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It’s cooled down a little today and Cat was kipping on his kitchen chair, which has a woollen blanket that was felted in a laundry mistake, and which he has carefully moulded into the nest-shape of his desire. I occasionally shake it out but he gets very annoyed at me. Gives me the “Fucksake, that took bloody ages, I don’t have opposable thumbs yet so it takes me TIME!” so I don’t do it often. Anyway, he got too warm and migrated to the wooden floor and emplyed the straddle manoeuvre so he can feel the draught coming up through the floor boards.
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That middle picture deserves a caption. The facial expression is pricelessBella looking out the bathroom window
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
We tried a bit of hammock time during the day yesterday, but it was too stimulating for being inside his papoose, so we had to come in.
I’ve ordered him the smallest cat harness I could find, and once he fits that we can do garden exploring time.
I’ve ordered him the smallest cat harness I could find, and once he fits that we can do garden exploring time.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I had some brief experiences of fitting a cat harness last week. Have some plasters ready.
He enjoyed having a snuffle around after the one time I won the fight, though.
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Be very careful as he gets more towards adolescence, he will actively try to escape to seek out female cats until his hormones settle down post-neutering and could escape papoose or harness.
Once he has been neutered he will still have some sperm in his tubes for a period of time, and the hormone levels will drop off over time.
Jakey had a harness on him once, he went all floppy and refused to move until it was taken off.
Once he has been neutered he will still have some sperm in his tubes for a period of time, and the hormone levels will drop off over time.
Jakey had a harness on him once, he went all floppy and refused to move until it was taken off.
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Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Yeah, I'm familiar with that response to harnesses.
Dont you ever worry Bella will jump? Admittedly Dexter is nine now but when he was about three he jumped out of out two storey bedroom window. OK perfect landing on grass but the windows at the front the landing would be concrete. How do they determine the safety of the jump ?Bella looking out the bathroom window
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Maybe they can tell the difference between grass and concrete in the same way we can, or better probably. One feels hard and unyielding underfoot the other doesn’t. And they’re built to jump and leap, so I guess they must have some kind of instinct for judging the landing surface, distance etc
In the big house we had a brilliant window half way up the stairs at the back of the house that had a perfectly proportioned cill for a cat or two to sit comfortably. Through the many years I lived there, some of the cats liked to sit on the cill and watch the world rolling by outside. It always worried me, but they never fell or jumped. But I deliberately refrained from petting or talking to them as I passed there, for fear of stimulating them to move too much. Maybe that’s why they liked to sit there….
In the big house we had a brilliant window half way up the stairs at the back of the house that had a perfectly proportioned cill for a cat or two to sit comfortably. Through the many years I lived there, some of the cats liked to sit on the cill and watch the world rolling by outside. It always worried me, but they never fell or jumped. But I deliberately refrained from petting or talking to them as I passed there, for fear of stimulating them to move too much. Maybe that’s why they liked to sit there….
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Improved and eating more but still not moving much
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
That's good. Hope she feels better soon!
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Apparently its a thing...
yes! Definitely a thing.
We had a rule in the house where there were lots of cars: if you beg in any conceivable fashion, there won’t be an leftovers. If you’re polite, there may be leftovers. In the kitchen. Afterwards.
To be honest, this was as much about insisting that flatmates lodgers and visitors refrained from feeding them from the table (or sofa in front of the telly) as much as it was about disciplining the cats.
So any cats who were interested in human food would arrange themselves in various states of “am I bothered…?” during meal times.
Pzza would always get them fidgeting long before the meal was over.
And I think I must have mentioned that the Auld Warrior loved a good curry. One of the regular house guests always ordered the hottest possible curry and then not be able to finish it. The Auld Warrior was always just at his right elbow, looking away, away, always away, but close enough to know when CB had finished eating. Then he’d go into alert mode while CB did the huffing and puffing that happens after a hot curry, before dishing up the remains in the kitchen. If anything in there was theoretically bad for cats, it never showed up in the Auld Warrior, who made a special friend of CB. So much so that when he was done for funny money and then found himself homeless while waiting for the court case and then sentencing and moved into ours for the duration, the Auld Warrior became his constant companion, living with him upstairs where he spent his days in the gloom listening to doom rock and death metal and gabba, and only coming down when CB did. CB later said that that was the most miserable time of his life and the company of the Auld Warrior had helped him through. When he died (the cat, not CB), we received lots of stories about how he’d made moves of special care towards all sorts of people, something we’d been unaware of, and we’d been oblivious to the effect he was having on people. They said he’d really helped them to find confidence and courage in their bleak times. When the news went out of his death, folks turned up at our door all weekend, as they would for a human. He was a very special cat.
The private lives of our animals.
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Cats and a fox
I went out to the garden last night and disturbed a private play date Cat was having with a youngster fox. They’d clearly been dashing about together for some time. Fox started to make a quick getaway, stopped and observed Cat not dashing off, and stopped too. Once I was inside they were off again, playing tag all around the garden. No idea how long this friendship has been going on.
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Cat here just doesn’t seem to eat at all when it’s been this hot. I was worried at first(last year, when he was still small) but he was still drinking, and ate fine once the weather broke. This year when it happened again, I just put down biscuits, no wet food, and I noticed that he did snack on them but smaller amounts more frequently.
I guess they’re moving a lot less kn the heat too. Except for the running about like a loon with fox friends bit.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
She looks like a startled (cat?) burglar!Bella looking out the bathroom window
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
The harness came. Wasn’t keen on being put into it, but from that point totally unbothered. He wore it for about half an hour of playing and lounging. It’s patently too big tho so I would be worried about putting it to the test outside yet.
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
All three of my girls feel out the living window when they were kittens. The window is little lower than the bathroom one, so luckily no injuries. But I'm not worried. They are primarily indoor cats and weary of strangers so never would jump out.
RoyReed
Must fly!
Had to take Mac to the vet's today. He'd thrown up twice overnight and once more this morning and he had diarrhoea as well. The vet gave him an anti-nausea injection, and we've got pills to follow up with as well as a tube of NutraBio and some gastrointestinal food.
The vet didn't seem particularly worried, but said phone up if he still has any symptoms after 24 hours.
Millie's very upset that Mac's getting all the attention.
The vet didn't seem particularly worried, but said phone up if he still has any symptoms after 24 hours.
Millie's very upset that Mac's getting all the attention.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Hope he's much better soon.
I tend to say they've eaten a slug rather than a bad mouse though.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Totally normal now, stealing food, strutting about with tail in the air, wanting strokes
