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Motown_ben
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Seems to be Floyd's current favourite lookout point. Full view of the garden & it's various inhabitants.
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trabuquera
Modesty Bag
"Lookout point"??? That's "command and control post" if you don't mind 
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Absolutely handsome. I just love seeing all the different markings on cats. Totally fascinate me.Seems to be Floyd's current favourite lookout point. Full view of the garden & it's various inhabitants.
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xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I get way too paranoid sometimes about Missy. Last night I got in at around 10:20, expecting to be welcomed like normal. No sign of her. I had a quick drink, cleaned my teeth and went to bed, still catless. I was nominally trying to get to sleep, but I couldn't because she was still out somewhere. All sorts of scenarios run through your head, until suddenly, about an hour after I got in, I hear the cat flap go, followed by the pitiful yowls of "Where the fuck are you, bitch?". A couple of teeth clicks from me and we're reunited for a lovely cuddle.
That face is not the look of a cat chilling
Reno
The In Kraut
Alfie has gotten into drinking from the watering can on the balcony because obviously it tastes so much nicer than from his bowl. Every couple of hours he whines to be let out. When the weather wasn't that great yesterday, I put it in the lounge so he can drink from it indoors. He drinks from it, then kind of forgets it's there. Doesn't drink from it anymore. Whines to be let out on the balcony. I open the balcony door. He doesn't go out and instead walks straight to the watering can in the lounge to drink from it.
Cat logic
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Motown_ben
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Floyd showing some real interest in a bee.
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trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Floyd is a very Cavalier sort of cat - regal but ridiculous too. Those pantaloons! That tail is a whole other creature in itself...
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
I'm just going to lie in the bird bath.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Every night I have the task of picking/brushing cleavers out of milly. Her tail is like a feather duster for garden mess.
She pulls the ones out she can get to and spits them all over the house.
Motown_ben
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scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
This beautiful cat, who was adopted as an indoor cat who might not be OK with going outdoors, has turned into a Mighty Huntress who will get out of any tiny gap in a window an chase rats wherever she likes. She particularly likes going out in the front area, despite having several hundred feet of back garden (mine and the neighbours') to explore. I ended up putting a collar on her - it's a quick release one, so she's lost one so far - but it identifies her as owned by someone.
The other day the postman knocked and said "do you know where your cat is? White and tortoiseshell boy?" in a friendly tone. Turned out Sunny (who is female but often gets mistaken for male) had chased a rat into one of those front areas that aren't accessible by anything but the road, and was refusing to leave, but also whining a lot. The tenants at said house were really nice people who didn't really speak English and were scared of cats.
I had to harness the toddler to reins for the first time ever, take her to meet a surprising number of neighbours who had nothing better to do, and carry the "silly cat" back in a cat bag.
The other day the postman knocked and said "do you know where your cat is? White and tortoiseshell boy?" in a friendly tone. Turned out Sunny (who is female but often gets mistaken for male) had chased a rat into one of those front areas that aren't accessible by anything but the road, and was refusing to leave, but also whining a lot. The tenants at said house were really nice people who didn't really speak English and were scared of cats.
I had to harness the toddler to reins for the first time ever, take her to meet a surprising number of neighbours who had nothing better to do, and carry the "silly cat" back in a cat bag.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
unusual - most peoples' default assumption is that cats are female. maybe she doesn't act ladylike enough
maybe you have a non binary kitteh
and it's pretty rare for tortie / calico cats to be male. i did read something once that explained the genetics of this, but not sure i understood a lot of it...
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
unusual - most peoples' default assumption is that cats are female. maybe she doesn't act ladylike enough
maybe you have a non binary kitteh
and it's pretty rare for tortie / calico cats to be male. i did read something once that explained the genetics of this, but not sure i understood a lot of it...
She does act in a way that's interpreted as male, yeah
It's a little odd because her head is very small - she seems to be part Siamese - and male cats tend to have larger heads, but people wrongly interpret hunting characteristics in cats as being male. My late male cat never hunted anything. (I know their sex because I had them neutered).With my chickens we quite often vary between calling them he or she. It's not like they care. One of them we called Elvis because she was the King of the flock and thereafter we kinda got into the habit of saying he. Some older hens in a flock without a rooster start displaying male chicken characteristics like mounting, but she never did, despite always being the chief chicken who would go head-to-head with creatures she perceived as a threat to her family. She lived to a decent age for an ex-bat and I miss her.
They were all still female chickens though and it did matter because the one time we ended up with a male chicken we had to urgently rehome him (in a ridiculous convoluted way) because you cannot keep a cockerel in an urban setting.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Most peoples' assumption is that tortie/tortie and white cats are female, because if you know anything about it you know that the colouring requires 2 X chromosomes, or a very rare set of circumstances otherwise, meaning that something like 999 or more out of 1000 tortoiseshell cats are female... (I am happy to detail the biological/genetic whys and wherefores of rare non-female occurrences of tortie coat colouring in cats, should anyone be interested... please someone ask me, I am bored and it's my specialist subject... 
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).Motown_ben
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Floyd's now discovered the pond.
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Motown_ben
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Managed to get the whole family in shot.
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fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Most peoples' assumption is that tortie/tortie and white cats are female, because if you know anything about it you know that the colouring requires 2 X chromosomes, or a very rare set of circumstances otherwise, meaning that something like 999 or more out of 1000 tortoiseshell cats are female... (I am happy to detail the biological/genetic whys and wherefores of rare non-female occurrences of tortie coat colouring in cats, should anyone be interested... please someone ask me, I am bored and it's my specialist subject...
I have questions.
1. "Ginger toms" is the a genetic thing too? I have met a ginger female but only the one.
2. Under what circumstances do you get Tortie males?
3. My cat with the split colouring on her nose (you know the one, up-thread) was once described on a vet's form as "Tortie/point" what the fuck is all that about? The little I've read indicates they were talking shite, what do you say?
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