Author Topic: What is your pet doing right now?* (Read 212684 times)

ian · « **Reply #1650 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.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1651 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.

Basil · « **Reply #1652 on:** 29 September, 2021, 04:12:21 pm »

Quote from: 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.

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.

Kim · « **Reply #1653 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.

T42 · « **Reply #1654 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.

rafletcher · « **Reply #1655 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….

Untitled by Richard Fletcher, on Flickr

Gattopardo · « **Reply #1656 on:** 07 November, 2021, 08:46:04 pm »

Quote from: 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.

Have your cats been in contact with my cats?

Stole a mushroom then played with it...but took bites out of it.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1657 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.

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. $:-\$

T42 · « **Reply #1658 on:** 15 December, 2021, 03:31:07 pm »

Looking into cellphones:

T42 · « **Reply #1659 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.

De Sisti · « **Reply #1660 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.

Kim · « **Reply #1661 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.

rafletcher · « **Reply #1662 on:** 02 January, 2022, 01:27:26 pm »

Late to the party...

Late to the party… by Richard Fletcher, on Flickr

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1663 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.

Ham · « **Reply #1664 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

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1665 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.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1666 on:** 18 January, 2022, 02:52:45 pm »

Ooh exciting! Pictures?

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1667 on:** 20 January, 2022, 09:52:15 am »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 18 January, 2022, 02:52:45 pm

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

woollypigs · « **Reply #1668 on:** 20 January, 2022, 10:52:04 am »

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 20 January, 2022, 09:52:15 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

Pingu · « **Reply #1669 on:** 20 January, 2022, 11:10:47 am »

Naughtie tortie!

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1670 on:** 20 January, 2022, 11:12:55 am »

OMG you have joined the 'living with mental torties' club! Welcome

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1671 on:** 20 January, 2022, 11:47:34 am »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 January, 2022, 11:12:55 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.

eckagain · « **Reply #1672 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.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1673 on:** 20 January, 2022, 12:07:45 pm »

Cats hate foil.
Gardners sometimes put lengths of it on beds to stop cats crapping.

Rod Marton · « **Reply #1674 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.