Got the cat!

The snip will be another expense later :)

Owain

My dad used say, "There's more ways to kill a cat than choking it wi' lard."

Bill

A catapult ;-)

Once had a friend over for drinks and he had one too many we had to get him a cab home he walked to the top of the stairs feel over and we left him there, when his girlfriend found him in the morning, he was laying in a pool of cat sick. It wasn't his sick due to the smell and texture and the cat had been a bit unwell that day so and had been sick at the top of the stairs previously.

I don?t think all cats bring ?presents? home. Middle daughter has a cat and he doesn?t seem to. He has one of these ?smart? cat flaps so can come and go freely so it isn?t access which stops him.

Whether it is an individual cat trait or some breed thing I?ve no idea. I don?t think he is a special breed, just a rescue cat. I suppose it could be something the previous owner trained out.

Yes and the health folk have confirmed that although there are things that cats and dogs can give us, this virus is not one of them. Brian

One of ours never brought anything home (except half a buttered barmcake! That's a tea cake, bap, muffin, depending where you are from), until my (now) wife was sat here preparing wedding invitations ... when he brought her a mouse!

He only brought things back, or was seen outside with something that he'd caught, around a dozen times in total during his whole 12 year life.

After him we got another pair of cats. One used to bring in mice that she'd caught (only ever when I let the grass get too long), but hasn't brought anything in for years and the other has never caught anything in her life as far as we can tell - she's too fat and lazy to make the effort!

SteveW

Pro tip.

If your cat brings in a live rodent, reach for a Wellington boot.

Not to throw at the cat (although this is an option).

Wait until the cat stops chasing the rodent around and has it stopped between the fore paws. Invert Welling to boot over the rodent. Allow Wellington boot to slowly topple over. Rodent will flee into the darkness and safety of the toe. Pick up Wellington boot, and carry outside. Invert and shake.

Return to a baffled cat.

Cheers

Dave R

My Dad needed a new dog. He can walk it as far as he wants to as it's all woods and fields behind their house.

Adam

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It sounds like they will both enjoy that:))

I think you mean 'bribeable'

Training might be stretching it.

Is that the curtains he's climbing up in one photo?

Owain

I said the same to my neighbours earlier, the cat is plainly no mug, we work for the cat now.

Yup, he's fearless. An inspiration, especially in these current times, where i'm scared to go out and buy a ####ing loaf.

I said the same to my neighbours earlier, the cat is plainly no mug, we work for the cat now.

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LOL

While I wonder how much is due to our expectations there is a whole spectrum of cat types from 'almost like a dog' to 'totally cat'. We've had quite a few different types:-

Siamese - towards the dog end Burmese - rather a nice compromise Bengal - What we have now, wierd! :-) Mixed/moggie - They're cats aren't they

We're feeling rather pleased at the moment because one of our half Bengal, half 'not quite sure' has returned home after about eight or nine months away. He's disappeared before and we know where he goes, it's a farm several miles away, they're quite happy to have him but worry that their dogs might harm him.

We currently have a Bengal (mother), two of her half-bengal sons and a totally un-anything 'outside' cat.

How does the Bengal get on with other cats generally? I would like one but was worried that it would attack the neighbours cats who have treated our garden as their territory for so long it would not have been fair to disrupt them, one of them has now gone and the other which was a sister cat won?t be around that much longer so there will soon be an opportunity to get one ourselves, a couple of cats do venture from further afield and at least one is a bit of a bully so any cat we get will need to have a bit of presence to establish its space .

GH

Our cat is a rescue cat which we've had for about 2.5 years now. Last summer she bought a mouse, a frog and a bird into the house, all at different times of course. She then dropped them on the floor and left me to catch them and take them back outside while she watched.

Ah, heaven.

Surely the training didn't stop there, she must've taught you more since then.