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High Voltage
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If tonights offerings are anything to go by I think we've managed to acquire another 2 or possibly 3 cats
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
cross-posted
following the fire at battersea arts centre last week, the resident kitty was missing.
he has been found safe
following the fire at battersea arts centre last week, the resident kitty was missing.
he has been found safe
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Our beautiful Gypsy cat was run over last night and left on the road. A neighbour found her at 11pm and came to us this morning. It has been a very strange sad day. We buried her out in the countryside next to a pub specialising in cider so went and raised a glass to her 24 years she has been adored by the family.
I'm so happy that my BF had kippers for breakfast yesterday so one of her final meals was enjoyable and not the Felix pouches I bought and she didn't like.
R.I.P Gypsy cat x x x
I'm so happy that my BF had kippers for breakfast yesterday so one of her final meals was enjoyable and not the Felix pouches I bought and she didn't like.
R.I.P Gypsy cat x x x
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
So sorry to hear this - 24 years that's truly amazing - she must have been a very loved cat indeed
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Thank you..and yep epic age she reached and was still looking after herself and quite sprightly.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Really sorry to hear about Gypsy cat 
CRI
Registered Chooser
Oh my, so sorry to hear about Gypsy Cat. RIP.Really sorry to hear about Gypsy cat
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
RIP Gypsy and condolences to moonsi til
QOTH
Well-Known Member
Senior cat was about 6 months old when I had my son - apart from sleeping in the pram while unoccupied by baby he was completely indifferent. AFAIK it's an urban myth that cats can suffocate a child by sleeping on them. Cats like warm, dry comfortable places, not damp wriggly, smelly, snuffly, farty howly places.
I think it can be challenging to introduce a cat to a toddler - I found that with ours that because the cat had always been there, we didn't go through the endless chase-scratch-waaah-chase-scratch-waaah process that we get when other people's kids are introduced to our cat. Or maybe I just have a very uncurious child.
In conclusion, get a cat. Do it, do it now. Cats.
High Voltage
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FiFi in her tree house
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
The boys - they are still very "hidey" at the moment - not as bad as in these pictures but we're a LONG way off having them as lap cats
Clive is the mainly tabby / white one and Casper is the mainly white one with the black stripe on his face
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
That is a lovely pic (and cat), although I did think at first that the little bed thing was part of FiFi.
QOTH
Well-Known Member
Junior cat (8 months) has recently been neutered and allowed in the garden for the first time - however since then either he, or senior cat (7 years old) has started spraying prolifically in the house. This was not a problem before - Senior Cat was always very well housetrained, as was Junior Cat. Now my house smells like a crazy cat lady house :-( . We haven't caught either of them in the act, so I don't yet know who's responsible (possibly both!).
Putting an amateur cat psychology hat on, I'd say that Senior Cat is pissed off about Junior Cat being allowed in HIS garden and is therefore kicking off about it - but also wondering whether there could be some complications of the snip that is causing Junior cat to be suddenly incontinent.
Or it might just be coincidence - the age cats get neutered is the age they start spraying and neutering doesn't always stop it.
Any ideas?
Putting an amateur cat psychology hat on, I'd say that Senior Cat is pissed off about Junior Cat being allowed in HIS garden and is therefore kicking off about it - but also wondering whether there could be some complications of the snip that is causing Junior cat to be suddenly incontinent.
Or it might just be coincidence - the age cats get neutered is the age they start spraying and neutering doesn't always stop it.
Any ideas?
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
are you entirely sure it's either of your cats ? do you have a catflap and if so, does it use a magnetic lock or a microchip-only lock ?
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Love is rarely cheap or easy
QOTH
Well-Known Member
Well it's funny you should say that - I have just noticed a new cat prowling around our garden. Going to keep them in tonight and see if that makes any difference. Given that the two animals (and our previous now dead cat) have their arrangements about who's allowed to be where and when, it does seem very indiscriminate - I can well believe that some fucker's running in spraying all over the place. It certainly smells that way :-(
Batboy
Trumpeting is good for you...
Our Cat Coco has just come back from Vets and what was first diagnosed as an abscess has now been found to be a cancer tumour,in her mouth, the prognosis is not good.
She's around 12 years old. From what I understand this is a common cancer in cats although there are different types with some more aggressive than others.
The vet has suggested she has only weeks to months to live and we are waiting for biopsy based upon sample taken.
Coco herself seems perky, she had some infection which has been treated with antibiotics her organs, kidney etc are all in good shape she's eating and purring... It's all a bit surreal.
I don't know if there are any posters on here with experience of this. The options of surgery and chemo are there but it is difficult to see whether this is futile and just going to add to the suffering for what might only add a few months to her life.
Advice/feedback appreciated
She's around 12 years old. From what I understand this is a common cancer in cats although there are different types with some more aggressive than others.
The vet has suggested she has only weeks to months to live and we are waiting for biopsy based upon sample taken.
Coco herself seems perky, she had some infection which has been treated with antibiotics her organs, kidney etc are all in good shape she's eating and purring... It's all a bit surreal.
I don't know if there are any posters on here with experience of this. The options of surgery and chemo are there but it is difficult to see whether this is futile and just going to add to the suffering for what might only add a few months to her life.
Advice/feedback appreciated
Manter
Lunch Mob
Sympathy moonsi til. Horrible to lose a pet
Mapped our cat has always been absolutely fine with J. It's about whether they have been socialised to children when v young apparently- if they haven't they avoid, or may take the occasional swipe, but the suffocation thing is urban myth. We had to spend a lot of time saying 'gentle' to J, but now they are proper mates.
No advice Batboy, but hope she stays well and doesn't suffer
Mapped our cat has always been absolutely fine with J. It's about whether they have been socialised to children when v young apparently- if they haven't they avoid, or may take the occasional swipe, but the suffocation thing is urban myth. We had to spend a lot of time saying 'gentle' to J, but now they are proper mates.
No advice Batboy, but hope she stays well and doesn't suffer
Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
It's only my position but I think we should not bring too much of the human world into our pets' lives. I would let Nature take its course and, when her time comes, help her gently out.Our Cat Coco has just come back from Vets and what was first diagnosed as an abscess has now been found to be a cancer tumour,in her mouth, the prognosis is not good.
She's around 12 years old. From what I understand this is a common cancer in cats although there are different types with some more aggressive than others.
The vet has suggested she has only weeks to months to live and we are waiting for biopsy based upon sample taken.
Coco herself seems perky, she had some infection which has been treated with antibiotics her organs, kidney etc are all in good shape she's eating and purring... It's all a bit surreal.
I don't know if there are any posters on here with experience of this. The options of surgery and chemo are there but it is difficult to see whether this is futile and just going to add to the suffering for what might only add a few months to her life.
Advice/feedback appreciated
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Really sorry to hear this.
QOTH
Well-Known Member
BREAKING NEWS.... I have just spotted the neighbourhood's alpha male cat (possibly stray, still got its nads on) trying to get in our catflap. He looks like a bengal, amazing markings and turquoise eyes, but down on his luck or just getting old and scraggy.
My OH says it's unsurprising that Urban is 1) suggesting our cats are being fitted up by the authorities 2) Implying the work of an agent provocateur.
My OH says it's unsurprising that Urban is 1) suggesting our cats are being fitted up by the authorities 2) Implying the work of an agent provocateur.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Microchip-operated catflap is your solution then. whether it's actually the alpha stranger spraying in your house, or his presence freaking out your 2 and making either or both of them spray from anxiety/territoriality, keeping the stranger away will solve the problem.
