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.
Pete is looking at me with complete indifference while I sing along and dance to Lovecats.
We have a Whippet. There's a 99% certainty that at any time he might be sleeping.
Pete is having a little snooze, to build his strength up in readiness for his long day of sleeping.
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.
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.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
Apart from the other day when he lay on his back, rolling on the bubblewrap and gently licking his kickaroo.
It's a toy. I think Kathy recommended it.Ah I see, like a giant catnip shmousie...
It's a toy. I think Kathy recommended it.Ah I see, like a giant catnip shmousie...
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.
She has orange eyebrows!Snap and snap.
She's now asleep next to me, her head on my leg.
Farting in his sleep.Tch tch Bobb :)
Farting in his sleep.
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.
After sitting on the router for an hour, he's now asleep in his bed.
Sitting back to back, three feet from each other, practising mutual ignoring at closer quartets.
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 :)
$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!
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 ::-)
Do you have stables at work too, if so then you could ride to work :)
Beautiful dog.
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()]" )
}
Pumpkin and Ninkasi are unknowingly enjoying their last night with all their reproductive giblets intact. Bet it's quiet tomorrow night....
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
... I'm having that bloody cat euthanized later.
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.
Oreo, meanwhile, is sat under the bird feeder, mouth open.
Bad Cat just ate my contact lens.
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!
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.
That's a hilarious photo ;D
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.
One dog's snoring, the other's farting. The noise and smell are a bit much.
Our pets are mostly staring at our other pets.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5658/21888075359_c8d6c1e79e_c.jpg)
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.
Eating the firewood
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.
Decomposing. :'(:(
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.
Decomposing. :'(
Eating the firewoodL
Do you have a pet beaver, then, or just a hamster with delusions of grandeur :-)
Decomposing. :'(
Oh no? Which one?
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.
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.
Pete is in the hammocky bit of his new enormous tower, and he is yawning.
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.
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.
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, he sleeps through fireworks and there were no bagpipes. ;D
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.
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.
Flat out after a bath. Because of this (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/videos/10153584787931645/?pnref=story). ;D
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.
Frozen Kongs stuffed with some of her food might help keep her occupied.
Brian: that is some foot fetish :)
pcolbeck: good luck :)
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.
That's unusual for a cat to sleep on something procured specially for them...
'ere Wow, how's Morphy doing with his practice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xshp5C2foBU
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.
Sitting on my knee, watching The Hunt for Red October.
No idea she's gone to the kennels for a few days while we have house guests one of whom is scared of dogs.
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!
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!
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.
A flying fish in your future? ;DLol!
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.
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.
Ninkasi is sitting on the grumpy arm of the sofa, waiting for supper to be announced.
She might have a frisk and leap onto the frisky back of the sofa. Or perhaps cheerfully pluck the scratching post.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?
Come on Pumpkin, stop dicking about and come home :(
What are dogs supposed to do with flower pots? (Genuine question, I'm a cat person and allergic to gardening.)
What are dogs supposed to do with flower pots? (Genuine question, I'm a cat person and allergic to gardening.)
Are you sure it was the parrot?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?
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:
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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:
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What's she studying? :)
He's on my knee, watching The Lion King.
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.
Milly Cat is sitting in the window being admired by people passing by.
Milly Cat is sitting in the window being admired by people passing by.
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.
:-\. 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.
:-\. 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:)
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.
The kittens are attacking any human hand or foot that sticks out from under a duvet. Then each other, themselves and the dog.
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?
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.
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
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.
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed ::-)
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed ::-)
Where we now know she also left a poo... :facepalm:
Sleeping after spending most of the day hiding under our neighbour's bed ::-)
Where we now know she also left a poo... :facepalm:
Fireworks?
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.
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:
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:
Pete islooking at bobb as if he hopes that bobb will feed him.assessing the number of meals in a bobb.
Another new kitteh?
Aw
We need to get new kitteh her own microchip so she can have her own microchip scanning feeder ;D
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/1/439/32044464612_a703125651_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QPEfVb)IMG_3813 (https://flic.kr/p/QPEfVb) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
We need to get new kitteh her own microchip so she can have her own microchip scanning feeder ;D
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/1/439/32044464612_a703125651_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QPEfVb)IMG_3813 (https://flic.kr/p/QPEfVb) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
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"
Oh dear. Pete was remarkably easy to get eyedrops into so I can't offer any advice.
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.
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.
Ninkasi was frog bothering. Frogs can squeak like mice - who knew?
Oh dear. Pete was remarkably easy to get eyedrops into so I can't offer any advice.
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...
I will leave you with this epic kitty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIyfNM6y3vU
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.
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
This what I have to put you with. Look at the sheer effort she puts in to see those magpies off her territory.She's obviously trying jawjaw before warwar.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3vWEjc3Dh38
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...
Have you checked your slippers?
My eyes, my eyes.
Are they petable?
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.
Pete is stoned out of his hairy face on catnip.
>:( 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!
Dunno - but it seems to be endemic around the UK atm. Shooting and mutilating animals, particularly cats.
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.
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.
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?
How did the trifle dish work out?
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.
David bought a nice big soft cat bed but neither cat has shown any interest in it.
David bought a nice big soft cat bed but neither cat has shown any interest in it.
This is completely normal and expected.
One of our feline friends has left a disembowelled rodent on the patio, much to David's disgust.
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
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
I think that means she loves you.
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.
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.
Proving that this multitasking lark is a doddle by snoring and farting at the same time.
Being very old.:-[ thats sad WoW.
I have been away since Friday and he did not get up to welcome me when I came in this afternoon.
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...
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...
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!
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. :'(
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.
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.
Linky no worky
Linky no worky
Fixed I hope, too enthusiastic cleaning up my pics :-)
Phoebe is LEGGY and lovely!
Cats are eating little wet food at present; they pester David, he gets food out, they have a little. then leave.
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.
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.
When I saw Jurek had replied, I thought it was going to be about squirrels... ;D
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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As the furballs are in a forin country, they seem to be scratching alot so suspect fleas.The mosquito killer could poison the cats. Flea treatment for dogs is toxic for cats.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Big Tom is sleeping halfway up the stairs.
Despite the hall/stair/landing carpet being mainly blue, Big Tom seems quite well camouflaged.
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...
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.
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.
"Oi Google" I yelled.
"Oi Google" I yelled.
This really needs to end with a smartphone butting in...
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.
It's Diwali
I hope that the cats are okay :'(
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.
Being a general arsehole. Destroying things and pissing on the floor. Anyone want a puppy?
That's remarkably relaxed for so close to the Evil Monster That Eats Kittehs.
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
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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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.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?
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. :(
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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.
Still no sign of Blackie :(
David thinks she's dead. :'(
It might just be an extended sulk over the entire cleaning incident.
It might just be an extended sulk over the entire cleaning incident.
Would be my guess. Fingers crossed.
Any sensible vet will hand it over to a team of plucky vet nurses....
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.
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.
Am I cynical?
Who am I to judge a vet?
Actually, David said vet had NO experience of an oiled cat.
Charcoal and PPIs is presumably the catch-all solution to "I think my dog ate some X".
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.
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.
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 can also say, when oft repeated by non-cat people: She's not just-a-cat. Not to us.
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."
I can also say, when oft repeated by non-cat people: She's not just-a-cat. Not to us.
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.
By the quantity and fur content (©CSI Feline Crime Detection) it's (of course) Bad Cat.
Hot weather for a bodysuit. Our two are avoiding the rugs before lying down.
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.
Taking me for a walk.
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?
How did you get them not to pick at things?
...
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.
As our cats are feral, Cat Protection arranged for them to be neutered without the 'Elizabethan collar'.;DHow 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.
...
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.
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.
I'm actually moving them to an online educational platform. There will be modules.
I'm actually moving them to an online educational platform. There will be modules.
Watch out, they'll get you with the feedback forms.
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 :)
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.
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...
Ooh, I didn't knowyou hada new kitteh had you :)
Not understanding that it is her birthday today.
Not understanding that it is her birthday today.
Is that not because every day is her birthday?
€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?
Aw, silly cat.
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.
Waiting in a rescue centre somewhere for us to be ready for them... ;)
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.
Scoffing crunchies.
Neither cat has much interest in wet food at the moment.
Ah, you mean Big Tom's grand piano...
But he was a Labrador and could (and did) eat anything.
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.
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.
Please remind me why peopleownserve cats.
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 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.
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.
Yowling, which means one of three things:How does your cat know what you are thinking?
1. Feed me now
2. I can feel a poo brewing
3. I've got the raging horn
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)'
We bought tablets from Sainsbury's at some point but Blackie Would Not Eat.
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?
Dumpy has done the most minging poo in the litter tray.
They are having a duvet-free duvet day.
They are having a duvet-free duvet day.
Is that not every day for cats?
Somewhere on here there was a post about a dog toy that was actually Boris.
Somewhere on here there was a post about a dog toy that was actually Boris.
Guilty as charged ;D
Last evening the parrot was clinging to the side of his cage and crying "woe, woe" like a prophet of doom.
Has anyone else's cat realised that the WFH laptop is a nice warm spot for a nap?
Hello! Good to see you! Hope you are well, glad you've got a cat again :)
Gosh, that was very brave of you! Glad he has blossomed and repaid your faith in him :)
Tilly's tale is back up to half mast now.
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.
Eating frog spawn ::-)Same again this morning.
Thst sucks :( people are arseholesThat's almost what we said
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.
We can hardly believe it: our two wonderful boys gone in two days.
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 :(
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. ::-)
And this morning a mouse and some more bread.
Hope Pheobe has come home now rafletcher?
Pumpkin is really decimating the mice at the moment.
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.
You know that thing where you throw a dog a little teat and it catches it, well my dog just ducks.
Oi cat. You're an obligate carnivore. WTF are you doing eating mushrooms? And don't give me any of that umami BS.
Ooh exciting! Pictures?Wrestled with flickr, failed.
Not sure if this will workI see no issue here, you just have to adapt and take/share pictures, that's your job/life now :)
OMG you have joined the 'living with mental torties' club! Welcome :)She definitely fits in that category.
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.
So MrsC buys cat a water fountain thingy.
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
...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.
...*she puts the Little in Monster Cat. About 3 and a bit kilograms. Though she appears to think she's a big cat.
Damage done by cat does not usually bear any relationship to their size.
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.
Hana looking quite grey around the muzzle, how old is she now?
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.
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.
Stinking up my office with her farts.
Sam
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.
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.
Snoring and farting.
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.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 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!
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.
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.
[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
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 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.
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.
Ooh, is it like the whistle they used to have on Star Trek, in the Shatner days?
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.
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.
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.
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 ::-)
Ah sorry, I wrongly assumed they would have been chipped when they were spayed.
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.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.
They've both ambled away now.
They were well-matched for size.
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.
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
QuoteThey'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
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.
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.
Now where do you get those GPS trackers so I can find out where she has been going?
You mean people aren't just using those i-Things that creepy blokes use to stalk women?
Was a bird the victim, rather than a mammal?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.
Detective work called for.
Or has all the evidence gone?
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.
Occupying his latest, bespoke cat bed.
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[Not my pet] Stray Ginger is in trap awaiting retrieval by cat charity, to be neutered & returned.
ETA: Collected at 0230 7 June.
This post needs photies!
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.
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. :(Again. Though only since about 2pm this time.
So almost impossible to listen out for a crying cat, plus every pile of leaves (of which there are many) looks like a tortie.
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. :(Again. Though only since about 2pm this time.
So almost impossible to listen out for a crying cat, plus every pile of leaves (of which there are many) looks like a tortie.
[edit]Phew :thumbsup:
She's appeared. Not particularly interested in food, with round belly.
Eaten another rabbit maybe.
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.
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.
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.
Vax spotwash. Essential pet owners kit.
:thumbsup:
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.
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.
Spending the night in vet hospital.Any updates… :-\
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.
Spending the night in vet hospital.Any updates… :-\
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.
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 of which 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.