Grandcat having extended 'sleepover'!

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Poor cat, Duchy

I had a bit of a scare with new cat Lily on Saturday. She has been going out for just over a week now, and I've been checking up on her regularly. Saturday she was nowhere to be seen or heard for several hours. Eventually she came back though, and yesterday she was very good - kept coming back and checking in with me every couple of hours or so

Lily is another who is fascinated by cupboards

iammumtoone

winspiration wrote: »

Poor cat, Duchy

I had a bit of a scare with new cat Lily on Saturday. She has been going out for just over a week now, and I've been checking up on her regularly. Saturday she was nowhere to be seen or heard for several hours. Eventually she came back though, and yesterday she was very good - kept coming back and checking in with me every couple of hours or so

Lily is another who is fascinated by cupboards

I hate that feeling when you let a new cat outdoors for the first few weeks. I remember I went away once for two weeks once and had recently got two new cats from CP I'd only had them a few months. I left Dad with strict instructions to keep them indoors, he replied he had cats most his life and never heard such nonsense a cat will always know where it lives. When I came home the cats were outside sitting happily in the garden, apparently he had let them out the first day and even with a stranger looking after them, they still knew where home was. Since then I haven't worried about it so much.

Got flea treatment from vets 20 quid :eek: thats nearly double what I pay online! Expensive lesson learnt. I will still stop treating when it gets colder as I always do and have never had a problem. My cat goes outdoors in all weathers/temperatures and I think that helps. However I will now be making sure I always have some in the cupboard over winter, just in case.

meritaten

Barnes has always been a 'housecat' apparently. He is not at all streetwise! and he is usually very friendly both to people and dogs (which is why my son was so concerned at his aggression towards their dog). Besides which, he is obviously an expensive pedigree cat, and in this area the likelihood someone would steal him is very high!

I dare not let him out on his own!

meritaten

lmao - Barnes outwitted me royally this morning - he managed to have a poo in the bath without disturbing the 'boobytraps'! how the hell he did it I have no idea...........he must be able to flatten himself to have got under that shower curtain without dislodging the dolphins!
have got double the number of toys holding it down now and very little of the curtain is showing! lol - lets see if he can get round that!

meritaten

OH was filling in an online form for house insurance this afternoon and when he clicked 'no' for 'any dogs or cats' I said 'No, that's Yes'......but, he isn't staying! 'Yes he is'..........OH clicked 'yes'! so its official 'Barney lives HERE'!

meritaten

Duchy - Thanks for the lovely pics! awwww he looks so 'woebegone' in the second pic! but, tail or not, he is gorgeous!

meritaten

hmmm - Barnes had his supper about an hour ago and I just heard him thundering upstairs and into bathroom.............then heard wails of dismay!!!!!!!!! listened, and there were distinct 'mutterings' then silence (no clatter of dislodged dolphins) then the distinctive sound of litter being kicked! and then a familiar 'pong'! Barnes then stalked downstairs and walked past me into the lounge.


just checked and Barnes had poohed in litter tray! not going to count my chickens before they hatch this time - lets see if he is going to continue using litter tray or find an 'alternative' to the bath!

MrsAtobe

meritaten wrote: »

OH was filling in an online form for house insurance this afternoon and when he clicked 'no' for 'any dogs or cats' I said 'No, that's Yes'......but, he isn't staying! 'Yes he is'..........OH clicked 'yes'! so its official 'Barney lives HERE'!

It was never in any doubt

meritaten

MrsAtobe wrote: »

It was never in any doubt

after one week - it wasn't in doubt in MY mind! I fell in love! though - if I thought there was a better family for Barnes, I would let him go. He loves kids and I don't have any - just grandkids who visit often.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

meritaten wrote: »

after one week - it wasn't in doubt in MY mind! I fell in love! though - if I thought there was a better family for Barnes, I would let him go. He loves kids and I don't have any - just grandkids who visit often.

he loves kids in small doses, i doubt a family setting as supposed to access to kids in small doses would benefit him.