stray? kitten

StaffieTerrier

My cat loves chicken too! It's one of the few words she really understands. If you ask her if she wants some, she'll go running into the kitchen. She's currently lying on the sofa with a very full belly of pork. A slice dropped on the floor while I was carving it. She'd snatched before it had time to hit the floor :rotfl:

I love all the updates about your cats

mellymoo74

Thank you

Stripey has had a good feed.of chicken
even tomcat who usually turns his nose up at actual cooked meat unless handfed decided today to eat chicken.

She didnt just get in the tray, she also balanced on the table and tried to snatch any chicken on fork enroute to mouth, did her best starving cat impression to con the soft one (OH) into giving her bits of his chicken.
then stuck her nose i my bowl which had dime bar cake and cream whilst i was eating it.

She was sleeping when i dished up, woke up (chicken waft will do that) squeaked to be got (why walk when your servant will come and get you, carry and kiss you)

Smodlet

In the roasting tray! She's lucky she didn't burn her paws, the dizzy.

That is brilliant, Mellymoo, as always. She is clearly a cat burglar specialising in chicken. So everyone had a chicken dinner, huh? Did you and OH actually get any? :rotfl:

Thinking of you and Stripey and wish you the very best of luck with him.

mellymoo74

I swear she think's she's an empress
I got greeted with a purp (she didn't get up though) then following her love, she waited to be picked up and carried to the bedroom to show me her bowl, she then sat on the bed and waited for dinner lol.

mellymoo74

And your right smodlet we are now on a larger chicken to make sure 3 cats and 2 dogs get some lol

mellymoo74

Dirty stop out!
Just got back demanded a muddy love and food.

mellymoo74

Do all cats like to be cuddled?

I haven't tried stripey yet but both tomcat and pickles demand it

Smodlet

Here's to bigger chicken. Another poster tried a large, free range chicken for the first time some weeks ago and wrote how much better value it was, not shrinking like the factory farmed ones do.

Regarding cuddles, certainly not, in my experience. Dude tolerates being picked up and cuddled for a minute or two, then lets me know when he has had enough by leaning on my arm. Lisa, his sister, put up with it for only a few seconds and only if she thought there was a treat at the end of it.

In my experience, cats are more individual than humans; I have never met two who were particularly alike. This is more obvious with siblings, Dude and Lisa being the second brother and sister kittens of my acquaintance.

When you think about it, being held by something much bigger and stronger than they are can relate only to being mauled by a predator in the wild. Sure, kittens snuggle up to mom but that is not really the same as being picked up. Mom carries them in her mouth, which bears no relation to being cuddled.

I am a firm believer in what Jack London calls "race memory" in The Call of the Wild. No, it is not about cats but one can extrapolate. How else does Dude know to be afraid of the hiss a bottle of fizzy drink makes, if not because he associates it with snakes? All tiggers are descended from the African wild cat, after all. Some have other ancestry as well, for instance, Oriental breeds but most, if not all have African wild tigger among their roots. Dude has never been to Africa and I am fairly certain he has never met a snake, yet he flinches when I open a new bottle of soda water. This is my theory and I'm sticking to it.

helcat26

I hope your Stripey cat turns out to be negative for felv, it sounds like he has only just had a bit of good luck in his life with you taking him in.
Have you had the other 2 vaccinated against it?

mellymoo74

Pickle was done luckily
Tomcat goes in Sat (stripey stole his appointment)