Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Welcome to my world....Noodley said:It's okay, the female cat has convinced the male cat you're not worth it
Do cats miss you...
- Thread starter beanzontoast
- Start date
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Our cat really gets the arse if we go away for more than a day, despite being a pretty independant bugger; spending more time outside than in pretty much regardless of weather.
Currently he gets the arse three times a day, just after he's had his eyedrops.
I didn't expect to end up with a cat. We live in a flat, and a year or so ago a vet was renting the flat below ours. One evening she locked herself out so she stayed the night, and brought this cat that she had picked up because his owner died. Mrs P. took to him straight away. The landlord has probably figured out we've got a cat by now, but he hasn't said anything yet.
Currently he gets the arse three times a day, just after he's had his eyedrops.
I didn't expect to end up with a cat. We live in a flat, and a year or so ago a vet was renting the flat below ours. One evening she locked herself out so she stayed the night, and brought this cat that she had picked up because his owner died. Mrs P. took to him straight away. The landlord has probably figured out we've got a cat by now, but he hasn't said anything yet.
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
I thought this was going to be about cats runnig across in front of your bike and playing 'chicken' or should that read Rasmussen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
I'm renting my mates' flat and looking after their two cats (Burmese, I think they are). Apart from a 'nice' trip to the vets once/twice a year they are house bound - they have no idea that the outside world exists (if anyone remembers the film 'Bad Boy Bubby' the situation is reversed, at the start of the film, very VERY funny) apart from gazing out the window.
Therefore they have no grass to chew/digest/puke up, so they quite happily tear up and chew two of my rugs - and that is 100% successful in making them puke.
They only eat dried food (but their crap STINKS something awful). I feed them once a day (early morning) and that seems to suffice.
Until the cats got to 'know' me they were somewhat nonchalent and indifferent, but now they follow me around the flat and generally make a fuss of me when I'm reading, foruming and watching TV, so I suppose I've been accepted into their gang of two.
Therefore they have no grass to chew/digest/puke up, so they quite happily tear up and chew two of my rugs - and that is 100% successful in making them puke.
They only eat dried food (but their crap STINKS something awful). I feed them once a day (early morning) and that seems to suffice.
Until the cats got to 'know' me they were somewhat nonchalent and indifferent, but now they follow me around the flat and generally make a fuss of me when I'm reading, foruming and watching TV, so I suppose I've been accepted into their gang of two.
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beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
Just to say our neighbour's cat thinks you're all scratching up the wrong chair leg.
He said he's spotted our cat slipping out for a curry and a pint with 'the lads' on the nights we are away - hence the upchucking performances next day.
Should I confront him, or just stop his tuna allowance for a fortnight?
He said he's spotted our cat slipping out for a curry and a pint with 'the lads' on the nights we are away - hence the upchucking performances next day.
Should I confront him, or just stop his tuna allowance for a fortnight?
Cats messing with minds!
Anyone read that story in the press of the Nursing Home Cat that sits on the bed of dying clients?
Apparently it has a 100% accuracy.
Cat lies on your bed - that is it- The Grim Reaper cometh.
Unless of course it is a cat develops a wicked sense of humour, and decides to wind you up for not feeding it or being nice to it?
Anyone read that story in the press of the Nursing Home Cat that sits on the bed of dying clients?
Apparently it has a 100% accuracy.
Cat lies on your bed - that is it- The Grim Reaper cometh.
Unless of course it is a cat develops a wicked sense of humour, and decides to wind you up for not feeding it or being nice to it?
domd1979
Veteran
- Location
- Staffordshire
Nah, I'd confiscate his Playstation.
beanzontoast said:Just to say our neighbour's cat thinks you're all scratching up the wrong chair leg.
He said he's spotted our cat slipping out for a curry and a pint with 'the lads' on the nights we are away - hence the upchucking performances next day.
Should I confront him, or just stop his tuna allowance for a fortnight?
Mr Phoebus
New Member
I wonder if the care home staff have mischievously nicknamed the cat 'Dr Shipman'
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Mr Phoebus said:
Yeah, the cat didn't sense that the oldies were approaching the end, it just smothered them!
laurence
Veteran
- Location
- in the aeroplane over the sea
it was sitting by their beds as it forged their will. nothing mystical there at all.
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We had a cat who was fed by our next door neighbour each year when we went away on holiday. On more than one occasion, she was sitting in our drive when we returned. She would then get up and hop pointedly over the low wall into the neighbour's garden, apparently saying, "Don't think you can come back and have me fawning over you."
It may be a dangerous generalisation, but I would expect cyclists to be cat lovers more often than dog lovers. The received wisdom is that conformists prefer dogs, who tend to behave as required. Individualists tend to prefer cats.
It may be a dangerous generalisation, but I would expect cyclists to be cat lovers more often than dog lovers. The received wisdom is that conformists prefer dogs, who tend to behave as required. Individualists tend to prefer cats.
wafflycat
New Member
- Location
- middle of Norfolk
Of course cats have emotions. My three are all individuals each with very different personalities. I've been away a couple of days and as soon as I stepped over the threshold home, I was pounced upon and smothered with purrs and headbutts. One of my three *knows* if I'm unwell and will stay with me, just like a little nurse, tending to me as she would a kitten. My three are family. I don't regard them as 'furkids' or replacement children, but they are non-human family members, and are looked after as such. If they are ill, they are cared for. They have the things that are good for their health; physical & emotional wellbeing - just as I would for any family member.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
our cats always miss us if we're away. previously they used to feign indifference and sulk, but since a 3 weeker away (australia) a few years ago, they've been happy to show how pleased they are to see us when we return (they have the run of the house with a catflap and a neighbour who comes in to feed them).
don't forget: dogs have owners, cats have staff (so says nutmeg, who is sat on the desk next to the mac).
don't forget: dogs have owners, cats have staff (so says nutmeg, who is sat on the desk next to the mac).
