You know you've got a cat when...

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Nod said:
Of course they have - they'll sleep on gravel but need to puke in comfort!
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Benji prefers to vomit on my chinese wool rug, usually after eating something gross so it will stain! :rolleyes:

.....and why do they go out and eat grass to make themself sick and then come back in before doing so?
 
To be fair he is actually being helpful - only moved in a little while ago and intend to redecorate anyway!
 
Is that a mousie on a string behind him?

.....that's entrapment! :D
 
You know that it "may" be necessary to rehome your cats when one of them decides to interupt a new kitchent build by pushing a £125 specially curved piece of plinth off the new granite worktop onto the newly tiled floor which then bounces back and its corner dings a big dent and scratch on the matched curved cupboard door (£275) which cannot be repaired. Not an off the shelf item either.

It happened at 11am today and 14+ hours later the cat knows she is in disgrace.....

Would never harm a pet but rehoming options are being planned. So 2 x female cats (twins) 7 years young (1 tortoiseshell one white/black and grey) and 2 x 11 month old kittens (All black male and black and white female) are on my relocation radar....

The morning will see if I feel the same when I order the new plinth and door and will see me calmer.......

If only they had all dragged the usual hares through the cat flap.

Steve
 
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DorsetDude said:
they dont break down/disintegrate like toilet paper does
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If you ever had to unblock a drain you would realise that even toilet paper takes a long time to disintegrate.

And on the subject of cats, if you find leaves in the house in the morning, you know it's the discarded side salad from a takeaway mouse your cat had for a midnight feast.


Steve.
 
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Hugh Jarse said:
You know that it "may" be necessary to rehome your cats when one of them decides to interupt a new kitchent build by pushing a £125 specially curved piece of plinth off the new granite worktop onto the newly tiled floor which then bounces back and its corner dings a big dent and scratch on the matched curved cupboard door (£275) which cannot be repaired. Not an off the shelf item either.

It happened at 11am today and 14+ hours later the cat knows she is in disgrace.....

Would never harm a pet but rehoming options are being planned. So 2 x female cats (twins) 7 years young (1 tortoiseshell one white/black and grey) and 2 x 11 month old kittens (All black male and black and white female) are on my relocation radar....

The morning will see if I feel the same when I order the new plinth and door and will see me calmer.......

If only they had all dragged the usual hares through the cat flap.

Steve
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.......could have chipped the tiles too....... :exit:


Sending calming zen vibes :hug:


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Tigger.ufo said:
.......could have chipped the tiles too....... :exit:


Sending calming zen vibes :hug:


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Checked the tiles yesterday, they are 60cm x 60cm porcelain so I expected some damage..... but not a mark.

Still too angry to allow any of the cats to pay homage to me (well they worship anyone who provides breakfast etc).

Replacement door will be 6-8 weeks.

Cat fritters, Cat pot roast, Cat Madras.......

S
 
Daysleeper40 said:
You don't need a wallpaper stripper as your kitten has helpfully already made a start...


norty kitten by Daysleeper40, on Flickr
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I could post a photo of what is left of the wallpaper in our upstairs loo.... I reckon a month or so and the whole thing will be stripped ready for redecorating ;)
 
Hugh Jarse said:
Checked the tiles yesterday, they are 60cm x 60cm porcelain so I expected some damage..... but not a mark.

Still too angry to allow any of the cats to pay homage to me (well they worship anyone who provides breakfast etc).

Replacement door will be 6-8 weeks.

Cat fritters, Cat pot roast, Cat Madras.......

S
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Oh dear... you know you can have a posh house, or cats.... still, I know a harpist that could use some bits of them :exit::naughty:
 
Perhaps the cats had decided your home decorating taste wasn't in order hence removed the offending item for you?
 
neil_g said:
..you cant open any box without there instantly being a cat in it.
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:LOL: What is it with cats & boxes, its like xmas and young kids they like the boxes more than the prezzies. If I had known that I could have saved myself a fortune :)

Steve
 
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Nikon_Nick said:
My cats are cruel. They bring little 'friends' into the house at 3:00am to play with, before ultimately killing them. Ive had to chase frogs, mice, birds and a newt around our bedroom in the past.
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Mine used to be a b****r for that, one morning at work when I opened my briefcase there was a small mouse looking up at me. It must have taken refuge in there :) It was liberated into the local park.

Steve
 
Yv said:
Oh dear... you know you can have a posh house, or cats.... still, I know a harpist that could use some bits of them :exit::naughty:
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Deal x 4 (even though the kittens are cute).

I had to have a POSH kitchen as part of the deal for my workshop conversion to build a photostudio/workspace. SHMBO was v insistent that the new extension with kitchen/family room/ utility room/ shower room had priority once the workshop was emptied and weather proofed. Now I need to do a bank job or internet swindle to pay for my man cave. All the while her loyal gang of cats are taunting me and her resolution to the damaged kitchen..... just get a new door.....

The whole build is a consternation. I could buy 25 x 5DIIIs and still have change to do the studio build and some Bowens Geminis...... :-(

At this rate I may have to come out of my early retirement. Damned cats.

Oh well

S
 
dave clayton said:
when your nice freshly processed negs are full of hair within a second of pulling em out the tank
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Anti cat locks on the door of my new studio when I get it done.
 
Friend of mine bought a brand new dinning room set and it wasn't cheap oak table and six leather chairs - put in place and went out for a meal the same night - came home to find their little flat faced Persian moggy had used every chair as a scratching post - to the tops and face of each was shredded........
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Still got them then? ;)
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Not for want of trying!!

TBH I have always had cats but 4 of them all rescues is too much.

Individually as twin set they are fine but all 4 together.... arrrrggghhhh

S
 
In my next life I want to be a jet setting moggie with two maids like Karl largerfeld's cat Choupette. What a life! She travels everywhere in his private jet and stays with him in posh hotels.
 
neil_g said:
..when your hands and legs look like you've had an altercation with freddy krueger.
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Oh yes...

We got the now 11 month old kittens when they were 10 weeks old. For the first 3 months we were climbing posts and soon got thick 'kyle show' thick fleece tracky bottoms to stem the blood loss.

Steve
 
Hugh Jarse said:
Not for want of trying!!

TBH I have always had cats but 4 of them all rescues is too much.

Individually as twin set they are fine but all 4 together.... arrrrggghhhh

S
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We have 7 them.... all of them rehomes in one way or another bar one, including the poncy pedigrees and ranging from nearly 5yrs old to 7mths old [he came to us as a foster feral at 4 weeks old from the rescue I do the photography for and, ehem, never went back after proving to be very intelligent and a real character :oops: :$] That is definitely it, no more! The house is big, but we have reached saturation point. At the moment they all have enough space to escape each other if they want to, so we get the occasional squabble, but they pretty much muck along together quite well.

mattd85 said:
........when you read this thread and go yep...yes...defo.....yes.....
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Absolutely! :ROFLMAO:
 
Yv said:
We have 7 them.... all of them rehomes in one way or another bar one, including the poncy pedigrees and ranging from nearly 5yrs old to 7mths old [he came to us as a foster feral at 4 weeks old from the rescue I do the photography for and, ehem, never went back after proving to be very intelligent and a real character :oops: :$] That is definitely it, no more! The house is big, but we have reached saturation point. At the moment they all have enough space to escape each other if they want to, so we get the occasional squabble, but they pretty much muck along together quite well.



Absolutely! :ROFLMAO:
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Yv

We have a large house and some acreage but the two eldest females basically hunt the very girly kitten whilst they all pay homage to the male kitten. He in turn just ignores his "bitches". He is mute as we never get a sound out of him.. He is a bit peeved as he used to lounge in a maple tree on a bit of land we sold for a house build and the builders took it down at the weekend so he just states at the stump.

I think we are stuck with the four of them but my daughter in law wants us to have her 2 dogs at Easter ... no chance.

S
 
As anyone who has been had by the pleasure of Maisie's company will vouch, she's very affectionate and sociable to 2 legs but she's rather less keep on 4 legs (unless they're bite sized...) Very nosy and people orientated, possibly because ever since my parents took her on, she's had company pretty much 24/7 apart from when we go out for the day. Even then, we usually find her in the same place when we get back, needing just a tummy tickle and a spoonful of wet food.
Very much a lap cat - the blacker and newer the lap the better! Even more preferred would be someone with a cat allergy/intolerance. We didn't have a cat for many years since we didn't think it was fair to keep one as an indoor cat and had no way of fitting a flap in the doors we had before DG went in but when Dad was very ill, he was going to send her back to the CPL for rehoming until we offered to give it a try. After a year or 2 of being slaves to her every whim (she's a cat so she's ALWAYS the wrong side of a closed door...), I was rather ill myself and after the remedial op, we decided that a conservatory was in order and now have one with a catflap so we're no longer at her beck and call (not that she'll always use the flap - it's much easier to sit by the big door meowing!) In her innocence, Mrs Nod christened the conservatory "the Cathouse", although the human cat staff are allowed to sit in it (as I'm doing now in a balmy 21.4°C).
 
Nod said:
As anyone who has been had by the pleasure of Maisie's company will vouch, she's very affectionate and sociable to 2 legs but she's rather less keep on 4 legs (unless they're bite sized...) Very nosy and people orientated, possibly because ever since my parents took her on, she's had company pretty much 24/7 apart from when we go out for the day. Even then, we usually find her in the same place when we get back, needing just a tummy tickle and a spoonful of wet food.
Very much a lap cat - the blacker and newer the lap the better! Even more preferred would be someone with a cat allergy/intolerance. We didn't have a cat for many years since we didn't think it was fair to keep one as an indoor cat and had no way of fitting a flap in the doors we had before DG went in but when Dad was very ill, he was going to send her back to the CPL for rehoming until we offered to give it a try. After a year or 2 of being slaves to her every whim (she's a cat so she's ALWAYS the wrong side of a closed door...), I was rather ill myself and after the remedial op, we decided that a conservatory was in order and now have one with a catflap so we're no longer at her beck and call (not that she'll always use the flap - it's much easier to sit by the big door meowing!) In her innocence, Mrs Nod christened the conservatory "the Cathouse", although the human cat staff are allowed to sit in it (as I'm doing now in a balmy 21.4°C).
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Sounds much like my grandmother's cat who spent a good portion of her 25-26 years living in a maisonette on the 22nd/23rd floor of a council block in South London (Elephant & Castle). Her main trick was walking the balcony rail.....

Her last couple of years was in a small house with a quiet garden which the cat visited a couple of times a day as she was a very old lady and needed the toilet more often.

Just looking at our gaggle of cats - distributed across our garden as far apart from each other as they can.

S
 
Elsa now needs her annual Spa Day, that being the day when her "mats" are cut out and her nails are clipped, a process that requires a trip to the vet and a large mallet to the back of her head so as to subdue her enough to perform this "operation", normally her lively attitude would result in a vist to A&E (for the humans) if attempted in any other fashion. She does however enjoy the day and comes back very loving, this though is short lived and her normal indifference to us returns after a day or two.
 
neil_g said:
Yv you have a lot of MC's dont you?
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We do, 3 MC's [2 girls and a boy], a blue boy 'Exotic Long Hair' - or rather, thats what the pedigree papers his original owner was given say, we have our doubts as he looks like a british long hair [google them both, they are quite different facially], plus 3 moggies. Oh yes, and the 2 Jack Russells, who are of course totally put upon by the cats and bear it with good grace and an understanding that more claws are best respected. Well, that and the fact the cats are at least as big as the dogs, a couple of them bigger.

Matt, we are quite lucky that only 2 of our long haired ones tend to mats [they all hate the regular grooming but its gets done with the assistance of many Dreamies] and again with food related help, any that do develop I can trim away myself with a good pair of hair dressing scissors. However, last summer, they were really bad, I could get rid of the lot and 24hrs later, they would be as bad again. So much so, I did consider the trip to the vet for them. It was only when I was chatting to some of the staff at the rescue and discovered all their own long haired cats, and those in the centre were all suffering similarly, I decided its was weather/humidity related and decided to keep trying to keep on top of it and finally as autmun kicked in, it all eased off and back to normal grooming being all that was needed. It was a right PITA though I am happy to admit.

Steve, luckily, we don't seem to have any issues, possibly because they all arrived within a couple of years. The biggest problem is the kitten and Blue - blue was a very solitary cat and as I said earlier, a bit of an oddity and whilst he is fine with the bigger cats, he does get a bit rough when playing with little one. He is learning that squeals mean he has to back off, he is getting too rough, so its getting better, but we have been woken by his 'playing' sometimes.
 
Yv said:
We do, 3 MC's [2 girls and a boy], a blue boy 'Exotic Long Hair' - or rather, thats what the pedigree papers his original owner was given say, we have our doubts as he looks like a british long hair [google them both, they are quite different facially], plus 3 moggies. Oh yes, and the 2 Jack Russells, who are of course totally put upon by the cats and bear it with good grace and an understanding that more claws are best respected. Well, that and the fact the cats are at least as big as the dogs, a couple of them bigger.
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im starting to wonder if one of our boys has a bit of MC in him, nobody knows who/what is dad was.. he has big paws for starters however ive never seen a cat with as fluffy toes as him..

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Oddly enough Elsa was better last year than the year before, hates being groomed, stands it for about 20 seconds before deciding to eat either the brush or the arm hanging onto said brush. A good scruff of the back of the neck helps, then she just moans and growls but about 2 minutes is the maximum before she really lets rip (and I do mean rip), flippin thing is as big as a small dog and as lethal as any dangerous dog breed.
Wouldnt be without her though, she's getting better, I dont think she was properly socialised as a kitten by the breeder and we got her at 14 weeks, so a bit too old really to then be socialised, but she's coming round slowly. treats dont seem to work at all, adolescent teenager that she is.
 
Feeding time at our zoo ...


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Hugh Jarse said:
... my daughter in law wants us to have her 2 dogs at Easter ... no chance.
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As well as fostering for an animal rescue, we do seem to have dog-sat everything from a Corgi to a bloody huge Mastiff. Our animals don't seem to mind what else arrives [do they even notice?] and the visitors just have to muck in and cope.

It's early days of planning, and not certain yet, but this summer's plan is that we stand to have a pair of Chocolate Labradors thown onto the pile in July!! :rolleyes:
 
:lol: I do love a good furry pad! Norwegian forests have similar btw, just like that. Oh and both breeds have 'carpet' on the back legs, from 'hock' to foot, the back of the leg is like very expensive Axminister, really thick soft fur that insulates when sitting on snow ;)
 
Yv said:
:LOL: I do love a good furry pad! Norwegian forests have similar btw, just like that. Oh and both breeds have 'carpet' on the back legs, from 'hock' to foot, the back of the leg is like very expensive Axminister, really thick soft fur that insulates when sitting on snow ;)
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he doesnt really have fluffy back legs although he does seem to be getting a thicker mane and tail recently.

maybe hes 1% MC :lol:
 
Yv said:
:lol: I do love a good furry pad! Norwegian forests have similar btw, just like that. Oh and both breeds have 'carpet' on the back legs, from 'hock' to foot, the back of the leg is like very expensive Axminister, really thick soft fur that insulates when sitting on snow ;)
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On the one occasion I looked after a dog (17 month old Norwegian Yellow Labrador) who was huge, we had 3 cats (a 12 yo black moggie and the current 2 older sisters we still have who were kittens at the time), the cats made his life a misery as all three would clamp on to him and ride him around the garden. If asleep he had to get up and play but, naturally, if the cats were sleeping he was not permitted to bother them.

I think that I am getting too old for all their nonsense. Moan grizzle whinge.

S
 
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