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[LeytonCatLady]

Jakey seems to have been a bit more frail in recent weeks.
He is doing OK but just not as strong, a bit slower getting up and moving, you know the sort of thing.
I remind myself that he is 17 at the beginning of February and that is old for most cats, and older for an OSH who have a slightly shorter average lifespan (not because of inbreeding or anything and he is not inbred, just the natural way they are, like their long skinny bodies and ultra-short hair and large ears and other adaptations are a little different).
I worry about him all the time but I do know he is happy - I am glad I've let him back in to sleep in bed with me now, he's settled down OK and is relatively undisruptive to my sleep and I am sure it is as much of a comfort to me as it is to him that we are close pretty much all the time!

Here he is tonight:

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He's gorgeous, and so loved.

 

[A380]

So sorry to read your news Callie

 

[seeformiles]

Jakey seems to have been a bit more frail in recent weeks.
He is doing OK but just not as strong, a bit slower getting up and moving, you know the sort of thing.
I remind myself that he is 17 at the beginning of February and that is old for most cats, and older for an OSH who have a slightly shorter average lifespan (not because of inbreeding or anything and he is not inbred, just the natural way they are, like their long skinny bodies and ultra-short hair and large ears and other adaptations are a little different).
I worry about him all the time but I do know he is happy - I am glad I've let him back in to sleep in bed with me now, he's settled down OK and is relatively undisruptive to my sleep and I am sure it is as much of a comfort to me as it is to him that we are close pretty much all the time!

Here he is tonight:

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What a sweet looking fella!

 

[LeytonCatLady]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

A mafia cat response would be to leave a horse's mouse's head in your bed

(from 'how to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you, by 'the oatmeal'

 

[StoneRoad]

Beauty has been having a lazy spell in her new bed.
However, a couple of strokes have been permitted - and the purr response is getting louder & longer.

I did manage to snap a couple of images ...

as promised ...

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www.ipernity.com

 

[polly]

She's so pretty StoneRoad

I got a wood pigeon wing offering today. I hope I'm not going to get the rest in installments, feels pretty sinister.

 

[Aladdin]

The little orange cat that comes around and poos in the garden, left a dead rat on our step today.

I guess this means that we are appreciated.

 

[stavros]

My socks, soaking from my bike ride this morning and drying on the radiator, have just been inspected. However he's decided he has zero interest in them, which is weird.

 

[ddraig]

This evening
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[Hollis]

One of Mister from last week... he had a rather traumatic November, and after another urinary blockage had the 'op' done... seems to be doing fine so far.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Quietly waiting for food attention…

 

[Epona]

Quietly waiting for food attention…

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Pom pom kitty!

(I bet if she gets wet in the rain it turns out she's all skinny under that floof and probably goes frizzy afterwards like I do Not that I am skinny mind, but my hair goes all bonkers)

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Pom pom kitty!

(I bet if she gets wet in the rain it turns out she's all skinny under that floof and probably goes frizzy afterwards like I do Not that I am skinny mind, but my hair goes all bonkers)

She has to get very, very wet for that to happen! We once had to bathe her after she came back covered head to toe in coal dust and she looked like a skinny Minnie then, bless her.

She’s also a greedy guts so has probably never been skinny skinny.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

at pissed off soggy moggy

 

[sojourner]

Jocky had his first forays into our back yard this weekend. He started off dithering at the door, then took to slinking around the perimeter, sniffing everything, and this morning I let him out at 8am and he came marching back home again looking very pleased with himself at 10.30. Bless!

We have no cat flap though, and uPVC doors. Anyone with any experience of putting one on a door like that? How hard is it? How expensive to get someone else to do it? I could check the internet but it fucking overwhelms me these days, and I'd be there for hours.

 

[Chz]

Most cat flaps cover a larger area around the door than the actual hole by quite a bit. So you don't need to be tremendously accurate with the saw. It's getting that first hole through the door that's a bit of a pain. After that it's a snap. So drill a few pilot holes really close together until you've got space to get the jigsaw in there.

If you don't have a power jigsaw, it's going to be easier to get someone else to do it (unless you want a power saw). It's handiman level stuff rather than any specialist work.

 

[sojourner]

Most cat flaps cover a larger area around the door than the actual hole by quite a bit. So you don't need to be tremendously accurate with the saw. It's getting that first hole through the door that's a bit of a pain. After that it's a snap. So drill a few pilot holes really close together until you've got space to get the jigsaw in there.

If you don't have a power jigsaw, it's going to be easier to get someone else to do it (unless you want a power saw). It's handiman level stuff rather than any specialist work.

Oh, we don't saw haha. We are both absolutely useless with anything like that. Don't have a jigsaw either. Right, I'll ask my handyman then!

 

[ddraig]

Jocky had his first forays into our back yard this weekend. He started off dithering at the door, then took to slinking around the perimeter, sniffing everything, and this morning I let him out at 8am and he came marching back home again looking very pleased with himself at 10.30. Bless!

We have no cat flap though, and uPVC doors. Anyone with any experience of putting one on a door like that? How hard is it? How expensive to get someone else to do it? I could check the internet but it fucking overwhelms me these days, and I'd be there for hours.

got quoted over £200 for flap in upvc door in 2021

 

[ddraig]

Not sure they wanted the business so put price up?

 

[sojourner]

I'm waiting for my handyman to get back to me, fucking hope it's not THAT much!

 

[ddraig]

Sorry, this was a glass UPVC door

 

[stavros]

He was quite aloof all day today, sitting at the top of the stairs most of it. However, since about half an hour before I finished WFH he's been stuck to me like glue. I'm now typing with him staring almost seductively at me to the left of my laptop. His predecessor would've savaged my hands for having the temerity to do something other than stroke her with them, but this one's very content, just sitting there, purring.

 

[sojourner]

got quoted over £200 for flap in upvc door in 2021

£40

 

[ddraig]

result!

 

[moose]

Well, hello. Stepping back into Urban with news

 

[Orang Utan]

Well, hello. Stepping back into Urban with news


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Aw! They look like the cat version of an 80s electronic pop duo. Pet Shop Boys too obvious, so I’ll go with Everything But The Litter Tray

 

[Oriole]

Aw! They look like the cat version of an 80s electronic pop duo. Pet Shop Boys too obvious, so I’ll go with Everything But The Litter Tray

I thought they had more of a Simon and Purrfunkel vibe.

 

[Orang Utan]

Here is a fine cat from the internet:

 

[sojourner]

So come on moose , names, ages, where did ya get them from, character outlines? I demand more info!