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smmudge said:
My wife came home to this.

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We've just put the flat on the market. Luckily it happened after someone had been round to view it :facepalm:

I didn't know he could catch birds. But this was not a gift for us. He ate everything he could and left us to clear up what he couldn't :mad:
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That is quite impressive - messy, but impressive. I am somewhat awed by my Radar's mousing abilities - he is indoor only, but woe betide any mouse that wanders in here (which is tbh why we ended up with cats in the first place) - he is ruthless and kills quickly rather than playing with his prey. Doesn't eat them though, just breaks their neck and leaves them on the floor.
 
I have Radar booked in for dental work on Tuesday. I find this increasingly terrifying the older they get. Radar is 13 now and has a heart murmur, so - well I mean he can't be left with tooth pain, something has to be done - but it's higher risk. Dental work often requires them to be anaesthetised for a while too.

Plus - last time he had surgery he ended up not eating and in and out of hospital and had a feeding tube installed for more than a month (you know if at any point he had looked or acted miserable or like he wasn't enjoying life or little prospect of recovery I'd have prevented him from suffering further, but the little sod had no clear physical reason for not eating, was very chirpy and energetic and loving throughout, and clearly enjoying himself despite the fact he had lost loads of weight, and that I was syringing kitty complan down a plastic tube that entered in his neck and went into his stomach 5 times a day, and then one day he just decided he was going to start feeding himself again *shakes head and shrugs shoulders* ) so I have a bit of fear about that happening this time.
 
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Thanks to a delivery the OH got, the cats have a new bed ie, a box. They won't use it together, but as soon as one is out of it the other goes in.

Luckily I'm not house proud so not worried about the aesthetics of a half chewed box in front of the tele.
 
I used to have a really nice settee before cats :(

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You should see the state of my speakers!
 
clicker said:
View attachment 161337 Tinker and his exploding eyebrows.
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That is awesome! My Radar has massive eyebrow whiskers but cos he is mostly white and his whiskers are white it is difficult to get a good picture. They serve as an early warning system though, if he's looming over me when I am asleep with the intention of licking my eyelid or some other sort of weird as fuck cat behaviour, his whiskers tickle my face and wake me with a few seconds to react.
 
It's really interesting - it isn't common to have a coloured tail with a white tail tip, so it could be a random rare gene in the population in that area and they are all related in some way.

(Usually bicolour/tricolour cats are mostly pigmented normally with symmetrical white parts of their bodies, "tuxedo cats" type description, paws, paws and bib, paws bib and mask - OR white with a few dark spots and/or irregular pigmented markings, which is called either Harlequin pattern if it is really irregular with 60-80% of the fur white (like my Radar), cow cat if it is bigger spots of black fur on white (like the markings of a Fresian cow), or Van pattern in which case the extremities - ears, tail, and possibly legs - tend to be pigmented - 80%+ white. Both are caused by the white spotting gene, the former (dark body with white extremities - bib and mask/tuxedo) is caused by having 1 allele for white spotting, and the other type, (white with a few dark patches on the extremities/tail, ears, and perhaps rear legs, or irregular markings - Harlequin or Van pattern) is caused by 2 alleles for the white spotting gene. Having a dark tail with a white tip is not as common, and there could well be some other genetic thing going on.)
 
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