I don't have a cat, but 10.5 years ago one turned up on our backstep wanting to come in. She belonged to our new neighbours and is called Pebble. Since that day she comes in for breakfast, lunch and dinner, brings us live or dead mice. She once ate a blue tit outside our lounge door (opens onto the garden). Heaven knows how she caught it. A few times she has demanded to be let in with a live mouse and banged on the glass. We have lol'd when she took a leap onto the arm of a sofa, missed and flew right over it and onto the floor. She has 'guarded' both my boys when they were babies in their moses baskets, and lets them stroke and play with her, none too gently. She has laid on me in my bed when I was really ill. In January at the ripe age of 14, she will be moving house to Birmingham and we will all miss her.
Ditzy and ruby are so sweet, poor Pebbles, she wont like a move after 14 years, she will be so stresed.
My Thomas is big, he weighs 14 lbs. He has a saggy belly, usual seen in females, when I took him to the vet he said it was becsuse he had been neutured and his underpants were now too big,
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Lyn - brilliant! That made me gargle my coffee with laughing!! My old cat was the same, so much so that a delivery chap once asked me if 'he' was pregnant!
SwissSue - very well said. This nice thread is the antithesis of anything angry, cruel, negative, or plain silly. I hate all that and to be honest, feel more than a little intimidated by it, especially the feeling of aggression that comes across. Maybe I'm just a scaredy-cat! ????
Love this thread, such gorgeous cats! This is my cat Blaze who I took in from the street just over a year ago. There are quite a few cats around, some of whom use the garden as a toilet and I was always chasing them away.
Blaze was one of them and one day I decided to give him some food as he'd been approaching me as I worked in the garden. Fatal mistake! He's now my ever present companion, especially in the garden and follows me everywhere.
He likes to sit and watch me gardening, surveying his territory and often running around the garden, ambushing me and chasing insects. He is quite young I think and very playful, and as time has passed he's also become very affectionate.
He loves snuggling up to my leg when I'm sitting on the sofa watching TV to have his nose and head stroked. This makes him ecstatic and he purrs very loudly.
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I don't have a cat, but 10.5 years ago one turned up on our backstep wanting to come in. She belonged to our new neighbours and is called Pebble. Since that day she comes in for breakfast, lunch and dinner, brings us live or dead mice. She once ate a blue tit outside our lounge door (opens onto the garden). Heaven knows how she caught it. A few times she has demanded to be let in with a live mouse and banged on the glass. We have lol'd when she took a leap onto the arm of a sofa, missed and flew right over it and onto the floor. She has 'guarded' both my boys when they were babies in their moses baskets, and lets them stroke and play with her, none too gently. She has laid on me in my bed when I was really ill. In January at the ripe age of 14, she will be moving house to Birmingham and we will all miss her.
Katzi, there's a separate thread about cat poo, see CATS above. This one is for cat lovers.
Ditzy and ruby are so sweet, poor Pebbles, she wont like a move after 14 years, she will be so stresed.
My Thomas is big, he weighs 14 lbs. He has a saggy belly, usual seen in females, when I took him to the vet he said it was becsuse he had been neutured and his underpants were now too big,
I am hoping the neighbours might leave her with us, I have been asked twice and said yes so we will see.
Lyn - brilliant! That made me gargle my coffee with laughing!! My old cat was the same, so much so that a delivery chap once asked me if 'he' was pregnant!
SwissSue - very well said. This nice thread is the antithesis of anything angry, cruel, negative, or plain silly. I hate all that and to be honest, feel more than a little intimidated by it, especially the feeling of aggression that comes across. Maybe I'm just a scaredy-cat! ????
Love this thread, such gorgeous cats! This is my cat Blaze who I took in from the street just over a year ago. There are quite a few cats around, some of whom use the garden as a toilet and I was always chasing them away.
Blaze was one of them and one day I decided to give him some food as he'd been approaching me as I worked in the garden. Fatal mistake! He's now my ever present companion, especially in the garden and follows me everywhere.
He likes to sit and watch me gardening, surveying his territory and often running around the garden, ambushing me and chasing insects. He is quite young I think and very playful, and as time has passed he's also become very affectionate.
He loves snuggling up to my leg when I'm sitting on the sofa watching TV to have his nose and head stroked. This makes him ecstatic and he purrs very loudly.
On the sofa.
Blaze looks so full of character! what a treasure!
Thank you Tootle! He is a real treasure and I'm lucky to have him. He has got a lot of character as well and is very vocal.
SB, that is one well loved cat, Blaze is adorable.
its funny but I would have thought that people who loved gardens, flowers, trees, bees and butterflies would love all creatures, great and small.
Tonto (a Bengal) and Daisi Mai (an Oriental). Two of my 3 cats.