Bless you all and many thanks for straightening out the perspective. You're right - the cat has bigger problems than we do 
. It's just that he's part of mine at the moment.
It's just one of them times when the world seems to be queueing up to have a pop at us. I do recall the last, and first, time out bank cards were robbed. That was during the time of a certain cycle components company's problems.
I've got my suspicions about this rip off. Jean and I went for a walk on Sunday and stopped for fuel at a garage, local, we've never been to before. The girl from the bank on the phone itemised the last 15 or so of Jean's purchases and the garage was the only 'new' place she'd visited in over 3 months. I know I'm putting two and two together and getting something other than four but somethings are just too coincidental.
What really grips is the bank let the £1400 through with no query!! Jean and I bought some expensive furniture last year and when we paid for it the sale was refused. The shop said they get that all the time because the purchase was over a limit. So, the bank will stop genuine payments by the owner of the card but won't question any flippin' tea-leaf who wants to shop at our expense.
The moggie is a worry. He's stopped grooming himself over a year ago and one day you have a relative normal cat and the next day you have a mass of fur lumps - he will only stand grooming for a few seconds and then he gets narked with you. He's lost a load of weight and is really skinny. Lost a leg 12 years ago so he don't get around too well and he's easy meat for the other cats in the neighbourhood. We moved a couple of years ago and all of a sudden he went from being a house bound bullied cat to having his own huge garden all to himself. It was like having a new cat. He'd only come in to eat and kip then be back out again. At least once a week he'd come 'bounding' - well, his version of bounding - down the garden, having fallen in the pond trying to catch the frogs who live there. He might be a bloody idiot cat, but he's our bloody idiot cat, and there's bugger all we can do to make it better.
. It's just that he's part of mine at the moment.It's just one of them times when the world seems to be queueing up to have a pop at us. I do recall the last, and first, time out bank cards were robbed. That was during the time of a certain cycle components company's problems.
I've got my suspicions about this rip off. Jean and I went for a walk on Sunday and stopped for fuel at a garage, local, we've never been to before. The girl from the bank on the phone itemised the last 15 or so of Jean's purchases and the garage was the only 'new' place she'd visited in over 3 months. I know I'm putting two and two together and getting something other than four but somethings are just too coincidental.
What really grips is the bank let the £1400 through with no query!! Jean and I bought some expensive furniture last year and when we paid for it the sale was refused. The shop said they get that all the time because the purchase was over a limit. So, the bank will stop genuine payments by the owner of the card but won't question any flippin' tea-leaf who wants to shop at our expense.
The moggie is a worry. He's stopped grooming himself over a year ago and one day you have a relative normal cat and the next day you have a mass of fur lumps - he will only stand grooming for a few seconds and then he gets narked with you. He's lost a load of weight and is really skinny. Lost a leg 12 years ago so he don't get around too well and he's easy meat for the other cats in the neighbourhood. We moved a couple of years ago and all of a sudden he went from being a house bound bullied cat to having his own huge garden all to himself. It was like having a new cat. He'd only come in to eat and kip then be back out again. At least once a week he'd come 'bounding' - well, his version of bounding - down the garden, having fallen in the pond trying to catch the frogs who live there. He might be a bloody idiot cat, but he's our bloody idiot cat, and there's bugger all we can do to make it better.
