On Cats

[Classsix T]

9 hours ago, spamcan61 said:

As a cat person I can't believe I've never contributed to this thread, so here's 'my' cat Lola personifiying* the word 'chilled'last weekend:-

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* In a cat sense

How dare you withhold such a lovely looking mog, consider yourself reprimanded...and more pics please!

 

C6T 

[Hobby]

All this talk of turntables but where's the piccie of the cat going round and round on one?!

[Sidecar Racer]

 Some cats on vacs .

 

 

 

[Hobby]

Yes, I'd thought of that, and the lawnmower version, but a record tt?!

[Sidecar Racer]

6 hours ago, Hobby said:

Yes, I'd thought of that, and the lawnmower version, but a record tt?!

 

No problem .

 You need to hit ' watch on youtube .

 

 

[SHMD]

9 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 Some cats on vacs .

 

 

 

 

Good grief!

I know cats are lazy but that's ridiculous.

 

...and I just know that when I get home, I would be greeted with (expecting) Food; Love; Food; attention; Food; etc - with the cat claiming it cleaned the place!

 

 

Kev.

 

[Classsix T]

10 hours ago, Hobby said:

All this talk of turntables but where's the piccie of the cat going round and round on one?!

Hmm. One of my sisters bought "me" a cat toy turntable one Xmas.

The platter (corrugated card wrapped into a disc) was supposed to substitute for a scratching post and I think the stylus arm was some play thing too.

 

As anyone who knows cats can attest, the more thought that goes into these things the more disinterested moggy is likely to be...as proved to be the case.

 

Various felines have enjoyed a nap atop the dust covers of my Technics but I don't think I was ever small minded enough to plonk one on a revolving deck, "for the lolz".

 

C6T.

[spamcan61]

21 hours ago, Classsix T said:

How dare you withhold such a lovely looking mog, consider yourself reprimanded...and more pics please!

 

C6T 

OK so more photos of the menagerie at Spamcan Towers ;-) Here;s Lola again, posing on top of a loudspeaker (Tannoy Mercury M2 for speaker spotters)  whilst contemplating shoving the plant pot on to the floor;-)

 

Here's me indulging in some cat therapy, on the left we have Timothy, he's about 12 now and has dodgy kidneys, he was rescued by my eldest daughter having lived in the loft space of the pub she was working in for about a year. His previous owner had split up from her partner had had to move into a flat with no pets allowed, so he ended up living in the loft space at the pub the owner worked in with my daughter. He's still pretty agile, bags a rat now and again and even the very occasional squirrel.

 

Lola's on my lap and on the right is her late sister Beau, they were about 9 years old when I came down to the lounge and Beau was stone cold on the floor, no idea what killed her :-( . The pair of them were again rescued by my eldest daughter when a few weeks old, can't remember the exact circumstances, i just come home to find more pets than when I left lol.

Next we have Roxy, 'helping' me with my work laptop. She was rescued by my eldest daughter (..again) when she was too young to be away from her mother, the vet didn't think she'd make it through the night but she did and has been OK ever since. We reckon she's got a slight jaw deformity because she's a very messy drinker and slow eater.

 

Unfortunately Lola and Roxy don't play nice, so Timmy and Lola live downstairs, Roxy upstairs, with the stairs as a sort of DMZ.

We also have a parrot that hates me, you can guess who rescued him, his name is Squeak because he likes emitting very loud high pitched squeaks at random.

 

 

OK this is turning into war and peace lol, there's also the faithful hound Charlie, acquired via Dorset Dog rescue (as advertised on Watchdog ...) a decade ago.

 

Then there's 6 chickens, 3 rescue and 3 white leghorns.

[Classsix T]

Nice.

Tragic about Beau, what a cracking pair of sisters.

 

C6T.

[spamcan61]

5 minutes ago, Classsix T said:

Nice.

Tragic about Beau, what a cracking pair of sisters.

 

C6T.

It was very odd, still I think Charlie misses her more than Lola.

[Hobby]

15 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

No problem .

 You need to hit ' watch on youtube .

 

 

 

Luck it was a 33 record and not a 78! ;)

[franciswilliamwebb]

 

Cat 1, inadequately secured sausage roll 0!

[Gwiwer]

Introducing Paws to the topic. 
 

Now eight years old and an RSPCA rescue from an Australian shelter when he was 18 months old. He came with us when we relocated back to the UK which process is quite easy in that direction as no quarantine is involved. 
 

[Andy Hayter]

59 minutes ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

Cat 1, inadequately secured sausage roll 0!

 

Only a paper bag?  One of ours can prize open the lid of a box of cat food sachets; pull out one or two sachets(according to his perceived level of hunger); chew and claw his way into said sachets and then devour the contents.

 

An already opened box has be kept shut by barricading the flap.

[Adrian Stevenson]

One very comfortable cat. Patch relaxing tonight on a heated fur blanket. Good job he is not spoilt 😂

[franciswilliamwebb]

 

Kato on the merits of Kevlar upholstery...

[TT-Pete]

1 hour ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

Kato

 

I can't help it, but I am of an age that whenever I see that "Not now, Cato!" springs to mind

 

 

[big jim]

Same here, with him being black I also imagine him randomly jumping out from behind furniture as you enter a room! 

[franciswilliamwebb]

9 minutes ago, big jim said:

Same here, with him being black I also imagine him randomly jumping out from behind furniture as you enter a room! 

 

You're uncomfortably close to the truth there😮

[Mark Saunders]

On 17/12/2022 at 10:47, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

Cat 1, inadequately secured sausage roll 0!

Your lucky it is only cats you have, our standard poodle ate baked beans out of the can without a can opener !

[Michael Hodgson]

1 hour ago, Mark Saunders said:

Your lucky it is only cats you have, our standard poodle ate baked beans out of the can without a can opener !

Dogs come with a built-in can opener.

[J. S. Bach]

Raindrop a couple of days after her spaying:

She has adapted to the "cone of shame"; it will probably get removed this Thursday. She has shown no reaction to said surgery and even has not tried to remove the cone.

[melmoth]

A friend related the following to me from Twitter, so it might not be entirely accurate, but a guy takes his (unspecified make of) pet to the vet for some or other treatment. The only other person in the waiting area is a very austere looking gentleman with two cat carrying cases. The vet enters the room and, asking for the next client by the name of their pets, declaims "Scharnhorst and Bismarck". At which, the austere gentleman rises from his seat and casts a withering look at the other guy, who (through his unexpected bout of giggling), just manages to ask "Are they here to be Graf Spee'd?"

[Johann Marsbar]

Sadly, my cat Isobel died in the early hours of this morning aged 17 years 9.5 months. The decline set in at the beginning of October and reached the stage of digging a hole in the garden three weeks ago, but she made a bit of a recovery over the last couple weeks, finally decining fairly rapidly since yesterday evening.

 

One from a couple of weeks ago......

 

 

After having her for just over 11 years, I'm just waiting for it to get light now.......

 

[37114]

Ruby was voted "Pet most likely to interupt a Teams call" in the annual work team jokey awards yesterday. She has also gained a Harrods bowl that a neighbour was giving away and has since become a bit if a diva....