Not mentioning the T word at all

Bitsy_Beans

Pink there is no way Jackie would be having a go at you like that, she's not that sort of person. I just think she was commenting on how she can't cope with squeamish stories xxxx

Today will be the day DS finally get to use the Halloween cutters to make biscuits. He's been asking for ages to make cookie bats :rotfl: I've got left over icing pens and sprinkles for them to decorate, waste not want not eh :T

Pink.

Sorry Jackie, I should have known how you meant it. xx I'm just a bit over-sensitive at the moment.

Pink

jackieglasgow

I'm not surprised. Have a hug, xxx

GreyQueen

Ceirdwyn wrote: »

All this talk of cats catching things reminded me of my Mum's cats most impressive feat.
My mum came in and saw the cat with something small and furry in her mouth. Mum managed to rescue it and took it onto the green infront of the house to release it. It was small, had a furry body and ears, but as Mum put it down on the grass, it flew off! The cat had managed to catch a bat!:eek:

One of our childhood cats, Ginger, caught a bat one evening. I was raised with a live-and-let die attitude to the cats getting mice but I wasn't going to let him have that. Chased the blasted thing over several suburban backgardens, hurdling fences as I went (to the amusement of neighbours) before I caught the cat and made him let the bat go. It flew off OK so I hope it survived.

Perversely, becuase of cats' habit of playing with their food, you can often get a critter off them alive, albeit soggy and shocky.:(

Whether cats hunt or not seems to be a matter of age, temperament and necessity. The vet my parents attend reckon a cat is demonstrably happy if it is hunting (the opinion of the birdies and mice was obviously not sought ).

One rescue cat my folks took on had spent many months as a stray before being rounded-up at the onset of winter by a kind-hearted soul and taken to the rescue centre. The first summer with him was a case of a kill-per-day with the evidence on the patio then he seemed to twig that he was being fed catfood consistantly and didn't need to hunt, and just quit unilaterally and forever.

The current incumbents are 2 females who were taken on at about 11 months old. Sisters, they'd been abandoned with 6 kittens between them and are very good hunters, but I suppose they had to be or their little ones wouldn't have survived. By the time we got them, the kits were rehomed and they had just been neutered (and one of them had to go to the vet on the way from the rescue centre to home as she'd pulled her sutures).

Sneaky tip; we once had a cat who wouldn't leave sutures alone and no size of buster collar would prevent her. In exasperation to prevent her undoing her spaying wound again, I resorted to devious measures. I got part of one leg off a pair of thick ribbed tights and put her in it, with holes for head, legs and backside and she stayed in it for a few days. It did the job but she looked very very silly. :rotfl:And yes, I am kicking myself for not having photos.

Well, enough chitchat, I must wander off and check the rest of the interweb before w*rk. Errm, just the little bits I follow, I mean.:o

Have a good day, everybody and ((kidkat)).

Fruball

GreyQueen wrote: »

Sneaky tip; we once had a cat who wouldn't leave sutures alone and no size of buster collar would prevent her. In exasperation to prevent her undoing her spaying wound again, I resorted to devious measures. I got part of one leg off a pair of thick ribbed tights and put her in it, with holes for head, legs and backside and she stayed in it for a few days. It did the job but she looked very very silly. :rotfl:And yes, I am kicking myself for not having photos.

Well, enough chitchat, I must wander off and check the rest of the interweb before w*rk. Errm, just the little bits I follow, I mean.:o

Have a good day, everybody and ((kidkat)).

Oh pllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeaseeeeeeeee do it again with another cat and take pics :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

salome

Hi
Our cat has two bells on his collar. He's a horror. He brings in bats, mice and birds when given the chance, and I hate it. We did have a bird table, but stopped, because they were being inticed to certain death, which I didn't want to be part of. Our neighbour has two bird tables in her garden, and I hate it when our cat is out, because he is no respsector of other peoples property, and thinks the birds are in the garden just for him :-( He's even got a wood pigeon before !!!!! One of my girls has just adopted a hamster and I have to keep telling her to keep the bedroom door shut, otherwise he will go in an pester the poor thing. It's nature though, just sad, because mainly cats play with their catch, and don't catch to eat.
My mum grew up on a farm, and the cats were never fed, they were given scraps, but not Kitty-Kat type stuff, because their sole purpose was to keep the vermin away, and so that was their food. That I suppose isn't so bad, and more like being in the wild as such, where anilmals kill to survive.

x

paidinchickens

Kidcat I am so sorry. I had to do the "final vet journey" last month and it broke my heart. If truth be told I am still having the odd tear when no one is around:(

My four are pulling their collars off every other day at the moment :eek: One of the girlies has a fascination with worms at the moment and keeps bringing them into the kitchen. My DH is quite a girl when it comes to things like this and I can't do anything for laughter.

All my other cats have never been bothered and let the birds walk over the lawn to the outside food dish. I think they think if the birds eat all their biscuit they will get it refilled with something better.

Mummy cat did have a fascination with Herman the hedgehog (who lives under the shed) when she was a kitten, it was funny to watch her following him around. When he went in the water bowl for a bath she did not find it so amusing as he splashed her and she looked very put out and has never bothered with him since :rotfl:

Ohhh cats I luv um and could go on for ages. Our local cat protection has gone on facebook now and everyday they put pics up of the cats that need re homing. It's so heartbreaking, they have 70 cats and twenty kittens at the moment :eek: DH says I have to stop looking as we can barely afford the four we have He did say if a three legged cat came on we could have it as long as we call it Tripod

No cleaning for me today as the Halloween decs will come down tomorrow and the house will look like a bomb site. The Halloween party went well on Saturday night, good time had by all. Apart from the fact I could not drink because of the antibiotics and I could not eat anything.

I wonder if we will be getting snow soon as we usually do a couple of weeks after the states get hit on the east side. The news this morning of all their power failures makes me glad we have sorted out all our emergency winter kits

PIC x

oldtractor

((((((((HUGS)))))))))) Pink and Jackieglasgow and anyone else who needs a hug.
I have 2 hunting cats,the little female cat being a prodigious hunter,shes fond of bringing in small furries or birds and crunching them up on the kitchen mat,which is a multi-coloured rag rug. This is bad enough when you are eating your breakfast,but worse is when ,first thing in a morning, you step on a squashy bit of critter barefoot whilst putting the kettle on. yuck. the most disgusting thing though,was last week, there was cat sick,plenty of it on the tiles, DH scooped it up and chucked it in the hedge,missed and it landed on the side of my landrover. on further inspection I found it contained teeth and fur and claws,rather like cat claws, oh disgusing, we think, hope,it was a rat,yuck yuck yuck,however,a couple of days previously one of next doors cats was hit by a car and killed instantly in the lane in front of the houses, we hope to goodness that our cat didnt find the remains of next doors and ate it.

suki1964

Hmmmm, so this is where everyone ran off to

Things move so fast, it was just last week I realised the T thread wasnt showing on my subscribed threads, then found that a new one had started, closed, another new one - and now here

Is this the new home????

I know I didnt post too often to the T threads but I did like to keep up with what was happening for everyone and I got a lot of helpful tips so Im guessing its ok to stay a while?:D

Bitsy_Beans

salome wrote: »

. It's nature though, just sad, because mainly cats play with their catch, and don't catch to eat.
x

Killer cat catches to eat. Mice get eaten wholesale, apart from the half eaten one brought into the bedroom on Friday. She's not quite eaten a whole pigeon but she gives it a bloomin' good go. She's normally stopped by me not wishing the kids being able to see her at it :eek: