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Mumbles274
running from law and the press and the parents
Ah, like you say then, locked in till snip and chip!
I don't think well let ours fully loose once recovered from op... Certainly will be in at night but then best laid plans and all that!
Me76
Not very good lurker
I'm really nervous about letting them out properly. I know it needs to be done - we have a garden and we have a cat flap and I would feel mean leaving them in - but there are other big cats, and foxes and all lots of other things.
I think the flap will be activated a couple of weeks after op, just to get them used to using it, but supervision still.
Although I don't think it will be long before one of them does the jump out the front window. Which I cannot leave shut or we will all die of heat.
I think the flap will be activated a couple of weeks after op, just to get them used to using it, but supervision still.
Although I don't think it will be long before one of them does the jump out the front window. Which I cannot leave shut or we will all die of heat.
Mumbles274
running from law and the press and the parents
Yeah, makes sense. I think because i have 2 older cats and less worries as it were having done it with them have been able to let the little ones explore and we feel they are ok with the boundaries so far.. House and garden.
Its all about whats right for the cats in my opinion... They guide you, if you think they go too far, reign them back to safety and contain them a little more... Bit of give and take just like your doing eh?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
are they the sort of windows you can get child proof locks for? - so you can have them open an inch or two but not enough for a kitty to try and get out?
i had to install that sort of thing when i lived with kitties - had a moment one morning (before they were going out) - got up, opened bedroom window, went to bog, came downstairs, opened curtains, thought "there's a cat on the front lawn that looks like one of mine. hang on a minute. oh shit..."
fortunately he was only bruised a bit...
Me76
Not very good lurker
I had cats before but they died at 18, two years apart, so it's a long time since I've done the letting them find their own way thing. I've forgotten about it.
The front window is ground floor, with front garden and only open when we are awake and in the room, so we would see him going out.
It was the favoured exit for one of our old cats though. She wouldn't come in through the cat flap, but was fine to go out through it and wouldn't come in through the front window but would go out, and then whinge to come in through the front door.
Mumbles274
running from law and the press and the parents
You've not forgotton so much as just doing it in different circumstances with different cats surely, not going to be the same and if you are a good animal carer you'll be doing the right thing.. Yay!!... Plus, don't forget they are cats... That are tough as hell (within reason), or that's what i tell lamb1979 several times a week so she doesn't have a heart attack 
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Jemima sprayed up my door. On the inside 
I do think Jemima is a Jeremiah.
Keeping her/him in overnight before taking her/him to the vet will be fun. I expect I'll need to clean the place from top to bottom.
I do think Jemima is a Jeremiah.
Keeping her/him in overnight before taking her/him to the vet will be fun. I expect I'll need to clean the place from top to bottom.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
We had to let Tiggy go this afternoon.
She had rallied a fair bit since her last visit to the emergency vet in May and had been spending some time sleeping in the sun on the decking and occasionally running across the garden. However in the last few days my partner thought she was fading a bit, and he took her to the emergency vets again late this afternoon as her abdomen was swollen and she seemed generally listless and not herself. The vet thought tests would possibly have revealed something incurable so she went peacefully, after 22 happy and mostly healthy years.
It wasn't a surprise and I'm glad my partner was able to be with her. I'm very sorry that I'm away staying with family until Wednesday - I feel gutted not to be with my partner.
She had rallied a fair bit since her last visit to the emergency vet in May and had been spending some time sleeping in the sun on the decking and occasionally running across the garden. However in the last few days my partner thought she was fading a bit, and he took her to the emergency vets again late this afternoon as her abdomen was swollen and she seemed generally listless and not herself. The vet thought tests would possibly have revealed something incurable so she went peacefully, after 22 happy and mostly healthy years.
It wasn't a surprise and I'm glad my partner was able to be with her. I'm very sorry that I'm away staying with family until Wednesday - I feel gutted not to be with my partner.
Mumbles274
running from law and the press and the parents
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Really sorry, oryx. Sounds like she had a relaxing summer. 22 is no mean feat. Thinking of you xx
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Thanks for all your kind words and thoughts folks.
This is the third time one of my cats has passed away while I've been up seeing family in York!
Sad she is gone but it was not a surprise. I'm hoping my partner is coping OK - we spoke about half an hour ago and he seems to be bearing up. He had known her since kittenhood and they had a very special bond - so am glad he was with her right at the end, and she went very quickly and peacefully.
This is the third time one of my cats has passed away while I've been up seeing family in York!
Sad she is gone but it was not a surprise. I'm hoping my partner is coping OK - we spoke about half an hour ago and he seems to be bearing up. He had known her since kittenhood and they had a very special bond - so am glad he was with her right at the end, and she went very quickly and peacefully.
Mumbles274
running from law and the press and the parents
Moe obliged a picture this morning
Beau, hmm, not so much
Ah, just kidding.. He was being cute playing round the pond, he has a thing for running water and splashing in it, ill upload a video at some point
it can be heart in mouth watching them play round the pond. They both climb my large fatsia Japonica that overhangs the pond too!!!
Beau, hmm, not so much
Ah, just kidding.. He was being cute playing round the pond, he has a thing for running water and splashing in it, ill upload a video at some point
it can be heart in mouth watching them play round the pond. They both climb my large fatsia Japonica that overhangs the pond too!!!
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
Sorry to hear about the passing of your lovely old puss x
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Picked up a (fucking massive) trap from the shelter today. They're calling ahead to the vet so they know to expect me at some undisclosed point in the future. They looked at pictures of Jemima and instantly said she was a boy ("you can tell").
So now I have to leave the trap innocuously in my kitchen when she comes to visit and get her used to it, and then somehow get her into it.
They've said that regardless of her sex, the vet will keep her and spay/neuter her, and then Iris' shelter will pick her up. So, she's going to get a home and I couldn't be happier.
Just got to get her to the vet now.
Peggy is scared of the trap. It must smell of a hundred terrified cats. I've sprayed it liberally with feliway.
So now I have to leave the trap innocuously in my kitchen when she comes to visit and get her used to it, and then somehow get her into it.
They've said that regardless of her sex, the vet will keep her and spay/neuter her, and then Iris' shelter will pick her up. So, she's going to get a home and I couldn't be happier.
Just got to get her to the vet now.
Peggy is scared of the trap. It must smell of a hundred terrified cats. I've sprayed it liberally with feliway.
My fucking cats
Wolfie bought the wrong cat food. Whiskers instead of Felix best bollocks
They have been driving me mad all evening. Bastards won't stop yowling and now the littlest fucking upstart just jumped onto the settee arm and tried to honk up on my phone. Little bastards loved effing whiskers when they were begging me to give them a home
Wolfie bought the wrong cat food. Whiskers instead of Felix best bollocks
They have been driving me mad all evening. Bastards won't stop yowling and now the littlest fucking upstart just jumped onto the settee arm and tried to honk up on my phone. Little bastards loved effing whiskers when they were begging me to give them a home
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Cats and their dietary habits are the absolute worst
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Next door's Simba sits outside my bathroom window and cries at me while I'm on the loo
He seems to think that anybody in any house in this row can let him into his house if he cries at them for long enough. He doesn't understand internal walls. Nor the fact that he never sees these other people inside his house.
He seems to think that anybody in any house in this row can let him into his house if he cries at them for long enough. He doesn't understand internal walls. Nor the fact that he never sees these other people inside his house.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Less than a week after Tiggy's passing I am browsing the Celia Hammond and Battersea websites like they were porn. 
I haven't raised this with my partner but I'd really like to get another cat, maybe even two, as I think our Zoe is lonely - she has never not lived with other cats. I have experienced another cat looking for their companion (who was run over) and who they do not know is dead. I have also seen a cat grieving for that same cat, who they knew was dead (as they'd seen her body) and their behaviour is different - real grieving rather than curiosity and confusion. I have seen the subtle signs of Zoe looking for Tiggy although she seems OK and not distraught. To be frank, they never got on.
I won't raise this with my OH for a while as it would be insensitive.
What I've realised is how many cats don't get on with other cats! I shouldn't be surprised as ours never did - although Tiggy was a singular cat and not used to living with others.
It's strange not having her here. My OH is having fleeting regrets at having her PTS (thinks he did it too quickly) but I have said any tests or further medication would have been traumatic for her and for her to go peacefully, with him there, was the best thing. In myself, I feel OK - just sad she's gone and that I will never see her again, but relieved she was cared for in her last hours and with my OH to the last breath.
I haven't raised this with my partner but I'd really like to get another cat, maybe even two, as I think our Zoe is lonely - she has never not lived with other cats. I have experienced another cat looking for their companion (who was run over) and who they do not know is dead. I have also seen a cat grieving for that same cat, who they knew was dead (as they'd seen her body) and their behaviour is different - real grieving rather than curiosity and confusion. I have seen the subtle signs of Zoe looking for Tiggy although she seems OK and not distraught. To be frank, they never got on.
I won't raise this with my OH for a while as it would be insensitive.
What I've realised is how many cats don't get on with other cats! I shouldn't be surprised as ours never did - although Tiggy was a singular cat and not used to living with others.
It's strange not having her here. My OH is having fleeting regrets at having her PTS
(thinks he did it too quickly) but I have said any tests or further medication would have been traumatic for her and for her to go peacefully, with him there, was the best thing. In myself, I feel OK - just sad she's gone and that I will never see her again, but relieved she was cared for in her last hours and with my OH to the last breath.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Those regrets can be very painful. Look after your partner, oryx. I know you will
