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[stavros]

Re. bells, I don't think a kill/capture is preceded by a lot of movement immediately beforehand. They'll lie in wait for as long as it takes, and pounce so quickly that even if the victim does hear the bell they won't have time to react.

 

[ddraig]

Supervising today!

 

[donkyboy]

The girls will miss the scaffolding when its eventually taken down

Unfortunately (for the girls) the scaffolding came down on Saturday morning....

 

[Cloo]

I love this, Vastra makes exactly these kind of 'activation noises' when you touch her or she wakes up

 

[Dystopiary]

I love this, Vastra makes exactly these kind of 'activation noises' when you touch her or she wakes up

Arnold does this too - "PPRRRrrrt"!

 

[stavros]

Unfortunately (for the girls) the scaffolding came down on Saturday morning....

That's tragic, on so many levels.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

lil'Angel has taken to making iMessage stickers out of photos they have taken of the cats with their iPad

Here's one

 

[Monte]

Re. bells, I don't think a kill/capture is preceded by a lot of movement immediately beforehand. They'll lie in wait for as long as it takes, and pounce so quickly that even if the victim does hear the bell they won't have time to react.

Yes, they are ambush predators so bells are pretty useless.

 

[polly]

I also found bells useless. The kill rate didn't decline at all, and it made the cats more annoying to us at night. I really love birds and am dreading spring :/

 

[iona]

Thankfully the cats here mostly like to eat rabbits. Canelle has fully moved in with the people who've been staying in the loft above the barn over winter, so I haven't fed her in weeks and afaik they don't feed her either. She eats a LOT of rabbits though.

 

[seeformiles]

Vic critiques the Sunday papers

 

[philosophical]

Here are a couple of pictures taken this morning of dear Matilda, the tripod from over the road.

 

[stavros]

The usual view when I'm reading in bed:



The caption is "Why have you stopped tickling my tummy and started fiddling with that stupid phone thing?"

 

[seeformiles]

Vic being fabulous

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Vic critiques the Sunday papers

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"Why don't they just make Larry Prime Minister and be done with it?"

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Vet called me to say everything fine with his blood tests, still waiting on urinalysis results as it could be he has a UTI (CKD cats are prone to them) but otherwise all is fine.

Just saw this (not visited the thread for a couple of days). So relieved for you and Jakey.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Settling down for the night.

 

[May Kasahara]

Donut bending reality again.

 

[Callie]

Met a nice cat on my stroll this evening

Too fast for good pics though



It had a little friend but the friend was too shy to muscle in for a stroke

 

[bcuster]

 

[donkyboy]

Chloe frozen in time

 

[Saul Goodman]

Chloe frozen in time

On a heated blanket

 

[donkyboy]

On a heated blanket

Yep

 

[Aladdin]

Figgypudding... tweeny cat

 

[Aladdin]

 

[Aladdin]

Wrong thread

 

[Cloo]

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Sticking her claws in my leg , earning this privilege by looking gorgeous and purring.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Sticking her claws in my leg , earning this privilege by looking gorgeous and purring.

They do that, don't they! Sweet little fuckers know they can get away with pretty much anything. If they could speak human, and you asked them "Why did you do that!?!?" They'd just shrug their shoulders and say "Because I can".

 

[LeytonCatLady]

OK, this MP is an idiot, but I couldn't help being amused by the journalist's name...