almost at the kitchen door. So I put the dish down to one side of him and after remaining there for a while to make sure I had indeed gone inside, he deigned to eat some.
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