RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 28, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2015 Idle research on social media shows how much interest cat pictures get. Even 'academics with cats' have recently found the value of feline associations. So its time railway modellers got with it and improved our reputation on the back of railway cats. Mrs Dava and I have just adopted a kitten, rehomed from Derby Cats Protection. She was found after being abandoned with her mum and sister in a supermarket car park. Now named Katie, she joins Esme (@Warycat on Twitter) and Lizzie in our household. 'Adoptdontshop' is the watchword. The only railway connection (so far) is that kittens are even harder to photograph than model trains! Feel free to share the cat(s) in your life. No cracks about skinning them please, just remember that any trains smaller than 00 gauge can be classed as 'electric mice'! Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Cats don't appreciate railways like dogs do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 28, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2015 Cats don't appreciate railways like dogs do DSCF7454.JPG Feel free to start a dogs & railways thread then! Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted December 28, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2015 We have 3 cats, all inherited from one child or another. Gavin, the boy, is the curious one that 'helps ' me with my modelling and has even been now to jump in the back of the car when I'm loading layout bits. Here he is playing with a ball that came out of a cracker. He did just deign to lift his head up when I was doing some work one morning. And here he is checking that no mice had arrived with a batch of wagon kits that I bought at auction. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Jamie, hmm, Gavin looks like Bob's brother Bob, our latest cat, now 7, was rescued from the back garden/woods of a friend when he was just weeks old. Think his mother was semi-feral, and poor little thing seemed lost and would beg for food. Seen here now, he has little "respect" for the sanctity of the permanent way. He will often sit on the stairs adjacent to one side of the lines and bat at passing trains! The terminus is no barrier when he thinks he hears critters in the ceiling of our basement!! He seems to think the area destined to be a road to the station is his private path A 4-track mainline isn't going to deter him from taking a rest So far he seems most fascinated by a Q1 trundling round hauling a long line of goods wagons, the fast 4-CEP he simply ignores <sigh> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 28, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2015 Black cats are a law unto themselves. We have one but she does not often consent to being photographed with trains. On a lighter note, here is the Loughborough station cat (not to be confused with the ruffty engine shed cats across the tracks!) inspecting a train before its departure. I have a few more in the railway cat collection to dig out... Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Black cats are a law unto themselves. We have one but she does not often consent to being photographed with trains. On a lighter note, here is the Loughborough station cat (not to be confused with the ruffty engine shed cats across the tracks!) inspecting a train before its departure. Lbro stn cat.jpg I have a few more in the railway cat collection to dig out... Dava Skimbleshanks? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CLARENCE Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Here's my offering; Suki watching the trains go by. (Sorry about the cobwebs!) Cheers, David. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Never mind model railways. In Japan, there's been at least one cat that worked on the real thing.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
71H Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I have 3 cats for my sins. They love watching me tinkering. I'll dig out some photo's & put them up on here soon as i can find them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
71H Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Found this railway cat photo. He / She was taken at Blue Anchor station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 While waiting for a Railtour at Poole Park... Regards, Matt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanks522 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 We have always had Cats in the family and most love playing trains, heres my two when they where kittens. Archie ( ginger one ) is definitely the railway cat out of the two though, and usually prevents daddy from doing any work! cheers Graham. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted December 29, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2015 I am a little disturbed by the eyes.......................................................Damien comes to mind...................................... (Sorry Bob) Quackers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I am a little disturbed by the eyes.......................................................Damien comes to mind...................................... (Sorry Bob) Quackers. Indeed, this is a result mostly of something someone else mentioned, Bob at least is VERY hard to take pictures of, he hates to pose, and that's the reason the pictures I posted are less than perfect - I really CAN take decent pictures, just never of Bob it seems <sigh> For the record, he CAN be as scary as he looks, he has a zero tolerance for "friendly", and will only manage about 15-20 seconds of such attention, even from me, except at dinner time! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Definitely a Mog house here! We have 3 (did have 4 but not long lost a Bengal to cancer) This madam is Penny, a chocolate marble Bengal. Vocal and generally very active.. This is Buddy our most recent arrival. An eating machine basically.. The black one is Beanie. Very quiet until the recent loss of her friend Zee, the Bengal but has recently found her voice and become rather clingy. Now, as much as I love them they are very firmly banned from the model railway room as they seem to have a deathwish when it comes to my workbench! There are far too many sharp/hot/poisonous/cutty/pointy/breakable things for them be anywhere near it! Many years ago I had a tabby that would happily watch a long freight train go by on my layout until the brake van passed. A quick pat would derail the van which would drag all the others off one by one as the train went round the curves..... Jon F. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted December 30, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2015 Indeed, this is a result mostly of something someone else mentioned, Bob at least is VERY hard to take pictures of, he hates to pose, and that's the reason the pictures I posted are less than perfect - I really CAN take decent pictures, just never of Bob it seems <sigh> For the record, he CAN be as scary as he looks, he has a zero tolerance for "friendly", and will only manage about 15-20 seconds of such attention, even from me, except at dinner time! However, he obviously likes a good Merchant Navy. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 though i dont have any of her on the layout, one of her favourite places was on my modelling chair. she passed away a few years ago Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2015 And here we have Henry - not exactly a railway cat although he did supervise some baseboard construction at one time and now, alas departed and much missed. A cat of great character he survived a nasty interface with a road vehicle which led to a broken jaw and some years later he also survived acute kidney failure. He would never willingly (or unwillingly) go into a cat basket hence if he went out to the vets he had to go on a lead and sitting in the surgery on his lead caused considerable confusion for any dogs who came across him. A great character who made a fairly good age and who is buried beneath his own special monument in our front garden. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 And here we have Henry - not exactly a railway cat although he did supervise some baseboard construction at one time and now, alas departed and much missed. A cat of great character he survived a nasty interface with a road vehicle which led to a broken jaw and some years later he also survived acute kidney failure. He would never willingly (or unwillingly) go into a cat basket hence if he went out to the vets he had to go on a lead and sitting in the surgery on his lead caused considerable confusion for any dogs who came across him. A great character who made a fairly good age and who is buried beneath his own special monument in our front garden. 120503 011m3a.jpg A very elegant chap! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Devil Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 This is one of our two......... Eric (and his toothpick!) Banned from the modelling areas due to his liking for Faller Car System vehicles............. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2015 A very elegant chap! He was remarkably good at throwing a pose - if he wasn't deeply engaged in something whenever he saw a camera approaching he would start to get into a suitable pose which he probably thought represented his best viewing angle. Hence the picture posted above where he, literally, adopted that pose as soon as he saw the camera! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Aw! Some lovely pics of our furry friends there, chaps! Like Jon F, ours are banned from the railway room (such as it is), they like the lounge anyway. The girls have on occasion got into the railway room though and usually just knock everything loose onto the floor. Closest the camera is Amber, then her sister, Alexis both spotty Bengals and feigning indifference with his toy is Peanut our rescue, semi-feral cat from Greece! (Yes! That was fun and not cheap, bringing him home but oh! so worth it!). The two girls are 12 now, P will be 3 in about next May and despite his semi-feral origins, he is as friendly as can be, he adores his humans! Cheers, John E. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Nothing railway related I'm afraid, but here are a couple of our collection. Lester at 1 year old. Lester at rather less than 1 year old. And Lester at a lot less than 1 year old. Then there's Samson, who's much bigger now. And when he was very small indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 30, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2015 This is my devil cat Barney. But here he is in a more natural setting - waiting for mice on the railway side. He did suffer a broken sternum a couple of years ago. We've no idea how it happened. The vet thinks that he may have landed badly when jumping down. This is with his brother Leo, who sadly was run over by a car three years ago. They were inseperable and often curled up together. Being long-haired, it always took Leo a little while to realise it was raining and by then he would be soaked through. However, it didn't take him long to dry out and settle down in front of the PC to catch up on the forums.... We now also have Bruce - a pitch black animal that is very difficult to photograph. Three years on and I still haven't got a better photo of him. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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