Cat stuff.... 😻

[Legs]

What kind of timescales are you and your daughter looking to move her on in, @Bazzer? I think my wife's just fallen in love.

 

[Bazzer]

What kind of timescales are you and your daughter looking to move her on in, @Bazzer? I think my wife's just fallen in love.

I know very little about the kitten. My daughter brought it to our house the other day on her way home from work to show us and to try to socialise it a little.
If you pm me your contact details I can ask my daughter to ring you. She should be able to answer any questions you have.

 

[Legs]

I'll speak to Jo tonight...

 

[Mike_P]

Cats and boxes... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68918102

 

[Slick]

Cats and boxes... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68918102

I'll need to watch that as I get 3 or 4 large boxes come and go from here every week for work and my crew can't get enough of them.

 

[PeteXXX]

 

[cyberknight]

It would be lovely but our cat would not come in the house when we looked after a stray kitten before

 

[Electric_Andy]

My partner's son has a cat, 6 months old now. It's a chinchilla Persian apparently. She is a house cat so we've just had to put up a zipper fly screen that sticks to the back door frame. So we can have fresh air but keep the cat in.

She is a very lively cat though and itching to go out. Just wondered if anyone else has a house cat and did you think of letting them out? The Vet said it's safer keeping them in due to theft and traffic, but it seems a shame as she's always looking out the window wanting to chase flies and birds!

 

[oldwheels]

Depends on where you live I think. None of our cats were confined and had a cat flap to go and come as they wished. They died of normal old age in the end.
My elder son who died lived in a top floor flat and had a cat which obviously was kept indoors. After he died the cat went to my other son's and after a bit of nervous exploration she now is free to come and go as she wishes. They have a large frontage running down to the nearby loch and she has never tried going the other direction towards the adjacent road.

 

[simongt]

We're lucky as we live away from a main road and have two hectares of allotments on t'other side of our fence. I cut a wee hole in the bottom of said fence some years back; although with other cats, hedgehogs, mountjacks, it's like Clapham Junction sometimes - !
anyway, our lot; eight just now, come & go as they please with the catflap and door staff, no restrictions an they all appreciate their home comforts.

 

[Slick]

Depends on where you live I think. None of our cats were confined and had a cat flap to go and come as they wished. They died of normal old age in the end.
My elder son who died lived in a top floor flat and had a cat which obviously was kept indoors. After he died the cat went to my other son's and after a bit of nervous exploration she now is free to come and go as she wishes. They have a large frontage running down to the nearby loch and she has never tried going the other direction towards the adjacent road.

After getting that wrong once it is something I'll never repeat.

 

[Slick]

So, on the subject of cat safety, I got this.

 

[Slick]

Lots of plans to turn it into a wee cat Gym.

 

[cyberknight]

My partner's son has a cat, 6 months old now. It's a chinchilla Persian apparently. She is a house cat so we've just had to put up a zipper fly screen that sticks to the back door frame. So we can have fresh air but keep the cat in.

She is a very lively cat though and itching to go out. Just wondered if anyone else has a house cat and did you think of letting them out? The Vet said it's safer keeping them in due to theft and traffic, but it seems a shame as she's always looking out the window wanting to chase flies and birds!

we had one a long time ago and it was allowed out , it was fine although it did need more care with its fur as it needed brushing more and occasionally a good trim .

 

[rogerzilla]

Dumpy did ok on his low-carb diet for a few months but I was having to feed him twice the normal amount to maintain a healthy weight. So, two weeks ago, we started him on Senvelgo. So far so good - no side-effects at all, blood sugar at 8.3 within the first week, and appetite and thirst are now beginning to return to normal. It is trivially easy to administer - a tiny amount from a syringe into wet food or even into his mouth.

He is an ideal patient because he's never had insulin therapy, we know he's making his own insulin because he can gain weight, and he is a fairly early-stage case. He has to be tested (by me) for ketonuria every few days to begin with, but he is completely clear on that front.