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just put down plenty of dry food.
We could never do that as we had a dog too...he'd just eat it.
The cat could also open the fridge, have a nibble of a bit of cheese and leave it open for the dog...who'd eat everything.
Had to get one of those child locks on it.
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And poo isn't a problem - your own cat should bury its own
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Sorry. As you were.
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Our last cat ,Jack RIP.
Coming home to find that days' contributions to the household piled up on the dining room floor - 2 birds, 1 mouse, a nests' worth of mouse pups and a toad.
Bringing me a live (very) lizard at 8.30 on a Saturday evening just as I'd cracked open a beer.
Playing volleyball in the lounge with mouse pups and shrews.
Shredding leather sofas.
But beyond that, it's not a bad idea at all.
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awwwwwwwwwwww Stumpy look at her now bless x
They'll make short work of any wicker-based furniture too
you know this forum used to be a place you could come and ask questions about bikes, routes and technique. nowadays its just internet idiots posting weird pictures of cats with bad spelling on them.
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Binners - not a problem round our way. We have a 24hr wicker store!
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This is what you can expect.
hahaha I LOVE Simon's Cat I like the one with the fly when it trashes the room whilst he's asleep in the chair
Ignore the you can't leave them for a weekend. Get an auto feeder, two pockets with timer release. You can get really expensive 5 pocket ones too! Although much cheaper and less disruptive than a cattery.
I've left mine for four days over christmas and they were fine. They don't always travel well but I have had them over at the folks at Christmas before and they were fine!
Barring wicker stuff, is it easy to discourage furniture scrattling? The wee bagger had managed to pull up some carpet overnight as I guess he wanted out of the cat room into the rest of the house, where the good stuff happens.
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Sheeet. I have descended into the world of lolcats. There is no hope.
I should add that our cat was fine for two days with just food left out. However we wanted to be gone during the week as well (work) which meant that for the 18 months of that assignment we hardly ever went away at the weekends, because two nights int he week then anotehr two at the weekend wasn't fair on him. We had no catflap.
We go away for a week at a time with no worries, just put down a ginormous bowl of iams, an even bigger bowl of water and leave a window open. The food never runs out cos they prefer wildlife, preferably endangered.
I dont think the ungrateful brutes even notice we're gone.
They'll scratch anything! My Maine Coon even scratched a really rough leather suite from running across it with his claws out my wicker CD rack is wrecked down one side and she also has a go at the wood floors where its uneven (proper old floor rather than laminate)
You could try the water-pistol trick worked for my friend quick squirt if he went to scratch the sofa thing was he just waited till she was out of the room......
When we go away we give the neighbours a key and they pop round in the morning and evening to let em in or out and for feeding times, apparently if they don't come round on time the cats go round theirs to [i]Remind[/i] them
They ignore us for a day when we come back as well
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awwwwwwwwwwww Stumpy look at her now bless x
Looks can be deceiving - she can be a right pain in the butt....!
Cute though.
I should also add that our cat never scratched a thing in the house except to get our attention, and even then he only pricked the sofa a bit never causing damage. He scratched the crap out of the shed and fence posts though 🙂
It's a bad idea to have a cat in case you feel compelled to purchase a tank of helium.. and then inflate your cat like a balloon for tying to your wrist when you have to go into town to pick up your dry-cleaning and grab a few bits and bobs from the Co-op..
Old saying is. 'cats have servants, dogs have masters'
Tis true..
I don't think it is. I am mistrustful of that artificial stuff. And never buy Iams, it's like smack for cats, they go mental demanding tons of it from you and you have no choice but to give it to them, and then they get fat.
I guess it depends on the cat. With the one that's adopted me, I just fill up a hopper of iams every few weeks and it helps itself a bit if it's passing it. Though this time of year it seems to live mostly on baby rabbits and birds so takes even less than normal.
Cats are great - never regretting getting mine.
Best to have them from kittens though, and don't let them leave their mother too soon as she teaches them about litter trays and hunting.
Going away is a hassle, mine likes company so 1 night is about the most I will do, I have somebody coming over to feed her for any longer.
We took our cat to a cattery and the lady said that every Iams cat she had in was overweight, and every Purina cat was not...
don't let them leave their mother too soon as she teaches them about litter trays and hunting.
And how to clean themselves. One of our cats, Binky (short for Bianchi)'s nickname is stinky binky because he was a rescue cat, saved from a bag and a nearby river at a very young age.
Fleas, sick, dead animals, sick, garden now devoid of all birds that used to be there, feathers, sick, fights in the middle of the night....Pain in the ass
If you are going to feed it Dried food, I can thoroughly recommend leaving it plenty of water, we lost our old cat to kidney disease, it lived on dried food we thought it got enough water, but it might not of had enough.
This is mine.
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Called Archie,really nice with you for two minutes then randomly attacks you!
Oh,and dead birds around the garden are VERY commonplace.
Cats are ace. There's no down side. From time to time they may even allow you to feel like you're the one in charge in the relationship. Maybe. Not often though
Think you're confusing cats with women there...
he or she will break your heart when die 🙁
Great a cat thread, cats are the best pets by far, here's ours... (crap pics)
Vega
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Chilli
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Cats are the best pet. I have six of them in my life (not all stay with me!)
Yes they have a killed a bird each in the past but (mainly as they were magpies and they were ill afterwards) they don't bother with birds at all (i'm sat here typing this as a blackbird is hopping around the garden right near where one of the cats is lying)
The only downsides i've come across are the odd occasion when they get stuck in a tree and when they walk across your keyboard!
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These 2 are abut 3 months old now and getting big!
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Two of the above also play fetch with a ball of paper or foil, they run to fetch it, run back and drop it in my open hand 😀
They kill birds / wildlife needlessly and fill your neighbours garden with poo.
downsides to cats, i am looking at a fluffy ball looking very appealing, but a couple of days ago she let a bat loose in the spare bedroom, and two mice the week before.
She has in the past given me an bunny, not really what you want to find at the end of the bed on easter sunday. Countless voles & mice, a few rabbits, slow worms, lizards, toads, frogs, newts, worms, moths, a pigeon and a stoat.
Remember you never own a cat, you are merely their servant.
Our two
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I hate them - the cats and the neighbours who own them and let them out all day and night to trespass and crap in my garden and kill the birds
let them out all day and night to trespass
Have you thought of putting a sign up ?
cats can't read ... I doubt some of the neighbours can either. You need a sign to say keep out of your own property ??
cats can't read
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currently a servant to four cats!
but at least i don't need to bother with any giant house spiders - they don't last five minutes - yum yum!
She has in the past given me an bunny, not really what you want to find at the end of the bed on easter sunday. Countless voles & mice, a few rabbits, slow worms, lizards, toads, frogs, newts, worms, moths, a pigeon and a stoat.
So those bells you get for their collars are a waste of time (in terms of saving mammals/birds. Doubt a bell would be much warning for frog/worm/moth)?
The downsides to having a cat are: they sh1t all over your neighbours garden, they kill or maim birds in your neighbours garden and leave them there, they leave dirty paw prints on your neighbours car windscreen, they claw the top rails of your neighbours fence, they claw the bark off the ornamental trees in your neighbours garden, they scare all the wildlife away from your neighbours garden etc, etc, etc so no downsides for you if you don't get on with your neighbours but plenty to p1ss off your neighbours and cost them a lot of time and money, i dislike cats but dislike their owners more as no owner has ever cleaned up the mess or compensated for the damage these vile creatures cause