Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
"My home is your home. My territory is your territory". "Peacemaker" Chloe getting close to a neighbour hood cat
Looks like you live in a bank vault
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Looks like you live in a bank vault
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
Looks like you live in a bank vault
I luckily live opposite a GP surgery. this is the gated GP car park
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
My little boy breaks my heart wide open on a daily basis.
He may be the most sweet-natured cat I’ve ever lived with.
There are three Big Boy cats who come around the garden so I anticipate some problems when MM is older. Right now, he scrambles for home whenever he sees them. They’ve spotted him too, so they’ve taken to sitting on outside window sills and preening, and this evening someone scent sprayed very close to my back door.
I’ve lived with several king toms (even though they were neutered they had that natural authority) but MM doesn’t strike me as a natural king. I really hope I don’t end up having a cat-piss smelly home and having to keep him trapped indoors at night with the cat flap locked and paying out for abscess wounds on his tail etc.
For the time being, I’m only letting him out when I can reasonably keep an eye out for him. He’s both desperately eager to explore, and very keen to stay close to home. Whenever I’ve lost sight of him (cue the worried searching) he’s turned up indoors. I’m training him to associate coming indoors when called with something nice like a treat, or playing with me, or a cuddle.
I’m hoping not to associate food and feeding with anything too obvious and predictable, in the hope that he doesn’t ever develop the habit of nagging me the instant I come indoors or wake up, or he arrives indoors or wakes up.
Fortunately for me he’s not an early riser (!!) and is quite happy to laze about til I get out of bed. A few times, he’s not bothered getting up at all til I’m out the shower and dressing.
Also foxes. There are a couple of regular visitors and while they’re very obviously not at all interested in cats, MM find them fascinating and scary. I don’t want him running away and getting stuck somewhere or losing track of his bearings, so I’m not letting him out when I know the foxes are about. It’ll be easier when he’s bigger and chipped etc.
He sometimes hunches his neck: I think it must be associated with his curly tail, as if his spine is pulled tight like a drawstring. There’s no apparent pain or discomfort, no loss of movement or strength, although his tail seems less sensitive than I've known on other cats (I accidentally leaned on it the other day and he barely noticed). He carries his tail flipped over his back, kinked back in a U-turn. I’ve googled, there is a relatively new breed called American Ringtail (or sling-a-ling) with the same curled tail, but I think MM is a genetic blip, no one else in his family has this. He can straighten it, but doesn’t. It exposes his bum hole really obviously and I think this may be why he was the last remaining kitten in his litter. He wasn’t pretty enough to be snapped up!
He may be the most sweet-natured cat I’ve ever lived with.
There are three Big Boy cats who come around the garden so I anticipate some problems when MM is older. Right now, he scrambles for home whenever he sees them. They’ve spotted him too, so they’ve taken to sitting on outside window sills and preening, and this evening someone scent sprayed very close to my back door.
I’ve lived with several king toms (even though they were neutered they had that natural authority) but MM doesn’t strike me as a natural king. I really hope I don’t end up having a cat-piss smelly home and having to keep him trapped indoors at night with the cat flap locked and paying out for abscess wounds on his tail etc.
For the time being, I’m only letting him out when I can reasonably keep an eye out for him. He’s both desperately eager to explore, and very keen to stay close to home. Whenever I’ve lost sight of him (cue the worried searching) he’s turned up indoors. I’m training him to associate coming indoors when called with something nice like a treat, or playing with me, or a cuddle.
I’m hoping not to associate food and feeding with anything too obvious and predictable, in the hope that he doesn’t ever develop the habit of nagging me the instant I come indoors or wake up, or he arrives indoors or wakes up.
Fortunately for me he’s not an early riser (!!) and is quite happy to laze about til I get out of bed. A few times, he’s not bothered getting up at all til I’m out the shower and dressing.
Also foxes. There are a couple of regular visitors and while they’re very obviously not at all interested in cats, MM find them fascinating and scary. I don’t want him running away and getting stuck somewhere or losing track of his bearings, so I’m not letting him out when I know the foxes are about. It’ll be easier when he’s bigger and chipped etc.
He sometimes hunches his neck: I think it must be associated with his curly tail, as if his spine is pulled tight like a drawstring. There’s no apparent pain or discomfort, no loss of movement or strength, although his tail seems less sensitive than I've known on other cats (I accidentally leaned on it the other day and he barely noticed). He carries his tail flipped over his back, kinked back in a U-turn. I’ve googled, there is a relatively new breed called American Ringtail (or sling-a-ling) with the same curled tail, but I think MM is a genetic blip, no one else in his family has this. He can straighten it, but doesn’t. It exposes his bum hole really obviously and I think this may be why he was the last remaining kitten in his litter. He wasn’t pretty enough to be snapped up!
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
A tired Toby toes. 
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Time to get the water pistol out. The cat four doors up was bullying Lil’ Bob - one soaking later and he doesn’t come round anymore and runs away whenever he sees me. Job done
hegley
never odd or even
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
Time to get the water pistol out. The cat four doors up was bullying Lil’ Bob - one soaking later and he doesn’t come round anymore and runs away whenever he sees me. Job done
I have a back porch, or rather it’s a lean-to). The door between the kitchen and the lean-has a cat flap, and MM pops in an out of there like a little jack-in-the-box.
There is a hole that was a cat flap that gives access from the lean-to to the great outdoors. The cat flap bit was demolished when my foxy friend tried to gain access, so it’s now blocked with a piece of wrought iron,
I noticed, this morning, MM peering intently through the blocked gap from a judicial distance so I cautiously leant down to take a peek, and saw the sleek panther that lives nearby, pretending not to be paying any attention, like the truant who smokes out the back of the school.
Not having a water pistol, but having just read your post, I went and got a pint of water and silently hurled it through the hole. It landed with gratifying accuracy and the panther truant skedaddled sharpish,
Definitely going to find myself a water pistol!
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Bravo! I took to leaving washing up liquid bottles full of water at strategic points around the garden so a weapon was always to hand. All other cats have been banished - apart from the one they’re friends with from across the street and Mrs Miggins -a right bastard who will never be put off by water. The two boys will just have to work something out between them - plus it’s good for them to have a nemesis. Gives them common purpose, stops them fighting with each other and forces them to cooperate.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Best way to spend a rainy day 
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
i'm not convinced this is a real cat
This Alberta cat loves to ski, paddle or 'meow-taineer' with his human
This Alberta cat loves to ski, paddle or 'meow-taineer' with his human
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
LeytonCatLady
Well-Known Member
Some random black cat visiting our garden.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Lovely cat, I do love black cats.
You know whenever folks post photos of cats visiting their garden or random neighbourhood cat I wonder how long it will be before posts like "woke up with Mitzi on my face this morning, she usually sleeps on my feet" or "the boys are good friends and getting along well now" appear
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
until the phone rings...
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I would just like to point out that shortly after this photo was taken, Donut came over for a fuss and I found a LIVE SLUG stuck in his ruff
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Lazy Saturday 
Any slugs?
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Not on this one, thank goodness 
LeytonCatLady
Well-Known Member
My housemates were saying there used to be a tabby in the next street before I moved in, she'd visit our garden and come in through the cat flap! She liked to cuddle up in bed with them too. Sadly no longer with us.Lovely cat, I do love black cats.
You know whenever folks post photos of cats visiting their garden or random neighbourhood cat I wonder how long it will be before posts like "woke up with Mitzi on my face this morning, she usually sleeps on my feet" or "the boys are good friends and getting along well now" appear
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Look who appeared through the bread oven
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
Dylan is snoring really loudly lately, pretty much every time he falls asleep. Not usual for him, not this much! He also occasionally does a swallowing and sneezing thing. But otherwise seems fine in himself, playing and eating etc. Gonna try and call the vets tomorrow, or Monday if we have no luck. We did remember that it's basically been since he had his vaccinations a week ago yesterday, though seems a long time to still be having symptoms (if he was human)??
