We don't have enough spare time for a dog.
No I don't want to leave it on its own for 9hours a day. So any doglovers who were hoping to pop on here for a pop at cats, please I hope your dogs nailed to your hip most of the day first 😉
Male or female? I was thinking avoid pedigrees? Any tips? Keep indoors first then catflap etc going forward?
A catflap also needs to go backwards.
Do you want a cat?
We personally love them and they give loads back really. We lost one last year, the other still going strong at 18.
Just remember, the cat owns you, not the other way around.
We had a couple of rescue cats - they were great, though came with their own odd personalities.
It's great having the shamelessly mercenary little bastards in your life!!
Hora - come over to ours and we'll nip up to [url= http://www.bleakholt.org/cats-available-for-adoption.html ]Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary[/url] and have a look at the rescue cats. That's where ours came from. But remember.... you don't choose a cat. They choose you.
Yes..
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All hail our feline overlords..
Binners we still need that night ride too
No, they're tiresome, one of our worst decisions. I'd pay to have someone take them away!
Just a counterpoint to the above, the man asked.
18! Sigh.
What about a rabbit?
Get a rescue cat, then you can choose a cuddly one/pair rather than a cute kitten that turns into a bivvying adventurer that you only see once every three days or refuses to jump on your lap.
And invest in a microchip catflap (rescue cats will normally be microchipped). It means the wailing/standoffs and territorial spraying remain outside and you don't end up with scented curtains from cats trying to mark their territory!
(rabbits are more demanding, you can't really set up a cat feeder for a long weekend, and they can be a bit much for the average neighbour due to worries about them escaping (or in our case, the growling/lunging one of ours makes when you put your hand in the hutch))
As above get a rescue cat, mircochipped cat flap....and insurance. We had to claim £3k of vet bills within a month of getting our cats.
Had a thread on here just before we got ours
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/tell-me-about-owning-a-cat
He has been great fun, although a bit bitey! 🙂
Are you planning to let it roam free to kill everything and shit everywhere?
If so then no, get a guinea-pig
Awaits Hora's secondhand pussy classifieds listing
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No.
Get a dog.
3k vets bills?!!
If you have small children be aware of the cat attacking them.My neice still has a faint scar below her eye when the cat attacked her in her cot.
I wouldn't risk it.
Get two kittens.. Keep each other amused
Cats are great! This is ours & she is the soppiest,most affectionate thing.
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No I'd happily replace our three with three more Burmese pythons or boas. I feel safer round the snakes.
Horrible, vicious,ginger bastards.
Why do you want one?
3k vets bills?!!
One of mine got hit by a car. Fractured pelvis and dislocated hip. Needed surgery. 3k is our insurance limit, so we picked a surgery option that got us down to that. He's all fine now, and charging around like nothing has happened.
In my opinion male cats are more affectionate but are more likely to fight and even ones that have been done still bloody fight like ours did for the first 12 yrs. Find a cheap vet who can stitch them up and administer a good dose of anti biotics. Did I mention male ones spray to mark territory. I hated that !
Our female cat never fought but good god could she hunt! Mice pigeons rabbits moles Koy Carp and garden birds to name but a few. Not as affectionate as the male but still enjoyed a cuddle till she had had enough then she'd take your arm off! I miss them both but not the hunting and destroying furniture and spraying! Our Son formed a very strong bond with Oscar our male cat and they were thick as thieves together.
I don't agree with keeping cats inside, they will hunt and also have to take their chances with traffic etc but any Cat I believe would take that over being kept in 24/7!
Get a kitten if possible they are just the funniest things and you'll remember them being lovely and fluffy as they tear your house to bits and destroy the wildlife around your house as they get older.
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house cat but allowed in the garden during daylight - doesn't go next door as fences are high and scared himself not being able to get back. Craps only in his box and no mess or smell as we feed him on decent food (raw or high meat content).
Main hassle is he wants play a lot, can get a little tetchy if he doesn't get it.
Just remeber camera phones and tablet computers where made just so women can show everyone with an intrest pictures of their cat or baby.
Heres my cat
It's a British Blue love in!
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Adore cats, will be the first thing I get sorted when/if I get my own place 🙂
Actually have a cat at the moment but she lives with my parents as finding rented flats that allow and are suitable for them is very hard. She's 19 now and was 2 when I got her as a pair of rescues after having a long succession of Pedigree Colourpoints.
Pedigrees don't live anywhere near as long as moggies. Our oldest pedigree was 10, our youngest went at 7 but he was a show/breeding quality one who we let roam outdoors. The face of the breeder when I said he'd be allowed out in the fields was hilarious 8)
Don't get hung up on boy/girl though, every cat is different. Go see a breeder/rescue place and you'll know which cat to get as they'll choose you.
TurnerGuy - I hate you, he's amazing 😀
Definitely always supervise a pet around infant and small children. We always did.
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If you have small children be aware of the cat attacking them.My neice still has a faint scar below her eye when the cat attacked her in her cot.
I wouldn't risk it.
Balancing the above though, ours used to stand guard over ours when they were babies. If a visitor approached baby in his/her seat, he would march up and down in front of them. If another cat entered the garden when they were playing - woe betide that cat.
He was very affectionate and not at all aloof. He was specially loving and very, very patient with the children.
turnerguy. I am very jealous!
Try fostering first. You'll get to experience different cat types and not have any big responsibilities (like bills). Also, you can take tham back when you want to go away for a month.
Two cats (that get on ok together) will be happy enough indoors.
Think long and hard about it. They are easier to keep than dogs, but still take some looking after.
We had a rescue cat previously that died about four years ago. We think she was poisoned.
We currently have 2 cats and once they have popped their clogs I don't think we'll have any more.
One is quite timid and needy, jumps on your lap at every opportunity which would be fine apart from the fact she seems to struggle retracting her claws completely so every bit of clothing she settles on ends up snagged and pulled.
She has also scratched up the furniture and attacks the carpet on the stairs to the point that we regularly have to clear up balls of shredded carpet material from the stairs.
The other is a lot less bother, but is a rampant hunter. He brings in mice, birds of all shape and sizes up to large wood pigeon and his favourite prey are squirrels.
He brings them in dead and/or alive in various states of bloody mess.
We used to have a garden teeming with wildlife but not a lot dares to enter any more.
A house isn't a home without a cat.
From getting these two it now takes 4 times longer to make the bed ( and there's generally at least one cat in it at the end ) but it is much more fun.
We got a pair of rescue kittens from the local Blue Cross, brilliant family members...
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[b]No[/b],don't get a cat.
You have some history on here of being cruel to cats and cat owners.
I can't be arsed to dig back through all your posts, but unless it was made up, you know exactly what I mean.
Yes, cats are cool.
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BSHB here.
Another standard STW Issue British Blue, in answer to the OP's question it's a yes.
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Most of this will ring true for the Cat aficionado's here.
(5 and counting...)
More British Blue love in, we have four now!
(Bought two kittens and then last year was asked if we could "help" rehome another two.
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Very good natured and chilled cats!
CHB - how have your British Blues taken to having other cats moved in ?
The existing cats have been fine. We had a few weeks where they re-established boundaries, but now they broadly get along fine. The big fluffy one just sleeps on the bed all day and struts around like a drugged up Joanna Lumley. The other new one (sat on the cushion) is a bit nervous, but is an absolute gannet for food. He hates being picked up, but loves to sit on a lap! Higgins (emerging from suitcase) we got as a kitten from Claraby Cats and he is just a big bumbling oaf, but soft as anything.
Remember to get a cat carrier
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Here's a picture of one and one pretending to be a cat.
Cats are ace
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