On Cats

[Compound2632]

6 minutes ago, Jonboy said:

We tend to call more than 2 cats “a bunch £&*#holes” in this house….especially our own when we had two… 😺

 

Well, if they will walk around with their tails stuck up in the air...

[NeilHB]

A nuisance of cats sounds about right, or in our case a nuisance cat! Tigger likes to make a circuit of our bed in the middle of the night (usually about 3-4am), climbing over my head, onto the windowsill and then jumping out through the gap in the curtains on to the bed again (usually right where I’m sleeping). 
 

He’s currently in ‘butter wouldn’t melt mode’ in the youngest dog’s bed:

 

 

He’s a fluffy hellion (and he knows it) but I wouldn’t change him one bit!

[TT-Pete]

9 hours ago, Adrian Stevenson said:

 

In case you are wondering why I am posting at this in-godly hour on a Sunday morning he dropped in through the bedroom window ( his cat flap) meowing an hour ago. This means in his language “come and look what I have caught”. A big fat mouse. Luckily it was already dead so after a quick play around it became breakfast. He is now out again in the field. 
 

 

The other morning I was up early and wandered into the kitchen to make tea. As I headed out into the hall again Phoebe comes sauntering in with something gray and furry in her mouth, sees me and stops dead. Because in this situation we always yell "DROP!", she drops it. There was a furry plop and this mouse sits there on the carpet on its haunches with its' front paws crossed across its' chest. There was one of those split-second frozen moments like you get in action movies just before the fight scene starts as cat, mouse and human eyeballed each other.  Then the mouse shoots off back behind the cat through the open bedroom doorway (blast) and the cat, the perpetrator, shoots off in the opposite direction as I lunge forwards.

 

We spent the next 20 minutes or so poking a broom handle under the bed to make it come out with the other holding a upturned beaker to trap it in. "Right" said K grabbing Phoebe and plonking her in the middle of the bedroom floor, "you brought it in, now help catch it." After moving bedside cabinets, lamps and stuff and chasing from one corner to another, we got it. The cat meanwhile has spent the entire performance interestedly watching the proceedings perched on a chair, all the world like she was a Strictly judge about to give us points for style and technique. (Aaah, now where you went wrong you see was when you let it escape from under the bed-side cabinet and get behind the curtains, a rookie error.)

 

Edited July 17, 2022 by TT-Pete

[didcot]

Too hot for Mia. She has been inside all day.

[Allegheny1600]

On 16/07/2022 at 19:37, Allegheny1600 said:

Our Peanut had a “cool” bed available to him in Greece but he never actually used it (yet).

That was Saturday - today we have;

 

[TT-Pete]

@Allegheny1600

 

 

[Classsix T]

Mia was out in the shaded part of the garden just after noon when I left for work. She's slightly dim but will find a cool spot when necessary.

Anyhoo, she was inside when I got home and doesn't seem to be any worse for it , thankfully.

 

C6T.

[steve1]

Toffy spent all day out yesterday and came home around teatime none the worse for it. She must have cool spot somewhere.

 

steve

[Metr0Land]

Nephy and Spangle are trying to sleep their way through it, as they do most things....

 

 

[doilum]

Little brother brought two Australian rescue cats back with him in 2016. He reports that he hasn't seen them so outdoors active since they arrived in the UK.

40 degrees? Must be Christmas. Cats like king prawns.

[Oldddudders]

"I'm 17 tomorrow. I wonder if dad's made me a cake?"

 

 

Negative.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 23, 2022 by Oldddudders

[BrushVeteran]

Well their tails have cleaned the kitchen floor where they eat but it is they that bring all the stuff in on them!.............thinking of fitting a tail brush fitted to the cat flap!

[Classsix T]

I posted this in the Gamer's Lounge but might be of interest to those of you who like cats but don't partake of such things.

Cat video game Stray is getting positive reviews more or less across the board (some performance issues on PC apparently) from humans, reaction from those with more in common with the title's protagonist are rather harder to fathom:

https://kotaku.com/stray-playstation-ps4-ps5-pc-cyberpunk-cat-game-kitties-1849195773

 

C6T.

[eastglosmog]

Tilly having turned 12, her vet recommended she go onto cat food for elderly cats (high quality and easily digestible protein).  So I tried her out with a packet of Royal Canin 12+ (only variety of Senior cat food my pet shop sells).  Much to my great surprise, she ate it all - 1st time she has eaten cat food that is not fish based for years.  Noticed that the ingredients did include "Molluscs and crustaceans", so I took a risk and went and bought a weeks supply and to my even greater surprise, she is still eating it!  She is still on 50:50 normal to senior food at the moment so as  her stomach gets used to it.

[Michael Hodgson]

4 hours ago, BrushVeteran said:

Well their tails have cleaned the kitchen floor where they eat but it is they that bring all the stuff in on them!.............thinking of fitting a tail brush fitted to the cat flap!

 

 

 

or you coud build a model of this, about 1:12 scale should be about right

[sir douglas]

5 hours ago, Classsix T said:

I posted this in the Gamer's Lounge but might be of interest to those of you who like cats but don't partake of such things.

Cat video game Stray is getting positive reviews more or less across the board (some performance issues on PC apparently) from humans, reaction from those with more in common with the title's protagonist are rather harder to fathom:

https://kotaku.com/stray-playstation-ps4-ps5-pc-cyberpunk-cat-game-kitties-1849195773

 

C6T.

 

im currently following a vtuber streaming this, it looks amazing

[J. S. Bach]

What Wingnut thinks about everything:

 

 

 

[sir douglas]

 

 

[Compound2632]

I'm concerned for the psychological effect this game is having on the cats. It's clearly tantamount to home invasion for some of them. Anyway, human, why are you giving all your attention to these in-game cats when you've got a real cat here ready to suck up your attention? 

[Classsix T]

Mia gave Stray the full three seconds of her time that she felt necessary, and believe you me, she's impossible to ignore when she enters the room!

 

 

C6T.

[Nick C]

On 23/07/2022 at 12:31, eastglosmog said:

Tilly having turned 12, her vet recommended she go onto cat food for elderly cats (high quality and easily digestible protein).  So I tried her out with a packet of Royal Canin 12+ (only variety of Senior cat food my pet shop sells).  Much to my great surprise, she ate it all - 1st time she has eaten cat food that is not fish based for years.  Noticed that the ingredients did include "Molluscs and crustaceans", so I took a risk and went and bought a weeks supply and to my even greater surprise, she is still eating it!  She is still on 50:50 normal to senior food at the moment so as  her stomach gets used to it.

We switched ours to Royal Canin when Clyde was ill and had to be on prescription food, and we've been quite happy with it - and the cats seem to like it, which is probably the most important thing! More expensive than the mass-market brands admittedly, but still cheaper than most of the 'premium' ones...

[Chrisr40]

[eastglosmog]

On 25/07/2022 at 11:47, Nick C said:

We switched ours to Royal Canin when Clyde was ill and had to be on prescription food, and we've been quite happy with it - and the cats seem to like it, which is probably the most important thing! More expensive than the mass-market brands admittedly, but still cheaper than most of the 'premium' ones...

With Tilly needing less of the expensive Royal Canin, I think we have just about broken even, expense wise!

Anyway, here is a picture of her eating it.  She is rather a messy eater and I usually have to clean her mane and clear up after her.

[TT-Pete]

As we are about to go for our monthly shopping trip into town I felt this appropriate:

 

 

 

[doilum]

Tails from the stables. Cont.

The new yard cat has finally been given a name. By unanimous agreement it is F. C. ( Think cooking fat). It follows the girls as they make their evening rounds feeding the ponies knowing a full plate of quality food awaits it at the end.

On Sunday it lived up to its name. Friends were round with their Alaskan Huskies ( big and always muzzled before leaving home) enjoying a drink in the courtyard. F.C. arrives, and on spotting the girls who feed him, proceeds to calmly walk through the middle of the gathering. Dogs explode, owner is dragged half way across the yard and drinks spilled. Order had just been restored when Sabre, the Bengal from over the road, decides that he is not being upstaged and does exactly the same thing. Same result.

Cats.......