Grandcat having extended 'sleepover'!

scaredy_cat

Please get his heart murmur rates. my old Sugar cat had a slight heart murmur, which eventually lead to her heart walls thickening and high blood pressure which blew the blood vessels in her eyes so she went blind at about 16 yrs. She had to have 2 lots of tablets from then on every day.

i wasn't told to get her check regularly an though she lived til she was 22 yrs, i wish i have known enough to catch the bp and thickening heart earlier whi h might have prevented the blindness.

meritaten

aww lifeforms - I am a sucker for ginger and whites! he is GORGEOUS! and the expression on his face! like he is saying 'make sure you get my good side'! lol

Grandgirls went home after lunch, and I swear that Barnes heaved a sigh of relief! Jeez they were hard work this weekend! Barnes spent most of it hiding! from me though. I think he spent the night with the grandgirls - he didn't come and sleep with me.
Had to go up mums this afternoon and I didn't take the girls because mum has been ill with a bad tummy upset all week. I didn't want the girls to get it, first week back at school after the easter holidays.

Youngest grandgirl wanted to do Barnes Groom and Treats today - bless her, she is only six and she did her best, but Barnes got more Treats than Groom! I did him again when I came home and he was a bit flummoxed but willing.
a busy weekend - Barnes got his share of attention but he was frightened when I lost it! Good thing that doesn't happen often, I am usually very quiet and laid back.
I did get upset this morning, because despite being told not to swing her Yoyo around K did, and broke one of my Victorian Lustres. It belonged to a great-aunt and was antique when she bought it back in the 1930s.
it upset me because my aunt had cared for it and looked after it - and since inheriting it I have too. I can mend part of it - but its badly damaged. its not the de-valueing, I don't care about that, its that I loved it and it was in really good condition because my gt-aunt loved it too. I feel I let my gt-aunt down.
I couldn't really get annoyed with my granddaughter - she has ADHD and I bought her the dam Yoyo, so am partly to blame.
Barnes has today, eaten for Wales! he has scoffed everything put in his bowl, or on his plate. his supper disappeared at the speed of light and I can hear him now crunching up his dry food. That isn't going to last til morning! I must remember to refill his bowl before I go to bed.

meritaten

I think Barnes has had a 'good' day today. its been fairly dry and he seems to understand I want him to stay in garden, so I let him out on his own (while I kept an eye on him from the lounge). He did his usual 'inspection round', stuck his head in the box plant (I really can't understand why he does that?), sat enjoying the brief spells when the sun came out, chased whatever flew into the garden, drank from the birds bowl, and seemed to have an interesting conversation with next doors' cat who was upstairs on their bedroom windowsill.
he ate all his lunch and purred through 'groom and treats' then dashed back outside for some more 'outside' time. it got a bit overcast, and quite cool though, so he came in.
I could hear this strange squeeking and when I looked up he was poking about in his toy basket. and came out with a 'squeaky mouse' I bought him a couple of months ago. he played with that for a while, batting it all over the living and dining room and out into the hallway then picking it up and bringing it in to drop it at my feet. I thought he wanted me to play too - but he disdained my poor efforts and kept dropping it in front of me. The penny dropped!!!!!! he wanted praise for his brilliant hunting skills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!roflmao!
I adore that cat - he is totally unlike my first cat, and its only his gentle nature which is like my second cat. Barnes is unique and I am very proud that he is my owner!

have managed to clip the nails and dew claws on his front paws - tomorrow I have to tackle the back paws..............I hate doing it - its obvious he has been hurt at some time in the past on certain claws as he really panics and gets upset.
actually I think I get just as upset! I cant stand doing his claws, but at least he knows and trusts me and once its done, a few treats, and he is speaking to me again.

his_missus

Scrappy is still a happy chappy (Mum agrees he's looking well) but Hubby found a flea on him this morning

Did the armitage flea treatment work on Barnes?

scaredy_cat

meri, i was reading in a natural remedy book that Brewer's yeast can be given to cats to ward off fleas. might it be worth checking with your vet?

meritaten

sorry I'm late - got distracted elsewhere!
Barnes had another lovely day wandering in and out of the house as he felt like it!
he does his 'perimeter check' and goes and stares at the best 'escape route'..........rofl, he even turns round to see if I am watching now! then saunters off. Yah Yah - fooled yah! I think he is just checking to make sure my attention isn't elsewhere! I wouldn't put it past him to go explore outside the garden. I sympathise - if he was just a moggy I would let him - but a purebred Persian???????? in this area? the local cats would have him for breakfast, or their owners would have him on Ebay!
Sorry Barnes, but you are under house arrest!
scaredy cat do you mean Brewers Yeast tablets? I have vague memories of neighbours using those on their pets , but more for being a bit 'poorly' I think. but after about 50 years my memory could be wrong!
thinking about the neighbours cats when I was a child - I can remember helping to 'pop a pill' into Ginge (I was the only one who could handle him after Mr B died), but for fleas I am absolutely sure they used 'Johnsons flea powder'. everyone did! we did on our dog. two or three times a year and they were remarkably flea free! the powder was a bit messy though - it was us kids jobs to do that, and we got liberally coated in it too!
not sure if the Armitage is working or not - he came in from garden today and I spotted a flea on him so gave him a flea tablet. now he may just have picked it up outside ............the little bu99er was lively enough, but, I wasn't taking any chances! his skin is much improved, he isn't scratching or licking as much and is putting on a bit of weight this last week. I think he looks so much better.

meritaten

I thought Barnes might have abandoned me for the delights of the garden, but today he was 'in and out' and obviously checking on me! starting to trust him a bit more now, he knows the rules! I can even go make a cuppa, run up to bathroom, or read more than a page of my book!
He made me laugh though. the sun was shining but it started raining, those fat lazy drops..........he looked very put out and tried to 'dry' his fur but those dam drops kept coming.........so he took refuge under the mini willow tree (which is trimmed to look like an umbrella). he was fine there until the rain started comeing through it! he came in then and had a bit of a moan to me, but curled up next to me to catch up on his sleep. he doesn't waste time in the garden by sleeping out there!
GS day today and Barnes very kindly woke me 15 minutes early by doing a sort of dance on my back (I was sleeping on my tummy for some reason - strange, don't normally sleep that way- its the side on foetal position for me!). it felt like he was linedancing! of course I started giggling, and nearly choked trying to giggle silently and not wake OH!

meritaten

Barnes kept checking out the French doors - and it kept raining! hammering down sometimes. had one of the grandgirls as her twin had to go to A&E. cut her knee in school. stupid staff didn't call her mum to take her down hospital, so she went after school to get the cut cleaned and um put back together.
C stayed with me and she ate...............she was starving! said school dinner was awful today!
Barnes had mad time while C was there! he was tearing round like a cat possessed! I got 'squeaky mouse' out and he played with that and C for a while. and then a few of his other toys.
C played with Barnes and when he went off we went on lolcats and son came in.

OH went for a shower and Barnes had poohed in the bath! I had stopped putting the plastic dolphins etc and booby-trapping the bath. and its been MONTHS since Barnes has done this! so its back to booby-trapping the bath!

his_missus

I wonder why Barnes had the urge to use the bath again?

meritaten

no idea his missus! but whatever it was - he did it again this morning! so I made sure the booby trap was reinforced - and when he tried it this afternoon, the trap got sprung and the noise scared him out of the bath! BEFORE he could poo!
will just have to be vigilant and make sure I set the boobytrap properly. OH is terrible at it - he leaves six inch gaps each side of the shower curtain. no good at all - its only the smell and clean litter trays which betray him!
just to remind people or inform new readers................Barnes had a bath fixation - he thought it was a giant litter-free litter tray. I booby trapped it by drawing the shower curtain right across and draping the bottom of the curtain over the edge of the bath. then placing hard plastic dolphins (kids bath toys) delicately balanced on the edge......the cat moves the curtain and the toys fall in the bath, making a helluva racket and scares the cat out of the bath. and alerts me that Barnes is being naughty.

Barnes must have noticed that I had stopped putting the dolphins on the rim of the bath...........I had thought the habit broken and was slowly trying to get the bathroom back to normal. I am sure that visitors using the bathroom must have thought us extremely 'odd'!