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[stavros]

"If eggs are all you've got in this cupboard, what the fuck am I doing up here?"

 

[Epona]

"If eggs are all you've got in this cupboard, what the fuck am I doing up here?"

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Getting the eggs, clearly! My lot love eggs

 

[Sasaferrato]

Getting the eggs, clearly! My lot love eggs

We had one that loved eggs, he liked it whisked up.

 

[Epona]

I am fairly convinced that with cats - you know that thing they do where they sit on a high up shelf and nudge stuff off the shelf with their paw and watch it fall? - well that would seem to be instinctive nest-raiding behaviour to me - climb a tree, roll eggs out of nest onto the ground and go eat the contents.

It's ok for cats to eat chickens eggs - raw white by itself is indigestible, but raw whole egg is fine, or cooked egg. My Ori boys go nuts when I cook scrambled eggs, because it was one of the many things offered as part of their weaning I usually put a bit to the side for them before I season the rest of it - they don't get it until I have finished mine though, cos I don't want to encourage too much begging (When Sonic was little, he once took a leap and landed in the middle of my plate of eggs on toast, that is how much he loves eggs)

 

[stavros]

I am fairly convinced that with cats - you know that thing they do where they sit on a high up shelf and nudge stuff off the shelf with their paw and watch it fall? - well that would seem to be instinctive nest-raiding behaviour to me - climb a tree, roll eggs out of nest onto the ground and go eat the contents.

Bollocks, they're just fucking with us.

 

[stavros]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I am fairly convinced that with cats - you know that thing they do where they sit on a high up shelf and nudge stuff off the shelf with their paw and watch it fall? - well that would seem to be instinctive nest-raiding behaviour to me - climb a tree, roll eggs out of nest onto the ground and go eat the contents.

Bollocks, they're just fucking with us.

been posted before, but

 

[LeytonCatLady]

This is my brother's new kitten, Maple. I'll get him to send me some more when she's awake.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

This is my brother's new kitten, Maple. I'll get him to send me some more when she's awake.

Gorgeous

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Gorgeous

I'll hopefully be going up to the Midlands next month to see the family, so then I'll get to meet her for myself.

 

[Calamity1971]

Red when I got back from the shops. As soon as I took that photo she went Edward scissor hands on milly and Charlie. Apparently its her bag.

 

[editor]

I'm mulling over getting another kitten for Ziggy to play with. I'm figuring that getting a kitten might be better than a full grown cat as there's less chance of fighting but I can see that sometimes this still happen. I've never bought a cat so if I decide to get another moggy where's the best place to start looking? I suspect that the fact that we haven't got a garden may rules my flat out from some charity/animal welfare places?

 

[editor]

Here#s a pic of Ziggy looking very cute

 

[mx wcfc]

I'm mulling over getting another kitten for Ziggy to play with. I'm figuring that getting a kitten might be better than a full grown cat as there's less chance of fighting but I can see that sometimes this still happen.

Don't want to put you off, but we took in a rescue kitten, and our older cat was very hostile at first. They still don't like each other and have some nasty squabbles. Generally they have found way of living together but they certainly don't play together.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'm mulling over getting another kitten for Ziggy to play with. I'm figuring that getting a kitten might be better than a full grown cat as there's less chance of fighting but I can see that sometimes this still happen. I've never bought a cat so if I decide to get another moggy where's the best place to start looking? I suspect that the fact that we haven't got a garden may rules my flat out from some charity/animal welfare places?

seriously, it's hard to tell how it will go. some cats just don't generally get on with other cats at all, with others it's going to depend on the individuals the same as it would with any two random humans.

there's a fair bit of advice out there on introducing new members of the feline family (e.g. this from blue cross) but sometimes the best you can hope for is the overlapping territory / polite co-existence.

getting a kitten and bringing them up as an indoor cat is going to be easier for all concerned than converting an outdoor cat. some welfare organisations insist on garden access unless there's a good reason (health / FIV or something) why a particular cat should be indoor only. there's usually a supply of 'free to good home' kittens out there.

i can't remember how you came in to ziggy's life - was he from a rescue place?

 

[donkyboy]

Look at me daddy. Look!

 

[stavros]

Missy came haring through the cat flap this evening, with what I initially thought was another sock in her mouth. When she didn't drop it I realised it was a very dead little bird. After wrestling it from her and shutting her in another room, I disposed of its carcass.

However, on going out the back door to put it in the compost, I saw that there was another, bigger bird lying, equally dead, on the patio just outside. I'm not sure if one was collateral damage for the other, or if she'd forgotten the bigger one or what.

She's now recuperating with some well deserved sleep.

 

[stavros]

We have our annual trek to the vets tomorrow morning, first thing, so I've shut the back door and put out the litter tray. I can't risk her being out on one of her odysseys when we need to go.

I've also given a pep-talk to my wallet, which is sure to be hurt as we leave the vets after her check-up.

 

[Me76]

We've got the vet trip coming up soon, had to do the insurance renewal first though.

Its been three years since we had them on the 18 May. Insurance started on 21 May. Each year, renewal fees have doubled the cost. And each year so far I have cancelled and started again, because while they have no issues on notes, it's cheaper. However, they need to not get ill in the first 10 days of a new policy. Fingers crossed for 22 may - 3june.

 

[Me76]

Here#s a pic of Ziggy looking very cute

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I really wish I could like this twice.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Gizmo.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Marbles.

 

[Sasaferrato]

A young Gizmo.

 

[stavros]

The vet trip went well, with Missy being complemented on her physique, described as athletic and probably very quick. She's never that scared by it all really either, either being in the surgery or the half-mile hike with me carrying her in the cage. Even the sight of another cat in the waiting room didn't seem to phase her.

However, having locked her door out last night we spent the hour before departing this morning with her wailing pathetically to be let out. I pointed out that she had a litter tray, but I think she just wanted to go out on patrol.

 

[donkyboy]

tried a bit of time lapse with the girls:

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Red when I got back from the shops. As soon as I took that photo she went Edward scissor hands on milly and Charlie. Apparently its her bag. View attachment 170319 View attachment 170320

Red is really cute
Millie and Charlie are obviously fascinated with Red

 

[High Voltage]

If I did a time lapse of the two boys eating a bowl of food like that, it would basically be three separate scenes :-

1 Casper eating
2 Clive eating too fast
3 Clive being sick

 

[High Voltage]

There is a mouse downstairs

There are 3 cats downstairs

There is a humane trap baited with cheese in a safe location for the mouse. I hope it has the common sense to go for the cheese unlike its counterpart this morning

RiP Counterpart

 

[High Voltage]

Oo! One cat is now upstairs

Go mouse!

 

[High Voltage]

I am not hopeful!