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Title: What is your pet doing right now?*
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 August, 2014, 04:24:30 pm
Pete is on the chair, alternating between having a wash, and trying to decapitate a catnip mouse.




*Possibly even more interesting than the "what are you doing right now?" thread.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 August, 2014, 04:28:19 pm
I will take a guess at either a) sleeping or b) play-fighting, which is their constant steady state.

I believe our cats must have some Koala blood in them, I swear they would win the sleeping olympics.

As for the other two that we have been adopted by, I will guess they are doing their usual, which is trying to, desperatly, get into our house to eat the other two's food.
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Post by: Basil on 11 August, 2014, 04:33:36 pm
No idea.
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Post by: Kathy on 11 August, 2014, 06:55:20 pm
Pouting at the (half) empty food bowl which hasn't been ceremonially replenished yet.
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Post by: Baggy on 11 August, 2014, 07:58:12 pm
Licking his bum.  ::-)
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Post by: Fab Foodie on 11 August, 2014, 08:11:16 pm
We have a Whippet.  There's a 99% certainty that at any time he might be sleeping.
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Post by: bumper on 11 August, 2014, 08:18:47 pm
Curled up next to me, as close as possible without being on top of me.

And snoring.

Which will be followed by a smelly fart, from him not me!


He's an old timer so I'll forgive him.
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Post by: matthew on 11 August, 2014, 09:21:30 pm
Last I saw sitting on the front doorstep waiting for someone to let her in.


She's more than capable of wondering round the side of the house to come in the cat flap but prefers someone to open the main entrance.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 August, 2014, 12:29:38 pm
Morphy has invaded my makeshift bedroom and has found a parch of sunshine in which to lie. He is nibbling at his right front paw in a manner suggestive of something irritating him there.
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Post by: mike on 27 August, 2014, 02:19:16 pm
Percie and Pickle are wondering where their new squeaky toy is.

I've just caught and released it into next doors garden.
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Post by: tiermat on 27 August, 2014, 07:00:39 pm
Sleeping, as per.

One on the windowledge and one in the border at the front.

The tame(ish) 10 yr old is playing swingball.
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Post by: Basil on 27 August, 2014, 07:15:19 pm
Still no idea.  He came in earlier for his dinner, dutifully sat on a couple of laps for half an hour or so and has buggered off out again.  He's probably sitting on the garden wall, flicking Vs at next door's spaniel.
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Post by: Regulator on 27 August, 2014, 07:15:47 pm
He's just finished FaceTiming me....  :thumbsup:








(With a little help from Mr R)
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Post by: Pancho on 27 August, 2014, 07:20:03 pm
One is sleeping. One is awol.

(This is going to be rather a dull thread, isn't it?)
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Post by: Fab Foodie on 27 August, 2014, 07:45:14 pm
We have a Whippet.  There's a 99% certainty that at any time he might be sleeping.
I'm several hundreds of miles away, but right now, this is still likely to be the case.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 August, 2014, 08:44:14 pm
Pete is snoring away in his bed. Earlier he was scampering, then he had a little lie down on his scratch mat.
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Post by: PaulF on 27 August, 2014, 10:34:06 pm
Sleeping
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 August, 2014, 12:39:54 pm
Pete is scampering around the flat, pouncing on things that are there and things that aren't there.
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Post by: PaulF on 30 August, 2014, 01:50:41 pm
Being dried after a shower. She went to the beach for the first time today....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 August, 2014, 01:57:16 pm
Hazel is sleeping. She's a cat so that’s her default mode.
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Post by: Kathy on 30 August, 2014, 02:26:41 pm
Farting.  ::-)
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Post by: peliroja on 30 August, 2014, 11:14:55 pm
Sleeping off the immense excitement of seeing two lovely yacfers in Malham this afternoon.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 August, 2014, 11:23:03 pm
Pete is pretending nobody has ever fed him and he is starving.
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Post by: peliroja on 31 August, 2014, 12:45:57 pm
Pretending not to be on the bed upstairs.
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Post by: RW on 31 August, 2014, 01:07:22 pm
Growling softly, having a little bark and wagging his tail - he must have heard something outside.  He's now gone back to being half asleep on the front room floor.  He's waiting for me to start watching the Vuelta so he can constantly pester me to play ball with him.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 August, 2014, 01:28:37 pm
Pete is winding himself round my newly moisturised legs, thereby ensuring mine are as hairy as his.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 August, 2014, 01:45:54 pm
May I indulge in a quick "phwooar!" at this point, EG?

"Phwoaar!"

Thank you. That's better.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 August, 2014, 01:50:27 pm
Milk of Magnesia might help with that.
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Post by: RW on 31 August, 2014, 03:02:19 pm
As predicted, the moment I put the telly on and sat down Dog Monster has started putting a slimy ball into my lap.  I know it's a lovely day and I should be out on my bike and that was my intention, but I've been fighting off a cold for the last week and I need to see it off on my days off.  I've done a fair bit of tidyng up and paperwork this morning - sorry - that's another thread.
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Post by: L CC on 31 August, 2014, 09:25:15 pm
Attempting to escape by chewing the bars. (The other 23 hours a day, sleeping)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 September, 2014, 01:26:39 pm
Mojo seems to be attempting to find his way round the flat again having spent 2 weeks at the cattery. I guess all the smells have gone. Poor old dude.
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Post by: bobb on 02 September, 2014, 09:03:43 pm
Walking into my hand every now and again. Saves me having to stroke him...
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Post by: Pancho on 02 September, 2014, 09:10:31 pm
One is missing.

I'm about to set out with a torch and see if I can find kitty. Hoping it hasn't been squished or fallen down the well.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 September, 2014, 10:03:58 pm
Hope kitty is OK Pancho. - It'll probably turn up when it's given you a good radging up for it's money.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 September, 2014, 10:10:23 pm
Asking for headrubs.
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Post by: Ruth on 02 September, 2014, 10:11:44 pm
Decomposing.
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Post by: Pancho on 02 September, 2014, 10:30:24 pm
No sign at all. Most unusual. Other kitty is mewing.

Must have just gone for a long walk - there's only one road for miles around and no sign of dead mog.

Am going to bed now so it'll have to take its chances.
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Post by: Riggers on 03 September, 2014, 10:13:09 am
Tiggy is asleep on the bed. Noodle is asleep in next door neighbour's grassy garden.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 September, 2014, 04:39:20 pm
Pete is looking at me with complete indifference while I sing along and dance to Lovecats.
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Post by: Pancho on 03 September, 2014, 09:06:14 pm
Cat returned in the morning. Daughter pleased. Cat fed.

My daughter thinks cat has boyfriend in the village and has assignations.
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Post by: Pingu on 03 September, 2014, 11:47:21 pm
Pete is looking at me with complete indifference while I sing along and dance to Lovecats.

Well done Pete!
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Post by: Kathy on 04 September, 2014, 08:38:53 am
Lying on top of me in a state of purry ecstasy because I am working from home today.
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Post by: tiermat on 04 September, 2014, 09:31:05 am
They are both sulking as I locked them out last night.

I had left the back door open whilst I consumed dinner and watched rubbish TV*, during which time they both traversed the living room several times.  As the sun set and the temp dropped a bit I closed and locked the door.  Just as I was going to bed one returned and stared at me through the glass.  I really really couldn't be bothered to let him in, so they both stayed out all night (one usually does, the other normally likes to be in at night).

*Great British Bake Off followed by Fast'N'Loud
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Post by: PaulF on 04 September, 2014, 09:37:19 am
Going frantic as she's just seen her 'best puppy friend'
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Post by: SandyV on 05 September, 2014, 09:49:46 am
We have a Whippet.  There's a 99% certainty that at any time he might be sleeping.

Ditto for both the very old (15) whippet and slightly more youthful greyhound (11).  Although the latter has been singing along with the emergency sirens this afternoon which he seems to enjoy. 
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 September, 2014, 10:24:50 am
Making a post-walk attention-seeking fuss.

I haven't been able to take him for a walk for about 3 weeks. I am normally the default dog-walker and I don't think he understands my incapacity.
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Post by: Otto on 05 September, 2014, 12:21:59 pm
Most probably dismembering some innocent creature and consuming its remains under the shrubs in the garden or on the landing in the house
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Post by: Jaded on 05 September, 2014, 07:22:19 pm
One of my sister's cats has come to mum's for the weekend, on account of being on anti-biotics. Anti-biotics that make her produce milk chocolate mousses  :-X :-X :-X
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 September, 2014, 02:09:57 pm
Having a little rest after heroically killing all the bubblewrap.
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Post by: peliroja on 07 September, 2014, 02:37:49 pm
Being very tired after the excitement of a Proper Walk round Embsay reservoir to celebrate her gotcha day. And not limping!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 September, 2014, 03:36:14 pm
You've had her a year now? That's gone quickly! Good news about the limp! ("Limp what?" I hear you ask, "and that's not good news!"  :P)
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Post by: matthew on 13 September, 2014, 05:03:09 pm
The kitten is getting sponge mix in her whiskers. Licking out the bowl!
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Post by: RW on 13 September, 2014, 05:06:06 pm
He's on his holidays. He's gone to portland bill
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Post by: Gattopardo on 14 September, 2014, 01:15:47 am
He is not my pet cat, he is from two doors down.  Since meowingtons was here, he has made so many be lines to get in.

Now he is asleep on a car seat, and everytime I go near him he hisses at me and flashes teeth and claws.  I'm evicting him later with a sack.

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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 September, 2014, 10:39:48 am
Recovering from the trauma and indignity of having his vile-smelling jowls Hibiscrubbed, by the medium of LCT (Liver Cake Therapy).
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Post by: matthew on 15 September, 2014, 11:13:11 am
Well last night but...

I am cat sitting for two cats, one is a couple of years old and the other a kitten, and two rabbits. Currently the kitten (Gilly) is a house cat and not to be allowed out, the other (Harry) has to be let out as the catflap only controls incoming mogs.

Well last night Harry caught two mice, one I knew about when he brought it in alive for Gilly to 'hunt' the other I found this morning, consumed on the roof of the rabbit hutch.

Gilly lost out as the nasty human took away the squeeky self mobile toy and released it outside in the nearby nature area.

And then this morning, these cats seem to have a routine 5:30 game of chase, or rather Gilly wakes up and pounces on Harry who would rather be asleep. Unfortunately Harry has been sleeping by my left foot and Gilly by my right hip, so this results in waking the human servant for breakfast.
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Post by: peliroja on 28 September, 2014, 10:50:48 pm
Flat out exhausted on the sofa after two exciting days spent trying to sniff Wowbagger's beard.
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Post by: L CC on 13 November, 2014, 11:17:08 pm
Sleeping in the sink.
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Post by: peliroja on 13 November, 2014, 11:24:57 pm
Cuddled up on the bed with me. Woolly's at the pub, y'see!
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Post by: Gattopardo on 18 November, 2014, 08:14:59 am
Not my fucking cat, decided to cry at my front door from about 2am.  Went out twice, gave the git some fuss and he wandered off, but kept looking back at me.  So I went inside and the cat started again.  He didn't want to come in, he didn't want to be picked up...has he found a new slave?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 November, 2014, 08:20:51 am
Pete is having a little snooze, to build his strength up in readiness for his long day of sleeping.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 November, 2014, 08:34:35 am
Twix, the stoopid cat (or at least that is what he likes to let us believe) is either sleeping off the huge amount of food he ate last night, or throwing up due to us Frontlining him on Saturday.

Listen, bastard cat, just because there is food on the side in the kitchen, doesn't mean you can fucking well help yourself, I was going to have that for lunch today. Cnut.
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Post by: Wombat on 18 November, 2014, 08:39:05 am
Its tough work, that cat sleeping...  They sleep so hard, they need to get some rest in first.  Baggins will now be sleeping curled up clockwise on the bed, having greeted me at about 4am by stomping up the bed and headbutting my face (and I'm too daft to discourage him). Bouncy dog (Surya) will probably have got over being bouncy by now, and will have turned into a flopped out hairball on the kitchen floor, or in a doorway.  I've never seen so much fur attached (loosely) to one animal.  Some of them are over 150mm long, its got a great wafty tail and a pretty fluffy ruff, and absolutely no discernable brains at all.  Whenever anyone meets her, they all say "Oh, a border collie, isn't she pretty, and they are so intelligent, too!"  I then have to point out that she is the thickest dog I have ever seen.  Too stupid not to stand in the shit she has just done...  Thanks dog, when I'd just shuffled downstairs at 7am on Sunday to make a cup of tea, I didn't really want to spend the next half hour cleaning up shit that you had walked across my lovely oak floor, and the kitchen floor, and my foot.   When you've taken a dump, walk away from it!  Disgusting things, dogs.  Baggins wouldn't do anything so disgusting. 
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Post by: Gattopardo on 18 November, 2014, 08:46:50 am
Pete is having a little snooze, to build his strength up in readiness for his long day of sleeping.

That is what he wants you to believe...he is saving you from possible underbed and wardrobe monsters
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Post by: Gattopardo on 18 November, 2014, 08:48:57 am
Twix, the stoopid cat (or at least that is what he likes to let us believe) is either sleeping off the huge amount of food he ate last night, or throwing up due to us Frontlining him on Saturday.

Listen, bastard cat, just because there is food on the side in the kitchen, doesn't mean you can fucking well help yourself, I was going to have that for lunch today. Cnut.

I'd bet on over eating.  You could always eat his lunch...... in revenge 
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 November, 2014, 11:04:21 am
Pete is having a little snooze, to build his strength up in readiness for his long day of sleeping.

That is what he wants you to believe...he is saving you from possible underbed and wardrobe monsters
He regularly saves me from some pretty lethal bubblewrap. Apart from the other day when he lay on his back, rolling on the bubblewrap and gently licking his kickaroo.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 November, 2014, 11:47:49 am
He is enjoying his post-walk meal.

Morphy amuses me a lot, but one of his most endearing features is his understanding of the expression "Mr. Dog, excuse me please!" His bowl is situated in such a way that when he is eating he completely blocks the smallish space between the cooker and the chimney buttress, which is the route from the kitchen to the front room. When asked, he shuffles his rear end to the right so that we can get through, in so doing keeping his nose well and truly in his food bowl.
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Post by: PaulF on 18 November, 2014, 01:21:53 pm
Apart from the other day when he lay on his back, rolling on the bubblewrap and gently licking his kickaroo.


Is that a euphemism?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 November, 2014, 06:58:58 pm
Yeah, what is a kickaroo?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 November, 2014, 07:59:44 pm
It's a toy. I think Kathy recommended it.
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 November, 2014, 08:24:20 pm
Sleeping next to Peli.

After being a right little hooligan around the house, because her daily fix was delayed, well not really she just wanted her buzz/high early. Finally gave in and gave it to her, 15min late. She shakes, do her little tricks - paw, sit, down - with extra force and gusto, doing them all at the same time, without even been asked to do so I might add, utterly hyper, runs to her bed with her "smack", jumping around it is the next best toy. Today I just said "is it time" and she was rushing from living room to kitchen and back, up and over the sofa, to and from me and Peli.

I have never seen a dog so fixed/hooked/addicted on carrot.

We can't even say the word any more, or even finish the sentence "Would you like some carrot" or "Is it time for carrot". If we say "would you like" or even "time" outside the content of carrot, she perks up getting ready for a fix. It is just the matter of time before she figures out the French word we are now using for - food, hunger, hungry, time, walkies, outside etc.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 November, 2014, 08:44:22 pm
It's a toy. I think Kathy recommended it.
Ah I see, like a giant catnip shmousie...
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Post by: Basil on 18 November, 2014, 09:28:05 pm
Judging by the almost hysterical barking coming from next door's garden, Dafydd is currently engaged in his favourite pass time.
Sitting on the garden wall, pointing, laughing and flicking Vs at the stupid mutt.

Eta.  Yes, I know I've done this one before, but I find it very amusing.
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Post by: Kathy on 18 November, 2014, 10:52:47 pm
It's a toy. I think Kathy recommended it.
Ah I see, like a giant catnip shmousie...

Yeah. It's very popular with Ethel-the-Toothless.

Emma just sleeps on it.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 November, 2014, 08:15:17 pm
He's looking incredibly sweet, curled up on his back/side, with one paw over his face and the other tucked under his chin, snoring loudly after demolishing a chicken wing.
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Post by: woollypigs on 21 November, 2014, 01:14:22 pm
Going utterly bonkers because I have put a lump of ham in the oven. See that is why I get a major meat fix when we are eating out. I live with a veggie, who is ok with the idea that I'm a carnivore. But also a dog who don't know what to do with herself when there is meat/poultry cooking. Pretty much all bets are off from now and until I have eaten it - I wonder what naughtiness she will come up with while this is cooking.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 November, 2014, 01:28:56 pm
Now he is in his post-walk post-food slumber.

Sadly, we forgot to take the Slobber Towel with us on the walk and when he emerged from the park his face looked as though an enormous spider had spun a web all over his face. Before I could avoid him I had lunged at my right leg and I now have a wonderful slobber stain on the right leg of my new scruffy trousers where he deliberately wiped his gungey self.

Revolting animal.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 November, 2014, 03:02:26 pm
Going utterly bonkers because I have put a lump of ham in the oven. See that is why I get a major meat fix when we are eating out. I live with a veggie, who is ok with the idea that I'm a carnivore. But also a dog who don't know what to do with herself when there is meat/poultry cooking. Pretty much all bets are off from now and until I have eaten it - I wonder what naughtiness she will come up with while this is cooking.
The giant enormous tomcat we had when I was a kid used to go bonkers when there was a chicken in the oven. He'd be up on his hind legs, yowling like a soul in torment, with his front paws on the oven door, and complaining because the bit of the door he could reach would be too hot for his paws.
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Post by: Dibdib on 22 November, 2014, 12:00:40 am
Not mine, but I've had mum's two mogs curled up next to me on the sofa all evening. I've missed it... I'll probably look at adopting another in the new year.

No photographs for t'other thread because a) they're both jet black and b) I'm a rubbish photographer :)
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Post by: L CC on 28 November, 2014, 07:13:52 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20141128_190128.jpg)

Refusing to watch fillums with us.
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Post by: Chris S on 28 November, 2014, 07:17:18 pm
Is it because you're watching the whole Step Up series again?

Is it because #2 daughter is watching Bones - Teh Movie?  ;D
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Post by: snail on 28 November, 2014, 08:15:56 pm
New dog - from the rescue place two weeks ago - is out with the husband and probably barking at one particular car she doesn't like that parks down the road.

She loves everyone and rushes up to them to make friends. Sadly she is half Rottweiler and most people jump into gardens to get away from the teeth-and-tail monster bearing down upon them.

Apart from a girl with a bag last week, who got a real barking. :-( But we are working with the behaviouralist at the rescue centre and it's early days.
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Post by: woollypigs on 28 November, 2014, 08:48:33 pm
Pictures please :)

Our is generally quite but have the odd day where she needs to talk. No different in background noises, so hard to pinpoint.

We have taught her to come in from the garden when she barks. Which confuses her, I need to be outside telling the world off, but need to come be inside when I bark. So she runs to and fro with this funy growl.
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Post by: snail on 28 November, 2014, 09:00:53 pm
She has orange eyebrows! Photos when it's daylight and I don't get devil eyes from the flash going off.

I've been trying to get to go into the hall when she wants to bark as we are in a semi and that will be away from our (admittedly deaf) neighbour.

She's now asleep next to me, her head on my leg. She was naughty on the walk, apparently, and wanted to bark at three young men. She is definitely "trying it on" now she's settling in. It's hard but I know we have to be really bloody stubborn to stay on top at the moment.
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Post by: woollypigs on 28 November, 2014, 09:09:05 pm
She has orange eyebrows!

She's now asleep next to me, her head on my leg.
Snap and snap.

Ours have tried a few times to be more bossy/naughty, best way to deal with it is to do as you have always done, hard I know.

It took her about four month to really settle in with us, didn't lick at all, now we get a "kiss" a few times a day. And had a period where she didn't want sit on or near us. That is now over, she loves to pile on top of us now.
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Post by: snail on 28 November, 2014, 09:11:32 pm
Four months? That's interesting. We were told 4-6 weeks but that's a massive generalisation and will depend on many factors I suppose. She is very affectionate although I think what we see as affection has actually been submissive behaviour - licking hands, for example.

Oh and now she is snoring like a drunken old man.
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Post by: woollypigs on 28 November, 2014, 09:20:08 pm
From the word go she was all over us, playing with us and would run to anyone (still do), she is a very happy go lucky dog. I think there was some bonding within the first month, but the real bonding happened after four months. Like she would go look for us around the time we normally get home from work, licking - not just a getting peanut butter off fingers - lick, coming up for hugs etc.

Ours don't snore much but dream loudly, 3-4 times an evening. We even hear her from her crate at night, dreaming away :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 November, 2014, 07:45:05 pm
They are snuggled up together looking unbearably cute.
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Post by: BrianI on 29 November, 2014, 07:50:17 pm
Swimming with the fishes.
Which is to be expected of tropical fish!   ;)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 November, 2014, 08:12:41 pm
Farting in his sleep.
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Post by: woollypigs on 29 November, 2014, 08:18:24 pm
Farting in his sleep.
Tch tch Bobb :)
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Post by: Gattopardo on 29 November, 2014, 09:18:28 pm
Farting in his sleep.

Aren't cat farts silent....
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Post by: tiermat on 01 December, 2014, 02:17:01 pm
Twix is hunting...







...leaves!

I think oreo is the real hunter of that family, especially as twix seems to be failing to catch any leaves!
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Post by: Jaded on 01 December, 2014, 02:45:11 pm
Not scratching because there is a nasty wet patch on her neck to be more concerned about.
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Post by: peliroja on 01 December, 2014, 03:36:00 pm
Whacking her Kong around the kitchen. She's earned it after an hour's walk this afternoon.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2014, 03:48:17 pm
Hazel will be sleeping or plotting.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 December, 2014, 04:27:44 pm
Crouching on my lap staring at the floor.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 December, 2014, 09:36:12 pm
Gnawing on the corner of a cardboard box/play fort/time machine/ transmogrifier.
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Post by: peliroja on 07 December, 2014, 01:38:16 pm
Leaning her warm, heavy head on my arm and batting me with her paw when I move it away, which is making typing very difficult...
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Post by: T42 on 08 December, 2014, 02:10:22 pm
Getting the next bladderful ready.  Our dogs were castrated last Wednesday, and one of them had his scrotal sac so full of oedema that he couldn't sit down properly. We had him to the vet this morning and she gave him a shot of diuretic. I don't think he's stopped piddling for ten minutes together ever since, and the kitchen rug was doused once.  But the wrinkles are returning.
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Post by: Wombat on 09 December, 2014, 01:49:10 pm
She has orange eyebrows! Photos when it's daylight and I don't get devil eyes from the flash going off.

I've been trying to get to go into the hall when she wants to bark as we are in a semi and that will be away from our (admittedly deaf) neighbour.

She's now asleep next to me, her head on my leg. She was naughty on the walk, apparently, and wanted to bark at three young men. She is definitely "trying it on" now she's settling in. It's hard but I know we have to be really bloody stubborn to stay on top at the moment.

Oh, its fun taking flash photos of our dog in the dark, especially as she has a blue left eye, and a brown right eye.  Cue much laughter on my part, and telling Mrs W, "Hey, did you know Surya's got navigation lights?"  Red to port, and green to starboard, just like it should be.  ;D
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Post by: bobb on 09 December, 2014, 10:03:18 pm
Boris is Skyping Pete:

(http://www.zaribor.co.uk/raz/pics/cat-skype.jpg)

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2014, 10:17:51 pm
Aww!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 December, 2014, 09:34:53 am
If he's where he was when I left, he's snuggled up in his bed, covered over with his blanket.
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Post by: peliroja on 11 December, 2014, 01:49:47 pm
Amazing kittehs!

Tilley is lying quietly next to me while I've been working to an urgent deadline (I just met it, so am having a bit of an adrenaline come-down).
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Post by: Basil on 11 December, 2014, 04:48:07 pm
Megan seems confused as she can't understand why the wood burner doesn't seem very warm.  I've only just lit it.
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Post by: Oaky on 12 December, 2014, 04:54:16 pm
Raking all of his guinea pig nuggets out of the bowl onto the floor.  >:(

It's my own fault.  He's digging to try and find more of the stuff I foolishly tipped into his bowl earlier (the fragments from a guinea pig treat that had fallen off in the packet).

(http://www.oakden.org/mark/bike/yacf/pics/bowl.jpg)
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Post by: woollypigs on 20 December, 2014, 10:13:17 pm
Flat out on the sofa after a big day with two other dogs, who are flat out on the floor, who are on sleep over - doggy PJ party :) One was happy with ours, the other wasn't so keen, so the odd stand off happened. Lets see how they behave in the am, when we go walkies with all three.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 December, 2014, 12:05:24 am
After sitting on the router for an hour, he's now asleep in his bed.
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Post by: Andrij on 21 December, 2014, 12:11:32 am
After sitting on the router for an hour, he's now asleep in his bed.

Obviously the update he was downloading is now installing.
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Post by: Pingu on 21 December, 2014, 11:14:14 am
Eating cobwebs  :facepalm:
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Post by: tiermat on 21 December, 2014, 05:47:01 pm
Twix is busy sleeping off the trimmings I gave him from the cider pulled pork I was preparing a short while ago.

He has a Pavlovian reaction to the sound of me working in the kitchen. Just like some humans I know :)
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Post by: Pingu on 25 December, 2014, 06:57:17 pm
Whining outside the kitchen door.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2014, 08:23:21 pm
Eating carrot peel.
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Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2014, 08:42:22 pm
Sitting back to back, three feet from each other, practising mutual ignoring at closer quartets.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2014, 09:15:41 pm
Sitting back to back, three feet from each other, practising mutual ignoring at closer quartets.

Haydn seek?
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Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2014, 10:14:25 pm
Bugger this tablet.
But  ;D @Wowbagger.
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Post by: Pingu on 26 December, 2014, 12:51:31 pm
Kitten climbing wall

https://flic.kr/p/qfvwVn
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Post by: woollypigs on 21 February, 2015, 02:52:16 pm
Alfie our foster dog, just did some real yoga, full stretch downward dog. He then farted twice directly into Tilley's face, who was rather bemused.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 February, 2015, 05:52:06 pm
Pete is making cute noises in his sleep.
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Post by: SteveC on 21 February, 2015, 07:58:41 pm
Ginge, who is about thirteen (stray who moved in so we don't know exactly) has rediscovered the delights of chasing your tail. Did the whole works, including actually catching it, giving the end a good chew, followed by a wash.
He is now asleep on the new sheepskin rug, obviously tired out by all that fun.
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 21 February, 2015, 08:40:32 pm
Currently Barry and Isabella the adolescent cats are sporadically hooning around the house making their weird chirruping noises.

Earlier they were both in the sink in the downstairs loo. Even when Twinkle Toes the Teenager turned  on  the cold tap they didn't get out. Bonkers animals.
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Post by: canny colin on 21 February, 2015, 10:57:42 pm
 Monty & Rommel  the gerbal's are currently destroying a 11" high  carboard christmas tree . They truly are away with the mixer .
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2015, 09:29:56 pm
Ninkasi is having a post poo mad dash.
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Post by: woollypigs on 22 February, 2015, 10:14:29 pm
Isn't that just great fun to watch :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 February, 2015, 02:57:15 pm
He is trying to convince me it is 4 o'clock, by virtue of resting his wet, smelly muzzle on my left hand. This makes typing awkward, but not impossible.
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Post by: Moleman76 on 25 February, 2015, 04:45:01 am
Dottie Verbose is curled up atop her cat condo, asleep.  Getting rested up for sleeping later tonight.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 February, 2015, 07:11:54 pm
Last night Ninkasi made me crack up by dragging round a swiffer as if it were a large prey item she'd just despatched :D
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Post by: Pingu on 17 March, 2015, 09:34:12 pm
Kitten parkour championships tonight.
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Post by: BrianI on 30 March, 2015, 08:50:40 pm
$nametobedecided, my new 9 week old male cockatiel is now struggling to keep his ickle eyes open.  Been a busy day for the wee chappie exploring his new cage in his forever home! 
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Post by: Basil on 30 March, 2015, 08:58:53 pm
Daf has just appeared through the cat flap.  It's pouring with rain out there.  He just sauntered to the middle of the kitchen and then shook himself like a dog.  Not "a bit like a dog", but a real doggie shake.  Start at the head, work down to the tail, then back up towards the head end again.
I've never seen a cat do that before.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 March, 2015, 09:00:46 pm
Pete has spent the evening lying on my knee then jumping off then clawing my leg then lying on my knee then jumping off then clawing my leg then lying on my knee then jumping off then clawing my leg then lying on my knee then jumping off then clawing my leg then lying on my knee then jumping off then clawing my leg then lying on my knee then jumping off then clawing my leg then lying on my knee ...
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Post by: Chris S on 30 March, 2015, 09:16:23 pm
It's possibly about time I made a pet-related contribution to this thread.

Sammy (Cat): Currently MIA, presumed dead - she'd be about 27, not sure what the record is for a cat.
Gemma (Cat - offspring of Sammy): Currently MIA, presumed dead.
Gizmo (Cat): MIA, presumed dead.
Widget (Cat - sibling of Gizmo): (recently) deceased - top innings there, Widge.
Pixie (Cat): Currently dead. Run over when probably not even a year old.
Dixie (Cat - sibling of Pixie): Unknown. When Pixie died, Dixie lost the plot and went to live with our friends in Skipton - with a new name.
Watson (Dog - Gordon Setter): Dead - put down after attacking daughter #1. Not our finest pet-owning hour, TBH  :facepalm:.
Flea (Cat): Alive and well. A bit potty, by all accounts.

Numerous Rabbits, Goldfish, Gerbils, Hamsters and Mice have been excluded from this summary.
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Post by: woollypigs on 30 March, 2015, 10:27:47 pm
Dixie lost the plot and went to live with our friends in Skipton- with a new name.
That explains it, never knew the background to Tilley the dog :)
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Post by: woollypigs on 30 March, 2015, 10:28:03 pm
$nametobedecided, my new 9 week old male cockatiel is now struggling to keep his ickle eyes open.  Been a busy day for the wee chappie exploring his new cage in his forever home! 
Pictures!
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Post by: Jakob on 31 March, 2015, 01:45:46 am
(http://i.imgur.com/tWqDj51.jpg)
Helping me post on YACF! (ok, so the picture was taken earlier)
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 March, 2015, 07:44:58 am
Do you have stables at work too, if so then you could ride to work :)

Beautiful dog.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 31 March, 2015, 08:29:27 am
Using her donkey soft toy as a pillow

(http://www.auntiehelen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Poppy-with-donkey-pillow.jpg)
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 31 March, 2015, 08:53:38 am
If we are careless enough to leave the lids up both Barry and Isabella the Adolescent Cats like drinking from our loos.

But Isabella loves lounging about in the bath and sinks ...

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zps37e34782.jpg)

She's not read the memo stating cats don't like getting wet as she regularly turns the taps on and gets soaked  ::-)

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Post by: tiermat on 31 March, 2015, 12:46:23 pm
If we are careless enough to leave the lids up both Barry and Isabella the Adolescent Cats like drinking from our loos.

But Isabella loves lounging about in the bath and sinks ...

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zps37e34782.jpg)

She's not read the memo stating cats don't like getting wet as she regularly turns the taps on and gets soaked  ::-)

Ours (Oreo and Twix) love doing that too, if they can't get in the house they sit in the drains at the bottom of the downpipes!  I guess it's a shelter thing.
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 31 March, 2015, 12:49:59 pm
They are the daftest animals!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 March, 2015, 12:53:17 pm
When I'm in the shower Pete crouches on the side of the bath, either watching the water going down the plughole, or meowing at me from the other side of the shower curtain.
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Post by: Clare on 31 March, 2015, 01:18:36 pm
One of my brothers used to have a cat that would piddle down the plughole in the bath rather than use the litter tray.

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Post by: Oscar's dad on 31 March, 2015, 01:37:52 pm
 ;D
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Post by: Jakob on 31 March, 2015, 07:47:11 pm
Do you have stables at work too, if so then you could ride to work :)

Beautiful dog.

Wow, a horse joke! That's a first! :D

(Sorry, they get old real quick :P)

Thanks for the compliment though.
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 March, 2015, 07:54:01 pm
Sorry just couldn't resist :)

How is your wife handling two Great Danes in the house?
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Post by: Jakob on 31 March, 2015, 10:31:55 pm
Think she prefers the younger one.

Which also reminds me of one of my favourite GD things, when people ask:
"Is that a Great Dane?", I've started answering, "Why, yes I am!".
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 March, 2015, 10:36:57 pm
Morphy is in the habit of resting his head on the mouse-wrist. If that doesn't work, he quite often very gently gets hold of my little finger in his teeth and lifts my hand off the mouse. He won't stop until he gets my full attention, usually involving being tickled under the chin, or being given some sort of treat.
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Post by: Vince on 31 March, 2015, 11:19:16 pm
Rocket Nev is busy sucking pebbles, then when he notices me watching, swims over in the hope that food will be thrown into the tank.
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Post by: L CC on 01 April, 2015, 08:26:39 am
She just farted at me as punishment for evicting her from my room.
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Post by: Ham on 01 April, 2015, 08:34:19 am
For those interested, this may compile into an indicator of what my pet is doing at any particular moment.

#include stdcatbed.io
{
char CatThings[]={ "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "Waiting for food", "Eating", "Evacuating", "Deigning to be stroked",  "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping"}

printf( "Right now my cat is %CatThings[ rand()]" )
}
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Post by: ian on 01 April, 2015, 11:02:10 am
Bad Cat likes to roll around in the (empty) bath in the Epic Battle with that Fiendish Tail. She's been battling that tail all her life and it still gets the better of her. I like it when she walks along, twitches her head back to notice her tail and then pretends she hasn't, so she can pounce on it unsuspected a few seconds later.

Little Monster Cat is currently sitting on my notepad, which isn't helping as I'm trying to write a report based on what's written on it. It's time for her mortal enemy to make an appearance: the Laser Pointer.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 April, 2015, 10:03:15 pm
Pumpkin and Ninkasi are unknowingly enjoying their last night with all their reproductive giblets intact. Bet it's quiet tomorrow night....
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Post by: davelodwig on 02 April, 2015, 12:17:18 pm
For those interested, this may compile into an indicator of what my pet is doing at any particular moment.

#include stdcatbed.io
{
char CatThings[]={ "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "Waiting for food", "Eating", "Evacuating", "Deigning to be stroked",  "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping"}

printf( "Right now my cat is %CatThings[ rand()]" )
}

https://hedwig.davelodwig.co.uk/cat/ (https://hedwig.davelodwig.co.uk/cat/) if you like

Ignore the certificate it's my test server and I've not yet got a proper certificate.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2015, 07:55:34 pm
Pumpkin and Ninkasi are unknowingly enjoying their last night with all their reproductive giblets intact. Bet it's quiet tomorrow night....

2 cones of shame. Not much sign of them doing as they're told and resting quietly. Ninkasi keeps getting her lampshade stuck on the floor, and Pumpkin smashed my bedside lamp almost as soon as she got home.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 03 April, 2015, 11:14:49 am
Morphy has just had an essential operation. This was carried out by Dez and involved hacking loads of felted fur from behind Morphy's front legs. Dez sat on floor with legs outstretched, Morphy lay on his back between Dez's legs, and hacking commenced. Morphy didn't complain a great deal - just the occasional mumble - and he has since been rewarded with a suitable quantity of liver cake.
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 03 April, 2015, 04:00:54 pm
Barry and Isabella the Adolescent Cats have just conquered the cat flap. It's a right of passage.
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Post by: BrianI on 04 April, 2015, 08:01:07 pm
Flynn, my cockatiel is busy pondering on whether he was named after Kevin Flynn of TRON fame, or Erol Flynn of Robin Hood fame!
Guess I should see if he is a dab claw at using a wee cockatiel sized bow and arrow, or a wee cockatiel sized TRON light cycle  ;D

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8736/17033030165_89dc9e269d_o.jpg)
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 April, 2015, 08:11:35 pm
Here is a hint
(http://www.funfactoryparties.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bird-bike.jpg)
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 April, 2015, 08:13:55 pm
And...
(http://new4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Clearly+this+one+just+having+a+arrow+shotting+bird+just+_4f3067b91bd6a9403260c49387a0264e.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 04 April, 2015, 09:28:01 pm
Not Barbara Flynn then?
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 April, 2015, 11:04:33 pm
Being very bemused and not sure about our new foster dog from Romania. Who just arrived smelling very dirty, kennely and pooey. Pictures to come when there is day light.
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Post by: Poly Hive on 05 April, 2015, 12:32:05 pm
Being whippets both are asleep on their backs with legs in every direction. It's a whippety life for some!

PH
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Post by: Ruthie on 05 April, 2015, 12:39:13 pm
Whippets have so many legs, don't they!  The most adorable of dogs.
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Post by: woollypigs on 05 April, 2015, 12:46:44 pm
Being very bemused and not sure about our new foster dog from Romania. Who just arrived smelling very dirty, kennely and pooey. Pictures to come when there is day light.
Here we go

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11084304_10153032930721645_7754089647617211720_n.jpg?oh=7edfcf06b64ca4b9a501737ed810e180&oe=55B56095&__gda__=1438036458_51eec3851c875172b73d413674e36abd)
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Post by: ian on 07 April, 2015, 11:13:11 am
Probably destroying something. To prevent Bad Cat from pulling up the stair carpet (her latest thing), we made an avenue of stuffed toys (she's scared of stuffed animals). Thwarted! Except we came back yesterday evening to find little scraps of black paper around the living room. Couldn't think what it could be, but it was noticeable around the TV. Occurred to me later that's she's been eviscerating the subwoofer. Yup, shone a light inside the speaker hole and she's had her paws inside. Still seems to work. I'm having that bloody cat euthanized later.
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 07 April, 2015, 11:27:35 am
... I'm having that bloody cat euthanized later.

 ;D

You love her really!
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Post by: Ham on 07 April, 2015, 07:52:09 pm
For those interested, this may compile into an indicator of what my pet is doing at any particular moment.

#include stdcatbed.io
{
char CatThings[]={ "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "Waiting for food", "Eating", "Evacuating", "Deigning to be stroked",  "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping", "sleeping"}

printf( "Right now my cat is %CatThings[ rand()]" )
}

https://hedwig.davelodwig.co.uk/cat/ (https://hedwig.davelodwig.co.uk/cat/) if you like

Ignore the certificate it's my test server and I've not yet got a proper certificate.

Brilliant!  And, it seems to work!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 April, 2015, 03:42:59 pm
Pete is fast asleep, after a tiring morning of being fast asleep.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 April, 2015, 04:04:23 pm
Twix is, currently, bravely battling with a blade of grass that he managed to hunt down earlier. Oreo, meanwhile, is sat under the bird feeder, mouth open.
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Post by: Kim on 11 April, 2015, 08:59:33 pm
Oreo, meanwhile, is sat under the bird feeder, mouth open.

If what happened to me on today's ride is anything to go by, that may not be an optimal strategy...
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Post by: ian on 11 April, 2015, 09:39:59 pm
Bad Cat just ate my contact lens.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 April, 2015, 09:55:44 pm
Was it in your eye at the time?
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 April, 2015, 08:16:25 am
Bad Cat just ate my contact lens.

I think that creature needs a spell in a Cat A prison.
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Post by: ian on 12 April, 2015, 12:14:47 pm
Fortunately, it wasn't in my eye. I'd just got back from a nice ride en velo and was preparing for an evening of beer and bad TV (as my wife, for some reason, is in Altrincham). With one lens marinating in solution, I turned around to turn the shower on so the water would be toasty by the time I'd taken out the second lens. Except when I turned around there was Bad Cat eagerly lapping the up the contents of the case. Then she makes the groo-what's-in-my-mouth motions before I see a glint of blue lens disappear in the direction of her belly. Then she jumps down and wanders off. Result: empty contact lens container. No lens, no solution. I should know better, she loves lens solution.

She's off to cat prison next week, as we're both away. We once jokingly considered that perhaps we could just leave her at home for a few days, unsupervised, have someone come feed her like we used to do with our previous cat. How we laughed.
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Post by: woollypigs on 12 April, 2015, 12:21:52 pm
Owned mutt wants to play and annoys the heck out of the foster mutt but said mutt don't want to play. Then we gets 20sec rest before the mutt that didn't want play wants to play. Then add to the wee foster mutt who is teething so anything that can fit and not fit into his mouth will end up there. Along with the sheer refusal of going potty outside, good we have tonnes of poppy pads.

Good news is that they do sleep for a good seven hours without a peep.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 April, 2015, 12:41:32 pm
Pete is fast asleep again. He's exhausted after his morning nap and then supervising me making a tagine.
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Post by: tiermat on 12 April, 2015, 12:43:34 pm
Twix, the one at the back of the queue when brains were being handed out, is sat on the deck, cleaning one paw, putting it down, cleaning the other, putting that down then returning to paw one, due to it getting wet with rain!
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Post by: Basil on 12 April, 2015, 04:30:33 pm
Daf.  All this rubbing against my leg and making chirruping noises is all very endearing, but I think you'll find that your watch is fast.  It's not tea time yet.
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Post by: Vince on 13 April, 2015, 04:55:37 pm
Rocket Nev the goldfish is looking smug. We suspect that as well as the slow release fish food, the neighbour has been feeding him whilst we were away.
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Post by: ian on 13 April, 2015, 06:19:55 pm
Frantic, plaintive miaowing from Bad Cat. Some kind of cat emergency, probably involving matches and inflammable fuels. Nope, she sitting on the stairs with one of her toy balls at her paws. Ah, a game of chase the ball. Not. She watches me throw it down the hallway with particular disdain. Foolish ungrateful human, how cruelly you toss away my gift.

Little monster cat on the other hand. (1) don't throw up an hairball on the carpet outside the bedroom at 6am and (2) my swimming bag isn't a place to sleep, thus giving us both a shock when I pick it up.
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Post by: Feline on 13 April, 2015, 06:29:13 pm
The dog is asleep on the sofa with his legs in the air.
The cats are both in the electric heated cat bed curled up.

One of the chickens is practicing flying in the middle of the lounge
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8695/16948890728_e369cdab0f_b.jpg)

The others are in the kitchen trying to eat the dog food
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7691/17136673825_84eaf3c3b4_b.jpg)
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Post by: BrianI on 14 April, 2015, 07:44:19 pm
You have a chickenflap in your door Feline?   :thumbsup:

Flynn my cockatiel is busy having forty winks after enjoying his bit of broccoli I gave him!   ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 April, 2015, 08:18:13 pm
Pete is sulking because bobb is in his seat.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 April, 2015, 09:08:44 pm
Morphy is asleep. He deigned to acknowledge my arrival from Pizza Express with a few desultory wags of his tail.

Yesterday I took him for a 5.5 mile walk. I gained the impression that he was more knackered than I was when we came back, which would be a first. He's 11 now and probably doesn't have a great deal longer on this mortal coil, even though he appears to be in perfect health at the moment.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 April, 2015, 01:02:10 pm
A shorter walk today, but the poor old dog is knackered again. It isn't particularly warm - below 15°C in the shade - but the sun is strong. I'm wondering about taking him on anything further than a jaunt round the park.

I have also noticed him limping a couple of times with his front paws. I think it has been with different paws. He has stopped dead and held up the offending limb and given it a vigorous shaking. It's twice in a couple of weeks that I have noticed him doing that and I thought that he might have a thorn in his pad, but I couldn't find anything and when I squeezed his paw to try to find out where it was hurting him it didn't seem to cause him any discomfort at all.

I think I might make an appointment at the vet's to get him checked over. If his heart is getting weaker then perhaps shorter walks are in order.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 April, 2015, 01:20:32 pm
There was a greyhound on Supervet last week which had really painful corns.
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Post by: ian on 20 April, 2015, 06:18:13 pm
They just came back from the cattery. All I can hear is MIAOW as they greet what seems to be every individual atom of the house and garden. Best not tell them they're going back for another spell in two weeks when we're off again.
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Post by: Feline on 20 April, 2015, 06:25:07 pm
One of my cats got in the car when I arrived home 2 hours ago and is refusing to get out. She loves being in the car. I've been going out there every 20 mins or so to see if she will come out. I think I'm going to do something similar to the 'controlled crying' technique for getting babies to sleep- I'm going to keep doubling the time between going out there to check her. Eventually she will hopefully decide to get out. Maybe by the middle of next week.

You might be wondering why I don't just grab her. The problem is no matter which door of the car you open, she runs to the other side. It is a 2 man job to force her out of there  :facepalm:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 April, 2015, 07:07:38 pm
The visit to the vet's unearthed a number of issues. Morphy has arthritis - no surprise there as he's an 11-year-old 30kg dog. Both his wrists are very clicky, one so much that the vet thinks it's either fractured or dislocated. She has taken some blood for testing and has injected him with pain killers. Short walks only for the moment.

Tomorrow we will get the results of the blood tests which will let us know the state of his kidneys and liver. This is with a view to x-raying his legs, which has to be done under anaesthetic. I'm not sure that we will go ahead with an x-ray, even if his general health is up to it. He doesn't seem to be in any pain, is cheerful enough and still nags me to play with him. He's an 11-year-old example of a breed that has a general life expectancy of about 11-12 years.
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Post by: woollypigs on 03 May, 2015, 11:20:58 am
Running through the house with Peli's nightie on as a cape after our foster puppy. She did the wall of death on our sofas and then jumped through the clothes hanging on the clotheshorse, and came out as the wonder dog!
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Post by: Jakob on 04 May, 2015, 11:10:03 pm
I bought 2 new training toys (identical) to start properly training fetch and recall.
This was the result:
(http://i.imgur.com/ePEUlqYl.jpg)
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 May, 2015, 11:20:34 pm
I see that you got sit sorted :)
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Post by: Jakob on 12 May, 2015, 02:00:32 am
(http://i.imgur.com/OhbdBbNl.jpg)

Playing tug with one of her new friends!. She's remarkably good at keep the game even, although there was a couple of times where she just wandered off and left Punk (the Boston) hanging on for dear life.
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Post by: BrianI on 16 May, 2015, 12:41:39 pm
Well, last night, my baby Cockatiel, Flynn (~17 weeks old now), flew down from the top of his cage, and onto my hand to get his millet fix!

This was a big step for him, as he is pretty timid still!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAtyMypC50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAtyMypC50 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAtyMypC50)


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Post by: Pingu on 17 May, 2015, 12:57:31 pm
Pumpkin has a feather and is growling at anyone who goes near her  ::-)
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Post by: Jakob on 29 May, 2015, 06:02:36 pm
(https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11163897_10206342653422454_2681468697370259348_n.jpg?oh=332e4f0efb70d71729c44f4c6d1f9c6d&oe=560D86E7)

Wearing her cone after spay & gastroplexi surgery...the next 2 weeks will not be fun!
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Post by: PaulF on 29 May, 2015, 06:17:50 pm
Listening to the Foo Fighters

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h82/Paul_Fulford/9E21FC08-9E2E-4D51-9555-0BFE3AB5FCEB_zpsxxtgwg75.jpg)

OK she may actually be lying on the sofa whilst I'm listening to the Foo Fighters
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Post by: Chris S on 29 May, 2015, 06:44:47 pm
Noooo - not the Cone of Shame!  :(
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Post by: ian on 04 June, 2015, 11:07:36 am
Little monster cat is annoying me by yet again using her psychic powers to know that (a) I have a notepad open, (b) that I've written some very important notes in it, and (c) right now I need to read those notes.

So she's come and sat on the notepad and is refusing to move. She can also tell if I'm reading a newspaper or magazine. I'm pretty sure that just by opening any kind of paper or magazine, no matter where I am in the world, she'll appear right there on top of it at the very moment my attention is turned. Cats, of course, can teleport because they're quantum weird. I blame Schrodinger for putting the original cat in a box. Is it alive or dead, he asked. Neither you dimwit, it's not even in the box, it's teleported onto my notepad.
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Post by: Jakob on 11 June, 2015, 12:37:23 am
At the pet hospital :(. She got diagnosed with pneumonia on Sunday and was getting better, but was lethargic, hot and breathing heavily this morning. She got some new antibiotics and is already doing better, so we'll pick her up tonight. The last 2 weeks has not been fun for her.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 June, 2015, 08:11:21 pm
Aw, hope she's feeling better soon.
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Post by: BrianI on 12 June, 2015, 09:37:10 pm
Flynn my cockatiel is beak grinding.

While teeth grinding in humans is a sign of stress, conversely for cockatiels, beak grinding is a sign of happiness and contentment!   :D

http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-club/bird-fun-and-games/why-cockatiels-grind-beaks.aspx (http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-club/bird-fun-and-games/why-cockatiels-grind-beaks.aspx)

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 June, 2015, 08:02:23 pm
Pete is having a post-nap sleep.
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Post by: Pingu on 14 June, 2015, 07:11:13 pm
Pumpkin was hissing at bees earlier  ::-)
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Post by: matthew on 15 June, 2015, 10:20:49 am
My sisters rabbit was biting both my thumb and arm yesterday.  :(

mind I had a good long cuddle first and it's a bloodt big bunny
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Post by: Jakob on 19 June, 2015, 05:42:09 pm
She bravely defended herself against the evil newspapers!
(https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1535691_10206493445512162_1337970142487124196_n.jpg?oh=9cd0b9b2bf1afa4c1117ecdcba0d9e0d&oe=55E719AD)
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Post by: Jakob on 20 June, 2015, 05:12:47 am
Hanging out with Boba Fett!
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10403366_10206500392965844_373429449048837954_n.jpg?oh=66c318d4bafde4799cdbdb0022825c01&oe=55F86250)
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Post by: L CC on 20 June, 2015, 09:52:08 am
Jigsaws.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/Mobile%20Uploads/20150616_142738.jpg)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 June, 2015, 11:03:41 am
Pete is asleep, presumably exhausted after scattering cat litter far and wide.
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 25 June, 2015, 06:59:37 am
Looking slightly sorry for herself.

Cam is a terrible scavenger, and the park we live next to is full of all sorts of delights. She got hold of something on Tuesday night and swallowed it before I could get it off her, and spent most of yesterday being sick.

Luckily I was working at home, because she really was very ill indeed and couldn't even keep down small amounts of water. The most she managed was a bit of crushed ice before bedtime. I was ready to take her to the vet to be put on a drip if it started to approach 24 hours, especially given her age (though I didn't relish the thought of finding a taxi driver who'd take her given the fact that she didn't look up to walking there; many round here have an issue with dogs). Kept grabbing her scruff and checking her gums to see if she was looking dehydrated.

Got up in the small hours of this morning to check on her and she appears to be looking a bit brighter and has kept down a small amount of water and a little bit of bland food so I hope she's over the worst.

If *only* she could make the connection between scavenging and feeling this way...
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Post by: Jakob on 01 August, 2015, 08:58:21 am
(http://i.imgur.com/XFPQZTlh.jpg)
Enjoying the sunset.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 August, 2015, 10:35:00 am
Pete is fast asleep, having "helped" me to put the shopping away.
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Post by: Basil on 01 September, 2015, 07:53:54 pm
Daf, who was 2 last week, is sitting in the pouring rain, watching his first big thunderstorm.

He's hard.
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Post by: BrianI on 01 September, 2015, 08:48:08 pm
My Cockatiels Flynn and Spike.

Flynn is wolf whistling to his raised left foot while Spike looks on and is going "Dude, what you doing?"   :D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 September, 2015, 09:22:00 pm
Pete is snoozing on my lap.  :)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 September, 2015, 05:30:17 pm
Hazel the cat is sulking in one of the bedrooms as that bl**dy puppy is still here !
Tilly the puppy is under the footstool cewing on a rubber ring she just got today.
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Post by: Basil on 02 September, 2015, 06:04:10 pm
Actually, I forgot to mention that Mrs. B and Megan the dog were in residence in Bournville from Thursday of last week until Tuesday afternoon.
Dafydd (Daf the cat) was remarkably laid back about it at last.  He didn't move out to his hedge for the duration or anything.

(click to show/hide)
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Post by: tiermat on 02 September, 2015, 06:08:30 pm
Our two are, mournfully, looking for their friend, Jayne, who fed them whilst we were on holiday last week. Makes us feel wanted, it does.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 September, 2015, 01:43:17 pm
Pete is fast asleep, having worn himself out chasing his tail.  ::-)
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Post by: tiermat on 04 September, 2015, 01:53:31 pm
That reminds me, last night I went upstairs, to say goodnight to TLD.

TLD was sat on her futon, twix was sat alongside her.

TLD was pretending to be an 11 yr old Bond Villain.

Twix was playing along, playing the part of a Bond Viallain's cat :) ;D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 September, 2015, 07:12:03 pm
^ like
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Post by: lou boutin on 05 September, 2015, 10:00:22 am
Milly Cat is being a Hobbit and enjoying her second breakfast.
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Post by: Ham on 05 September, 2015, 10:17:01 am
Katy Cat is playing with a toy. When they break and stop running around she will doubtless come and tell me.
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Post by: Basil on 05 September, 2015, 10:39:57 am
Megan the Border Terrier is currently stinking.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 September, 2015, 01:41:51 pm
Tilly is in her crate sulking. She has a pen round the crate and a nice comfey bed in it and a Kong stuffed with frozen treats but she would rather be snoozing on the sofa.
I have three weeks to get her used to being alone in her crate/pen before Pcolbeck junior goes back to Uni. I work from home a lot but sometimes I am away and Mrs Pcolbeck works 9am to 4pm three days a week and half days the other two so she needs to get used to being alone.
Stage 1 is some time in the crate/pen while I am working in teh room and stage 2 will be me working from the another room for periods of time.
She already sleeps in the crate/pen on a night and has no isues with that.
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Post by: ian on 08 September, 2015, 12:03:47 pm
Tag team annoyance. My wife, official favoured hoomin, is away on bear patrol in Rockies, so they're making do with me. Little monster cat wants to sit on my knee but won't because I don't have suitably comfy lady upholstery. So she paces around in front of me. Back and forth. Forth and back. Tentative paw. Yes, yes, no. I can't see the screen, gingernut. Shoo.

Bad cat, on the other hand, wants to sleep in the bed. We've discussed this and the answer is no. It's weird and you don't bath ever. So she's waiting until I sleep before trying to creep in behind me. No, no, no. I shoo her off. Fifteen minutes later I feel a cold draft on my toes and then the bloody cat sneaking in at the bottom of bed. Cheeky furball. Engage foot. Cat ejection mode active. It would be nice if I could sleep rather than be besieged.
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Post by: lou boutin on 08 September, 2015, 02:45:58 pm
Her royal highness Milly Cat is sulking because the bloke is here trying to fix the boiler. The last bloke who came to fix the boiler let her sit next to him and watch, this one has lots of tools and she can't get near enough to watch.  I've removed her from the kitchen several times, so she's now sitting on the table outside. This is not what she likes doing unless it is warm and today is cold. So this involves a sulky face at the window.  I feel very cruel.  :demon:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 September, 2015, 10:50:07 pm
Snoozing, having swept the chimney for the third time this week...
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Post by: lou boutin on 16 September, 2015, 10:01:19 am
Very useful and helpful cats you have Mrs P.

Milly the Cat is sniffing the front door!!!! She wants to sit on the front mat but is trying to decided if the weather is suitable and if any other cats are around.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 September, 2015, 11:52:38 am
Looking smug as when I came back in from an hour in my office she was sat on the sofa with one of my slippers. I had left her shut in her pen but she had managed to open the door !
Its the poodle in her that makes her smart I think and the labrador that makes her a greedy dustbin of a dog (and very affectionate).
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 September, 2015, 01:29:21 pm
Making snuffly noises in his sleep.
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Post by: Wombat on 20 September, 2015, 05:15:22 pm
Well, half an hour ago, he was throwing up, for at least the second time today.  Was not hairball, so we suspect Baggins could have wormies, so he's just been glooped on the back of his neck, which he did not appreciate.  He was due for it anyway, but it always makes us unpopular with him.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 September, 2015, 07:37:15 pm
Pete is sulking because bobb and I trimmed off the manky hair at the back of his legs today, bobb's in his seat, and we're watching The Cat From Outer Space. So many indignities for one cat to suffer.
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 September, 2015, 06:36:24 pm
Having taken Milly Cat to the vet yesterday I found that she is officially registered with them as Dr Milly Boutin. When was my cat conferred a doctorate? It's a shock to me!! Don't get me wrong, she's a clever kitty but.....
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Post by: Ham on 23 September, 2015, 06:41:20 pm
Look again... are you sure that D isn't a P?

Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 September, 2015, 07:04:54 pm
Tilly is sitting on the sofa with me giving me sad eyes because no dinner.
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 September, 2015, 07:05:30 pm
Perhaps she should be purrrr Milly Boutin
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 September, 2015, 04:58:24 pm
I can't let my cats outside cos there's a big ginger bastard sat on the doorstep waiting to biff them up. He chased our two into the flat and when I went out to scare him off he wouldn't move, so I shut the door to keep ours in and give him a chance to bugger off with dignity.

10 mins later I crack open the front door to see if I can let ours out and he's got his nose pressed up to the bloody thing, cheeky git!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 September, 2015, 05:07:59 pm
The bucket of cold water is recommended in cases such as these.
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Post by: Basil on 29 September, 2015, 06:09:54 pm
Or someone with the correct aiming equipment to piss on it.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 September, 2015, 06:54:26 pm
After a few more minutes I opened the door and the coast was clear so I let them out again.
5 mins later they flew back in and the ginger terrorist was in our airlock where I shut the inner door on him.
He wasn't for moving, despite my best hard stare so I went and got munitions, flicked some water at him to get him out of the airlock and then followed him out with the rest of the cup, most of which probably missed. I then followed our kitties outside with another mugful just in case. A few mins later I heard caterwauling so he'd obviously found some other poor sod to bully.
After a while Pingu came home and he also requested a mug of water but again mostly missed I think, Pumpkin got some friendly fire though :(

I suppose this would be the advantage of a sureflap over a shut door with a kitty monitor. ....

Here is the offending oik - butter wouldn't melt in his mouth...

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/353/19436720912_655049b0c4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vBygXN)IMG_5154 (https://flic.kr/p/vBygXN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Raj on 29 September, 2015, 07:29:47 pm
4 bantam chickens roosting on the top perch in the pen, 2 gold fish swimming around in the tanks doing .... oops I forgot what they were about to do !!!  1 mad black cat curled up on my lap telling me he loves me.  8)
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Post by: ian on 29 September, 2015, 08:15:40 pm
I can't let my cats outside cos there's a big ginger bastard sat on the doorstep waiting to biff them up. He chased our two into the flat and when I went out to scare him off he wouldn't move, so I shut the door to keep ours in and give him a chance to bugger off with dignity.

10 mins later I crack open the front door to see if I can let ours out and he's got his nose pressed up to the bloody thing, cheeky git!

I have a pump action water pistol for this eventuality. Our cats' mortal enemy (other than each other, they're self-nemesisizing) is the GGMFC (Giant Grey Monkey-Faced Cat – I think it might be part baboon). I got sick of a caterwauling and one day I thought it had ate the little monster cat because there was a huge cat-shaped pile of ginger fuzz but it seems she just sheds it when alarmed. Actually she sheds fur all the bloody time. It's bloody everywhere despite a daily furmination. Anyway, I went all Terminator. It got the message. I see if peering over the fence periodically to see if the coast is clear. I can hit it between the eyes from 30 metres. I'm deadly.

It's a skill I learned at University, we used to shoot tourists mooning at the Penny Lane sign opposite our Halls of Residence. Thank you Liverpool, thank you for your schooling in the arts of water marksmanship.
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Post by: Kim on 29 September, 2015, 10:25:49 pm
Barakta's mum went down the super-soaker route in a similar situation.  Just ended up with the cats relying on her to defend their territory for them (which might have worked better if she'd been around more).
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Post by: Wowbagger on 01 October, 2015, 07:39:33 pm
Eating.
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Post by: L CC on 01 October, 2015, 10:34:29 pm
Sat next to me on the settee but we barely tolerate each other so she's facing the back of it pretending I'm not here. I'm ignoring her, too.
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Post by: Chris S on 01 October, 2015, 11:00:00 pm
Sat next to me on the settee but we barely tolerate each other so she's facing the back of it pretending I'm not here. I'm ignoring her, too.

Fboab: "Drinking the loo water? Sleeping in the basin? Really??"
The Cat: "Yeah, yeah... whatever; you don't own me - fuck off."
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 October, 2015, 08:03:15 am
Pestering me for breakfast, even though he's had it.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 October, 2015, 05:28:54 pm
Dear Pumpkin, please to be stopping using downstairs neighbours lawn as a litter tray, it's embarrassing  :facepalm:
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Post by: Feline on 10 October, 2015, 06:41:02 pm
Our pets are mostly staring at our other pets.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5658/21888075359_c8d6c1e79e_c.jpg)
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Post by: Ruthie on 10 October, 2015, 09:57:05 pm
That's a hilarious photo  ;D
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Post by: Feline on 11 October, 2015, 01:00:56 am
That's a hilarious photo  ;D

It's like live TV for them, we have 10 mice in there  ;D
The dog used to be interested in the hamster until I got the mice, and now he is totally fixated heh. Mind you, he is fed up of being chased around the garden by the chickens so this lot look like something he could actually dominate if only he could get to them!
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Post by: lou boutin on 16 October, 2015, 09:28:41 am
Milly is being very jumpy.  I think the nannies who lived with the family she used to be with used to swipe at her.  I'm trying to reassure her that she's safe now.
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Post by: Ham on 26 October, 2015, 04:43:53 pm
Katie Cat is still refusing to put her watch back. Says she can't manage the buttons, but I don't think she has read the manual.
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Post by: lou boutin on 26 October, 2015, 05:30:25 pm
Milly Cat was therapy cat yesterday.  I was seeing one of my supervisees and Milly decided she wanted to sit by them and allow them to stroke her as we worked.  This has never been known before (Milky doesn't exactly share the love). Today she's back to being her usual self, chasing shadows, demanding two breakfasts and trying to steal treats.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 October, 2015, 07:20:13 pm
Pete's on my knee, staring at my phone.
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Post by: Basil on 26 October, 2015, 07:24:46 pm
Out.  Probably shitting in everyone's garden but ours.
Good old Daf.  #propercat.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 27 October, 2015, 08:07:16 pm
Tilly is snoozing on the sofa next to me occasionally burping. The burping releases a horrible smell as she has been scrumping rotting crab apples from the bottom of the garden.
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 October, 2015, 08:27:54 pm
Her belly is making cider :)
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Post by: lou boutin on 28 October, 2015, 09:08:30 am
Milky is on guard duty.  A cat has walked past the house and she's annoyed..
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Post by: ian on 29 October, 2015, 12:46:38 pm
By the racket, clambering up into the wardrobe. Bad Cat has learned to open the sliding doors and then through a combination of wriggling and scrambling behind a closed portion of door get to the top shelf where she's evidently constructing an eyrie that Little Monster Cat can't get to. Her mountaineering is going to do wonders for the clothes in there.

An improvement on the 7am wake-up call, where Bad Cat decided to get off the bed, giving me a moment of optimism that I might get an extra hour of unmolested sleep. But no, she decided to empty her stomach onto the bedroom carpet before wandering out into the hallway and deciding that yes, there's a little more still inside.

I'll get up and get the carpet cleaner then, shall I.
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Post by: lou boutin on 31 October, 2015, 05:49:30 pm
Milky is spooked by Halloween.  She's jumped several times when people have passed the window.  She's now in her box under the stairs but I might put her upstairs because a few friends are coming around.
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Post by: Crumbling Nick on 31 October, 2015, 11:34:05 pm
We don't have a pet. Keeping carnivorous animals as pets in a suburban or urban environment seems to be an impossible balance between the human selfish stuff, the historic view that cats & dogs were useful  tools & the environmental costs of too many mammals, especially the carnivorous ones, in an overpopulated island.

We have had pets. I've buried several small furry mammals that were our childrens' pets. It was emotional. But that's just part of helping children to make themselves adults.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 06 November, 2015, 01:44:50 pm
We don't have a pet. Keeping carnivorous animals as pets in a suburban or urban environment seems to be an impossible balance between the human selfish stuff, the historic view that cats & dogs were useful  tools & the environmental costs of too many mammals, especially the carnivorous ones, in an overpopulated island.

We have had pets. I've buried several small furry mammals that were our childrens' pets. It was emotional. But that's just part of helping children to make themselves adults.

So technically, your answer to the thread title What is your pet doing right now? is "Decomposing"
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Post by: L CC on 15 November, 2015, 07:23:14 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20151115_191233.jpg)
Finishing up my chicken saag. Freak.
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Post by: jamesld8 on 15 November, 2015, 08:15:59 pm
Rosie, our 14 year old Pedigree Cocker Spaniel is snoring on the floor just  at my feet, but will soon be galvanised into high alert mode at thought of her evening pre bed snack before she retires to sleep on the sofa  ::-)

 Meanwhile our two ex farmcats are sleeping comfortably on two chairs, one each of course, in the conservatory. there`s a lot of truth in saying `if you want the best seat you `ll have to move the cat` !!!
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Post by: Andrew on 15 November, 2015, 08:34:24 pm
One dog's snoring, the other's farting. The noise and smell are a bit much.
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Post by: jamesld8 on 15 November, 2015, 08:48:18 pm
One dog's snoring, the other's farting. The noise and smell are a bit much.

mega sympathy !!--- just one doing both is bad enough ::-)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 November, 2015, 09:34:47 pm
Pete's having a snooze, after catching a baby mouse.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 November, 2015, 10:28:16 am
Tilly is in her crate/cage whilst I consider bathing her since she rolled in fox poo on this mornings walk. She did it yesterday too on a different route and we bathed her last night. She smelt lovely for a few hours ....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 November, 2015, 05:02:51 pm
Tilly is having a spectacular day. She managed to rip a tennis ball into tiny chunks this afternoon and now it seems she ate a fair amount of them as she has thrown up all over the lounge and its full of 1/4inch bits of rubber !
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Post by: woollypigs on 16 November, 2015, 05:04:29 pm
I think our Tilley has beaten her fear of people in hi-vis and hard hat on the canal.

We still need to work on the vicious nasty horrific wheelbarrow that roams the canal. I think it sneaked up on her today as she was busy checking out the mini digger and "steam" roller that inhabit the canal atm while they mend the towpath - These loud machines she don't mind and will happy go up to while they are moving about - So the wheelbarrow wasn't such a surprise after all.

We still have much work to do regarding the very still sitting fishermen on the canal. There is just no way that she wants to go past them, not on your nilly, Nada, nope niet, bark and growl.

And don't get us started on hikers who are enjoying a rest on the path she is walking.
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Post by: Kim on 16 November, 2015, 05:05:21 pm
Our pets are mostly staring at our other pets.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5658/21888075359_c8d6c1e79e_c.jpg)

I've giggled at that about three times now, but I've only just noticed the dog!  Brilliant.
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Post by: Andrew on 16 November, 2015, 08:25:34 pm
Our farty border collie , Sam, is very insecure; he doesn't like dancing. That is, my wife and I dancing like childish loons. He barks and nips. Our other dog, an ageing malinois. used to dance with us but is a bit past that now, she still doesn't mind though - regarding us with waggy tailed amusement. We've yet to find a song that Sam likes. We'll try again.
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Post by: hujev on 17 November, 2015, 12:17:08 am
I'm at work (...), but imagine some variant of:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/P1200023-z-1200-20140202.jpg)
(note chewed-up catnip banana)
or:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/P1210120-z-1200-20140202.jpg),
etc.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 November, 2015, 12:24:06 pm
We still have much work to do regarding the very still sitting fishermen on the canal. There is just no way that she wants to go past them, not on your nilly, Nada, nope niet, bark and growl.

Could be worse.  Once upon a time we were a-walk in the Oxfordshire countryside when Dr Larrington's dog spied a fisherman.  Amon the tasty treats he had laid out on the bank ready to attract the fishies was a paper plate with most of a tin of Spam on it.

I don't think he'd set out with the intention of catching a Golden Retriever.
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Post by: PaulF on 17 November, 2015, 12:40:32 pm
I'm not quite sure to be honest...

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5628/23062682276_0b9d17f165_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/B8YgX3)image (https://flic.kr/p/B8YgX3) by paulfulford (https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fulford/), on Flickr
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 November, 2015, 10:42:11 pm
When Mrs. Wow and I arrived home from 24 hours away he was very pleased to see us and was quite vocal. This was quelled by giving him a carrot, whereafter Dez took him for his evening walk. Now he is lying peacefully a short distance from my chair.
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Post by: ian on 09 December, 2015, 08:06:06 am
Inspiring terror.

Seriously. Little Monster Cat, the better behaved of our two, has found a new toy. I think it's some kid of stuffed Red Nose Day thing that's somehow ended up in the cat toy box. It's bit big for her to chase around so has sat there for some time.

Last night, for reasons that I can only assume to be nefarious, she bought it up the bedroom. About 4.20am to be precise. I can be precise because at 4.20 am our bedroom was filled with a psychotic
HA HA HA HAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA etc.

It's quite realistic and loud. Neither cat was bothered. We're still burning adrenaline. Neither of us knew it was one of those squeeze-activated things.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2015, 05:09:28 pm
;D
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Post by: woollypigs on 09 December, 2015, 05:19:34 pm
Laying on the living room floor* and is somewhere between sulking and missing. Sulking because: she can't get to the fat balls I hug out for the birds. Missing because: Peli is out of the house for the first time in two weeks.

* She only lays on the living room floor when she wants to moan at something - mainly us - or needs to cool down from the heat from the woodburner.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 December, 2015, 07:08:19 pm
Lord Tigs, who has grown from an average-sized cat to a mini-tiger weighing aboiut a stone, is out shredding, having been asleep all day.

But here he is, relaxing on the stairs the other night.  See the slightly deranged expression?  That's the normal ginger cat face.

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/7wrj6tvve3ko3x1/2015-09-23%2014.47.52.jpg?dl=1)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2015, 07:58:46 pm
That is a very fine cat, RZ :)
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Post by: lou boutin on 10 December, 2015, 06:59:01 pm
Milly the Cat is sulking with me despite have 3lots of treats and her evening meal..
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Post by: PaulF on 10 December, 2015, 08:45:47 pm
Eating the firewood
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 December, 2015, 07:56:11 am
Completely ignoring his new ginormous leopets climbing tower thing.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2015, 08:54:18 am
Eating the firewood

Do you have a pet beaver, then, or just a hamster with delusions of grandeur :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 December, 2015, 05:56:09 pm
Pumpkin came of age today.... first bird in the house. Oh my, the growling, so much growling!
So many tiny little feathers under the bed for me to clear up  :hand:
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Post by: Kathy on 11 December, 2015, 07:42:57 pm
Decomposing.  :'(
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 December, 2015, 07:51:17 pm
That is a very fine cat, RZ :)
Thank you.  He was adopted at a year old, from a couple who were moving in together and one of them had a dog, They'd tried to make it work but the two animals didn't get on at all.  The people were hugely upset about it and actually in tears but, whe they came round here a month later to visit, Tigs was too busy stealing my lasagne to even look at them, and they realised he was going to be fine.

Unfortunately he is one of those Six Dinner Sid-type cats that gets fed all over the place and comes home smelling of someone else's perfume.  He's a complete tart and has been ordered not to get any heavier.
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 December, 2015, 07:56:56 pm
Decomposing.  :'(
:(
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 December, 2015, 08:40:06 pm
Completely ignoring his new ginormous leopets climbing tower thing.
They do that.  It's to remind you that you are impotent and worthless, except as a can opener.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 December, 2015, 09:03:08 pm
Decomposing.  :'(

Oh no? Which one?
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Post by: PaulF on 11 December, 2015, 10:18:10 pm
Eating the firewood
L
Do you have a pet beaver, then, or just a hamster with delusions of grandeur :-)

Not something as exotic, just a cockapoo with an identity crisis :-)
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Post by: IanDG on 11 December, 2015, 10:28:44 pm
Not pestering me so they must be curled up on the sofa with Mrs W
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Post by: Kathy on 11 December, 2015, 10:32:36 pm
Decomposing.  :'(

Oh no? Which one?

Emmie-the-orange-cat. She's had kidney failure for many months, but just as that condition got under control she developed a highly aggressive liver tumour with internal bleeding. She's lasted a couple of months with that, but it got to the point where she was starving away as the tumour grew, and the tumour pressed on her stomach preventing her eating.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 December, 2015, 10:46:17 pm
Decomposing.  :'(

Oh no? Which one?

Emmie-the-orange-cat. She's had kidney failure for many months, but just as that condition got under control she developed a highly aggressive liver tumour with internal bleeding. She's lasted a couple of months with that, but it got to the point where she was starving away as the tumour grew, and the tumour pressed on her stomach preventing her eating.

Aw, sorry to hear that :(
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Post by: lou boutin on 12 December, 2015, 09:24:08 pm
Decomposing.  :'(

Oh no? Which one?

Emmie-the-orange-cat. She's had kidney failure for many months, but just as that condition got under control she developed a highly aggressive liver tumour with internal bleeding. She's lasted a couple of months with that, but it got to the point where she was starving away as the tumour grew, and the tumour pressed on her stomach preventing her eating.

I'm sorry to hear that Kathy.
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Post by: lou boutin on 12 December, 2015, 09:25:22 pm
Milly is inspecting the Christmas presents that I have just finished wrapping.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 13 December, 2015, 10:22:07 pm
Gone out after a good fight with me.  He likes play fighting - he chews rather than bites properly and rarely draws blood.  People are surprised because they've only ever seen dogs do it.  He is also a master of the little nip to the elbow if you're ignoring him and he wants something.
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Post by: Basil on 13 December, 2015, 10:31:48 pm
Snoring.  Snoring loudly.  Oh.  Hang on....

No.  As you were.  Mrs B appears to be awake.  It's definitely Megan the Border Terrier that's snoring. 
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Post by: lou boutin on 13 December, 2015, 11:11:56 pm
Ignoring me. I'm trying to entice her to sit by e while I don't sleep.
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Post by: ian on 14 December, 2015, 12:53:57 pm
Little Monster Cat is sitting in the notepad that I was writing something of great and useful significance on. Chances are that if I'm writing or reading something, she'll appear and sit right on it and refuse to move. I've no idea how she knows.
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Post by: martint235 on 14 December, 2015, 01:00:09 pm
Suffering from fleas. Apparently there's a load of fleas about now that laugh in the face of Frontline so both our cats are suffering. Got some prescription stuff from the vets that seems to be easing their issues but we also need to treat the house with some insecticide stuff. SWMBO is being bitten on a regular basis but the fleas don't seem to like me for some reason.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2015, 02:03:40 pm
We treated Morphy for fleas the other day. I have seen no evidence that it has worked, but I haven't seen any that it hasn't either.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 December, 2015, 03:03:15 pm
Pete is in the hammocky bit of his new enormous tower, and he is yawning.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 14 December, 2015, 09:35:40 pm
Pete is in the hammocky bit of his new enormous tower, and he is yawning.

If anything needed pictures, this is it.

BTW: Pete is my favourite forum cat. Sorry everyone else.

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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 15 December, 2015, 01:45:17 pm
Decomposing.  :'(

Oh no? Which one?

Emmie-the-orange-cat. She's had kidney failure for many months, but just as that condition got under control she developed a highly aggressive liver tumour with internal bleeding. She's lasted a couple of months with that, but it got to the point where she was starving away as the tumour grew, and the tumour pressed on her stomach preventing her eating.

I was sorry to read about this.  As a renter who isn't allowed pets your cats are like my Blue Peter cat equivalents!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 December, 2015, 05:54:48 pm
Pete is in the hammocky bit of his new enormous tower, and he is yawning.

If anything needed pictures, this is it.

BTW: Pete is my favourite forum cat. Sorry everyone else.

No pics of him in his hammock yet but here he is feeling stressed by life.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0525_zps682fiuaf.jpg)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 December, 2015, 07:51:42 pm
Having his claws cut by Dez.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 December, 2015, 05:57:00 pm
Pete is in the hammocky bit of his new enormous tower, and he is yawning.

If anything needed pictures, this is it.

BTW: Pete is my favourite forum cat. Sorry everyone else.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0614_zpsx43k3lpr.jpg)
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Post by: Andrew Br on 17 December, 2015, 05:58:45 pm
 :thumbsup:

He looks smaller than normal. I assume it's a camera effect.

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 December, 2015, 08:31:14 pm
Lying in his bed under the radiator, stretching and scratching his scratch post from lying down, the lazy boy.
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Post by: peliroja on 17 December, 2015, 10:35:28 pm
Tilley dog is pinning me down on the sofa and pushing my phone out of the way with her nose.
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Post by: ian on 18 December, 2015, 12:45:41 pm
It would be a simple matter to seal the box and address it to Edinburgh-of-the-Seven-Seas, Tristan da Cunha, and be free of Bad Cat.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/IMG_0770%20copy.jpg)

Seriously, that cat gets everywhere.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 December, 2015, 04:28:08 pm
Pete is trying to persuade me it's teatime.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2015, 07:37:07 pm
Not quite now, but earlier today Morphy had a close encounter with an especially fecund example of the burdock plant and had masses of seed heads stuck in his fur. Since then I had have a few sessions wielding the scissors. I think it's all out now. I hate that bloody plant.
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Post by: BrianI on 19 December, 2015, 11:38:04 am
My boys1 are eyeing up their new toys which I just took delivery of (including various odds and sods for making / repairing the toys including wooden discs, leather cord, paper cord and chewable woven paper strips.   ;D )

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5705/23844317615_93032ffc94_b.jpg)

This is their main present, which they won't get till the 25th!   :smug:

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5790/23818235046_46c86e342d_b.jpg)

So far they haven't discovered the stainless steel bell which I've put in their cage... No doubt they'll figure it out at 2am tomorrow morning...   ;)

1 a pair of Cockatiels, Flynn and Spike. Spike is the one on the swing with the mad quiff:

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5824/23476489999_2a5092ffea_b.jpg)

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 December, 2015, 03:11:50 pm
Pete is sleeping in his hammock.  ::-) ;D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 December, 2015, 04:15:43 pm
Pumpkin is sitting in my lap, staring at Pingu,  looking for any sign of movement which may indicate dinner time is imminent.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 December, 2015, 06:29:06 pm
Milly is sucking her treats and then spitting them out.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 December, 2015, 07:03:12 pm
^ I first read that as teats ;D
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 December, 2015, 09:46:10 pm
She can turn herself inside out for some thing but no that  :)
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Post by: ian on 22 December, 2015, 11:41:12 am
The time: 0550 hours. Wind blustering outside and cat barfing by the bed. Delightful. I say, old chap, would be so awfully kind as to clean that up, I seem to have quite the mess! Off she marches. Thanks Bad Cat, I'd like nothing more than scooping up your half-digested cat food at this godforsaken hour. FFS, do it on one of the many hardwood floor surfaces not the bedroom carpet. Or outside. At decent o'clock.

It was only a couple of hours later that I realised that the cat had (a) spoken and (b) in an upper-class accent. That's new.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 December, 2015, 10:39:53 am
Another Christmas eve, another trip to the shops to buy chicken for another kitteh with another poorly bum :(
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Post by: Flite on 24 December, 2015, 04:04:44 pm
Watching OH stand all the Christmas cards up and calculating when it will be safe to knock them all down again....
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Post by: lou boutin on 24 December, 2015, 05:08:30 pm
Being over excited by the putting up of the Christmas tree. I thought that was the job of kids not cats.
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Post by: peliroja on 24 December, 2015, 06:13:05 pm
Sitting on me as she can hear my dad on the other end of phone. She loves my dad.
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Post by: rafletcher on 24 December, 2015, 10:42:11 pm
Lying in front of the fire. She's a cat.
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Post by: Basil on 24 December, 2015, 11:03:55 pm
Daf is on his third Xmas visit to the Welsh abode.  He and Megan the Border Terrier are attempting to aggressively ignore each other.  Tricky, when you're both trying to claim prime position in front of the wood burner.
For some reason they both seem to be adverse to sorting out the pecking order.
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Post by: jamesld8 on 25 December, 2015, 07:46:31 am
... after sleeping all night on our sofa , then having breakfast, Rosie our Spaniel is now doing what she does best----sleeping (on my office floor though to keep an `eye` on me )  zzzzzzzzz  ;D

and our two cats are sitting outside in the rain at edge of the garden pond !!


Happy Xmas to all ( and their pets )  :thumbsup:
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Post by: lou boutin on 25 December, 2015, 08:23:49 am
Milly has just polished off her breakfast and is now sitting next to her pressie under tree.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2015, 05:29:44 pm
Pumpkin in festive attire

 (https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1668/23335132164_646ec35013_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/By3DNU)IMG_3142 (https://flic.kr/p/By3DNU) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: lou boutin on 25 December, 2015, 05:54:12 pm
Milly is being scared of Doctor Who.
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Post by: SteveC on 25 December, 2015, 07:55:33 pm
Ginge, having remembered that he really, really, really likes goose, is now asleep on the other chair in our study.
Mind you as he's got thyroid issues he flips between manic 'feed me, feed me!' and fast asleep constantly.
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Post by: tiermat on 25 December, 2015, 08:38:22 pm
Oreo is currently frightening himself by alternating between cleaning his tail and wondering what that strange black thing is on the floor, thus attacking it! I swear we got the cats off the short bus. Lovely cats, just stupid!
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Post by: woollypigs on 25 December, 2015, 08:58:11 pm
Laying in front of the fire, how come fur don't combust at these temperatures? Cracks eggs make omelette ...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 December, 2015, 09:28:38 am
Snoozing between us on the sofa. Normally Tilly would be climbing the walls to go for a walk by 7:30am but today she isn't interested. It's a combination of the grim weather and us having a house full all day yesterday (which she loved) which meant she didn't get any snoozes in due to all the fuss she got and all the people who needed licking. She had a really good first Christmas and behaved herself smashingly.
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Post by: lou boutin on 26 December, 2015, 12:14:09 pm
I left Milly sleeping on a hot water bottle and feather pillows, with a treat filled weeble like treat toy and cat milk.  I'm off for Christmas take two with my OH, step-daughters, their partners, my granddaughter and my OH's ex-wife and her husband.  Milly seemed happy with the arrangement.
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Post by: andrewc on 26 December, 2015, 04:36:06 pm
My parents younger Rotty is snarling & growling. They have a big art deco style lamp..
A dancer with the light fitting above her.  He's fine if the lights are unlit, but turn it on
& he's terrified !
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Post by: peliroja on 26 December, 2015, 04:54:38 pm
Sleeping off the excitement of So Much Water Outside....
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2015, 10:15:37 pm
Pumpkin is sleeping off the large piece of amaretti cassata (home made ice cream type stuffs) she stole out of Pingu's bowl.
She is a very bad girl.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2015, 11:51:39 am
I was going to do another couple of hours of plaster removal this morning being as the weather is pants, but instead I'm trapped under 2 cats.
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Post by: SteveC on 30 December, 2015, 04:16:28 pm
Ginge is recovering from a trip to the V.E.T. this morning. He had blood taken and, for once, there were no howls from either the cat or the vet and only the cat emerged wearing a bandage.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 December, 2015, 09:54:30 am
Tilly is curled up on the sofa looking all innocent after her attempt to kill me half an hour ago.
I was checking the temperature of the water for the dog shower (hose pipe and sprinkler head connected to the garage sink) prior to sluicing her off after our walk when I turned round to find she had wound her lead round my ankles. I went down like a sack of spuds and fell out the garage door and down the step and full length on the flagged path. Then she licked my face to see if her evil plan had succeeded or not. I may be quite bruised and sore tommorow.
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Post by: T42 on 31 December, 2015, 11:01:30 am
^^^ Ouch.

One of our dogs is recovering from a trip to the vet where a catheter was stuck up his pride & joy because he's been having trouble peeing since yesterday.  Wretched vet didn't think to put the other end of the catheter into a bottle so piss went all over the examination table and the dog's belly. Wife got to cuddle 45 kilos of piss-soaked Lab on the back seat of the car all the way home.  Blood test showed high leukocyte count but vet's talking prostate tumour.  Poor tyke. Poor wife. Poor car.

Now waiting for further analysis results to see whether he needs a biopsy. Happy New Year, yeah. :(
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 December, 2015, 12:24:05 pm
First there was laughter (Tilly, GWS pcolbeck) and then there was :( (T42)

While all that was happening ours just rolled over for more sleep in and belly rubs. So a great success in getting a dog that will get us out about doing stuff instead lazying about. she just want sleepins :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 December, 2015, 03:43:06 pm
Sorry to hear about your doggies problems T42.

This morning's Pumpkin act of disgrace was her sneaking into the kitchen behind Pingu - he went back to bed without realising, until I found her scoffling the duck fat sitting in a jar by the sink (since Xmas day!) . Fat pie.
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Post by: T42 on 31 December, 2015, 03:47:20 pm
@PCB & Mrs P, thanks.  He's still very quiet but the vet's pills seem to be working a bit so we're a bit happier. Fingers crossed though.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2015, 08:29:53 pm
Pete is having his post-nap, pre-sleep snooze.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2016, 12:21:23 am
I expect he was rudely awakened by
;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 January, 2016, 12:28:18 pm
No, he sleeps through fireworks and there were no bagpipes.  ;D
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 January, 2016, 06:44:35 pm
No, he sleeps through fireworks and there were no bagpipes.  ;D

I definitely saw a bekilted teuchter playing the haggis bagpipes on the distascope last night but switched over to BBC1 sharpish before he could get out of second gear.
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Post by: T42 on 03 January, 2016, 02:18:17 pm
Poor bloody dog's alternating between not being able to piddle and not being able to contain it, unfortunately in antiphase to when he's out of doors. Getting a bit better than it was but am considering changing my moniker to Mr. Mop.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 January, 2016, 02:31:41 pm
Aw, shame :(
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Post by: ian on 23 January, 2016, 12:50:41 pm
Bad Cat's delightful response to me being home from a trip was to throw up on me. And then wander around the room throwing up on other things before finally depositing a big blade of offending grass on the floor. At least it wasn't the full cat food burp and I needed to do some washing anyway. I missed you too, Bad Cat.
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Post by: Feline on 23 January, 2016, 01:01:15 pm
Simon has left a clothes drawer slightly open.
Kiri is desperate to enter this drawer and is scrabbling at the gap to make it big enough for herself to fit through. She hasn't succeeded but there are now cycling jerseys sticking out. She looks sad and defeated.
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 January, 2016, 03:00:08 pm
Milky is attempting get her treats out of a weeble like treat toy.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 January, 2016, 09:42:49 pm
Bad Cat's delightful response to me being home from a trip was to throw up on me. And then wander around the room throwing up on other things before finally depositing a big blade of offending grass on the floor. At least it wasn't the full cat food burp and I needed to do some washing anyway. I missed you too, Bad Cat.
Three weeks after being wormed, the other day Pete yakked a giant roundworm onto my kitchen floor.

He's currently snoring.
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Post by: woollypigs on 24 January, 2016, 11:43:26 pm
Runig, growling and barking in her sleep while draped over my feet.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 25 January, 2016, 12:31:29 am
Bad Cat's delightful response to me being home from a trip was to throw up on me. And then wander around the room throwing up on other things before finally depositing a big blade of offending grass on the floor. At least it wasn't the full cat food burp and I needed to do some washing anyway. I missed you too, Bad Cat.

You left me and smell funny.  Now you are cured of that.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 January, 2016, 11:54:35 am
Standing on the sofa barking at the window as next door is having an oil delivery. She has to let me know whenever someone is close to the house.
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Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2016, 12:23:11 pm
Flat out after a bath. Because of this (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/videos/10153584787931645/?pnref=story).  ;D
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Post by: T42 on 25 January, 2016, 01:27:55 pm
Flat out after a bath. Because of this (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/videos/10153584787931645/?pnref=story).  ;D

Back when we had a garden pond our young Leonberg delighted in fetching out water-lily plants, roots and all, and parading round the garden with them.

Re our current dogs and what they're at: Snoring. Farting. Both of them.
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Post by: Vince on 25 January, 2016, 02:44:03 pm
The only thing that surprises me about that is that Tilley doesn't stand next to you and do the doggy spin dry.
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Post by: woollypigs on 25 January, 2016, 02:58:28 pm
The only thing that surprises me about that is that Tilley doesn't stand next to you and do the doggy spin dry.
When it comes to a mud bath, that function is not enabled.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 January, 2016, 08:54:26 pm
Stoned out of his gourd on some really good nip.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 January, 2016, 11:33:45 am
Tilly the dog and Hazel the cat just finished a 30 minute silent stare off. One each side of the child gate that stops Tilly chasing Hazel down the hall.
Cat 1 Dog 0
There will be a rematch later I am sure.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 February, 2016, 10:42:07 pm
Staying at the emergency vets overnight getting fluids after apparently eating raisins.
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Post by: peliroja on 07 February, 2016, 10:59:29 pm
Oh bugger. Right place for him/her, definitely. Tilley once helped herself to some chocolate cake and the vet made her vomit it all up (and yes, Tilley then tried to eat the vomited chocolate cake, of course). Hope puss is OK tomorrow.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 February, 2016, 11:20:35 pm
C'mon peli, you remember they're torties ;)

There appears to be some confusion as to whether raisins are toxic to cats in the same way as dogs, so she's basically digging a big hole in the credit card just in case they are.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 February, 2016, 07:32:54 am
Sitting on the floor staring at me.
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Post by: Jaded on 08 February, 2016, 11:31:55 am
One of them is being sick.

Trouble is, I don't know which one. So it could be a double cat carrier to the vet, given that they don't get on.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 February, 2016, 12:39:29 pm
So I picked Pumpkin up at the emergency vet at 0730, told her temp was down and she is probably OK to go home but to go see my vet first. Get to my vet and her temperature is back up so they're keeping her in,

Since I've been home Ninkasi has barfed about four times and is looking sorry for herself, so she's going at 2. And Pingu's away.
Sigh.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 08 February, 2016, 12:41:45 pm
Making loud noises which can be roughly translated as "Come on, you slackers! You haven't taken me for my walk yet!"
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 February, 2016, 04:43:54 pm
Lounging around as she is tired after a good run with her bestest friend ever Charlie dog (a lab). Tilly lurves Charlie dog and goes all silly when he's around.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 February, 2016, 05:53:31 pm
Sitting on my knee, although I have stuff to do which involves standing up.
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Post by: Jaded on 08 February, 2016, 06:12:23 pm
Back from the vets. Clean bill of health and a bit hissing to boot.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 February, 2016, 06:36:18 pm
Ninkasi went to the vet and got antibiotic and anti emesis jabs and then I brought them both home, 700 quid lighter over the weekend.

Pumpkin of course smells a bit funny now. Ninkasi is not impressed, much hissing and spitting at Pumpkin.
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Post by: jamesld8 on 09 February, 2016, 10:09:45 pm
Dog fast asleep (again) on sofa  :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 February, 2016, 08:53:22 am
On her bed looking sheepish as she has been very naughty. Ran away across two fields and a road (luckily its a single track dead end that only goes to the church) because she saw her friend Reggie dog at the top of the hill where our village is.
By the time I got back up to the village she was wandering round by herself. Naughty Tilly !
She's never done that before. She will run across a field to her friends but no further normally. I am going to have to put some work in on the stop and recall commands.
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Post by: jamesld8 on 10 February, 2016, 09:06:30 am
Our small female farm cat just had a go at a large cock pheasant  ::-) fortunately she missed as pheasant about twice her size !!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 February, 2016, 07:24:19 am
Tilly is looking confused as breakfast didn't appear at 6:30 as it usually does. She keeps going to where her bowl usually is then coming up to us and giving us the sad eyes treatment.
Unfortunately for her she is off to the vets to be spade this morning so breakfast isn't happening at all today. No off the lead runs for 10 days either after this morning. Poor lamb.
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 February, 2016, 07:37:12 am
Take care Till(without an e)y. Our Till(with an e)y is awaiting her walks with stare down and big sigs. Next step will be standing on the sofa leaning over to the table nudging my face with her wet nose, well I better get my boots on before that happens.

Walkies!
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Post by: ian on 11 February, 2016, 10:59:20 pm
Weirdly they're both sleeping on the bed almost next to each other without a battle breaking out. This is very rare detente. It won't last.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2016, 05:36:11 am
Tilly is OK but very sad. Brought her back from the vets yesterday tea time and she was very woozy just stood in the kitchen wobbling slightly. After effects of the anaesthetic.
Put her bed against the sofa and put her on it and she just flopped over. I slept on the sofa and she didn't really move all evening and night. Occasional whistley little wines.
She's stood up this morning when I made a coffee so that's good and she will have her breakfast in an hour (chicken and rice for the patient) and can have some pain killers with it.
Sad eyes treatment all round since we got home. They do make you feel like you betrayed them when you take them to the vets even though its for their own good.
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Post by: woollypigs on 12 February, 2016, 07:32:20 am
I know what you mean, been there a few times.

Though our Tilley didn't, when she had her legs operated on. It was like she knew that we were trying to help. Then again she is very happy go lucky mutt.
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Post by: BrianI on 12 February, 2016, 09:11:58 am
Flynn is wolf whistling to his right foot! Must be practising for valentines day... ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2016, 09:16:17 am
Oh no she's whinning for a walk now. No walks today I am afraid. She is going to drive us potty over the next 10 days as she is used to two 45 minute off lead running across fields and hills walks every day. She isn't a pavement  on a lead sort of dog as the fields start where our drive finishes ....
I think her or me will need sedatives to get through the next week.
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Post by: woollypigs on 12 February, 2016, 09:26:14 am
Brian: that is some foot fetish :)

pcolbeck: good luck :)
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Post by: peliroja on 12 February, 2016, 04:48:32 pm
Frozen Kongs stuffed with some of her food might help keep her occupied.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2016, 05:13:09 pm
Frozen Kongs stuffed with some of her food might help keep her occupied.

Yes she likes those. We gave her one when we go out and have to leave her in her crate.  We have several in the freezer usually. Will give her one tomorrow, today she is on chicken and rice as advised by the vet so as not to upset her tummy after the anaesthetic.
She has been very good today I must say. Much brighter than last night as well. Hasn't mythered too much. I have asked Pcolbeck junior not to come with his girlfriend for tea tomorrow though (he pops home most weekends) as Tilly goes bonkers when he comes home and gets really excited and bouncy as she loves him but its not what we need this weekend. Now if I could just have a word with the cat and get her not to wind Tilly up ....
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Post by: BrianI on 13 February, 2016, 05:29:32 pm
Brian: that is some foot fetish :)

pcolbeck: good luck :)

I think it's a cockatiel thing, as he does it quite often   :)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 February, 2016, 03:05:28 pm
Pete's on my knee, watching The Last Leg.
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Post by: Wombat on 15 February, 2016, 08:30:08 am
Tilly is OK but very sad. Brought her back from the vets yesterday tea time and she was very woozy just stood in the kitchen wobbling slightly. After effects of the anaesthetic.
Put her bed against the sofa and put her on it and she just flopped over. I slept on the sofa and she didn't really move all evening and night. Occasional whistley little wines.
She's stood up this morning when I made a coffee so that's good and she will have her breakfast in an hour (chicken and rice for the patient) and can have some pain killers with it.
Sad eyes treatment all round since we got home. They do make you feel like you betrayed them when you take them to the vets even though its for their own good.

Mrs W walked our dog Surya to the vet to be spayed, as we reckoned getting her in and out of the car would likely be more strain on her stitches than a gentle walk.  Mrs W goes back to vet to collect hound, to be greeted by a bouncy dog saying "C'mon, lets go for a run round the fields!"  Bloody silly dog didn't even seem to realise anything had happened to her.  She comprehensively broke the supposed rule about border collies being intelligent.  Thick as two short planks  ;D
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Post by: lou boutin on 20 February, 2016, 05:02:12 pm
Milly is asleep on her new teddy.  Said teddy was won in a raffle at last nights performance of the village Am Dram Society and given to me for Milly.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 February, 2016, 05:17:37 pm
That's unusual for a cat to sleep on something procured specially for them...
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 February, 2016, 06:37:03 pm
That's unusual for a cat to sleep on something procured specially for them...

She seems to like it.  But I did give her treats a couple of times so that makes it a friend.
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Post by: Kathy on 22 February, 2016, 08:16:32 pm
Pouting.

Pouting, because there is a laptop occupying my lap, rather than a tubby tortoiseshell. So instead, she's sitting on the only white cushion in the entire room, rather than any other patch of the "better make it leather and black to hide the cat grot" sofa. And pouting. ::-)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 February, 2016, 09:43:53 pm
Chasing his tail, the big divvy.
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Post by: Ham on 25 February, 2016, 11:12:58 am
'ere Wow, how's Morphy doing with his practice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xshp5C2foBU
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 February, 2016, 08:36:09 pm
'ere Wow, how's Morphy doing with his practice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xshp5C2foBU

Excellent! Thank god Morphy never learned that pressing the piano keys made that noise.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2016, 03:05:45 pm
We are having scaffolding erected - the scaffs are noisily chucking stuff in the back of their truck.
Pumpkin is noseying out of the window at them.
Ninkasi is perched on my lap looking like she'd like to disappear up her own fundament.
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Post by: woollypigs on 26 February, 2016, 06:00:22 pm
Chewing away madly on her new bone and wagging like it is going to fall off when we ask if it is good :)
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Post by: lou boutin on 27 February, 2016, 11:05:51 am
Clawing my sofa despite having been trained to claw the scathing post.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 February, 2016, 07:35:32 pm
Well, he's spent the last hour following me around meowing because he wanted me to sit down so he could sit on me for a cuddle, but now I've sat down, he's gone to lie in his bed.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 March, 2016, 04:46:58 pm
Tilly is in disgrace. This week she has been ignoring recall and this afternoon I let her off the lead in the field as normal to begin our walk and she ran back to the lane and down a track to my neighbours house. I think my lovely puppy has become a teenager. Tough love time I think.
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Post by: peliroja on 06 March, 2016, 05:01:08 pm
Positive reinforcement time. No negativity at all or you might push her into further naughtiness. Try doing the "treat jackpot" (a handful of treats in quick succession rather than the odd one) every now and then when she recalls nicely. High value treats, too. It's an important phase of her training. :)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 March, 2016, 03:12:19 am
Thanks Peli. We only do positive reinforcement. I need to get some higher value treats as the ones we have been using don't cut it any more.
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Post by: woollypigs on 07 March, 2016, 09:15:59 am
And remember to stick to you rules*, she will try to push her boundaries. If you are lucky if will only last a few weeks :)

* remember they are very much creatures of habit/comfort. So get up, walk, shopping, eat, work etc at the same time everyday. That will help with getting her to settle/calm down and get over her teenage moods faster.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 March, 2016, 10:56:31 am
Little minx was very good on the walk this morning, came back every time I called etc. Then as we came up the field to go home she bolted !
She tried to go in someones house as the door was ajar while they warmed teh car up. Luckily I knew them and they just grabbed her for me.
I'm making her sit for everything today and will keep it up, even to be allowed in the garden to do her business and before she gets a fuss.
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Post by: peliroja on 07 March, 2016, 12:55:19 pm
This is a great article about solid recall training http://www.clickertraining.com/node/309

We're not quite there yet with our Tilley, so we just don't let her off the lead apart from in very secure locations as the sighthound in her could disappear after a small fluffy/bird at any moment and we can't guarantee to keep her safe. It's a long road!
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Post by: Riggers on 07 March, 2016, 04:54:21 pm
Tiggy's in the vets. With a saline drip. Thinking is she has severe Hyperthyroidism, and we'll just have to see how she goes and responds to the vet's help, but she's nearly sixteen. I know nowadays that isn't necessarily an old age for a cat, and her weight loss has been rapid. Oh well.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 March, 2016, 05:01:34 pm
Poor Tiggy. Hope the vet is able to help, Riggers.
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Post by: Feline on 07 March, 2016, 08:27:51 pm
Tiggy's in the vets. With a saline drip. Thinking is she has severe Hyperthyroidism, and we'll just have to see how she goes and responds to the vet's help, but she's nearly sixteen. I know nowadays that isn't necessarily an old age for a cat, and her weight loss has been rapid. Oh well.

Fingers crossed it's just her thyroid (and her heart is ok)- at least there's the possibility of treatment or even cure with that. It's better than a diagnosis of renal failure, diabetes ofrcancer if you had to pick one.
Sending good luck vibes to Tiggy.
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Post by: SteveC on 07 March, 2016, 08:50:12 pm
Our Ginge was diagnosed with a thyroid problem nearly 18 months ago. He was a bit younger than Tiggy, but with daily medication he still seems to be enjoying life.
We thought we were going to lose him when it started though.

Best wishes for Tiggy.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 March, 2016, 09:35:47 pm
Sitting on my knee, watching The Hunt for Red October.
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Post by: Kim on 07 March, 2016, 09:39:25 pm
Sitting on my knee, watching The Hunt for Red October.

"Give me a purr Vasili, one purr only."
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Post by: T42 on 09 March, 2016, 09:00:38 am
Judging by the niff coming into my office, out dogs are doing what they do best.  The Inlaw Paw loves to give them bits of his evening meal and it's usually full of carbs.  It's OK for him, his sense of smell left the building before Elvis.

Not for nothing do we call them pets.

That last word is in French.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2016, 02:02:53 pm
Oui, le petomane!

Morphy is currently trying to extract a tennis ball from a rolled up towel. He seems to like that challenge, judging by the excited barking that took place as he saw what I was about to do (ie roll a tennis ball up in a towel).
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 March, 2016, 04:58:23 pm
No idea she's gone to the kennels for a few days while we have house guests one of whom is scared of dogs.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 March, 2016, 06:29:10 pm
No idea she's gone to the kennels for a few days while we have house guests one of whom is scared of dogs.

You've got that all the wrong way around I think!
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Post by: Basil on 11 March, 2016, 06:32:18 pm
No idea she's gone to the kennels for a few days while we have house guests one of whom is scared of dogs.

You've got that all the wrong way around I think!

+1
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Post by: peliroja on 11 March, 2016, 09:26:08 pm
+1.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 March, 2016, 08:54:22 am
No idea she's gone to the kennels for a few days while we have house guests one of whom is scared of dogs.

You've got that all the wrong way around I think!

Well the scared of dogs one is 3 1/2 and has come all the way from Canada. Tilly would be fine with him bar some licking but the toys spread all over the floor would be too much of a temptation. She needs a little practice in kennels anyway in case we go on holiday, though at the moment we are looking at dog friendly holidays in the UK or Northern France.
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Post by: Pingu on 13 March, 2016, 10:01:06 pm
Coming into the house with a dead blackbird  :-[

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Post by: Feanor on 13 March, 2016, 10:22:50 pm
Stick it in the freezer. Another four and nineteen, and you can make yourself a pie fit for a king.
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Post by: Pingu on 13 March, 2016, 10:28:31 pm
Nom  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Dibdib on 16 March, 2016, 09:54:43 pm
Day two, Blu has been out for his evening constitutional and is now fast asleep in his (open) crate. So far today he has been crated while I went to work for the first time (just half a day to start), been into town for lunch in a cafe where he tried to go and chat to every lady in the cafe, and spent a lot of the evening flomped all over me on the sofa.

I am absolutely smitten. I really can't believe how quickly he's settled in and how completely chilled out he is. As a first time dog owner I feel incredibly lucky, I couldn't ask for more.
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Post by: peliroja on 16 March, 2016, 10:43:50 pm
Blu sounds just wonderful. I'm so glad you found each other.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jamesld8 on 21 March, 2016, 01:09:17 pm
 Autumn our  sandy longhaired daft Cat was just trying to catch a bumblebee---fortunately he failed
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 March, 2016, 04:09:05 pm
Relaxing on the floor after a brisk walk, and feeling smug because he punched a dog in the face.
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Post by: ian on 29 March, 2016, 04:11:30 pm
Annoying me by sitting in front of screen and washing her face. Shoo.

Big scrap outside earlier. Fortunately wasn't ours, it was GGMFC (giant grey monkey-faced cat) vs. UFC (ultimate fighting cat). GGMFC limped off which what looked like a nasty paw injury. Someone will be getting a vet's bill. UFC is badass, the yap-yap-yap that wakes me up every morning is all his fault, he stalks and chases the local dogs. Fortunately Bad Cat is a bit soppy and doesn't fight too hard, she rolls over and submits quite quickly. I worry more about Little Monster cat because she's little (about 3 kg) and has no teeth but doesn't seem to realise it (though she has razor claws). She wouldn't do well against UFC. That said, she generally just growls at other cats and decides taking a nap is easier.

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Post by: Basil on 29 March, 2016, 04:18:23 pm
Megan the Border Terrier's stomach appears to be still jet lagged  from the change to summer time.  She is currently doing her nut because I seem to have forgotten to feed her, and don't seem to be preparing to do so any time soon.

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Post by: matthew on 29 March, 2016, 04:24:57 pm
Megan the Border Terrier's stomach appears to be still jet lagged  from the change to summer time.  She is currently doing her nut because I seem to have forgotten to feed her, and don't seem to be preparing to do so any time soon.

But the clocks have gone forward so she should be getting fed earlier, 12:00 BST = 11:00 GMT.

however my experience of cats is that they are permanently hungry and should you walk into the kitchen then they think you should be feeding them rather than getting a cuppa.
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Post by: Basil on 29 March, 2016, 04:39:01 pm
Hmm.  You're right.
She's just being a bloody pain as usual then.
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Post by: Vince on 30 March, 2016, 11:12:08 am
I've no idea. Nev the goldfish moved in with the Dutch neighbours before I came back to the UK.
It was either that or making him swim the channel.
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Post by: BrianI on 30 March, 2016, 08:17:51 pm
Just half an hour ago, Spike the cockatiel was busy humping his perch.  :o
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Post by: cycleman on 31 March, 2016, 07:52:18 am
A flying fish in your future?   ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2016, 09:33:37 am
Having a snooze and I presume dreaming about the rabbit leg she found in the field and ran around with for half an hour on our morning walk today.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 March, 2016, 12:03:43 pm
Sleeping, as hard as he can.
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Post by: ian on 31 March, 2016, 12:24:47 pm
Just at the end of a perfectly recorded podcast, no editing required, and delivering my final lines, and

MIAOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

the furry little shit.

I'll probably leave it in. Librarians love cats.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 March, 2016, 01:00:24 pm
But apparently lolcatz and related phenomena are leading to an unprecedented number of cats ending up in Battersea.  People are disappointed when their moggie won't perform amusingly for the camera, after they've gone to all the trouble of setting up a dedicated YouTube channel, Facebook page, PayPal account and Conservative Party membership for the ungrateful little furry gits.  It was on the TV news last night, so must be Trufax.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2016, 01:47:13 pm
Patrolling the back garden barking and running from place to place. It's the latest skirmish of her campaign to stop any birds landing in territory she considers hers. Silly dog.
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Post by: Kim on 31 March, 2016, 03:28:36 pm
I just watched on of Zev's relatives being shooed out of the way by some builders molishing a fence across the road, then go and piss on the front of their van.
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Post by: BrianI on 31 March, 2016, 06:30:44 pm
A flying fish in your future?   ;D
Lol!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 March, 2016, 06:43:36 pm
He has jumped the fence at the back of the lane and vanished into the undergrowth.
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Post by: daisyhill on 07 April, 2016, 11:51:10 am
Sleeping peacefully while reeking of fox poo  :-X
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 April, 2016, 02:12:08 pm
Drying off after she got the hose after our walk. The little cheeky monkey jumped into the canal today. Never had an interest what so ever in the canal, rivers and lakes yes. But today she jumped in, right where the most dirt had collected. So after a wee swim, I pulled her out. After that she was right up on er toes, jumping around, pulling more, selective hearing engaged, zigzagging about. 
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Post by: Feline on 11 April, 2016, 04:18:29 pm
Rico is in the university vet hospital on a drip because he's dehydrated- not been well for a few days, not eating much and vomiting. I'm hoping his blood come back as a gastrointestinal upset rather than pancreatitis or anything worse. It's only a few weeks since he gave blood trying to save Kiri, so the poor cat has been having a rough time of it  :(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2016, 04:37:00 pm
Oh poor Rico, hope he's better soon!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 April, 2016, 08:32:28 pm
Sleeping on my knee, which is inconvenient because I'm really hungry and I want my tea.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 April, 2016, 09:16:27 pm
Flat ouf on the sofa. A whole day in the garden including fighting with the evil lawnmower plus two walks and she is completr#y knackered,
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 April, 2016, 10:46:14 pm
A new one, eating in her sleep. Flat out on the sofa then she started chewing and licking her lips. She had a jumbone today which is a rarebtrwat so that was probably it. I have seen her running and growling in her sleep before but this is the first time for eating.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 May, 2016, 05:18:19 pm
Wandering around the garden. squeaking her Wubba. I can hear her through the open patio doors and the squeaks get louder and softer dependant on where she is in the garden. I bet the neighbours are loving it.

This is a Wubba:
(https://www.kongcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Wubba_Ballistic_Friends_Puma-700x700.jpg)

Tilly loves her Wooba.
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Post by: BrianI on 24 May, 2016, 04:11:27 pm
Flynn, one of my cockatiels and me are waiting to see the vet. He's got a runny bum, and a swollen inflamed vent.

Hopefully i won't need to be posting in the pet bad news thread.   :'(
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Post by: BrianI on 24 May, 2016, 08:51:17 pm
Flynn is now hopefully feeling less sorry for himself. Vet diagnosed inflamed vent caused by the diarrhoea - vet was unsure of what could have caused the runny bum, but has prescribed oral antibiotics (0.03ml of baytril, twice a day for 7 days), and sudocreme for his wee bum.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 May, 2016, 08:04:41 am
Pete is being a Good Boy.
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Post by: T42 on 25 May, 2016, 08:10:25 am
Just now by the parrot's cage I started humming and clapping my hands in rhythm. He started bobbing up and down as he usually does then paused, watched my hands intently for a couple of beats then started again, in perfect time but with two beats to my one. Clever old bird.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 May, 2016, 10:19:24 am
Just now by the parrot's cage I started humming and clapping my hands in rhythm. He started bobbing up and down as he usually does then paused, watched my hands intently for a couple of beats then started again, in perfect time but with two beats to my one. Clever old bird.

I've had less clever music students.
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Post by: T42 on 25 May, 2016, 11:04:26 am
The banjo leaves him cold.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 27 May, 2016, 09:24:27 pm
Snoozing on her bed. Its her birthday and she is one. We took her to Filey amd walked on the beach to Hummnaby Gap and back and she ran and ran. Now she is completely pooped out.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 May, 2016, 10:27:48 pm
I have a cat on my lap and another under my legs, with paws covered in paint. :facepalm:
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Post by: Feline on 28 May, 2016, 11:31:24 am
Google is sleeping off one of the most traumatic days of his life yesterday. He endured his 2 hour grooming session only to come home and be terrified firstly by hail stones and then thunder and lightening. He tried to hide in the fridge when Simon opened it  :facepalm:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 May, 2016, 08:28:25 pm
Pete is sound asleep and snoring (but if I make a move towards the kitchen he'll get there before I do) after an exciting hour of running fast and climbing trees and sniffing.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 June, 2016, 05:22:57 pm
Tilly is looking pleased with herself and burping a bit. She found a dead rabbit on her walk and kept just out of reach until she had eaten all of it other than the back legs. Luckily this one was quite fresh unlike some of the others she has found. He recall is pretty good now but when she has a rabbit it there is no getting her back until she has finished with it.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 01 June, 2016, 10:43:08 pm
Nagging me noisily for his evening constitutional. It is normally Dez's job, but he has buggered off to Derbyshire for a few days, organising a FoE event.
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Post by: Torslanda on 01 June, 2016, 11:33:26 pm
Nursing a swollen paw and feeling sorry for himself.

Vet has administered pain killing and antibiotic injections and his pads are somewhat less inflamed than earlier today
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 June, 2016, 10:32:18 pm
Shouting at me again. It's time to take him out.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 June, 2016, 10:59:22 pm
Watching telly.
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Post by: T42 on 06 June, 2016, 03:34:40 pm
For the last 2-3 weeks our parrot has not been talking. He produces jungley whistles, and looks and behaves otherwise normally, but it's as if he had suddenly either forgotten all his acquired sounds, or else had problems in his vocal tract/syrinx.

Anyway, while we were getting the 4 o'clock coffee just now he produced a very creditable imitation of a fart, and we are delighted.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 June, 2016, 06:34:15 pm
For the last 2-3 weeks our parrot has not been talking. He produces jungley whistles, and looks and behaves otherwise normally, but it's as if he had suddenly either forgotten all his acquired sounds, or else had problems in his vocal tract/syrinx.

Anyway, while we were getting the 4 o'clock coffee just now he produced a very creditable imitation of a fart, and we are delighted.

Are you sure it was imitation?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 June, 2016, 08:05:05 pm
Ninkasi spent a good 10-15mins earlier stalking a slater which was out of reach between the carpet edge and the new front of the chimney breast. Then it ran up behind the adjacent skirting board which is sitting about a cm off the wall.
About half an hour later Pumpkin finds it out in the middle of the floor and eats it.
Ninkasi goes to investigate and is somewhat nonplussed  ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 June, 2016, 09:00:38 pm
Sulking because I put worming liquid in his tea, which he doesn't like.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 June, 2016, 03:07:13 pm
Hiding under the bed from the stove installation racket.
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Post by: T42 on 17 June, 2016, 05:56:46 pm
A while ago he was sitting on the top perch repeating "Wotchagot? Cherry?" since he saw me take a bag of them out of the fridge.  The whole repertoire's coming out now, I think he's pleased to get his voice back.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 June, 2016, 07:51:53 pm
Sulking after a telling-off for raking in the food waste bin for some very old cheddar.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 June, 2016, 06:21:24 pm
Stalking a fly.
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Post by: lou boutin on 24 June, 2016, 08:43:40 pm
Milly is worried, she has a Greek passport and thinks this means she will have to back to Greece and live on streets like cats do there.  She is a Priness and is worried that her fur will get wet if rains.  She doesn't like getting her fur wet.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 08:48:36 pm
Ninkasi is sitting on the grumpy arm of the sofa, waiting for supper to be announced.
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Post by: Andrij on 24 June, 2016, 09:05:00 pm
Ninkasi is sitting on the grumpy arm of the sofa, waiting for supper to be announced.

Will Ninkasi move to the cheerful arm of the sofa after supper?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 09:07:50 pm
Ninkasi is sitting on the grumpy arm of the sofa, waiting for supper to be announced.

Will Ninkasi move to the cheerful arm of the sofa after supper?
She might have a frisk and leap onto the frisky back of the sofa. Or perhaps cheerfully pluck the scratching post.

F5 at approx 2135H for updates.
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Post by: woollypigs on 24 June, 2016, 11:00:52 pm
It is now 2300H and I have worn out the F5 key ....
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 June, 2016, 11:23:53 pm
Oh sorry.
There was indeed frisking, up to the frisky sofa back, down to the hidey place behind the door and then round & round a bit.
Currently having happy Pingu cuddles :)
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Post by: Jaded on 25 June, 2016, 12:21:36 am
The brown cat is running scared.

The grey cat has told her that she she is going to be repatriated.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 June, 2016, 07:33:14 pm
Come on Pumpkin, stop dicking about and come home :(
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Post by: Pingu on 30 June, 2016, 07:38:43 pm
Come on Pumpkin, stop dicking about and come home :(

+1
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Post by: Basil on 30 June, 2016, 10:54:23 pm
Megan, our Border Terrier, is not happy.  For a couple of weeks now we've been coming to this house, dumping stuff and then much to her relief, going back to Maesycrugiau. 
Today the beds came over.  That's it.  The final push.  She's still waiting for us to go back.  "Why the woof is everyone getting into beds?"
Dafydd the cat who is visiting from Brum, is well laid back about it.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 July, 2016, 08:19:09 am
Pete is looking sadly at his empty dish.
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Post by: T42 on 01 July, 2016, 10:53:33 am
Mrs T42 bought the dogs new flower-pots.  Raz has already split his in half.
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Post by: Kim on 01 July, 2016, 03:21:59 pm
What are dogs supposed to do with flower pots?  (Genuine question, I'm a cat person and allergic to gardening.)
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Post by: PaulF on 01 July, 2016, 03:23:31 pm
What are dogs supposed to do with flower pots?  (Genuine question, I'm a cat person and allergic to gardening.)

Protect their owners from them. Flower pots are evil doncha know ;D
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Post by: Kim on 01 July, 2016, 03:31:37 pm
I suppose it was either that or 'eat them'.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 July, 2016, 04:58:42 pm
Message from home is that Pumpkin has just arrived home after being missing since Wednesday, the little menace.
I have many more grey hairs now.
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Post by: peliroja on 01 July, 2016, 05:04:16 pm
Welcome home, dirty stop out!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 July, 2016, 05:37:44 pm
She's going to get such a squeezing when I get home tomorrow!
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Post by: T42 on 01 July, 2016, 05:50:10 pm
What are dogs supposed to do with flower pots?  (Genuine question, I'm a cat person and allergic to gardening.)

Supposed? Not much. But ours chew/demolish plastic flower-pots and have a good time doing it.  Happiness is a new flower-pot.

Looking now for some made of Kevlar.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 July, 2016, 06:08:15 pm
For the last 2-3 weeks our parrot has not been talking. He produces jungley whistles, and looks and behaves otherwise normally, but it's as if he had suddenly either forgotten all his acquired sounds, or else had problems in his vocal tract/syrinx.

Anyway, while we were getting the 4 o'clock coffee just now he produced a very creditable imitation of a fart, and we are delighted.

Are you sure it was imitation?
Are you sure it was the parrot?
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Post by: Jaded on 01 July, 2016, 06:24:27 pm
Good news for the pingus

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Basil on 01 July, 2016, 10:56:59 pm
Yay Pumpkin.!   :D
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Post by: Pingu on 03 July, 2016, 10:27:49 pm
She has been so purry since she got back.
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Post by: matthew on 03 July, 2016, 10:34:12 pm
sounds like she got shut in a shed...

Glad she is home and wanting to reinforce the group bonds.
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Post by: Wombat on 04 July, 2016, 01:59:38 pm
Ours is wondering where his mate next door, is, who would normally be spending a lot of time in our garden, or more recently, in our house half the time.  Alfie is currently in a cattery.

Boy, has ours (Baggins) got a surprise coming!  At the weekend, he is going to the moggery while we go to France, where he will find his cell-mate is the aforementioned Alfie from next door.  When we get back, more confusion, 'cos Alfie from next door won't be Alfie from next door any more, he'll be Alfie wot lives with us.  Next door have moved, and can't take Alfie with her, and we luv Alfie to bits, so we will have two white and black mogs.
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Post by: trekker12 on 04 July, 2016, 02:22:40 pm
Sleeping (probably), piddling on the mail in the hallway (most likely) and definitely not eating. Willow the cat is 17 and her teeth don't work properly any more. Food has become more and more of a chore lately. She'll look at a plate of food sniff it, have a small nibble and walk away to stick her head in anything with water in it to drink.

She's even off previous favourite treats such as Tuna or grilled chicken.

She doesn't know it yet (but I think she's already suspicious) she's headed for the vet this evening to see if they have any suggestions but she's too old now to be knocked out for a full dental op.

She's very thin and becoming frail it's hard to watch, she seems happy and still purring lots but we can't help worrying a little.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 July, 2016, 02:39:14 pm
Aw, poor Willow, hope the vet can be of some help.

Ninkasi is looking very pleased with herself after chasing a bluebottle round the flat and then eating it.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 July, 2016, 06:00:30 pm
Pete is on my knee, watching the tennis.
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Post by: trekker12 on 05 July, 2016, 09:23:31 am
Well, Willow went to the vet yesterday. She's lost just under a kilo in the last six months and she has never been a big cat.

Her gums are sore and infected so the vet gave her a pain killer followed by an antibiotic injection. She spent most of yesterday evening a bit spaced out and staring at the wall.

This morning she was much more lively and ate her way through a tin of pate before we left for work so hopefully her mouth isn't quite so sore today.

The vet suggested we have a blood test to check for kidney or liver problems but two injections seemed enough for one day and I think we are a little concerned what that might reveal. We'll see how she gets on over the next few weeks and make a decision then.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 05 July, 2016, 02:48:54 pm
Poppy is on holiday in Berlin again, her fourth time since we moved out here (I have only been once, and that was without her!)

The son of the family I live with, who is studying in Berlin, has this incredible connection with Poppy - she loves him totally, and he loves her back. He visited last weekend and will be coming back in two weeks so asked if he could take her to Berlin for the two weeks - and I said yes of course. She will be going to his University lectures with him, to work, hanging out with his friends, probably getting drunk and smoking too much... so a great experience for a six year old cockapoo!

So at the moment she's probably in a Uni lecture somewhere.

This is a photo he sent me during her last stay in Berlin:

(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p296x100/12295260_780557385406422_8377534424479214890_n.jpg?oh=9b38202ef03bad8a852c4134e452ef48&oe=57F20EBB)
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Post by: Pingu on 05 July, 2016, 08:43:15 pm
Good news, trekker  :)
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Post by: Kim on 06 July, 2016, 02:11:25 pm
So at the moment she's probably in a Uni lecture somewhere.

This is a photo he sent me during her last stay in Berlin:

(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p296x100/12295260_780557385406422_8377534424479214890_n.jpg?oh=9b38202ef03bad8a852c4134e452ef48&oe=57F20EBB)

What's she studying?  :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 July, 2016, 02:35:35 pm
Party dogma.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 06 July, 2016, 09:32:16 pm
Care assistant for old or disabled people. In Germany this requires a four year degree.
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Post by: Feanor on 06 July, 2016, 10:44:56 pm
So at the moment she's probably in a Uni lecture somewhere.

This is a photo he sent me during her last stay in Berlin:

(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p296x100/12295260_780557385406422_8377534424479214890_n.jpg?oh=9b38202ef03bad8a852c4134e452ef48&oe=57F20EBB)

What's she studying?  :)

Electronics for dogs, I expect...
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Post by: Pingu on 07 July, 2016, 10:20:24 am
(http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327875237l/8243716.jpg)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 July, 2016, 06:38:41 pm
He's on my knee, watching The Lion King.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 July, 2016, 07:39:57 pm
He's on my knee, watching The Lion King.

And thinking "that's what I'm gonna do when I grow up"?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 July, 2016, 08:56:07 pm
He just can't wait to be king.
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 July, 2016, 03:43:05 pm
Message from home is that Pumpkin has just arrived home after being missing since Wednesday, the little menace.
I have many more grey hairs now.

 :)
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 July, 2016, 03:45:21 pm
Milly Cat is playing nurse maid. She's not left my side for more than 10 mins since I came home from hospital.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 July, 2016, 09:36:28 pm
Aw, Mills is a good kitteh.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 July, 2016, 10:02:23 pm
Snoring. It's really cute.
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Post by: woollypigs on 26 July, 2016, 10:14:03 pm
Well thanks to our lazy mutt we didn't go out riding early this AM. She has been steady waking up every day between 6.30-7.30AM for months now. Demanding feeding and after a little digesting nap, walkies. So we agreed when she is up we too will get going and ready to ride, right after her walk.

At 9AM we woke up to find her fast asleep between us. She is normally up and ready as soon as we stir, but today we had another hour lazying in bed. She was sooooo comfy, lazy and sleepy no interest in food or walkies.
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Post by: lou boutin on 28 July, 2016, 07:15:01 pm
Milly Cat is sitting in the window being admired by people passing by.
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Post by: Kim on 28 July, 2016, 11:20:33 pm
Milly Cat is sitting in the window being admired by people passing by.

There's a cat I used to ride past regularly who did that.  Mr Chips, he's called (one time someone opened the door to him and called him by name as I rode past).  Then what I assume to be a landlord or housing association or similar decided to do some refurbishment on several houses in the terrace, and the curtains he used to sit behind were replaced by blinds without a gap.  I've hardly got to admire him since :(
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Post by: Pingu on 29 July, 2016, 11:16:22 am
Milly Cat is sitting in the window being admired by people passing by.

AKA watching cat TV.
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Post by: lou boutin on 29 July, 2016, 06:11:23 pm
Milly is definitely an attention tart and loves her seat in the window. 

Today she's been cuddly  :) :)
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Post by: peliroja on 29 July, 2016, 09:29:11 pm
Staring at a random spot in the middle distance. You're freaking me out, mutt!
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Post by: Feline on 30 July, 2016, 11:53:13 pm
Google was quite hot when he got back from his walk with Simon this evening.
He ran and jumped straight in the chicken drinking trough where he spent several minutes wallowing and drinking  ;D

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Post by: benborp on 31 July, 2016, 04:41:45 am
Yay! For the cat vomit.

Yay! For the affectionate nuzzle!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 July, 2016, 10:56:49 am
Collollopsed in the corridor, where it's cooler.
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Post by: Pingu on 07 September, 2016, 09:48:09 pm
Pumpkin is chewing a thick length of sisal and freaking out Mrs P with the noise.
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Post by: SteveC on 13 September, 2016, 08:42:52 pm
Ginge is being quite nervy and restless.
He's been at the vet's all day as we needed to get a urine sample. This is not easy with a cat. The usual method involves replacing the cat litter with special non-absorbent granules and sampling the result with a pipette. Unfortunately, Ginge will not use a tray so equipped. Last time we tried he expressed his disapproval by suing our bed at about four in the morning, with me directly beneath him.

Trouble is, he is definitely a 'poor old thing' now. He needs daily medication for a thyroid condition, is deaf, is on a special diet for his kidneys, is losing weight and has a heart murmur.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 September, 2016, 08:53:30 pm
Aw, poor old sossig  :(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 September, 2016, 09:15:39 pm
The little Dustbin Kitteh otherwise known as Pumpkin has just spent the last 10 mins puking up human food *all* round Pingu Towers  :facepalm:  :sick:
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Post by: lou boutin on 15 September, 2016, 08:18:00 am
 :-\. I hope Pumpkin is okay.

Milly Cat is cross and when I left this morning was sitting in the office sulking.  Mr Boutin is here during the week to take me to hospital and she does like Mr Boutin coming home during the week, it disrupts her routine.
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Post by: SteveC on 15 September, 2016, 06:52:39 pm
Trouble is, he is definitely a 'poor old thing' now. He needs daily medication for a thyroid condition, is deaf, is on a special diet for his kidneys, is losing weight and has a heart murmur.

The vet phoned me with the results today. Basically he's no worse than the last time he was tested about three months ago.
And she's suggested that we could give him different food instead of the low protein sort as not eating properly will be worse for him than getting too much protein. Either way I think he's definitely in his twilight, but he still seems happy enough most of the time (and he did enjoy the change of diet this evening; I've not seen him licking out the bowl like that for ages).
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 September, 2016, 07:09:27 pm
:-\. I hope Pumpkin is okay.

Milly Cat is cross and when I left this morning was sitting in the office sulking.  Mr Boutin is here during the week to take me to hospital and she does like Mr Boutin coming home during the week, it disrupts her routine.

She was fine once she'd got it all up, half an hour later it was suppertime and she was ready for her boiled chicken (which she was on to stop the runny poos she gets from extra curricular eating   :facepalm:)
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Post by: cycleman on 16 September, 2016, 08:01:46 am
My 4 kittens are using me as underpaw heating this morning  :)
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Post by: Andrew on 16 September, 2016, 08:17:31 am
Sadly she's dying.   :(

She's 14 or 15 (rescue dog, so no idea exactly) and already had a few strokes. The last few weeks have shown a marked decline. She's often confused and in her own world. She's fragile, unstable and often struggles to get up. She probably had a fit one evening last week (the vet said epileptic but there was no movement), and has just had another. Basically she just collapses, lies there motionless crying and yelping. Very distressing for all.  But after a few hours and a decent sleep she 'reconfigures' and gets back up, back to her old confused fragile (but happy and smiley) state.

The time is nearing though. We watch her closely. When the times comes, when she stops looking happy most of the time, we will call the vet. Better a week too soon than a day too late, as they say. She's had a happy life with us and we won't see her suffer unduly.   
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Post by: lou boutin on 16 September, 2016, 09:11:40 am
:-\. I hope Pumpkin is okay.

Milly Cat is cross and when I left this morning was sitting in the office sulking.  Mr Boutin is here during the week to take me to hospital and she does like Mr Boutin coming home during the week, it disrupts her routine.

She was fine once she'd got it all up, half an hour later it was suppertime and she was ready for her boiled chicken (which she was on to stop the runny poos she gets from extra curricular eating   :facepalm:)

I'm glad she's okay.
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Post by: lou boutin on 16 September, 2016, 09:12:25 am
Sadly she's dying.   :(

She's 14 or 15 (rescue dog, so no idea exactly) and already had a few strokes. The last few weeks have shown a marked decline. She's often confused and in her own world. She's fragile, unstable and often struggles to get up. She probably had a fit one evening last week (the vet said epileptic but there was no movement), and has just had another. Basically she just collapses, lies there motionless crying and yelping. Very distressing for all.  But after a few hours and a decent sleep she 'reconfigures' and gets back up, back to her old confused fragile (but happy and smiley) state.

The time is nearing though. We watch her closely. When the times comes, when she stops looking happy most of the time, we will call the vet. Better a week too soon than a day too late, as they say. She's had a happy life with us and we won't see her suffer unduly.

So sorry to read this Andrew. Sending hugs.
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Post by: Ruthie on 17 September, 2016, 08:29:10 am
That's hard, Andrew.  Sorry to hear it.
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Post by: T42 on 17 September, 2016, 10:52:08 am
We've always been with ours and hugged them through the last injection. It's the best you can do, that and remember.  Bon courage.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 September, 2016, 03:42:50 pm
Sitting on my knee, producing astonishingly vicious silent but deadlys.
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Post by: T42 on 17 September, 2016, 04:16:13 pm
Carnivore emissions always seem to be SBDs.  Comes of protein-rich diets, I think.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 September, 2016, 08:35:19 pm
Sorry about your dog Andrew, it's tough when they're old.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 September, 2016, 07:56:51 pm
Chasing his tail, the big divvy.
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Post by: Feline on 19 September, 2016, 01:31:11 am
The kittens are attacking any human hand or foot that sticks out from under a duvet. Then each other, themselves and the dog.
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Post by: peliroja on 19 September, 2016, 06:33:23 pm
Andrew, very sorry to hear about your poor old woof.  :'(

It's a time I am absolutely dreading. They're not just pets, they're part of the family.
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Post by: Andrew on 19 September, 2016, 06:39:52 pm
Thanks for the thoughts people. We kinda practiced in old dogs now but it never gets easy.

Our Tess is showing a remarkable ability to cling to life. It's the stuff of a Bruce Willis movie, just when you think she's down she comes back again. It's day to day stuff but the good side is that we're prepared.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2016, 07:39:18 pm
The kittens are attacking any human hand or foot that sticks out from under a duvet. Then each other, themselves and the dog.

I don't believe we've seen any piccies yet, hmm?
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Post by: Wombat on 19 September, 2016, 09:00:34 pm
Alfie is trying to push me off my office chair, the git.  Just how much force can a 5 year old 5 kilo cat exert, I wonder?  (a hell of a lot, is the answer)
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Post by: Feline on 19 September, 2016, 09:34:40 pm
The kittens are attacking any human hand or foot that sticks out from under a duvet. Then each other, themselves and the dog.

I don't believe we've seen any piccies yet, hmm?

Ralph and Rory the Ragdoll  ;D
I will upload some more- we have plenty!
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Post by: Feline on 19 September, 2016, 09:43:36 pm
OMG! There is a chicken in the garden looking at us!
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Rory likes lying in front of or on the microwave
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Ralph looking beautiful as he always does
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Cats on glass tables- Ralph from underneath ;D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2016, 09:51:36 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: lou boutin on 20 September, 2016, 08:59:08 am
 Ntheyre beautiful
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Post by: Andrew on 21 September, 2016, 11:44:43 am
Sadly, our Tess died this morning. She was ok yesterday but had a sequence of seizures/attacks/fits (whatever they were) early this morning and I think her heart just gave out. To see her like that was not at all pleasant, at least now she's in peace. Fortunately, my wife and I were prepared for it and see it more as a blessing, an end to her discomfort. She'd been with us for 9 years and she'll leave a huge hole. Of course, our other dog (Sam, a border collie) seems unconcerned! (Nah, he senses something different - he's quieter than usual!) Dogs eh? They get to you...

Sorry to be a downer guys but I thought I ought follow up.
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 September, 2016, 03:15:18 pm
Sending hugs Andrew. So sorry to read this.
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Post by: T42 on 21 September, 2016, 03:53:13 pm
Sorry to hear it, Andrew.  When we bought our current two we deliberately bought chocolate Labs for their longer life expectancy. All three of our Leonbergs died young, of cancer, between ages 5 and 7. They're wonderful dogs but we had had enough.

As it happens, I've just been round the garden with trowel & coal shovel.  I reckon that two dogs produce four times as much shit as two.
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Post by: Feline on 21 September, 2016, 06:26:22 pm
Awww, so sorry Andrew :(
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Post by: peliroja on 21 September, 2016, 06:45:52 pm
Very sorry, Andrew. Tough times.  :'(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 September, 2016, 07:46:43 pm
Sorry about your loss Andrew :(
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Post by: trekker12 on 05 October, 2016, 12:54:52 pm
Sorry to read about your loss Andrew.


The vet suggested we have a blood test to check for kidney or liver problems but two injections seemed enough for one day and I think we are a little concerned what that might reveal. We'll see how she gets on over the next few weeks and make a decision then.

Well we left it a bit longer than a few weeks but Willow was struggling again last week and not her usual self so we took her for the blood test and it revealed all her major organs are healthy (well as can be expected from a 17 year old) but she has an over active thyroid which is why she is drinking and piddling a lot as well as losing weight.

All good to know that she's generally OK it's just we now have to give her a tablet twice a day for ever more and giving her pills is always a stressful experience. She is too clever to know one is buried in food so we have to put it into her throat for her and this morning resulted in some fairly deep scratches in Mrs Trekkers arm.

There is a cream we can use but it's much more expensive (vet didn't specify exactly how much more) although probably worth it because we can't distress her like that twice a day. She doesn't seem to know it's for her own good :)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 October, 2016, 07:06:52 pm
He's on my knee, watching the Disney Robin Hood.
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Post by: ian on 09 October, 2016, 09:26:49 pm
Snoring impressively loudly. I've turned Mitski up to number 35* and I can still hear the fuzzball putting out the decibels from the top of the wardrobe in my office.

*shitty low gain Logitech bluetooth adaptor.
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Post by: cycleman on 10 October, 2016, 09:56:49 am
My 4 kittens are at the vet's this morning to get neutered . 2 of them climbed into the cat carrier s and all I had to do was close the lid . the other two were easy to get in their carriers . I bet they will not be so easy next time  :D
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Post by: lou boutin on 10 October, 2016, 10:10:51 am
Sleeping on my mail.  Err sorry her mail, since she is going through a 'everything is mine' stage at the moment.
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Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2016, 02:03:09 pm
My 4 kittens are at the vet's this morning to get neutered . 2 of them climbed into the cat carrier s and all I had to do was close the lid . the other two were easy to get in their carriers . I bet they will not be so easy next time  :D

Trick we always used was to keep the carrier out as a box for the cats to play with, which at least meant its presence didn't signify an impending vet visit.

Didn't change the fact that one cat loved climbing into things and could be persuaded to get into the carrier simply by throwing a toy in there, while the other was having none of it and would do the full angry ball of fur with 5 sharp ends routine.  Interestingly, they'd change roles once they got to the vet.
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Post by: woollypigs on 10 October, 2016, 02:47:00 pm
Laying on my lap, keeping an eye on Pingu's spinning Pingu :)
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Post by: cycleman on 10 October, 2016, 06:36:09 pm
And they are back  :thumbsup: .they have taken over my bed and gone to sleep . look's like I am on the floor tonight  ::-)
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Post by: ian on 17 October, 2016, 11:53:51 am
Going baby rhino bonkers. It's weird. Bad Cat saw one on TV last night and despite not having shown any interest in TV before was captivated by the antics of a baby rhino. I thought it was the motion or something, but even a still picture of a baby rhino grabs her interest and she follows me around trying to get it. Peculiar.
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Post by: Pingu on 30 October, 2016, 12:03:32 am
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed  ::-)
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Post by: T42 on 30 October, 2016, 07:18:25 am
Going baby rhino bonkers. It's weird. Bad Cat saw one on TV last night and despite not having shown any interest in TV before was captivated by the antics of a baby rhino. I thought it was the motion or something, but even a still picture of a baby rhino grabs her interest and she follows me around trying to get it. Peculiar.

Proof of reincarnation?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 October, 2016, 05:06:10 pm
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed  ::-)

Where we now know she also left a poo...  :facepalm:
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Post by: Kim on 30 October, 2016, 05:08:20 pm
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed  ::-)

Where we now know she also left a poo...  :facepalm:

Fireworks?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 October, 2016, 05:15:29 pm
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed  ::-)

Where we now know she also left a poo...  :facepalm:

Fireworks?

Its not got too noisy here yet so I don't think it was that.
She goes in there fairly often because a)my neighbour often leaves the door open (thankfully Pumpkin hasn't sussed cat flaps yet) and b)there's naughty cat food to be stolen there. But I encourage my neighbour to shoo her out or she'll just help herself to any food going anywhere.

I think the issue is that she's tremendously nosey/greedy but also wary of other people, so she got 'trapped' in there.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 October, 2016, 09:22:39 pm
Snoring, and twitching in his sleep.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 October, 2016, 08:52:19 am
Lying on the foot stool looking a bit depressed at the return to routine after we had a week off and several adventures. The highlight for her was a five hour walk from Masham to Hackfall Woods and back.
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 November, 2016, 11:23:45 pm
At bed time*, she rolled of the sofa walked over to her new bone. I only saw that she was sniffing it. But at the top of the stairs, she looked very sheepish. That was when I noticed the little bit of bone/flesh/tendon in her mouth. First time she ever done that, I think she wanted a wee midnight supper.

* Yes, she sleeps in the bed with us.
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Post by: Feline on 05 November, 2016, 11:41:19 am
Google is currently very tired. He had an absolutely horrible evening from hearing fireworks. He tried to climb into the fridge every time I opened it and was visibly shaking for several hours.
I was hoping to avoid sedating him tonight, but might have to seriously consider it as he was really suffering  :(

I wish there was somewhere I could take him where it wouldn't happen. I have a friend who owns a music recording studio which is a suspended insulated room with loads of sound proofing round it. Maybe I should hire it out for the evening!
The trouble is that dogs have such good hearing down at the low frequency range that I doubt it would be entirely effective.
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Post by: Pingu on 05 November, 2016, 11:47:47 am
Poor thing  :(

Our cats are usually quite easily spooked by unexpected noises, but they don't seem to have been bothered by the fireworks.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 November, 2016, 01:06:42 pm
We are lucky. So far Tilly is bomb proof with fireworks. Possibly because from when she was a pup I made her walk past the bird scarers in the fields round here. That plus the low flying fighters round here have got her used to sudden loud noises. Wierdly indoor sudden noises are much more likely to make her jump such as a baking tray plinking as it heats or cools in the oven.
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Post by: woollypigs on 05 November, 2016, 03:39:33 pm
I'm shortly driving up into the Dales for a spot of camping with Tilley. I tried last year and it worked great until someone parked up next to us and had their own fireworks display. The second spot worked great until the display at Bolton Abbey went off. So this time I really driving into the Dales to hide.

We tried drugs and a big fresh new bone to tire her out, but that only worked after the fireworks when she is sooo tired from baking, drugs and eating.

All my other dogs just slept through it and the fireworks in Denmark, the UK has nothing on it. Maybe a lifting of the head when the neighbour set off his homemade cannon. Best way to describe it is "mental come war" and that is just the weeks leading up to new years eve. In my 20 years here the only time I have seen a new year on par with what I saw in Denmark, was when I was down on the Thames in that there London and that only lasted 20+min. The law has changed in DK so now you can only get it a few weeks before and you are only allowed to let it off for three(I think) days around new years eve. As soon as the crimbo display went up in the shops you could get fireworks. Which I think only leads to a more mental new years eve. Because it use to be against the law get and let of fireworks throughout the year, so we took "revenge" when we could get it. People use to smuggle in from Germany and Sweden and/or make their own (puts hand up with a guilty smile). So with making it harder and against the law ... my advice is to wear your fireproof underwear if you find yourself in DK on the 31st of Dec.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 November, 2016, 04:34:30 pm
Pete, who can hear me open the food cupboard in my kitchen when he's in the neighbour's flat, sleeps through fireworks without twitching an ear.

He's on my knee just now.
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Post by: cycleman on 05 November, 2016, 07:56:33 pm
my 4 kittens don,t seem to bothered by the fireworks from either diwalli or tonight's . in fact 3 are patrolling the garden as I type  :) 
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Post by: vorsprung on 05 November, 2016, 08:09:46 pm
the dog doesn't like the fireworks so Les let it come and sit in the living room

it is now making horrible slurping noises
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Post by: Feline on 05 November, 2016, 10:01:47 pm
I am now wishing I had in fact sedated him. The first bang started in total daylight at 4pm - twats.

He is currently in a real state. Some neighbours behind us are having their own personal display. Tempted to have one off my 1980's music fests on the Bose with the door open at 5am. Serves them right.

Here he is trying to hide in the fridge (??!)
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And refusing to get out when I close the door
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Post by: Kim on 05 November, 2016, 10:13:06 pm
Has he been watching Indiana Jones And The Film With The Excessively Long Name, perhaps?

 :-\
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Post by: Pingu on 05 November, 2016, 11:23:00 pm
Aw, poor Google  :(

Ninkasi has been more skittish tonight than previous nights.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 November, 2016, 02:23:18 pm
Pete is having a wash.
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Post by: peliroja on 06 November, 2016, 08:21:32 pm
Tilley's being driven around the moors by Woolly to avoid the fireworks, again. She tries to fight them, barking extremely loud while throwing herself at the window/door/wall and careering about in distress. It's horrible to see.
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Post by: Jakob on 10 November, 2016, 07:43:27 pm
We went to one of the local pet accessory manufacturers to model new products!. And scored a new leash & collar for our efforts!.

Really cool office, with everyone having their own little cubicles so that they could bring their dogs. I want to work there!. To be fair,  last job was very dog friendly, but Hana was just too big to bring in every day. New job has a complete pet ban, which I actually understand quite well. There was quite a few people with dog allergies at the old office and I'm sure they weren't too happy about it.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 November, 2016, 08:47:43 am
Slumped on the floor snoozing. We met Lola the whippet on our walk this morning. Short walk for me as I just stood and chatted to Lola's owner but Tilly and Lola covered about 400 miles chasing each other round the field. Every dog should have a whippet as a friend, very good for a cardio workout.
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Post by: Jakob on 16 November, 2016, 06:59:33 pm
My wife is away on business. so Hana gets to sleep in the bed all night. Refused to get out of bed this morning and looking like this, I had hard time making her:
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Post by: Pingu on 16 November, 2016, 07:01:10 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 16 November, 2016, 09:05:58 pm
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed  ::-)

Where we now know she also left a poo...  :facepalm:

Fireworks?

Its not got too noisy here yet so I don't think it was that.
She goes in there fairly often because a)my neighbour often leaves the door open (thankfully Pumpkin hasn't sussed cat flaps yet) and b)there's naughty cat food to be stolen there. But I encourage my neighbour to shoo her out or she'll just help herself to any food going anywhere.

I think the issue is that she's tremendously nosey/greedy but also wary of other people, so she got 'trapped' in there.

Tonight she's been up the same neighbour's chimney  :facepalm:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2016, 09:29:40 pm
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed  ::-)

Where we now know she also left a poo...  :facepalm:

Fireworks?

Its not got too noisy here yet so I don't think it was that.
She goes in there fairly often because a)my neighbour often leaves the door open (thankfully Pumpkin hasn't sussed cat flaps yet) and b)there's naughty cat food to be stolen there. But I encourage my neighbour to shoo her out or she'll just help herself to any food going anywhere.

I think the issue is that she's tremendously nosey/greedy but also wary of other people, so she got 'trapped' in there.

Tonight she's been up the same neighbour's chimney  :facepalm:

And her peachy paws are now all black and covered in soot  :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
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Post by: Jakob on 20 November, 2016, 03:26:35 am
Sleeping soundly after an afternoon on the mountain, playing in the snow!

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Post by: BrianI on 20 November, 2016, 09:41:41 am
When I removed the cover from their cage, I saw Charlie & Spike (my pair of cockatiels) doing their morning yoga stretches, didn't get a chance to catch it on camera, but they stand on one leg, then stretch the other leg & wing backwards!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: T42 on 22 November, 2016, 04:12:30 pm
One or both of the dogs is minging like I.G. Farben.  Last night the missus gave them the remains of a vanilla dessert the Inlaw Paw didn't want.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 November, 2016, 04:15:21 pm
He is making stupid attention-seeking squeaking noises. This is because he normally has a dental chew at 4pm, and he hasn't had it yet.

I shall find it for him. Then he will be nomming it.
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Post by: Pingu on 04 December, 2016, 07:20:38 pm
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed  ::-)

Where we now know she also left a poo...  :facepalm:

Fireworks?

Its not got too noisy here yet so I don't think it was that.
She goes in there fairly often because a)my neighbour often leaves the door open (thankfully Pumpkin hasn't sussed cat flaps yet) and b)there's naughty cat food to be stolen there. But I encourage my neighbour to shoo her out or she'll just help herself to any food going anywhere.

I think the issue is that she's tremendously nosey/greedy but also wary of other people, so she got 'trapped' in there.

Tonight she's been up the same neighbour's chimney  :facepalm:

And her peachy paws are now all black and covered in soot  :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

This afternoon she managed to get shut in the wash house  ::-)
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Post by: Feline on 05 December, 2016, 03:15:14 am
Rory is snuggling up to Ezra, my grandson  ;D

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Post by: barakta on 05 December, 2016, 10:24:33 am
Aww!

Congrats on grandparenthood Feline! I know my niece and nephew are great with my stepdad's two moggies because they've grown up around them all their lives and know to be gentle.. The moggies are remarkably tolerant too.
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Post by: Pingu on 06 December, 2016, 10:53:21 pm
Video of Ninkasi licking sheep fleece.

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Post by: Wowbagger on 06 December, 2016, 11:31:13 pm
Making stupid bloody noises.
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Post by: Jaded on 06 December, 2016, 11:56:07 pm
Being a Terminator.

i can see the red text scrolling up inside her eyes...
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Post by: Basil on 07 December, 2016, 01:41:17 pm
Discussing the football with a local.

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Post by: woollypigs on 07 December, 2016, 01:45:51 pm
”but why do you keep kicking the ball instead of fetching it?"
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 December, 2016, 06:42:28 pm
That's Wales. They do pick up the ball and fetch it!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 December, 2016, 05:58:06 pm
Pete is snoozing on my knee.
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Post by: ian on 09 December, 2016, 12:57:33 pm
Little Monster Cat is at the vets recovering from having a hole in her tail sewed up (vet thought it was an abscess, but it's apparently a nasty gash). I presume a fight with another cat.
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Post by: ian on 09 December, 2016, 03:53:28 pm
Shaved arse. It's punk for cats. She's already wriggled out of the shame cone. She's more moebius strip than cat. And what isn't twisty turny is claw. Yeah, Mr Vet, you're a brave man when she's unconscious. Try it now.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 December, 2016, 04:45:42 pm
Pete is expressing a wish for his tea by clawing the shit out of my legs.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2016, 09:35:11 am
That wee terror Pumpkin didn't come home at all last night :(
Turned up eventually this morning though.  :D
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 16 December, 2016, 03:10:58 pm
She is out on a walk with Gudula my landlady.

Do you know, Poppy has about the best possible life for a dog! She lives in a house with minimum 3 people, often six people there. She is allowed everywhere, everyone loves to cuddle her, she sleeps on my bed or on Lars's pillow when he is home from Uni, she gets long walks, she gets taken out in the car regularly, she has been to University in Berlin a few times, she has made four visits to Berlin and stayed there for up to two weeks (without me), she knows all the local people and pretty much everyone in my village loves dogs, she is allowed in shops, restaurants etc so often travels with us, she is loved by everyone and her tail is always wagging.

I think it would be hard for a dog to have a better life really!
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Post by: Basil on 29 December, 2016, 09:51:25 pm
Megan, asleep in front of the fire, just made those doggie dream noises.  Daf, bless him, wandered over to check she was OK.
Either that, or he was doing the cat version of pointing and laughing.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2016, 10:49:14 pm
Pete is looking at bobb as if he hopes that bobb will feed him.
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Post by: woollypigs on 29 December, 2016, 10:54:27 pm
Naa he is looking ways to kill him, as he is now not the only man of the manor and your divine attention. :)
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Post by: Clare on 29 December, 2016, 11:02:27 pm
Pete is looking at bobb as if he hopes that bobb will feed him. assessing the number of meals in a bobb.

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Post by: peliroja on 30 December, 2016, 12:40:54 am
Being content, warm and happy after a night in front of the fire. So glad we gave this little thrown-away-onna-motorway mutt a home.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 December, 2016, 08:43:15 am
Disembowling the reindeer soft toy my mother in law bought her for christmas.
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Post by: peliroja on 30 December, 2016, 10:49:08 am
Ha, our Tilley has a few reindeer, bought over several Xmases by my mum. Rudolph, Blitzen and, er, Ropey. She doesn't disembowel these toys for some reason. She does know them all by name and finds them on command. Collies are too clever for their own good.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 January, 2017, 04:20:56 pm
Miss von Brandenburg's cat, in whose service I temporarily toil, has been sulking all day.  I don't think she likes me getting up late, or my DJ Random's choice of music
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 January, 2017, 06:13:21 pm
Pete is having a little lie down.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 January, 2017, 03:34:55 pm
Being annoying.  She sits by the back door with a "Want out" expression on her furry arse until a semi-crippled Mr Larrington has hauled his achey-breaky back off the sofa, then runs away.  I have persuaded her out with harsh language and threats of a violent nature.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2017, 05:19:07 pm
My son's beagle has had a couple of soft toys supplied to hims this Christmas just gone. The first lasted about 90 seconds before disembowelment, the other, given to him by my grandchildren, is still going strong and is generally the source of background music when I telephone them.
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Post by: Wombat on 08 January, 2017, 11:16:57 am
Baggins is asleep on the bed (default position)
Alfie is behind me on my office chair, trying to push me off.  He's slowly succeeding, as every tiny millimetre wiggle about by me, is instantly taken up by a hairy muscular mog.  As I'm going downstairs for coffee in a min, as a break from editing abut 600 photos in Capture One Pro from last night, I suspect the chair will be unavailable when I get back.
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Post by: peliroja on 08 January, 2017, 12:40:52 pm
Last night she was Skyping with our friends' Tilley lookalike pup. They're in Portland Oregon.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 January, 2017, 02:36:40 pm
Our Tilly has just muscled in on a Skype between Pcolbeck juniors girlfriend and her parents in Hong Kong.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 January, 2017, 03:54:54 pm
Pete is on my lap. I think he has a bit of a cold.
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Post by: Feline on 08 January, 2017, 08:29:28 pm
We need to get new kitteh her own microchip so she can have her own microchip scanning feeder  ;D

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 January, 2017, 08:55:50 pm
Another new kitteh?

Aw
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Post by: Feline on 08 January, 2017, 09:19:26 pm
Another new kitteh?

Aw

Yeah  ;D
Sapphire, 12 week old blue point mittened Ragdoll  8)
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Post by: Pingu on 09 January, 2017, 12:14:18 am
We need to get new kitteh her own microchip so she can have her own microchip scanning feeder  ;D

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The Kitty Matrix.
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Post by: ian on 11 January, 2017, 07:29:49 pm
Bad Cat was disemboweling the subwoofer again. Little furry fucker. I wouldn't mind but she just looks at me with a 'what, is this supposed to be wrong or something?' expression and carries on scratching.
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Post by: Jaded on 11 January, 2017, 09:47:08 pm
Looking at my food. Looking at me. Head butting me.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 January, 2017, 08:39:46 am
Having a rest after we have been for a walk in the snow. Its the first proper snow she has experienced and it was very exciting. She has tried to eat it all.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2017, 07:11:07 pm
Sleeping. Morphy went out in the snow this morning. All old hat for him. At least it wasn't that powdery stuff that makes little snow testicles in the feathery fur behind his paws. He doesn't like that.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 January, 2017, 07:26:22 pm
Pete is lying in his bed with his hands curled in towards each other, looking at me and slow blinking.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 January, 2017, 02:52:08 pm
Sulking because I got cross with her for doning a poo on under the dining table instead of in her litter tray >:(
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Post by: matthew on 16 January, 2017, 03:40:54 pm
Bit late now but Friday evening my sisters cats suddenly became very friendly.





I had opened a tin of tuna to go with the jacket spud while I baby sat. Even after all the tuna was gone my lap was a prime sleeping spot which the normally less cuddly Harry wanted.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 January, 2017, 06:19:08 pm
Pete was sulking because I told him off for opening the cupboard where I keep his food (straight after he ate his tea!) but then he forgot he was sulking and now he's having a wash.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2017, 06:40:58 pm
We need to get new kitteh her own microchip so she can have her own microchip scanning feeder  ;D

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Why do I think of Donald Trump when I see that photograph?
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Post by: ian on 16 January, 2017, 08:12:03 pm
As they'd worn out the scratching posts on their old cat tree, I built them a brand new cat tree (not from scratch, via Zooplus and some Ikea-style instructions). Elevated luxury and more platform space than an average London flat has floor space. It's plush. I'd sleep on the beds if I could fit. There's even a kitty hammock. I'd kill for a hammock!

So what they both been doing all day? Taking turns to sit on the top platform of the old tree to look at the new one with a look that borders on contempt, that's what.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 January, 2017, 06:57:53 am
That reminds me, I need to buy sisal to refurbish ours.
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Post by: Basil on 28 January, 2017, 12:37:24 pm
Being in disgrace.1

Came downstairs this morning to find a large spherical furry object on the kitchen floor.
Closer inspection revealed that it wasn't perfectly spherical, there were a number of small protuberances.  One of these had a small dog's face on it that was cast down and with eyes pleading "Please don't shout at me.  I'm a dog.  I can't help it"

The dog food cupboard door had been opened.  Three empty packets of chews were ripped apart and strewn across the floor.  A large bag of kibble was ripped open and its contents mostly missing.
This is going to cost a fortune in poo bags.

1 Actually, I suppose it was our fault, so it's us that should be in disgrace.
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Post by: Kim on 28 January, 2017, 01:02:31 pm
One of these had a small dog's face on it that was cast down and with eyes pleading "Please don't shout at me.  I'm a dog.  I can't help it"

See, when a cat manages to burgle the food cupboard[1] they have the decency to look smug about it.


[1] My parents' two once staged an elaborate heist, which was an unprecedented example of teamwork: The one who knew how to *pull* doors breached the drawer[2], then stood watch while the one with box-gnawing skills (and a sufficiency of teeth) took over to liberate the food.  (Which was stolen and therefore tasted much better than the identical food in their bowl.)
[2] A large half-cupboard-deep drawer, so that must have taken some effort.
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Post by: BrianI on 31 January, 2017, 02:38:08 pm
Well, nothing much at the moment, but yesterday, Spike, my older male cockatiel, was busy mating with Charlie, the younger female cockatiel   :-[ I didn't know where to look!!   ;)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 January, 2017, 02:47:36 pm
Sulking because I wont take her for her afternoon walk yet. Its not until three. If I gave in it would get earlier and earlier until it was abutted with the morning walk.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 January, 2017, 07:14:24 pm
Pete is planning a nap after chasing his new hexbug nano bug and nicking some cheese.
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Post by: Pingu on 03 February, 2017, 09:34:56 pm
Having a lap after getting shut in the shed for a couple of hours  ::-)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 February, 2017, 04:17:25 pm
Tilly is reflecting on the fact that cornering Hazel our grumpy old cat was a tactical error as she now has a nice scratch on her nose from said feline.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 February, 2017, 05:34:45 pm
Pete is still ignoring his new bed in favour of my lap.
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Post by: Feline on 13 February, 2017, 05:42:25 pm
Sapphie is checking her emails, while Ralph relaxes and the dog watches on in bemusement.

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 February, 2017, 07:24:03 pm
Pete is going daft looking for a treat. I threw one towards his climbing tower but didn't see where it landed. He can obviously smell it and he's trying to find it, and keeps meowing his confusion. And he keeps standing on his back legs like a meerkat and I can see his floofy tummy.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 February, 2017, 02:14:00 pm
Pete is sitting on the windowsill, sunbathing and looking out of the window.
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Post by: ian on 15 February, 2017, 06:56:14 pm
Bad Cat is sprawling between window sill and sofa, suspending her big furry belly over the radiator, and thus maximising her thermal absorption profile.

Little Monster Cat is snoring loudly from her bed in my office.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 February, 2017, 03:13:06 pm
Making stupid sotto voce nasal squeaks as he lies on his cushion, too lazy to move, but generally letting the world know "I want Things!"
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 February, 2017, 04:57:14 pm
Chasing his tail.
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Post by: Jaded on 16 February, 2017, 05:11:02 pm
Purring into my ear. Once it gets to a certain loudness she gets put on the floor, before she dribbles in my ear.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 February, 2017, 06:02:06 pm
Pete is now snoring away in his new bed, which he has ignored since I got it for him on Saturday.
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Post by: ian on 16 February, 2017, 07:03:49 pm
Bad Cat is sprawling between window sill and sofa, suspending her big furry belly over the radiator, and thus maximising her thermal absorption profile.

Little Monster Cat is snoring loudly from her bed in my office.

Hmm, strangely familiar.

Bad Cat has a newish thing. Rather than bug us by trying to annex serious bedspread real estate (like a little furry Putin to our quilted nocturnal Ukraine) she's found the fitted wardrobe. She's somehow figured out how to slide the doors apart and then use the drawers and fittings inside as a ladder to the top (which she facilitates by wedging herself against the back of the closed door and part wriggling). Then she sleeps on the top shelf all night. We had to put a bed up there for her to stop her fuzzing the place up. But the best bit is that she does it every night at the same time we go to bed, but pauses when she reaches the top, looks out at us and miaows once and then, like we're in some episode of the cat Waltons pulls the door shut behind her.

In the morning, when my wife gets up, she slides the door ajar and leaps out. Which is nice, because the resulting sound is exactly the same as having a someone drop a 5kg bag of spuds from the ceiling onto the bedroom floor. I'm tempted to put a trampoline out.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 February, 2017, 07:44:21 pm
Haha, that I would like to see :)
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Post by: ian on 16 February, 2017, 09:02:55 pm
The Waltons. But with cats rather than people.

Well, I'd watch it.

But it's seriously cute when she miaows a good night and then closes the door. I'm not sure how she figured out the sliding door. It's a quite hefty floor to ceiling unit, but she hooks her claw into the frame and pulls it back and forth. She's been up clambering up for a while as Little Monster Cat doesn't have an head for altitude so it's the only sleeping place they don't have to fight over (and Bad Cat always eventually loses) but only recently has she started to sleep up there overnight.

On the less cute side, I know I'll come home one day to find the door hanging askew and big repair bill, because that's what Bad Cat does (and how she got the name, it's what our repair chap calls her, his little furry income plan).
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Post by: PaulF on 16 February, 2017, 09:06:38 pm
Think a bucket of water would be more entertaining?

Years ago my parents' neighbours had a pair of Jack Russels that would leap the fence into their garden and cause havoc. One day I put a bathtub of water in the landing zone. Was met with a splash, a pair of yelps, some mad scrambling and they never came back.

Back OT Layla is asleep on top of me and growling if I move  so I'll stay put for a while.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 March, 2017, 02:39:51 pm
I am not quite sure whether having breath so bad that he stinks like a putrefying badger counts as doing anything. :-X
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 March, 2017, 09:49:42 pm
For an old man, Morphy really is a great big puppy.

He just brought me a tennis ball to play with and bounced around the room like a spring lamb for a few minutes. He was 13 last week, which I am told is pretty exceptional for a setter.
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Post by: ian on 05 April, 2017, 08:09:40 pm
This morning I caught them both snoozing together in the sun on top of one of their hutches by the back door. Which is weird because normally that kind of proximity would be Battle Royale. The sun must have been baking their little brains into submission. Last night, I watched Bad Cat half-nelson Little Monster Cat. She didn't like that. Not a bit. Bad move for Bad Cat, because Little Cat is 90 per cent monster.

A few seconds later, Bad Cat is being flipped on her head with an audible thunk as she hits the wooden floor. And being propelled across that floor at a rate of knots as LMC gnaws a her podgy little underbelly ignoring the pathetic kicks landing on her head, only pausing every now and again to smack Bad Cat upside her head. I had to separate them and give them a good talking to.

Of course, as soon as I released them, they both went upstairs and continued for another fifteen minutes. Small countries have been invaded more quietly.
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Post by: Jakob on 06 April, 2017, 10:34:49 pm
Hana got a message for y'all
http://youtu.be/donnkBEtI1Y
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 April, 2017, 10:17:02 am
Pete is asleep, not at all sorry about smacking me in the eye.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 April, 2017, 10:40:55 pm
Morphy has just eaten a spider.
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Post by: Pingu on 30 April, 2017, 10:54:21 pm
To catch a fly?
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Post by: cycleman on 01 May, 2017, 07:46:07 am
one of my ,probably freddie left me a dead pigeon outside the kitchen door this. maybe she wanted me to cook it for her  :o. if so she is going to be disappointed  ;)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 May, 2017, 12:22:25 pm
Pete is having a sleep, having interrupted his previous sleep to wash his legs.
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Post by: Jaded on 01 May, 2017, 04:43:42 pm
Been looking after a neighbours cat. Last time I did this she sauntered into the kitchen, looked across to some sick and gave me a disgusted look to say "someone's been sick there".

This time she proudly showed me a spread out collection of rabbit pieces. A head with no ears, part of a torso and some black offal.

I fed her and took a while to clean up the mess.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 May, 2017, 05:10:24 pm
Pete is helping me to re-pot plants.  ::-)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 02 May, 2017, 10:36:06 am
Trying to bark at me in his appallingly halitosis-ridden way, asking for a walk.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 May, 2017, 12:51:41 pm
Pete is sulking, having been told off for ripping open a bag of dry food and eating the contents, although I was planning to donate it to Lothian Cat Rescue.
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Post by: ian on 12 May, 2017, 09:22:23 pm
Little Monster Cat is having conjunctivitis. This is bad news. Because she might be little but she is MONSTER. She's basically miniaturized kaijū and can effortlessly twist herself into a six dimensional calabi yau manifold. With claws.

Eyedrops twice a day. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Just do it like this says the vet, preparing to demonstrate.

Fifteen minutes later, one vet, one nurse, the receptionist, and two wary owners, the contents of one tube of antibacterial eyedrops liberally decorating the surgery, maybe we'll see if it just clears up on its own.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 May, 2017, 01:04:47 pm
Oh dear. Pete was remarkably easy to get eyedrops into so I can't offer any advice.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 May, 2017, 04:48:16 pm
Looking quite smug as on her walk this afternoon she finally managed to catch a rabbit. Even more amazingly Mrs Pcolbeck got her to drop it before she killed and ate it.
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Post by: adenough on 13 May, 2017, 06:35:13 pm
Right now the cats sat on the top of the sofa washing his bits. He is in bad books. Stays out from 10pm all night normally. At 11pm last night crying at the door. I let him in and he runs in and drops a recently killed Yellow Tit at my feet. Sits looking at me for my squeals of delight and thanks. He and Cadaver are promptly ousted into the night.
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Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2017, 07:01:59 pm
Oh dear. Pete was remarkably easy to get eyedrops into so I can't offer any advice.

Sneak attack while they're half asleep, especially if they're inclined to dozing on your lap.  Problem is the second eye, and that they get wary of you after the first few doses.

Eye drops were really easy with Zev, but she was young enough that she had a functional standby button.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 13 May, 2017, 09:07:21 pm
Making stupid high-pitched attention-seeking barky woofs.
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Post by: Pingu on 14 May, 2017, 12:11:32 pm
Ninkasi was frog bothering. Frogs can squeak like mice - who knew?

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4156/34263719280_2a38e5d490_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UcLw1G)
IMG_5924_01 (https://flic.kr/p/UcLw1G) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: SteveC on 14 May, 2017, 12:22:07 pm
Ninkasi was frog bothering. Frogs can squeak like mice - who knew?
Our Wes used to love chasing frogs. They don't just squeak like mice, they can scream. Particularly when brought into the house on a cold, wet, rainy, windy night, just as we were preparing to go to bed.
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Post by: Feline on 14 May, 2017, 03:33:54 pm
Ninkasi was frog bothering. Frogs can squeak like mice - who knew?
Our Wes used to love chasing frogs. They don't just squeak like mice, they can scream. Particularly when brought into the house on a cold, wet, rainy, windy night, just as we were preparing to go to bed.

Their scream can be quite effective- it's caused my dog to stop in his tracks when he was frog-bothering in the garden.
Sadly my chickens have killed all the frogs off out there now- saw them fighting over something that the came in half and turned out to be Freddie :sick:
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Post by: Kim on 14 May, 2017, 03:39:15 pm
Ninkasi was frog bothering. Frogs can squeak like mice - who knew?

Frogs can do a blood-curdling scream when non-fatally injured by a bothering feline.   :hand:

Our guinea pigs, who had negotiated a stalemate[1] with the cats, used to grant smaller frogs asylum in their hutch...


[1] "We'll come up to the wire and say hello if you don't take a swipe at us" sort of thing.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 May, 2017, 05:59:45 pm
Pete is a bit disgruntled because I have spent the afternoon cleaning instead of admiring him.
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Post by: ian on 15 May, 2017, 12:02:12 pm
Oh dear. Pete was remarkably easy to get eyedrops into so I can't offer any advice.

Bad Cat is fine with drops (which is good because she's always injuring her eyes), she just makes a lot of whiny decibels that make it sound like we're dismembering her. Little Monster Cat is impossible. If you wrap her in a towel she'll somehow wind herself inside of it. The vet had to knock her out just to look in her mouth. She'll play dead for a little bit with the vet usually, but once it gets too much, she's all twists and claws.

We made one attempt to dose her and gave up to go and tend our scratches and cuts. Her eye seems to be clearing up anyway. She's about to go to the cattery for a week and they offer a 'medication' service...
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Post by: Pingu on 15 May, 2017, 12:47:33 pm
I should point out that Ninkasi was just bothering the frog. She made no attempt to kill it and it hopped off safely into our neighbour's pond.
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Post by: Feline on 17 May, 2017, 10:36:04 pm
Oh dear. Pete was remarkably easy to get eyedrops into so I can't offer any advice.

Bad Cat is fine with drops (which is good because she's always injuring her eyes), she just makes a lot of whiny decibels that make it sound like we're dismembering her. Little Monster Cat is impossible. If you wrap her in a towel she'll somehow wind herself inside of it. The vet had to knock her out just to look in her mouth. She'll play dead for a little bit with the vet usually, but once it gets too much, she's all twists and claws.

We made one attempt to dose her and gave up to go and tend our scratches and cuts. Her eye seems to be clearing up anyway. She's about to go to the cattery for a week and they offer a 'medication' service...

Heh, I can well imagine the run around she is giving you. I love 'personality' cats so full kudos to her for that.
If  lived nearby I would offer to come round and help you (if you paid for my bandages after LOL).
I will leave you with this epic kitty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIyfNM6y3vU

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Post by: Kim on 17 May, 2017, 11:13:14 pm
I will leave you with this epic kitty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIyfNM6y3vU

"He's escaped the muzzle, so I'm just going to do a lengthy piece to camera about how dangerous an unrestrained sharp end can be, and when I've finished I'll take some blood."

Proof, if it were needed, that vets have superpowers.
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Post by: Feline on 17 May, 2017, 11:16:14 pm
I will leave you with this epic kitty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIyfNM6y3vU

"He's escaped the muzzle, so I'm just going to do a lengthy piece to camera about how dangerous an unrestrained sharp end can be, and when I've finished I'll take some blood."

Proof, if it were needed, that vets have superpowers.

Actually we don't, but veterinary nurses do  ;D
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Post by: Kim on 17 May, 2017, 11:34:41 pm
Linked video seems more realistic:  Cat fights back, makes a break for it, and they vaccinate him upside-down in the sink.
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Post by: Feline on 18 May, 2017, 12:02:14 am
Linked video seems more realistic:  Cat fights back, makes a break for it, and they vaccinate him upside-down in the sink.
Have done that also lol. Cats are more epic than people  ;D
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Post by: Jakob on 21 May, 2017, 03:45:19 am
Fast asleep after spending the afternoon running up and down a mountain full of snow!
Spring sun and soft snow is a magical combination.
(http://i.imgur.com/jj2IPDu.jpg)
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Post by: T42 on 21 May, 2017, 05:04:05 pm
One of our labs has not been able to keep food down for the last 24 hours.  He seems perky enough, but anything he eats comes back soon after.

Vet tomorrow.
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Post by: bobb on 24 May, 2017, 08:33:20 pm
Flinging a mouse around my bedroom. Well, he was 5 minutes ago. I rescued said mouse and took it outside, but I don't rate its chances much....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 May, 2017, 11:26:06 pm
Boris is a mighty hunter.
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Post by: bobb on 25 May, 2017, 01:04:25 am
He'd be a lot more mighty if he just killed the bloody things rather than just half killing them and letting them run/fly/hop around my bedroom!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 May, 2017, 10:30:32 am
At least Pete refuses to hand them over and eats them whole.
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Post by: Jaded on 25 May, 2017, 10:35:08 am
Cali has dribbled all over my shoulder.

So i checked the biscuit bowl... yes, nearly empty.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 May, 2017, 03:36:44 pm
Hazel the cat is cross because I just took the baby rabbit she caught off her and put it in the bin. Tilly the dog is cross because I didn't let her take the rabbit off the cat.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 May, 2017, 04:49:31 pm
Pete is exhausted from ten minutes of being awake and is asleep on my lap.
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Post by: ian on 30 May, 2017, 08:59:17 pm
Cats vs. Magpies episode 67.

The one that goes. Miaow. Squawk. Miaow. Squawk. Repeat.

Bad Cat is a bit half hearted, she just lies there making strange miaow noise and whacking her tail back and forth. Though Magpie mum did some impressive bombing runs the other day, precision delivering twig-derived ordnance onto Little Monster Cat's head.

Quite frankly, a magpie could probably eat them.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 May, 2017, 09:30:20 pm
Speaking of cats vs magpies...
On Sunday I left the flat and heard this weird noise.  Found this
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4220/34906327406_8ea2caa344.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Vby429)IMG_6142_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Vby429) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

With a Pumpkin sat next to it looking all innocent. Despite hearing a terrible noise it was dead a couple of seconds later when I got to it. Quite surprised a feisty magpie didn't manage to escape. Sorry, bird.
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Post by: ian on 31 May, 2017, 07:22:37 am
Our garden magpies seem to have things in hand. I was most impressed how they were picking up sticks and stones from the road and then flying back to drop them on Little Monster Cat's head. I wish I had videoed it. LMC sat there looking angrier and angrier but they weren't coming low enough to risk a surface-to-air strike (and she can launch pretty high, but then she's not a lot bigger than a magpie). Of course, she just sat there while they bombed her demonstrating that corvids are smarter than cats. I doubt they felt it was a challenge.

Bad Cat, on the other hand, prefers to channel her inner Bill Oddie and get excited watching birds*. My wife took an hilarious video of her having a conversation with the magpies while I was away. She couldn't actually be bothered getting up to chase them so she did the whole thing lying down.

Oddly, they've pretty much stopped catching things she we moved to the 'country' – back in the urban sprawl they'd bring mice aplenty, frogs, entire pigeons, and pork chops. Since we moved here, a couple of mice and slow worms when we first moved in, but that's tapered off. Possible the fauna of the Surrey jungles is a bit more challenging.

*This is why I'm up and working at 7am, little sod is sitting behind the blinds in the bedroom making a racket every time she sees a bird flap by.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 June, 2017, 04:12:46 pm
Pete is trying to wash his bottom/back half, but he keeps being distracted by his tail.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 June, 2017, 04:35:19 pm
The dog is absent having gone for an adventure with Mrs Pcolbeck and her Mum. First time I have been at home without the dog since we got her and I find I dont like it. No heavy sighs when I am working and no following me round every time I get up to make a cup of tea.
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Post by: ian on 01 June, 2017, 07:30:42 pm
This what I have to put you with. Look at the sheer effort she puts in to see those magpies off her territory.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3vWEjc3Dh38
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Post by: Jaded on 01 June, 2017, 11:18:45 pm
Cone on ian, be reasonable, bears are a challenge for teh kittehs.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 June, 2017, 11:41:16 pm
This what I have to put you with. Look at the sheer effort she puts in to see those magpies off her territory.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3vWEjc3Dh38
She's obviously trying jawjaw before warwar.
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Post by: ian on 02 June, 2017, 09:49:26 am
That's the literal pecking order in my garden: yeti > bear > magpie > cat.

If you listen carefully on the video, she's making a very, very pathetic miaow. Alpha predator, my arse.
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Post by: Moose57 on 02 June, 2017, 09:59:17 pm
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13164326_10154187136398399_7297650173298453174_n.jpg?oh=bd4004d51d7b8829dea1738f0ee811b7&oe=59A32A38)

Bringing us a present, a live moorhen. It flew off thankfully over a 6ft fence with cat in hot pursuit.
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Post by: Jack Standish on 05 June, 2017, 09:10:44 am
My cat is currently trying to remember the times before his castration because I have a new girl kitty in the house. Her name's Cookie, and she's a real lady. Poor Sal, he's trying to be all manly now.

(https://pp.userapi.com/c638623/v638623782/3b6c2/gF-FEiqxP9U.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 June, 2017, 07:37:13 pm
Well I'm guessing that Sal is the white cat, being as the Tortie should be the female :)
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Post by: ian on 06 June, 2017, 09:27:16 am
Waking me up at 6.15am because it's still raining and she wants me to make it stop.
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Post by: ian on 07 June, 2017, 07:22:55 am
Waking me up up 5.15 am because she wanted to be sick. Ack ack ack. Which she was. On the bed.

ETA: Little Monster Cat, on the other hand, didn't get up for breakfast on account of 'really, at this time?'. At least one of us gets some sleep, I suppose.
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Post by: ian on 19 June, 2017, 09:46:47 am
LMC is going to the vets again. At least this vet isn't as sarky as the last one who'd take a look and utter a prognosis along the lines of 'oh, this is going to help pay for my next ski trip'. Actually, I quite liked him. He rode a bicycle too.

She's manked her paw. I can't tell what and she's not letting anyone near. She seems able to put pressure on it, but will sit with it raised and she's not extending her claws on that paw when she stretches. The reception asked 'is she that one?' Yes, she's that one. And she still have three sets of functioning claws. Sorry.
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Post by: ian on 19 June, 2017, 02:33:59 pm
The vet was optimistic. Two nurses, one vet, two owners and one thick towel vs. 3 kg of cat.

Cat 1 : Humans 0.

It's a forgone conclusion tbh, but I suppose the veterinary playbook says they have to try. I think we'll have to sedate her... she eventually concludes, as every vet before has.

Abscess in her toe apparently. Will she take pills and wear the cone of shame, she asks. Then we all laugh until we cry.

At least they can put the flea and parasite stuff on her neck while she's unconscious.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 June, 2017, 04:06:03 pm
Poor LMC.

Pete is struggling in the heat. He sunbathes in the window until he gets too hot, then he goes to his bed and gets too hot, then he sits on the floor, then he lies on me and we both get too hot then he goes back to the window...
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Post by: ian on 19 June, 2017, 04:50:34 pm
Bad Cat is lolling around in my wife's office upstairs, alternately in the window, her desk (by the laptop fan, heh) and then back into the hallway.

If she were vaguely smart she'd figure out that downstairs is several degrees cooler and the balcony outside my office is nicely shaded (which is where I am). But she's not even vaguely smart.

LMC has apparently been cleaned up and bandaged and will be ready for collection later. In a mitten of shame which will, I predict, last entire minutes. Unless it's like a boxing glove and she can use it give Bad Cat right hooks in their daily episode of Fight Club.
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Post by: ian on 19 June, 2017, 07:15:13 pm
Now that was fun. My wife, for reasons that defy logic*, decided to let LMC out of her box in the living room. The one with the large, open patio doors. Not in any of the many rooms that don't have wide open patio doors.

So, yes, I just spent two hours looking for a cat in the surrounding streets which involved a lot of crawling, until we finally found her wedged under parked car. Had to poke her out with a stick, cue much hissing. Anyway, she's hiding under the bed upstairs (after getting oil and various oozy cat fluids over the sheets). The cat is under the bed, not my wife. Only because one of them won't fit, mind.

Now I'm hot and bothered.

*apparently because she'd pooed in her basket, but still, surely the bathroom would be more appropriate.
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Post by: Jakob on 19 June, 2017, 08:17:21 pm
Hana had an allergic reaction to *something* last week.  She first had a big welt over her eye and we thought it was a wasp or similar, but it kept bursting and swelling up again and then she developed another one under her other eye.
We took her to the vet, who agreed that it was an allergic something, but could not tell what caused it. She is allergic to raw beef , but normally has no issues with processed beef(kibble). We did change her food recently, but previous cases has been around her mouth (and butt).
Anyways, he prescribed some steroids, which worked great, except they also make her really tired, so she spend the whole weekend sleeping. This morning, I had to work hard to get her out of bed, put her collar on her and while I was trying to find some poo-bags, she started walking back to her bed!.
 Wife is out all day, so I put her in the daycare and at least she seemed moderately happy to be there.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2017, 08:31:13 pm
Aw, poor Hanna.
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Post by: ian on 20 June, 2017, 10:02:52 am
Hating us, that's what. LMC is still curled up under the bed. I did see her slink out to get some water earlier and scoot back again pronto. She won't come out. She's not normally this bad, and she's not exactly new to visiting the vets to have bits sewed or otherwise fixed, but I guess the trauma of escape and capture didn't help (I think she panicked because of the cone of shame).

I just a tray of painkiller-laced food under the bed. Room service.

Of course, as the cat flap is locked, I have to get up at 2am, 2.20am, 2.47am, 3.12am, 4am, 4.30am, 4.52am, 5.12am, 5.45am, 6.02am, 6.45am, 7.12am etc. to let Bad Cat out.
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Post by: ian on 21 June, 2017, 11:42:35 am
We're all friends again now. Though she's really not keen to go outside. Which makes me worry about where she's going to the loo...
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Post by: matthew on 21 June, 2017, 12:25:51 pm
We're all friends again now. Though she's really not keen to go outside. Which makes me worry about where she's going to the loo...

You said she was hiding under the bed .... ..... .....  :demon:
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Post by: Clare on 21 June, 2017, 05:05:40 pm
Have you checked your slippers?
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 21 June, 2017, 05:47:56 pm
Comforting my GerMan. His daughter doesn't want to talk to him at the moment (her mother is making things very difficult) so he is very upset. Poppy is lying beside him licking his hand.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 June, 2017, 07:12:12 pm
I thought Pete was asleep on my bed, but according to the photos my upstairs neighbours just sent to me via facebook, he's visiting them!
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Post by: ian on 21 June, 2017, 10:28:18 pm
Have you checked your slippers?

I have checked everywhere, so I suppose she kept it all in or snuck out during the night. There is a little used litter tray under the stairs but, to my knowledge, LMC has never used that. Bad Cat waits for us to clean it out and put fresh litter in and then promptly lays a big stinker in it (any other time, she'll go outside, of course).
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Post by: ian on 29 June, 2017, 12:25:29 pm
What Bad Cat is doing now, I've no idea, but it probably involves plotting her next round of mischief. But I know what she was doing. That was removing the drawstring from my best Speedos (trust me, getting 28 inch waist swimming trunks is a challenge). Which mean any especially vigorous turns in the swimming pool are now a fraught affair. It's not the first time she's indulged this particular and peculiar pastime (she loves swimming stuff on account of the chlorine).

Then having retrieved my swimming trunks, I turned around to see her heading out of my office and off towards the stairs with my work mobile phone in her mouth (well, the case with the phone in it). Little shit. I hate to think who she was planning to phone, but she's not having it.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 June, 2017, 09:09:42 am
Years ago I had a cat that would steal my car keys and hide them. It also knew how to turn the bedside alarm off (bop  the large snooze button on the top). Made me so late so many times did that evil little feline.
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Post by: ian on 30 June, 2017, 09:44:32 am
Little Monster Cat steals a lot of stuff and stashes it around the house, usually clothes – she has a thing for socks and PJs. Bad Cat isn't normally much of a thief. The mobile phone thing is a new one, though I suspect I know why I found it in the middle of my office floor the other day now.

Annoyed about my swimming pants though.
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Post by: bobb on 30 June, 2017, 04:59:22 pm
Last night, I was looking out of my bedroom window and saw Boris The Blade chase a Fox out of the garden. There was a bit of a stand off and the fox said "Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!", but that was it. He was off. 1-0 Blade  :)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 June, 2017, 07:45:11 pm
 ;D
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 30 June, 2017, 07:59:07 pm
Hap eh hap eh ho
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Post by: ian on 04 July, 2017, 09:01:15 am
Bad Cat ate a mouse. All of it. Then sicked it up on the bed as a perfectly cylindrical oesophageal sausage of furry frankenmouse complete with an eyeball in the middle.

I didn't know whether to be impressed or to be sick. I opted for the latter.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 July, 2017, 07:18:57 pm
Excellent trolling from Bad Cat there!
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Post by: T42 on 18 July, 2017, 02:03:25 pm
Disgusting dog pulled stuff out of the bottom of the parrot's cage onto the floor.

Me: Raz, Get tae fck out of there!!!

Parrot: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Post by: Basil on 18 July, 2017, 09:32:51 pm
Megan, the Border Terrorist, is out the back on her thinking step.  It's still not bloody raining.   :(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 July, 2017, 12:04:26 am
Making this room stink. He was farting earlier. He's been for a walk and he had a crap. I'm wondering if he got some stuck in his fur. I've had a look and I can't see any.
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Post by: ian on 29 August, 2017, 12:30:23 pm
Bad Cat is hiding outside from the cleaner. LMC is supervising.

It's hot so I left the back door open. First I had to push Splotch the Cat from up the road out the door (but I'm eating, it said). Then a great big Fox (this cat food stuff is great, it said).

I guess I'll close the back door then.
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Post by: tiermat on 30 August, 2017, 10:42:08 am
I suspect that our two are still sulking.

Whilst we moved house they were in a cattery, afterwards we have been keeping them indoors. They still haven't been allowed out yet, despite them both staring, wistfully out of the conservatory windows.
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Post by: ian on 15 October, 2017, 06:29:51 pm
Bad Cat who had been cleverly annoying by learning to open the wardrobe sliding doors and clambered to her sanctuary on the top shelf has now somehow forgotten how to the open the sliding doors and scratches at them vainly until I do it for her. So she's gone from cleverly annoying to mere annoying. Cats are very dim.
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Post by: IanDG on 15 October, 2017, 07:27:18 pm
Under the desk sleeping at my feet.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4479/37459047200_f2fd38119b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Z58pFo)Let Sleeping Dogs........... (https://flic.kr/p/Z58pFo) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
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Post by: Basil on 15 October, 2017, 07:38:41 pm
My eyes, my eyes.
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Post by: IanDG on 15 October, 2017, 07:52:52 pm
My eyes, my eyes.

Their noses  :hand:
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Post by: citoyen on 21 October, 2017, 03:39:58 pm
Eating ice cream...

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4461/37783323576_74084f8609_z.jpg)
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Post by: hellymedic on 21 October, 2017, 05:46:34 pm
'Our' garden cats are cowering away from Brian.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 October, 2017, 08:55:33 pm
Pete just fell off his climbing tower, tried to look nonchalent and is now sitting on my lap for comfort.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 October, 2017, 08:13:41 pm
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Post by: Feline on 24 October, 2017, 08:44:07 pm
Sapphie is gearing up to carry out a premeditated stealth attack on whichever human/cat/dog walks past next while she hides invisibly in Amazon packaging material .....

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4472/37198143364_979abac669_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YF5d4o)IMG_4498 (https://flic.kr/p/YF5d4o) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 October, 2017, 09:13:47 pm
Yesterday, they were mainly eating.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2017, 10:13:26 pm
Aww
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Post by: hellymedic on 27 October, 2017, 10:20:55 pm
Today they are eating MOAR!
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Mama Cat has learned to bang on the kitchen door, demanding Food with Menaces...
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Post by: Gattopardo on 27 October, 2017, 10:58:57 pm
Are they petable?
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Post by: Ham on 27 October, 2017, 11:31:03 pm
aaaand you think you are going to get rid of them, yeah? All?

mmm

I'll have sixpence on the mog.
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Post by: hellymedic on 28 October, 2017, 12:59:49 am
Are they petable?

Not really.

Mum just tolerates being stroked. Kits run a mile!
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Post by: T42 on 28 October, 2017, 07:58:08 am
Missus went running an hour ago, dog Ezra the Timekeeper is looking at the window and emitting staccato where-the-hell-is-she grunts.
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Post by: PaulF on 28 October, 2017, 11:28:36 am
Barker at the delivery man
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Post by: Poly Hive on 07 November, 2017, 01:00:46 pm
Buddy and Blu our Therapet whippets are relaxing in the lounge enjoying the wood burner which is cranked up.

PH
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Post by: Gattopardo on 10 November, 2017, 10:36:42 pm
Currently destroying something under the bed.

They now have names Luna stop that and Buzz eclair get down. Photos later as I'll chase them with a camera tomorrow.
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Post by: Pingu on 10 November, 2017, 10:50:48 pm
Makes a change from Pest and Oi You.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 15 November, 2017, 07:40:16 pm
Both snoozing, one on my feet and the other on my tummy.
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 November, 2017, 09:16:19 pm
White Nose, the most curious and independent of the litter was caught and taken away for rehoming today, after a bloody battle with one of David's friends.

I think this encounter scared off the other moggies but I reckon they'll return later.

Big Tom will probably show around midnight.

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 November, 2017, 10:35:19 pm
Pete is stoned out of his hairy face on catnip.
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 November, 2017, 10:46:24 pm
White Nose, the most curious and independent of the litter was caught and taken away for rehoming today, after a bloody battle with one of David's friends.

I think this encounter scared off the other moggies but I reckon they'll return later.

Big Tom will probably show around midnight.

Big Tom and Mama Cat did indeed show up at 01.30.

Mama Cat + 3 kittens had a right 'bundle' round 11.30, enjoyed the sunshine and fed well.

They'll be back at bedtime with Big Tom, methinks!
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Post by: Ham on 20 November, 2017, 09:23:28 am
Pete is stoned out of his hairy face on catnip.

You could always try Pinot Meow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAnZyXshnN0)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 22 November, 2017, 11:18:28 pm
We have an elderly cat - tonight I found large sticky patch on his head, cleaned it off, it was blood. There was a deep puncture wound, just one. Looked very much like a pellet or bullet puncture to me (no tearing as you'd expect from a claw or if he'd got caught on something). I strongly suspect he'd been shot with a pellet gun and the pellet had not penetrated his skull.

Cat was very good about me cleaning off the wound - but afterwards made it clear he felt he'd earned multiple cat treats.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 November, 2017, 09:08:26 am
Aw, poor kitty :(
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 23 November, 2017, 10:58:08 am
He seemed happy enough after I'd cleaned him up. Spent rest of evening on my lap, purring away.

When I got home, stepson (cat is really 'his' cat) was laid on cushion on sofa next to stepson while he painted models and talked to a friend. They'd been there for a while. I noticed the gunge on cats head - they said 'the cat has been freaked out all afternoon'.

I think part of the 'freaked out' was the sticky mess on his head, between his ears. Cats hate that sort of thing. He was much happier once I'd cleaned it off, even though that meant getting his head wet.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 23 November, 2017, 04:01:08 pm
What kind of scum bag does that to a cat? Or any animal.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 23 November, 2017, 04:20:03 pm
Dunno - but it seems to be endemic around the UK atm. Shooting and mutilating animals, particularly cats.
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Post by: barakta on 23 November, 2017, 10:46:02 pm
>:( to someone shooting your cat. Delighted to hear that it was not too serious and a wound-cleaning was possible and successful. Wishing the cat safe continued healing and the perpetrators something rather nasty!
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Post by: Gattopardo on 23 November, 2017, 11:04:13 pm
>:( to someone shooting your cat. Delighted to hear that it was not too serious and a wound-cleaning was possible and successful. Wishing the cat safe continued healing and the perpetrators something rather nasty!

May years ago a neighbour shot my tom, as he was beating up his cat.  Tom was a hard bastard. Had a word with the chap, he said it was my fault  as I didn't stop Tom being a thug.  Explained that he would be paying the vet bills and if he ever did anything like that again, I would coming back and would cause the same pain to him.  Then I spent lots of time courting his cat, so it would come to me.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 23 November, 2017, 11:11:30 pm
Dunno - but it seems to be endemic around the UK atm. Shooting and mutilating animals, particularly cats.

There are alot of sick fucks around.  I can easily hate and would want to hurt, kill and mutilate people who do this stuff but never take things out an animal.



Edit Sorry, a little drunk and upsetting topic for me.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 November, 2017, 11:23:23 am
Dunno - but it seems to be endemic around the UK atm. Shooting and mutilating animals, particularly cats.
I think it's just part of the licence to hate that Brexit and Trump have unleashed.
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Post by: Kim on 24 November, 2017, 01:21:31 pm
Young men.  They like hurting and destroying things.

A bit like cats, without the redeeming qualities.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 November, 2017, 02:16:34 pm
Barking like a loon as she wants to go for a walk. I am studiously ignoring her as its an hour too early for the afternoon walk (she had an hours walk this morning).
We are going through another testing the boundaries phase at the moment as dogs do.
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 November, 2017, 02:53:58 pm
Family Cat seemed to have had a spat fit for a soap opera.
They have taken to having the generations dining separately.
Adolescent Ginger Kitten pushed Mum away from food a few days ago.
Mum hissed at and struck said kitten at feed last night.
Tom was aggressive to kittens, which is new.
Mum has been wolfing food down but is very thin.

They seemed a happy family a few days ago but have multiple hostilities now.
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Post by: Flite on 24 November, 2017, 04:42:24 pm
Zeppy the tabby cat is siting on the windowsill watching the snow.  Winter in Weardale.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 November, 2017, 06:59:53 pm
Pete was asleep but now he's looking at me from his bed.
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 November, 2017, 08:41:44 pm
I think the 'pecking order' has changed now the kittens are bigger.
Mum now FIERCELY defends her food and the kittens must comply.
Little Gingers eat separately but Fat Blackface waits patiently till Mum has finished, the troughs.
Mum is skinny and ravenous. I'm not sure whether this is just refeeding after lactating for 6 or hyperthyroidism...

(My 44kg niece fed her toothless infant for AGES but keeps Facebooking her culinary efforts and infant's antics.)
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Post by: woollypigs on 05 December, 2017, 04:07:10 pm
Puking!

She is such a fussy eater. We feed her raw Natural Instinct which she hoovers down. When stock is low or I forget to buy, we get Natures Menu which she reluctantly eats. Which she promptly pukes up and then eats it with nearly same keenness as Natural Instinct.

So when I forgot again and that coincided with the local pet shop being out of Natural Instinct. The owner said what about Natures Menu and I told them the above. They said what about mince, just beef and now't else. I was "Well go on then" as two packs (1kg each) is just over what we pay for one pot of Natural Instinct (1Kg).

Yes and today after we have defrosted it we gave it to the mutt, with some chopped up veggies. She just stood there looking at it, nibbled a bit, took the meat in her mouth and dumped it on the floor and eat some carrot. After some exciting talking she had some minced but wasn't keen. A few minutes out of her it came, where she normally would have hoovered her puke this time she wasn't keen at all. Just look sad at us and slowly nibbled at her puke.

Talk about fussy eater  ::-)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 December, 2017, 04:09:25 pm
Making stupid falsetto excuses for a bark.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 December, 2017, 04:17:00 pm
Puking!

She is such a fussy eater. We feed her raw Natural Instinct which she hoovers down. When stock is low or I forget to buy, we get Natures Menu which she reluctantly eats. Which she promptly pukes up and then eats it with nearly same keenness as Natural Instinct.

Fussy eating is a problem we don't have with our Tilly what with her being half lab. Absolutely anything at all (except celery) is hoovered up instantly. If she pukes its because she has eaten something totally unsuitable like half a rabbit that been dead for two weeks she has found.

Have you tried your Tilley on Simpsons ? Would be cheaper than what your feeding her I think but still very high quality. They do small trial packs as well.  They do grain free which may or may not be important to you but is for our Tilly as grain based food gives her the runs.
The treats are ace, all the dogs in the village know when I have some of their kangaroo or venison sausage in my treat pocket, makes me very popular.

https://www.simpsonspremium.com/
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Post by: Wombat on 06 December, 2017, 11:40:09 am
I wish I knew what Alfie is doing right now, but as he's in a cattery about 20 miles away, I don't.  We went to see him in prison yesterday, and he's bearing up, but is desperate to get outside, and meows piteously to be let out, its heartbreaking.  I just want him snuggled on my lap, purring.

See rant thread for explanations why he's in prison.
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Post by: ian on 10 December, 2017, 01:10:38 pm
Annoying me because it's raining. Bad Cat is hiding behind me because Little Monster Cat has gone off on one and wants to eat her. I'm not getting in the way of small bullet of hyper-accelerated baryonic kitty mass (aka a kittyon, when two agitated kittyons interact, one is part-annihilated, the excess energy emitted through a burst of high energy miaowions).
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 December, 2017, 02:18:07 pm
Big Tom came in, Lightly dusted with snow at 9.30 am and fed.
Haven't seen other cats today.
The Man is just escaping from his pit.
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Post by: bobb on 10 December, 2017, 04:04:23 pm
Being an irritant. FFS, if you want the bog again, just go out there, even if it is snowing. Northern cats are going to start commenting on this you know?
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Post by: PaulF on 10 December, 2017, 04:35:22 pm
She’s just fallen asleep on top of me
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 December, 2017, 04:38:43 pm
Being an irritant. FFS, if you want the bog again, just go out there, even if it is snowing. Northern cats are going to start commenting on this you know?

One of these Northern cats is trying to become one with the radiator and the other is on my lap having refused the doorman's offer.
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Post by: ian on 10 December, 2017, 04:43:11 pm
After venturing out for a few minutes, now Bad Cat is busy putting muddy paw prints on every surface. Sigh.
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Post by: Basil on 10 December, 2017, 04:59:16 pm
Rushing around the house trying to dry herself on anything she can find other than the towel I'm chasing after her with.
Hardly the best time to bath a dog, considering the weather.

Yes.  She found eau de fox poo to roll in again.  >:(  Disgusting girl!   >:(
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 December, 2017, 06:53:38 pm
Three juvenile cats appeared at the kitchen door at 16.10 and wolfed down a 400g tin and a half of cat food before slinking off.

Then reappeared at 17.10, ate a small amount at sedate pace but found washing machine's sounds off-putting so scarpered.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 December, 2017, 08:54:07 pm
Chasing his tail.  ::-) ;D ;D
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 December, 2017, 08:59:52 pm
Miss! Miss! Ginger Kitten is biting and pulling Blackie's tail!

Miss, IT'S NOT FAIR!
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Post by: woollypigs on 10 December, 2017, 09:05:21 pm
Trying to find a cool place in the living room, a bit hard when the fire has been going since 3PM, but she does not want to leave the front room.
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Post by: ian on 11 December, 2017, 10:07:22 am
Bad Cat threw up a furball on the bed. I'm now doing laundry. Perfect start to a Monday morning.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 December, 2017, 12:17:11 am
Being a massive interruption.
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Post by: essexian on 12 December, 2017, 10:35:46 am
We have a "stray" cat Eric. He has been coming around for at least 8 years and given his age and colouring, we think he is the brother of our ex stray queen Elma.

Anyway, soon after we moved here, we put up a summer house for CBH to use when she wanted her own space....quickly however she turned this into a home for passing cats like Eric. All good IMHO, so much so, I put a cat flap in so he could access it on his own terms. Indeed, we even leave a space heater in their over the winter to keep the place warm.

So, where to I find Eric this morning.....yes, sleeping our unheated garage.....  :facepalm:
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Post by: Pingu on 12 December, 2017, 05:23:27 pm
If you build it they will snub.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 December, 2017, 06:00:39 pm
Pete is on my lap.
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 December, 2017, 06:05:19 pm
Growing cats EAT!
Kittens fight, fight and fight!
Pulled towels off their hooks, rolled in them, played Tug-O'-War.
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Post by: Feline on 12 December, 2017, 08:13:58 pm
Rory is doing this ........ He is a big fan of laundry baskets, cardboard boxes or anything else he can get into.
https://vimeo.com/247030657
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Post by: Andrij on 12 December, 2017, 09:10:17 pm
How did the trifle dish work out?
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Post by: Feline on 13 December, 2017, 12:39:14 am
How did the trifle dish work out?

I am still working on luring him into it when the camera is around  ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 December, 2017, 10:28:57 am
Getting in the Christmas mood:

(http://pictures.pcolbeck.fastmail.fm/christmas-tilly.jpg)
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Post by: essexian on 13 December, 2017, 06:29:44 pm
Jamise our old tom is currently sitting on the sofa looking sorry for himself as the poor old thing must have been in a fight as he has a spilt lip.

Its not stopping him eating but its quite swollen.

I'll get him some prawns later for supper: he will like that.
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Post by: hellymedic on 13 December, 2017, 07:36:43 pm
Our litter are fighting like 9-year-old boys and have pulled two hand towels off their pegs.
They do love the towels! They chew them, roll in them and play tug-o-war.
Then they go back to scrapping or
DEMANDING MOAR FOOD!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 December, 2017, 08:41:15 pm
Pumpkin's still not looking very happy for herself in a nonspecific way.  Been a bit up and down since Saturday. Off to the vet on Friday, which seems like a long way away.
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Post by: PaulF on 13 December, 2017, 11:46:54 pm
Working out who’s bed to sleep on. Clue: not hers.
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Post by: hellymedic on 16 December, 2017, 08:27:43 pm
Kittens fighting dirty: biting kicking, rolling pouncing scrapping.

All cats eating, EATING, eating.
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Post by: trekker12 on 19 December, 2017, 12:31:45 pm
Anja and Freya, our five month Norwegian Forest kittens are having an early Christmas present by having some of their insides removed.

We dropped them off with the vet this morning completely none the wiser and will pick them up later today. Trying to keep their cone collars on for the next ten days is going to be entertaining.

Hopefully they will forgive us when they work out it will allow them freedom to roam the neighbourhood as they have been trapped mostly indoors since August - we explore the garden with them but don't let them near the big black cat who thinks he owns our garden along with most of the street.
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Post by: bobb on 29 December, 2017, 06:01:32 pm
Trying to destroy my bed linen. He does this occasionally. I've had to go to my second away kit as my first kit and away kit are unusable now - apart from the pillow cases. But I can't be mixing and matching so I shall be buying some more....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2017, 09:10:52 pm
Mooching about in a fairly random way. He has slept an awful lot today.
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Post by: Owthathurt on 29 December, 2017, 09:20:57 pm
Sam is snoring, Luna is farting...... Neither seems to have much inclination to do much else in the evenings.
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Post by: hellymedic on 29 December, 2017, 10:09:32 pm
Big Tom has taken over gentle parenting whilst Mama Cat snarls, hisses and refuses to eat in offsprings' presence.
Mama is TWITCHY and storms off at the slightest sound.
Kittens eat voraciously, bound, jump, climb, fight, scrap, chase.
Big Tom plods but seems to calm kits
Unlike Mum.
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Post by: T42 on 30 December, 2017, 03:41:42 pm
I was out in the workshop just now, taking hide glue off the underside of a guitar fingerboard with a scraper, when I noticed that one of our Labs had wandered in and was eating the shavings off the floor.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 31 December, 2017, 06:14:42 pm
I was out in the workshop just now, taking hide glue off the underside of a guitar fingerboard with a scraper, when I noticed that one of our Labs had wandered in and was eating the shavings off the floor.

Labs will eat anything.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 31 December, 2017, 06:16:36 pm
One asleep on the cat tree while the other is sleeping on my feet.

If I move my feet someone gets very unhappy.
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 December, 2017, 06:27:13 pm
Snoring in my sleeping bag as we hide away from the noise in the sky in the campervan on a Yorkshire hill. Happy New year to the lot of you
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Post by: T42 on 17 February, 2018, 10:25:58 am
Five minutes ago: one of the labs was lying down in the garden with sleet lashing about him. Gave me a WTF look when I called him in and stopped off for a pee on the way.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 March, 2018, 03:49:26 pm
Some snow slid down the roof and made a loud noise. The kittehs didn't like it.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 March, 2018, 05:14:07 pm
Pete has spent quite a while on the bedroom floor, under the radiator with his head on the skirting board.
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 March, 2018, 07:25:42 pm
Big Tom comes in for FOOD but has not eaten much today.
Blackie slunk off after breakfast yesterday and has not yet reappeared.
David is worried.
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Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 08:43:49 pm
Multi-level annoyance. Bad Cat was sick at 4.15am. LMC was sick at 4.30 pm. They've poop-o-geddoned the litter tray. Bad Cat tried to pull the grill off the top of the radiator this morning. Then she moved around the living room by pulling herself along on her back under all the furniture. She's done this eight times. They had a twenty minute fight over who could have the honour of sitting in a cardboard box that is too small for either of them.

Just go out in the snow. You don't have this problem with snow leopards #firstworldfelines.
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 March, 2018, 08:58:00 pm
Ours don't hang about the house for long and David is worried sick about Blackie's welfare.

I reckon she'll be OK and return here before too long, but it is a worry!
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Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 09:20:36 pm
Cats might not like it, but they're fine in the cold. Feral domestic cats survive in far colder climates than the UK.
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 March, 2018, 09:26:13 pm
I keep telling this to David. Big Tom is now in the house having had a Big Feed but Blackie is still AWOL. Exterior thermometer is reading -0.3C and there's a thick blanket of SNO.
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Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2018, 10:14:47 pm
Being pissed off with me.  Ages ago we booked a hair cut for Megan.  Early March we thought,that'll be fine for the winter coat to go.  Completely forgot about it until the groomer turned up..
This evening's walk went quicker than normal.  Meg rushing round not stopping to sniff anything.  Quick wee and then fuuuuuuuk! Let's get home!
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Post by: T42 on 03 March, 2018, 08:28:41 am
Rolling in the snow, both of them. Crazy mutts.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 March, 2018, 07:12:10 pm
Snoozing. Poor girl had a fright this afternoon. I was on a conference call and she was in the back garden when the pack from the local hunt jumped the wall and came piling through driving her ahead of them. I heard the hunt and ran out but Tilly was gone.
Shouted and whistled and a few minutes later she came running back form the front of the house shaking with her tail between her legs. Didnt want to go out again all afternoon.
The hunt hounds had to go through another back garden before they could jump the wall into ours.
Haven't seen hide nor hair of the hunt master, they know their  dogs have been crashing through a village and the gardens.
I don'y even have that strong a feeling about blood sports but the people involved seem to be real pricks with no common courtesy.
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 March, 2018, 02:31:41 pm
Blackie and Big Tom were both neutered on 30 January.
Blackie went AWOL in the snow on 28 February but reappeared today.
To say say Big Tom is pleased to see Blackie is an understatement.

He has mounted her at least four times.

Blackie seems none too pleased!

???
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 March, 2018, 04:43:13 pm
They are both under David's 'run-off' shed now.
It's a VERY tight squeeze for Big Tom.
They are sheltered from the rain.
There's no space for Big Tom to mount Blackie, which is a win for her...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 March, 2018, 03:52:17 pm
My dryer is broken so I have towels hanging from a clotheshorse. Pete is using it as a fort.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 March, 2018, 04:07:21 pm
Thankfully Blackie showed no interest in the rack of towels drying in our lounge. She stayed peacefully in the lounge last night, disturbing nothing.
Think she's relieved she's not getting molested constantly.

Have not seen Big Tom since 3am.

Blackie is somewhere in the house and has fed well.
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Post by: Kim on 10 March, 2018, 04:59:52 pm
Generally a cat's interest in laundry peaks when it's clean, dry and neatly folded.  And is generally proportional to the colour contrast between the item on the top of the pile and the cat's fur.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 March, 2018, 05:46:01 pm
Folded laundry is usually place atop a table, where Blackie has shown scant interest.
She previously tugged at anything hanging downwards but doesn't seem interested now.
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Post by: hellymedic on 13 March, 2018, 07:57:50 pm
Last night was the first night that both cats have stayed in the house overnight.
They were quieter this time than previously.
We had a caller at the door before we emerged from our pit and Big Tom followed David but didn't appear to leave the house.
I got up an hour later, observed Blackie in David's study, seemingly awake but disinclined to move.

Big Tom was nowhere to be found. David searched whole house and did not see him.

Blackie finally came down for food round 6pm. Around 7pm, I heard Big Tom somewhere around the front of the house. He must have been lodging silently somewhere in the hall all day!

I live with an observant astronomer, who has very good hearing.
Apparently.
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Post by: essexian on 15 March, 2018, 12:08:04 pm
Just been into the house to get a cup of tea.... I work in a "Luxury Cabin" in the garden.....(okay, is a shed but its warm and has internet connection so I am going to big it up)....

Doing a quick check, I note that Petal is sleeping on the table, Posie and Elma are on their electric blanket  while Pixie is on the back of the sofa as normal. Back in my cabin, Jamise is asleep on my desk... well I have had a couple of complex cases to audit today so he is tired from the hard work.

All well and good...that's all our cats accounted for...... but what's this.... Lord Rayner the semi stray (we think he is housed as he is an old cat with very good manners)  is asleep on our spare bed.... The Ginger Winger is asleep on the chest of draws, while Eric our Stray has moved in from the Summer House to have a sleep on our bed.....


So that's seven cats in the house and one on my desk.....No wonder it costs me upwards of £40 a week in cat food!  :facepalm:
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Post by: ian on 15 March, 2018, 03:11:40 pm
I nearly stepped on Bad Cat as I opened the blinds this morning. She'd wedged herself into the gap under the radiator in my wife's office (presumably because she made turn up the radiator while she was working at home through the 'snow' last week). Literally wedged to maximize her heat absorption profile.

Her usual morning pose is stretch from the living room windowsill to the back of the sofa, suspending herself like a fat fluffy suspension bridge over the radiator.
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Post by: hellymedic on 15 March, 2018, 04:45:06 pm
Cats seem to have VANISHED!

David last saw Big Tom under my desk upstairs, at about 1pm today.

Blackie came down for food around midday then wandered round house.

Cleaner say she's not seen any cats, anywhere in house.
I've not seen any escape through kitchen door.

No doubt they'll reappear..
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Post by: Kim on 15 March, 2018, 04:49:08 pm
Sounds like they've got the hang of quantum tunnelling.  Important cat skill, that.
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Post by: hellymedic on 15 March, 2018, 05:54:20 pm
Unsure if cats are of the Schrödinger or Cheshire variety...
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Post by: hellymedic on 15 March, 2018, 07:16:59 pm
Both cats have reappeared, initially in the house...
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Post by: Legs on 16 March, 2018, 07:11:06 am
Laying eggs.  Big ones!
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Post by: hellymedic on 16 March, 2018, 07:29:56 pm
Sleeping in a doorway again.

I understand hanging around in archways was the original meaning of fornicating...
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 16 March, 2018, 08:19:14 pm
The 5kg Killing Machine is currently spending the night at the vets. He's been lethargic all week (more than usual for a cat), so we took him in this afternoon - temperature of 40°c and mild dehydration.
It looks as though he might have a bladder problem of some sort.

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Post by: hellymedic on 16 March, 2018, 10:47:03 pm
Big Tom is now sleeping in the doorway. I hope our cats are OK. They have been dopey this week but seem to feed well and run around between sleeps. I think they've just discovered sleeping on carpets in our heated abode is less stressful than the Great Outdoors.

I would guess Big Tom weighs a LOT more than 5kg!

(Blackie was 2½kg when she was spayed 6 weeks ago and he appears to be two to three times her volume.) 
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Post by: hellymedic on 20 March, 2018, 09:40:19 pm
Big Tom has taken up residence on the sofa for now and it suits him most magnificently,

The cats seem to like lying under computer desks overnight; Big Tom chooses my desk and Blackie chooses David's.

David bought a nice big soft cat bed but neither cat has shown any interest in it. Probably doesn't smell 'homely'...
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Post by: Kim on 20 March, 2018, 09:49:31 pm
David bought a nice big soft cat bed but neither cat has shown any interest in it.

This is completely normal and expected.
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Post by: hellymedic on 20 March, 2018, 10:08:03 pm
David bought a nice big soft cat bed but neither cat has shown any interest in it.

This is completely normal and expected.

The whole house is carpeted so there are plenty of soft, quiet places. Computer desks are semi-enclosed, giving them a little 'house'. Other 'little house' sleeping locations include the towel-draped bathroom chair (conveniently in front of the radiator) and the dining table.
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Post by: T42 on 23 March, 2018, 03:28:23 pm
Was out in the garden with the dogs just now when a grey poodle that had been mooching about outside came over to the fence for a chat. While this was in progress a wee white car drew up, and the driver got out and said "oh, there you are". The poodle shrank away and started into the road, but stopped as a car approached. Driver whipped it up in his arms, gave it three smart whacks on the bum, tossed it in the back of the car, saying "naughty!" to it in no very nice manner, and then drove off.

No wonder it wandered off to start with, the poor wee bugger.  I did say something to him when he whacked it, but it was water off a duck's back. Arsehole.
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 March, 2018, 04:01:27 pm
Blackie escaped from the front door yesterday and has not been seen since.

Most of the houses hereabouts now have little space twixt front and back and whilst the back gardens are familiar territory, the street side is not. Hopefully sh'll reappear eventually. David is not happy!

Big Tom has been sleeping under my desk; he was very vocal around 6am but settled and has not yet emerged from his slumbers.

ETA he arose @ 16.00 and is eating now.
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 March, 2018, 08:12:53 pm
Milly the Cat is sitting on the arm of the chair next to me.  She's just recovering from a few, recent vet visits that resulted in lots of kitty swear words being thrown in the vet's direction and her biting my finger when I collected her. I was not amused since the little monkey had just just cost me nearly £500.

About 4 months ago Milly was diagnosed with feline diabetes and required low carbohydrate cat food, and twice daily insulin injections.  However, the early hours of Friday morning last week, she became hypoglycaemic and I ended up feeding her honey and doing a mad rush to the vets.  By the time I got her to the vets she was more with it although her blood sugars were still very low.  They gave her lots of naughty treats and after an hour she perked up no end, and I brought her home with the orders of no more insulin, feed her every hour and take back to the vets as soon as they open. It appears that Milly may have gone into spontaneous recovery - cats can do that with diabetes.  So she is now being monitored for the next month with diabetic food but no insulin.  it may be that she no longer needs insulin or she might need a much much lower dose of insulin although since her glucose levels remained stable during a curve test on Monday, this is unlikely. 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 March, 2018, 09:44:19 pm
Hello Lou!


They think she's recovered over only a week?  Boggles ???
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 March, 2018, 10:56:01 pm
A 'honeymoon phase' with minimal/zero insulin requirement is also sometimes observed in human diabetics, after the blood sugar is initially stabilised.
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Post by: lou boutin on 25 March, 2018, 08:43:20 am
Hello both   ;D

Milly has been on insulin for about 4 months.  I have been watching her closely and a little concerned, so will be calling the vets later.  She's drinking a lot of water again, so I think she may still need some help
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Post by: hellymedic on 25 March, 2018, 01:46:31 pm
Blackie has been AWOL for 72 hours.
Big Tom has taken to sitting on the bar chair I usually inhabit. We were rather surprised to see this large, lumbering beast jump so high!
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Post by: hellymedic on 28 March, 2018, 11:53:45 pm
Blackie reappeared this evening after an absence of 6½ days. Looks like she's not eaten much.
Big Tom was VERY pleased to have her back.
Both seemed to tuck in well.
Big Tom is very vocal, Blackie almost silent.

Both running amok round the house.
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Post by: rafletcher on 30 March, 2018, 05:37:56 pm
Sleeping. She’s a cat after all.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 April, 2018, 10:04:20 am
Looking sad. She vomited everywhere last night but seemed fine this morning. Just got back from a short walk and she has thrown up again.
I suspect the little minx ate something really horrid and rotten - she is half Labrador.
A gentle diet of chicken and rice for a couple of days I think.
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 April, 2018, 12:20:31 pm
Big Tom is resting under my computer desk. I don't know where Blackie lurks. There is no sound and they'll sleep anywhere...
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Post by: hellymedic on 03 April, 2018, 12:13:55 am
Managed inadvertently to shut Blackie in downstairs loo for 2½ hours tonight.
I used loo prior to preparing supper, was sure she was in the house. Big Tom investigated a little meow but retreated alone. David couldn't see Blackie anywhere.
Eventually we both heard her David opened loo door and she sprang out, unharmed.
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Post by: hellymedic on 03 April, 2018, 05:07:33 pm
Amusing David by being slow to learn how to use the newly-installed cat flap in the kitchen door.

They mastered an identical flap in the garage door a while back.
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Post by: ian on 05 April, 2018, 11:36:36 am
Off to the cattery for the second time in two weeks. Happy not. They didn't go quietly or easily. LMC was recovered from under the guest room bed (which involved some disassembly) and then four pairs of hands to manhandle her into the box. Bad Cat hid under the sofa in my office. I tried to coax her out with treats, but other than a prolonged period of watching the oooo-treats-no-it's-a-trap argument circle her tiny brain, that wasn't working. Eventually had to shift the sofa and grab her before she wriggled back under it. Unlike LMC – a transdimensional twisting dervish with scything claws that should only be apprehended by suitably qualified personnel in certified PPE – she just turns herself into a big deadweight. Several plaintive miaows later she was in the box. I think it only took about 40 minutes. They're eligible for release on Sunday, we're only going away for the weekend.
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Post by: Pingu on 07 April, 2018, 10:47:33 pm
I think one of ours left us present by the front door this morning  ::-)

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Post by: hellymedic on 07 April, 2018, 11:13:28 pm
Sat in my seat.
Bit me when I tried to dislodge him.

Some people!
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Post by: Feline on 08 April, 2018, 01:16:15 am
Was earlier on today not right now- but Simon took the dog and 3 cats for a walk (the cats were technically not invited but didn't get the memo). Sapphie got stuck up a tree and he very nearly had to come home to fetch a step ladder  ;D

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/900/41263340932_676782bebf_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/25SipEC)IMG_1545 (https://flic.kr/p/25SipEC) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 April, 2018, 05:38:15 pm
One of our feline friends has left a disembowelled rodent on the patio, much to David's disgust.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 09 April, 2018, 05:57:28 pm
One of our feline friends has left a disembowelled rodent on the patio, much to David's disgust.

That's how it starts.

Wait untill you start finding the bodies under your pillow.

 ;D
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 April, 2018, 06:32:04 pm
One of our feline friends has left a disembowelled rodent on the patio, much to David's disgust.

That's how it starts.

Wait untill you start finding the bodies under your pillow.

 ;D

 ;D ;D ;D

These cats are an excellent education for my squeamish partner!
He is having to come to terms with the realities of biology.

I am not sorry!
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Post by: spesh on 13 April, 2018, 08:15:55 pm
Given the sheer number of cats round my way, the ritual offerings stopped years ago.
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Post by: rafletcher on 13 April, 2018, 09:32:39 pm
One of our feline friends has left a disembowelled rodent on the patio, much to David's disgust.

That's how it starts.

Wait untill you start finding the bodies under your pillow.

 ;D

Or better still, like one of mine did, leave 3 bluetit chicks at the top of the stairs!
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 April, 2018, 11:48:06 am
We are spending the weekend in Wales and have locked the cats out of the house...
There's food in the garage and assorted wildlife...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 April, 2018, 10:24:15 am
Barking and growling at the evil window cleaner who must be driven off before he breaks in and murders us all.
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 April, 2018, 01:15:50 pm
Gone walkies, we think. Could be sleeping and hiding somewhere in the house.
Or outside.
Greeted David enthusiastically on our return, Blackie pretty well followed David to bed but then vanished.
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Post by: ian on 17 April, 2018, 08:48:35 pm
Caught LMC hiding under a car on the other side of the road. She's not done her Green Cross Code and that's not approved. She darted back to the garden at a speed that was a large proportion of c as I came down the hill – mostly because there were two dog walkers. This nearly resulted in a high velocity collision with Big Bad Tom. That would have resulted in a gonad blanching burst of high energy miaowons. As it was, he just did the feline equivalent of WTF?

Big Bad Tom is just that. He stalks all the dogs in the area, taunting them. All the dog owners hate him because he sends the dogs crazy. Utterly fearless. I think he eats delivery men. Even the bears cut him a wide berth. He's at least three times the size of LMC (mind you, she's about the size of a self-indulgent hamster).

Bad Cat, on the other hand, jumped in my lap, managed to delete the entire graphic I was working on (thank god for ctrl-z), and then let out a smell that really was beyond categorization.
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Post by: PaulF on 17 April, 2018, 09:04:03 pm
Pretending to sleep but actually stalking me. We’re staying at my parents’ which she loves but she’s afraid I’ll leave her here so is like a little shadow
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 April, 2018, 09:52:23 pm
Someone rang the doorbell so long and hard that both resting cats bolted out of the cat flap.
They have since returned.

If any sh!te courier claims we didn't respond to our doorbell, I will not believe them.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 April, 2018, 12:23:02 pm


Bad Cat, on the other hand, jumped in my lap, managed to delete the entire graphic I was working on (thank god for ctrl-z), and then let out a smell that really was beyond categorization.
I think that means she loves you.
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Post by: T42 on 18 April, 2018, 01:21:22 pm
Proving that this multitasking lark is a doddle by snoring and farting at the same time.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 April, 2018, 01:38:22 pm
Bad Cat, on the other hand, jumped in my lap, managed to delete the entire graphic I was working on (thank god for ctrl-z), and then let out a smell that really was beyond categorization.

Our dog Tilly likes to fart then leave the room in disgust at the smell.
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Post by: Kim on 18 April, 2018, 02:16:49 pm
Proving that this multitasking lark is a doddle by snoring and farting at the same time.

Should fit right in at a YACF camping weekend.
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 April, 2018, 05:17:27 pm
Basking in the sun, having disgusted David by leaving a dead mouse on a mat.
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Post by: ian on 18 April, 2018, 07:48:05 pm
Bad Cat is generally not very odoriferous but has used the litter tray a few times recently to punish us for her incarceration in the local cattery. Though she did once plonk herself in my lap after, how can I put it, inadequate wiping. That outcome of that event involved both disgust and laundry in liberal quantities.

Anyway, I've just built her a large cat clambering tree for the bedroom. In fact I built it twice because I did it wrong the first time. Then it turned out I hadn't done it wrong and to be honest, I wasn't sure why I convinced myself I was wrong. Oh well. I was wrong about being wrong. Anyway, the aim of this structure is to enable her to get to the top shelf the wardrobe where she has taken to sleeping of an evening. Neither of us have any idea how she learned to open the sliding doors and clamber all the way to the very top to find a suitable nesting place. Anyway, it's a racket and it would be better for all concerned if she climbed something else to get there. And then there's the reverse, when she emerges. Imagine someone dropping a 5 kg bag of potatoes from ceiling height each morning. She actually sprained her front leg the other week (vet bill! vet bill!). The tree will, in theory, offer a more elegant route to floor level.

Of course, we know she'll ignore it and carry on as before. Cat owners can be identified by their foolish optimism when it comes to their pets.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 April, 2018, 09:43:14 pm
Chortle!
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Post by: ian on 20 April, 2018, 02:50:53 pm
Bad Cat is sprawled on the shady balcony outside my office. She can't even be bothered chuttering at the magpies, her avian nemeses.

LMC is sitting on the kitchen roof* surveying her domain. I think she's compensating for her small stature like a little feline Napoleon.

They're both reminding me that cats don't have to sit in front of computer all day.

*OK, not quite, the kitchen roof is level with the top garden terrace, but there's two terraces below her, the benefits of hilly living.
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Post by: hellymedic on 20 April, 2018, 03:30:52 pm
Don't know.

Haven't seen cats today and litter trays are undisturbed. They've not eaten much cat food either.

Methinks they are basking somewhere and having fun with suburban wildlife, which might be more fun than Sainsbury's tinned pap.

ETA Blackie returned for quick nibble but left very promptly.
ETA They have both made transient visits for Big Evening Eats and scarpered as soon as stomachs were full.
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Post by: ian on 20 April, 2018, 08:35:12 pm
Bad Cat is still on the balcony now. Gazing wistfully into the gloaming. The settling chill will get her soon, it's just driven us back indoors.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 April, 2018, 06:53:08 pm
Investigating the massive pheasant tail feather I picked up for them on today's ride. It was stood up in the verge like a flag. The dead bird itself a few metres further on.
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 April, 2018, 04:16:54 pm
Both cats resting peacefully in lounge.
Ran away and squealed in FEAR when the doorbell rang.

DPD driver delivering big box of cat litter from Pets At Home...
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Post by: hellymedic on 27 April, 2018, 12:49:53 am
Blackie is AWOL, having last been seen at around 3am 26/4/2018, feeding.

Big Tom is asleep on the carpet just outside the kitchen, having placed a forelimb over his eyes as a sleep mask.
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Post by: ian on 30 April, 2018, 01:35:41 pm
Leaving muddy paw prints around the house. On the floors. Up the walls. On me. Pretty much any and every surface is now defaced by dirty paw prints. It's cold and raining, just stay inside you pair of furry idiots.
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Post by: hellymedic on 30 April, 2018, 02:31:27 pm
Both cats are spending the day sleeping indoors.
It's cold and wet out there.
I think that's a wise choice.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 April, 2018, 03:43:37 pm
Having a rest after chasing a hare from one side of a 100 acre field to another. She's convinced that one day she will catch one but unlike next doors lurchers I think its doubtful.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 April, 2018, 06:34:21 pm
Being very old.

I have been away since Friday and he did not get up to welcome me when I came in this afternoon.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 April, 2018, 06:44:49 pm
Being very old.

I have been away since Friday and he did not get up to welcome me when I came in this afternoon.
:-[ thats sad WoW.
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 May, 2018, 01:37:57 pm
Displeased David last night.
Brought in a dead mouse and played with it shortly after David had buried another dead mouse.
It was 2am. We wanted to go to bed.
David is squeamish.
I told him that this is what cats DO...
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Post by: PaulF on 05 May, 2018, 01:41:18 pm
Displeased David last night.
Brought in a dead mouse and played with it shortly after David had buried another dead mouse.
It was 2am. We wanted to go to bed.
David is squeamish.
I told him that this is what cats DO...

For a moment I was confused and thought that this was the ”what are you doing.....” thread and thought that you were making a confession ;D
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 May, 2018, 02:07:54 pm
I was 'having kittens' giggling at David's reaction to the Dead Mice.  :demon: ;D

Blackie has made a brief appearance today; Big Tom is out.
I think.
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Post by: citoyen on 05 May, 2018, 04:52:56 pm
Barking at horses.

They're trotting up the lane behind the house, which is separated from our garden by a hedge and a small field. He can't see them but he can hear (and probably smell) them.

This is a regular occurrence on days when the sun is out.
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Post by: Basil on 05 May, 2018, 06:37:57 pm
We introduced our dog to horses at an early age.  She's totally cool with them.  Same thing with bicycles,  which was important as we lived on a sustrans route.
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Post by: Kim on 05 May, 2018, 06:44:53 pm
My parents' house backed onto a bridleway.  One of the cats would occasionally bark (well, that ridiculous chirping thing they do) at horses.  The other was sensibly terrified of them.  They didn't really have an opinion on bicycles, other than as a source of oily gunk to get covered in when exploring the garage.
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Post by: Feline on 06 May, 2018, 08:08:01 am
Our dog Google has a very special relationship with Rory, one of our cats. Rory usually starts things by rubbing himself lovingly on Google, who them gets excited and starts to hump him.
I was checking our outdoor camera footage for signs of foxes last night and caught them at it on camera on the lawn  :facepalm:
https://video.nest.com/clip/e512f333c1034358bb900c8dd4eb9c9e.mp4
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Post by: Gattopardo on 06 May, 2018, 09:04:58 am
Displeased David last night.
Brought in a dead mouse and played with it shortly after David had buried another dead mouse.
It was 2am. We wanted to go to bed.
David is squeamish.
I told him that this is what cats DO...

Yep.

Live with it or no furballs.
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Post by: Pingu on 07 May, 2018, 08:53:14 pm
Apparently designing a Death Star.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/825/41892137672_7ff9f8fc26_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/26PSa2J)
IMG_7733_01 (https://flic.kr/p/26PSa2J) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jakob on 13 May, 2018, 07:08:00 am
(https://i.imgur.com/Tydovmkh.jpg)

Hana is being Hana.
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Post by: hellymedic on 13 May, 2018, 12:14:04 pm
Waiting for David to come downstairs for breakfast.
Blackie is on the brown armchair, Big Tom is on the sofa. These locations are favoured but not always chosen.
Blackie is only dozing. Big Tom might be sleeping.
My breakfast preparation has not been silent.
Methinks the cats will spring into action when David comes down.
They like David...
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Post by: lou boutin on 13 May, 2018, 09:37:59 pm
Not a lot. MillyCat passed away a few weeks ago after a short illness. I'm left rather heartbroken. I miss that little munchkin.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 May, 2018, 09:46:20 pm
Sorry to hear that LouB. Hope you're looking after yourself.
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Post by: lou boutin on 13 May, 2018, 09:51:27 pm
Thanks, I am. Xx
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Post by: hellymedic on 13 May, 2018, 10:41:00 pm
Condolences, lou.

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Post by: Pingu on 14 May, 2018, 11:44:28 pm
Aw  :'(
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Post by: lou boutin on 16 May, 2018, 08:17:51 pm
Thank you both. The house feels very empty. 

I went for a walk with a friend, whe deliberately walked me to. Point where she knew a stray cat lived. I'm now going every night to feed said kitty, althoug I think a local lady is going to take him in. 
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Post by: Basil on 20 May, 2018, 02:01:18 pm
Lying, facing the oven door.  Guarding the duck therein and making sure it doesn't escape.
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Post by: T42 on 20 May, 2018, 02:23:55 pm
Snoring and farting to prove that, unlike Gerry Ford, they can do two things at the same time.
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Post by: hellymedic on 20 May, 2018, 03:41:37 pm
Both cats are out enjoying the sun. I know not where.
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Post by: rafletcher on 20 May, 2018, 04:09:01 pm
She (Bella, cat) is on her way to the emergency vet  :-[. Not sure what’s wrong with her, but she spent half the morning walking round in circles, ignoring her crunchies. Then I put some more wet food down which she ate, and then went upstairs. Two hours later, she was trying to come downstairs but was too uncoordinated, and I found she’d vomited all today’s food up, and, most worryingly, defecated on my wife’s desk - she’s never defecated indoors before and rarely goes on the desk unless my wife is working there and the cats hungry. She is fairly elderly, at least 17... she was a rescue cat so no one really knows.

Edit: Diagnosis is a brain tumour or stroke - in the space of 5 hours she’s gone blind and deaf. She also has a heart condition. She’ll be home a little  later, so we can put her to rest in the garden she loved.  :'(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 May, 2018, 04:37:36 pm
Aw, poor Bella :(
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Post by: rafletcher on 20 May, 2018, 04:45:02 pm
Indeed. The vet to,d my wife that in certain countries it’s not permitted to euthanise cats, no matter how ill. That must be worse.  I wonder if my wife will want another. The house will seem empty, especially as Bella always sat on my wife’s lap every evening whilst we watch TV or read.

ETA Bella is now at peace under the path between the veg beds she so enjoyed using as a loo despite our best endeavours  :)

And the vet gave my wife a small packet of forget-me-not seeds, said not to worry about immediate payment, and also gave us a card of Bella’s paw prints. All credit to Wendover Heights vets and Milly in particular.
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Post by: hellymedic on 20 May, 2018, 10:21:58 pm
RIP Bella!

Our cats  are following David everywhere: in the garden, in the garage, in the summer house, in the house. Sometimes David finds this irritating but I tell him it's because they love him.

David has a little cat
Its coat is white and black
And everywhere that David goes
The cat is on his back.

David has a great big cat
Its fur is coffee brown
We have to give him lots of food
It's amazing what he'll down!
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Post by: rafletcher on 20 May, 2018, 10:39:49 pm
RIP Bella!

Our cats  are following David everywhere: in the garden, in the garage, in the summer house, in the house. Sometimes David finds this irritating but I tell him it's because they love him.

David has a little cat
Its coat is white and black
And everywhere that David goes
The cat is on his back.

David has a great big cat
Its fur is coffee brown
We have to give him lots of food
It's amazing what he'll down!

  ;D.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: ian on 21 May, 2018, 10:21:04 am
My wife found a box of kittens on Saturday (or co-found, they were left outside the church she was playing at). I sort of wish she's bought them home, but then I'm not sure what we'd do with another five cats. But kittens! Black kittens!

Anyway, sense prevailed, I'm not sure how our pair would handle youthful interlopers. I'm not sure how we would, god knows I clean up enough vomit as it is, not to mention the vet bills and cattery fees. Hopefully the Celia Hammond people will find them a good home.
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 May, 2018, 11:28:15 am
She (Bella, cat) is on her way to the emergency vet  :-[. Not sure what’s wrong with her, but she spent half the morning walking round in circles, ignoring her crunchies. Then I put some more wet food down which she ate, and then went upstairs. Two hours later, she was trying to come downstairs but was too uncoordinated, and I found she’d vomited all today’s food up, and, most worryingly, defecated on my wife’s desk - she’s never defecated indoors before and rarely goes on the desk unless my wife is working there and the cats hungry. She is fairly elderly, at least 17... she was a rescue cat so no one really knows.

Edit: Diagnosis is a brain tumour or stroke - in the space of 5 hours she’s gone blind and deaf. She also has a heart condition. She’ll be home a little  later, so we can put her to rest in the garden she loved.  :'(

Sending hugs. It's heartbreaking to let them go. Xx
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 May, 2018, 11:41:54 am
Lounging around after yesterdays adventures. We did the Cropton Loop which as a lovely six mile walk thorough woodland with a pub at each end of the loop (the Cropton one is also a brewery). So we did six miles but Tilly must have done several times that as she was off lead most of the time. She particularly liked finding the rabbit skeleton which she ran off with and ate quite a lot of.
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Post by: Basil on 21 May, 2018, 12:02:38 pm
Pretending to be dead on the lawn.
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 June, 2018, 07:46:37 pm
Blackie would appear to have been locked up inadvertently in David's Observatory for 15 hours.
Blackie follows David everywhere. David was observing till 2am. He thought he had checked the observatory was empty before he locked up and went to bed.
We didn't see Blackie for breakfast or all day.
David went out to observe Venus around 19.00 and Blackie popped out.
She seems fine. I think the observatory is clean!

Blackie was very wet and muddy late last night, while Big Tom was dry so she might have used the garden just before she got trapped.
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Post by: ian on 05 June, 2018, 09:48:50 am
After two sequential incarcerations in the cattery, epic amounts of miaowing.
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 June, 2018, 12:41:49 pm
Sleeping: Blackie's on the shower mat in my room.
Big Tom is sprawled on the sofa.
They will wake and eat when David wakes and eats.
That may be some time...
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Post by: ian on 05 June, 2018, 02:59:01 pm
And the first vomit. At least on the hardwood and mostly fur and solid food.
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 June, 2018, 06:48:36 pm
When David did not pay Blackie sufficient attention, she climbed onto the windowsill and mewed straight into his ear...
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Post by: Basil on 09 June, 2018, 06:53:10 pm
Wondering why I've brought her to the pub if I'm not going to buy her any crisps.
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Post by: Feline on 14 June, 2018, 11:33:22 pm
Google is terribly sad- he doesn't understand why he cannot walk on 4 legs anymore. He ruptured his cruciate ligament last saturday and is now waiting for major surgery on it  :'(

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Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2018, 12:59:20 am
Oh no :(
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Post by: T42 on 15 June, 2018, 07:42:27 am
Poor chap.

Just hope he doesn't rupture t'other side compensating.
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Post by: hellymedic on 15 June, 2018, 12:55:22 pm
Get well soon, Google!
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Post by: Andrew Br on 15 June, 2018, 03:45:32 pm
Poor Google.
My Westie did his cruciate chasing a squirrel. One operation and a lengthy convalescence later, he was back chasing squirrels.
The removal of the bandages post-op was a harrowing experience for all concerned (dog, vet, me).

My cruciate, OTOH, remains snapped because the surgeon wouldn't operate.
Perhaps I should have spoken to the vet.


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Post by: hellymedic on 15 June, 2018, 08:21:18 pm
[OT] You've got me thinking about my own right PCL now! The knee hyperextends horribly and is painful until clicked by rotation sometimes but I'm not really walking so interference may well not be justified.
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Post by: hellymedic on 16 June, 2018, 02:14:53 pm
There is a disassembled dead mouse on our hall carpet.
David is hysterical.
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Post by: Kim on 16 June, 2018, 02:17:53 pm
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 June, 2018, 11:47:02 am
Blackie is asleep on the brown armchair; that's where she likes to sleep.
Big Tom is asleep on the sofa; that's where he likes to sleep.

David is asleep on the big bed upstairs; that's where he usually sleeps.

There is a large, dead, brown rat on the carpet in the hall.

It appears intact.
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Post by: Feline on 18 June, 2018, 04:17:34 pm
Google is now scheduled for surgery on Thursday with the top bod (he literally wrote the text book on canine orthopaedics).
I now need to molish him a ramp so he can get in and out of his dog flap- he keeps getting stuck out in the garden  :'(
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Post by: PaulF on 18 June, 2018, 04:40:56 pm
Paws crossed
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Post by: T42 on 21 June, 2018, 10:27:55 am
Night before last we watched the second Sin City film. Raz, chocolab #1, slept right through it but Ezra his bro never ceased to agitate, asking to go out then doing nowt, wanting to be fussed over, and generally making a nuisance of himself.  We thought it might have been the noises, but last night we watched Independence Day, which is even noisier, and he slept through it.  Possibly the stark B/W treatment of Sin City got to him.
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Post by: hellymedic on 28 June, 2018, 11:24:41 pm
Big Tom is not eating.
Big Tom is not drinking.
Big Tom is awake and undistressed.
Big Tom sitting still in quiet corners, shunning company or contact.
Big Tom has not used the litter tray, nor gone outside for 24 hours.
We are worried. Medivet said take to a vet in the morning.
But we don't do mornings.
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Post by: hellymedic on 29 June, 2018, 01:32:15 am
Big Tom dashed after mouse but wasn't quite fast enough.
Maybe he's not too sick.
Mouse is in corner kitchen cupboard, where boiler used to be.
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Post by: T42 on 29 June, 2018, 08:11:55 am
Judging by the aroma wafting into my office, our two are doing what dogs do best an hour after eating. Sleeping, too.
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Post by: hellymedic on 29 June, 2018, 02:09:33 pm
Big Tom seems better today: ate a whole sachet of Wiskas
Walked down garden, then started running.
Maybe he just got too hot.

Blackie seems her normal self.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 29 June, 2018, 03:43:15 pm
Just catching up.

Sorry to hear about Bella, and thanks to helly for the updates.
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Post by: ian on 03 July, 2018, 06:42:45 pm
Annual vet visit. Bad Cat was good, wriggled a bit, but painless enough. Isn't she lovely, says Annika, our delightful vet. So we reach for Little Monster Cat's carrier, put it on the table. And stand well back. In the car park. Two towns away.

It took two nurses and the vet to give her a worming tablet. There was blood loss, screams, and I think the power went out across a 20 mile radius and a moderate seismic disturbance recorded. And she pooed on the vet. Not a little poo. She'd been saving that one up. I confess that I've never done that at the doctors.

I honestly don't know how she can twist through eleven-dimensional space or, for a 3kg cat, where she finds the strength to hold off three people.

Lots of hissing and snarling when they came back – I presume Bad Cat blames LMC for the entire indignity for some reason. They're stupid because it's really all our fault. They seem to have chilled out now.
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Post by: hellymedic on 03 July, 2018, 06:52:53 pm
Our cats are sleeping in the lounge.
Big Tom does not tolerate heat well; he does not drink but only eats wet food. He's even started eating Sainsbury's cheapy tinned food again.
Blackie drinks freely but has shown scant interest in dry food or Sainsbury's Cheap.

Felix pouches were on Special Offer at Sainsbury's from which I've had a delivery today.

Apathetic Tom came to life with pouch #1. Then Blackie returned and David gave her a pouch.
And Tom demanded MOAR!
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 10 July, 2018, 06:16:12 am
Obsessively licking and scratching her belly which was shaved at the vets at my request when she was having an anaesthetic for tooth cleaning (she ended up having 7 teeth out).

That was Friday and the teeth and gums look fine but the belly scratching has led to redness and she seems to even perhaps have a bit of fever and is really unhappy. I have swapped my working day so I can take her back to the vets this morning. We had a bad night with her constantly scratching and lying beside the sensor for our movement-detecting light under her bed so we had a light show between 01:00and 03:00...
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Post by: Gattopardo on 10 July, 2018, 12:57:58 pm
Annual vet visit. Bad Cat was good, wriggled a bit, but painless enough. Isn't she lovely, says Annika, our delightful vet. So we reach for Little Monster Cat's carrier, put it on the table. And stand well back. In the car park. Two towns away.

It took two nurses and the vet to give her a worming tablet. There was blood loss, screams, and I think the power went out across a 20 mile radius and a moderate seismic disturbance recorded. And she pooed on the vet. Not a little poo. She'd been saving that one up. I confess that I've never done that at the doctors.

I honestly don't know how she can twist through eleven-dimensional space or, for a 3kg cat, where she finds the strength to hold off three people.

Lots of hissing and snarling when they came back – I presume Bad Cat blames LMC for the entire indignity for some reason. They're stupid because it's really all our fault. They seem to have chilled out now.

Part of me wants to meet LMC, mainly to see if she is that bad.
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Post by: citoyen on 11 July, 2018, 12:00:51 pm
Drooling all over the kitchen floor...

Let him out into the garden first thing this morning and a few minutes later could hear him barking persistently. Went out to investigate and he's found a toad. Tried to get him away from it but he picked it up in his mouth and spent the next 10 minutes running me ragged round the garden.

Eventually managed to get him to drop it and brought him inside, where he was promptly sick. Took him to the vet, who thinks he'll be fine. Apparently hypersalivation is a normal response to toad venom as a means of getting it out of the system.

I went out to dispose of the toad but it was no longer where he'd dropped it, so I guess it must have survived the ordeal and hopped off. Poor thing. I'm happy to encourage toads in the garden to keep the slugs under control but I guess we'll just have to keep an eye on the dog.
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Post by: rafletcher on 12 July, 2018, 06:20:59 pm
Waiting to be spayed in the local RSPCA rescue centre before we can bring her home  ;D

She will be re-christened Phoebe (Noodle is plain daft).  A one year old domestic shorthair tabby. I’d post a picture but she’s been removed from the website already!

It’ll be nice to have a cat around again, tho she’s very nervous at the moment.

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 July, 2018, 08:25:12 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Gattopardo on 13 July, 2018, 07:57:01 pm
Waiting to be spayed in the local RSPCA rescue centre before we can bring her home  ;D

She will be re-christened Phoebe (Noodle is plain daft).  A one year old domestic shorthair tabby. I’d post a picture but she’s been removed from the website already!

It’ll be nice to have a cat around again, tho she’s very nervous at the moment.

Not feebee?
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Post by: rafletcher on 15 July, 2018, 03:46:17 pm
Well she's been home for 2 hours now, and all have been spent behind the sofa with the occasional exception for some minor petting.  Meet Phoebe, who is approximately 1 and extremely timid!

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 July, 2018, 09:40:24 pm
Pheobe looks nice. She'll come out.
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Post by: rafletcher on 15 July, 2018, 11:05:47 pm
Oh yes. She’s already had a foray or two. Now in the kitchen for her first night with us, food, water and litter tray to hand.  She’s beautiful  :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 July, 2018, 11:41:39 pm
Well, I've been missing a cat since mid morning, which is pretty much unheard of for Ninkasi cos she likes to come home for laps.
Eventually (about 2130) in my neighbours garden I heard a pitiful mewing. Unfortunately said pitiful mewing is in another garden, the wrong side of a wall topped with broken glass, very overgrown on the other side which I am led to believe might have an old air raid shelter hidden under it.
After a bit of navigation (not my strong suit) on an adjoining street, I eventually narrow down to about 6 flats where the garden she is in should be. By this point it's after 10pm and no one is answering the door. I did go into a couple of gardens to try to locate a bit better,  but a bit half heartedly.  Still, at least I know where she is now (assuming it's her). She'll have to stay there til tomorrow as I don't really fancy a late night conversation with PC Plod about breaking & entering.
Sorry Ninkasi :(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 July, 2018, 11:14:13 am
I haz the correct number of cats again. After going to work to pick up my laptop and coming home to try to extricate her I found her cowering under the undergrowth. I'm hoping because someone read my note asking to let her out and not just because she was there the whole time. She didn't want to come out from there so she was a bit traumatised. Whether that was because she'd been shut in or cos the gulls had kept her awake all night I don't know. Silly billy.
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 July, 2018, 02:03:47 pm
Big Tom smells of rat...
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Post by: Nick H. on 21 July, 2018, 06:45:36 pm
I put a snail in the washing machine by accident. It survived but then fell off the worktop onto a tiled floor. I felt very bad for it so put it in my flatmate's pot plant to give it a chance. She was not happy when she discovered it today but she put it in a box of salad instead of throwing it out the window, quite remarkable for a German. It didn't come out of its shell so I gave it some water and that seems to have turbocharged it.  I have high hopes.

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Post by: BrianI on 22 July, 2018, 06:48:22 pm
Spike cockatiel missing Charlie cockatiel who was put to sleep today following a prolapse  :'( :'( :'(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 July, 2018, 07:08:08 pm
Aw, sorry Brian :(
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Post by: Gattopardo on 24 July, 2018, 11:56:41 pm
Enjoying completeing a whole lap of the sun.... :hand: So spent the day as usual.
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Post by: rafletcher on 28 July, 2018, 09:26:45 am
Well Phoebe is looking much more chipper now :-)  Still nervous but much better.

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 July, 2018, 09:51:20 am
Linky no worky
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Post by: rafletcher on 28 July, 2018, 01:30:43 pm
Linky no worky

Fixed I hope, too enthusiastic cleaning up my pics :-)
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Post by: hellymedic on 28 July, 2018, 02:51:38 pm
Linky no worky

Fixed I hope, too enthusiastic cleaning up my pics :-)

Last pic of Phoebe shows. Previous don't seem to appear.



Phoebe is LEGGY and lovely!

Blackie is curled into a C by the pedal board of David's electric organ.
Big Tom is out, location undetermined.
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Post by: rafletcher on 28 July, 2018, 04:12:17 pm

Phoebe is LEGGY and lovely!


She certainly is, stands nearly a metre tall on her hind legs!  And she’s FAST too.
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Post by: Pingu on 28 July, 2018, 09:40:26 pm
Both getting shut in the shed  :facepalm:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 July, 2018, 09:57:00 pm
Taking turns to sleep on every sofa and chair in the house after not being allowed on the furniture whilst we stayed in The Lakes.
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Post by: hellymedic on 29 July, 2018, 12:23:36 pm
Brown cat is on Brown Chair, where Black Cat usually sleeps.
I don't where Black Cat is right now; she will appear.
Managed  inadvertently to shut Black Cat in downstairs privy.
Did Not Like!

Black Cat has just appeared by kitchen door.
There's a cat flap in it she uses with ease.
She has not.
Yet.

Cats are eating little wet food at present; they pester David, he gets food out, they have a little. then leave.
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Post by: Andrij on 29 July, 2018, 01:03:28 pm
Cats are eating little wet food at present; they pester David, he gets food out, they have a little. then leave.

They're just training David.
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Post by: Kim on 29 July, 2018, 01:12:39 pm
Cats are eating little wet food at present; they pester David, he gets food out, they have a little. then leave.

They're just training David.

Always fun to watch a well-trained cat owner.  I remember coming home from university after the first term (I was still sort-of welcome at home at that point):

Squirrel:  *appears at window*
Cat:  *perks up, runs to window*  *chirps at squirrel*
Cat:  *runs to other room, chirps at Dad*
Dad:  *follows excitedly chirruping cat back into room*  *picks up bag of nuts, posts a couple out through upper window to squirrel*
Cat:  (in full bog-brush tail mode) *returns to window, makes further barking noises at squirrel on other side of the glass*
Dad:  *gets camera, takes photographs of conveniently still squirrel at point blank range*
Squirrel:  *finishes nuts, sticks tongue out at cat, runs off laughing*
Me (to Mum): They've got each other well-trained, I see.
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Post by: Jurek on 29 July, 2018, 01:27:55 pm
Cats are eating little wet food at present; they pester David, he gets food out, they have a little. then leave.

They're just training David.

Always fun to watch a well-trained cat owner.  I remember coming home from university after the first term (I was still sort-of welcome at home at that point):

Squirrel:  *appears at window*
Cat:  *perks up, runs to window*  *chirps at squirrel*
Cat:  *runs to other room, chirps at Dad*
Dad:  *follows excitedly chirruping cat back into room*  *picks up bag of nuts, posts a couple out through upper window to squirrel*
Cat:  (in full bog-brush tail mode) *returns to window, makes further barking noises at squirrel on other side of the glass*
Dad:  *gets camera, takes photographs of conveniently still squirrel at point blank range*
Squirrel:  *finishes nuts, sticks tongue out at cat, runs off laughing*
Me (to Mum): They've got each other well-trained, I see.

Its the dolphins that you need to be wary of.

Ocean safari park somewhere in leftpondia, the dolphins have been trained to collect litter from their pool.
Which is a good thing
Every time they give their keeper a piece of litter, they get a fish as a reward.
But the dolphins have got wise to this. Now, when they find a discarded wrapper, the bite off a small chunk and put the remainder under a rock at the bottom of the pool, and exchange the small chunk for a fishy treat.
Rinse and repeat.
The dolphins are training their keepers!!!

One day the dolphin caught a seagull in the pool.
He gave this to the keeper, and was rewarded by being given lots of fish.
Which he ate, but he kept the last fish and hid it under a rock at the bottom of the pool.
And used that as bait to catch another seagull.

If dolphins ever learn to communicate, we'll all be f*cked, I tell you.

Oh...
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Post by: Andrij on 29 July, 2018, 01:43:27 pm
When I saw Jurek had replied, I thought it was going to be about squirrels...    ;D
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Post by: Jurek on 29 July, 2018, 02:12:27 pm
When I saw Jurek had replied, I thought it was going to be about squirrels...    ;D

 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Basil on 29 July, 2018, 09:38:41 pm
Well, a couple of hours ago, Megan was getting excited.

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Post by: hellymedic on 31 July, 2018, 03:22:48 pm
Cats have gone right off Whiskas wet food though they'll lick a little jelly.
Big Tom will eat a few Whiskas crunchies and Blackie likes the Dreamies 'mouse'.
They won't touch the Sainsbury's stuff now.

Wonder if I should give them less...
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Post by: ian on 31 July, 2018, 04:01:32 pm
Cats are choosy. There's no point trying to understand their preferences. It's best to assume that they won't like anything you think they'll like. Also assume that the fact they like something today is no guide to what they'll like tomorrow. The only consistency amongst ours is tuna fish. Only canned tuna, they'll certainly have nothing to do with fresh tuna. I can't open a can of anything these days without the thud-thud-thud of stampeding paws as they descend upon me. Which then means have to spend five minutes explaining that 'it's just butter beans' you feline simpletons.
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Post by: hellymedic on 31 July, 2018, 04:18:55 pm
I accept they're choosy!
Maddening that I've bought bulk packs of stuff they previously loved and now eschew.

I don't want to starve the dears.
I don't like wasting food of any kind and we were having to throw uneaten food away.
I really want to avoid Nestlé/Purina/Felix. I bought some Special Offer Felix they seemed to love, before I realised it was Nestlé.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 July, 2018, 04:53:40 pm
The problem is, they're teaching you to pander to them.
My current 2 and my previous 2 got the same dried food (previous was for medical reasons and current is for sensitive digestive system reasons) every day for years and didn't turn their nose up at it.
Of course, the advantags with dried food is that you can just leave it there until they eat it, which doesn't really work with wet food.
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Post by: Basil on 31 July, 2018, 04:57:39 pm
Wot Mrs P said.
Took me several cats to realise this.  Daf, who now lives with my son, has never had anything other than dried Iams in his life.1  He's happy with them.  If he doesn't eat, he's obviously not hungry.  I never let it bother me.

1 Not completely true.  I once gave him some chicken from my plate.  He played football with it.
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Post by: ian on 31 July, 2018, 05:41:35 pm
Ours have dried food out (Science Plan) for ongoing munchies. They did survive the first couple of years of their life on dried food. We only started on the soft when LMC had all her teeth taken out. They get one pouch of wet stuff a day which they get far more excited about than the dried stuff. But they eat the dried stuff just fine (even LMC, who's learned to crunch it up against her palate). Cats generally won't starve themselves on principle. They may drop a dismembered mouse in your open mouth as you sleep of course or mount a dirty protest outside their litter tray to make their displeasure at the menu options clear.
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Post by: BrianI on 01 August, 2018, 04:05:31 pm
I got Cockatiel Charlie back today from the vets today.

She's now waiting till I find a suitable spot in the back garden to intern her little ashes. :'( :'( :'(

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 :'( :'( :'(
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Post by: ian on 01 August, 2018, 05:14:34 pm
Our dead cat, Lamb Chop, is still on the bookshelf. She's been dead for about seven years. Every time I suggest garden-based interment I get the 'what if we move?' from my wife. I honestly don't think the dead cat will mind at this point. I'm not risking pointing that out to my wife though.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 02 August, 2018, 02:45:27 pm
Our dead cat, Lamb Chop, is still on the bookshelf. She's been dead for about seven years. Every time I suggest garden-based interment I get the 'what if we move?' from my wife. I honestly don't think the dead cat will mind at this point. I'm not risking pointing that out to my wife though.

Yeah but the wife will.

Fur bastards creep in to your heart....
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Post by: hellymedic on 03 August, 2018, 02:41:48 pm
Sitting on MY chair.

Goldilocks is Not Amused.
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Post by: T42 on 03 August, 2018, 02:57:19 pm
I was over in the workshop were it's still pleasantly cool. Dogs came too & sprawled out on the concrete floor.  After a while they got fed up & went out.  A while later I found that they had opened the front door of the house and were lying in the doorway while 34° air blew into the carefully-conserved coolth.

Anyone would think they wanted oxygen too.
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Post by: rafletcher on 03 August, 2018, 04:10:50 pm
We’re not sure. We’ve had her nearly 3 weeks now. Earlier this week she got out of the kitchen window, but we saw her in the garden, and she came back to eat. Then weds evening she went out the cat flap (which I’d neglected to properly lock  ::-)) at around 8pm and came back sometime between 10 and 2am. So today we thought we’d let her out in the morning, but she typically went and sat on the landing. I went out for a ride, and came back around 11am. Asked where the cat was, “on the landing” says my wife. No, no she isn’t. Where she is no-one knows, but hopefully she’ll be back for her tea sometime this evening... 

and as is the way with cats, she reappeared from we know not where  :)

ETA Mystery solved. This morning I knew she had to be in the bedroom. Eventually spotted (by dint of a reflection from her ID tag) under the bed. Where she will likely stay all day.
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Post by: Andrij on 03 August, 2018, 08:54:48 pm
coolth

 :thumbsup:  Added to my vocabulary.
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Post by: essexian on 06 August, 2018, 11:50:50 am
Getting their escape tunnels ready..... all four of them are off to the vets this afternoon for their yearly check up.  :facepalm: One of our late cats Pootle once broke the locked cat flap off the door in his effort to get out and away from me....  :hand:

I am not sure who hates it the most, the cats or CBH who seems to get as stressed as they do....perhaps she should go in a cat carrier also? 
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Post by: ian on 06 August, 2018, 11:56:51 am
Bad Cat get escape through a locked cat flap, she somehow gets a claw behind it and manages to bend the door and pop it over the catch. She normally can't do it quickly enough though...

I mentioned that LMC pooped on the vet last time. I'm still smiling. I might do that the next time I visit my GP.
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Post by: essexian on 06 August, 2018, 03:36:37 pm
Sigh...Pixie escaped and went and hid on next doors roof so she has been rebooked for Friday.... the vet was not surprised.  We were also not surprised that Elma and Posie need some dental work, while Jamise did a poo in the cat carrier AGAIN. Sigh.

Nevermind, apart from Pixie, that's their general check up over until next year.
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 August, 2018, 04:00:13 pm
Leaving dead rodents in house and garden.
Getting picky about food we offer.
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Post by: rafletcher on 06 August, 2018, 08:26:54 pm
Spending 16+ hours a day under our bed. And she got out the locked cat flap last night too, bu5 it was only locked one way, I think locking both the in and out latches should defeat her. That and a waste bin and a chair in front of it!
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Post by: Gattopardo on 08 August, 2018, 02:38:09 am
As the furballs are in a forin country, they seem to be scratching alot so suspect fleas.

Kittens were treated with something from a supermarket that was supposed to be for mosquitos. I didn't get involved, my way of trying to move on.  Now there seems to be another flea product has been purchased from supermarket.  Could use of the two products injure/cause the cats illness.

They are not eating or drinking as they seem to hide all the time in dark and inaccessible places.

Tonight had 15 phone calls as the cats had escaped from the house, through a open front door, and she (the cats owner, something I need to come to terms with) wasn't quick enough or had enough fore thought to close the door.  Feel sorry for the furballs but what can I do, not mine.
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Post by: ian on 08 August, 2018, 09:54:11 am
Supermarket flea killer doesn't work. You need to the proper stuff (like Advance) from the vets (which will also, and very importantly, kill other parasites like heartworm).
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 August, 2018, 10:58:39 pm
As the furballs are in a forin country, they seem to be scratching alot so suspect fleas.

Kittens were treated with something from a supermarket that was supposed to be for mosquitos. I didn't get involved, my way of trying to move on.  Now there seems to be another flea product has been purchased from supermarket.  Could use of the two products injure/cause the cats illness.


The mosquito killer could poison the cats. Flea treatment for dogs is toxic for cats.
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Post by: Ham on 09 August, 2018, 12:50:37 pm
Supermarket flea killer doesn't work. You need to the proper stuff (like Advance) from the vets (which will also, and very importantly, kill other parasites like heartworm).

that's right, cat's have to have the proper flea stuff, under purscription from the vet ;)

After several weeks of outside life, deigning to turn up for food, the change in temperature and precipitation has resulted in ours presenting herself indoors.
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Post by: ian on 09 August, 2018, 01:06:04 pm
Throwing up on the bed, as I've discovered. Nice as it was a naked bed. Oh well, that's what mattress protectors are for. Into the washing machine it goes. I'd like to shove Bad Cat in there with it.

It's a sad corollary of pet ownership that you can recognise your furry charges by their vomit.
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 August, 2018, 01:57:51 pm
Having an 'indoors' day, due to the rain.
Both resting: Blackie on the hall carpet, Big Tom on the brown chair.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 August, 2018, 12:03:42 am
Blackie just ran in, followed immediately by Big Tom. Dashed through kitchen into hall.
Started playing with Dead Rodent.
Rodent was probably juvenile rat.
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Post by: essexian on 10 August, 2018, 11:08:01 am
Pixie is hiding under the car planning evil retaliation for me taking her to the vets.... :demon:

It seems that picking her up when she is asleep and stuffing her into a cat carrier is not good form! Strangely, when at the vets we had to turn the box vertical to get her out.

The vet was impressed how fit she looked and thought she was 3, rather than 8. However, at 5.1kg, she does need to lose some weight....what's that....put her on a diet.....hahahahahahahaha.

Well that's done for the year thankfully. 
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 August, 2018, 01:28:28 pm
Cats were hungry and getting under my feet while I was making breakfast.
Finished all the food that was left out.
Then devoured two Whiskas pouches.

Blackie vomited all her breakfast, neatly onto a plastic-backed doormat which is machine washable.
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Post by: ian on 10 August, 2018, 01:43:58 pm
If only my cats were so considerate. If our downstairs flooring wasn't already 'distressed wood' it would be by now. As for the carpets I'm so glad we paid extra for the stain-guard. They're like little vomit monkeys.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 August, 2018, 03:34:41 pm
This is the first time I've known Blackie to puke.
She didn't seem ill and has gone out.

Methinks she bolted her food down too quickly - didn't seem chewed to me.

This kitchen is the only hard-floored room in the house.

Mat is now on rinse part of machine cycle.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 10 August, 2018, 11:18:59 pm
Bad Cat get escape through a locked cat flap, she somehow gets a claw behind it and manages to bend the door and pop it over the catch. She normally can't do it quickly enough though...

I mentioned that LMC pooped on the vet last time. I'm still smiling. I might do that the next time I visit my GP.

You need to write those stories up.

Love both those furry bad/monster kitties.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 10 August, 2018, 11:25:13 pm
Both the furry monsters are using me as pillow.  I have been attacked a few times as I moved slightly or coughed...not complaining just very amused in the way that they are resting their heads on me.  Girl furball has been playing with my feet and trying to get a paw between random toes.

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Post by: Gattopardo on 13 August, 2018, 11:50:59 am
Supermarket flea killer doesn't work. You need to the proper stuff (like Advance) from the vets (which will also, and very importantly, kill other parasites like heartworm).

that's right, cat's have to have the proper flea stuff, under purscription from the vet ;)

After several weeks of outside life, deigning to turn up for food, the change in temperature and precipitation has resulted in ours presenting herself indoors.

Ah you are both wrong, along with the vets and me, you can buy from a supermarket.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 13 August, 2018, 11:55:48 am
I bought the supermarket version of Frontline for my dog and she got fleas. It is not the same product inside. The effective stuff is only from a vet, even if the name is largely the same.
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Post by: ian on 13 August, 2018, 12:10:59 pm
The prescription Advocate/Frontline isn't just for fleas, it's a combo treatment for all kinds of parasites (which is why it requires a prescription, it's a different set of medications to the OTC version). As mentioned elsewhere, flea treatments for dogs shouldn't be used for cats, the active ingredient is toxic to cats (most things are toxic to cats, like most obligate carnivores, their livers are busy breaking down proteins so tend to metabolise toxins and drugs at a slower rate).
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Post by: PaulF on 13 August, 2018, 12:12:51 pm
Keeping my feet warm

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Post by: rafletcher on 23 August, 2018, 12:26:26 pm
Most likely sleeping under our bed. Being a cat she can manage at least 10 hours a day there.  When she's not sleeping or eating she's decimating the local vole population. We've had four in the last five days left in the kitchen or outside the back door  :-\
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 August, 2018, 08:39:25 pm
Thomas the Visiting Cat (here for his holibobs) is obsessed with standing in the sink. 
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Post by: rafletcher on 27 August, 2018, 06:12:44 pm
Sitting some 10m up in a tree  ::-). Whether or not she has any idea how to get down who knows  ???  Still she’s not making much noise so I guess she’s not that bothered yet tho my wife is. Thankfully the forecast is benign and if she’s not been down by morning we’ll call the RSPCA and see what they say. In all probability I’ll come down to another dismembered mouse (we had 2 this morning and all will be well.

ETA she came down of her own accord and is now eating her favourite (for now) cat pate.
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Post by: hellymedic on 29 August, 2018, 11:42:04 pm
Big Tom is sleeping halfway up the stairs.

Blackie returned carrying a live mouse in her mouth, played with it for a while, then took it back outside.
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Post by: Kim on 30 August, 2018, 09:59:54 am
Big Tom is sleeping halfway up the stairs.

In my parents' house this used to be an indicator that someone had left the light on in the cupboard underneath.  Presumably the advent of LED lighting has put an end to that.

When the light was off the cat would tend to sleep at the top of the stairs, for maximum trip-ability.  What is it with cats and stairs?
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Post by: hellymedic on 30 August, 2018, 11:53:11 am
I don't know.
Despite the hall/stair/landing carpet being mainly blue, Big Tom seems quite well camouflaged.

He sprawled on this half-landing long before dusk and didn't budge for hours.

I think cats sometimes like being sheltered when they snooze, though this is not consistent.
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Post by: Kim on 30 August, 2018, 11:18:17 pm
Despite the hall/stair/landing carpet being mainly blue, Big Tom seems quite well camouflaged.

My parents in their infinite wisdom chose a hallway carpet with a pattern that, if you don't have the right glasses on, looks a bit like the back of a tabby-point Siamese.  After several rounds of the obvious, I once caught my mum telling her wooly hat (which had fallen off the hook and turned out to have a not-entirely-dissimilar pattern) to get out of the way as she was coming down the stairs carrying a large box.

I reckon cat camouflage is as much about staying still and general affinity for shadowy corners and edges as their coat colour/pattern.  They can be surprisingly invisible at times, especially when they're in one of those random uncomfortable-looking sleeping positions rather than an obvious cat profile.
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Post by: hellymedic on 31 August, 2018, 12:23:49 pm
[OT] I think camouflage/conspicuity is about soft/hard edges and 'expected/unexpected' colours.

Camouflage Cat's colour edges are soft.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 31 August, 2018, 02:30:37 pm
One or both have stolen my copy of mario cart for the DS. 

Small square has been used to play and now is somewhere they can't get too.  Hence me spending ages looking for it.  Cats looking on and awaiting me bringing things out for them to play with once more.
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 September, 2018, 04:45:37 pm
Big Tom is SITTING ON MY CHAIR!

Goldilocks is Not Amused...
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Post by: Ham on 15 September, 2018, 10:13:12 pm
Swapping mouse for treats.
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 September, 2018, 11:16:29 pm
Playing silly buggers by the kitchen door.
Big Tom is lounging on the doormat inside, Blackie is just outside the glass door, unwilling to use cat flap and land on Tom...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 September, 2018, 08:44:51 pm
Sleeping on the sofa smelling faintly of shit.
Its my fault, I didn't notice that they had spread slurry on the middle of the big stubble field until it was too late and she merrily rolled in it about a hundred times.
Two showers with different shampoo each time and their is still a whiff about her, mind you as we walked back from tyeh field at tea time you could smell her several yards away.
As usual she thinks she smells like she doused herself in Chanel No 5.
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 October, 2018, 08:19:33 pm
Sleeping on David's bar chair, having been unable to eject me from mine, despite the use of CLAWS.

FARTING
FARTING
FARTING
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 October, 2018, 02:08:52 pm
Big Tom followed David when he finally got ready for bed, after spending many cool hours in the observatory.

David opened a wardrobe and Tom jumped inside and settled for the night, only emerging for breakfast around 13.00.

I don't like leaving wardrobes open cos moths but...
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Post by: Kim on 07 October, 2018, 02:19:46 pm
Big Tom followed David when he finally got ready for bed, after spending many cool hours in the observatory.

David opened a wardrobe and Tom jumped inside and settled for the night, only emerging for breakfast around 13.00.

I don't like leaving wardrobes open cos moths but...

The cat'll eat them.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 October, 2018, 02:40:43 pm
Blackie chases moths and butterflies, Tom less so. Wardrobe is dark and cramped. Tom is HYOOGE. Little scope for chasing ickle woolly bears...
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Post by: Feline on 07 October, 2018, 02:49:45 pm
Weve had unfortunate incidents in the past with our cats peeing in the wardrobe  :facepalm:
Double points for if they do it on a sleeping bag in the bottom ....
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 October, 2018, 05:03:26 pm
Eek!
I don't think either cat has ever peed indoors outside a litter tray.

I don't think there are shoes in that wardrobe; my old bathroom scales live there.

This is a built-in job, made of laminated board, with rails on two levels.
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Post by: hellymedic on 08 October, 2018, 11:16:20 pm
BIG TOM:
DON'T CLAW ME IN THE BUM IF YOU ARE HUNGRY! I do NOT like it!

I fed you just an hour ago; I know Blackie finished some of the food I put out for you but you've been asleep in the wardrobe most of the afternoon/evening.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 08 October, 2018, 11:40:55 pm
Big Tom followed David when he finally got ready for bed, after spending many cool hours in the observatory.

David opened a wardrobe and Tom jumped inside and settled for the night, only emerging for breakfast around 13.00.

I don't like leaving wardrobes open cos moths but...

The cat'll eat them.

Yep, the two snack on many flying and crawling things.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 08 October, 2018, 11:43:45 pm
BIG TOM:
DON'T CLAW ME IN THE BUM IF YOU ARE HUNGRY! I do NOT like it!

I fed you just an hour ago; I know Blackie finished some of the food I put out for you but you've been asleep in the wardrobe most of the afternoon/evening.

Big tom is teaching you your place in the cat and slave relationship....

I had this pointed out to me by one of the furry overlords being annoying till I allowed her to remove a tasty bogey from my nose and inform me that my facial hair is too long for her to enjoy rubbing her face against mine.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 14 October, 2018, 05:58:15 pm
Our cat, Dougie, still has to wear a collar because of his accident a month ago. He has to wear it 'cos the daft bugger keeps biting the stitches on his stump despite the collar - which is regularly tightened. He can't scratch his neck, so guess who has to do the scratching every time he appears in the kitchen? And, as soon as he's had enough, he jumps down and goes back to his slumber - the cat, not me.
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Post by: menthel on 18 October, 2018, 08:19:31 am
Just finishing gestating apparently. I have been worn down by my wife and son into finally getting a dog. Which we will get, despite all those 80s ads to the contrary, just before christmas.
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Post by: ian on 18 October, 2018, 09:05:57 pm
Yes, remember– a dog is just for Christmas, not for life.
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Post by: Basil on 18 October, 2018, 09:37:36 pm
Or
Christmas is for dogs, get a life.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 19 October, 2018, 02:23:25 pm
Two are taking turns in using me as a pillow and demanding fuss.
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Post by: ian on 22 October, 2018, 01:48:37 pm
LMC came in the bedroom at 4am to give the bed and anyone in it (i.e. me) a good kneading. Which must have taken about 30 minutes. To accompaniment of pneumatic drill purring. I studiously ignored her.

So she decided to up the ante by biting my hand.

Now she's asleep in my office and snoring louder than the radio.
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Post by: Little Jim on 22 October, 2018, 04:01:59 pm
Can't you get your own back and give her a good kneading now that she is asleep?  Probably best if you don't bite her paw.
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Post by: ian on 22 October, 2018, 05:04:25 pm
It's tempting. It was a full-on four paw knead too. Then she gets so excited she crouches there, twitching. Cats are very odd creatures.

She doesn't have any teeth, I suppose it's better to be bitten by her than Bad Cat, but she still has some impressive jaw muscles.

Bad Cat bites me all the time, of course, because she's bad. Her favourite trick is to wait on the kitchen counter for humans to wander by and then grab a limb with her paws so she can start chewing away. Oh and be sure to wash well after swimming, the slightest whiff of chlorine sends her into a bitey frenzy.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 22 October, 2018, 07:50:01 pm
Sorry, but that is a bit funny to me.

Got 4 days with my two.  I love them soooo much, and they really have me well trained.
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Post by: hellymedic on 25 October, 2018, 09:59:03 pm
The local detonations have commenced.
Blackie got really scared last year, when she was only about three months old, and ended up cowering in a cupboard but I know not where she is right now.
Big Tom has woken and seems to be roaming round the house.
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Post by: Feline on 25 October, 2018, 11:06:28 pm
Our pet is being a bit of a cretin. To be fair- he just had a second cruciate op 7 days ago so he is in a bit of pain etc.
Today I allowed him not to wear his cone of shame for 2 mins while he was out in the garden with me hanging out some washing. 10 seconds ,later I saw him chewing out one of skin stitches. "Oi Google" I yelled. One of my neighbours replied 'flipping eck, he's in trouble'. Yes. Yes he was.
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Post by: Kim on 25 October, 2018, 11:10:33 pm
"Oi Google" I yelled.

This really needs to end with a smartphone butting in...
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Post by: Feline on 26 October, 2018, 12:15:56 am
"Oi Google" I yelled.

This really needs to end with a smartphone butting in...

Just as well I didn't call him Siri or Alexa  :facepalm:
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Post by: Kim on 26 October, 2018, 11:47:18 am
It must be fairly shit to be called Alexa now.  Especially if you're a teenager.
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Post by: T42 on 26 October, 2018, 01:02:00 pm
Amazon could supply a rename function, though they might not like some of the things it gets called.  They could fit it with a Grundy filter, I suppose...
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Post by: ian on 26 October, 2018, 01:49:57 pm
You can rename Alexa (though not, for some reason, if you have non-Amazon device as I do).

As my wife asked 'why can't it do a man's voice?' Because you wouldn't then believe anything it told you, said I. She at least took a moment to agree.
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Post by: menthel on 01 November, 2018, 12:25:08 pm
Just finishing gestating apparently. I have been worn down by my wife and son into finally getting a dog. Which we will get, despite all those 80s ads to the contrary, just before christmas.

The 8 puppies have finished gestating- we will be visiting them in a few weeks to choose whom will come home with us in December.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 01 November, 2018, 01:47:14 pm
Both hiding and stressed as new people are in their boudoir.
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Post by: hellymedic on 01 November, 2018, 02:08:38 pm
Hopefully enjoying effects of the flea tablets I pushed into their wet food.

I think they swallowed them.

Managed to feed them separately. They usually feed together. Didn't want to overdose Blackie but wanted to get stuff into both cats.

Big Tom has taken to sleeping in our bedroom...
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Post by: T42 on 05 November, 2018, 08:20:30 am
Outgassing. If we lived in the UK they'd be eligible for the Queen's Award for Enterprise.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 05 November, 2018, 06:16:59 pm
Skulking under my bed, freaked out by fireworks.
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 November, 2018, 06:42:15 pm
Both cats are resting in the house.
Fireworks are fairly quiet tonight and the cats do  not seem bothered in any way.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 November, 2018, 08:32:28 pm
Sigh. Cats went out tonight and then a load of fireworks went off. Ninkasi is nowhere to be found....
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Post by: lou boutin on 06 November, 2018, 08:53:29 pm
It's Diwali

I hope that the cats are okay  :'(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 November, 2018, 09:12:56 pm
All present and correct now, thanks :)
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 November, 2018, 09:30:59 pm
It's Diwali

I hope that the cats are okay  :'(

There are certainly more fireworks here today than yesterday.
Cats are sleeping, Big Tom on pedal board, Blackie on half-landing.
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Post by: sojournermike on 06 November, 2018, 11:08:35 pm
Lurcher Annie is lying on the sofa with me, fast asleep or listening to Afro Celt Sound Sustem with her eyes closed - I can’t really tell. Looking for all the world like a gentle and innocent creature. However, we don’t have any small furries...
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 November, 2018, 08:13:23 pm
Detonations almost non-stop/confluent here tonight.
Blackie is asleep on the half-landing.
I don't know Big Tom's location but he spent from midday till 6 in the wardrobe, had a feed and wandered off.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 November, 2018, 08:17:28 pm
Sulking because she didn't get any cheese when I was having cheese for dinner. She tried every vocalisation form woof to growl and whimper and every variation on looking sad and hungry. I don't like begging dogs and she doesn't beg except when I have cheese, she just can't help herself.
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Post by: hellymedic on 08 November, 2018, 06:20:19 pm
Playing the organ!

Big Tom likes resting on the organ's pedal board.

David left the organ switched on...

ETA https://www.facebook.com/dlarditti/videos/1292420054230950/ (https://www.facebook.com/dlarditti/videos/1292420054230950/)
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 November, 2018, 03:18:16 pm
David reports a few traces of a dead mangled pigeon on the lawn.
We know not if the culprit(s) were cat or fox but cats have not been very hungry today.
HA8 has some BIG pigeons.

Big Tom decided our bag of paper for recycling would make a good bed last night.
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 November, 2018, 03:39:02 pm
Probably dreaming of killing something! This morning the kitchen yielded a very pleased-for-herself cat, and two dead mice.  And my wife found a shrew on the lawn. We've been averaging 5 mice a week for the last month.  That's about 2 years worth for the last one.  Not looking forward to the spring....
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Post by: rafletcher on 07 December, 2018, 10:07:00 am
And last night around 21:45 she managed to find a Goldfich to kill. God knows where that was roosting, although we do have a large number frequent the bird feeder (albeit normally in daylight) which is around 6m from her catflap. Oh, and there was a(nother) (dead) shrew in the kitchen this morning
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Post by: essexian on 07 December, 2018, 10:46:21 am
Finally!!!!

Pearl the semi stray queen (totally white) who had some kittens 10 weeks ago today has finally brought them around for us to see and of course, feed!

There are three of them: A totally black one, a mixed black and white one and a pure white one..... yes, we have a new "BMW"  ;D

They are very nervous but ate two pouches of food between them while hiding in the bushes in our front garden. One of them: "W" did try the summer house but found "Lord Rayner" a very old stray tom asleep in there so moved on quickly.

 Quite pleased that they seemed to be fit and healthy. Question is...do we want three more cats (we have already agreed to take on Pearl)? Well.......  ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 December, 2018, 04:40:48 pm
Skulking about. She's in the bad books as after a nice walk for an hour with her friend the cocker spaniel all off lead with loads of running and playing she found a manky old rabbit in the field opposite our house and refused to come back for 3/4 of an hour. Not sure how I can fix this, her recall is pretty good except when she gets a rabbit, everything I read says you need to offer a higher value treat but there is nothing higher value to her than a good smelly old rabbit.
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Post by: PaulF on 07 December, 2018, 06:15:49 pm
Chewing on an antler.
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Post by: ian on 09 December, 2018, 06:44:01 pm
Bad Cat is making a Sonos speaker beep by touching the top with her nose. Well, she was until I got fed up of the beeping and shooed her off.

In other good news, she has learned how to use the cat tree we bought to get access to the top of the wardrobe without having to climb the insides. She can now clamber up and open the doors from the top and step in. She can also clamber down without quite the same thump as a five-kilo bag of spuds being dropped from the ceiling.

In other bad news, she tried this the other day to find her inner sanctum already occupied by LMC. Which meant fifteen minutes of them trying to batter the crap out of each other. By the end they were so knackered they were just lying there and punching each other in the heads.

Oh well, they're about to get 10 days in the same cattery run...
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Post by: T42 on 25 December, 2018, 03:02:32 pm
Just been watching next-door-but-one's collie cross herd chickens in from their meadow and back to the coop. Some of them it even picked up and carried for a bit before dropping and chivvying them home. They must have been raised to it - they didn't get in a flap.  It was great watching it going at a flat run to pick up the odd straggler; the meadow is around 100 yards long.
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Post by: hellymedic on 28 December, 2018, 01:01:57 am
Big Tom was SINGING!

I've never heard him vocalise like this before. David came to the kitchen to investigate the strange sound and spied a ginger cat outside.

Weird!
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Post by: T42 on 28 December, 2018, 11:27:44 am
Just seen a couple of next door's kids knock the ice on their swimming pool with a knuckle then dump their obscenely fat cat on it. Cat very unhappy, but ice held.
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Post by: T42 on 05 January, 2019, 03:19:04 pm
Missus slicing peppers in kitchen. Parrot loves them.

Usual scenario: parrot shrieks for a bit, missus bellows "shut up", bawling duel ensues, parrot eventually gets a bit and shuts up.

Today: parrot shrieks, bellows "shut up" himself, quiets down & makes crunchy noises. Gets a bit immediately.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 January, 2019, 03:58:36 pm
Brilliant :)
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Post by: essexian on 17 January, 2019, 10:12:27 am
Today, I will mostly be being sad as today is the day that two of the four kittens who have been living under a neighbours shed will be moved onto a rehoming centre  :(

So, 16 weeks ago, Pearl a stray had four kittens (we thought there were three but two are identical so we didn't realise there were twins) which we have been feeding for the last four weeks. However, they are now of an age where they could be getting sexually active so having spoken to a number of cat societies, we are having them "done" and then rehomed.

Last evening therefore, I set up a trap to catch them: we borrowed the trap from Cat Protection so it is a safe one. We managed to catch three kittens plus one of our own cats, Jamise and two of our neighbours moggies! The three of them went to the vets this morning and then one will come home with us and the other two off to the centre. I am going to try to trap the last one over the next day and move it on also.

Its quite sad as it has been nice seeing kittens grow up. However, as CBH says, we already have enough cats.....  :-\  :(
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 January, 2019, 12:16:31 pm
We were in a similar position last January, though our lot were still semi-feral.

Sympathies!
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Post by: lou boutin on 17 January, 2019, 09:05:24 pm
It is so hard to let them go, but they will find their forever homes, which is better than living under a shed.

The fact that you not only caught three kittens but one of your own cats and some of the neighbours' cats made me giggle.
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 January, 2019, 09:14:27 pm
Cat Protection initially only managed to catch two kittens, leaving heavily pregnant queen, Blackie and BigTom chez nous.
David managed to catch Queen and CP returned to collect her.

We kept Big Tom and Blackie, who were later trapped and neutered.

Queen had another 6 a few days later.
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Post by: essexian on 17 January, 2019, 09:43:27 pm
It is so hard to let them go, but they will find their forever homes, which is better than living under a shed.

The fact that you not only caught three kittens but one of your own cats and some of the neighbours' cats made me giggle.

It made the vet laugh too!

Well, I am old enough to admit I did cry a little when I handed them over: it was sad to see them go but as you say, they will find a good home. We simply don't have space to take them on unless.....hummm....I wonder if CBH would mind moving into the garage....

Well the kitten we are keeping has now joined her mum in the summer house: its very warm in there so she should be okay. I just hope the last kitten also joins them: they were there earlier when I went out to cycling class.

One final thing, the three who were "done" today were all queens! I am so glad we had them done now as given a couple of weeks, no doubt one of the "intact" Toms we have around here would have had a field day!
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 January, 2019, 11:02:25 pm
No doubt!

Big Tom was humping Blackie for six weeks after they were done.

Blackie would have been around 4 months old.

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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 January, 2019, 08:47:31 am
14lb ginger tabby lump chasing his tail.  Nutter.
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Post by: ian on 18 January, 2019, 06:18:59 pm
Being annoying, as my wife is away. This morning Bad Cat refused to believe her food was her food because she didn't see me put it out. She has to see the food go in the bowl for some reason and she was outside. So, I guess Little Monster Cat got a double helping. Which is fine, as Bad Cat is an effalumpuss and doesn't need the calories and LMC at a mighty 3kg definitely does.

As for last night. One cat on the bed. One cat off the bed. One cat on the bed. One cat off the bed. Because they can't be near each other without a boss-level battle-on. LMC has to sleep on feet, Bad Cat on arms with her head resting on your fist. I don't know why. Because I don't want a sack of catatoes giving me a dead arm she's not getting her way. Which is why I woke this morning to find Bad Cat had clamped her mouth around my hand and was trying to physically pull my arm into a suitable position for monorailing.

Sigh, I have this all weekend. I may go to the local Travelodge.
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 January, 2019, 10:22:52 pm
Big Tom is resting on the floor in the window bay of the lounge, between the wall and the sofa.

We don't yet know if he can escape from this niche...

ETA He escaped from this niche, demanded food and has since left the building.

David's observing the Moon and is likely to get pestered by cats, as is their wont.

There is an Observatory Cats Twitter account I follow.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 January, 2019, 05:27:14 am
Sack of catatoes, lol!
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Post by: ian on 19 January, 2019, 12:44:50 pm
Bad Cat is running around the garage roof trying to catch her nemeses, the magpies. There's two magpies, I'm sure the same pair, that are always in the garden and they know Bad Cat and her useless ways well, so they just tag-team tease her. She wouldn't know what to do if she did manage to catch one of them, other than get pecked. Corvids are a lot smarter than cats.
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 January, 2019, 02:15:34 pm
There's no shortage of magpies here but I don't think our cats go for them.
Pigeons, mice, rats and squirrels are another matter...
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Post by: Kim on 19 January, 2019, 02:18:39 pm
Our n-2th neighbours had a young cat who would get into arguments with the local magpies.  The magpies would invariably win, but I don't think the cat realised that.

ETA: Found a pic of him in debate with being laughed at by a crow.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cats/Photo0136.sized.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 January, 2019, 02:49:48 pm
Pumpkin brought a dead magpie home last year. Likely already suboptimal tho.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 January, 2019, 04:34:09 pm
The Magpies used to tease my childhood cat Tigger. One day one he nearly caught one who responded by doing a pop on him.
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Post by: ian on 19 January, 2019, 09:34:42 pm
They do this thing were one of them will sit on the neighbour's shed roof and wait till Bad Cat charges over there before hopping onto the tree out of reach. The second magpie when then land on the other side of the garage roof. Bad Cat will turn 180 degrees and charge back. Magpie will hop out of reach. The other magpie will land on the shed. Bad Cat will charge. Rinse and repeat.

Then they start getting further apart, so with each turn Bad Cat has to charge a bit further. Magpies have figured out that the defining feature of their felid foe is that they lack stamina, which is a polite way of saying they're lazy little furballs. Eventually, Bad Cat will just end up in the middle of the garden, looking back and forth as the magpies loudly chorus their mockery.

They don't mess with LMC though. That would be suicide as she can accelerate to near c in a fraction of a femtosecond and possesses the sort of claws that would give Wolverine an inferiority complex.
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Post by: Pingu on 19 January, 2019, 11:17:18 pm
You should film that  :)
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Post by: ian on 23 January, 2019, 06:04:48 pm
I'm sure my wife has. That and her sitting on the windowsill making stupid chattering noises as she watches the magpies do their magpieing.

Today she's distributing mud around the house. I've really no idea where she's getting it all from. Well, the garden, obviously. Sigh. More paw prints. I picked her up earlier to give her paws a wipe and she let out a big, stinky fart. In hindsight, I stick to wiping up the paw prints.

LMC, on the other hand, just fell out of bed. Her bed is on the sofa in my remote command centre, I guess she'd nudged it right to the end. And over she goes. Not a happy cat. I'm not laughing just in case she goes off on one and kills me.
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Post by: essexian on 24 January, 2019, 10:36:50 am
Kitten Hunting Day 3....

So, Day three of the great Stafford kitten hunt was underway at 6am this morning, slightly later than yesterday when I got up at 5am to put the trap out and guess what.... the LBK (Little Black Kitten) would rather go hungry than get caught, have his/her bits cut off and be taken to a rehoming centre. Sigh.

I can see him/her sitting in the trees at the end of our garden trying to work out how they can get into the trap, have a feed and get out again without getting caught....the vet is happy to wait until 1pm today for us to bring the kitten in before saying its too late.

I have tried all types of food with no luck. Actually, that reminds me, I've not had any breakfast yet! :facepalm:

Perhaps we do "want" another cat...... :-\
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Post by: menthel on 24 January, 2019, 11:45:34 am
Luna the crazy whippet puppy is currently murdering squeaky squirrels downstairs whilst I work. At least she is currently entertaining herself!
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Post by: ian on 24 January, 2019, 06:37:44 pm
Halfway through an important call, Bad Cat decided the best place to continue her epic struggle for dominance over the fiendish tail was on my desk behind my computer.

There will be some perks to spending a few days a week aboard the orbiting mothership.
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Post by: essexian on 25 January, 2019, 03:24:44 pm
Kitten hunting day 4.

So, up again at 6am to hunt the last stray kitten without any success...it just sits in the garden and laughs at us...not actually laughs, that would be strange and somewhat disturbing, but looks at us in the way only cats can.

So the plan is to try again on Monday...... Tuesday.....Wednesday....Thursday.....
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 January, 2019, 05:31:05 pm
At 1600 today I'd agreed to meet Pingu in Brewdog for a beer.
What I was actually doing was trying to get that naughty Pumpkin from off our roof. No idea how she got up there.
Got a beer, eventually...
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Post by: essexian on 29 January, 2019, 08:57:13 am
Kitten Hunting Day 7.....

"95kg Man 1, 2.5kg Kitten 0 After Extra Time"

So, finally, after many many early mornings and late nights trying, I finally managed to catch LBK the semi feral kitten who had been living under next doors shed. And what a battle it was!

Having discovered that cats learn  quickly that heading into a trap like its three sisters had done is not a good idea (although I caught one of the neighbours cats again just as I had done last week), I needed a new catching method so purchased and fitted a new, lockable cat flap on the summer house; the kitten had been used to sleeping in there overnight with its Mum. However, what I didn't realise was that the kitten didn't know how to use a cat flap and no amount of pushing Mummy cat in and out of it was going to encourage him/her to give it a try (there was a cat flap but the door had broken off it so it was basically just a gap in the wall).

Next idea....large net....nope, that won't work: too many trees in the garden. Drugged food....been watching too many cartoons again. Sigh. Harpoon...... er, now you are just being silly.

In the end I decided to block lockable cat flap with a metal box which no one less than Eddie Hall would be able to move and then load the summer house up with food hoping the kitten would go in where upon I could simply wonder in, and it would put its paws up and say it was a fair cop..... Well part of that went okay: the kitten went into the summer house and I was able to lock the door with it inside. Part 1 done.

Part 2 would be to get into the summer house without the kitten escaping....done! And then...grab the kitten.

This is where things started to go wrong. The last thing the kitten wanted was to be caught and put into a carrier so it put up quite a fight resulting in quite a bit of blood being spilt....my blood. I have six cuts to my right hand and two to my left. The kitten was finally overcome and placed into a large cage where it promptly went mental and started throwing cat litter around!  One feed later it had calmed down a little but was still quite upset.

This morning therefore, LBK went off to the vets to be "done" before going to a rescue/rehoming centre this afternoon. Its poor Mum: "Pearl" has been very listless overnight but I suppose she will get used to it with some TLC and best steak.

Finally...just looked at our brand new lockable cat flap. It is now in four pieces.  We once had a 7kg cat who destroyed a locked cat flap but one which is only 4 months old...blimey....wouldn't like to me this cat down a dark alley!
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Post by: rafletcher on 29 January, 2019, 03:38:44 pm
Well this was Sunday afternoon....

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4880/31950999827_8beb0db1a7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QFpe6n)Phoebe and the cushion (https://flic.kr/p/QFpe6n) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7907/31950999667_e967b167e9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QFpe3B)Phoebe and the cushion (https://flic.kr/p/QFpe3B) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4833/31950999707_dc3598eb92_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QFpe4i)Phoebe and the cushion (https://flic.kr/p/QFpe4i) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2019, 05:04:07 pm
Aw!
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 February, 2019, 01:35:47 am
Playing cats and mouse.
Blackie brought in live mouse.
Played with it a bit.
Big Tom caught it, crunched and swallowed, leaving little behind.
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Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2019, 02:08:17 pm
And now they're both wondering where the mouse went?
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 February, 2019, 02:19:04 pm
Blackie searched for it; Big Tom didn't...
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 February, 2019, 05:11:54 pm
Big Tom was sitting on 'my' bar chair.

I played a YouTube video of miaowing cats which woke him.
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Post by: T42 on 05 February, 2019, 10:17:18 am
Pet is the word and peter is what they are doing, being French dogs. We changed their food to a light variety and they haven't stopped farting since. Got to finish the bag, though. Only 7½ kg to go. <choke><gasp>
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Post by: essexian on 06 February, 2019, 07:36:25 am
Last evening Purrdee the kitten played "stringy" with me in the garden.  ;D :thumbsup:

I know that's not much in the scheme of things but as she isn't really used to human/moggy interactions having been born under a shed, it is a step forward.

Of course being a cat she will allow me to feed her three times a day and is happy to sleep in our heated (a radiator and two electric blanket) summer house but things are done on her terms currently. Her mum Pearl, is happily a member of our pride now.
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Post by: rafletcher on 08 February, 2019, 09:27:09 am
Started this morning with pawing all around her food bowl after she'd eaten most of it, presumably in an effort to bury the remainder. Not that unusual in cats apparently, but none of our previous ones had done it. Then there was the slightly more usual diving under the sheets of newspaper we have just inside the cat flap.  And just now she's trying to hide in the airing cupboard for her daily nap.
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Post by: menthel on 08 February, 2019, 12:51:04 pm
Sat in my office attacking a yak milk chew in her bed whilst the hall floor is mopped. Otherwise the mop would be for it. Whippet puppy craziness.
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Post by: rafletcher on 12 February, 2019, 08:48:21 am
Hiding! She hates the window cleaners, but that usually means only a short period under the bed, but our neighbours are having roofing works done, and for some reason this scares her so much that she spent yesterday in the woods at the bottom of the garden - some 30m away! And she's down there again today.
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Post by: menthel on 13 February, 2019, 04:28:25 pm
Being a general arsehole. Destroying things and pissing on the floor. Anyone want a puppy?
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Post by: T42 on 18 February, 2019, 11:05:06 am
Using the stair-stepper:

(https://pbase.com/image/168832714.jpg)

He's the only one in the house that does.
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Post by: T42 on 18 February, 2019, 11:08:54 am
Being a general arsehole. Destroying things and pissing on the floor. Anyone want a puppy?

Days of horror. We had that with two at once.

One solution:

(https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/122276545.jpg)

Well, not really. But in the midst of the turmoil MrsT made me an outsize Forfar bridie as compensation.
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Post by: menthel on 18 February, 2019, 11:11:55 am
We ended up taking away the puppy pee mats away and since then she has stopped peeing on the floor and obviously can't destroy the mats! I am new to the whole thing and puppies are even more confusing than babies.

I would love my wife to cook me a pastry of some sort to ease the pain but she doesn't do flour... I might get a curry if I am lucky. ;)
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Post by: T42 on 18 February, 2019, 01:10:14 pm
It'll pass, but for a good while I wanted to see the back of our two.

BTW, that kitchen table in my photo there? They ate it.
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 February, 2019, 08:57:37 pm
Tom is sleeping with Henry.
(https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/52170441_1365461393593482_5670989837415481344_o.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=e4e0007825b28798fc68449cc73ced7a&oe=5CF7C715)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 February, 2019, 09:03:32 pm
Ooh belleh.
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Post by: Kim on 19 February, 2019, 09:07:37 pm
That's remarkably relaxed for so close to the Evil Monster That Eats Kittehs.
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 February, 2019, 09:18:10 pm
Well Henry IS asleep...

Behind Tom is the bathroom door and Tom's sleeping in a position he favours most nights.

Getting to the bathroom without bladder or feline mishap is a challenge...
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Post by: spesh on 19 February, 2019, 09:18:46 pm
That's remarkably relaxed for so close to the Evil Monster That Eats Kittehs.

Oblig. dank Dune meme: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_hBqK0XoAACG14.jpg
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 February, 2019, 09:25:52 pm
That's remarkably relaxed for so close to the Evil Monster That Eats Kittehs.

Oblig. dank Dune meme: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_hBqK0XoAACG14.jpg

 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: ian on 25 February, 2019, 11:02:08 am
Bad Cat is looking unwell, not sure what she's been up to. She didn't come down to annoy us yesterday evening or for her food (which is very, very unusual), instead she curled up under the radiator in my wife's office and didn't budge.

She did come and say hello in the night and came down for brekkie this morning and is drinking, but still seems a bit lethargic and is sprawled on the sofa looking a bit sorry for herself. That might be anthropomorphism though, it's not like her sprawling on the sofa for most of the day is a new thing.

Hopefully she'll perk up soon, she's supposed to be in the cattery tomorrow as we off on holiday for a week and my wife is already at an advanced level of fretting about this.
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Post by: menthel on 25 February, 2019, 11:06:57 am
Solid poos! The pup has been moved onto a raw food diet and her bowel issues have basically been cured overnight. She does seem to have even more energy as well, although that may be a less welcome side effect as she already had enough as it was!
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Post by: PaulF on 25 February, 2019, 11:30:24 am
Coming round.

Just been to the vet for a tooth extraction and a clean and polish, I keep telling her to floss but it's worse than teenagers...
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Post by: ian on 25 February, 2019, 01:58:54 pm
Found the remains of a pigeon by the back door, which might explain things. I doubt Bad Cat killed it, she came in covered in mud last night, so it was probably pre-deceased and recovered from the undergrowth and chewed on a bit. Foxes seem to have demolished the rest to leave two wings and a lot of feathers.

She did indulge in a big bad bitey-fight with my hand earlier, so hopefully that means she's feeling better.
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Post by: Flite on 26 February, 2019, 02:53:56 pm
Watching me clean the pump on her water fountain.  First World Problems, Zeppy.
She will now go out and have a drink from the river
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Post by: ian on 26 February, 2019, 04:34:46 pm
Bad Cat is better, which is good. I think overindulgence on overripe dead pigeon might have been to blame.

Alas, off to the cattery they have gone. Bad Cat is easy to catch, once you grab her she goes floppy, LMC goes mental the moment she hears a door close. Because She Knows that's the prelude to a capture. On this occasion (and not for the first time), and with other escape routes closed, she tried to shelter from the evil humans and their nefarious intent by hiding in her cat carrier.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 February, 2019, 05:53:33 pm
Glad Bad Cat is better.
Ninkasi now thinks that if we come home from work at the same time she's going to the cattery and hides behind the sofa, even when she's not.
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Post by: ian on 26 February, 2019, 06:15:04 pm
LMC generally assumes any aberrant behaviour from the humans is a potential Capture Event. Claws? Check. Enhanced squiggleability: engaged. Panic mode: 11.
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Post by: rafletcher on 07 March, 2019, 08:35:01 am
Hiding. For some reason, our last cat was terrified of the window cleaners, and always disappeared when they announced their arrival with the clanging of ladders.  It seems the new one is exactly the same - but with better hearing, so she disappeared outside before my wife heard the window cleaners arrive. A psychic cat!
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 March, 2019, 01:39:30 pm
Taking a definite dislike to Storm Gareth.

Big Tom is usually a hefty plodder, who spends most of his time relaxing in the ambience of our abode.

After a generous breakfast and lengthy post-prandial observation pause on the mat by the cat flap he popped out.

His return was at lightning speed. I've seldom seen him move so fast!

Now idling on the hall carpet.
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Post by: menthel on 12 March, 2019, 08:07:49 pm
Currently having a full on whippet puppy zoomie. Everything that is not nailed down has been stolen and taken back to her bed and the squeaky ball has been squeaked nearly to death. Hopefully she will curl up in the sofa in a minute...
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Post by: fuzzy on 05 April, 2019, 11:49:23 am
Willow is sitting on the arm of the chair waiting for a lapse in my concentration so she can curl up on the laptop keyboard.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 April, 2019, 02:24:08 pm
Mainly Tilly has been snoozing this morning. Four days at the kennels has worn her out. This afternoon she is starting to recover a bit. She likes the kennels but it always tires her out, all that time with other dogs to play with and adjusting and sorting out her place in a temporary pack I think.

She also keeps looking at the place where a beech hedge divided the garden into two (we had landscape gardeners remove it whist she was away) and then looking at us as if to say "see when I'm not here to guard the house people come and steal the hedge !
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Post by: T42 on 15 April, 2019, 10:53:19 am
Erasmus called Raz, the larger chocolate lab, is flaked out flat on the bedroom rug with his bro after a nerve-racking trip to the vet - he hates riding in the car, especially when his bro stays home. Anyway, visit was for chronic bronchitis but the vet suspects a hormonal balance problem, since the muscles above his eyes are wasted. It can be expected to spread to the rest of his muscles, slowly we hope. Should have analysis results this afternoon.
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Post by: T42 on 15 April, 2019, 01:51:59 pm
First results suggest Cushing's syndrome, i.e. overproduction of cortisol due to either a pituitary or adrenal tumour. The tumour is usually benign but the syndrome isn't: with treatment he'll have 30-36 months to live, going on averages. He's already 9 so it's still quite a good innings for a Lab. The way I'm going we might pop our clogs together.

Have to take him in again later this week so that they can do more blood tests.   Good thing we're insured.
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Post by: lou boutin on 15 April, 2019, 03:02:03 pm
sending hugs to you both.
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Post by: essexian on 16 April, 2019, 12:18:48 pm
Sorry to hear that.


Purrdee the kitten is now resting after completing my training this morning. As I overslept she woke me by meowing for food and not stopping until I was up and had provided breakfast.

It only took her six months but I am fully under her control now.  :facepalm:
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Post by: T42 on 17 April, 2019, 04:26:02 pm
Thank-you both.  If it's an adrenal tumour rather than on the pituitary it's operable, otherwise we'll look after him as best as we can. This poor chap has had a bad deal as regards hormones: he's been on thyroxin since 2015. Still, he's happy and we'll try to keep him that way.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 April, 2019, 12:01:53 pm
Having a rest and a sulk. We went to the beach first thing this morning and she had a great run and destroyed a new frisbee (we had forgotten the ball thrower). When we got back it was shower time to get the sand and salt out of her fir which she puts up with bur resents deeply. Hence the sulkiness and tiredness.
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Post by: T42 on 24 April, 2019, 08:41:52 am
Well.  After a day at the vet's yesterday to test his cortisol levels throughout the day, they gave us the good news that the big fella hasn't got Cushing's Syndrome, he's just very excitable and the white-coat effect was pushing his levels up. After a couple of hours there he got used to everyone and everything dropped to normal.

The bad news was the 639€ bill, but we're insured so we get most of it back. That and the copious amount of hair on the back seat of the car: the bugger seems to be moulting.
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 April, 2019, 12:59:17 pm
Cats are outside.

Blackie only ate a few crunchies before heading for the Great Outdoors.
Big Tom had a modest breakfast, spent AGES on the mat by the cat flap the dashed out when he saw a bird.

Got nowhere near the bird thobut.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 02 May, 2019, 11:47:59 am
Phoebe (one of our rats, nominally Miss Dan the Younger's, but a family pet) is having a knife taken to a lump that has suddenly appeared.  :(
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Post by: perpetual dan on 02 May, 2019, 08:42:52 pm
Back home having had a tumour out. Lots of licking her wounds.
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Post by: essexian on 08 May, 2019, 03:37:32 pm
I am currently bed bound due to a trapped nerve and CHB was late to bed so when it was feeding time at our house no one was available to undertake the task. That did not stop Purrdee the kitten who found an open pouch of food and was standing on the closed end forcing food out of the open end when I finally managed to drag by body out of bed.

Excellent I thought. She must have still been hungry still an hour later as I found her with an unopened pouch trying the same trick..... If she ever works out how to do it her next trick will be placing a delivery with tesco thus cutting out the middle man.


Sent from my phone laying down looking at the celling.... Sorry for any spelling mistakes
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 10 May, 2019, 07:55:37 am
I don't know what Bob - our huge white cat with the fish allergy - is doing because we haven't seen him since Tuesday.
I'm trying to retain a bit of optimism, but Mrs M, forever pessimistic, fears the worst, but despite my bravado I fear she's right to be negative.
It's the last thing we need with other family issues crowding in on us as well. But, cats will be cats.
I know cats can and do go walkabout for days, weeks and even months on occasions, but - in a word to the feline world - don't.

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Post by: T42 on 10 May, 2019, 10:17:17 am
We're in for a bout of dog-wrestling tomorrow, heaving Ezra off to the vet.  Poor chap seems to have a bleeding tumour in one of the folds of his face. The dog, that is.  Poor old Raz (brother to Ez) will probably go apeshit (then dog ditto) when left on his own but it needs the two of us there, one to hold him still and one to think rationally.
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Post by: Pingu on 10 May, 2019, 10:42:30 am
I don't know what Bob - our huge white cat with the fish allergy - is doing because we haven't seen him since Tuesday.
I'm trying to retain a bit of optimism, but Mrs M, forever pessimistic, fears the worst, but despite my bravado I fear she's right to be negative.
It's the last thing we need with other family issues crowding in on us as well. But, cats will be cats.
I know cats can and do go walkabout for days, weeks and even months on occasions, but - in a word to the feline world - don't.

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 :(

Have you asked your neighbours to check their outbuildings?
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 10 May, 2019, 03:17:42 pm
I don't know what Bob - our huge white cat with the fish allergy - is doing because we haven't seen him since Tuesday.
I'm trying to retain a bit of optimism, but Mrs M, forever pessimistic, fears the worst, but despite my bravado I fear she's right to be negative.
It's the last thing we need with other family issues crowding in on us as well. But, cats will be cats.
I know cats can and do go walkabout for days, weeks and even months on occasions, but - in a word to the feline world - don't.

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:(
Have you asked your neighbours to check their outbuildings?
Yes, done all the usual and obvious stuff, but to no avail. He's on the local Facebook noticeboard, and the RSPCA sponsored database; we've put a couple of posters up, and leafleted the houses bordering the school playing field next to us.
A few years ago (possibly about 8-9) one of the local cats vanished for a few weeks, and I found it dragging itself up my garden path - it had been shot with an air rifle, and locked in a shed as far as the vet could tell by the state of its claws and feet. Surprisingly that cat is still around. We seem to have had some nasty people in the neighbourhood - I've not heard the air rifle for a couple of years, but.....
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 May, 2019, 07:19:09 pm
Hope he turns up soon, Mike.
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Post by: Feline on 12 May, 2019, 01:00:33 am
I've had my ex-cat Rico go missing for exactly a week once in the heat of the summer from one bin day to the next. He must have got locked in a shed or garage we think. He came come really dehydrated and hungry but made a full recovery.
Hope you have some luck with yours soon Mike.
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 12 May, 2019, 08:19:28 pm
Bob came back!
Mrs M was doing some leafleting and door knocking and we got a 'good confirmed' sighting two streets away. He'd been seen in the bathroom window of a house where the owner had been taken into care, and the children were going in a couple of times a day to check on the house. Subsequently - this morning - he'd been seen in a couple of gardens. We reckon he'd got into the house when it was being checked over, and got out a lot of days later the same way.
We fed him (lots) after he sauntered into our garden. Then we shut him in the house while we went to our son's for the afternoon. By the time we got back, he'd vandalised the cat flap in order to get out, and done a runner!
We assume he'll be back for more food later this evening!
Bl##dy creature!
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 May, 2019, 08:25:14 pm
Pleased he's back!
My cleaning lady is right about cats returning!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 May, 2019, 11:08:32 pm
Cheeky monkey....
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Post by: T42 on 13 May, 2019, 07:57:13 am
Ezra's feeling sorry for himself.  Stitched-up face and a cone on, can't scratch and keeps catching it on doorposts and so forth. Also having trouble peeing, vet suspects prostate tumour & possibly generalized cancer.  Biopsy results in 10+ days. :(

(https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/169182172.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 May, 2019, 09:10:54 pm
Aw, poor thing.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 May, 2019, 07:33:14 pm
Keeping watch out the patio doors for the squirrel that lives in next doors huge yew tree. The squirrel most definitely doesn't have Tilly's permission to be in her garden.
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Post by: T42 on 18 May, 2019, 09:47:34 am
Ezra (see above) worked out how to invert the cone and have a bloody good scratch. Wounds are still clean but stitches have gone.
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 May, 2019, 10:24:48 am
Not now but two days ago. She took her toy out to play with her new best friend. When she hears Archie's bell, she runs to the back door. Even Archie comes running when he sees us coming back from walkies. Sadly Archie isn't so keen on Tilley's play style, he is more into laying on the floor or headbutting. Which just confuses the mutt :)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4-qs2Wc0UwOv2ZQgRqbab-BG1Ezt6LsrF2sxTMzhiKnDKyezlDhzo2EFmYUlgPHjkwM79xzbIKKUUnRimkEFk5XeNoS5HrqPyExRxhtdbe2Gp5izCe5rK1uIog-CRsiOWa1sCbPd1uI=w2400)

This friendship have caused two things. One: that Tilley now loves all cats, which often isn't retaliated, especially from the cat, two streets over, that looks like Archie. Two: The white and ginger cat across the way have now stopped running away when she sees Tilley, still not too happy but the fleeing in a blind panic has become I just sit here in protest ready to run.

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 May, 2019, 02:02:59 pm
Aw.
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Post by: ian on 20 May, 2019, 07:41:19 pm
Bleeding.

Big fight against GGMFC (Giant Grey Monkey Faced Cat) – it's part baboon and a consistent brawler. It's been gone for a while but is now back minus an ear, so I suppose it picked a fight that it couldn't win. I have a super-squirt gun to discourage it from the garden after a spate of it fighting with Little Monster Cat (who is a brawler, but doesn't seem to realise she's 3.5 kg when wet and lacks any teeth).

Alas, Bad Cat is a bit soft. An impressly aimed slipper (I sort of threw it and then pondered that I might well hit the wrong cat given they were at the top of the garden) that scored a direct hit on GGMFC broke things up.

She mostly seems intact other than some missing fur, but her front leg has been either scratched or bitten and there's blood in her fur. It'll take two of us to inspect the damage. I predict a vet's bill.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 May, 2019, 08:09:47 pm
Aw. Give her a wipe down with some saline. Pretty much guaranteed to get infected if it's a bite. Poor kitty.
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Post by: ian on 20 May, 2019, 08:33:45 pm
Yes, we'll clean her up when my wife gets home and see what the damage is. Other than the bloody leg she seems mobile and came out for treats, but is a bit spooked still. I suspect an antibiotic jab will beckon in the morning and I'll be £50 poorer. I also suspect GGMFC was also the culprit that left LMC with some serious lacerations a while back. But cats will be cats. I've primed the water cannon, it can reach the very top of the garden and I'm an effective sniper.
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Post by: ian on 21 May, 2019, 10:33:39 am
Well, the blood doesn't seem to be Bad Cat's, leastways we couldn't find any injuries. I guess she came out tops against GGMFC, which didn't seem likely but I was fortunately in the kitchen when it kicked off so intervened quickly with the laser-guided slipper from the kitchen door. I don't fancy Bad Cat's chances for all fifteen rounds. Her usual fighting strategy against LMC is to lie on her back, legs akimbo, making pitiful yowling noises as LMC savages her exposed belly. Considering the lack of teeth involved, I don't think it's worthy of the yowling.
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 May, 2019, 09:44:10 pm
David says Big Tom has been singing to Luna.

Big Tom has sung quite a lot lately.

Luna is a shy feral stray who hungrily gobbles our cats' leftovers.

Our cats seem to be eschewing their Felix.
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Post by: T42 on 25 May, 2019, 09:29:40 am
Ezra's feeling sorry for himself.  Stitched-up face and a cone on, can't scratch and keeps catching it on doorposts and so forth. Also having trouble peeing, vet suspects prostate tumour & possibly generalized cancer.  Biopsy results in 10+ days. :(

(https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/169182172.jpg)

Two weeks on, took the wee fellow off to the vet to have the stitches removed.  All good news: wounds healing well, facial tumours were benign and probably due to his brother hauling him about by the face (the Mr. Waverly folds* make convenient handles). So much for their saliva having curative properties.

All home and happy now.

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Post by: PaulF on 25 May, 2019, 09:54:27 am
Being anxious; we’re going away for the night and she’s worried she’ll be left behind.
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Post by: essexian on 25 May, 2019, 01:09:39 pm
I've just been trimming the bushes in the front paddock and had sufficient cuttings to take to the skip....sorry, recycling centre.... so I filled the car up and off I went only to stop a mile from home, turned around, drive back and then remove Jamise the cat from under the back seat..... he had climbed in the car when I was loading it and hidden away. I only found him when I heard his meowing!  :facepalm:

I know he is old but he isn't ready for recycling just yet!
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Post by: SteveC on 29 May, 2019, 06:48:02 pm
Sitting on my lap with his head on my left arm, fast asleep.
There are two things wrong with this: it's not comfortable as I'm on the computer chair; and it's not our cat!
He's a neighbour from two doors down who has decided he owns every house on the estate. Very friendly and incredibly fit and active for 16.
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Post by: essexian on 30 May, 2019, 02:33:29 pm
Purrdee the kitten just tried a worm for taste.....

She didn't like it one bit!

Back to eating flies with her....must get her onto cat food one day!
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Post by: hellymedic on 30 May, 2019, 04:38:29 pm
Blackie woke us with miaowing and seems to have painted most of our carpets and a duvet cover with the sticky black mineral oil on her tail. We've not seen her since and she has not been fed.

David is worried that the oil might have harmed her.
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Post by: rafletcher on 30 May, 2019, 04:43:38 pm
Probably miaowing pitifully as she's driven home from the cattery. It'll be interesting to see what she does when she gets out of her carrier here!
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Post by: T42 on 30 May, 2019, 05:17:57 pm
Telling me I need to get off the computer & go downstairs.
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Post by: PaulF on 30 May, 2019, 05:36:02 pm
Back from the groomers so rolling on the grass to get rid of the itchy hairs and scrounging for food
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Post by: hellymedic on 30 May, 2019, 10:36:31 pm
Still not seen Blackie.
David is distraught.
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Post by: hellymedic on 31 May, 2019, 04:50:15 pm
Blackie returned in the small hours, oilier than before.

She's back again now.

Being ex-feral, she doesn't like much contact and is shunning David's attempts to clean her.

Blackie is very long-haired and her fur is really matted.

How do you clean an oily cat?

We're trying to brush her with vegetable oil as she really didn't like the cat wipes.
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Post by: spesh on 31 May, 2019, 05:15:29 pm
Blackie returned in the small hours, oilier than before.

She's back again now.

Being ex-feral, she doesn't like much contact and is shunning David's attempts to clean her.

Blackie is very long-haired and her fur is really matted.

How do you clean an oily cat?

We're trying to brush her with vegetable oil as she really didn't like the cat wipes.

ISTR that there was, quite some time ago, a thread on cleaning cats...

<flexes forum search-fu and is mildly surprised to find the thread in question on the first pass>

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=51485.0

Welder's gloves and plate armour are strongly recommended. I wouldn't suggest taking anything that Andrij or I posted in the thread too seriously though.  :demon:

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Post by: hellymedic on 02 June, 2019, 12:52:57 pm
David made further attempts to clean Blackie, first with sunflower oil and the with cat shampoo  and water, which only served to cause her to march out in disgust.
We've not seen Blackie since Friday night and are concerned.
Big Tom is drinking much more than he did this time last year; hope he's not developing diabetes.
Big Tom sang again to Luna last night.
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 June, 2019, 01:31:36 pm
I've seen Blackie in the garden but she's not tried to come inside.

Big Tom has taken my usual seat and is resting there.

Again
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Post by: ian on 03 June, 2019, 10:25:47 am
Cats take bathshyness to the extreme. LMC got all oily when she ran off (because collar of shame) and got wedged under parked car (because collar of shame). There's no way anyone can clean her, she's mental, even the vet and two nurses generally can't hold her (they admitted defeat when she pooed down the vet's front). Just to look in her mouth requires a general anaesthetic. It probably wasn't good for, but other than a few stealth wipes with a damp, soapy kitchen towel, we left her to it.

Bad Cat is easier. She yowls and complains, but can be held and cleaned, she pretty much doesn't scratch or bite, just makes her displeasure with the indignity known at some volume. We've never tried (or needed to) bath her, but it's theoretically possible.

Cat water drinking varies, and depends how much they're getting from sundry dank puddles outside. LMC likes puddles and foetid water. Bad Cat only deigns to drink fresh water from the tap.
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Post by: hellymedic on 03 June, 2019, 01:43:10 pm
Blackie returned yesterday afternoon, miaowing a lot but seemed exhausted. She appeared less bedraggled and fed well, after which she went upstairs for a rest of several hours. She allows David to brush her with sunflower oil but shuns E45 lotion.
She's disappeared this morning.
As has Big Tom.

I suspect they'll be back for eats later, will the little stray.

Little stray gobbles ALL she is offered, unlike our spoilt cats!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 June, 2019, 02:16:41 pm
She was keeping guard at the patio doors in case of garden invasion by her mortal enemies the dreaded squirrels. Has now fallen over and gone to sleep instead. I expect the squirrels will be pulling faces at her through the glass any second now.
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Post by: menthel on 03 June, 2019, 02:55:15 pm
Probably having doggie nightmares about stag beetles. A HOOOOOOOOGE one turned up in the garden and she spent a good 20 minutes jumping 3 feet in the air and barking at it before running away to hide on the sofa.
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 June, 2019, 03:49:34 pm
Blackie has not been seen since Monday.
She was still heavily oiled then.
We are worried.
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Post by: ian on 05 June, 2019, 04:22:33 pm
Bad Cat barfed on the bed. Double points for doing it while I was in the bed sleeping. Triple for sheer volume. Quadruple for doing so at 5.42 am. I hereby appoint you Lady Barfolomew for services to my sense of profound disgust.

Then when I got home I found something dug up my veg. I didn't see this happen, but Bad Cat has form.

LMC on the other hand just sits outside waiting for my wife to come back. Cat, she's been gone a week.
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 June, 2019, 02:45:59 pm
Still no sign of Blackie  :(

David thinks she's dead.  :'(
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Post by: essexian on 06 June, 2019, 02:54:34 pm
Still no sign of Blackie  :(

David thinks she's dead.  :'(

I do hope not.

Cats can bounce back when you least expect it. Take "Albert" as an example. Albert is a very old cat who seemed almost completely blind: he would walk into things, but found his way to our door most evenings for a free meal. Well, just after Christmas he stopped coming around so we figured he end had arrived.

However, come Sunday evening last I was locking up our security gates when who was sitting there waiting for tea? Yes, Albert.  He looked as he had five months earlier and ate a whole meal as normal. We haven't seen him since.

Cats, especially ones with a large range can go missing for ages. We have another cat who uses our house (he is currently asleep in the shed) "Eric" who often doesn't come around for weeks, where as other times he doesn't move from the garden.

I would like to say I know things will be okay but that would be wrong of me. Instead, I hope everything turns out well and the moggy returns.

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Post by: ian on 06 June, 2019, 03:07:50 pm
It might just be an extended sulk over the entire cleaning incident. Cats can harbour a grudge for precisely as long as alternative sources of food are available.

We kidnapped out first cat (Lamb Chop) from Shepherd's Bush (she was a stray we found under the steps, gradually moved in with us, but wasn't quite ready for the leap to SE London) she sulked under a bed for five entire days. Didn't emerge once. Weirdly she didn't even pee or poop under there. Just sat there, scrunched up and unresponsive. A week later, happy as pie discovering her own garden.
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Post by: Kim on 06 June, 2019, 03:09:27 pm
It might just be an extended sulk over the entire cleaning incident.

Would be my guess.  Fingers crossed.
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 June, 2019, 06:39:40 pm
Thanks all!

Blackie has been away for longer, in much harsher times.

She was away for 6 days in the Beast from the East, a mere fortnight after she was spayed, as a big kitten last year.

She's skinny but a good size now and an adept hunter. There's no bell to scare potential prey, though she does smell of the oil.

I just hope the oil hasn't poisoned her.

The garden and those adjoining have a plentiful supply of rodents and birds.
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 June, 2019, 10:08:51 pm
In the mean time, a little local stray we call Luna is visiting every evening and getting less shy. Big Tom is still very much a feature and tends to spend much time indoors, mostly resting.
But David is very upset about Blackie's absence.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 June, 2019, 04:46:46 pm
It might just be an extended sulk over the entire cleaning incident.

Would be my guess.  Fingers crossed.

Teh Kim is right!

Again!

Blackie returned at 16.00, miaowing and shaking her legs.

David fed her and she seemed to eat quite a lot.

She's hardly letting David touch her and though he thought we ought to have taken her to a vet earlier in the week, he doesn't seem to want to catch and incarcerate her now as he understandably doesn't want to stress her.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 June, 2019, 07:00:34 pm
Blackie is resting on the carpet in the lounge.
Big Tom is resting in the lounge, having faced off Little Feral when we offered food to him.
Little Feral was last seen cowering behind the bins. David says his mangy nose seems better since we laced his food with FleaClear.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 June, 2019, 07:48:21 pm
Glad she's back.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 June, 2019, 08:14:23 pm
Thanks! I've arranged a vet for Sunday, as this is the earliest David and his friend can take her. It's over a week now since she got oiled.
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Post by: ian on 07 June, 2019, 08:49:34 pm
The good thing about letting the vet do it is that the cat will blame them for everything that happens. It's also the vet who has extract cat poo from her cleavage.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 June, 2019, 10:02:10 pm
Any sensible vet will hand it over to a team of plucky vet nurses....
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Post by: hellymedic on 08 June, 2019, 12:18:04 am
GN: Blackie seems subdued but settles into her usual resting places. She seems to be feeding well.
There's much less oily black fur than before.

BN: She seems to have pulled of lots of contaminated fur, leaving pink, bald, exposed skin. I suspect this is tender.
She's unlikely to get cold if we keep her under house arrest.
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Post by: Kim on 08 June, 2019, 12:21:57 am
Any sensible vet will hand it over to a team of plucky vet nurses....

And some vets have magical powers, causing ordinarily pissed off cats to immediately become their best friend.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 08 June, 2019, 12:45:42 am
In the mean time, a little local stray we call Luna is visiting every evening and getting less shy. Big Tom is still very much a feature and tends to spend much time indoors, mostly resting.
But David is very upset about Blackie's absence.

Luna is my girl cats name therefore no other forum cats maybe called luna.

Boy cat and girl cat have both learnt that crying will bring the hoomans to come and see what is going on.  Boy cat cries as his sister is sitting where boy cat wants to sit. Girl cat cries, then brings a toy to you, as she wants to play.  Bot cat cries as he wants to nap close by or touching you.

Currently on the end on the bed, lightly snoring.
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Post by: essexian on 08 June, 2019, 06:02:52 am
Glad Blackie has returned  :thumbsup:

Right, a quick round up of our moggies....

Pearl is currently sitting on my desk looking for food/attention, Pixie is cleaning herself in her basket after being out in the rain for a while, Whinger the Ginger (not our cat) is asleep in front of the fire (not on...he doesn't seem to mind), Jamise is asleep on the back of the chest of draws in CBH's dressing room, Quinton (not our cat) is asleep in his basket in the same room, Posie having been out for some time is trying to get into bed with CBH to dry off, Eric the stray is in the shed, while Purrdee the kitten lost the battle of the shoe rack earlier to Jamise so is now asleep in the summer house.

Not sure where His Lordship, Lord Rayner (not our cat) is, but he will be around when I get the food out later.

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Post by: hellymedic on 08 June, 2019, 02:04:51 pm
We arranged for Blackie to see a vet tomorrow and tried to keep he indoors.
There was some offensive business in the litter tray, which David took outside.
Both cats were scratching at the closed cat flap when David returned.
They escaped when he let himself back inside, despite his best efforts.
Blackie is sitting on the flower bed in the middle of the garden; she does not seem unhappy.
David is fretting about having let the cats out.
I can't see Big Tom right now but he was chasing bugs in the garden with Blackie earlier.
[ETA] Camouflage Cat is lounging next to Blackie on the bare soil of the flower bed.
I reckon we'll still capture Blackie in time for her vet's appointment.
Anyway, she seems OK to me: settled, doing catty things, eating and resting, with little sign of distress.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 June, 2019, 03:20:01 pm
She'll probably be more distressed if you keep her in if she's used to coming and going as she pleases
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Post by: hellymedic on 08 June, 2019, 04:25:43 pm
Indeed, but we need to catch her to take her to the vet, which might be a challenge!

Big Tom has migrated to 'my' chair in the kitchen.

Blackie was still in the garden when I last looked.

I think she's scared of coming in.

'Frozen watchfulness' is a term used to describe the facial expression of abused kids; I think Blackie is displaying this, though WE haven't abused her.

ETA Big Tom has gone out and joined Blackie in the garden; he seems to be very kind to her right now, which is good when she won't let us.
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Post by: hellymedic on 08 June, 2019, 08:16:07 pm
Having spent all all afternoon resting in the garden, both cats returned a 8pm.

Blackie is looking much less bedraggled and is starting to regain her fluffy appearance, which considerably belies her size.

They were feeding contently. Big Tom has escaped; I didn't realise David must have opened the cat flap.
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 June, 2019, 03:51:37 pm
Blackie is at the vets, with David and our friend Marie-Louise, the cat whisperer.

She doe snot like the cat carrier!

I am awaiting news/return/a big bill...
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 June, 2019, 04:51:54 pm
They're back!
Unable to fully clean her.
Normal bloods.
Charcoal tablets.
Cone of Shame too large to allow her to feed and scaring her witless.
Big Bill.

We've removed cone of shame and she's calmer. Cone was applied to stop her ingesting any more oil from deep in her fur. My reasoning is that she won't eat a lot more oil after 10 days and she seems unharmed thus far, it's unlikely to harm her now and she needs to run free.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 June, 2019, 05:17:58 pm
What did they try cleaning her with?
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 June, 2019, 06:25:35 pm
I don't know; I wasn't there.
I think I would have used Swarfega, followed by LOTS of hot water if I'd had a posse of handlers. I doubt they would have tried anything as powerful.
Having removed (or attempted) bike chain oil from clothing and self, I think I have some experience of Oily Gunk.

Vet admittedly had none.

She's prescribed omeprazole capsules and charcoal tablets.

I can't see how a tiny bit of charcoal would make much difference to the substantial oiling though I can see it impairing the absorption of the omeprazole...
...whichI can't see as of any benefit here, really.

Am I cynical?
Who am I to judge a vet?
Methinks Blackie will be fine and the clag will eventually grow out or get groomed away/washed in the rain; Two days on charcoal and omeprazole >10 days after the event are unlikely to do anything.
IMHO
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Post by: Kim on 09 June, 2019, 07:30:58 pm
I don't know; I wasn't there.
I think I would have used Swarfega, followed by LOTS of hot water if I'd had a posse of handlers. I doubt they would have tried anything as powerful.

Indeed.  Swarfega, some vegetable-based oil as a solvent, or if that didn't work, trimming fur.  All assuming a sufficiently compliant cat.  Not worth sedation or anaesthesia to get the gunk off at this point, and you probably don't want to feed them swarfega.


Quote
Am I cynical?
Who am I to judge a vet?

On the gripping hand, they probably have quite a lot of experience of critters that have managed to cover themselves in oil, paint, etc.
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 June, 2019, 07:38:02 pm
Actually, David said vet had NO experience of an oiled cat.

We had tried vegetable oil earlier.

I have a LOT of experience with oiled hoomins and clothes.

We think my late grandmother's charcoal tablets prevented her getting digitoxicity so me know charcoal tablets too.

I are an arrogant retired cycling medic!
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Post by: Kim on 09 June, 2019, 07:44:45 pm
Actually, David said vet had NO experience of an oiled cat.

Interesting.  I suppose if it's a typical pet cat, the owner's going to have more luck washing it than the vet will.  But it's not like they aren't habitual sitters under cars.  (Maybe modern cars are less leaky than they used to be?)

Charcoal and PPIs is presumably the catch-all solution to "I think my dog ate some X".
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 June, 2019, 07:55:00 pm
Charcoal and PPIs is presumably the catch-all solution to "I think my dog ate some X".

Indeed but homeopathic doses 11 days post-event, given dose size impress me not.

We gave HYOOGE amounts of charcoal for some poisonings where ingestion was in milligram quantities.
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Post by: ian on 10 June, 2019, 10:36:32 am
I'm surprised they didn't just get the clippers out and give the cat a number 1, that's the usual response to manky fur. It grows back after a long period of hilarity.

Vets, like doctors, I presume subscribe to the must appear to do something school. It worse at the vets because you get a big bill.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 June, 2019, 12:24:58 pm
I'm grateful they didn't opt for the No 1: it would have left her very cold, even in this weather. It took months for her to have a reasonable coat in the place they shaved when she was spayed. (I presume that was a diathermy electrode contact patch as it was nowhere near any scar or lady bits.)

She's quiet but has had a fair breakfast. I've not attempted any medicines as:
ICnBA
She dines and shares food with Big Tom
I want her to eat well and she'd probably eschew anything strange, as she has with flea tablets.
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Post by: Kim on 10 June, 2019, 12:27:15 pm
Yeahbut cats are experts at finding sources of warm.  Recently parked cars, for example...
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Post by: ian on 10 June, 2019, 01:00:24 pm
When LMC managed to mysteriously slice open her underside (we presumed she tried to wriggle over something sharp), they shaved basically the entire bottom half. When Bad Cat attempted to fly from the balcony into a tree next door and tore open her leg, that shaved that completely and a good half of her rear end. It took three entire days to stop laughing. It was really only a re-reading of the vet's bill that restored sobriety.

Never got either cat to wear a cone of shame. Bad Cat fell down stairs backwards trying to pull it off. Then got stuck dangling between sofa back and window sill. All in the space of two minutes.

And LMC got herself wedged under a car.

More trouble than they're worth.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 June, 2019, 02:23:17 pm
So the RSPCA won't do me for Cone of Shame removal?
That's a relief!

Blackie seems calm, plays with her Dreamies mouse, feeds OK and follows David round the house, as she's been wont to do.

I don't profess to be a cat expert but that seems OK to me.

She has not seemed to want to go outside today but it's raining and I wouldn't want to go outside either.
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Post by: SteveC on 10 June, 2019, 02:51:15 pm
I always say a thank-you for the NHS whenever I visit the vet.
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Post by: ian on 10 June, 2019, 04:40:41 pm
Unless they're licking and biting their injuries or otherwise likely to harm themselves, I wouldn't bother with the shame cone (and if the oil hasn't done him any harm by now). It was just stressing ours out – they've never worn collars (our last cat did, though the mean half-life of any collar was measured in minutes). LMC went mental which is why I had to extract her from under a car. Bad Cat would have killed herself.

As for vets, I think it's fifty-fifty whether they're better than your GP. My gf at university was a vet student. She once tried to resuscitate a friend's budgie with a mask. It was a good fit over the entire bird. I did wait until it was declared dead before I pointed out a label on the tank that read 'nitrous oxide.'

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Post by: Ham on 10 June, 2019, 06:14:44 pm
Ours? Smirking having Unlocked Achievement #1 - convincing both Mrs Ham & me that she hadn't been fed. Separately.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 June, 2019, 06:16:04 pm
Both cats have spent much of the day resting on the spare bed in David's study.

David said they were having a duvet day.

Which is fine.
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Post by: SteveC on 10 June, 2019, 06:54:31 pm
If your weather has been anything like ours today, that would be very sensible behaviour for a cat.
Our loan cat was asleep on our spare bed all afternoon.  When he finally woke up and went to the back door, he wasn't impressed with the weather at all, but MrsC decided it was time to go home, so he had no choice.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 June, 2019, 07:26:13 pm
It has been wet, wet, wet here and a duvet day would not just seem wise for cats.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 June, 2019, 07:29:03 pm
I'm surprised they didn't just get the clippers out and give the cat a number 1, that's the usual response to manky fur. It grows back after a long period of hilarity.

Vets, like doctors, I presume subscribe to the must appear to do something school. It worse at the vets because you get a big bill.

David says the vet decided against a shave because the contamination was deeply ingrained close to the skin and might not be removed by shaving.
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Post by: ian on 10 June, 2019, 07:56:34 pm
Only recently appeared.

My wife was worried because LMC didn't come down for breakfast this morning. There were signs of cats through. The Bad Cat-sized intensely olfactory present left in the litter tray, the small pile of Bad Cat regurgitated food on the stairs, for instance. And the suspiciously Bad Cat-shaped bulge under the quilt on the bed in the guest room.

It seems that LMC had annexed Bad Cat's top-of-the-wardrobe penthouse suite thus causing much disruption in the feline force.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 June, 2019, 08:19:10 pm
 ;D ;D ;D

It seems they usurp each others' favoured perches sometimes...
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Post by: ian on 10 June, 2019, 08:59:46 pm
Bad Cat has traditionally opted for the high ground, she's a climber, and generally that keeps her safe from stealthy LMC ninja attacks. What Bad Cat discounts is that it's not an inability to climb that keeps LMC on the ground, it's just the motivation. And also the fact that Bad Cat initiates 95% of the fights.
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Post by: essexian on 11 June, 2019, 04:17:27 am
As you may know, we have two pure white cats: Pearl and Purrdee with Pearl being the kittens mum. Its quite easy to tell them apart as Pearl is shorter and fatter than her daughter. Purrdee has also not quite grown into her tail yet as its very long for her body size!

Anyway, as we understand it, Pearl was abandoned when less than a year old while with kitten. Thankfully we have a wonderful postman who took the kittens in and rehoused them. According to the Postie, there were a couple of pure white kittens one which he kept as it was disabled while the other went to a house a street away.


Why am I telling you this..... well we believe the white kitten from Pearls first litter came to call yesterday morning before the rain as we had three white cats in the garden. This moggy is quite small and very shy but seemed interested in having a sniff around. Pearl ignored it while Purrdee wanted to play.


I have been told under no circumstances am I to try to get to know it.....it seems feeding 11 of them yesterday is sufficient according to CBH.....who knew  ;D
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 June, 2019, 01:54:31 pm
Blackie brought in a dead male juvenile rat last night; I don't think she's sick!
Big Tom is resting on the doormat having yowled at Luna, who appeared outside the door.

Our friend advises us not to encourage Luna's visits as she fears this could cause hostility between Big Tom and Blackie.
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Post by: ian on 12 June, 2019, 08:30:38 pm
Arrived home from the mothership. Miaow miaow. Fed Bad Cat her treats, because I'm sure I'm not the object of her affections. Do I get thanks? No. Immediately another litter tray bombing. She cannot be normal inside. Nothing should be able to make a smell like that. Holy demonic chocolate, Batman.

I'll be so glad when it stops raining and she can resume digging up the geraniums and making my wife angry.
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 June, 2019, 08:38:46 pm
Blackie's almost back to normal following her oiling. She's removed most of the oil, except under the chin but still seems less fluffy than hitherto. She's letting David stroke her, which she didn't when she was at her oiliest, or after the Trip to the Evil Vet.
She's tucking into Felix right now.

Big Tom is on the doormat, probably trying to head Luna off, as David just fed him outside.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 June, 2019, 10:24:34 pm
Tilly is lolling about happily because cheese.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 June, 2019, 03:35:07 pm
Earlier, she was getting her bleeding nose leather wiped with salty water having been making a nuisance of herself with one of the few neighbouring cats that actually minds it's own business.
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Post by: ian on 18 June, 2019, 10:04:20 am
Magpie reinforcements have arrived. Last night, in response to an almighty clattering and squawking, I found Bad Cat sitting on the window sill, trying to bash a magpie perched on the other side of the glass. The magpie just stared back impassively. Come outside and try it, fluffball. There were another five outside.

With all the squawking I eventually had to go outside and talk to them. Firstly, I have a non-aggression pact with The Grand Council of Crows, negotiated some years ago atop Hilly Fields. They're not allowed to peck my head, and I'm not allowed to chase them with sticks for doing so. Magpies, as fellow corvids, are bound to this treaty as they're signatories to the Grand Council's accords. Yes, yes, they don't like this, and they may protest, but that's the treaty. And absolutely no one breaks a treaty with crows. I explain all this and they claim that, as non-humans and 'stupid furballs', our cats are not covered by any treaty despite the treaty clearly stating that it covers 'family and friends.' So now have to get the Grand Council involved, which is a palaver because you can't just turn up in the hope they'll see you, and it's not like they're on the internet. Well, they might have a WhatsApp group.

Bloody cat. I should make her negotiate her own treaty. I would, were it not for the fact that she can't talk.
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Post by: ian on 18 June, 2019, 09:47:56 pm
The magpies won't budge on the interpretation of the treaty. No furballs, they insist. More so, they claim Bad Cat started it, which I can believe. I'd have minded less having this discussion at 5.30am. Now I have to take this to the Rookery of Appeals, and hope the rooks are more minded to a liberal interpretation than magpies.
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Post by: essexian on 19 June, 2019, 06:07:00 am
Purrdee the kitten is continuing her training of us by meowing in the hallway at 5am until I woke and fed her.

Ever thought cats were in control..... :facepalm:
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Post by: woollypigs on 19 June, 2019, 08:45:10 am
We got serenaded at 1am but to local fur balls, I can see (well hear) why we haven't added cats to a symphonic orchestra
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 June, 2019, 01:20:59 pm
Our kitchen is the scene of a silent stalemate standoff between the cats.

Luna is outside awaiting food but I cannot feed him and he hasn't yet mastered the cat flap.

Big Tom is on my bar chair, occasionally staring at Luna though the glass door but CBA to move.

Blackie is probably in the lounge; she's had little of the food I've put out. Big Tom seems to inhibit her appetite.

David is upstairs.

Dynamics will change when he descends.
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Post by: SteveC on 22 June, 2019, 01:28:25 pm
The neighbours' cat who comes to visit has been missing for a couple of days. His humans are obviously worried, more so because they're going away today.
This lunchtime, we came back from a shopping trip to discover said cat, locked into our other car, which hasn't been used since Thursday. I'd left the tailgate open after coming home from work to allow a smell to dissipate, and he must have got in then.
He's had some water, a small amout of chicken (we have a policy not to feed him, but this seemed an exception) and is now having a wash sitting on the sofa next to MrsC. He seems perfectly fine despite his incarceration.
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 June, 2019, 02:39:09 pm
Incarcerated cats seem to do fine IME. Our Blackie has been inadvertently shut inside our downstairs loo or David's observatory without harm.
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Post by: SteveC on 22 June, 2019, 02:58:19 pm
Probably just as well we found him when we did, though. The car will now be in full sun under a carport. It gets pretty hot in there and he's not a young cat.
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 June, 2019, 03:49:11 pm
Indeed. Can't imagine your neighbours will complain you have fed, watered and cleaned.

Our lot have dispersed. David is planting tomatoes in the garden and Big Tom is sitting by David; as tomatoes are toxic to cats, it must be David that Big Tom likes!
Luna fed when David gave him the other cats' leftovers, licking the dish clean, as always.
Not sure about Blackie...
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Post by: essexian on 22 June, 2019, 05:20:23 pm
We are wondering whether we need to be concerned about Posie....

To explain, to reduce the pain from my bad foot I have been sticking it in a bowl of iced water. The coming back from the loo I noted our senior queen drinking out of the bowl....

Knowing my trotters I do wonder whether that's either brave or stupid.
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 June, 2019, 10:46:26 pm
Given that cats drink from dirty puddles (often in preference to Nice Clean Bowls) I would not be bothered.
Not One Bit.

Chez nous, Big Tom has just left via the Extra-Large cat flap, which seems to be getting rather tight. He is yowling, so Luna is probably nearby.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 June, 2019, 04:35:12 pm
Desperately trying to find a way to get up to the bird box that's hosting a wasp nest
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Post by: ian on 25 June, 2019, 12:18:38 pm
Ah well, all the way up the Supreme Court of Ravens. No go on the treaty for cats, lifelong enmity between corvids and, I quote, 'intensely stupid furballs.' While I can't quibble with their definition, it's a pain in the backside. Or rather ears. The cats insist on sitting outside, the magpies keep flapping around to tease them and then retreating to a safe distance to squawk the 'stupid little furball' song, which by my count has 82 verses now.
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Post by: menthel on 25 June, 2019, 01:19:03 pm
Uninstalling the stairs carpet. Unhelpful.
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Post by: hellymedic on 25 June, 2019, 01:47:54 pm
Our carpets have been pretty hardy to feline attack, which is a mercy. The kitchen is the only uncarpeted room.
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Post by: Kim on 25 June, 2019, 02:04:43 pm
My parents kept an off-cut of their living room carpet in front of the fireplace, because coal dust.  It turned out to work as a sacrificial anode for cat attack, and I recommend this approach to any cat owner having new carpets fitted.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 25 June, 2019, 03:54:05 pm
Boy cat likes to sleep on the bed wrapped around my arm.  He meows till he gets his way. He is asleep with the occasional snore
(https://i.imgur.com/5nG56jN.jpg)

Arm is moved, as I have to go elsewhere
(https://i.imgur.com/BRc8BFj.jpg)
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Post by: hellymedic on 25 June, 2019, 03:56:31 pm
We have a strip of carpet, which Pets At Home named and sold as a Cat Scratching Thing.

It hangs in the kitchen by the towels.

Blackie may have scratched it a little while she was a kitten.

The cats have ignored it for the past year.
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Post by: Kim on 25 June, 2019, 06:12:10 pm
We have a strip of carpet, which Pets At Home named and sold as a Cat Scratching Thing.

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The cats have ignored it for the past year.

Entirely normal for Things Purchased For Cats To Use :)
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Post by: Gattopardo on 25 June, 2019, 06:57:36 pm
The two like, the scratching cardboard things, the scratch posts, the sofa, one kitchen chair, oh and curtains.

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Post by: ian on 26 June, 2019, 10:07:45 am
Bad Cat has to have the arm. She likes to rest her chin on a hand. That's the bestest of the best.

LMC bought in two mice last night. The first one was a big un. The second, smaller. Because she doesn't have teeth, they're pretty lively. Big un tried to leap a strategically placed bag and I grabbed it mid-air which even my wife was forced to confess was 'awesome.' I wish someone had filmed that. I can't normally catch a ball. Really I can't, one of my eyes wanders off and I have the distance perception of a turbot. I got the little one by the tail. I'm really quite good at mouse-catching.

The astounding thing is that I took the mice outside and deposited them in a dim and distant part of the garden. Neither cat saw me do this. On both occasions, LMC ran straight out to the exact (and different) spots I'd released the mice. At least the mice were bright enough to scarper before another bout of gumming and capture.
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Post by: essexian on 26 June, 2019, 02:00:24 pm
YUK Purrdee the kitten, YUK!

So far today our kitten has had two breakfasts and a light lunch. All good, she is growing well (indeed she is taller than her Mum). However, not really sure if she should have eaten what Posie threw up a few minutes earlier.

YUK! :sick:
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Post by: spesh on 26 June, 2019, 02:23:28 pm
Compared withe puking. peeing, pooping, murderdeathkilling, furniture and furnishings shredding reality, the cute kittehs and LOLcatz ov teh interwebs are definitely a breach of advertising standards. ;D
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Post by: hellymedic on 26 June, 2019, 06:23:05 pm
We have not seen Luna mastering the cat flap, but dishes of cat food left overnight seem to have been licked totally clean, something our spoilt pair don't do.
The place pongs of cat pee.

Cat protection said they'd phone to arrange for TNR of Luna.

They have not phoned when our phones are connected.

I've not seen Luna at all today.

Big Tom joined us in bed this morning.

David is happy about this.

I am NOT!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 June, 2019, 09:57:12 pm
Tilly is squeaking the squeaky rabbit happily after just consuming half a beefburger with melted cheese on top I had saved her from the BBQ we had the other day. Beef and cheese! Its the best dog treat ever from her reaction.
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Post by: andrewc on 26 June, 2019, 10:10:08 pm
A couple of most excellent cat Tweets.


https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/1142912922378735617


https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/1142145633102508033
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Post by: menthel on 27 June, 2019, 12:30:37 pm
Having to be carried back indoors because there is a stag beetle between her and the door. Silly puppy!
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Post by: T42 on 27 June, 2019, 01:45:17 pm
Raz, the bigger Lab, is lying with his face about a foot from a fan going full blast, while his bro Ezra is lying some distance back looking disdainfully at his wimpiness.  It's only 28°, FFS.
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Post by: rafletcher on 29 June, 2019, 01:42:09 pm
Sleeping in a delivery box...


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48151295687_4cf6b55396_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gmXYDe)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2gmXYDe) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
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Post by: Gattopardo on 29 June, 2019, 01:59:15 pm
Being little destructive reason that I can't have anything nice.

New black out curtains from Dunelm, called Luna, and her arsehat of a brother has clawed the curtains already.  They had been up for less than 6 hours.
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Post by: ian on 01 July, 2019, 10:06:53 am
It's vet day.

Capture operations commence in about 10 minutes. I expect they'll intercept this message.
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Post by: ian on 01 July, 2019, 10:28:55 am
And caught. Easier than anticipated, mostly because LMC ran right into me and I scooped her up and straight into the carrier before she'd recovered her senses. Look mum, no scratches.

Catching Bad Cat isn't so bad as she's daft enough to think she can escape by playing dead. How's that working out for you, fuzzball?
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Post by: ian on 01 July, 2019, 12:21:23 pm
Oh well, one nice long scratch down my wrist from the vet's attempt to feed LMC a pill. We opted to switch to a topical de-wormer at that point. As a plus, she didn't poop on anyone this time.

Bad Cat just flopped around. She's been biting out chunks of fur which, upon investigation, seems not to be any kind of horrid parasite, but we think some kind of feline OCD (she's always been a fastidious cleaner and upchucker of furballs). It might be stress from her ongoing battle with her magpie nemeses, we suppose. Anyway, some vitamin E supplements for the time being.

That's me £170 poorer. As a boon, I got the vet to use her ninja medical skills to pull a recalcitrant splinter out of my finger. It's a lot easier to get an appointment at the vets than the GP these days.
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Post by: T42 on 01 July, 2019, 01:16:18 pm
Dogs: sleeping, farting. Unfortunately upwind of me.  But hey, it's not all bad: the fartier of the two is curled up at MrsT's feet.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 July, 2019, 07:16:12 pm
Aw, sorry to hear Bad Cat is stressed. Not nice when it's behavioural.

We've just picked ours up from kitteh GITMO. As usual Pumpkin was pleased to see us, while Ninkasi curled herself up into a tiny ball until she thought we couldn't see her anymore in the vain hope we wouldn't stick her in a box.
Honestly, you'd think she'd be pleased to get away from the place.

Now they're both doing the revolving door thing while they investigate everything inside and outside, rinse & repeat every 5 mins.
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Post by: ian on 01 July, 2019, 07:56:00 pm
Bad Cat doesn't seem stressed, if anything she seems to enjoy a good leg gnawing session, and she will insist and going out to face the magpie menace. But she needs to stop, as the fur on her front leg is getting thread-worn, and it makes a horrid sound. We have some food supplement which I doubt is much use, but I'm not booking her in for feline cognitive behavioural therapy.

Bad Cat and LMC behave exactly likes yours when liberated.

In other good news, they now have three-month anti-parasite treatments, rather than 1 month, which will save considerable and bloody battles getting it on LMC's neck. Bad Cat, on the other hand, rarely even notices she's been dabbed.
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Post by: hellymedic on 01 July, 2019, 08:33:44 pm
David trapped tux feral and took him to Medivet for neutering and pest control.

Place seems quiet without him. I think he'll be back tomorrow.
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Post by: Andrij on 01 July, 2019, 09:05:09 pm
David trapped tux feral and took him to Medivet for neutering and pest control.

Place seems quiet without him. I think he'll be back tomorrow.

I didn't think David was the noisy type.
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Post by: hellymedic on 01 July, 2019, 10:19:23 pm
 ;D ;D David's been quiet today, bemoaning scant ceremony for his 55 solar orbits.

Place is quiet because Big Tom is mostly absent and does not sing in Feral's absence.

Big Tom can be operatic...
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Post by: hellymedic on 03 July, 2019, 08:37:58 pm
Feral has returned from MediVet minus goolies, fed well and wandered off.
All felines are currently on the loose.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 04 July, 2019, 05:47:15 pm
Both have spent all day hiding in wardrobes.

Which is odd.
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Post by: ian on 04 July, 2019, 07:09:24 pm
Guarding the porch, where I chased last night's mouse. It's still in there, I can't coax it out and I'm not moving everything since it'll just dart back under the stuff I've moved. I tried the ET approach with a line of cat food out of the porch door and down the path.

However, when I came back from the kitchen after putting the cat food back, Bad Cat was working her way up the line of food and into the porch.

Sigh. I'll try and coax it out when it's dark. It may have cooked during the day. I did put out some food and water for it, let it not be said I don't treat my murine guests well.
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Post by: ian on 05 July, 2019, 09:14:03 am
Evicted the mouse with a feather duster. Was about to clean up the evitable poop when I noticed the reason it had been unkeen to move. Four little mouselets squeaking away.

I gathered them up and put them outside in a box in the hope that mom would come back. Seems she didn't as there were four dead mouselets this morning.

I know they're officially vermin and stuff but I'm really quite sad about this.

Bad Cat, on the other hand, seems unperturbed. She also threw up on the bed this morning because we all love doing laundry at 5.30am. Don't eat grass seeds, you muricidal moron.
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Post by: ian on 09 July, 2019, 09:30:07 am
Bad Cat still biting out her fur, looking quite tatty in places now. Lordy, have some self-respect. Vet says she couldn't find any parasites but we've dosed her just in case. She likes the oily food supplement for sure. The only stress she has are the magpies and they always tell me 'she started it.' She fights LMC a lot, but she really does start that, and that's hardly a new thing.
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Post by: essexian on 09 July, 2019, 03:46:19 pm
Purrdee the kitten is in love  ;D

Coming up to 10 months old, Purrdee has taken a considerable shine to an old craggy intact tom who comes around a couple of times a day for food: Lord Rayner. When ever he shows up, Purrdee follows rubbing herself against him and generally walking sideways in front of him.

He is nonplussed about this as she has been done but its quite funny to see her falling over herself to impress him!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 July, 2019, 07:57:06 pm
Poor Bad Cat. I don't suppose there will be anything you've not already seen here:
https://icatcare.org/advice/problem-behaviour/over-grooming-problems
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Post by: ian on 10 July, 2019, 10:19:31 am
Yeah, thanks. We're not sure what the problem is. It seems like fleas, she likes taking a good bite out of her legs, like she's trying to get at something, but even the vet couldn't find any creatures lurking in her fur. She got a good dose of pesticide just in case. Maybe she just likes biting herself, even as cats go, she's pretty dim and she genuinely does seem to like having a good fur-bite. I worked her over with the furminator last night – this traditionally doesn't yield much from Bad Cat (LMC, on the other hand, you could stuff a sofa with the all the fuzz that comes off her), but there was plenty of loose fur. Maybe she's just too fuzzy for the weather.

She doesn't seem evidently stressed. I don't think the magpies are that bad and they've been around for years.

I'm, of course, worried that it might be Morgellons.
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Post by: Riggers on 10 July, 2019, 10:36:48 am
Our Noodle isn't doing so well. Went to the vets on Monday, and she has 200ml drained (fluid retention) from her abdomen. All the while, she's affecting an air of nonchalance, and even licking her front paw. But things aren't good. She's booked in tomorrow afternoon for a final visit. I have to say I welled up at the vets this morning and even now typing these words.

She's 20. Only three legs, courtesy of a Greyhound attack when she was 12, so she's done pretty good really, but she's struggling to support herself, and with the fluid retention, she's like a football. I know her heart's struggling and this may well be indicative of cancer. But I couldn't bear to take her in today. And she's drinking lots, but even so, the vet said she's dehydrated.

She's sleeping on next door's decking.

I can also say, when oft repeated by non-cat people: She's not just-a-cat. Not to us.
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Post by: sam on 10 July, 2019, 11:00:33 am
I can also say, when oft repeated by non-cat people: She's not just-a-cat. Not to us.

There was a good piece about this in the Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11684332/My-cat-died-and-it-affected-me-as-much-as-losing-my-dad.html) some years ago: "we’re at once a self-professed nation of animal-lovers, and yet one where grieving for an animal is considered indulgent and faintly ridiculous."
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Post by: Riggers on 10 July, 2019, 11:34:12 am
I can also say, when oft repeated by non-cat people: She's not just-a-cat. Not to us.

There was a good piece about this in the Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11684332/My-cat-died-and-it-affected-me-as-much-as-losing-my-dad.html) some years ago: "we’re at once a self-professed nation of animal-lovers, and yet one where grieving for an animal is considered indulgent and faintly ridiculous."

Thanks Sam. Good piece.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 10 July, 2019, 02:49:37 pm

I can also say, when oft repeated by non-cat people: She's not just-a-cat. Not to us.

When people say that, walk away.  They don't understand, and won't.  The furballs become part of the family, part of your life.  Creep in to your heart and leave a massive hole when they leave.

I like my cats more than I like a great number of people.

Condolences to you riggers, give noodle a chin rub from me.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 July, 2019, 05:36:57 pm
Our Noodle isn't doing so well. Went to the vets on Monday, and she has 200ml drained (fluid retention) from her abdomen. All the while, she's affecting an air of nonchalance, and even licking her front paw. But things aren't good. She's booked in tomorrow afternoon for a final visit. I have to say I welled up at the vets this morning and even now typing these words.
She's 20. Only three legs, courtesy of a Greyhound attack when she was 12, so she's done pretty good really, but she's struggling to support herself, and with the fluid retention, she's like a football. I know her heart's struggling and this may well be indicative of cancer. But I couldn't bear to take her in today. And she's drinking lots, but even so, the vet said she's dehydrated.
She's sleeping on next door's decking.
I can also say, when oft repeated by non-cat people: She's not just-a-cat. Not to us.

Sad news. 20 is an advanced age but it's still sad.
The medic in me is wondering about her liver, though it's academic.

Thoughts are with you...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2019, 05:54:24 pm
Aw, sorry to hear that Riggers, I loved to see your pics of Noodle. It's a very hard thing saying goodbye.
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Post by: barakta on 10 July, 2019, 09:53:31 pm
Sorry to hear about Noodle, that's incredibly sad.
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Post by: Riggers on 12 July, 2019, 11:38:47 am
Noodle went for her last visit to the vets yesterday morning. The vets were very good. S'funny, but having been given the initial anaesthetic to make her drowsy, she was still licking her paw and fell asleep with her tongue sticking out, before the horrible other drug was administered. All over very quickly mercifully, and thank you all for your responses.

She's now resting alongside her sister in the garden. They hated each other's guts when both alive.

I will hoiyk out a pic of her sometime, when I have the time – in her glory days.
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Post by: essexian on 14 July, 2019, 08:58:24 am
Sorry to here that Riggers. The loss of a family member who has been with you so long is hard to take, although it is true that over time it does get easier.

Onto our worry..... Quenton is missing.

"His Tallship" is an intact tom who seemed to move in a couple of months ago. Known for his very quietness: he won't say boo to a kitten let alone to a fully grown queen, Quenton simply sleeps in the spare bedroom and hoovers up any food going. Blimey, the boy can eat.  We call him "His Tallship" as he is very tall: much taller than the average tom. He also has a way of walking with his head, back and tail all in a line so he looks about 4 foot long.

Anyway, we last saw him on Friday afternoon. We had been discussing when it was that he became our cat, a step which requires the removal of male bits: we don't allow intact males in the house.... I sleep in the shed most nights.... and decided that if he still spent 24 hours a day with us by Christmas, we would do the deed then.

Strangely we have not seen him since....we do wonder whether he was listening  ;D. More likely, he did have a bit of a fight with one of our other visiting toms so may be staying away from the place until he feels safe again.


EDIT. Scrap all that. He's back and eating everything he can find! He must had had a night out of the tiles and has come back for a nosh-up and a sleep.
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Post by: ian on 15 July, 2019, 07:24:22 pm
Idly glancing over my coffee cup this morning I belatedly noticed a splodge of dried vomit malingering at the back of my desk. A nice admix of cat food and fur. Further investigation found more on the cupboards next to my desk, all the way up the penthouse feline accommodations on top of the wardrobe. Let that not be the end of for vomicalapyse, oh no, because she'd also managed to get it down the back of the wardrobe.

By the quantity and fur content (©CSI Feline Crime Detection) it's (of course) Bad Cat.

A quick summarily trial sentenced her to one-week detention with no possibility of parole in Kitty Supermax (with her cell mate, LMC) while we swan off to New York to drink beer. She'll probably have no fur left when we get back.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 July, 2019, 10:35:16 am
Tilly is very happy as Piggy has been reincarnated. Piggy was a soft pig toy with a squeaker that she had from being a pup. She's four now and a couple of months ago piggy finally had been washed umpteen times, had no legs left even after they had been reattached several times and the head was coming apart and that was the end of her favourite toy. On Sunday we were in a garden centre that had dog toys and lo and behold hung on a peg was Piggy ! Tilly sat down in from of the display and just stared at Piggy. Needless to say Piggy mark 2 came home with us.
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Post by: sam on 16 July, 2019, 12:47:24 pm
By the quantity and fur content (©CSI Feline Crime Detection) it's (of course) Bad Cat.

(https://i.imgur.com/HtSmBK5.jpg)

“Ian, welcome to the city that never sleeps. We understand you’re a man who knows something about cats. Bad cats. We’ve got a case which has us all stumped. Eliot will give you the file. If you help us solve this, the next round’s on us.”
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Post by: Gattopardo on 18 July, 2019, 05:47:58 pm
Two cats went all day without going for a shit.

One cat seems to be going off her food.
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Post by: Jakob on 21 July, 2019, 08:19:22 am
(https://i.imgur.com/bpy0bOUl.jpg)
Insisting on using the cushion even though it's fallen on the floor
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 July, 2019, 09:21:52 am
Ninkasi woke us before 5am making a smell in the pit (she hasn't used the tray for months). Didnt't touch breakfast. Looking a bit sorry for herself.
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Post by: menthel on 30 July, 2019, 01:47:40 pm
Swanning around in a doggy bodysuit rather than the cone of shame having been abducted, knocked out and having her bits removed yesterday. She keeps giving us dirty looks...
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Post by: T42 on 30 July, 2019, 03:35:57 pm
Hot weather for a bodysuit.  Our two are avoiding the rugs before lying down.
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Post by: hellymedic on 30 July, 2019, 09:08:14 pm
Our cats are out of the house, I don't know where.

Blackie is shunning David as she Did Not Like his (failed) attempts to apply flea repellent.

Blackie has just come back and is eating.
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Post by: menthel on 31 July, 2019, 10:46:53 am
Hot weather for a bodysuit.  Our two are avoiding the rugs before lying down.

She has fans and cold water available. The vet said that the cones were basically useless on whippets as they just escape them!
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Post by: T42 on 31 July, 2019, 02:17:14 pm
Gotcha.

Missus has been out all morning, it's just been me & the two Labs. Not a fart out of them, but as soon as she pulled into the drive they filled the kitchen corridor with a yellow cloud, through which we had to transport dog-food & groceries.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 July, 2019, 04:34:32 pm
What is it with dogs. Tillie loves to fart in a silent but deadly way but if a human should do the smallest fart she jumps up and leaves the room.
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Post by: menthel on 31 July, 2019, 04:45:28 pm
Luna lets out silent but violents too. She once audibly farted and was so shocked she looked at her own arse and then ran off confused!
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Post by: ian on 01 August, 2019, 10:04:42 am
Incarceration day again as we're off for a long weekend. They're still oblivious to the fate that awaits them...
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Post by: Jakob on 05 August, 2019, 10:48:12 pm
We pushed a little further on our regular mountain hike and found a couple of neat small lakes.

(https://i.imgur.com/tPxrJ8dl.jpg)

This hike is a bit of a workout, so I've always turned around, but are getting better at it (and also want to work up to longer distances), so pushed on and got rewarded. Didn't see a single human on the whole trek.
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Post by: T42 on 06 August, 2019, 08:10:42 am
What is it with dogs. Tillie loves to fart in a silent but deadly way but if a human should do the smallest fart she jumps up and leaves the room.

We used to have a Dalmatian who would fart audibly then jump 180° in surprise and sniff the air appreciatively.  One of the Labs also blasts out a fanfare from time to time, but he lies low and pretends it was someone else. What, me, boss?
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 August, 2019, 03:57:11 pm
We've not seen our cats today.

There would appear to be a large scattering of pigeon feathers on a patch of our lawn.

David suspects they are resting having devoured a Feast of Bird.
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Post by: spesh on 06 August, 2019, 04:13:27 pm
That, or they are just resting, and the culprit was a female sparrowhawk.
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 August, 2019, 04:59:59 pm
Blackie reappeared from the lounge shortly after I posted, ate a few crunchies then popped out to the feathery patch and nosied.

(https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/67591084_1496440857162201_3466658629350850560_o.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_oc=AQlyedP4VQzDRT9KArhBCfIDOq-HBuKFc3OUPI_7WPHZhzTdz6blS8GU0As9VVfS76Y&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-2.fna&oh=47472fa817ae47945371bba4d585805b&oe=5DEEB0E5)

By this time Big Tom was nearby, grooming himself. He then came inside and gobbled some wet food, before going out again.

(https://scontent.flhr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/67734754_1496440860495534_3877522128668459008_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_oc=AQmYQuxGsx73tvKwkuodGQEbRzF-LIYEqgLbPCVPA1wrzSiHLduWDZoVTJuUWicndE4&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-1.fna&oh=3eb7fdf5c4065012b7fb18862c1c0087&oe=5DD2254C)
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 August, 2019, 08:55:14 am
Both cats were savouring the leftovers as I was dressing upstairs.

They sensed when I entered the kitchen ran in and Demanded Food.

They've gone out now.
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Post by: Basil on 07 August, 2019, 09:25:22 am
Taking me for a walk.
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Post by: Kim on 07 August, 2019, 11:31:12 am
Taking me for a walk.

Make sure you don't end up in the Country Girl.
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Post by: menthel on 08 August, 2019, 11:34:55 am
Confused and a little angry as there are workmen in the house and the gardeners are in the garden. This means she has a lot of work to do being vigilant and scary. She is really on of the least scary dogs you could ever meet...
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Post by: ian on 08 August, 2019, 12:40:03 pm
Released from incarceration (unlikely for good behaviour) Bad Cat is under the quilt in the spare room getting hotter and hotter as she hides from the Angry Beaver and his chainsaw.
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Post by: eckagain on 08 August, 2019, 12:47:32 pm
Our Lucy The Cat (age 3 1/4) has invented a new game. She miaows to be let out of the kitchen window.
Fair enough, yes?
Then she runs round to the front of the house and sits on the lounge window sill and miaows to be let back in.  :facepalm:
Taking the piss, no? 
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Post by: Gattopardo on 08 August, 2019, 12:49:36 pm
Our Lucy The Cat (age 3 1/4) has invented a new game. She miaows to be let out of the kitchen window.
Fair enough, yes?
Then she runs round to the front of the house and sits on the lounge window sill and miaows to be let back in.  :facepalm:
Taking the piss, no?

She is keeping you entertained. 

Or showing you who's boss.
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Post by: essexian on 08 August, 2019, 01:33:17 pm
Purrdee the kitten is looking at me in only the way cats can as I have taken the body of a recently murdered bird off of her for disposal. No doubt she will bite my leg later when I go to feed her which is her way.

And Jamise the Old moggy is currently in disgrace after both weeing and pooing himself both on the way to, and the way back from the vets this morning. I felt sorry for the poor vet whose room will smell of cat poo for ages now.  :sick:
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Post by: menthel on 08 August, 2019, 02:43:53 pm
Now laying on the sofa asleep with her arse pointed towards me, intermittently letting out little foofing noises from the end closest. I think she has been digging up and eating bulbs again from the smell...
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Post by: Flite on 09 August, 2019, 08:04:17 am
Sitting in the utility room. 
On a wet newspaper.
With my soaking wet anorak driping on her.
You might as well go out, cat.
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Post by: ian on 12 August, 2019, 01:00:18 pm
Last night, early this morning (about 4.30am) Bad Cat decided to use the litter tray (she's still punishing us for the recent incarceration) to lay an extreme stink bomb. We know this because the litter tray is in the hallway, under the stairs, and the miasma climbed slowly and inexorably up the stairwell and oozed into the bedroom to commence an olfactory assault of unprecedented malevolence that resulted in my wife having to get out of bed to 'deal with it.'

Now I'm in trouble (as my wife has to get up early and I sleep in on Mondays), as I avoided the smell by hiding under the covers and pretending to be asleep, because of that stupid cat.
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Post by: ian on 08 September, 2019, 11:44:11 am
Puking up an entire, intact leaf. Dr Beckman's Patent Carpet Cleaner to Aisle 9 the hallway. I think I can assume Bad Cat on account that it was a big leaf. Adam is going to be giving Eve a fright today.

My own fault for having a lie-in and thus delaying their breakfast.

It didn't end there. Having served them breakfast, cleaned up the rug in the hallway, and prepared my coffee, I walked out of the kitchen.

Squelch. A nice puddle of regurgitated gastric juice in the kitchen doorway (presumably from the first attempt to dislodge said leaf). Right up between my freshly showered toes.

Bloody cat.
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Post by: spesh on 08 September, 2019, 02:56:07 pm
If I believed in reincarnation, I'd be tempted to suggest that you must have been a very bad cat in a past life. ;D
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Post by: trekker12 on 11 September, 2019, 11:48:51 am
There was a mouse's head and tail on our hallway carpet this morning when we got up. Both cats were running around and very excited at around four o clock this morning. Not sure where the rest of the poor creature is but I suspect I know why Freya wasn't interested in breakfast this morning.
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 September, 2019, 05:30:13 pm
Neither cat has been in to eat today, though Blackie had a quick drink.

Suspect they might have found something tastier than Whiskas...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 September, 2019, 10:04:01 pm
Causing alarm and despondency to herself and her sister;
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48728581411_b34a5191ca.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2heYHzn)IMG_3955_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2heYHzn) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Got a deep cut in her leg some how. She's totally freaked out by the cone. Her sister is totally freaked out by her. Everybody's very stressed.
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Post by: matthew on 13 September, 2019, 11:30:25 pm
Poor cat, hopefully the cone of shame isn't needed for too long.
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Post by: T42 on 14 September, 2019, 10:48:38 am
One of our dogs loves hazelnuts, and heads for the bushes every time he gets out.  He cracks the shells and eats the kernels.

They then pass through his gut and emerge with the skins removed, looking for all the world like something the Jolly Green Giant would like to can.

I never did like sweet corn in salads.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 September, 2019, 04:48:15 pm
Today I've mostly been a bed in the recuperation suite.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48731735888_e34d7a8906.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hffThU)2019-09-14_04-23-12 (https://flic.kr/p/2hffThU) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Pumpkin has been doing a lot of hissing and hiding behind the sofa because she doesn't recognise Ninkasi with the cone on (and probably the smell). Hopefully it'll all settle down soon.
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 September, 2019, 07:28:49 pm
Blackie and Big Tom decided to repurpose our hallway as their bedroom last night.

Unlike Ninkasi, they both slept on their left side, Big Tom on David's bag and Blackie on the carpet. They appeared to have  identical sleeping postures.
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Post by: Kim on 14 September, 2019, 07:46:07 pm
They'd probably sleep on their right side in the southern hemisphere...
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 September, 2019, 07:53:57 pm
Has furrybutton been transported?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 September, 2019, 10:13:27 pm
Ninkasi has been looking pretty cheesed off today. I hope she's allowed to get the cone off tomorrow.
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Post by: ian on 16 September, 2019, 10:41:07 am
We never got either of ours to wear a mortification wimple. Bad Cat fell down the stairs backwards trying to pull it off, and then attempted to remove her own head dangling between the sofa back and window sill. There seemed to be a significant risk of actual mortification. We did get a quick-release version, which predictably stayed on for entire minutes.

LMC ran off in hers and get stuck under a car.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 September, 2019, 04:58:37 pm
How did you get them not to pick at things?

Ninkasi is hiding under the bed again. She came out for just long enough to eat the tuna with the pain meds on it and then turned her nose up at her biccies and went back under the bed again. Not like her at all. Vet tonight, I really hope she doesn't have to wear it for another full week.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 16 September, 2019, 07:08:54 pm
I succeeded by stitching up a baby grow.

Have two left if you want one.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 September, 2019, 08:28:24 pm
Thanks but not sure how that would work on a front leg.

Anyway, vet says it all looks nice but because there's a nylon suture in there she's to keep the cone on until that's removed.
In a week  :facepalm:
Poor kitteh.
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Post by: essexian on 17 September, 2019, 08:21:50 am
Eating like its going out of fashion.....

Walking the massive distance to my office this morning: around 20m takes me by our garage; a building I locked up at 9pm last night. "What's that" I thought to myself, a cat meowing from inside....

Upon opening said garage out springs senior moggy Jamies (<------) who must have sneaked in for a kip during the evening and not been obvious when I had checked before locking the doors.

So now that two bowls of food and one of cat milk down. I'm off to hunt the poo as there isn't a tray in there... :facepalm:
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Post by: menthel on 17 September, 2019, 12:12:18 pm
Luna the daft whippet had to wear a bodysuit when she had her bits removed. Apparently cones don't work as their heads are pretty much the same width as their necks!
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Post by: ian on 17 September, 2019, 01:35:25 pm
How did you get them not to pick at things?
...

We sat down and had a chat about the benefits of the uninterrupted healing process. I produced evidence from leading veterinary journals and took them through a twenty-minute Powerpoint entitled 'So You've Been to the Vets' with extra time for questions at the end.

Then many days of STOP THAT and plenty of pain killers. To be honest, neither seemed to pick at the stitches that much. LMC tore open her chest (no idea), mangled her paw (no idea), and got an abscess on her paw. Bad Cat attempted to leap from the balcony onto the tree next door with about as much success as I would have anticipated, cutting through her back leg and tendon.
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Post by: trekker12 on 18 September, 2019, 02:24:35 pm
How did you get them not to pick at things?
...

We sat down and had a chat about the benefits of the uninterrupted healing process. I produced evidence from leading veterinary journals and took them through a twenty-minute Powerpoint entitled 'So You've Been to the Vets' with extra time for questions at the end.



 ;D

When our two were neutered they had both managed to escape their cones within about 45 seconds of release from the carry cases, the bandages were off the leg a further three minutes later. there was no way they were having the cones back on nor were we going to the vet for bodysuits and the mess that was going to generate. They both survived the week without losing the stitches or infection.
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 September, 2019, 02:44:30 pm
How did you get them not to pick at things?
...
We sat down and had a chat about the benefits of the uninterrupted healing process. I produced evidence from leading veterinary journals and took them through a twenty-minute Powerpoint entitled 'So You've Been to the Vets' with extra time for questions at the end.
;D
When our two were neutered they had both managed to escape their cones within about 45 seconds of release from the carry cases, the bandages were off the leg a further three minutes later. there was no way they were having the cones back on nor were we going to the vet for bodysuits and the mess that was going to generate. They both survived the week without losing the stitches or infection.
As our cats are feral, Cat Protection arranged for them to be neutered without the 'Elizabethan collar'.

Their stitches were buried (I think; that's what I would do!) and soluble.
No Trouble ensued.

The Cone oF Shame seems cruel IMO. I suspect it's used more than REALLY necessary.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 September, 2019, 04:44:42 pm
We decided that being as I am away in the land of Nog this week and therefore if we let her out of the cone and then needed to go back in it would be a tall order to Pingu to manage on his own. I'll be back tomorrow so we can always have a look see how well she behaves sans collar on Thursday or Friday night.
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 September, 2019, 08:06:47 pm
I saw Blackie cavorting on the right side of the garden this morning, with what I presumed to be a mouse or rat.

David found a corpse-less squirrel tail at the site this evening.

David had earlier stated the cats were having a lazy day.

I don't think so!
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Post by: Gattopardo on 18 September, 2019, 09:19:09 pm


We sat down and had a chat about the benefits of the uninterrupted healing process. I produced evidence from leading veterinary journals and took them through a twenty-minute Powerpoint entitled 'So You've Been to the Vets' with extra time for questions at the end.





Yeah and you might as well have talked to the wall.
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Post by: Kim on 18 September, 2019, 10:15:51 pm
That's the thing about cats.  They're all about education when it's opening the cupboard with the fish food or learning how to switch the bathroom light off when someone's in the bath, but try to explain to them that Siamese cats are supposed to be intelligent, or that carnivores aren't supposed to eat broccoli, or that litter trays aren't for sitting in and pooing over the edges, or whatever and it's another story...
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Post by: ian on 18 September, 2019, 10:22:52 pm
I'm actually moving them to an online educational platform. There will be modules.
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Post by: Kim on 18 September, 2019, 10:23:46 pm
I'm actually moving them to an online educational platform. There will be modules.

Watch out, they'll get you with the feedback forms.
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Post by: trekker12 on 19 September, 2019, 11:20:37 am
Not forgetting the league tables and the feline version of OFSTED carrying out spot visits
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Post by: ian on 19 September, 2019, 11:34:04 am
I'm actually moving them to an online educational platform. There will be modules.

Watch out, they'll get you with the feedback forms.

And NPS.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 September, 2019, 07:57:25 pm
I got a toothbrush out to give her head a brush. She loved it. 15 mins later I needed to stop for a rest. Here's a little video
(https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/48765574142_cd2f5b17fb.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hifje5)ninkasi cone brush (https://flic.kr/p/2hifje5) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: ian on 20 September, 2019, 08:47:22 pm
Brilliant.

Our pair love being furminated.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 September, 2019, 10:27:55 pm
Ninkasi hasn't really discovered brushing except for her neck which you can't do hard enough or long enough. But the toothbrush went down well in the special circumstances :)
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Post by: trekker12 on 23 September, 2019, 10:18:27 am
Not right now but Anja has finally got the concrete off her paws having walked through the immaculate concrete base layer of our extension our builder laid on Friday afternoon. It was perfectly smooth and setting nicely for about an hour before she couldn't resist the temptation and then discovered three inches of wet concrete isn't nice to walk through. Mrs trekker gripping her tightly and me scrubbing her feet was even less nice.

I apologised to the builder this morning.
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Post by: woollypigs on 23 September, 2019, 02:32:13 pm
Enjoying cleaning a yogurt pot.

I thought that I would be nice to the mutt, cause she have been a good girl and just cute, so therefore I called her to give her the treat. She then trotted into the kitchen and crawled into her bed/box to receive said treat.

Where I spotted next to her the top of the hummus pot. The wee little rascal have dug it out of the recycling bin, naughty !!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2019, 08:35:00 pm
Ninkasi hasn't really discovered brushing except for her neck which you can't do hard enough or long enough. But the toothbrush went down well in the special circumstances :)

Hurrah, the stitch is out and the cone is off.
Now she can't decide whether to moan at the door to go out (the vet said to keep her in for 24H), wash all the dirty bits or chase all the toys.
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 October, 2019, 06:39:37 pm
Blackie (female, neutered, 26 months) seems to have acquired a young (?3 months?) ginger & white friend.

They walked down the garden path together, inspected the garage door cat flap, then parted company.

Kitten was wearing a collar, so presumably has an owner somewhere.

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Post by: Basil on 12 October, 2019, 09:02:42 pm
Ewwh.  Just been for an evening stroll and I obviously wasn't keeping a close enough eye on Megan.  She is now wearing her favourite fragrance.  'Fox Shit #7' 
This way for your cold shower, you horrible dog.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 12 October, 2019, 09:15:46 pm
Rubbing tomato ketchup in it helps, surprisingly.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 October, 2019, 09:39:07 am
Just dropped Tilly off at the kennels as I'm off away for work for four days and Mrs Pcolbeck leaves for work at 7:15 and doesn't get back until 4:00pm Monday to Thursday and we don't like leaving her alone for that long. We had the usual joy and bouncing when she there and was really pleased to see Sue who owns the kennels followed by the crying and whining when it dawned on her I was going to leave without her. Always makes me feel like a total heel even though I know she will be fine and loves playing with the other dogs and gets to run around in the fields around the kennels every day.
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Post by: hellymedic on 21 October, 2019, 12:54:15 pm
Big Brown Cat is resting on David's big HP printer. He has started favouring this perch in the mornings.
I hope the printer still works as I need to print papers for a meeting tonight.
Blackie is on the top of the back of the sofa.
David is still asleep in bed.

ETA Printer works OK.

Sleeping mammals have woken and eaten.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 21 October, 2019, 09:49:13 pm
Girl cat is licking my feet after I have showered.

Then she went and licked her arse....so to get the taste of my feet out of her mouth...
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Post by: Ham on 22 October, 2019, 12:03:50 am
Demanding some tummeh action

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3fUMcvBxfRk/Xa4419WV0OI/AAAAAAADF6o/WP8nR_stwC8rzES0eLEOeiDTx3QFr072QCKgBGAsYHg/s1600/IMG_20191022_000012.jpg)
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Post by: Gattopardo on 22 October, 2019, 04:45:14 pm
Boy cat has awakened, he has protected the Duvet from escaping.  Now he has wandered downstairs for attention and fuss.
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Post by: Basil on 27 October, 2019, 03:58:25 pm
No, the dog.  It is NOT dinner time.
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 November, 2019, 08:00:52 pm
Blackie has despatched a rodent in our lounge.
D can't see it but I KNOW it's there.
First I heard squeaking, then I saw Blackie playing with a dark brown furry thing, that did not move very fast.
Can't hear anything now...
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Post by: Basil on 04 November, 2019, 08:25:03 pm
Stinking
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 November, 2019, 08:45:57 pm
Mouse is still barely alive and has bitten D, whom I told to pick it up and take outside.

D is Most Unhappy...
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 November, 2019, 09:10:12 pm
Poor mouse is still alive and squeaking...
... but David has taken it outside.

Blackie is searching for mouse.

D  is upset at injured hand.
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Post by: ian on 04 November, 2019, 09:36:52 pm
One benefit of long-time cat ownership is that I have ninja mouse catching reflexes. I grab them by the tail, hoist them up, and if they're looking bitey, spin them a little. Once you have a good hold of their tail, there's not a lot they can do but hang there and admit defeat. Then I take them outside, release them somewhere where the cats can't possibly find them.

Then about twenty minutes later I do it all again with what looks suspiciously like the very same mouse.
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Post by: Basil on 24 November, 2019, 07:47:49 pm
Standing and staring at a bloke (not a local) who has had the temerity to sit in HER seat in the pub.  Everyone else (the locals) are doing an impression of an H M Bateman cartoon.
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Post by: hellymedic on 21 December, 2019, 02:22:09 pm
Big Tom is playing with the Dreamies 'mouse' dispenser.
We bought this toy nearly two years ago. It entertained the kittens.
Blackie has always enjoyed this thing but Big Tom ignored it till last week.
I don't think Tom has left any Dreamies for Blackie...
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Post by: T42 on 21 December, 2019, 03:48:37 pm
Ezra's leaking.  Poor chap has urinary retention every so often, from infection or muscle spasm we don't know.  I've got a bunch of pills from the vet - antispasmodic, antibiotic and anti-inflammatory - so we'll start dosing him this evening and hope.  Not sure why he's leaking - sphincter overstressed or something - but it's not serious and we're hoping it'll clear up PDQ. It usually does.

Looking on the bright side, at least he's got something in common with Tycho Brahe.
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Post by: PaulF on 21 December, 2019, 06:27:11 pm
Sleeping off the stress of having spent the day at the groomer
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Post by: hellymedic on 21 December, 2019, 07:24:07 pm
Ezra's leaking.  Poor chap has urinary retention every so often, from infection or muscle spasm we don't know.  I've got a bunch of pills from the vet - antispasmodic, antibiotic and anti-inflammatory - so we'll start dosing him this evening and hope.  Not sure why he's leaking - sphincter overstressed or something - but it's not serious and we're hoping it'll clear up PDQ. It usually does.

Looking on the bright side, at least he's got something in common with Tycho Brahe.

I thought Tycho Brahe's issue was that he DID NOT leak and 'held on' (out of embarrassment) until his bladder ruptured...
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Post by: Kim on 21 December, 2019, 11:27:16 pm
I thought his issue was nose related...
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Post by: T42 on 22 December, 2019, 08:15:37 am
Ezra's leaking.  Poor chap has urinary retention every so often, from infection or muscle spasm we don't know.  I've got a bunch of pills from the vet - antispasmodic, antibiotic and anti-inflammatory - so we'll start dosing him this evening and hope.  Not sure why he's leaking - sphincter overstressed or something - but it's not serious and we're hoping it'll clear up PDQ. It usually does.

Looking on the bright side, at least he's got something in common with Tycho Brahe.

I thought Tycho Brahe's issue was that he DID NOT leak and 'held on' (out of embarrassment) until his bladder ruptured...

Not out of embarrassment but politeness, according to Arthur Koestler: you didn't get up to pee when dining with the King, and when he finally got home he couldn't.  No, the thing with Ezra was - note 'was' - that he could only pee with great difficulty but seemed to be leaking drops indoors.  We dosed him last night & he seems fine this morning, but of course having started antibiotics he's on them for a fortnight.  He'd probably have been OK with just the antispasmodic and a urinary tract disinfectant, but the vet simply repeated the previous prescription.  The last two or three times he (Ezra, not the vet) had this his prostate was been normal, BTW.
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 December, 2019, 03:57:17 pm
Big Tom is sprawled sleeping on David's printer.

Which is a nuisance as we have a note to the optometrist to print.
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Post by: Basil on 22 December, 2019, 04:25:16 pm
Helping Watching me make pigs in blankets.  Lots and lots of them.  There will  be 9 of us for Crimble dinner and, due to NHS shifts, it will be on Christmas eve this year
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 December, 2019, 05:32:36 pm
Big Tom has gone out for some fresh air.
I seem to have shut him into the downstairs loo between my last two visits.
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 December, 2019, 05:39:08 pm
Gerrard le chat noir has let me pick him up and cuddle him for the first time since I adopted him at the end of September. He purred too. When I have tried it before he's meowed loudly and the batter me when I put him down. It's a big step forward.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2019, 05:51:30 pm
Ooh, I didn't know you had a new kitteh :)
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Post by: Regulator on 24 December, 2019, 10:35:09 am
Ooh, I didn't know you had a new kitteh had you :)

FTFY.   ;D
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Post by: ian on 02 January, 2020, 12:43:40 pm
Pooping a lot. The usual Bad Cat dirty protest post-cattery has been going on for some time (she usually goes outside, but after a spell of incarceration she takes a while to kick the litter tray habit). Two weeks later she's still dropping her bombs indoors and not just once a day and not of a pleasant composition. All the delights of interior chemical warfare.

Glancing online about kitty pooping periodicity, I noted that one article prominently featured the phrase do not be tempted to give your cat an enema. I think that's up there with kicking ticking bombs and gargling nerve agents. It's not a temptation I've ever faced.

Another trip to the vets beckons.
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Post by: Basil on 08 January, 2020, 07:24:29 pm
Not understanding that it is her birthday today.
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Post by: hellymedic on 08 January, 2020, 08:36:14 pm
Scoffing crunchies.
Neither cat has much interest in wet food at the moment.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 January, 2020, 09:28:28 pm
Not understanding that it is her birthday today.

Is that not because every day is her birthday?
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Post by: Basil on 08 January, 2020, 10:02:12 pm
Not understanding that it is her birthday today.

Is that not because every day is her birthday?

Ah yes. Silly me.
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Post by: T42 on 09 January, 2020, 08:50:36 am
The larger Lab has finally ceased vomiting.  He must have picked up a bug or eaten something even more disgusting than usual outside, and for the past three days his last meal has ended up decorating whatever he's lying on or beside: two dog-bed cushions, a rug in our bedroom and at various stages more easily washable surfaces.  I was all ready to take a sample & call the vet this morning but all was well. Touch wood.
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Post by: ian on 09 January, 2020, 12:26:38 pm
LMC now habitually tries to wake me in the morning while my wife is in the shower. The downside of this is that it's not yet 6am. If she can't find a bit of exposed flesh to poke with her paw she'll start a noisy fight with the edge of the quilt.

This morning, as a bonus, the edge of the quilt was sharing space with my forearm. There was blood and unfortunately, it was mine.

Now Bad Cat has puked all over my sofa. And the bed. Our cleaner disturbed me more with the I think your cat has pooed on the bed. It says something of pet ownership to be relieved it's just vomit soaking into your bedsheets and sofa.
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 January, 2020, 02:09:18 pm
Big Tom is resting on a doormat.

I saw him sitting on the grand piano earlier and (mistakenly?) reported this to D who is Not Pleased and threatening to kill him...
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Post by: T42 on 09 January, 2020, 02:17:47 pm
Dog Major's puking again. We got new dog-food on 27th December and he was fine with it for a solid week, now he's not & MrsT with her own ineffable logic blames the food.  His brother's eating the same stuff and he's fine, but she still wants to spend 60-odd € for different stuff on the off-chance he won't honk it all up. :(
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Post by: PaulF on 09 January, 2020, 03:07:06 pm
€60 is probably cheaper than a vet's bill? And he'll need food at some stage so it's not money thrown away surely?
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Post by: ian on 09 January, 2020, 03:23:46 pm
Then Bad Cat continued her theme of using the litter tray in the hallway by dropping a stink bomb just as I buttered my toast.

Working from home isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Post by: T42 on 09 January, 2020, 03:57:58 pm
€60 is probably cheaper than a vet's bill? And he'll need food at some stage so it's not money thrown away surely?

We're insured for the vet. Lab Minor could eat it if it makes Major throw up.  So far he's OK on mince & rice with an egg in it, but preparing that twice a day would be pricey.
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Post by: Jakob on 09 January, 2020, 11:05:02 pm
Carrying a big stick!

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Post by: T42 on 10 January, 2020, 09:50:34 am
 :thumbsup: Lovely dog. Looks a bit goofy.
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Post by: T42 on 10 January, 2020, 05:16:40 pm
The vet just told me that Lab Major had a malignant tumour on his spleen, so he took the whole spleen out. The incision was from pubis to sternum, so we're in for a jolly couple of weeks trying to keep his brother from licking it; and then we'll wait to see if there are metastases.

Poor old dog. This was him a few years ago, feeling a bit dozy:

(https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/163909719.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 January, 2020, 05:40:40 pm
Aw, hope he heals well
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Post by: PaulF on 10 January, 2020, 05:59:49 pm
Wishing a speedy recovery to Lab Major
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Post by: simonp on 14 January, 2020, 01:04:46 am
Rory is sleeping off 3 nights stuck up a vertical tree by the reservoir. Missing since at least Friday. I went out tonight with a big light (PBP light) and found him several metres up after checking about 50 trees. After failing to get him down ourselves Feline found a late night tree surgeon. The cat went higher. You can run but you can’t hide.

Good job I didn’t give up on him. The weather has been awful.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 January, 2020, 02:30:15 pm
Aw, silly cat.
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Post by: simonp on 14 January, 2020, 03:44:57 pm
Aw, silly cat.

Floofy soft in the head cat that likes to explore. Most likely chased up there by a dog given the location, lots of dog walkers down there. The noise he made while being carried down from the tree, which he'd climbed nearly to the top of to avoid capture, was utterly demented.

He got himself stuck on top of a roof one summer (last year or the year before) and was up there all day. Neighbour came round and said "I've seen your cat on Facebook".

Had to be rescued through a roof light, once access could be gained, as he could not be coaxed to come to the edge of the roof.
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 January, 2020, 04:00:13 pm
Our cats have fortunately not climbed anywhere beyond their ability to descend, and, given their weight, are unlikely so to do in the future. Big Tom has always been big and Blackie's getting fat. Last year, she was happily running over the top of the outhouses.

The magnetic catch on our cat flap no longer works, despite D's fettling efforts. Big Tom usually sits on the doormat just inside the kitchen door but Brendan has been blowing it open and it's now become too draughty, even for him. Blackie has retreated to the drawing room, to stay out of the wind.
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Post by: T42 on 14 January, 2020, 04:10:02 pm
Thanks for the good wishes for Lab Major, aka Raz, short for Erasmus.  They seem to be working, for he's coming out of it remarkably well so far.  We now have to stop him getting too frisky or he might pop his staples.
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Post by: ian on 14 January, 2020, 06:37:26 pm
Bad Cat likes to climb the fir trees out the front and sit in the branches. She seems to manage a controlled fall/descent. Apparently there's only one kind of cat that can climb down headfirst (a margay), all other cats must reverse down or wait for the fire brigade or other fine-spirited bearers of suitably long ladders.

Our last cat, Lamb Chop, once opted to find her way onto the school outbuilding roof that adjoined our property. Which meant she sat outside our bedroom window all weekend wailing (rather than simply retrace her steps, she didn't parachute in) until the school opened and we could get her back. They really don't want you breaking into a school these days, trust me, we tried.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 15 January, 2020, 11:33:12 am
When I was a kid we inherited Grandads pub cat. He didn't like going out through the bar so had got into the habit of leaving though a first floor window and 'running' down the wall to the pavement. He still kept that up when he was moved in with us.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 January, 2020, 03:00:11 pm
Waiting in a rescue centre somewhere for us to be ready for them...  ;)
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Post by: T42 on 15 January, 2020, 03:34:23 pm
When I was a kid we inherited Grandads pub cat. He didn't like going out through the bar so had got into the habit of leaving though a first floor window and 'running' down the wall to the pavement. He still kept that up when he was moved in with us.

We once had an Alsatian that was in the habit of jumping out of my son's bedroom window. Then we moved from a bungalow to a 2-storey house. Fortunately there was large clump of grass growing through the patio.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 January, 2020, 05:14:48 pm
Waiting in a rescue centre somewhere for us to be ready for them...  ;)

Excellent WoW !

The kennels where I take Tilly is 50% boarding and 50% Romanian rescue dog rehab, I keep wanting to bring an extra dog home with me when I collect Tilly after she has stayed.
Some lovely dogs, one climbed the 6 foot chain-link fence and followed my to the car a couple of month ago. Probably a bit too far for you to come and look at them though.
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Post by: T42 on 18 January, 2020, 09:52:20 am
The dog next door - we called him Willis because he was always barking - used to climb their 2-metre fence too. It was painful to watch.

Meanwhile, Lab Major had a quick vet visit this morning and is healing well. He's as happy as Larry (NOTP). He had a chronic cough for the last couple of years which we put down to bronchitis caused by an allergy, but that has gone since the tumour came out. We're guessing now that pressure on the stomach was giving him acid reflux.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 January, 2020, 09:50:32 pm
The dog next door - we called him Willis because he was always barking - used to climb their 2-metre fence too. It was painful to watch.


Very good!  ;D
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Post by: T42 on 20 January, 2020, 10:38:58 am
;)
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Post by: rafletcher on 23 January, 2020, 11:09:23 am
Scoffing crunchies.
Neither cat has much interest in wet food at the moment.

Yep, ours is studiously ignoring the previously-enjoyed-recently-stocked-up-with wet food. Thankfully crunchies still pass the test.  Might try a different manufacturers product.
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 January, 2020, 12:38:19 pm
Blackie brought in a dead blackbird and was closely followed by Tom. They've moved it from the kitchen to the hall.

Tom's gone into the lounge; Blackie's gone back outside, last seen scampering round the fruit trees.
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 January, 2020, 12:47:28 pm
Blackie has returned and is amusing herself with the bird.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 January, 2020, 03:24:04 pm
Recovering from a minor opp at the vets. I will collect her later.
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Post by: T42 on 23 January, 2020, 05:03:31 pm
Lab Major has had his stitches out and the wound has been pronounced impeccable by the vet. Unfortunately, vet adds, tumours on the spleen are almost always malignant and the spleen's function means that the probability of metastases is significant, probably in his lungs.  If we're lucky he might have a year.
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 January, 2020, 03:13:54 pm
Eating a carrot and ignoring her bone that I picked up especially for her birthday. This is the third bone she is ignoring, so I'm not getting her anymore. The first one I was sure was because I wasn't home for 2 nights.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 January, 2020, 09:46:19 pm
Too many vegans in your house... ;)
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Post by: hellymedic on 31 January, 2020, 11:14:39 pm
Big Tom has taken to sitting/sleeping atop David's grand piano.

David is Not Pleased.
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Post by: Kim on 31 January, 2020, 11:15:43 pm
Ah, you mean Big Tom's grand piano...
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Post by: T42 on 01 February, 2020, 03:17:51 pm
MrsT tells me that the dogs hung back in the kitchen when she walked out into the hall this morning, whereupon the parrot shouted "fucking hell, come on!" in my voice. Wonderful how they invent stuff, isn't it?  ::-)
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Post by: hellymedic on 01 February, 2020, 11:25:23 pm
Ah, you mean Big Tom's grand piano...

David closed the lounge door last night, with the result that Tom spent the night on his printer.
Tom came down for breakfast then spent about 7 hours on my bar chair without dismounting, sleeping, grooming, watching for Stray Tom and singing.
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 February, 2020, 05:55:19 pm
Q: What do you call a cat that rests on a printer?
A: A copy-cat...

Tom's back on the printer, having spent the night there, before coming to the kitchen for FOOD.

Feral Tom appeared at the cat flap and Big Tom faced him off and sang. It's the first time I've seen Feral Tom by day. They have similar tabby clouration but Feral is skinny and short-haired, while BT is fat and long-haired. Feral looks almost like a wildcat.
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Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2020, 06:04:23 pm
Unless it's a multi-function printer, in which case what you have is a cat-scan[1].


[1] Internet old farts will recall a brief trend for activating flatbed scanners while the cat was sitting on them and sharing the results (which often featured a bemused looking cat with more than the usual number of feet).
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 February, 2020, 04:11:43 pm
Blackie is eating cat food.
Blackie has been up on the canopy over our patio, which she followed by climbing onto next doors scaffolding and stalking the pigeons nesting in an alcove in front of our house.
avid reports another black & white cat atop the summer house.

There will be bird carnage...
...and probably kittens.
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 February, 2020, 02:35:41 am
Blackie is AWOL.
Tom is guzzling, having left a scratch on David's piano, which has Displeased him.
I observed a detached murine head in the lounge earlier.
David is practising the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata.
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 February, 2020, 10:20:51 pm
Tom is sleeping peacefully in the bed he's made out of David's bags and the bag of paper awaiting recycling.

He looks very comfortable!
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 February, 2020, 07:23:37 pm
David forcibly removed Tom from inside the grand piano and David is Much Displeased.
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Post by: ian on 18 February, 2020, 11:29:33 pm
He has read the instruction manual that came with the cat, hasn't he? This is mode 2 (the need to access inaccessible places)

Bad Cat has been busily testing District Line moquette to destruction. This mode 3 (soft furniture, the destruction thereof).

Other modes are available. Mode 0 (off) and mode 1 (the inappropriate attendance to personal hygiene matters). Don't activate mode 8 without qualified staff in attendance and appropriate safety gear. The manual should detail all the available settings, they do sometimes vary by model.
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 February, 2020, 12:47:16 pm
Blackie does the soft furnishing destruction mode but the carpets that came with the house 20 years ago seem mostly resistant to her intense attention.
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Post by: ian on 20 February, 2020, 10:47:09 am
Suffering indignity, having just had her anal glands squeezed. At least it wasn't the big bloke vet with his meaty rugger hands. Never heard Bad Cat growl that loud before. Probably didn't like the gimp mask either. She doesn't understand that some humans pay for that kind of thing.

Also needs a tooth out cos FORL. Madam is getting old. There's a threshold where the vet's bill exceeds the insurance payments.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 February, 2020, 11:26:14 am
Didn't realise lady cats got blocked anal glands.
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Post by: Kim on 20 February, 2020, 12:00:03 pm
I thought it was more of a dog thing.
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Post by: ian on 20 February, 2020, 12:15:24 pm
Having now seen (and smelled) the contents, I can verify that yes, they do. I'm not sure the vet strictly needed to show us. I will never be eating speculoos spread again. When I woke up this morning I didn't imagine that before breakfast I'd be holding a cat while a hopefully appropriately qualified lady shoved her finger up the cat's bum (I was going to say her bum, but I fear that left grounds for confusion as to precisely where the finger was being inserted). I'm marking today down as 'peculiar.'

Not sure what the problem is, possibly infection (all doctors say that), but we're seeing how it goes now those have been drained. Supposed to feed her some magic paste from a syringe. Vet demonstrates. OK, perhaps you can put it on her food. At least it wasn't LMC, I've noticed the other vet hides from us now.

Also, have to get the tooth pulled. Odds-on there's an exception on the insurance for FORL.
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Post by: hellymedic on 20 February, 2020, 09:11:44 pm
Blackie has brought in a mouse...
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 February, 2020, 12:31:01 am
That was a moribund mouse - RIP.

There's now a lively mouse in the cupboard under my gas hob. She pops out periodically for another piece of cat kibble, then retreats to the cupboard.

The cats have not shown much interest.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2020, 11:20:10 am
They are both flaked out using me as a bed. I was going to go and do stuff....
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Post by: woollypigs on 22 February, 2020, 12:01:33 pm
you are doing stuff and very important stuff that is - being cat bed.
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 February, 2020, 12:52:10 pm
The cat bed here can be:
The stairs
Any carpet
The grand piano
The bed in the spare bedroom
The shower mat
The A3 printer
A bar chair in the kitchen
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2020, 03:43:30 pm
Pumpkin was sick and feeling sorry for herself all last night. Today she's all perky and has gone out.
This afternoon Ninkasi puked all over the magic blue fleece and the bedroom carpet and now she's feeling sorry for herself.

This weekend I mostly be cleaning... #plaguehouse
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 February, 2020, 04:23:52 pm
Mousie has returned from the lounge to the cupboard beneath the gas hob. She's not our pet yet...
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Post by: ian on 23 February, 2020, 07:07:37 pm
Tried to feed Bad Cat her paste. Chicken-related subterfuge? Nope. The proper inject into her mouth via the syringe? It went everywhere but. I think I ingested more.

I think we have to admit defeat. Might try mixing it with tuna water, the problem is that's quite pungent (flavoured with sweet basil essence, of all things, I think the people who invent these supposedly 'palatable' veterinary products are having a laugh), so there's no way she can't know its there. And even if she did like it, then last time she tasted it was just before after the vet had made her wear a gimp mask and violated her inner sanctum.
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Post by: SteveC on 23 February, 2020, 07:23:23 pm
When our Ginge (who was on tablet for the last eighteen months of his life) got stroppy about taking them, the method of last resort was to grind the tablet up and mix it with butter. Then get the butter onto the cat, almost anywhere. Eventually they will wash and it will get into their system.
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 February, 2020, 02:31:53 am
Blackie is lying on the kitchen floor, awaiting Mousie's emergence from the cupboard under the hob, where she's been creating a racket.

Blackie has pounced Mousie's way a couple of times but Mousie has, so far, successfully escaped back to the cupboard.

Mousie is BIG...
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Post by: hellymedic on 25 February, 2020, 10:39:58 pm
The cats despatched the rodent overnight and it was there, dead, disembowelled and disgusting, on the hall carpet, to greet me when I came down for breakfast.

Facebook friend informs me this was a rat.

Which is possible.
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Post by: ian on 26 February, 2020, 10:00:28 am
According to my wife, Bad Cat pooed a stick. An actual stick.

That might offer an explanation to her issues, I suppose.

She's bonkers for plain chicken in a can.
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Post by: Flite on 10 March, 2020, 04:43:26 pm
Waiting for me to finish blow drying her favourite bed with the hairdryer. 
She was sick in it earlier, so I had to wash it.
The only other time the hairdryer gets used is to defrost the cat hatch.
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Post by: ian on 11 March, 2020, 08:33:37 pm
Bad Cat decided to get cuddly with an junk mail envelope (I think BT) and somehow managed to transfer the blue ink to her white fur. Now she's decidedly punk.

Back from the cattery, she's still pooping in the house. But, now LMC is following her example. God help us all. I blame the endless rain.

What Bad Cat doesn't know, is that she has a visit to the vets next week for a tooth extraction (finally got a bout of FORL). No gimp mask and violation this time. The worse thing will be not feeding her from 7pm Sunday night. She'll probably chew off her own legs.
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Post by: Basil on 13 March, 2020, 09:14:40 pm
Someone tried to steal Megan today.
Mrs B tied her up outside a local shop.  She explained to me how securely that was.  When she came out of the shop, she was gone.  Just down the street she saw a bloke holding her by the lead  with his car back door open.   She ran up to ask WTF and the guy said the dog was 'just wandering up the street. (Impossible).
Unfortunately  Megan would go with anyone who took her lead, without question.
Mrs B was too shocked to challenge the guy further.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 March, 2020, 10:16:20 pm
Seems like dog stealing is rife at the moment. Don't leave them unattended. Glad you didn't lose her.
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Post by: ian on 16 March, 2020, 02:51:25 pm
Having her FORLy tooth pulled out. Most put out by the lack of food last night which at least made her easy to catch as she was by her bowl this morning.
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Post by: ian on 17 March, 2020, 09:40:04 am
She's not happy. Hiding under the sofa in my office, resisting all attempts to eat a pill I've cunningly enrobed in finest cheddar. It's a painkiller, you feline fool.

£400 to have a tooth out. I would have done it for far less.
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Post by: ian on 17 March, 2020, 07:37:12 pm
Came out for the love of tuna. She's high as a kite on whatever kitty heroin I fed her (gabapentin says the label, wonder if works on humans). Crushing it into tuna water seems to do the trick.
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Post by: Jakob on 20 March, 2020, 05:16:45 am
Poor thing.

Hana has become like velcro has she has grown older.
(https://i.imgur.com/sK1wS85l.jpg)
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Post by: hellymedic on 25 March, 2020, 08:25:04 pm
D buried rodents cats brought in.
Some creature has been exhuming them. I suspect Blackie.
Blackie has been digging up the pots containing defunct tomato plants.
I think cats are  mating outside.
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Post by: hellymedic on 27 March, 2020, 01:43:57 pm
Do other peoples cats exhume dead rodents?

Meanwhile, Stray Tom has been spraying our kitchen door. Big Tom is Not Amused.

David is Not Amused either!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 April, 2020, 03:28:43 pm
Looking sorry for herself. Mrs Pcolbeck dropped a grape and in a microsecond Tilly had scoffed it of the floor. Grapes are toxic to dogs with no known smallest safe dose. Some can eat a bunch with no ill effects and some drop dead of renal failure two days after eating one.
So I rang the vets and we've been in and they gave her something that made her vomit it up. Vet says as we acted quickly she should be fine.
I bet if I dropped another grape now the furry dustbin would eat that one as well.
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Post by: woollypigs on 07 April, 2020, 04:29:22 pm
We didn't know about grapes when we got our Tilley. So we gave them to her, thinking that they would be nice and cooling for her, as we got her in the middle of a heat wave, just like frozen peas.

She went utterly bunkers when she got them and played with them for 10-15min, throwing them about, jumping to and from them, kicking them, running about - having a whale of a time.

Then she just left them be, when they got warm.

We stopped giving them to her as that was just wasting food and then we read about it ...
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 07 April, 2020, 04:38:21 pm
My Labrador ate grapes all the time - he was a hospital therapy dog and the patients all gave him grapes. I had no idea at the time they were toxic to dogs.

But he was a Labrador and could (and did) eat anything.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 April, 2020, 09:37:25 am
But he was a Labrador and could (and did) eat anything.

Tilly is 50% lab so will eat anything in a microsecond - except celery she doesn't believe that that is actually edible.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 April, 2020, 08:24:14 pm
Over the last week or so we've been struggling to get Ninkasi to eat her (dried) food.
At first I thought she was just being a bit of a diva/pain in the arse. But then I noticed she was tilting her head to one side.
The other day I decided to start soaking her biccies in water, which made her eat slightly more but still required us to stand over her for half an hour.
Today for dinner she scoffed all her dinner and demolished an extra scoop.

Pumpkin came along and lapped up all the soggy biscuit soaking water  :D
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Post by: rafletcher on 10 April, 2020, 06:07:25 pm
Lurking somewhere behind a peony in the garden.
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Post by: Jakob on 11 April, 2020, 06:59:36 am
"working" from home..

(https://i.imgur.com/j0iw6MM.jpg)
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Post by: woollypigs on 11 April, 2020, 02:41:49 pm
Jacob what are you doing to her she is clearly struggling
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Post by: T42 on 12 April, 2020, 01:40:34 pm
Lovely!

Meanwhile, one of our chocolabs just ate a dandelion.
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Post by: Andrij on 03 May, 2020, 01:02:05 pm
SO's whippet Leo(nardo) is currently recuperating.

We recently discovered that, while he does not chase random cyclists, he will run with me while a'wheel.  After a couple of kilometres (in short bursts; he is, after all, a whippet) of chasing - and being chased - he is absolutely k'nackered.  This means we will have peace until late afternoon, when it will be time to take him to the park to run around with his mates. 

Whippets, at least this one, can be summed up in four words: run, eat, sleep, fart.
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 May, 2020, 05:35:40 pm
Blackie is mostly absent, only popping in for quick and surreptitious feeds. Seems she Really Dislikes David's attempts to apply flea control measures.

Seems to rapidly exit via cat flap if David is walking around.
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Post by: simonp on 14 May, 2020, 11:13:13 pm
Rory is recovering after surgery for a fractured pelvis and hock having been hit by a car, most likely on Tuesday. We realised yesterday morning he was missing and both walked miles looking for him. After one last search last night with a bike light down by the reservoir where he was found up a tree in January, I got home and found him lying on the drive in distress. From a possible sighting 1/4 mile away he had made it home despite barely being able to walk. He’d been there for about 50 minutes when I got back (doorbell cam spotted him).

He went straight to Langford and was admitted to ICU and stabilised. Social distancing meant we had to drop him off in a consult room and leave him to be examined while we waited in the car. The pelvic fracture was confirmed this morning and he was referred for surgery. Langford is great for this as he stays in the same ICU, avoiding a transfer to a separate hospital. Once he was under for surgery the surgeon was able to check his limbs and found his hock was unstable. Initially it seemed like he’d need his tibia pinned and external fixation and a synthetic ligament. However the fracture turned out to be in a different spot requiring only a plate, so his recovery should be easier.

It remains to be seen if there is any neurological damage but it seems he’s managed to pee which is a good sign.
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Post by: matthew on 14 May, 2020, 11:21:12 pm
Rory is recovering after surgery for a fractured pelvis and hock having been hit by a car, most likely on Tuesday. We realised yesterday morning he was missing and both walked miles looking for him. After one last search last night with a bike light down by the reservoir where he was found up a tree in January, I got home and found him lying on the drive in distress. From a possible sighting 1/4 mile away he had made it home despite barely being able to walk. He’d been there for about 50 minutes when I got back (doorbell cam spotted him).

He went straight to Langford and was admitted to ICU and stabilised. Social distancing meant we had to drop him off in a consult room and leave him to be examined while we waited in the car. The pelvic fracture was confirmed this morning and he was referred for surgery. Langford is great for this as he stays in the same ICU, avoiding a transfer to a separate hospital. Once he was under for surgery the surgeon was able to check his limbs and found his hock was unstable. Initially it seemed like he’d need his tibia pinned and external fixation and a synthetic ligament. However the fracture turned out to be in a different spot requiring only a plate, so his recovery should be easier.

It remains to be seen if there is any neurological damage but it seems he’s managed to pee which is a good sign.

Ouch, I hope a full recovery is made, best wished to Rory, Feline and yourself.
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Post by: Pingu on 14 May, 2020, 11:46:14 pm
Aw, GWS Rory.
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Post by: hellymedic on 15 May, 2020, 12:50:33 am
GWS Rory!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 May, 2020, 06:12:57 pm
Aw, hope Rory heals well.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 May, 2020, 06:52:10 am
Having her traditional post breakfast and dump snooze. Snoozing is very important for Tilly, you need a snooze to recover from your last snooze then another to prepare for the next snooze. If their is time between snoozes and eating you may want to fit in some light barking.
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Post by: Jakob on 19 May, 2020, 07:05:58 am
(https://i.imgur.com/jJspRM8.jpg)

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Post by: ian on 26 May, 2020, 09:46:52 am
LMC seems to hurt her paw, doing the one-paw lift when she stands, though she seems able to walk on it. Sigh.

Call the vets. Can you take a photo of it? Honestly, put something in her file, no, the likelihood of success in this particular diagnostic escapade is close to zero. Picking up the wriggly claw beast is foolish. Holding her for several seconds while trying to photograph one of said spiky appendages suicidal.

I think they're still smarting from the time LMC pooped down the vet's cleavage.

Anyway, the admitted this might be difficult, so an appointment to remove more money from our bank account has been made.
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Post by: Andrij on 26 May, 2020, 03:36:10 pm
Please remind me why people own serve cats.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 26 May, 2020, 04:27:50 pm
Rory is recovering after surgery for a fractured pelvis and hock having been hit by a car, most likely on Tuesday. We realised yesterday morning he was missing and both walked miles looking for him. After one last search last night with a bike light down by the reservoir where he was found up a tree in January, I got home and found him lying on the drive in distress. From a possible sighting 1/4 mile away he had made it home despite barely being able to walk. He’d been there for about 50 minutes when I got back (doorbell cam spotted him).

He went straight to Langford and was admitted to ICU and stabilised. Social distancing meant we had to drop him off in a consult room and leave him to be examined while we waited in the car. The pelvic fracture was confirmed this morning and he was referred for surgery. Langford is great for this as he stays in the same ICU, avoiding a transfer to a separate hospital. Once he was under for surgery the surgeon was able to check his limbs and found his hock was unstable. Initially it seemed like he’d need his tibia pinned and external fixation and a synthetic ligament. However the fracture turned out to be in a different spot requiring only a plate, so his recovery should be easier.

It remains to be seen if there is any neurological damage but it seems he’s managed to pee which is a good sign.

How is Rory?
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Post by: Gattopardo on 26 May, 2020, 04:29:45 pm
Please remind me why people own serve cats.

Some sort of toxoplasma probably.
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Post by: ian on 26 May, 2020, 08:23:29 pm
Vet couldn't see anything wrong, other than she's limping (really, that cost me £35), but a more thorough investigation will require sedation (I assume the cat and not me) and they'd rather leave it and see if it gets worse before knocking either of us out.

She doesn't seem especially bothered, I think she sprained it, she charging back and forth across the garage roof yesterday and leaping off. No idea why, she spends most of the brief time she's awake hunting imaginary things.
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Post by: rafletcher on 31 May, 2020, 10:01:54 am
We wish we knew. She’s a very easily spooked cat, and since our quiet-as-a-church-mouse neighbour moved out, to be replaced with a family of 4 with 2 well behaved black labs, we’ve hardly seen her. She’s reverted to sleeping under our bed all day  :-\. Went out last night around 10 and we’ve not seen her (and nor, judging from her food bowls, has she been back) since.  :( 

ETA she showed up a couple hours later, cowering from the noise of next door pressure washer being used on the patio, and shot upstairs to hide under the bed. That’s a years worth of coaxing her out down the drain. Hey ho.
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Post by: simonp on 31 May, 2020, 10:15:32 am
Rory is recovering after surgery for a fractured pelvis and hock having been hit by a car, most likely on Tuesday. We realised yesterday morning he was missing and both walked miles looking for him. After one last search last night with a bike light down by the reservoir where he was found up a tree in January, I got home and found him lying on the drive in distress. From a possible sighting 1/4 mile away he had made it home despite barely being able to walk. He’d been there for about 50 minutes when I got back (doorbell cam spotted him).

He went straight to Langford and was admitted to ICU and stabilised. Social distancing meant we had to drop him off in a consult room and leave him to be examined while we waited in the car. The pelvic fracture was confirmed this morning and he was referred for surgery. Langford is great for this as he stays in the same ICU, avoiding a transfer to a separate hospital. Once he was under for surgery the surgeon was able to check his limbs and found his hock was unstable. Initially it seemed like he’d need his tibia pinned and external fixation and a synthetic ligament. However the fracture turned out to be in a different spot requiring only a plate, so his recovery should be easier.

It remains to be seen if there is any neurological damage but it seems he’s managed to pee which is a good sign.

How is Rory?

Rory is doing great. He’s starting to complain about his confinement a bit but is taking it well all round. All his stitches are out, both wounds are looking good, he’s eating well and walking pretty well on the injured leg.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 31 May, 2020, 12:42:37 pm
Rory is recovering after surgery for a fractured pelvis and hock having been hit by a car, most likely on Tuesday. We realised yesterday morning he was missing and both walked miles looking for him. After one last search last night with a bike light down by the reservoir where he was found up a tree in January, I got home and found him lying on the drive in distress. From a possible sighting 1/4 mile away he had made it home despite barely being able to walk. He’d been there for about 50 minutes when I got back (doorbell cam spotted him).

He went straight to Langford and was admitted to ICU and stabilised. Social distancing meant we had to drop him off in a consult room and leave him to be examined while we waited in the car. The pelvic fracture was confirmed this morning and he was referred for surgery. Langford is great for this as he stays in the same ICU, avoiding a transfer to a separate hospital. Once he was under for surgery the surgeon was able to check his limbs and found his hock was unstable. Initially it seemed like he’d need his tibia pinned and external fixation and a synthetic ligament. However the fracture turned out to be in a different spot requiring only a plate, so his recovery should be easier.

It remains to be seen if there is any neurological damage but it seems he’s managed to pee which is a good sign.

How is Rory?

Rory is doing great. He’s starting to complain about his confinement a bit but is taking it well all round. All his stitches are out, both wounds are looking good, he’s eating well and walking pretty well on the injured leg.

Good news.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 31 May, 2020, 12:45:59 pm
Vet couldn't see anything wrong, other than she's limping (really, that cost me £35), but a more thorough investigation will require sedation (I assume the cat and not me) and they'd rather leave it and see if it gets worse before knocking either of us out.

She doesn't seem especially bothered, I think she sprained it, she charging back and forth across the garage roof yesterday and leaping off. No idea why, she spends most of the brief time she's awake hunting imaginary things.

At least the vet is getting you ready for a big bill. Have you heard the mitchell and web sound vet sketch?

Also LMC is killing things and saving you from floaty, flying and crawling stuff. 
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Post by: ian on 01 June, 2020, 11:16:17 am
She mostly only catches and kills imaginary creatures these days. Very effectively.

Anyway, she seems to be better now, I think she sprained it. Though the vet justified herself by shaving random patches of LMC's fur (no idea why, revenge after the poop dans decolletage, I guess).

She also has a touch of conjunctivitis (the cat, not the vet), though yeah, eye drops. Ain't going to happen.
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Post by: ian on 12 June, 2020, 11:15:13 am
I tempted fate and they've suddenly started catching real creatures again. LMC bought in a mouse the other night. I still have my ninja mouse catching skills, so I liberated that one (with no teeth, she can only gum them). Then yesterday Bad Cat ran past with a bird in her mouth. Had to retrieve that. Thought it was a deader, but I put in a box with some water and food, and it perked up. A couple of hours later I saw it fly away.

Anyway, number 3 is the mouse somewhere in the bedroom. And why I'm tired. I've not seen it, but they've both been charging around since 3am. Chances of catching that one are close to nil, so hopefully, it'll stumble into the trap we've put out or one of the cats will catch it (though they seem to have bored of it now).

I liked the imaginary creatures better. No idea why they've started catching things this week. They can stop now.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 June, 2020, 12:05:56 pm
Our little cat is 17. She was a rescue from a semi feral farm litter and in her youth was a prodigious ratter, mouser and bird killer. Voles were her speciality. These days she mainly likes to snooze in the house or on top of the log store but when they combine the field across the lane she will be out again catching all the small rodents that get disturbed if the last few years are anything to go by.
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Post by: ian on 22 June, 2020, 10:39:28 am
Seems to have a brief session of catching things, nothing for the last few days.

Bad Cat did delight us by throwing up repeatedly this morning at 5am as she tried to clear something from her throat.
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Post by: ian on 30 June, 2020, 12:19:48 pm
Another mouse at the weekend. LMC ran past with it in her mouth. Mine, mine, mine. Of course, she ran into the spare bedroom and dropped it. It went under the piano which made getting it out mission impossible. Last seen scarpering across the hallway into the airing cupboard. No chance of getting that back unless it stumbles back out and either into the trap or a passing cat.
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Post by: cycleman on 30 June, 2020, 07:14:58 pm
4.30am and I am woken up by a thud to see tiger lily coming though the window with a large ex flying rat firmly clamped in her Jaws. So I got up and found a old plastic bag and deposited ex flying rat in the bin. I am settling back down to sleep when Freddie comes through the window with a small blue tit. After another trip to the bin lgive up and have breakfast
Early night McLean ::-)
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Post by: ian on 30 June, 2020, 09:20:16 pm
LMC's lack of teeth means she's just making an unwanted murine delivery.
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Post by: T42 on 07 July, 2020, 09:34:22 am
Raz the larger Lab is worried. I've cleared off one of my desk extensions and installed an ancient computer on it to run VB6 (vintage 1998), and in consequence have been Sitting In The Wrong Place all morning.  He keeps dunting my elbow and sending MOVE commands at me.

Labs are born with built-in clip-boards & stopwatches, like Henry in The Dream Team.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 July, 2020, 05:47:05 pm
Pumpkin's just brought her 2nd mouse of the day in  :facepalm:
She's had quite a lot of small things in the last week.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 22 July, 2020, 08:32:17 pm
Trying to kill a butterfly.

After eating a bee and several mosquitos...he might have been stung too so the sky sultanas maybe a snack but come at a price....
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Post by: rogerzilla on 23 July, 2020, 11:17:15 am
Yowling, which means one of three things:

1. Feed me now
2. I can feel a poo brewing
3. I've got the raging horn
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Post by: Ham on 24 July, 2020, 03:24:06 pm
Yowling, which means one of three things:

1. Feed me now
2. I can feel a poo brewing
3. I've got the raging horn
How does your cat know what you are thinking?
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Post by: T42 on 30 July, 2020, 10:55:31 am
Lab Major just came to have his ear scratched.  That's how I found out that Lab Minor had just washed it out for him.
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Post by: ian on 31 July, 2020, 11:15:34 am
Melting.

(https://i.imgur.com/5dTWWqK.jpg)
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Post by: Gattopardo on 04 August, 2020, 10:40:13 am
Boy cat is wrapped around my foot/calf purring or snoring.  Occasionally wakes, licks me and then moves that his belly is on my foot.

This is very nice for me, as the vibrations and soft fur feel nice.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 August, 2020, 01:29:21 pm
Tigs is somewhere down by the river, hangin' wit his hoes.

Dumpy is still AWOL.  Seen by neighbour yesterday but avoiding this place.
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Post by: trekker12 on 04 August, 2020, 03:41:56 pm
Freya is missing as usual. Not exactly missing as we know where her favourite place to sleep is, which isn't this house at present. There's some wasteland behind some garages four houses down and she sleeps there all curled up in the long weeds - strange cat...

Her sister Anja is wandering around aimlessly. Since they both turned three in June it's like having teenagers.

'I'm so booooored'

'I'm off out, you will have to come and get me if you want me to stay here (once I've eaten I'm off out again)'

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Post by: T42 on 04 August, 2020, 04:08:10 pm
Our parrot, Coco, calls every treat a cherry.  Lately we've been leaving a bit of flesh round the stone when we eat a peach, then passing it on to him: "Cherry!"

Yesterday all the flesh came off the stone cleanly, so I gave him the last bit without the stone. Clear as a bell, he said "No cherry".
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 August, 2020, 12:09:57 pm
Tilly is laid on the cool stone floor. It's too hot for dogs today.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 07 August, 2020, 12:19:14 pm
Freya is missing as usual. Not exactly missing as we know where her favourite place to sleep is, which isn't this house at present. There's some wasteland behind some garages four houses down and she sleeps there all curled up in the long weeds - strange cat...

Her sister Anja is wandering around aimlessly. Since they both turned three in June it's like having teenagers.

'I'm so booooored'

'I'm off out, you will have to come and get me if you want me to stay here (once I've eaten I'm off out again)'

Mine (I know) were three too.

Did you have a birthday party?
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 August, 2020, 01:54:37 pm
Our Blackie 'officially' turns three later this month. We don't know her exact age as she was one of a litter D found under  the decking of his observatory.

We held a party for her first birthday but parties have been suspended in lockdown.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 August, 2020, 05:24:15 pm
Cats ran away at 4am today, when D tried to apply flea spray, which they HATE.
Cats have not yet returned.
They fed VERY well yesterday.

D is Upset.

They will return.

I hope.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 August, 2020, 05:32:41 pm
Have you tried the spot on stuff instead of the spray?
They'll hate that too cos it stinks of solvent but at least it doesn't sound like a hiss.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 August, 2020, 05:46:36 pm
We've tried Spot-On but
D needs to restrain them to apply it and I can't help.
They are both very long-haired and getting it on the skin, rather than fur is difficult.
Blackie, in particular, runs away whenever D tries this.

D managed to get about half a tube of Spot-On on Big Tom last week and D is covered in bites...
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Post by: SteveC on 07 August, 2020, 05:58:22 pm
With our Maine Coons we gave up and got tablets from the vet instead. Trying to get sufficient Spot On through a double layer winter coat to keep a 10kg cat healthy was not easy.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 August, 2020, 07:28:33 pm
They're (predictably) back!

We bought tablets from Sainsbury's at some point but Blackie Would Not Eat.

We've not tried to force them down.
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Post by: SteveC on 07 August, 2020, 07:33:56 pm
We bought tablets from Sainsbury's at some point but Blackie Would Not Eat.

Shippham's fish paste with tablet inside.
Or in extremis, crush tablet into butter, get butter onto cats, preferably near its mouth when it will wash it off.

(Our Ginge was on tablets for the last eighteen months of his life. Sometimes it was easier than others.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 August, 2020, 08:55:18 pm
Thanks!
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Post by: ian on 10 August, 2020, 12:33:50 pm
We can't apply spot-on parasite treatment to LMC, she has to go to the vets. Just opening the stuff sends her running and there's no way we can restrain her – it takes a vet and three veterinary nurses and even then, she's got one shot to get it on, before LMC squiggles free. She can't be restrained twice without the administration of a general anaesthetic.

Bad Cat, on the other hand, doesn't even notice.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 10 August, 2020, 09:40:32 pm
I just tell mine what I am doing and they are fine.
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Post by: FifeingEejit on 10 August, 2020, 10:01:44 pm
I've just been majorly guilt tripped as I made my lunch for tomorrow.

The brothers sprocker is down for a haircut;
Bread means toast and toast means crusts, means lying on the floor trying to look as cute as possible.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDuRj0xsTTQ/
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Post by: trekker12 on 17 August, 2020, 02:59:04 pm
Freya is missing as usual. Not exactly missing as we know where her favourite place to sleep is, which isn't this house at present. There's some wasteland behind some garages four houses down and she sleeps there all curled up in the long weeds - strange cat...

Her sister Anja is wandering around aimlessly. Since they both turned three in June it's like having teenagers.

'I'm so booooored'

'I'm off out, you will have to come and get me if you want me to stay here (once I've eaten I'm off out again)'

Mine (I know) were three too.

Did you have a birthday party?

They were three in early June so birthday parties were out of the question. They had some tuna though
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Post by: trekker12 on 17 August, 2020, 03:08:11 pm
Anja has decided to keep me company whilst working from home. Which means she is choosing to sleep on the rug right under my wheelie chair. Care is now required when maneuvering
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Post by: rogerzilla on 17 August, 2020, 08:48:29 pm
Dumpy has done the most minging poo in the litter tray.
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Post by: T42 on 18 August, 2020, 07:32:32 am
Standing in my office grinning at me while the tip of his tail strums to & fro across the strings of the cigar-box guitar leaning against the book-case.
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Post by: Kim on 18 August, 2020, 08:23:04 pm
Dumpy has done the most minging poo in the litter tray.

Nominative determinism?
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Post by: simonp on 19 August, 2020, 03:36:00 pm
Not right now, but in general: throwing my stuff on the floor to get my attention.

(Rory)

Rory is doing really well otherwise, though still can't jump as high as kitchen worktops with his repaired leg and pelvis. Which is good news given the above hooligan behaviour.
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 August, 2020, 04:22:46 pm
Staying out of the rain.
Blackie is in the lounge.
Big Tom is outside, resting on the bin under the patio canopy.

They are having a duvet-free duvet day.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 August, 2020, 12:33:20 am
They are having a duvet-free duvet day.

Is that not every day for cats?
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Post by: hellymedic on 20 August, 2020, 01:05:22 am
They are having a duvet-free duvet day.

Is that not every day for cats?

Big Tom doesn't move much, it's true.
Blackie can be very active and is a mighty hunter.
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Post by: Jaded on 28 August, 2020, 11:22:50 pm
Somewhere on here there was a post about a dog toy that was actually Boris.

It led me to buy one for my Mum's terrier puppy. He has had it for three weeks...

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Boris_lost_weight.jpg)
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Post by: PaulF on 29 August, 2020, 06:40:28 am
Somewhere on here there was a post about a dog toy that was actually Boris.


Guilty as charged ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 04 September, 2020, 07:32:22 pm
Somewhere on here there was a post about a dog toy that was actually Boris.


Guilty as charged ;D

It has been well received, lasted longer than the duck.

We should call the dog Kier, for eviscerating Boris...
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Post by: Nick H. on 07 September, 2020, 02:46:36 am
Mine is outside, probably eating discarded takeaways. I'm not sure which bits she eats. Maybe some chicken if there's no sauce on it. She (a cat) is a very fussy eater. The vet wants her to lose weight but I can't stop her eating rubbish unless I keep her in.
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Post by: trekker12 on 08 September, 2020, 09:38:58 am
(https://i.imgur.com/nNkGeYy.jpg)

I have a helper in my home office this morning
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Post by: Jaded on 08 September, 2020, 12:02:17 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: hellymedic on 08 September, 2020, 01:37:39 pm
Keyboard kats are taking over the internets...
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 September, 2020, 05:13:55 pm
Cats are watching D fettle and clean his bike.
There has been a rear wheel visitation, the offending flint has been located and removed and the tube patched in situ. Hydraulic disc brakes and hub gears make wheel removal somewhat complex.

[OT ETA] D's tyre has just deflated. I've done all his patching previously...
[ETA] Deflation not due to patch failure. Will grumble elsewhere.
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 October, 2020, 04:13:51 pm
Big Tom is on the mat by the glass kitchen door & cat flap.
Blackie is on the ramp immediately outside the door.
They call to each other or scratch the glass but aren't going anywhere.
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Post by: T42 on 30 October, 2020, 08:46:39 am
Last evening the parrot was clinging to the side of his cage and crying "woe, woe" like a prophet of doom.  Sure enough, at midnight we went into lockdown.
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Post by: hellymedic on 31 October, 2020, 06:24:56 pm
I suspect, but don't know, that both cats are having a duvet day on the throw that covers the grand piano.
Last night they were on top of the bin under the canopy.
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Post by: Kim on 31 October, 2020, 06:25:42 pm
Last evening the parrot was clinging to the side of his cage and crying "woe, woe" like a prophet of doom.

Are you sure he wasn't trying to be a wol?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 January, 2021, 09:50:05 pm
So, our cats get fed 3 times a day, and Pingu has trained Pumpkin to give out kisses when she wants fed. I always do breakfast and we split dinner and supper up as they come (pre-lockdown dinner would be done by whoever was home first, and Pingu would do supper.)
Now, after us both WFH since March, where I am in the loft and Pingu is in the living room, he mostly does dinner so I do supper during the week.
Apparently this has been going on so long she can't do it the other way. Today I did dinner so Pingu should have got a kiss and dispensed supper.
20 mins of him requesting a kiss and nothing... I give her a shout and get a kiss instantly. Clearly she thinks I get the supper time kisses now.
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 January, 2021, 11:44:57 am
I'm the one who feeds Tilley the most. The very few times the job falls to Peli, Tilley still comes to me after to say thanks :)

Tilley have started to scratch herself all over and we have been trying to figure out what is the reason. We know that she is allergic to chicken and have cut that out of all food/snacks. We have found, on the tinterweb, that carrots can also give the same symptoms as we are seeing Tilley have atm. So we will cut that from her starting today to see if the scratching is food related.

This is going to be a mission.

Cause she have always had a carrot as her afternoon snack at about 1500. She will start to nag us an hour before, nudging our legs, pulling out her bedding and throwing it around. Before she starts to kick the sofa or back door followed by these little growl come barks, while walking backwards, to then walk over to kick the door/sofa again. This is only getting louder and louder until she gets her carrot. We can't say the word carrot - she have now learned root vegetable, spelling it and other words like orange etc - without her going spare.

So I gotta have my finger ready on the mute button for my 15:00 meeting today, she isn't going to best pleased :)
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Post by: ian on 19 January, 2021, 11:17:06 am
Cats and food. Bought some different stuff for variety. They both wolf it down. For about two weeks. Now Bad Cat just sits there and refuses to eat it. Obviously, having waited for me to buy two big boxes of the stuff.

And stop pooping in the house*. God, the stench permeates and my office is on a mezzanine level and doesn't have a door to shut it out.

*they're both doing it now, I did blame the weather but I think it might be foxes putting them off. I'm sure they've made a den under the summer house and often lounging up there in the sun. Anyway, I can't poop when a fox is looking at me either. Well, I've never tried doing it in front of any woodland creature, but you know, any audience is offputting.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 January, 2021, 11:40:09 am
As far as I have experienced, providing variety just makes for fussy bastard cats.
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Post by: Regulator on 19 January, 2021, 10:29:31 pm
Snoring... loudly.   He makes some humans seem positively quiet.
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Post by: Basil on 31 January, 2021, 05:16:23 pm
Guarding the fire.  That won't be escaping then.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 10 February, 2021, 09:31:14 am
Has anyone else's cat realised that the WFH laptop is a nice warm spot for a nap?
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Post by: Kim on 10 February, 2021, 02:55:35 pm
Has anyone else's cat realised that the WFH laptop is a nice warm spot for a nap?

(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/55617715/if-it-is-not-for-sits-then-why-is-it-made-of-warm-.jpg)
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Post by: ian on 10 February, 2021, 08:30:10 pm
They don't like Macbooks because they're not warm enough (now Flash is deprecated), a friendly Dell or Lenovo, on the other hand.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2021, 11:55:26 am
Mainly Tilly is on guard at the patio doors.
There has a been a squirrel and a pheasant in the garden this morning and its just not right and shouldn't be allowed.
She tells me if she doesn't keep an eye out they will break in and murder us all.
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Post by: woollypigs on 12 February, 2021, 02:42:55 pm
Getting over the sulk after her trip to the vet for a ultrasound scan. Where most of her belly and other areas got clean shaven.

Still haven't found out why she suddenly dropped from her normal 16-16.5Kg to about 15kg and no matter how much we feed her nothing stays on her.

All the bloods, poops, wee tests etc have been down twice and still none the wiser. She is her normal happy and healthy self (bar the weight loss). If the last lost of test don't show anything new, we are going to try another food to see if that will help gaining some back. Cause she is just a bag'o'bone.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2021, 02:51:55 pm
Woolly try Simpsons Premium 80/20. Not many places stock it but its 80% protein and grain free. We mail order ours from the manufacturer which is in the UK. They also do a 60/40 if 80/20 doesn't agree. They do trial sized bags as well.

https://www.simpsonspremium.com

Its good for no loose poop as well! Our Tilly was terrible when younger until we switched to this,
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Post by: woollypigs on 12 February, 2021, 02:59:33 pm
Thanks. Let's see what the vet says. It will be a change for Tilley since we have fed her raw or raw'ish food. We are now on https://forthglade.com/ She have had that for at least 5 years and always (which she still is) produce nice and easy pickup able nuggets.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2021, 04:53:22 pm
We use Forthglade treets.
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Post by: Flite on 15 February, 2021, 05:15:52 pm
Zeppy is sitting on my lap so I can use a flea comb on her ears.
She caught a rabbit nearly as big as she is, but needed a bit of help to get it through the cat hatch.
She has been pigging out all afternoon and now has twitchy ears.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 February, 2021, 09:41:50 am
Looking sad. She threw up yesterday evening and was listless and couldn't settle all night. A bit of crying but went to sleep on the sofa with me about 4:00am (I know but she's my best friend).
She's keeping water down and ate reduced breakfast (we only gave her half) with normal gusto so I'm monitoring it and if she gets worse or isnt looking better by tomorrow its off to the vets.
Almost certainly she has eaten something horrid in the field or possibly its due to the huge rolling session he had in slurry that was spread on the field yesterday - took four showers to get rid of teh smell.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 February, 2021, 07:34:50 pm
Pumpkin woke us up at 0245 this morning and proceeded to moan for the next 90 minutes that she needed a runny poo and she didn't want to use either of the available litter trays (I'm not letting you out at that time of the night, cat). Eventually she capitulated and peace was restored. Until Ninkasi woke us up plucking at the hall carpet about an hour later.  :facepalm:
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Post by: hellymedic on 16 February, 2021, 09:38:05 pm
Big Tom (neutered) is not a happy bunny; he nearly smashed the cat flap trying to fend off wandering Local Ginger, who visited the kitchen door.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 February, 2021, 07:18:01 pm
Well Tilly went to the vets yesterday evening. Vet said two unrelated issues:

1) She ate something nasty

Well yes she's half labrador she eats everything and anything. she can find. Temperature fine, stomach seems not distended all good now she vomited teh problem up.

2) Tail down between her legs and whining and cant settle

She's wagged her tail too much or something and sprained it !
The vet gave us anti inflammatories and she's much happier now. Slept through the night and he tail is up to 1/4 mast today. Got to not exercise her much for a week and let it recover.

Blooming dogs its like having small children,
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Post by: lou boutin on 18 February, 2021, 12:00:07 pm
I have a young cat called Gerrard (le chat noir).  He is currently sat on the cat tree/ climbing frame that is in the corner of my home office, looking at me and licking his lips, which means he is asking for food.  Having checked all the food bowls around the house, I've noted that they are full!  So he is obviously asking for something different to what he has.  #FirstWorldCatProblems
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 February, 2021, 12:38:52 pm
Hello! Good to see you! Hope you are well, glad you've got a cat again :)
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Post by: lou boutin on 18 February, 2021, 12:58:49 pm
Hello! Good to see you! Hope you are well, glad you've got a cat again :)

Thank you.  I adopted a cat from my local cat rescue just over a year ago.  He was a really sad little thing that hissed at everyone who viewed him to adopt him.  So I decided to bring him home and see if he would settle down in a house with no other cats.  Luckily he did and has become quite a friendly little thing.
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Post by: barakta on 18 February, 2021, 04:54:00 pm
Aww, happy kitteh!
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Post by: lou boutin on 18 February, 2021, 05:11:01 pm
He is much happier now.  It is lovely to see what a friendly and affectionate cat that he turned out to be.  He loves to be on camera and often joins my teaching sessions. 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 February, 2021, 05:20:31 pm
Gosh, that was very brave of you! Glad he has blossomed and repaid your faith in him :)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 February, 2021, 10:21:57 pm
Tilly's tale is back up to half mast now.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2021, 08:37:54 am
Gosh, that was very brave of you! Glad he has blossomed and repaid your faith in him :)

He was such an unhappy cat in the rescue centre, that I didn't mind if he was happier and we just shared a house.  We did for the first few months and then he decided I was okay.  Lockdown made the difference, he just wants company and fuss (but on his terms).
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2021, 08:38:21 am
Tilly's tale is back up to half mast now.

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 February, 2021, 02:55:55 pm
Tom is sitting on the doormat by the cat flap, watching the world.
His ability to jump onto high things seems to have dropped in the last day. He failed to jump onto my kitchen bar chair and struggled to get onto D's organ bench, clawing holes in the plastic cover.
He pushed our bedroom door ajar and attempted to jump onto the shelf in the bay window but failed that too making a din.

He's a big boy (7kg) and the shelf must be around 75cm off the ground.
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 February, 2021, 11:47:29 pm
Tom managed to jump onto D's bar chair today so whatever stopped him doing this last week seems to have gone away/healed/improved.
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Post by: lou boutin on 23 February, 2021, 09:07:08 am
Tom managed to jump onto D's bar chair today so whatever stopped him doing this last week seems to have gone away/healed/improved.

That is good news.   :)

Gerrard the cat is sat with me as I write.  He keeps me company in the home office.  He likes to join my teaching sessions and has got to recognise the voices of some of my students.  He is particularly fond of a couple of my PGR who also have cats and who join the video conference. 
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Post by: hellymedic on 26 February, 2021, 05:10:44 pm
Annoying D while he installs SkyGuard roofing onto part of his observatory.
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Post by: Pingu on 20 March, 2021, 05:06:43 pm
Eating frog spawn  ::-)
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Post by: T42 on 21 March, 2021, 10:42:34 am
About an hour ago Lab Major wandered into my office, looked at me lovingly, blew a vast and choking fart then wandered out again.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 March, 2021, 04:19:09 pm
Eating frog spawn  ::-)
Same again this morning.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 March, 2021, 05:25:58 pm
Resting, having just created an almighty rumpus bullying of the neighbouring cats (one of the nice ones that just minds it's own business rather than one of the big buggers that bullies her and sprays all over our door).
Us and the other cat's owners both appeared outside and I had to apologise for the wee hooligan.  :facepalm:
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 12 April, 2021, 02:53:28 pm
Poppy is feeling very sad as we were just at the vets.

She has torn her cruciate ligament in her back leg.

I have an appointment at the special veterinary hospital in Duisburg on Wednesday to discuss what kind of operation. I am starting to collect the €€€ for it.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 14 April, 2021, 04:19:55 pm
Poppy is back home after an operation to repair her cruciate ligament (with what sounds like a piece of dental floss) and she is feeling very sad about things. Two weeks total rest (mostly in the crate) and then VERY slow walking. It's going to take a long time....
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 April, 2021, 11:32:02 pm
Cruciate ligaments are what hold the knee in a stable fashion.

The bones in the knee have pretty flat surfaces and without them the joint would bend back or sideways in a rather scary fashion.
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Post by: SteveC on 18 April, 2021, 04:18:35 pm
Not actually my pet, but I came in from doing some gardening to find next-door but one's cat asleep in our spare room cum office. As if he owned the place.

Which in some ways he does.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 April, 2021, 04:28:37 pm
#Notmycat
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Post by: ravenbait on 18 April, 2021, 05:04:58 pm
Lying next to my desk. Farting. It is her new favourite thing. She even sneaks in here to snooze and fart when I'm elsewhere in the house and have shut the door.

Sam
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Post by: T42 on 23 April, 2021, 10:56:00 am
Ezra died today. Heart attack or a stroke in the night: I found him this morning when I came to let the dogs out of their cage.  We're just back from taking him to the vet for cremation.

(https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/170625222.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 23 April, 2021, 11:48:00 am
Aw  :(
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Post by: ravenbait on 23 April, 2021, 12:47:32 pm
I'm so sorry, T42.

Sam
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Post by: Gattopardo on 23 April, 2021, 03:08:02 pm
So sad to hear T42
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 April, 2021, 05:00:59 pm
Aw, sorry to hear that :(
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Post by: Jakob on 23 April, 2021, 07:57:05 pm
So sorry to hear :(
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 23 April, 2021, 08:14:38 pm
Aw poochie  :(

Sorry to hear it.
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 23 April, 2021, 09:31:04 pm
Bob is spending the night (or more) in the vet' hospital after apparently being shot with an air gun.  :sick:
He went out about 5am and we didn't see him until about 8pm, which is unusual, but not unheard of - we noticed a wound on his right hand side, in the abdomen area. Phone to the vet, trip up the road. Thank goodness for insurance.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 April, 2021, 10:10:10 pm
Thst sucks :( people are arseholes
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 23 April, 2021, 10:37:21 pm
Thst sucks :( people are arseholes
That's almost what we said
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 April, 2021, 01:23:23 am
Condolences T42.
Hoping Mike's Bob recovers well!
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Post by: T42 on 24 April, 2021, 08:04:50 am
Thanks for the condolences, everyone, it's warming.  His brother spent a deal of the night howling in the kitchen, then we relented and let him upstairs.  We're all pretty zonked today.

@Mike, that's lousy. Good luck to Bob - he'll probably be coming home with one of those pestilential plastic cones round his neck.
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 24 April, 2021, 08:21:30 am
Thanks everyone regarding Bob.
I've got to collect him at 9 this morning. The pellet went through the muscle just into his abdomen. They've got it out, he's eaten something. Now we've got to try to keep him indoors for 10 days.
Last time we tried that, he destroyed the cat flap. Bricks may be needed!
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Post by: Gattopardo on 24 April, 2021, 12:50:00 pm
Bob is spending the night (or more) in the vet' hospital after apparently being shot with an air gun.  :sick:
He went out about 5am and we didn't see him until about 8pm, which is unusual, but not unheard of - we noticed a wound on his right hand side, in the abdomen area. Phone to the vet, trip up the road. Thank goodness for insurance.

WTF, so sorry to hear.  Some people are fucking scum.
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Post by: T42 on 25 April, 2021, 08:25:11 am
We're shattered: Ezra's brother Raz died last night, just before midnight.  He hasn't been in great health recently - he had cancer - but he didn't give us any hint that he was that bad.  He was lying on one of our our bedroom rugs and we'd just put the light out when he coughed a bit, and the room filled with a stink that got steadily worse.  We put the light on to find him in convulsions, and he died a few minutes later.

We can hardly believe it: our two wonderful boys gone in two days. Of course we're thinking poison, but really we can't tell.

He's lying in the hall now. on the tiles where it's cool.  We're both exhausted: after getting him downstairs and cleaning up our bedroom we were a long time getting to sleep, and we both woke early.  We'll take him for cremation tomorrow, when the vet's place opens again.

Five years ago:

(https://pbase.com/johnewing/image/163909719.jpg)
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 25 April, 2021, 08:57:25 am
So sorry to hear that, T42 & Mrs T42
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Post by: SteveC on 25 April, 2021, 09:58:41 am
That's awful, T42. Feel so sorry for you. They do leave a big hole when they go.
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Post by: barakta on 25 April, 2021, 12:55:28 pm
I'm so sorry to hear about both Ezra and Raz. That's very sad.

I hope Bob keeps recovering from surgery well (expletives towards people who shoot animals for harm).
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Post by: Canardly on 25 April, 2021, 12:59:55 pm
Sad news T42.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 April, 2021, 05:19:08 pm
Aw man, that's awful T42. What a shitty time you're having. Sorry for your loss.
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Post by: hellymedic on 25 April, 2021, 06:49:23 pm
Poor you, poor Raz!
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Post by: Pingu on 25 April, 2021, 11:29:31 pm
That's so sad, T42  :(
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Post by: citoyen on 26 April, 2021, 09:36:30 am
We can hardly believe it: our two wonderful boys gone in two days.

To lose both so close together... That's awful. So sorry for you.
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Post by: T42 on 26 April, 2021, 10:15:52 am
Thanks for the sympathy, everyone.  We're just back from the vet's, leaving him for incineration.  Tomorrow I'll do one more trip to drop off all the food, treats, left-over medicines and other paraphernalia, to be given to the SPA - the bunch that run dogs' homes in France.

The vet told me that he often sees a dog dying soon after a sibling, and Raz was ill and suffering in any case. Over now.
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Post by: Jakob on 17 June, 2021, 08:53:27 am
Having Hana's half-sister over as her owner is away.
(https://i.imgur.com/QO2eqkx.jpg)
It's going well, except I'll need to find somewhere else to sleep
(https://i.imgur.com/SJs81Qh.jpg)

I suspect it's revenge from earlier(It got chocolate, so she didn't get any!):
(https://i.imgur.com/WY9JCcs.jpg)
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Post by: T42 on 30 June, 2021, 12:55:44 pm
Marching up and down his bottom perch proclaiming "Cherry!" to the world because that's what just dropped into his seed-pot.
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Post by: rafletcher on 11 July, 2021, 05:01:16 pm
We wish we knew. The replacement of the fence meant that Phoebe the car spent Thursday and Friday daytime under our bed. And yesterday too, although the fence guy had gone. Then she went out at around 9pm last night and didn’t reappear until 2pm today. She was with us for about and hour, but some sudden noise made her disappear again.  :-\
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Post by: Thing2 on 11 July, 2021, 10:22:05 pm
Another one who doesn't know. I've got one cat gently snoozing next to me while the other one went out yesterday morning and hasn't come back yet  :(
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Post by: Thing2 on 12 July, 2021, 09:02:07 am
Another one who doesn't know. I've got one cat gently snoozing next to me while the other one went out yesterday morning and hasn't come back yet  :(

She came back in at 2am this morning. No idea where she has been! The other one bought us a live mouse in ways of celebration, despite us having put a collar and 2 bells on her about 5 minutes before, having lost the previous one yesterday.  ::-)
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Post by: Pingu on 12 July, 2021, 09:22:21 am
Another one who doesn't know. I've got one cat gently snoozing next to me while the other one went out yesterday morning and hasn't come back yet  :(

She came back in at 2am this morning. No idea where she has been! The other one bought us a live mouse in ways of celebration, despite us having put a collar and 2 bells on her about 5 minutes before, having lost the previous one yesterday.  ::-)

Does she have a credit or is she a cash only kitty?  :P

Anyway, Pumpkin, the mighty huntress, came home with a couple of bits of bread at the weekend  ::-)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 July, 2021, 06:48:24 pm
And this morning a mouse and some more bread.

Hope Pheobe has come home now rafletcher?
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Post by: rafletcher on 12 July, 2021, 08:17:44 pm
And this morning a mouse and some more bread.

Hope Pheobe has come home now rafletcher?

She did thank you. Still mostly hiding under the bed, but at least she turned up as usual whilst I was making morning tea.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 July, 2021, 08:29:50 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 12 July, 2021, 08:56:42 pm
The Terminator is taking part in the Zoom call.

Biscuit Barrel is still recovering from eating 3m of string and then running round the house having vomited 2m up, and having it dragging behind her...
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Post by: ian on 21 July, 2021, 06:09:04 pm
Tag team (which is rare as they usually fight each other) fighting a fox, which sensibly retreated. Idiots, the pair of them, the fox is a lot bigger.

It seems the centrepoint of this clash was a big, I presume hen's, egg. I gave it back to the fox, who actually did come and take it from my hand. I presume the cats didn't want the egg, the fox just happened to have it, but who knows.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 July, 2021, 07:18:08 pm
Haha excellent.
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Post by: ian on 21 July, 2021, 07:58:03 pm
I like the way Little Monster Cat, who weighs 3kg wet, fluffs herself up like that's going to convince a fox she's an actual tiger.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 July, 2021, 10:53:23 pm
Pumpkin is really decimating the mice at the moment.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 24 July, 2021, 01:24:40 pm
Pumpkin is really decimating the mice at the moment.

Is pumpkin eating the mice, ripping the mice apart and then leaving the remains as proof of what she can do.  Or are they a new toy, played with then released in the house.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 24 July, 2021, 01:25:24 pm
It is the kittens birthday weekend....they are have prawns and dover soul this weekend.
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Post by: Pingu on 24 July, 2021, 02:55:43 pm
Pumpkin is really decimating the mice at the moment.

Is pumpkin eating the mice, ripping the mice apart and then leaving the remains as proof of what she can do.  Or are they a new toy, played with then released in the house.

She plays with the corpses then eats them.
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Post by: Pingu on 31 July, 2021, 11:50:59 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51343810043_0197f91e8f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2me5rWc)
IMG_8508_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2me5rWc) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 August, 2021, 05:14:36 pm
She had another one today.

Meanwhile Ninkasi is on my lap, snoring. Not little tiny kitty snores either but great big ones.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 August, 2021, 10:33:15 pm
A new kitty on the block has turned up. It looks just like Mojo, a FFOTP.
Pumpkin is not impressed.
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Post by: Regulator on 03 August, 2021, 10:01:56 am
Jack is napping in his bed by my desk, alternatively snoring and farting...
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Post by: hellymedic on 03 August, 2021, 09:47:47 pm
Our cats are mostly staying away from base. Blackie hardly came in to eat yesterday and has eaten less than usual today.  D says they've been atop the Observatory while he was at a Zoom in his warm room shed.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 05 August, 2021, 09:14:30 am
Catticus just walked into the office with a mouse in his mouth. I'm afraid he was expelled rather rapidly throughthe window.

He is now on the drive, playing with aforesaid mouse.

Update: he has just miaowed at the window to come back in; there is a small pile of mouse guts on the drive.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 August, 2021, 09:43:56 pm
10 days ago, Dumpy Cat started throwing up and stopped eating much.  Couldn't even keep water down, so took him to vet who gave him anti-nausea and painkiller IVs and kept him in overnight.

Was ok for a day then started again.  Admitted again, did ultrasound scan and found no gut motility at all, so gave him a drug to stimulate that.

Came home after 2 days and was great for 24 hours then it started again.  Admitted to vet again, who did another scan and found small intestine lining had thickened in 5 days plus lymph nodes swollen.  Recommended biopsy (major op!).  Have taken samples of small intestine, bowel and lymph nodes.  After two nights in, he came home on Saturday.

Haven't had results yet but he's eating like a horse, not puking af all, and toilet functions are normal.  Vet reckons it's IBS, lymphoma if he's unlucky, but did suggest the trauma of the surgery might jog things back into action anyway.  He has a 4" seam holding his guts in and they have literally rummaged around inside, feeling his stomach and intestines.

Tesco pet insurance have been impeccable so far, given they're out for about £2,500  :thumbsup:

Anyway, he's just eaten a shedload of freshly cooked salmon and is snoring.

Weird side-effects: he has, overnight, learned to rub against my legs when he wants something, and also (with impeccably bad timing given he's supposed to take it easy) has learned to use the cat flap, which has baffled him for a year.  I think they gave him a ROM update while he was in surgery.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 August, 2021, 09:48:28 pm
Aw, poor Dumpy Cat.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 12 August, 2021, 09:47:55 am
Dumpy hasn't been sick for a week, is eating normally and everything is coming out of the other end as it should.  He seems very happy.  Weird, as he hasn't actually had any treatment.  It may have just been an infection.  Still waiting on the biopsy results but he has a check up on Monday.
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Post by: PaulF on 12 August, 2021, 05:19:12 pm
Puppy has flaked after tormenting elder dog by hiding under the sofa then running out barking at big dog barking before hiding under chair. Big dog can’t get under furniture so it’s canine hide and seek
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Post by: ravenbait on 12 August, 2021, 05:37:13 pm
Floof is splooting in the doorway that leads between our front hall and the part of the living room that a previous owner told us used to be the bathroom, but which now serves as occasional dining room and Mr Bait's working area. My office leads off the hall, so I am trapped at her arse end while Mr Bait has access to the kitchen.

Maybe she is trying to help me with my diet. I think she just likes being an impediment.

Sam
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Post by: rogerzilla on 14 August, 2021, 03:17:20 pm
Dumpy's biopsy results have come back and he has IBD, not lymphoma.  However, to avoid it progressing to the latter, he needs a course of steroids to calm down his guts then a fairly restricted range of foods.  Poor little cat - he loves a variety of food, especially roast chicken or turkey.

The irony is that he's never been better, but IBD comes and goes.
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Post by: PaulF on 14 August, 2021, 03:54:57 pm
Big dog seems to have accepted little dog and is actively seeking her out to play. Although play seems to consist of big dog clubbing the puppy to the floor and sitting on her whilst puppy bites big dog’s tail.
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Post by: Basil on 14 August, 2021, 03:59:27 pm
Gone out into the drizzle to sit on her Thinking Step.
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Post by: rafletcher on 15 August, 2021, 02:32:06 pm
Sleeping in the sun on top of an old toolbox - at the bottom of our neighbours garden. And our (recently widowed) neighbour is fine with it. Unlike her late husband who tried to cat-proof  ::-) his garden. 
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Post by: De Sisti on 16 August, 2021, 07:53:34 am
A pet dog attacks its owner (and others too).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58224546 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58224546)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 September, 2021, 10:53:12 am
They are both miaowing and moaning and squeaking and various other pathetic noises at the moment in their new home. We can't even go for a poo in peace as Pumpkin just paces up and down the hall shouting!
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Post by: Pingu on 25 September, 2021, 10:56:37 pm
Oi cat. You're an obligate carnivore. WTF are you doing eating mushrooms? And don't give me any of that umami BS.
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Post by: Pingu on 25 September, 2021, 11:48:48 pm
And what is this tree climbing and getting stuck shit  :demon:
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Post by: ian on 28 September, 2021, 04:06:43 pm
For the record, mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants, so 3/10 for effort on the cat's part.

Bad Cat has a nightly miaow fest in the hallway now. She waits for us to go to bed and then starts up. For ages. She also does this with her favourite ball in the side of her mouth and at the end of proceedings, wanders into the bedroom and drops the ball with a gentle thud of punctuation. Job done.

Noisy furry idiotsack.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 September, 2021, 03:30:43 pm
You know that thing where you throw a dog a little teat and it catches it, well my dog just ducks.
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Post by: Basil on 29 September, 2021, 04:12:21 pm
You know that thing where you throw a dog a little teat and it catches it, well my dog just ducks.

Megan is similar.  She just doesn't do catching.  If you chuck a treat, it bounces off her head.  She doesn't do sticks either.  If you throw a stick, ball or whatever, she just looks at you.  "So, you didn't want that then." She says.
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Post by: Kim on 29 September, 2021, 04:20:36 pm
I believe the traditional solution is to put them in goal and blame them when your sportsball team inevitably loses.
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Post by: T42 on 23 October, 2021, 11:02:29 am
Nibbling a slice of fig while sporadically proclaiming "Cherry!" and whistling the tune from Duke's first aria from Rigoletto very badly.
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Post by: rafletcher on 07 November, 2021, 07:01:05 pm
Whenever we put things over the radiators to dry a bit, she does one of two things. One is to pull whatever it is down off the radiator by crawling up underneath them, or else, when we use the double panel one….

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51662677769_26f5103a2a_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mHfJcB)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2mHfJcB) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
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Post by: Gattopardo on 07 November, 2021, 08:46:04 pm
Oi cat. You're an obligate carnivore. WTF are you doing eating mushrooms? And don't give me any of that umami BS.

Have your cats been in contact with my cats?

Stole a mushroom then played with it...but took bites out of it.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2021, 10:12:58 pm
They are recovering.
Last week noticed that Ninkasi has red scabby bits in the thin fur patches in front of her ears. Bet that's flea allergy dermatitis, thinks I. Somewhere there is a box with some spot on we got from the vet a few months ago.
Finds it, applies it on Saturday. Then reads leaflet and finds out it was wormer, not for fleas.  :facepalm:
In my defence they've never had problem fleas before, but Pumpkin is always eating something that warrants worming.

Tonight I vacuumed and sprayed the top floor with flea killer.

Then get spot on flea stuff, shove it on both cats. Didn't manage to get it in exactly the right place apparently. (surprisingly difficult when they're disappearing down the back of Pingu's neck.) So they both manage to lick it and hypersalivate massively. Sorry kittehs.  :-\
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Post by: T42 on 15 December, 2021, 03:31:07 pm
Looking into cellphones:

(https://pbase.com/image/172204214.jpg)
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Post by: T42 on 26 December, 2021, 02:48:56 pm
The parrot is locked up in disgrace. He quite happily lets me rub his back and scratch his ruff, but when MrsT offered him an apple core this morning he reached round it and nipped her finger so hard he raised blood.
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Post by: De Sisti on 26 December, 2021, 04:06:47 pm
Next door has just acquired a dog. It is barking incessantly. I need a dog-whistle (one only audible to dogs)
to blow and be heard by dog through paper-thin dividing wall between our properties.
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Post by: Kim on 26 December, 2021, 07:38:34 pm
Wouldn't that just excite the dog and cause more barking?  Our [nighbours' dog] certainly goes off in response to interesting noises through the wall.
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Post by: rafletcher on 02 January, 2022, 01:27:26 pm
Late to the party...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51794076641_cc89006d83_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mUSbvp)Late to the party… (https://flic.kr/p/2mUSbvp) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2022, 01:59:51 pm
Pumpkin is badgering us for food even though it's not kitteh tea time for another 90 mins.
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Post by: Ham on 11 January, 2022, 11:22:38 am
Is your pet doing this:


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/10/starlink-satellite-dish-cats-elon-musk

 ;D
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 January, 2022, 09:41:54 am
NewKitten (not yet named, arrived Sat night), is currently cowering behind a curtain, looking at me like I am devil incarnate.

40 min ago she was climbing on my lap, purring, and obsessively following me around the house.

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 January, 2022, 02:52:45 pm
Ooh exciting! Pictures?
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 20 January, 2022, 09:52:15 am
Ooh exciting! Pictures?
Wrestled with flickr, failed.

She's discovered home working, AKA, walking across keyboard, batting pens onto floor, curling up on or under my arms while I'm typing.
Not sure if this will work
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLWKGM6OnKo75mSImP1V84wDM5Tbg5IYB7cOIFEYayxG8ka7bv5CFTeq8w5RvTpL7HnQVYFkH-Pnxx_nkk3i_Nl6m30R3uC1sN5vjvk1Xq3YgZyQ71C6Zy0glsGTCUV69_An9HfP0Ipz4FvcXyhscakt=w1054-h794-no?authuser=0)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLUK5hocc0e0eUE5OTBaIef5mWZ2i1T10ZuWVGJjEIET73UTqxdM4rqhEcrPjsdPPRRVgFHcmxO8148Polopg6doDLrlcsprtkWSQTTbLNcykuyVxPOgcmHQx1H0ot6OxWUscjXCvKeLF_k33UBxUb7h=w1054-h794-no?authuser=0)
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Post by: woollypigs on 20 January, 2022, 10:52:04 am
Not sure if this will work
I see no issue here, you just have to adapt and take/share pictures, that's your job/life now :)
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Post by: Pingu on 20 January, 2022, 11:10:47 am
Naughtie tortie!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 January, 2022, 11:12:55 am
OMG you have joined the 'living with mental torties' club! Welcome :)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 20 January, 2022, 11:47:34 am
OMG you have joined the 'living with mental torties' club! Welcome :)
She definitely fits in that category.

About 9:30 - 11pm is the "I'm totally mad" session. Cannonballing around the room, pouncing on anything. Take that, ball of paper!

Highlight so far was her misjudging the edge of the table, starting to slide off, then doing a cartoon cat scramble up the tablecloth as the whole thing (including vase and bottle) started to slide off.
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Post by: eckagain on 20 January, 2022, 11:48:14 am
Does anyone else's cat do a runner at the sound of a length of aluminium foil being torn off the roll?
Our Lucy, normally gallus and easy-going, heads for the hills, or under the spare bed at least, as soon as I open the drawer where we keep said foil.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 20 January, 2022, 12:07:45 pm
Cats hate foil.
Gardners sometimes put lengths of it on beds to stop cats crapping.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 20 January, 2022, 01:07:53 pm
Catticus has taken to sitting on the upstairs banisters, where he does all the usual cat things - washing, sleeping, attacking his tail from one side when it's dangling from the other...

Well, today the inevitable happened. I don't know the direct cause, because I was downstairs at the time, but it's a four metre drop and he did land on his feet. One life gone. Hopefully he'll learn from it.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 January, 2022, 02:39:10 pm
Getting restless. Its time for a walk.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 January, 2022, 03:41:36 pm
Our mental torties seem to be getting on better since we moved house. Whether that's because there's more space for them to move around indoors or less stress with a lower feline population density outdoors, I don't know. They even frisk together now which they haven't done for years, and now Ninkasi doesn't try to punch Pumpkin in the face every time she sees her.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 21 January, 2022, 01:20:50 pm
First flea treatment.

Pick up kitten.
Hold kitten to chest while MrsC gets ampule sorted.
Try not to scream as kitten administers a nipple piercing with unfeasibly large claw.
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Post by: ian on 22 January, 2022, 06:07:16 pm
Does anyone else's cat do a runner at the sound of a length of aluminium foil being torn off the roll?
Our Lucy, normally gallus and easy-going, heads for the hills, or under the spare bed at least, as soon as I open the drawer where we keep said foil.

Bad Cat does (noises don't bother LMC) – though weirdly she can distinguish normal foil usage (RUN! HIDE! ARRGGGHHH!) from the very same foil when it covers the remnants of the turkey (FOR ME? TURKEY FOR ME, YOU SAY?)

In other exciting pet news, Bad Cat has now started urinating in the bath. Seriously, if we go into the bathroom to conduct our transaction with the toilet, she'll follow, hop into the bath and do the same. Utterly bizarre and disconcerting. Still, as my wife points out, there's are worse places for her to wee.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 January, 2022, 04:41:27 pm
Oi cat, those dried mealworms are for the birds, not for you.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 24 January, 2022, 10:32:25 am
Description of kitten by cat adoption charity

"She needs a quiet home as she startles easily at loud noises. Initially she will be very shy and hide but over time will become accustomed to you."

Kitten in house

Practices parkour off the furniture, bookshelves, tables.
Decides she wants attention so climbs up human and pokes them in face with paw - regardless of whether human is sat down or walking at the time.
Is making me seriously concerned for the health of the scratching post; she has been here a week, is 5 months old and the post is getting shredded. I've not previously seen a cat go up a scratching post sideways, slashing with all four paws.
"Is startled by loud noises" Not when it is a cascade of books she's shoved off the bookcase she isn't.
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Post by: woollypigs on 24 January, 2022, 10:42:52 am
She clearly found her home.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 January, 2022, 12:36:46 pm
bonkers tortie ;D
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 January, 2022, 05:37:51 pm
Keeping cats hydrated is very important. They are prone to kidney issues.

So MrsC buys cat a water fountain thingy.

Assemble. Fill. Plug in.

Cat is very interested. Wanders over. Pokes fountain.

Goes and drinks from the porcelain bowl that until now she's refused to use.
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Post by: Kim on 25 January, 2022, 06:08:37 pm
So MrsC buys cat a water fountain thingy.

Postman Piers used to have one of those that caused an annoying sympathetic vibration from his rickety bathroom floor.  Not that that bothered him.  Or the cat, who seemed largely indifferent to the thing.

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Post by: Flite on 26 January, 2022, 01:17:28 pm
Zeppy has spells of using her water fountain, but prefers to drink from the river, bird water bowls, muddy puddles etc.
But top favorite is a dripping tap - keeps her quiet for at least two minutes.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 26 January, 2022, 04:44:33 pm
You know how modern parenting often seems to consist of sticking a tablet in front of a child to shut them up?

I had to resort to doing same with Teh Kitten.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 February, 2022, 05:21:48 pm
So, I'm at home alone, gales stop me from going to shops and I'm peckish for snacks. House full of baking ingredients, so I make some peanut butter cookies.

Later that night, the power is out. I'm sat in front of the fire, reading on my phone and slowly eating a large cookie.

I'm not daft enough to put it down, with kitten about.

At one point, I try to move cookie to mouth. It doesn't move. I pull harder. The cookie tugs back.

Peer dimly into the dark.

Other end of cookie, teeth firmly embedded, is the cat.

Little damn sneak!  Good thing these are resilient cookies and don't just crumble.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 February, 2022, 05:31:17 pm
 ;D
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Post by: woollypigs on 07 February, 2022, 06:04:46 pm
haha
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Post by: barakta on 07 February, 2022, 11:56:23 pm
*giggles* That's a brilliant story!
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Post by: TPMB12 on 08 February, 2022, 11:08:15 am
Is this all about cats or can dog owners get involved?

Does any dog owner thinks their dog has multiple personalities? My dog is obviously dog like but occasionally she goes full on cat!

OK I've never seen a dog sit,  raise its front leg off, rotate paw to lick it just like a cat! Not until my dog did it. She plays with a ball,  when we ignore her requests to play,  just like a cat.  Patting it away then catching it. She likes to climb up on things and walks high up on walls, she then needs to be lifted down because she's a dog and can't jump down like cats can.

So anyone else have a dog or cat that occasionally behaves like the wrong species?

PS our dog also appears to hold a grudge.  If she wants attention and you're too busy to do so she'll let you know by turning her back on you and won't even look at you. I think that ignoring your existence is more cat than dog  too.
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Post by: woollypigs on 08 February, 2022, 11:45:03 am
I've seen dogs lick like cats and all the dogs I've known holds a grudge
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Post by: Kim on 08 February, 2022, 05:53:52 pm
Isn't a dog that thinks its a cat basically a fox?
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Post by: ian on 08 February, 2022, 06:06:34 pm
There was a couple we knew in Sydenham who had a cat that thought it was a dog (it wasn't The Beast of Sydenham). For reasons, she had been adopted when she was a few weeks old and added to a litter of similarly aged puppies, so not unreasonably had no idea she was anything other than a vastly superior dog. It was amazing how much behaviour is nurture.
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Post by: TPMB12 on 08 February, 2022, 06:47:43 pm
Isn't a dog that thinks its a cat basically a fox?
I'm worried that you think my dog is a fox.  There's a name for people who have too much interest in animals!  :o :D

Seriously, both dogs and cats can be a bit strange at times in what they do.  Real derps!

I caught ours stood with front paws on windowsill and rear ones on the bed,  quite a stretch for a border terrier. Just so it could luck a recently cleaned window.  Did it for 5 minutes before I stopped it.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 February, 2022, 07:54:56 pm
Pumpkin acts quite like a dog at times. She certainly has the appetite and the dinner manners of your average labrador. And when she mooches about in the garden her gait has some of the bulldog about it.
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Post by: Flite on 08 February, 2022, 08:17:49 pm
Years ago we adopted a cat who had been raised in a house full of Rottweillers. Unsurprisingly she thought she was a dog and we named her Floss. Worryingly she had been fed dog food rather than cat food. She was probably the most affectionate cat we have ever had, but was always a bit retarded, and I put that down to malnourishment in her developmental years.
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Post by: Kim on 08 February, 2022, 08:38:00 pm
They don't put taurine in dog food, do they?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 February, 2022, 08:38:35 pm
Nope
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Post by: Flite on 09 February, 2022, 07:37:36 pm
Indeed, lack of taurine and protein. Didn't seem to affect her physically, she just wasn't very bright!
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Post by: Basil on 09 February, 2022, 07:58:29 pm
Looking at me with an expression that says 'I'd like a soddige sandwich too'.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 10 February, 2022, 01:36:31 pm
Not a pet but I can't find the cat good news thread so it can go here.

For the last 3 years a feral cat has spent a lot of time in my garden. It seemed to dissapear early last month and I assumed the worst had happened but he or she was back this morning looking in fairly good health.
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Post by: ian on 11 February, 2022, 05:47:18 pm
Still pissing in the bath. It's a thing now, Bad Cat follows either of us into the bathroom and we do simultaneously wees. It's so disturbing that I've started to use the downstairs loo.

A catflap malfunction meant she was locked out the other night, I did not appreciate the 3.49 am wake-up call as she tried to claw the door open and yowled loudly. I can't imagine the rest of the town did either.

It's been dying for a while, I like the Sureflaps, but they seem to die after 8 years. They do an internet cat flap now so you can track them. There's an app! And a glowing cat-hub. My wife is a bit less impressed with technology and uttered the word why. Because because because.
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Post by: Pingu on 11 February, 2022, 05:49:35 pm
...They do an internet cat flap now so you can track them. There's an app! And a glowing cat-hub. My wife is a bit less impressed with technology and uttered the word why. Because because because.

Does that mean you have to get smartphones for the cats?
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Post by: ian on 12 February, 2022, 09:28:13 pm
They already have smartphones. They're fourteen, we figured they were old enough.

Mind you, if they really did, I'd phone LMC who has yet to put in an appearance since we got home at 7 pm, which is a tad unusual, though sometimes she really does like sleeping and she might be in the top of the wardrobe, where they have a secret cat penthouse. She's nowhere else that I can find.

ETA: she lives. Yes, the secret penthouse.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 15 February, 2022, 02:44:20 pm
Forget catnip

Peanut butter. That's the real cat crack.

This is hard to type, because I've just eaten some crackers with peanut butter on them. The cat is now chewing, licking and drooling on my fingers.
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Post by: T42 on 15 February, 2022, 02:45:06 pm
One of the pleasures of owning a parrot:

(https://pbase.com/image/172351307.jpg)

Pass the hand satanizer.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 February, 2022, 08:31:41 am
Not right now, but yesterday.

I'm in a meeting, getting information on technical issues and functions. Just two of us, I'm madly scribbling notes as the other person talks.

Until the cat decides to join me. Jumps onto desk, sits next to my notepad and decides that my writing is the best cat-toy ever. Paws wrap around my pen and try to yank it out of my fingers. This goes on for 10minutes while I try to write, listen and not collapse in giggles.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 02 March, 2022, 08:54:34 am
I swear, this is the clumsiest cat I've ever owned.

Previous cat at same age was running up the barge mast (terrifying us), swinging from the hatches. Just about walking on the ceiling.

This cat?

Falling off chairs, desk, steps, anything. Doesn't seem to notice edges to things.
When she jumps down, it is like a sack of rocks landing. You'd think she weighed 20 stone.
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Post by: Flite on 02 March, 2022, 02:57:58 pm
Well, for about a month she has been happily consuming the food supplied by the staff, including medication.
This week, NO, she won't eat her food at all.
This morning she dragged a rabbit though the cathatch and, as you do, started chewing the head end.
No chance of her eating her breakfast now, I thought.
So I syringed her meds (all 0.3ml of it) onto the chewed bit....
Head and meds gone, rest of rabbit dispatched.
Gottcha!
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Post by: Redlight on 02 March, 2022, 03:23:22 pm
One cat is sitting on the back of the sofa, watching another cat wandering around the garden, and trying to decide whether he's in the mood for a fight. He's chased this one out several times in the past... but it's raining.

The other is curled up in a ball on my son's bed, fast asleep.

The fish are doing whatever fish do, repeatedly.
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Post by: ian on 04 March, 2022, 09:17:36 pm
Bad Cat started micturating in the bath. Then something far worse. So I created an obstacle course out of bubble bath bottles. She hops up on the side of the bath, looks at my work, hops down, wanders over and into the shower and relieves herself.
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Post by: Kim on 04 March, 2022, 09:21:04 pm
Keep that up and you'll have her using the toilet.  Just don't teach her how to flush.
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Post by: ian on 04 March, 2022, 09:28:27 pm
That's my hope. She's going to the vet anyway, but the issue was that she used to go in the garden, then for some reason she started using the litter tray inside, so LMC then started to use the litter tray inside too, so we got another litter tray, and then LMC started to use that litter tray too...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 March, 2022, 11:34:02 pm
Litter trays =N+1 where n= number of cats, apparently.
Could just be a subtle power struggle between LMC and Bad Cat?
What sort of litter trays do you have? Our kitty shrink recommended the top entry ones where they are hidden from view.

To be fair to Bad Cat I'd be fairly sanguine about shits in the bath, having been on the receiving end of sprays on the doors, radiators, sofa, in front of the stove...
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Post by: ian on 05 March, 2022, 12:14:29 pm
LMC and Bad Cat are several years into their power struggle*. If Bad Cat does something, LMC will want to do the same. I presume Bad Cat stopped using the garden because the foxes spooked her, so of course, LMC then had to start doing hers inside. We could fill the house with litter trays, I suppose. They do have the enclosed ones in the alcove under the stairs.

There are indeed worse places for her to do it, but what she's done there is not my favourite thought as I marinate in a sudsy bath on a Sunday evening.

*no idea, one day they were besties, the next, they hated each other.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 March, 2022, 04:38:36 pm
Cats are strange beasties.
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Post by: ian on 05 March, 2022, 05:07:59 pm
There may be progress, I think she used one of the new litter trays (they have two brand new ones). Leastways, I hope it was Bad Cat, because if LMC* laid out one that big, oh my.

It was so much better when they used the garden.

*she puts the Little in Monster Cat. About 3 and a bit kilograms. Though she appears to think she's a big cat.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 March, 2022, 05:42:26 pm
An interloper kitty came and sat in our front garden while Ninkasi was sitting in the window. She floofed and hissed at it but eventually moved away and sat down. Then Pumpkin sat in the window. When she eventually spotted the interloper she started howling the place down (really loudly). Pingu had to go out and escort the interloper from the premises.
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Post by: Kim on 05 March, 2022, 05:47:53 pm
There's a Rule According To Kim™ about not getting involved in cats' territorial disputes.

[placeholder for image of Mrs barakta's-mum looking tragic with a SuperSoaker]
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Post by: ian on 05 March, 2022, 06:09:27 pm
The problem with LMC is that she thinks she's as big as the feline interlopers and she isn't. Nor does she have any teeth. That said, she fights like a demon and has claws that can shred steel.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 March, 2022, 06:16:40 pm
I didn't particularly want to listen to that for hours.
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Post by: Jaded on 05 March, 2022, 06:20:29 pm
"Thud!"

That was tilty-head-round-cat-on-a-diet as she dashed to the ration of biscuits that was about to be put in her bowl. The table leg survived the head-butt.
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Post by: Pingu on 05 March, 2022, 07:17:30 pm
...*she puts the Little in Monster Cat. About 3 and a bit kilograms. Though she appears to think she's a big cat.

Our cats are that size. After we got them our sense of cat sizes were recalibrated so that Mrs P's brother's average sized cats seemed ginormous.
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Post by: ian on 06 March, 2022, 07:03:06 pm
Bad Cat is about 5.5kg (makes an almighty thud when she leaps out of the wardrobe), but she can't win a fight with LMC, and is generally useless, resorting to pathetic yowling when faced by another feline interloper until one of the humans comes and sorts it out. LMC will chase other cats.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 March, 2022, 07:33:31 pm
Problem with Pumpkin is she thinks she's a big cat but she's trapped in a small body. She doesn't seem to have the sense to avoid confrontation.
Rushes in where angels fear to tread is an apt description.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 March, 2022, 10:02:39 am
Damage done by cat does not usually bear any relationship to their size.

Siggi 'met' the local bully cat on Sunday. OK, they were separated by a pane of glass, but it was interesting.

Bullycat spotted Siggi sat on the window ledge, jumped up on the coal bunker and walked over to her.

Siggi froze, then when Bullycat got close, she did the arched back, fur puff thing, and flattened her ears.

Her fur is a bit weird; it separates along her stripes, so when she puffs up, she looks like a stegosaurus.

Bullycat froze, then ran away!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 March, 2022, 05:11:03 pm
Ah, she has a name :)
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Post by: Kim on 07 March, 2022, 09:42:48 pm
Damage done by cat does not usually bear any relationship to their size.

IME it tends to correlate strongly with how much time they spend asleep, looking harmless.  Beware of any snoring pile of fur proudly introduced along the lines of "That's George.  He's getting on a bit, but he's a right bastard and will have your arm off."  It's the cat-owner equivalent of "He's only being friendly."
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 March, 2022, 10:08:24 pm
We visited my brother yesterday. His cat was pleased to see me but very quickly started disembowelling my foot and then biting my jeans. Crazy beast.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 28 March, 2022, 09:27:57 am
We now have two wild things in the house; Hamish, and 8-year-old border terrier, and the incumbent, Siggi.

Siggi is inhabiting the top of the house. Hamish is downstairs. So far they've just stared at each other a bit.

Siggi's latest game; leaping up the back of my office chair. Sometimes she grabs the chair back, sometimes she grabs my neck - and dangles there, claws firmly embedded around about my carotid.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 April, 2022, 05:43:52 pm
At the end of this month it will be 8 months since we moved into the new Pingu Towers. Next weekend we and the cats will be decamping while we get a new kitchen fitted so we have started the process of packing up the kitchen cupboards.
Today I was rummaging about in a big bag of heavy duty shopping bags preparing to pack some stuff. Normally any sort of noise like that would make the cats run away but Ninkasi came right up to me and the bags, hissed at the bags, made pathetic squeaking noises at me and generally acted weird.
After a few mins I stopped, went through to the lounge, gave her a spoffle and a brush and then she attacked me!
Such delicate dispositions my girls have...  ::-)
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Post by: T42 on 18 April, 2022, 02:16:33 pm
Our wretched parrot has taken to calling my name in MrsT's voice every minute or two for as long as either of us is in his vicinity.  He's driving us round the bend.  It usually takes him two or three weeks to get fed up and move on to something else.  He'll be lucky to survive that long.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 April, 2022, 07:24:51 pm
Pingu tells me that Pumpkin (I assume) brought home the first ded maus of our new home.
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 April, 2022, 09:03:56 pm
At least it's dedd!

D found droppings in his shoe from one that wasn't!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 April, 2022, 09:06:54 pm
Pingu and I were outside shifting the water butt tonight and Ninkasi came and hissed at us again.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 22 April, 2022, 08:43:55 am
You are going to laugh . . .

While MrsC was away, I might have let the cat have the run of the bedroom at night ('run' literally; she'd run in an out like a maniac, parkouring off the furniture, then go to sleep in her bed in the hall).

This didn't suite MrsC, so she (the cat) was shut out on MrsC's return.

Cue much scratching at door every night, bashing it to get it open. Every bedtime was a game of hide and seek, where she'd try to avoid being put out of the bedroom.

Last night, I  dashed to the bedroom and quickly shut door to stop cat getting in. Unfortunately, she was sprinting behind me and ran headlong into the door (it wasn't even closed, she just couldn't turn in time).

so I went to bed concerned that she'd hurt herself. Never mind that she'd been running around the room purring afterwards, my mind couldn't help but think of concussion, bleeding on the brain etc.

By 4am, after a fitful night, I realised that the cat hadn't been scratching at the door. Not one little bump. So paranoia tripled and I became convinced she was lying dead on the floor somewhere.

Nothing for it but to creep out of bed.

Cat greeted me on the stairs, perfectly fine.

Cats! they stop you from sleeping even when they aren't doing anything!
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Post by: Rod Marton on 23 April, 2022, 09:28:09 am
Looked out of the window to see Catticus walking around the garden with a magpie in his mouth.

Which was fine, until youngest son got up and opened the front door. Cat (plus magpie) promptly came in. The magpie proved to be still alive and escaped.

So I have just had an exciting time trying to expel a magpie from the house. As I rapidly discovered, a magpie is a sufficiently large bird to do a significant amount of damage. Anyway, I managed to persuade it to fly back out of the front door, closely followed by a frantic cat. Once outside, the magpie flew off and Atticus slunk back inside, being sufficiently affectionate to show that he wanted a bowl of food to replace the meal of bird he had just lost.
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Post by: T42 on 23 April, 2022, 10:49:10 am
My sympathies are entirely with the magpie.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 25 April, 2022, 09:27:31 am
The magpie is back this morning, though strategically perched on the neighbour's garage rather than taking its usual perambulation around the front lawn. Catticus is sitting on the window sill, making hopeful mewing noises.
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Post by: T42 on 28 April, 2022, 03:18:42 pm
Our wretched parrot has taken to calling my name in MrsT's voice every minute or two for as long as either of us is in his vicinity.  He's driving us round the bend.  It usually takes him two or three weeks to get fed up and move on to something else.  He'll be lucky to survive that long.

Further to the above, he has now added my reply and is calling out "John? Furroff".  He needs a little more instruction to get the CK right.
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Post by: Jakob on 04 May, 2022, 08:23:33 am
Snoring happily after many many birthday treats and a long walk in the forest:
(https://i.imgur.com/0jz8pK9l.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/RqBUqJMl.jpg)
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 04 May, 2022, 02:49:43 pm
Hana looking quite grey  around the muzzle, how old is she now?
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 May, 2022, 04:01:05 pm
one does not ask a lady her age :)
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Post by: Legs on 04 May, 2022, 04:38:20 pm
Took delivery of four (hopefully) fertile goose eggs and snuck them underneath our broody goose.  Fingers crossed we’ll have some Pilgrim goslings in four weeks’ time!
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Post by: Jakob on 04 May, 2022, 08:17:05 pm
Hana looking quite grey  around the muzzle, how old is she now?

She's 8 now.
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Post by: ravenbait on 08 May, 2022, 01:10:28 pm
Stinking up my office with her farts.

Sam
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 May, 2022, 01:16:28 am
Blackie brought in a moribund baby rabbit this evening.
I do hope this wasn't somebody's pet bunny. I didn't think rabbits bred wild hereabouts.
D was very upset.
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 May, 2022, 09:21:06 pm
D put poor bunny on lawn and it had died when he went out later.
My cleaning lady informs me there have been 'Lost Rabbit' posters locally, fastened to trees.
Said lady only visits me on Tuesdays so bunny would have escaped quite a while back.
Oh dear!
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 May, 2022, 07:18:01 pm
Cleaning lady visited Wednesday and had helpfully pictured the 'Missing Rabbit' poster on her phone.
Looks like it might be the one. Rabbit was missing for 5 weeks, since 3 April, before Blackie's conquest.

I phoned number on poster but was informed phone was switched off.
I sent SMS text yesterday afternoon but this has not been delivered.

There are no other contact details on the poster.

Oh dear!
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Post by: Legs on 12 May, 2022, 09:33:59 pm
Took delivery of four (hopefully) fertile goose eggs and snuck them underneath our broody goose.  Fingers crossed we’ll have some Pilgrim goslings in four weeks’ time!
Goose seems to be enjoying her incubating stint.  I’m going to have to lure her off the nest this weekend (apples work well) for long enough to grab the eggs and candle them.
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Post by: Basil on 12 May, 2022, 10:41:55 pm
Candle them.  ?
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Post by: Kim on 12 May, 2022, 11:35:24 pm
Holding the egg to a light source so you can see what's going on inside?
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Post by: Legs on 13 May, 2022, 07:30:39 am
Yup.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: hellymedic on 13 May, 2022, 05:20:30 pm
And therefore determine if egg contents are living & growing or otherwise.
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Post by: Basil on 13 May, 2022, 09:01:45 pm
Thanks for the eggy weg explanation.

My pet is currently recovering from having eaten an entire packet of dark chocolate digestives last night.
Not her fault, she's a dog.  Our fault for leaving them where we did.
Massive heart rate this morning, but that's calmed down now.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 13 May, 2022, 10:24:29 pm
Problem with Pumpkin is she thinks she's a big cat but she's trapped in a small body. She doesn't seem to have the sense to avoid confrontation.
Rushes in where angels fear to tread is an apt description.

But she is soooooo cute.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 13 May, 2022, 10:25:47 pm
Stinking up my office with her farts.

Sam

Ah blame the dog ;)
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Post by: Gattopardo on 13 May, 2022, 10:26:46 pm
Took delivery of four (hopefully) fertile goose eggs and snuck them underneath our broody goose.  Fingers crossed we’ll have some Pilgrim goslings in four weeks’ time!
Goose seems to be enjoying her incubating stint.  I’m going to have to lure her off the nest this weekend (apples work well) for long enough to grab the eggs and candle them.

I'm now imagining a strange egg version of goose goose duck...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 May, 2022, 03:18:49 pm
Making a face.
She investigated a very small beetle. I  assume it  squirted something unpleasant at her given how quickly she retreated and the faces she was making.
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 May, 2022, 05:26:20 pm
Text sent in response to lost bunny failed to deliver, after 72 hours  in the ether.

D reports that something hefty fell onto hedge separating our garden end with the adjoining garden. A large number of cats fled from under the hedge.
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Post by: IanDG on 16 May, 2022, 09:50:58 pm
The terrier's playing dead

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52078764399_ac08bc6f43.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nm2hg2)IMG_20220516_213207_542 (https://flic.kr/p/2nm2hg2) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 17 May, 2022, 08:57:16 am
Standard terrier chillout pose. Ours does that and same position but other way up.

I wish the stupid thing would chill out. Combination of MrsC being away plus him obsessing about the cat means he isn't eating, won't stop whining and barks bursting out now and then.

Cat is unimpressed with being chased and is likely to remove his face if he doesn't back off. Had to separate them last night, he was taking no notice of the warning growls.
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Post by: ian on 19 May, 2022, 08:30:11 am
Thunder, rain, lightning, wind. OK, LMC doesn't much care, she'd sleep through the apocalypse. Bad Cat, on the other hand, is scaredy and runs away and hides when she so much as sees a hoover. She's generally quite an anxious cat.

So last night, during the light show, they both went to sit outside and watch.
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Post by: T42 on 19 May, 2022, 08:47:27 am
Well, he was strutting about proclaiming "Wotchagot? Cherry!" because he had one, but now they've gone mouldy he's just saying "Cherry?" and hoping.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 23 May, 2022, 10:22:46 am
Leaping onto my desk, stealing my pencil, and pressing the mouse button while I'm typing.
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 May, 2022, 04:38:38 pm
Sitting totally unbothered by the Donner und Blitzen in the garden.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 May, 2022, 06:30:11 pm
This morning I was roused out of bed by caterwauling outside. When I opened the back door Pumpkin shot in and was all floofy tail and peching. About lunchtime she came and sat on my lap but didn't really look comfortable. When I ran my hand down her tail I got hissed at.
Now she's hiding in a cupboard & feeling sorry for herself. I hope this isn't going to result in an expensive trip to the vet this week.
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Post by: Legs on 14 June, 2022, 11:31:09 am
Goose eggs seemed well developed when we candled them.  However, 28 days came and went, interwebs were consulted and I found that Pilgrim eggs can take up to 34 days to hatch.  With no signs of pipping, I threw them over the hedge into the next field on the 37th day...  :(  Maybe a nice meal for the neighbourhood fox...

Geese are now back out in the paddock, doing their job of keeping the grass under control.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 14 June, 2022, 06:19:21 pm
GN: the dog and kitten (well, 3/4 grown now) are finally sharing space. Kitten teases dog mercilessly. No aggro.

BN: a neighbour's dog, Ted, (part collie, part labrador) has decided out dog is his mortal enemy, and attacks him on sight. This morning he charged 100m down a hill, leapt a fence and went for our dog. Ted is a coward, so I couldn't get hold of him. Owner running down, trying to catch him.
I can stop them scrapping - but MrsC is now scared of walking our dog.
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Post by: mzjo on 15 June, 2022, 09:13:08 pm
Lika (half a husky!) is at the top of the stairs, a bit flat, waiting for her evening stroll. Diams, the youngest cat, is waiting in ambush to play with my shoulder as I go down the stairs to take Lika out. Berlioz had disappeared somewhere but is now returned to his habitual position of repose on a bookcase. Everyone is a bit knackered by the global warming, probably still over 30° outside. The two cats will undoubtedly retire to the cave before long, to find a more agreeable environment!
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Post by: ian on 15 June, 2022, 09:26:26 pm
LMC has gone a bit mad. She's got a favourite toy, the bee-mouse, which she's now taken to carrying around the house, miaowing loudly like it's a kitten.

Sometimes at 5 am.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 20 June, 2022, 08:20:33 am
The terrible two are now best pals, and I'd hoped that would mean they would entertain each other. (instead of cat spending most of the day nicking stuff off my desk).

Nope. Instead, they *both* have to be in my office. Dog has to lie on feet or under chair castors. Cat is still nicking stuff.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 27 June, 2022, 09:01:04 am
Stuck about 20ft up a small larch tree.

At least I think she is stuck. She might just be hunting.

Stupid animal has worked out how to go up, but not how to go down.

Will give it an hour before I get a ladder out.

[edit] she found her own way down.
The SmallBrownBird collective had obviously worked out that she isn't, well, 'agile' when up a tree. They were landing on branches only 2-3ft away from her.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 27 June, 2022, 12:39:53 pm
Looked out of the window to see Catticus walking around the garden with a magpie in his mouth.

Which was fine, until youngest son got up and opened the front door. Cat (plus magpie) promptly came in. The magpie proved to be still alive and escaped.

So I have just had an exciting time trying to expel a magpie from the house. As I rapidly discovered, a magpie is a sufficiently large bird to do a significant amount of damage. Anyway, I managed to persuade it to fly back out of the front door, closely followed by a frantic cat. Once outside, the magpie flew off and Atticus slunk back inside, being sufficiently affectionate to show that he wanted a bowl of food to replace the meal of bird he had just lost.

Last night we found a dead magpie in the dining room. Judging by its state, it had been there for a few days (the dining room doesn't get used very much). Catticus obviously has a thing about magpies.
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Post by: delthebike on 19 July, 2022, 08:42:49 am
A neighbour has a cat called Benny. Benny likes dogs and generally gets on with them. Today Benny dared to get close to Indi, our German shepherd, by walking along the fence that separates our dog from our tortoise. Indi who has always barked at cats decided it was close enough and caught Benny, shook him like he was a rat, and let go of him. Luckily Benny made good an escape, with a few puncture wounds I'm sure.
I don't think Benny will like dogs too much anymore.
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Post by: rafletcher on 22 July, 2022, 10:38:19 pm
Probably hunting, she brought in a (dead) fledgling (a sparrow I think) about half an hour ago.
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Post by: Basil on 22 July, 2022, 11:00:34 pm
Snoring and farting.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 27 July, 2022, 08:12:23 pm
We thought the birds were eating all our strawberries but I just caught the dog pulling them off the plants and eating them.
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Post by: Basil on 27 July, 2022, 08:23:47 pm
Yes.  We never manage to harvest any raspberries that grow less than 1m from the ground.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 27 July, 2022, 08:30:07 pm
That's the first time I have caught her with strawberries. Should have known though as she used to do the same with gooseberries from next door when they had a plant that trailed over our wall and she will seek out brambles on a walk.
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Post by: Pingu on 27 July, 2022, 10:20:52 pm
A co-shirker's dog is fond of strawberries.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 08 August, 2022, 12:31:10 am
Snoring and farting.

Am I your pet?
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Post by: ravenbait on 12 August, 2022, 04:49:10 pm
Not right now, she moved, but recently she has taken to making sure doorways don't change size while she sleeps.

Which wouldn't be so much of a problem if I hadn't had a massive injection of steroids in my foot on Tuesday afternoon.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52280353903_cf0d61919b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nDQtN8)

Sam
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 August, 2022, 07:41:00 am
Chasing sheep and growling at buses.

She's not a large cat, still growing, but not large.

Maybe I shouldn't have given her a Viking name.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 August, 2022, 05:27:36 pm
Don't know because I just dropped her of at the kennels  :(
Now I feel like a complete heel even though its a lovely kennels in a beautiful place in the countryside and she will be fine.

First time we have been on holiday in three years and I had forgotten how difficult it is to leave them.
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Post by: Basil on 25 August, 2022, 08:57:59 pm
Wondering why we're in this pub.
Like, why did we drive all that way, when we could have just walked 100 metres down the road as usual?
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 26 August, 2022, 10:39:00 am
Emitting stress farts, not eating or shitting.


We've had visitors, more or less continuously (2-3 days between each) for the past 4 weeks. First lot were very chilled out old friends and he was happy and normal.
Next lot were not so chilled and dog refused to eat for the last two days of their visit.
The ones currently here have two small hyperactive misbehaving children and he's really not happy.
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Post by: T42 on 28 August, 2022, 10:27:59 am
When our water supply switched to heavily chlorinated Rhine water the other week the parrot refused to drink it.  Fair enough, so do we. We then tried him with Contrex and Aldi's Rocheval that I get for my cycling bottles & the coffee machine, but he refused that as well.  He also refused bottled water at room temperature.  Then MrsT gave him water out of one of the small bottles of Contrex we keep in the bedroom, and he drank that.

Why? She worked it out: we usually top up his pot with tap-water that we take over to his cage in a small Contrex bottle and pour into his pot through the bars.  The beast wanted his own wee bottle, just like a cantankerous toddler.
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Post by: Jakob on 02 September, 2022, 04:43:46 am
Striking just one more pose on the way to Fort Mac with a convenient backdrop

(https://i.imgur.com/VUS46Nwl.jpg)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 02 September, 2022, 02:07:43 pm
That is a heck of a backdrop.

Is that the region you will be working in? Looks like challenging conditions for flying an eggbeater.
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Post by: Jakob on 02 September, 2022, 02:47:07 pm
No, this is Mt Robson in the middle of the Rockies. Northern Alberta is flat and full of trees. Many many many trees.
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Post by: Basil on 03 September, 2022, 12:28:44 pm
The dog tricked us into two breakfasts this morning.
She's spent most of day sleeping it off.
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Post by: T42 on 03 September, 2022, 02:06:58 pm
Good dog.
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Post by: rafletcher on 11 September, 2022, 09:13:39 am
Harbouring a fur ball, if her lack of usual appetite is anything to go by.
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Post by: Legs on 26 September, 2022, 09:57:19 am
One of our two geese died over the summer  :( so, to keep the remaining one company, we rehomed two rescue geese (Buddy and Jovie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_(film))) last weekend.  The newcomers seem to have settled in nicely, although they're proving rather difficult to drive into their hut at nighttime!  Rather strangely, I found that Jovie (who is Toulouse x Embden) had made a nest in the corner of the paddock and has been laying eggs (they usually only lay Feb-May), which I'm taking to be a good sign.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 26 September, 2022, 10:06:28 am
Sleeping outside my office door. Which opens outward.

Then acting very upset when door pushes him aside.
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Post by: ian on 26 September, 2022, 11:10:12 am
LMC is annoying my wife. Which means she's sending me updates about what the cat is doing by the minute. Which is, by proxy, annoying me.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 29 September, 2022, 10:19:55 pm
Gassing me.

I'm stuck in an hour-long meeting with a Very Important Client.

Dog is in office with me and emitting Old Dog Farts that would kill a tardigrade, let alone a cockroach.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 03 October, 2022, 01:42:40 pm
Sunday, Sigrid outdid herself.

Then, in the afternoon, I walk into the kitchen and there is a medium-sized frog, maybe 3" long, in the dog's water bowl.
As there is no way for a frog to enter the house unless brought in, and Sigrid has been carrying in small frogs (but not eating them), for some time, I think she caught this large frog and carried it in, where it promptly hopped into water.

The alternative, suggested by MrsC, is that Sigrid put the frog in the waterbowl deliberately, as a way of stashing some food for later.
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Post by: Flite on 03 October, 2022, 01:58:41 pm
Zeppy is giving husband the full purring and paddling treatment.
He has been away for3 days, during which time her feline hyperthesia, which is normally well controlled by meds, flared up. I'm not sure it's just co-incidence
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Post by: Basil on 05 October, 2022, 10:43:47 am
Me. "Come on then, shall we go for a walk?"
Dog (casting eye up at window from her bed). "Fuck off."
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 October, 2022, 02:18:57 pm
Catching bats

Well, one bat.

She is starting to excel at catching small animals (multiple frogs and one bat) without causing them visible injury. This is surprising, because she is fairly clumsy and eviscerates any birds, mice or rats she catches.

So last night we found a little pipistrelle bat on the floor in the kitchen. Made the sweetest chirping sounds when I picked it up and took it outside.

I do have a photo, but can't be arsed going through the somersaults required to post on yacf.
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Post by: matthew on 21 October, 2022, 11:36:11 am
Well on my birthday last month my sisters decided to give me a cat! No discussion in advance just a pet delivered to my door and a name given by my niece.

Since then she has been settling in, becoming more and more confident, and generally demanding attention. If I sit on either my sofa or armchair then my lap is her bed and once she knows I am awake in the morning then she likes to settle in on my legs!
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Post by: ian on 21 October, 2022, 09:46:23 pm
Looking at the nasty food and miaowing 'seriously, when do we get the proper stuff?'

They have reached the age when their kidneys question their owners' lives spent as an obligate carnivore. Should have eaten more carrot, my little furry friends.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 24 October, 2022, 08:34:57 am
Not eating cheese.

Catticus has an inordinate love of cheese. I had always thought that it was mice that ate cheese and cats that ate mice, but he seems to prefer to cut out the middle stage. Not that he isn't partial to the odd mouse too. Anyway, his morning is not complete without a cheesy snack or two. However being a cat he is of course a cheese snob, and only certain varieties are acceptable. Parmigiano Reggiano, mature Cheddar (has to be mature, mild just does not cut it), Shropshire blue, or (best of all) Stilton. Today I have discovered that not only is he a cheese snob, he is a shop snob - he will not eat Aldi Cheddar.

I'll obviously have to nip down to Waitrose later.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2022, 02:38:26 pm
Both sitting on our laps and purring having been broken free from kitty jail this morning.
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Post by: woollypigs on 30 October, 2022, 12:23:01 pm
Yesterday evening was somewhat a success, we managed with the help of loud talking/singing, TV and white noise to hide the fact that there were fireworks.

But just as we were drifting off into dreamy land a massive BOOM. The mutt jumped out of her skin and set off from the bed into a barking frenzy by using my meat and two veg's as the 100m starting block, with claws and all her weight. Going back to sleep took a wee time.

Mutt then continued with her saying sorry by waking up at 5am demanding food, because of the fecking time change that don't auto update on organic matter
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Post by: PaulR on 30 October, 2022, 04:22:48 pm
Ah yes, the switch to GMT sees our cat sitting in the doorway eyeing me in a very accusing way.  I've explained it's not 5 o'clock yet but he just looks at me as though I am an idiot.
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Post by: matthew on 31 October, 2022, 09:31:53 am
She spent the night seemingly listening for any sign of movement by me, as soon* as I seemed half awake, of moved in bed she woke me by walking on me. I'll be hte one sleeping in the corner of the office this afternoon.

* midnight, 3:30 am, 4am, 5am, 6am ... 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 November, 2022, 06:12:54 pm
Ninkasi is sitting with her body right next to/under the lounge radiator. I think she might be trying to tell us she misses having a wood burning stove.
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Post by: TPMB12 on 11 November, 2022, 05:04:06 pm
Well on my birthday last month my sisters decided to give me a cat! No discussion in advance just a pet delivered to my door and a name given by my niece.

Since then she has been settling in, becoming more and more confident, and generally demanding attention. If I sit on either my sofa or armchair then my lap is her bed and once she knows I am awake in the morning then she likes to settle in on my legs!
My sister once let it be known she wanted to get me a cat for my birthday then 2 weeks later cat products for Xmas.  My mum told her to call me to ask about it.  She asked all pleased with herself.  I replied that I don't like cats and don't think of them as real pets.  Oh and under no doubt I do not want her to get me a cat. I'm an animal lover just don't want an animal I don't want. To say she lo9ked deflated is am understatement! I think I got given cheap plastic tat puzzles instead. Just like she normally gets me.

Since then I've got a partner,  kid and dog. She has 2 adult or nearly adult kids and one dog. Cats are not on the agenda for her since.
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Post by: TPMB12 on 11 November, 2022, 05:11:46 pm
Our border terrier had a vet checkup and jabs. 18 months ago 6.8kg, 6 months before that 9kg. Now she's 9.9kg!

So half a small measuring cup with a teaspoon of wet food mixed in for tea. She's going to be a nightmare begging for treats tonight. She's learnt that by going outside for business then refusing to come back in is a good way to get treats as bribery. Now she goes outside only to sit looking at the door. She's so obviously waiting for the treat to come out to get n her in.

2 or 3 walks a day it seems isn't enough exercise too. Sunday I think we'll head up to the lakes for a proper walk.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 November, 2022, 05:32:22 pm
Ninkasi is being AWOL. I let her out after brekky this morning (6am) and she's not been seen since. And it's blowing a hoolie out there.  :(
So almost impossible to listen out for a crying cat, plus every pile of leaves (of which there are many) looks like a tortie.
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Post by: ian on 11 November, 2022, 09:05:06 pm
Not eating their kidney care food, that's what. (Actually they eat the dry stuff, but under protest, won't touch the wet).

Now surfing the net trying to find something that they might eat as the twice daily food time protest yowling is getting annoying.

Also, dear wife, buy one pack, not twenty, so then we don't have to give it all away. Sorry rescue cats, you're getting it.
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Post by: Pingu on 11 November, 2022, 09:07:19 pm
Ninkasi is being AWOL. I let her out after brekky this morning (6am) and she's not been seen since. And it's blowing a hoolie out there.  :(
So almost impossible to listen out for a crying cat, plus every pile of leaves (of which there are many) looks like a tortie.

She's reappeared.
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Post by: hellymedic on 26 November, 2022, 02:03:23 am
Big Tom has decided to bed down in the corner kitchen cupboard, under the gas hob.
There's a box of 40 Whiskas pouches in this cupboard, which D must extricate (I can't) as we have no cat food left outside the cupboard.
Tom HATES having his slumbers disturbed…

Tom has spent previous nights in our bedroom, either on the bed or on top of D's folded pyjamas, on the counter in the bay window.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 December, 2022, 07:32:06 pm
Sitting by the cat flap looking out. It’s -2. I did let him out by the front door, but he came straight back in again.
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Post by: Kim on 10 December, 2022, 12:36:29 pm
Ninkasi is sitting with her body right next to/under the lounge radiator. I think she might be trying to tell us she misses having a wood burning stove.

My Lincolnshire correspondent reports:
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[The cat]'s new thing is harassing us to get the fire going. he pokes me then pointedly walks to the fire, sits in front of it and stares at me
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 December, 2022, 01:10:46 pm
Very good.
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Post by: Basil on 11 December, 2022, 01:54:32 pm
Not allowing any heat from the fire to get past her to the rest of the room.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 14 December, 2022, 08:40:32 pm
Bringing live animals into my office, then tormenting them.

In the past 5 days, 2 shrews, 2 mice and a jacksnipe.  All of them too injured to be released, so I had to kill them.


Oh, she is really on a roll.

One fat mouse and a starling yesterday.

Worked out how she does it. Sits, motionless, on the peat stack. No wind, so any little creature makes a rustling noise. Then there is the flying parkour cat of daeth.

She spent most of last night outside in sub-zero temperatures, by choice. Bloody lunatic cat.

I guess that's what you get for adopting a kitten with a chunk of wildcat genes.
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 December, 2022, 02:40:01 pm
Blackie (f, neutered) seemed to get into a fight with another, smaller black and white cat, by the side of the house.
Screeching was enough to get Big Tom to shift himself out through the cat flap to investigate.
Blakie dated across lawn in fright but has since returned to the bin below our crumbling Perspex canopy.
Tom has returned for MOAR FOOD.
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Post by: Jaded on 17 December, 2022, 11:15:25 pm
Effie has just been stuck under a filing cabinet drawer.

A successful rescue was launched.
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Post by: hellymedic on 21 December, 2022, 11:48:09 pm
Eating Dreamies named 'Catisfactions' in FOREIGN packaging.
We were running short of Dreamies.
David ambled to Poundstretcher & bought 2 bags of cat treats:
180g Catisfaction for £2.70
200g Dreamies for £4.50.

Dreamies price seems high.
Catisfaction has same graphics and manufacturer as Dreamies.
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Post by: Basil on 22 December, 2022, 12:36:24 am
Stinking of dog.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 December, 2022, 12:15:19 pm
Waiting patiently for the ends of the carrots as Mrs Pcolbeck peels and chops them for tomorrow.
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Post by: Beardy on 28 December, 2022, 12:53:47 pm
The cat has been in cat prison over the Yuletide, mainly because we’ve had a full house and she’s a neurotic lump of fur so would have been very unhappy at home.

She has now returned and is rampaging around the house, shouting at us, shouting to be let out, and then shouting to be let back in and in between demanding attention from us.

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Post by: Basil on 28 December, 2022, 02:14:01 pm
I had thought that the dog was getting increasingly disobedient in her old age.  I've only just realised that she is now almost completely deaf, poor thing.
I've learned that accompanying commands with a hand or arm gesture helps greatly.  Now I just have to make sure that my gestures are consistent.
Yes, we're learning DSL 🐕 👂.

Of course, it's not much use when she's head down sniffing a trail, but it's so much better than it was.
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Post by: Kim on 28 December, 2022, 04:20:00 pm
My Lincolnshire correspondent made this discovery recently about his cat, who has taken to wandering about doing the 'where are you?' meow at full volume and not accepting a verbal response - you have to go and actually show yourself before he's satisfied.

I note that both cats and dogs have a fair amount of hearing to lose before they're down to human frequencies, let alone where we'd notice that they aren't hearing properly.  Must be a bit rubbish for them.
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Post by: Flite on 28 December, 2022, 05:01:12 pm
Our old cat was deaf.
Worked it out when I realised that the full volume meow was similar to my almost-deaf husband's lack of volume control.
They learn to use their other senses, and despite spending a lot of time outdoors, she lived to a very old age.
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Post by: Flite on 28 December, 2022, 05:03:39 pm
I thought the present cat would be freaked out by the new dehumidifier (she has hyperthesia and is very twitchy)
She is fast asleep on a bench between a radiator and the machine which is emitting a gentle warm draught.
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Post by: Kim on 28 December, 2022, 05:23:03 pm
Speaking of other senses, you may find that with a bit of training stamping your foot works to get the dog's attention.  It's a standard Deaf tactic that lies somewhere between frobbing the lightswitch and throwing things across the room in the attention-getting escalation scale, and I'd imagine a dog would be more attuned to floor vibrations than the average human.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 28 December, 2022, 05:26:18 pm
I had thought that the dog was getting increasingly disobedient in her old age.  I've only just realised that she is now almost completely deaf, poor thing.
I've learned that accompanying commands with a hand or arm gesture helps greatly.  Now I just have to make sure that my gestures are consistent.
Yes, we're learning DSL 🐕 👂.

Of course, it's not much use when she's head down sniffing a trail, but it's so much better than it was.
I had the same with my weimaraner, I thought she was getting very naughty and I got a bit grumpy about it. When I realised she was deaf I felt awful! She learned hand signals really well.
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Post by: Flite on 28 December, 2022, 05:36:19 pm
I found clapping my hands together often got through to the cat even when she heard little else.
Works with husband too!
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Post by: Kim on 28 December, 2022, 05:56:53 pm
I have a spectrum-sweeping whistle noise that I sometimes use to get barakta's attention, but her hearing loss is atypical, and complicated by signal processing that thinks it's cleverer than she is.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 December, 2022, 06:45:14 pm
Ooh, is it like the whistle they used to have on Star Trek, in the Shatner days?
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Post by: Kim on 28 December, 2022, 08:49:17 pm
Ooh, is it like the whistle they used to have on Star Trek, in the Shatner days?

No, because I'm crap at whistling, but our alerters play the TOS boatswain's whistle when an IRC bot reminder goes off, because it's really easy to hear we're tremendous nerds    :D

(Idea Lobachevskied from someone I shared a flat with as a PSO, who used it for ICQ notifications.)
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Post by: Pingu on 28 December, 2022, 09:22:41 pm
We have a cat-calling whistle (a noise we emit, not a thing to blow into). It's like the Pink Floyd Dogs whistle.
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Post by: rafletcher on 29 December, 2022, 10:24:58 pm
Sitting on the sofa in the lounge, whilst the (huge!) mouse she brought in last night (that has been in our bedroom and office upstairs, then our lounge this evening) cavorts in the kitchen. Useless bloody cat!
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Post by: Jaded on 30 December, 2022, 03:37:46 pm
Drying out.

After jumping in the emulsion paint roller tray, and running round the house. This resulted in:

1) A shower for Effie
2) lots of getting paint out of carpets
3) crossness
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2022, 04:10:07 pm
Oh dear, that sounds fun for all involved.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 30 December, 2022, 04:39:10 pm
Is that Effie as in Effing Cat?
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Post by: Jaded on 30 December, 2022, 04:56:56 pm
"That Effie cat!" indeed...
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Post by: Jurek on 30 December, 2022, 04:59:53 pm
Oh blimey.
I can imagine the mess.
ETA - cannot be as bad as me as a teenager, having finished decorating my girlfriend's dad's flat, put the lid on 5 litres of gloss white and inverted it to press the lid on. Then lifted it......
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Post by: Kim on 30 December, 2022, 08:03:56 pm
Were there pawprints?

Our cat sneaked in and 'helped' paint a skirting board with her tail once.  Ended up giving her a haircut, on the basis that anything that would remove gloss paint was likely to be more harmful when ingested than the paint.
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 January, 2023, 05:02:44 pm
I thought the present cat would be freaked out by the new dehumidifier (she has hyperthesia and is very twitchy)
She is fast asleep on a bench between a radiator and the machine which is emitting a gentle warm draught.

The dehumidifier in our lounge is working most of the time. Cats spend much time there, mostly sleeping. I don't think they afre bothered by the dehumidifier.They seem to lodge:
On the sofa
On  the Clavinova
On the piano stools
On top of the grand piano

Lounge seems to be a good place for them to lie in wait, emerging for FOOD! as soon as I make noises in the kitchen.

D has finally managed to get flea collars on the cats; hopefully, spaying & vacuuming the sofa & carpets will reduce the bites he's been having...
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 05 January, 2023, 07:58:21 pm
My dog is on holiday in Berlin again.

I am not on holiday and still at home.

My aged dog has a more exciting life than me!
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Post by: Rod Marton on 08 January, 2023, 03:02:23 pm
Puking.

But simply being sick on the carpet would be far to straightforward for Catticus. Instead he decides to perch on the top of the upstairs banisters and vomit over the edge, thereby coating a significant amount of the downstairs hall. The only good thing about this was that nobody was underneath at the time.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 January, 2023, 03:34:34 pm
Weirdly I keep finding that the notebook on the floor next to my chair has been spattered with liquid cat vom (just brown water really), very considerate not to do it straight onto the carpet that shows up every mark.
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Post by: Basil on 08 January, 2023, 04:34:28 pm
Being the birthday girl.  🎂
12 today.
As a treat, I gave her what she always has for dinner.  Seemed to go down well.
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Post by: Jaded on 08 January, 2023, 05:41:39 pm
Were there pawprints?

Our cat sneaked in and 'helped' paint a skirting board with her tail once.  Ended up giving her a haircut, on the basis that anything that would remove gloss paint was likely to be more harmful when ingested than the paint.

Oh yes, pawprints a plenty!
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 17 January, 2023, 07:53:52 pm
Bloody cat

Middle of the night I can hear a thumping and squealing. She's obviously caught something.

It is cold and I can't be arsed to catch it and clear it up. Go back to sleep.

Morning - no half-eaten animal debris anywhere. Odd.

By about 4pm, I realise she hasn't moved from the emergency guest folding mattress all day. Suspicious.

I look down the back - there is a large and very alive rat.

Pull out mattress, cat pounces . . .  and completely fails to kill rat, which runs over my bare feet and goes under a large heavy cabinet.

There follows a keystones cop comedy where I poke out rat with stick, cat pounces, fails to kill it, rat runs over my bare feet (seriously, what is it with rats and feet? Thank crunchy I'm not wearing flares), circuits the room and goes under cabinet again.

I let dog in. His eyesight isn't great, and he just can't spot rat.

Eventually, I catch rat in cardboard box. Take it outside where the dog immediately pounces on it and puts an end to the bloody saga.

Question is; if the cat is so bloody useless at killing rats, how did she catch it, carry it in through two catflaps and up a flight of stairs?
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Post by: Basil on 17 January, 2023, 07:58:12 pm
Maybe the rat caught the cat and dragged it in and up the stairs.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 January, 2023, 06:55:17 am
Dumpy Cat has been out in the snow so is thawing out in front of the stove.  Tigs doesn't feel the cold, being rather fat and furry, so has eaten and gone back out.
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Post by: Flite on 18 January, 2023, 09:11:55 am
Being happy that the cat hatch isn't frozen shut this morning.
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Post by: IanDG on 19 January, 2023, 04:30:07 pm
Dogs are out in the garden eating cat sh1t Ice Pops   ;D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 January, 2023, 04:23:31 pm
Not right now, but just after kitty breakfast time, Pumpkin was screaming the place down (that horrible cat fight scream) because there was an interloper cat sitting on the other side of the window. Poor thing.

And then we put them through more stress by stuffing them in boxes to go to the vet for vax and 4WD claw clipping.
Think we might just be about forgiven now.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 January, 2023, 09:46:53 pm
Ninkasi's hugging the radiator and looking a bit sorry for herself after they got their jabs this morning.
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Post by: Andy W on 21 January, 2023, 09:53:47 pm
Dogs are in their kennel, only emerging occasionally to bark at foxes mating or fighting nearby
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 January, 2023, 08:44:03 pm
Stray Skinny Ginger is cowering in our lounge, having entered via the cat flap and annoyed Big Tom overnight.
He's just had a big feed and retreated to the lounge.
Blackie seems to be avoiding him and neither of our cats has eaten much today.
Big Tom is outside.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 January, 2023, 04:52:09 pm
Ninkasi slunk behind the sofa and is currently there making 'please don't shove me in the box and take me to the vet/cattery' type pathetic mewling noises because she thinks we're up to something. But we aren't  ???
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 27 January, 2023, 11:51:54 am
Cat
Sulking a bit because I took her feathered toy off her. Toy flew off out office window, but not before redecorating.

Dog
Very very excited because I clipped some of his claws. They are very overgrown; the vet said they'd have to give him a general on the basis that he's old and looks cranky.
I decided to have a go at one dew claw this morning. Gave him treat, clipped tip of claw, gave him treat.

He was fine.
So I thought I'd try another claw.

Done both front paws now and he gets super excited when I picked up the clippers.

Now I just need to do this every few days.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 January, 2023, 05:31:20 pm
Good news on the claws!
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Post by: PaulF on 27 January, 2023, 06:23:18 pm
Has just finished mauling my hand and has fallen in my lap
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Post by: IanDG on 27 January, 2023, 06:27:44 pm
Cat
Sulking a bit because I took her feathered toy off her. Toy flew off out office window, but not before redecorating.

Dog
Very very excited because I clipped some of his claws. They are very overgrown; the vet said they'd have to give him a general on the basis that he's old and looks cranky.
I decided to have a go at one dew claw this morning. Gave him treat, clipped tip of claw, gave him treat.

He was fine.
So I thought I'd try another claw.

Done both front paws now and he gets super excited when I picked up the clippers.

Now I just need to do this every few days.

Hector? He always recommends the expensive option  ::-)
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Post by: woollypigs on 28 January, 2023, 01:56:13 pm
I could clip all Tilley claws just fine, with a bit of fuss and some treats, it was very easy.

She sadly had a nail/claw issue that cause her to lose all claws.

She now don't allow me near with a clipper no matter how much peanut butter I arm myself with.

But Sam the vet is allowed without anything.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 29 January, 2023, 04:09:47 pm
Cat
Sulking a bit because I took her feathered toy off her. Toy flew off out office window, but not before redecorating.

Dog
Very very excited because I clipped some of his claws. They are very overgrown; the vet said they'd have to give him a general on the basis that he's old and looks cranky.
I decided to have a go at one dew claw this morning. Gave him treat, clipped tip of claw, gave him treat.

He was fine.
So I thought I'd try another claw.

Done both front paws now and he gets super excited when I picked up the clippers.

Now I just need to do this every few days.

Hector? He always recommends the expensive option  ::-)

Could have been. I wasn't there.

I think it might be vet's default option, and they were possibly thinking of cutting the claws back a long way - right into the quick (which would be painful and bloody).

I did some research, and it seems that a recommended approach is to cut a few mm off every few days; the quick retreats.
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Post by: hellymedic on 29 January, 2023, 09:08:36 pm
Skinny Ginger is becoming an habitual visitor.
David prefers to name him 'Simon'.
S is more than capable of operating the cat flap and devours all available cat food, unlike the rather picky residents.
I will contact Cat Protection tomorrow to see if they can relieve him of his goolies.
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 February, 2023, 09:27:58 pm
No response from Cat Protection.
D saw cat-loving astronomer friend at AstroFest yesterday, who attested to CP's lack of useful help.
Simon/Skinny Ginger is now curled up on mat below cat flap, effectively deterring Big Tom (about twice his weight) from entering.
Simon is very good licking cat food dishes totally clean!
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Post by: Flite on 04 February, 2023, 09:54:20 pm
Cats Protection seems very variable in different areas - probably due to the availability of volunteers.
CP, RSPCA, PDSA seem to only give vouchers to folks on benefits
Might be worth looking for a cat rescue in your area? - our local one occasionally has vouchers for neutering, or will neuter ferals/strays if/when they have the funds.
Vets charge £40-£80 to remove the pom-poms from a male cat.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 February, 2023, 10:47:45 pm
I expect CP and the rest are totally overwhelmed dealing with the fall out from the cost of living crisis. There's also the Cat Action Trust you could try but they'll probably be no better. If your cats are chipped you could swap your cat flap for a chip reading one that will only let yours in
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 February, 2023, 03:13:35 pm
Our cats aren't chipped. They're ex-feral and hard to handle. We are car-free and vet trips are something of a logistics challenge.
I fear trying to change the cat flap would need another sealed double-glazed door pane, which won't be cheap.

D has a cat-loving friend, who has a car, who could help. I really don't want to spend hundreds of pounds on cats right now!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 February, 2023, 03:22:46 pm
Ah sorry, I wrongly assumed they would have been chipped when they were spayed.
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 February, 2023, 11:22:14 pm
Ah sorry, I wrongly assumed they would have been chipped when they were spayed.

CP's vet didn't do this, I think because they were feral, though had settled with us.

Blackie was a kitten at the time, one of the litter of 6 D had discovered when refurbishing his observatory. The other 5 were rehomed by us or CP, as was heavily pregnant Mother Cat.

Tom just came in for food, when we fed the kittens. He was a wonderful Daddy to them after Mother turned against them, always shepherding the kittens to feed before he did.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 February, 2023, 09:18:00 am
She's reduced the alert level from red to yellow after checking the perimeters and deciding its safe again - the window cleaner has gone.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 February, 2023, 08:33:03 pm
Skinny Ginger/Simon has made several stealth visits and cleaned out the cat food dishes.
There've also been two noisy encounters between Big Tom and Skinny Ginger one in our bedroom and one by the cat flap.
Blackie is asleep, Halfway Up The Stairs.
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Post by: matthew on 20 February, 2023, 10:16:11 am
Delaying me from going to work this morning.

She is primarily an indoor cat but likes to explore outside occasionally, unfortunately she chose this morning to explore when I went to put the bins out, and then spent half an hour hiding under cars so I couldn't get her back inside before I left for work.
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Post by: Kim on 28 February, 2023, 01:55:47 pm
I'm sure we used to have a "What has your dog eaten today?" thread, but since I can't find it, this one will do...

Anyway, this came up on IRC, and being the canine equivalent of the picolax thread, it seemed wrong not to share it with YACF

https://adventurebikerider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48152
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 March, 2023, 01:33:19 pm
Big Tom was sunning himself against the south-east facing garage wall, when Ms Vixen Fox wandered by. Neither made a sound, nor showed any hostility.

They've both ambled away now.

They were well-matched for size.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 03 March, 2023, 09:56:08 am
Big Tom was sunning himself against the south-east facing garage wall, when Ms Vixen Fox wandered by. Neither made a sound, nor showed any hostility.

They've both ambled away now.

They were well-matched for size.
I used to have an absolutely massive unit of a cat (he weighed over 20lb, and wasn't fat). One night there was the most horrendous screaming, yowling, and <terrible fox noises> in the back paddock. He sauntered back, bloody torn ears, licking his lips and looking pleased with himself. No sign of a fox ever again. This was the same cat that disliked strange dogs, and would attack them. Anything from terriers to Alsatians.
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Post by: Flite on 03 March, 2023, 10:57:53 am
Years past, we had a normal size black and white cat who terrorised the neighbours Staffies.
One day he was chasing them off his territory when one looked back and ran straight into a fence.
No injury but staffie was definitely confounded.  Their rottvieller don't venture this far.
Miss you Noddy...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 March, 2023, 01:48:02 pm
Looking smug as she managed to knock one of her doggy lifetime achievements list by treeing a cat in our garden. We have a cat but Tilly is scared of the old girl, this was a new cat I have never seen it before someone must have got it recently.
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 March, 2023, 11:47:06 pm
Stand-off by the cat flap!

Indoors is Blackie (f, neutered ~4kg), outdoors is Skinny Ginger/Simon (m ~3kg).

Blackie has, so far, deterred SG but I'm sure he'll return when her back is turned.

Big Tom attacked SG earlier today.

ETA SG is now eating everything in the cat food dishes and on the floor. He's an efficient and tidy scavenger!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 March, 2023, 06:43:32 pm
Not right now, but in the early hours of this morning I heard a clattering noise from downstairs. I assumed it was either something in the bathroom attached to the tiles via suction cup, or the pictures or coat hooks attached to the walls with command strips falling off.
When I got up I found it was none of these things.
A bit later I noticed one of the greetings cards on the mantelpiece was facing the wrong way.
Even later I noticed that the cat water bowl under the mantelpiece now contained the Shelly H&T sensor, which presumably momentarily registered 100% humidity before dying.
We'll see if it can be revived.
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Post by: matthew on 13 March, 2023, 12:11:28 pm
Also not right now as I am in the office but at 5am this morning the cat was stood on my chest and neck, which woke me up rather effectively.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 March, 2023, 07:41:16 pm
Not right now, but in the early hours of this morning I heard a clattering noise from downstairs. I assumed it was either something in the bathroom attached to the tiles via suction cup, or the pictures or coat hooks attached to the walls with command strips falling off.
When I got up I found it was none of these things.
A bit later I noticed one of the greetings cards on the mantelpiece was facing the wrong way.
Even later I noticed that the cat water bowl under the mantelpiece now contained the Shelly H&T sensor, which presumably momentarily registered 100% humidity before dying.
We'll see if it can be revived.

The Shelly appears to be alive.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 27 March, 2023, 09:25:53 pm
Goose is learning how to open a Dreamies packet (by ripping a hole in the bottom with his teeth - it's unconventional, but it works for him). :facepalm:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 March, 2023, 09:30:17 pm
We keep our Dreamies either in a kitchen cabinet or a glass jar, depending on location...
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 27 March, 2023, 09:58:51 pm
They're normally kept in the kitchen (which is off-limits to the cats until they get bored of jumping up on top of the wall cabinets), but we made the mistake of leaving them on the coffee table. Won't do that again!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 March, 2023, 12:36:19 am
Not my dog, but Penelope's ancient labrador. Whilst we were at Pen's this (yesterday) afternoon, Molly the Lab was farting what smelt like the purest hydrogen sulphide. What can possibly have been happening in her guts for that result?

Pen found four candles* and lit them to try to counteract the vile stench.

*Yes, I know
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Post by: Jaded on 28 March, 2023, 12:59:41 am
Just cut out the middleman and light the farts.
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Post by: Flite on 28 March, 2023, 08:54:28 am
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They're normally kept in the kitchen (which is off-limits to the cats until they get bored of jumping up on top of the wall cabinets)
I predict they will never get bored of that
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Post by: Kim on 28 March, 2023, 02:14:35 pm
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They're normally kept in the kitchen (which is off-limits to the cats until they get bored of jumping up on top of the wall cabinets)
I predict they will never get bored of that

We had a cat that was an enthusiastic climber, but a complete wuss about jumping.  The floor was too far, and the worktop didn't stick out far enough for her liking.  Her procedure for getting down from the top of kitchen cabinets was to mowl pitifully for a human (other than my brother, who she didn't like and wouldn't cooperate with) to come and rescue her.

After a few rescues we came to a compromise, whereby she'd jump onto the shoulders of a waiting human, rather than go to all the effort of finding something to stand on to reach her.  This is the sort of silliness that cat people think is reasonable.
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Post by: Flite on 28 March, 2023, 02:47:25 pm
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After a few rescues we came to a compromise, whereby she'd jump onto the shoulders of a waiting human, rather than go to all the effort of finding something to stand on to reach her.  This is the sort of silliness that cat people think is reasonable.

Of course it is reasonable.
We do the same when a cat goes on the roof, or up a tree.
But some of our trees are very tall, so sometimes I just tell them to get themselves down.
Years ago, the wailing continued so long I got a ladder to investigate.
Noddy had managed to get wedged in between two upright branches. No matter how much he waved his front and rear legs about, he was going nowhere. He just got more wedged, and I had to lever the branches apart to get him out.

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Post by: rogerzilla on 29 March, 2023, 07:20:10 am
Puss is leaking pus all over the place as he had a fight on Sunday night.  The abcess burst last night :sick:  He's been cleaned up and given anti-inflammatories and antibiotics by the vet, at great expense.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52778996455_fd98a04597_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2opU9Rv)20230327_131233 (https://flic.kr/p/2opU9Rv) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr

Moi?  A pugilist?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 March, 2023, 02:07:06 pm
Ah! We used to have a pussy cat in my youth. Mostly the pus would be in his toes after he had lost claws whilst fighting. He was an amazingly tolerant animal and would allow us to squeeze the pus out of the wounds, sometimes miaowing in pain, but he never ever scratched or bit us.
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Post by: Kim on 29 March, 2023, 02:14:09 pm
Having come back to read Wowbagger's post, I've only just spotted the mouse in the above photograph.
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Post by: matthew on 14 April, 2023, 10:44:53 am
Last night Luna was being a dirty stop out. For a predominantly indoor cat, with no cat flap1, she is very keen to go for walks outside and at about 7:30 last night slipped out when I went out to put something in the bin. At 10pm I went out looking for her and again at 11pm. So I left a window open and went to bed.

At 4:15 this morning I woke up to her bell jingling and her moving around my bedroom. By the time I was awake enough to realise and go downstairs to close the window she was stuffing her face with kibble.

Now where do you get those GPS trackers so I can find out where she has been going?


1. I guess I am going to have to replace a window pane in the patio doors to fit a cat flap for her. But the price of that is significant  :o
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Post by: T42 on 10 May, 2023, 01:32:12 pm
Driving me round the fcking twist, that's what our feathered bastard in the kitchen corner is doing.  His latest thing is calling out my name in MrsT's voice several times a minute for ten minutes at a stretch.  So far I've managed to forbear from getting out the plant spray, but if he keeps it up much longer aversion therapy's coming his way.
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Post by: SoreTween on 10 May, 2023, 10:36:43 pm
Now where do you get those GPS trackers so I can find out where she has been going?
Hmmm difficult. There was a time I'd have recommended Pawtrack. We had one and it worked just fine. That's not to say well but it worked as well as someone with reasonable expectations of GPS and mobile phone networks living in a hilly & tree filled location would anticipate. Sometimes it could be scary accurate (a few times we found our cat within a metre of where the tracker said), others it said he was a hundred metres outside reasonable bounds travelling at warp speed. If you expect something off a spy movie you'd be frothing on antisocial media. If you expect & understand cafe drift & dead spots you'd likely be more sanguine.
The two batteries it came with were excellent, just swap them over each morning.
The charger died & no quibble pawtrack sent a replacement far outside warranty.
But then we started to have trouble connecting to the servers. Two account resets got us working again but the third time we could get no response to emails & bad reviews started to appear online.
The entire system went down for a year, just had to cancel the direct debit & move on.
And then Pawtrack reappeared with new design of collar. And the bad reviews continued.

My theory is there's someone in the UK designing good hardware but they're not so cute at costing their back-end services or their pricing.  In particular they struggle with all the global gsm contracts.  I'm really tempted to get another, it could be a total loss but the version we had was good kit IMO for the 2 or 3 years it worked.

None of the competitors are within a mile of as neat, compact or shaped right. Pawtrack is a collar shaped object with GPS capabilities. The rest are cubes obviously phone sub-pcbs in a custom case you dangle off a regular collar.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 May, 2023, 10:44:28 pm
You mean people aren't just using those i-Things that creepy blokes use to stalk women?
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Post by: Flite on 11 May, 2023, 08:23:38 am
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Now where do you get those GPS trackers so I can find out where she has been going?

Make sure she will wear a collar before you invest in tracking tech.
Our present cat was less than a year old when we took her on.
As she is allowed outdoors, I bought her a smart, highly recommended, flourescent collar.
She went out and we never did find the collar
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Post by: Jaded on 11 May, 2023, 08:35:27 am
You mean people aren't just using those i-Things that creepy blokes use to stalk women?

They would work well in urban situations where there are other iDevices about, or on luggage handing systems.

Out in the wilds of furrybotoonshire, not so much.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 May, 2023, 09:53:14 am
Sleeping on her favourite, fur-coated chair.

She must be exhausted, it takes a lot of energy to fling animals about so much that there is BLOOD SPLATTER UP THE DOOR AND ON THE CEILING!

My office is like a crime scene from Silent Witness.

If she wasn't so effing cute, I'd chuck her out.


Anyone know of good ways to remove dried blood from emulsion?
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Post by: Flite on 11 May, 2023, 10:05:53 am
Was a bird the victim, rather than a mammal?
Detective work called for.
Or has all the evidence gone?
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 May, 2023, 10:27:44 am
Was a bird the victim, rather than a mammal?
Detective work called for.
Or has all the evidence gone?
Hard to say. I didn't spot most of it (out of direct eyeline, I don't have much peripheral vision), so has probably been there for a while.

She's definitely brought in mice/rats/birds in the past week.
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Post by: ian on 13 May, 2023, 03:24:33 pm
You mean people aren't just using those i-Things that creepy blokes use to stalk women?

They would work well in urban situations where there are other iDevices about, or on luggage handing systems.

Out in the wilds of furrybotoonshire, not so much.

Friends of ours did that with an AirTag on their cat's collar. Worked really well, though they found he mostly went out to sleep behind the shed.
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Post by: T42 on 17 May, 2023, 01:56:47 pm
Our dogs as were.  I thought YouTube had scotched the video because of music copyright but it's still there. Lo-res 400 fps slo-mo on a Nikon J1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T16EJJ1Xfw

Two years dead now. :(
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Post by: Jurek on 20 May, 2023, 06:47:49 pm
Cat sitting while the Aussie does her moonwalk this evening:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52912526763_91f0d1fbc0_4k.jpg) (http://[url=https://flic.kr/p/2oBGwLc) (https://flic.kr/p/2oBGwLc)  (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurekb/)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 22 May, 2023, 08:50:24 am
Hunting

What was she doing yesterday?
Hunting
What was she doing Saturday?
Hunting

The tally for the past 3 days so far is:
Sat - humungous rat, alive (lots of rat poo to clear up, and the dog killed it)
Sun - Live mouse in kitchen, Vomited up mouse bits on landing
Mon - THREE mice so far, thankfully all dead.
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Post by: Flite on 22 May, 2023, 01:10:33 pm
Cat usually catches 2 rabbits a day at this season, but 3 yesterday.
Usually stashed under the Landrover - mostly headless.
There may be more we don't know about....

In other news: Husband caught two mice in the plant house, they are not under the L/R
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Post by: T42 on 23 May, 2023, 10:35:43 am
Crapping on Anne Hathaway's cleavage. Well, on the Versace ad featuring her in Le Monde, which is now living a second life as a parrot's carpet.
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 June, 2023, 07:42:52 pm
Occupying his latest, bespoke cat bed.
(https://scontent.flhr4-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/351332347_2852992728169393_6641711881589231765_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=103&cb=99be929b-59f725be&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=skBLQqubtqkAX_lcshB&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-4.fna&oh=00_AfD6nsZ5QvDimuBmlv41vrVIxswPVnuqEFqAnhwSp5uz2g&oe=64827C64)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 June, 2023, 10:12:21 pm
Our neighbour's cat has some sort of tracker on her collar. They tell me she spends a great deal of time in our garden. I know she does, mostly shitting on the veg patch. I was weeding the parsnips and onions earlier and I couldn't get away from the stench.
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Post by: matthew on 06 June, 2023, 08:54:26 am
Disgracing herself this morning, first thing she did was go outside, eat grass and then be sick on the carpet in two locations.  :sick:
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Post by: PaulF on 06 June, 2023, 10:07:10 am
Having a tooth pulled out :(
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Post by: Jaded on 06 June, 2023, 10:35:31 am
Making a noise, thumping, and similar. I shall have to go and look what she has knocked over.
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Post by: Jaded on 06 June, 2023, 10:56:50 am
Well, she was empty.  :sick: :sick: :sick: :hand: :hand: :hand:

Had to put off having a shower for half an hour, until the eye-watering atmosphere had cleared.
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Post by: hellymedic on 06 June, 2023, 10:27:30 pm
[Not my pet] Stray Ginger is in trap awaiting retrieval by cat charity, to be neutered & returned.

ETA: Collected at 0230 7 June.
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Post by: ian on 07 June, 2023, 09:21:48 pm
Bad Cat is suspiciously regarding the garden foxen – a very laid-back mother and no fewer than five energetic cubs, aka foxicles, who are providing daily entertainment for the non-feline residents of the Asbestos Palace. The father still appears occasionally. Be sad when they finally depart for their own territories, though the cats will be relieved, I'm sure.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 June, 2023, 10:00:56 pm
This post needs photies!
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Post by: onerousdeporte on 07 June, 2023, 10:26:45 pm
Occupying his latest, bespoke cat bed.
(https://scontent.flhr4-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/351332347_2852992728169393_6641711881589231765_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=103&cb=99be929b-59f725be&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=skBLQqubtqkAX_lcshB&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-4.fna&oh=00_AfD6nsZ5QvDimuBmlv41vrVIxswPVnuqEFqAnhwSp5uz2g&oe=64827C64)

Fluffy cuteness.
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Post by: cycleman on 08 June, 2023, 08:09:59 am
Drusilla the vampire cat brought in a little blue tit this morning and proceeded to throw it's remains around the lounge before I could get it off her. The first kill for any of my cats this year..
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Post by: hellymedic on 09 June, 2023, 03:49:39 pm
[Not my pet] Stray Ginger is in trap awaiting retrieval by cat charity, to be neutered & returned.

ETA: Collected at 0230 7 June.

Stray Ginger was returned yesterday and plodded off into the jungle. He'd needed to have his belly opened as his goolies hadn't descended.

Returned for feeding today and downed two full 100g pouches of Felix.

D was relieved to see him again, having feared for his welfare, but very upset at the ear tipping. My pet human gets very sentimental!
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 09 June, 2023, 06:02:16 pm
Hunting wasps.

FFS, cat, are you suicidal?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 June, 2023, 06:54:41 pm
Mojo used to bring wasps into the 1st Pingu Towers in his mouth. You could hear him buzzing.
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Post by: Jaded on 09 June, 2023, 06:58:17 pm
Cairo got stung on his foot once. Limped into the house and presented his paw like a dog wanting to shake hands.

Awww.
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Post by: ian on 09 June, 2023, 09:32:38 pm
LMC ate a wasp earlier. Doesn't seem to have troubled her as much as it did the wasp.
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Post by: ian on 09 June, 2023, 09:41:58 pm
This post needs photies!

We have lots of videos as they're outside my wife's office – not so many photos. There are five foxicles and they're hopelessly cute. They've started to accumulate toys (presumably from dog owners' gardens). The mother is splendidly laid back, really going in for the Scandinavian parenting, the father we've not seen for a while, I assume his job is done. They're living in our next-door neighbour's garden (she's dead, so not really invested in gardening, so it's been wild for three years).

(https://i.imgur.com/oMLXPfS.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 June, 2023, 11:59:11 pm
Aw
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Post by: sam on 10 June, 2023, 06:23:23 am
Eating.

(https://i.imgur.com/KxfThoY.jpg) (https://youtu.be/4_vXZC3R4FM)

As a prelude to...

(https://i.imgur.com/yQ9xh3m.jpg) (https://youtu.be/7Kf3CA1IZTU)

more eating.
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Post by: sam on 10 June, 2023, 02:12:23 pm
Sleeping behind the couch as I await his latest gourmet hay delivery.

(https://i.imgur.com/buq7two.jpg)
Unbelievably exciting for some



* Sorry, he escaped his thread.
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Post by: Basil on 10 June, 2023, 07:32:44 pm
Not mine, but at a chum's yesterday.
Dog bed. Cat bed.
The cat was stretched out luxuriously in the dog bed.  The dog was scrunched up and mostly hanging out of the cat bed.

Yo cats.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: ian on 14 June, 2023, 09:48:31 pm
Lots of yowling from the pair of them during a call this afternoon. Excuse me, I say, to investigate the commotion. Medieval armies have made less noise in full battle. A foxicle wanted to hang out on the balcony with our pair. Seems they were less willing to share the space. LMC was fully bushed up. However much effort she puts into looking big, she's never going to look bigger than a mildly overweight guinea pig.

The foxicle seemed mostly bemused. What is cat? They're furry little idiots, that's what, my little canine friend.
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Post by: Zed43 on 15 June, 2023, 03:40:53 pm
"helping" with the new wheel build

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvsb24u4wmqpvpl/IMG_1410.jpeg?raw=1)

(that's a 406 rim; he's big, but not a giant)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 June, 2023, 10:09:35 pm
I have to ask Ian: if your next-door-neighbour is dead, is she still in situ next door, or has she moved, as it were? I know dead people can't move in the usual sense of the word - I mean "moved house", either before or after her demise.
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Post by: ian on 20 June, 2023, 10:10:05 pm
I have to ask Ian: if your next-door-neighbour is dead, is she still in situ next door, or has she moved, as it were? I know dead people can't move in the usual sense of the word - I mean "moved house", either before or after her demise.

I don't think she's still in there, at least not in a corporeal form.

The actual story is quite sad, she had a stroke, and was collapsed and immobile on her conservatory floor for four days – not visible from anyone's house, her garden is quite secluded, and she lived alone, widowed some years before we moved in, and generally kept herself to herself (though was nice enough). Anyway, it came to pass that I had to do some Action Jackson fence climbing (her other neighbour being older and less nimble than me) to discover the sad situation. She was in a rehab place for some years until she died recently so the garden has been left untended for about three years now.
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Post by: matthew on 26 June, 2023, 08:16:30 am
Feeling sorry for herself. She has had a squabble, and lost, with another local cat over the weekend. One puncture wound in her left upper lip and two below her left eye has resulted in her cheek ballooning up in swelling. She's still eating but not her normal self. So we will be off to the vets later.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 June, 2023, 09:53:10 pm
Aw
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Post by: matthew on 27 June, 2023, 09:30:14 am
One vets bill, two injections and I have ten tablets to give her later. She is home again still eating reasonably well and wants to go outside again. We'll see when I let that happen and how I get on getting tablets into her when her cheek is sore.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 July, 2023, 10:45:09 pm
Ninkasi is being AWOL. I let her out after brekky this morning (6am) and she's not been seen since. And it's blowing a hoolie out there.  :(
So almost impossible to listen out for a crying cat, plus every pile of leaves (of which there are many) looks like a tortie.
Again. Though only since about 2pm this time.
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Post by: Pingu on 05 July, 2023, 12:10:02 am
Ninkasi is being AWOL. I let her out after brekky this morning (6am) and she's not been seen since. And it's blowing a hoolie out there.  :(
So almost impossible to listen out for a crying cat, plus every pile of leaves (of which there are many) looks like a tortie.
Again. Though only since about 2pm this time.

And she's back. Got stuck in a neighbour's garden  ::-)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 05 July, 2023, 09:49:29 am
Missing.

Very worried, as she has a set routine in the morning (wait for me to get up, make obsessive fuss until I feed her, then disappear for a couple of hours).

She went out last night, not seen since.

Could be she is sulking since I took the young rabbit off her yesterday. Don't know how she killed it, she is a small cat and not strong.

[edit]
She's appeared. Not particularly interested in food, with round belly.
Eaten another rabbit maybe.
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Post by: rafletcher on 05 July, 2023, 01:53:23 pm
No doubt ours is asleep as per her usual routine - breakfast at 06:15, settle down at 06:30, reappear about 21:30 to go our for a wander.

Except last night it was siling down, which caused some hesitation...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53024471505_0ba3bda445_z.jpg)

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Post by: SoreTween on 05 July, 2023, 02:06:04 pm
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She's appeared. Not particularly interested in food, with round belly.
Eaten another rabbit maybe.
Phew :thumbsup:
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 July, 2023, 09:59:20 pm
D reports our two cats had a stand-off with a visiting black cat, who has elicited some hostility and now wandered off.

Worryingly, said black cat seemed to have had its tail severely damaged somehow. D managed to take a pic of tail almost detached.
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Post by: spesh on 05 July, 2023, 10:09:59 pm
One vets bill, two injections and I have ten tablets to give her later. She is home again still eating reasonably well and wants to go outside again. We'll see when I let that happen and how I get on getting tablets into her when her cheek is sore.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion applies (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5Aqv5rVIAMwGaL?format=jpg)  :demon: ;)
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Post by: matthew on 06 July, 2023, 09:43:13 am
It turned out to be simple. Take meaty treat stick, partially split lengthways and hide pill, treat stick gobbled down complete with pill.

Today she is probably sulking as I left went into the office without opening a window to let her in and out.
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 07 July, 2023, 09:42:46 am
The 5kg Killing Machine has been proper poorly lately.
Looking thin and unkempt.

Vet says he's got B12 deficiency and he's losing a lot of protein in his urine for no apparent reason.

He's eating huge amounts of food (600g yesterday) but not gaining any weight.

We've just got home from his first B12 injection - three more to go. We've got some renal medication which will hopefully sort out the weight loss.

He's not unhappy, just sleepy and hungry (like me)
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Post by: L CC on 07 July, 2023, 10:23:32 am
I am currently housing Sid ('fugee dawg from Serbia) Tula (Cat who hates everybody) and Timmy (Timothée Chatlamet) who are, with their owner, temporarily in residence. As newbies, the cats are supposed to stay in the house.
Last night, Tula climbed behind the blinds and pushed the window open. She was too chicken but Timtam climbed on to the bay roof and went out into the front garden and shouted at Mr Smith at 2am.

Mr Smith was thrilled. I slept through it  ;D
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Post by: L CC on 09 July, 2023, 07:52:08 pm
Timothée has been out out.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/9500c3d51d8c2f05caa2bec578a49170.jpg)

And then he came back in.
(click to show/hide)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 July, 2023, 07:55:25 pm
Oops!
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Post by: L CC on 16 July, 2023, 01:18:43 pm
Carradice vs Ortlieb, we have a winner

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230716/bbdc684513b0e35a3b58c3a4229161a8.jpg)
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Post by: L CC on 16 July, 2023, 01:19:29 pm
If the little rotter puts claw holes in it I shall be Quite Annoyed.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 25 July, 2023, 07:49:56 pm
Three mice.

Yes, I know I've just got back from a stay in hospital and you are just showing how much you love me, but there are other ways you could do this. Which don't involve the children scrabbling around the hall trying to catch said mice. Because I'm certainly in no state to catch them myself.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 26 July, 2023, 07:24:05 am
Three mice.

Yes, I know I've just got back from a stay in hospital and you are just showing how much you love me, but there are other ways you could do this. Which don't involve the children scrabbling around the hall trying to catch said mice. Because I'm certainly in no state to catch them myself.

And a fourth this morning. Fortunately dead. There are better ways to express your affection.
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Post by: rafletcher on 26 July, 2023, 09:17:34 pm
Sitting inside, looking out of the cat flap at the rain. Been there for 2 hours so far…
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Post by: T42 on 01 August, 2023, 07:58:00 am
Once I left on yesterday's ride the parrot would only talk in my voice until I got home again. Dunno if he was simply trying to fill the hole in his family for comfort's sake or if he was thinking "right, he's out, I'm boss now".  He's such a stroppy bastard with MrsT I tend to think the latter.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 01 August, 2023, 01:52:44 pm
She is limping again. This time the left foreleg. I think she has badly pulled a muscle or something. No idea why, she hasn't been walks today - but I found her in the cellar on her own (she never goes down there, slippery spiral staircase), unable to walk much.

She was dodgy two weeks ago on the back right leg.

She broke the cruciate ligament in her back left leg two years ago and it was a year before she was OK again.

She is 13 years old and starting to get a lot of aches and pains. I am beginning to wonder if this is the start of the end if she is going to be regularly in pain.

We have pain tablets for her from the vet (5 days supply) so will use those for a day or two first and if she doesn't improve it's off to the vet again. Poor Poppy.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 August, 2023, 04:30:15 pm
Very sad about Poppy. She's a lovely dog.

And also very concerned that 13 years of my life can have slipped by with such ease since Poppy was a Puppy.
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Post by: rafletcher on 08 August, 2023, 09:04:06 am
Sleeping on the "office" chair blissfully unaware that the (dead) mouse she left IN her bowl of crunchies for later has been removed and composted.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 08 August, 2023, 11:09:47 am
Sleeping on the "office" chair blissfully unaware that the (dead) mouse she left IN her bowl of crunchies for later has been removed and composted.

Perhaps in Cat World there is a Mouse Fairy?
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Post by: matthew on 15 August, 2023, 12:59:53 pm
yesterday evening but,

Luna the cat disgraced herself, just as I was plating my dinner she came into the kitchen behind me and then proceeded to wiggle and pounce on something in the corner of the room, wiggle and pounce, wiggle and pounce. Once I paid enough attention she then held her head up high with a small bird in her jaws.

At this point I scooped her up, complete with bird, and took her into the garden where I released the bird from her jaws onto the garden table, took her back inside, shutting her in, and then went back to the bird to determine it was still alive and moved it to a secluded corner of the wall out of sight of the window I was being watched from.

The bird had gone this morning, either to another predator or having recovered somewhat, I however need to get the blood off of my shirt cuff.  :facepalm:
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Post by: Pingu on 15 August, 2023, 01:39:56 pm
The sparrow Ninkasi brought in yesterday was most definitely killed utterly to death though still warm when I retrieved it :(
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Post by: L CC on 15 August, 2023, 01:48:42 pm
Tim the visitor was uber generous to No1Daughter on her birthday last week- I think the break in the weather brought everything out of hiding
Starling
Blackbird
Mouse
Shrew

Well done Timmy  ::-)
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Post by: rafletcher on 18 August, 2023, 09:19:24 pm
I’m afraid she’s gone back out to replace the (thankfully dead) baby glis-glis she just trotted in with in her mouth  ::-) that she helpfully dropped on the kitchen floor for us (we only have the 2 rooms downstairs).
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Post by: Flite on 20 August, 2023, 08:21:15 pm
Zeppy the cat is wondering why there is a hedgehog in her litter tray.
So are we Zeppy.
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Post by: Jaded on 20 August, 2023, 08:33:06 pm
Doing a runny poo with a tiny bit of blood.

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Post by: Rod Marton on 29 August, 2023, 01:04:12 pm
Catticus, I know you are good at cute. However looking sweet and innocent at the bottom of the garden doesn't work when there is a dead rook in the middle of the lawn. And it doesn't take the deductive powers of a Poirot to work out how a dead rook came to be there.

Actually I'm quite impressed, since you are a small cat and a rook is a sizeable bird. But then you have never let the size of prey deter you from hunting.
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Post by: Flite on 29 August, 2023, 05:44:28 pm
This morning Zeppy the cat sat on the keyboard. Nothing unusual in that.
Later I found I couldn't use the buttons to control the volume of the radio programme. Much swearing, then I tried the brightness buttons which didn't work either.
How did she manage to turn the functions thingy on?
More to the point, I had to google how to turn them off.
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Post by: rafletcher on 06 September, 2023, 11:00:42 am
Sleeping off a busy night....

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53168293148_739af47451_z.jpg)[/url]Mouseageddon! (https://flic.kr/p/2p1ipcs)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 September, 2023, 07:05:24 pm
I love that she has garnished one of them ;D
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Post by: Legs on 06 September, 2023, 07:12:11 pm
Fuzzy (cat, 15) has shat on the living room carpet.  We had a similar incident late last week, which was very unlike him.  This time there’s a little bit of blood in it, which could mean one of a great multitude of things.  I think a visit to the V.E.T. might be in order…
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 September, 2023, 08:28:28 pm
Today we managed to clip not one, but four of Ninkasi's claws. This is unheard of! There was rejoicing.
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Post by: matthew on 22 September, 2023, 11:22:00 am
So that is one paw done, good luck getting to the other three!

I have no doubt Luna is preparing a nasty surprise for when I get home on the basis that I didn't leave a window open for her to access outside.
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Post by: ian on 22 September, 2023, 08:56:46 pm
Never tried cutting our monsters' claws. Job for the vet on their annual checkup. That said, given the amount of wear that they get gouging our oak worktops, those claws are not normally a problem
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 September, 2023, 10:32:53 pm
Once a year isn't often enough for Ninkasi, twice or three times would be ideal.
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Post by: ian on 22 September, 2023, 11:00:08 pm
They’re always scratching stuff. At 4 am the other morning, Bad Cat caught a residual hint of swimming pool chlorine on my exposed calf. Grabbed it with eight claws and sank her teeth right  in. Shower better after the pool, ian.
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Post by: Jakob on 23 September, 2023, 06:24:27 am
Finally sleeping in her crate!. Now all the neighbours know that I got a new puppy:
(https://i.imgur.com/dixEZpil.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/1irKDj0l.jpg)

Say hello to Sif the Great Dane.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2023, 07:12:06 am
Aw
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Post by: rafletcher on 08 October, 2023, 04:08:45 pm
Skulking in the woods somewhere. We’ve no idea why, but along with a healthy suspicion of strangers, she hates the sound of aluminium ladders. My wife always gets a warning the window cleaners are about to arrive, as the cat bolts before they arrive. Today, I had to go up into the loft, and again there’s an aluminium loft ladder - and she shot off the sofa and down the garden.
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Post by: L CC on 10 October, 2023, 07:36:59 pm
I fits, I sits.
Lunch?

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231010/0c2c308b6d0d540c062ff05fd88622d7.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 October, 2023, 08:00:46 pm
:)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 October, 2023, 04:34:01 pm
He's sleeping.

Unlike last night, where he woke me 3 bloody times, asking to go out.
2am - he found a hedgehog and stood barking at it until I yanked him back in.
3am (just as I'd got to sleep) Peed as I stood over him.
4am I locked him in my office.

Unfortunately, I had to get up at 5 am because visitor and MrsC were leaving for the morning ferry. So I've had sweet fa sleep.
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Post by: SteveC on 20 October, 2023, 09:08:08 pm
Eating crumpets.
MrsC had left a pack of crumpets on the worktop. When she found them again, the pack was on the floor, one of the crumpets seemed to be complete, two were nibbled round the edge and the last wasn't there at all. Nor was the cat (although he did come later when called).
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Post by: rafletcher on 21 October, 2023, 03:33:57 pm
being cosy. I had cause tp look for a pillow suitable for a makeshift "chimney sheep", and found one such (actually 2) in an old dry cleaners duvet bag. Having removed it, I left the other on the floor in our back (bed)room. Phoebe found it....

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53274349969_13b828da57_c.jpg)[/url]
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 October, 2023, 04:34:33 pm
Ninkasi is lying under my footstool feeling sorry for herself, having not eaten her dinner and having been ejecting from both ends this morning.
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Post by: Basil on 21 October, 2023, 04:52:57 pm
Slowly circling my granddaughter's high chair,
happily hoovering up the debris of mashed potato and carrot sticks as they rain down.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 28 October, 2023, 03:16:32 pm
Catticus, please learn that shrews are not good to eat. Eating a shrew simply results in you projectile vomiting a half-digested shrew (plus whatever else you have eaten since) in a highly inappropriate place. Come on, you should have realised the effect by now - I'm sure it can't be pleasant. It certainly isn't pleasant for me, as the family seem to have decided that I am chief clearer-upper. Mouse guts I can deal with, cat vomit, no.
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Post by: matthew on 13 November, 2023, 11:30:53 am
I'm listening to "Fed" on R4 and they have just had a person talking over the background of chicken chicks tweeting away. Luna suddenly woke up, ears pricked and looking at the speakers trying t work out where this prey was.
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Post by: Kim on 13 November, 2023, 01:21:42 pm
I remember our cat going nuts looking for the birds in the speaker cabinets during the Classic FM test transmissions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdsong_(radio_channel)).
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Post by: hellymedic on 16 November, 2023, 03:37:47 pm
It's not their fault
They do not know
The birdsong from the radio…

('Slough' John Betjeman)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 November, 2023, 10:52:57 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53347878889_dc44a92c29_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2phaPMk)
King Louis IX of France (https://flic.kr/p/2phaPMk) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Louis: standing by the back door making plaintive miaowing noises then walking away when I get up to open the door:

1. is neither big nor clever, and
c: will not get you another tin of cat fud

Please cease the trait.
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Post by: Jurek on 22 November, 2023, 08:21:13 am
How come the container in the foreground/left is labelled 'crack' ?
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Post by: Pingu on 22 November, 2023, 08:56:12 am
I'm guessing it contains either kitty or Mr Larrington treats.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 November, 2023, 03:13:06 pm
The former.  Cat crack.  No idea what it really is.

Anyway, he's at it again, but he can’t go out until the builders knock off in case he escapes into the road and gets smooshed.
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Post by: cycleman on 25 November, 2023, 09:53:06 pm
A few days ago tigerlily was looking for food again  ::-)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/q1sHhgLQPjxxDo8u8
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 November, 2023, 10:11:02 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53356157525_e3a79dd4a2_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2phUfJr)
Demanding dinner with Menaces (https://flic.kr/p/2phUfJr) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

I think that my initial thought that Louis was named after King Louis VI of France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_VI_of_France) is erroneous and his moniker is in fact short for “Lucifer”.
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Post by: Pingu on 25 November, 2023, 11:56:16 pm
Being owned by a food obsessed tortie, I feel your pain.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 26 November, 2023, 08:32:37 am
Tigs has been up to no good again and something has ripped the fur from the end of his tail, revealing the pink skin beneath.  I suspect a fox, given that he hangs out with them and competes with them for food left out by the neighbours.  His tail is otherwise undamaged but tail fur takes an age to regrow.
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Post by: Flite on 26 November, 2023, 08:56:54 am
Poor Tigs - GWS.
Not a good blood circulation in a tail I suppose, a bit like human shins.

Meanwhile Zeppy went out early, came back smelly and insisted on sitting on my lap, then ate half her breakfast (including expensive medicine) and was promptly sick.
Annual check up on Thursday - even the receptionist asked nervously "I think we usually sedate her, don't we?"
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Post by: rogerzilla on 26 November, 2023, 09:18:03 am
A previous cat had his tail almost chewed through in a fight.  The vet stitched it back together successfully but had to shave it.  They left a "lion tuft" on the end and I could still feel the thicker tip 18 months later, although the tail looked normal after about 9 months.
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Post by: Jaded on 26 November, 2023, 04:07:18 pm
So I just fed the cats.

This needs precision as Fat Cat is on a diet and has a measured amount of food. New Cat just eats loads, so is put in the utility room until she has finished and so Fat Cat cannot get her food.

However the phone rang and I didn't shut the utility room door.
So a little time later New Cat appears where I am making the call, with a "Fat Cat pushed me off my food and now she is eating it" look.
Then a little later Fat Cat came into the room, looking very replete.
Then, some minutes later, that noise all cat owners know...  bler bler bleerch blech
Nice pile of half digested biscuits to clean up after the phone call.
On completing the phone call I go to clean up but all the halfdigestedmess has gone.
So New Cat got her biscuits after all.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 November, 2023, 04:08:44 pm
Mmm nice pre warmed and pre chewed biscuits. Mojo used to love that.
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Post by: ian on 26 November, 2023, 06:40:00 pm
Vet shaved a big patch of fur from Bad Cat’s neck for a blood test some months ago. It’s still not grown back.

LMC came into the bedroom at 7am and threw up a gallon of water by the bed. I swear I spend half my life cleaning up cat sick. I get some good value out of my Vax spot wash thing.
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Post by: Basil on 26 November, 2023, 08:44:23 pm
Vax spotwash. Essential pet owners kit.
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: ian on 29 November, 2023, 08:32:26 pm
Quite honestly, every new kitten should come with one, because you're going to need it.
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Post by: Flite on 29 November, 2023, 09:45:47 pm
Zeppy is snoozing on the radiator, happily unaware she is going to see that nice vet in the morning.
Actually she is probably willing the snow to continue so we can't get over the fells.
She has a reputation:
"I think we usually have to sedate her?” asked the receptionist nervously when I phoned to book her in.
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Post by: Jaded on 29 November, 2023, 11:58:44 pm
Vax spotwash. Essential pet owners kit.
 :thumbsup:

I gave up renting machines from Morrisons and bought a Vax 'Annihilator Platinum Deth' carpet cleaner. Kills a bit more than 90% bacteria. So not as good as pouring some kind of Toilet Blue on the carpets.

A few days ago I cleaned up some (camouflage swirly) stained carpets. Fat cat was promptly sick on the more inaccessible parts.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 November, 2023, 06:13:28 pm
I take it that's not the actual name of the Vax :)
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Post by: ian on 30 November, 2023, 07:18:54 pm
The downside of the Vax is that you see just how dirty your carpet is and then end up doing the entire room (which, as it's a spot wash, requires several refills). This starts the countdown on the next cat vomit event for the room.

The upside, I suppose, is that I have very clean carpets now.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 November, 2023, 07:47:44 pm
Is the spot cleaner really that much better than a bowl of soapy water and a cloth? (Genuine question)
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Post by: ian on 02 December, 2023, 09:36:15 pm
Probably, it washes out and slurps up all the grot. I do a provisional cleanup and then attack with the spot washer at a more suitable time.


It gets a lot of dirt out of the carpet. I can only blame 85% on the cats.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 December, 2023, 10:53:09 pm
What detergent do you use in it? The expensive Vax stuff or something home brew?
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Post by: ian on 03 December, 2023, 04:51:05 pm
I use the Vax stuff – mine came with 3 litres free which despite the cats' best efforts I've yet to exhaust. I think I bought another couple of litres having neglected to notice the free offer when ordering direct from them. Anyway, you only use a splash in the tank. I am sure you can use any kind of non-foaming detergent, it just squirts it on the carpet and vacuums it up.


It's a bit of minor palaver to set up and clean after use (well, five minutes or so) but not something I'd do at 3am*, I still keep some Doctor Beckman's patent carpet cleaner on hand, and unleash the machine at a more civilised hour.


*mostly my wife and I compete to not hear the cat throwing up and pretend to carry on sleeping. I am better at this. For this sin, she does the nocturnal triage, and I do the proper clean. Cats, as a rule, do not throw up at sensible times.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 December, 2023, 07:12:44 pm
Money saving expert has a code for these for £80 for the rest of this week for anyone interested (I note they were 10 quid more on Amazon last week but have now gone up to over £100, presumably to make money off anyone not getting that deal in time who looks on there...)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2023, 03:56:44 pm
Well, I bought one of the aforementioned Vax spot washers with the MSE code and used it on a few problem areas. It did quite a good job on the living room carpet in an area where someone keeps dropping boozeaholic drinks and it was filthy, so at least I won't have to look at a stupid champagne coloured carpet with a huge amount of grot on it all over the Xmas holidays.
Still can't wait to get a less stupid carpet.

That Vax carpet cleaner solution is a complete diddle though, think I'm going to buy some of the Dirtbusters stuff which is much more concentrated.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 December, 2023, 09:15:21 pm
Lying, soaking wet, on the peat stack.
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Post by: Flite on 16 December, 2023, 10:44:25 pm
Looking smug
We went to the village Xmas do this evening, so I pre-cooked our food for a quick meal when we got home.
Most went in the fridge, but I left the baked potatoes on the work surface.....
Zeppy the cat did not eat the cat food we so generously provided.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 December, 2023, 05:56:02 pm
Vax spot washer got christened with cat vom today. You don't actually need much water in the thing to clean a surprisingly large area of carpet. Funnily enough my package from Dirtbusters arrived today, I reckon that should keep me going forever.
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Post by: ian on 21 December, 2023, 08:46:57 pm
Vax spot washer got christened with cat vom today. You don't actually need much water in the thing to clean a surprisingly large area of carpet. Funnily enough my package from Dirtbusters arrived today, I reckon that should keep me going forever.


I think for the first two weeks I was almost anticipating cat vomit so I could use the machine. Now, I'm back to scowling. I do, at least, have very clean carpets. That said, they seem to have thrown up less since the machine arrived, so maybe even in its cupboard-state it emits some kind of feline anti-emetic ray.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2023, 04:46:39 pm
Ninkasi has been having a massive twitch and growling in her sleep. Now she's purring.
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Post by: Basil on 23 December, 2023, 05:09:05 pm
Doing her best to avoid the attentions of the granddaughter.
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Post by: cycleman on 23 December, 2023, 06:25:50 pm
Not sure if this is the correct thread but .........

https://youtu.be/waZ4Pt3kgz8?si=osl6F915RcPc1c6b
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Post by: T42 on 05 January, 2024, 07:57:41 am
Saying bonjour over and over and over and over and over and over and...
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 05 January, 2024, 10:12:57 am
We took dog with us. He seemed to enjoy staying in various houses, but ceased eating almost completely, and crapping.

Cat left in house. (robot feeder and camera for monitoring).

Cat was very pleased to see us, extremely vocal for the first 24hours.

Last night, I say to MrsC "Please don't give the dog carrot, I don't think it does his digestion any good."

This morning, wake up to find large pile of dog sick on the carpet, including chunks of carrot.

Words Will Be Said.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 17 January, 2024, 07:24:40 am
Sleeping outside, in the snow.

Weird, but I guess that's what you get when you adopt a feral Hebridean kitten.
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Post by: L CC on 25 January, 2024, 05:32:40 pm
Arguing with Mr Smith
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Post by: barakta on 25 January, 2024, 09:07:21 pm
That's a great picture.
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Post by: Flite on 26 January, 2024, 09:12:51 am
There's no chance he is getting up those stairs
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 31 January, 2024, 09:45:59 am
Going out in the driving rain.
Coming in, and demanding to be toweled off.
Going out in the driving rain.
Coming in,  . . .
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Post by: ian on 03 February, 2024, 11:48:22 am
Bad Cat still being wary of the cat flap. Rewind back to Thursday when the residents of The Asbestos Palace left the house at 10 am and didn't return till midnight. Bad Cat was, unusually, nowhere to be seen when we came in (and we normally get a kitty welcoming committee when we come through the door). Odd, but she might not have heard us, she's good at sleeping under the covers in the spare room. Anyway, a hour passes and there's a ruckus outside the back door. What's that? Wander into the kitchen and see a paw trying to squeeze through the edge of the cat flap and pull it open.


It seems the microchip cat flap died during the day, now unresponsive. Oh well, it's about 10 years old. Bad Cat was less happy, she must have been trapped outside all day given she ate a lot of food and drank a lot of water. Then, of course, despite having spent the day outside, she went straight to the litter tray and deployed her full arsenal of chemical weaponry.
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Post by: PaulF on 03 February, 2024, 11:54:46 am
Harassing the decorator
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Post by: Basil on 03 February, 2024, 12:50:32 pm
Our cat had the habit of just sitting right by the flap for hours, peering out. The battery would go flat pretty quickly.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 February, 2024, 06:53:04 pm
Choosing carpet
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 February, 2024, 04:55:52 pm
Not very much.
Blackie spent all of Friday asleep on the dining table and hardly budged at all throughout the day.
She ate a little dry food yesterday and went out a couple of times.
She’s a bit more active today but not eating much. She’s been out once and returned but eaten little.
There’s no sign of distress.

Simon has also spent more time than usual asleep on the sofa.
He’s gone out, without eating now.

I presume they have some self-limiting lurgy...
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Post by: Flite on 04 February, 2024, 08:09:14 pm
Might they be eating out?
Zeppy caught a rabbit about the same size as herself yesterday and as usual chewed the head off and came in twitching.
I removed about 50 fleas from her ears...
Greedy madam wouldn't eat her tea yesterday, or breakfast this morning, which is a pita as it means she doesn't get her anti-epilepsy medicine.
Spent most of today asleep on the windowsill next to the radiator.

Hope Blackie and Simon are OK.
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 February, 2024, 11:26:22 pm
Simon is feral and might be eating out a bit but has spent much time on the sofa.
Blackie is ex-feral but has mostly been dozing, She’s not really BEEN anywhere to eat out.
I am worried.
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Post by: hellymedic on 05 February, 2024, 09:18:39 pm
Spending the night in vet hospital.
Having been unwell since Friday, with little significant oral intake, I thought Something Must Be Done.
Admission temperature 40.9C
They’ve done bloods but I don’t know results and are giving her fluids.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings…
Simon has started eating a bit more and is more active so has not been taken for attention.

We only have one cat carrier anyway.
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Post by: SteveC on 16 February, 2024, 08:26:53 pm
Not now, but at half-five this morning.

Sam is a cat of regular habits. Recently he has taken to reminding us that the heating has come on, so it's nearly time for us to get up, with a gentle mew or two in our bedroom.
This morning, at about half-five, we got the full Maine Coon volume treatment. Eventually MrsC went downstairs to see if she could work out what the trouble was.
He had managed to lock the electronic cat flap so he couldn't get out. His favourite toy, a feathery thing on the end of elastic and a stick, was next to the flap, so presumably he'd been playing with that and landed on the lock button on the top of the flap housing.
Of course, being awake from 5.30 to 6.00 or so is completely useless for getting back to sleep, so all three of us have been rather shattered all day.
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Post by: Jaded on 19 February, 2024, 01:11:31 am
Spending the night in vet hospital.
Having been unwell since Friday, with little significant oral intake, I thought Something Must Be Done.
Admission temperature 40.9C
They’ve done bloods but I don’t know results and are giving her fluids.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings…
Simon has started eating a bit more and is more active so has not been taken for attention.

We only have one cat carrier anyway.

Any updates… :-\
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 February, 2024, 02:57:01 am
Spending the night in vet hospital.
Having been unwell since Friday, with little significant oral intake, I thought Something Must Be Done.
Admission temperature 40.9C
They’ve done bloods but I don’t know results and are giving her fluids.
Let’s see what tomorrow brings…
Simon has started eating a bit more and is more active so has not been taken for attention.
We only have one cat carrier anyway.
Any updates… :-\

Thanks for asking!
Spent two nights in hospital, on IV fluids.
Slightly low K+ but otherwise normal U&Es
No major pathology but some lymphadenopathy round upper GI
Initially given Metacam but this was stopped.
Full bladder on 2nd day but Blackie wouldn’t pee indoors.

Discharged home somewhat improved with no firm Dx on CoAmoxiclav & Anti-nausea med, neither ofwhich she would swallow.

Reduced oral intake and lethargy until yesterday, since when she’s perked up and started eating.

She’s not quite ack to normal but seems better.

My finances won’t recover till I get my State Pension in June...
Pyrexia improved but didn’t resolve pre discharge.