Shutting cats outside at night in -4c

gettingready

Fred is 6.5kg and he will ALWAYS try his luck with raw meat or ham or fish. He never ever touches dry cat food, only tinned.
Macius who is only 4 months old is 2.1 kg already and he is exactly like Fred.
Those 2 will GROWL at my dog (a 40 kg German Shepherd) when they get a raw drumstic each - and that is AFTER they already had a bowl of wet food each and regardless of how much they have eaten. Meat is meat. Cats are cats...

sofababe

puddy wrote: »

so naive!.

I think I must have the best behaved cats in the world :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
And the only ones that don't like raw meat. I can leave anything out and my 2 won't touch it. Even I put it down for them, in their own bowls they turn their noses up and stalk off. They will only eat cat food, and very occasionally they'll have a go at a chicken bone if a plate gets left by the sink after dinner. They like mayonnaise a lot, they'll eat a great dollop of that if they get chance, and grated cheese.
They do bring me dead things, sometimes alive things too, but they don't eat them. Just shake them till they die then leave them under the dining table or at the bottom of the stairs.

peachyprice

gettingready wrote: »

Guess what? Macius has learnt only yesterday to jump onto the kitchen counter.. so now between him and Fred no raw meat is safe in here no matter where it is... sigh....

I have to put mine in the microwave now, not with it on, just in there with the door closed. I doubt it will be long before Sith learns how to open the door

Nothing is safe from him, I even caught him pinching freshly baked rolls last week.

missmontana

peachyprice wrote: »

I have to put mine in the microwave now, not with it on, just in there with the door closed. I doubt it will be long before Sith learns how to open the door

Nothing is safe from him, I even caught him pinching freshly baked rolls last week.

After reading the OP then seeing this I immediately thought you'd put the cat in the microwave... :eek:

gettingready

missmontana wrote: »

After reading the OP then seeing this I immediately thought you'd put the cat in the microwave... :eek:

You don't?

Catwoman103

My cats once got the lip off a slow cooker to get at a gammon joint cooking inside. Then,because it was salty, they drained their water bowl and, when I came home, they were sitting in the bath waiting for water drips.

missmontana

They won't all fit in the microwave, I use the oven silly!! :rotfl:

missmontana

This is my lot the other night when it was minus something outside.

I shut them IN when its that cold, I even bought Buddy the stray a little cat kennel for when it got cold ( he spent the night under my bed on Monday ) I felt guilty kicking him out when it got to bedtime.
Cilla stays out but I have a feeling she is sleeping over at No.27's so I don't mind if she doesn't come home.

I'm almost getting to this stage...

thelovelygirl

I have a housecat, my mum has an elderly cat that has just become a house cat because of dementia, the other cat comes in to eat and then goes out again and in particular does not like coming in in the winter as she overheats quickly and prefers the garage. My parent in laws have two outside cats that also live in the garage and have always lived out they were farm cats prior to the inlaws having them.

Healthwise there is no difference between the 5 cats - all 5 are contented with their lot, the one that live out don't try and get in and the ones that live in don't try and get out and the one that could do as she pleases prefers to be out. As long as they are fed appropriately ie the ones that live out get more and they have water and somewhere dry out of a draught to sleep and seem perfectly happy they probably are!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Oh, yes they would. One of mine, the youngest one, is so motivated by food - raw meat in particular - that he would walk on hot coals and abandon the best foie gras in the world, so long as he got a shot at a proper lump of dead bird. Fortunately, he isn't old enough to have managed the leap from the floor to the sink yet, but once he does, I fully expect him to have a go at catching his own Sunday Dinner. :cool: So I defrost meat in the fridge instead (and he still abandons his dinner to try and stick his head in there on the offchance there's an unattended bit of ham or mince about to fall out).

After posting this, I tried cooking dinner. Some sort of random paella sort of thing with various scraps of fish and prawns.

I dropped one piece of fish down to the skinny old girl cat and one to Dizziee the Ninja Assassin.

He dropped his, ran across the kitchen and barged the old girl out the way to steal her piece. When I approached him, he growled and when I picked him up, he lashed out.

I retrieved the stolen fish and returned it to its rightful owner. And she got his bit as well. And he was told not to get lairy with me.


They don't need to be hungry to try a bit of breaking and entering, demanding crunchies with menaces, outright theft/robbery [CRASH] or criminal damage, by the sounds of it [sigh].