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nogojones
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Chaka cat has now been missing for over two months. I got a call from someone who thought they found her, so popped round but it wasn't her. The old lady who took her in from B&Q carpark where she had been hanging out for a couple of weeks has COPD and can't cope with the fur, so I have a new furry lodger.
I'll post some pics of Babs when I get a chance. Looks like she's 13 years old, was chipped and lost 12 years ago and the old owner can't be traced. I hope someone somewhere is doing the same for Chaka
I'll post some pics of Babs when I get a chance. Looks like she's 13 years old, was chipped and lost 12 years ago and the old owner can't be traced. I hope someone somewhere is doing the same for Chaka
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
So sorry Roadie 
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Sorry to hear this mate, that's such a shame
I'm both sad and glad that your mum was there. RIP bubbles.
slightlytouched
Tick Tock.....
Well Willow has a cone collar on for the first time in her life...she does not like it, but it is rather funny watching her have to back up and try to get round objects. We did have a bit of a scare when she escaped. We found her hiding deep in my neighbours garden. We left her there as we couldn't reach her only to return later to the neighbour beating the bush with a stick to scare her out! Bloody git, he knew she'd just had an op and was most likely still disoriented.
She's alright though 
She's alright though 
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Sad news. The vet did another round of blood tests on Bubble this morning and there's no change. His kidneys have failed completely. Mum's going into the vet this morning to give him a last cuddle and say goodbye.
The last picture of him, taken in her garden a couple of weeks ago:
RIP old friend. I'll miss you.
Oh I'm so sorry to hear that, it's awful, he looks fine and handsome in that picture bless him - I hope both you and your mum are coping with it as well as can be expected.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I think officially, Maine Coons are "semi longhair." I can't say I've noticed a massive difference on coat density, but I do try and keep on top of things with a furminator. She upchucked a hairball a couple weeks ago, so I really gave her a serious brushing then - like she almost looked like an ordinary cat from some angles! Mostly though, I probably get an egg size ball of compressed fur every 2 or 3 days. It's funny how her belly fluff is so much, well fluffier, than the rest!
My Radar is a Cornish Rex x Moggy cross (or a "posh moggy" as someone recently described him to me) - now Cornish Rex have very short curly hairs and completely lack guard hairs, Radar has extremely sparse guard hairs and is all slightly crinkly (and very very very soft) undercoat, but that undercoat is extremely thick and lush - and FFS I have never seen ANY animal shed so much hair as he does. I stroke him once and my hand is utterly coated with Radar-hairs, he rubs his face up against me and it's like he leaves a furry cat-face shaped hair imprint on me he moults so much. It's like a constant round of moulting and furballs. (He also has some skin issues, I don't think that Cornish Rex x "white and black hairy tom that lurks at the end of the garden" is a great genetic mix tbh, as much as I love Radar, I'd advise against it).
He's a shorthair.
(My other 2 are ultra-shorthairs, and although I can detect when they are having seasonal moults, their hair is too short to make much of an impact wrt furballs, and it is only seasonal with them).
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fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
I hope so too, really sorry she's been missing so long, that's really tough, I've got some small idea of what that's like.
Looking forward to meeting Babs
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
RIP Bubble and hugs to you Roadie and your Mum xSad news. The vet did another round of blood tests on Bubble this morning and there's no change. His kidneys have failed completely. Mum's going into the vet this morning to give him a last cuddle and say goodbye.
The last picture of him, taken in her garden a couple of weeks ago:
RIP old friend. I'll miss you.
That's a lovely photo of him
Thanks for the kind words, all. Mum is okay; she's grieving of course, but, as she said yesterday, he had a long and happy life and he went quickly and pretty much painlessly, which in the end is as good an outcome as you can hope for.
She did say she'd wait to get another cat until she and my sister have been abroad later this year, but I bet she decides not to wait that long and by the time I go and visit her next another one will have taken up residence. Meanwhile, once I get moved into my house I'm certainly getting a cat (or two
) and she might well come up and help me choose.
*e2a* One last picture:
Bubble and Squeak, a few years ago.
She did say she'd wait to get another cat until she and my sister have been abroad later this year, but I bet she decides not to wait that long and by the time I go and visit her next another one will have taken up residence. Meanwhile, once I get moved into my house I'm certainly getting a cat (or two
) and she might well come up and help me choose. *e2a* One last picture:
Bubble and Squeak, a few years ago.
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High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
How - how the fucking hell can I do this?
One cat is on "once a day pill" mixed up in HIS medicine for the rest of his natural . . . .
and
The other cat is on - "once a day for a few days" anti-inflamatory drops
So, HOW DID I GIVE THE WRONG MEDICINE TO THE WRONG CAT today
How??
Sorry, Bob and sorry Rusty - on the plus side - Rusty had already had first tea and Bob's medicine was in second tea and as a result she didn't eat much of it - but Bob, being a food hoover - has pretty much eaten most, if not all of his meds
Oh! well, tomorrow is another day
One cat is on "once a day pill" mixed up in HIS medicine for the rest of his natural . . . .
and
The other cat is on - "once a day for a few days" anti-inflamatory drops
So, HOW DID I GIVE THE WRONG MEDICINE TO THE WRONG CAT today
How??
Sorry, Bob and sorry Rusty - on the plus side - Rusty had already had first tea and Bob's medicine was in second tea and as a result she didn't eat much of it - but Bob, being a food hoover - has pretty much eaten most, if not all of his meds
Oh! well, tomorrow is another day
story
Changing the facts
Today my one-eyed cat was sitting on the wall in the rain. He sat there in the rain and he saw me through the window and he shouted at me, so I opened the window, and he sat there and he kept shouting at me. So I shut the window. And he carried on sitting in the rain. Once he was thoroughly soaked, then he went off to hide under a car. I opened the window for him again, but he sneered at me and went to sit under a car. The car was further away than the cat flap. There isn't even a flap on the cat flap at the moment.
So he ignored various opportunities to get out of the rain, and then when he was so wet it made no further difference to be sitting out in it, he went to find shelter.
What's that about, then?
My grand auld warrior cat used the rain as a post-vet-visit shower: he hated the smell of the vet on his fur so much that he'd rather sit in the rain and get wet to the skin than lick it off. He only ever sat in the rain if it coincided with returning from the vet.
So he ignored various opportunities to get out of the rain, and then when he was so wet it made no further difference to be sitting out in it, he went to find shelter.
What's that about, then?
My grand auld warrior cat used the rain as a post-vet-visit shower: he hated the smell of the vet on his fur so much that he'd rather sit in the rain and get wet to the skin than lick it off. He only ever sat in the rain if it coincided with returning from the vet.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
First tea? Second tea? I'm coming round to live at yours, I am sure if I make purring noises frequently you will not notice that I am not a feline
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Mogden
I like tea
Reminiscent of the reason why I ended up with 7 cats. The 4 kittens were in the garden with their mum and had not yet been into my house. There was a summer downpour and they were so wee I knew there was a chance they'd get washed away or into serious trouble so I went to drag them in for overnight shelter. 3 of them I got in without too much hassle. The 4th was deep under a bush and determined not to move out of fear. He was howling and I was absolutely soaked to the skin trying to reach him. I couldn't see anything in front of me and the more I tried the deeper he crawled back. Eventually he saw sense and I grabbed him. All 4 slept in a cat carrier next me on the bed that night. I put them back in the drier garden the next day but they then worked out how to use the cat flap and the rest, as they say, is history.
The little bugger who refused to come out is the same cat I post on the self indulgent thread. The one who adores cuddles and has just jumped up on the dining table for hugs and baked bean juice. I took a photo of me and him last night with him balanced on his back like a baby. Big soft sod
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Ford enjoys reading the Sunday paper in bed:
In other news, Tilly had a sore eye for a couple of days. Took her to vet after 3 aborted attempts to get her in cat carrier.
He removed an inch and a half grass seed from her eye socket. A bit of antiseptic cream and she seems to be well on the mend.
In other news, Tilly had a sore eye for a couple of days. Took her to vet after 3 aborted attempts to get her in cat carrier.
He removed an inch and a half grass seed from her eye socket. A bit of antiseptic cream and she seems to be well on the mend.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Hah our cat does this sort of thing, sits on her chair in the yard in the pissing down pours then eventually comes inside and shouts at us even though the back door might have been open the entire time. Mad fuckers
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
First tea? Second tea? I'm coming round to live at yours, I am sure if I make purring noises frequently you will not notice that I am not a feline
When they're ill they eat better than we do - Bob, who is a total food sponge, always gets some of my meal and I'll often spoil the two of them with "proper" meat not cat food meat
and when they're not ill there's not much between what we get and what they'll be fed
Both are in the twilight years so any little treats we can give them get given - it's not about quantity of life for them it's only about quality - both are well over 17 years old and, apart from Rusty taking a bit of a knock recently, are in tremendous good health for cats of their age and even Rusty is looking like bouncing back a fair bit more
Mapped
London town
We've got Mrs Mapped's boss' cat staying for it's hols. It's nice to have a cat about, but it's very different from our cat, she's an expensive Ragdoll house cat that seems to have had most of the wild bred out of her. She's very soft, likes sitting on your lap and won't mug you for your dinner. Our semi-feral mongrel arrives in the country in 16 days.
