Cats

[Wulfruna]

Anyone down south willing to cat-mind 2 persians for approx a month?

Did you get any response Gill? - I think we rather lost this request in amongst all the stories....

[Bunnylump]

Sorry Gill, I would offer but OH only just suffers the one we've got (grumpy old so and so).

[MBH]

I can't belive you're cat is Grumpy

[giraffe]

You should get 6 more cats, they'd be easy to name.

[LAT]

I can't belive you're cat is Grumpy

Yes I wondered about that.

Like the idea of seven cats Giraffe. I think we have Dopey here.

[Bunnylump]

Yes, both cat AND OH are grumpy old sods. Cat, however, is just starting to forgive me for having left her for a week (I got the silent treatment yesterday, back turned, the lot). Mind you we confused her today by getting 2 new sofas delivered and having to put the old ones (temporarily) in the back garden. I've been sitting on a sofa on the back lawn reading my book with a completely freaked out cat. I don't think the neighbours are that impressed either.

[eirian]

I've been sitting on a sofa on the back lawn reading my book with a completely freaked out cat. I don't think the neighbours are that impressed either.

now that sounds perfect (the sitting on the sofa on the back lawn reading, not the freaked out cat!), pity the weather has turned today.
I'm impressed, even if the neighbours aren't! Mind you, its worrying about what the neighbours think that stops me spending more time in the garden - I say garden, more a sort of area of overgrown grass with piles of building work residue, surrounded by out of control bushes!

[Bunnylump]

We do now have a tidy front garden at last (remember I was digging, a while back?). We took down a cherry tree which was just about to uproot our house and a wall with a dangerous crack in it. We've gone all "green" (I'm keen on environmental issues and passionately hate concrete or block paved front gardens, which IMHO are one of the main causes of flooding issues) and re used the wall, as hardcore, then put a layer of sand, then reinforcing stuff, finally the sifted mud and grass seed. The idea is that once the grass has grown we can park on it and it'll look slightly like a lawn.

Stupid thing is (and this is where I refer back to the thread, just in case Scurra is getting crotchety) that when we were at the SAND stage, all the local cats thought we'd made them a lovely big litter tray. Now that it's all finished, one determined cat (don't know if it was ours or someone else's) has gone to the trouble of scooping out the mud (and grass seed) from one of the cells in the reinforcing, pooed in it, and replaced the soil!!! I call that true dedication!!

[eirian]

yep, that happened when we were getting our extension built - they'd put the sand down as the base for the concrete, spent ages flattening it carefully before leaving it overnight. At which point all the cats of the neighbourhood decided to try out the new litter tray. Poor builder had to spend the following morning flattening it out again, avoiding all the poo....

[Bunnylump]

My son is home, and is trying to play the piano (he's working out the tune to Christmas Lights by ear). The trouble is that my cat is so impressed that he's come home that she wants his attention. She's been walking up and down the piano keys, playing the piano with him!! WHAT a racket!!

[MBH]

LOL - Love it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKLL1ajxlY

Or:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTqZLK2N ... re=related

[giraffe]

He has really weirdly long fingers. Like watching ET play the piano. Gave me the creeps.

[SparkOut]

He has really weirdly long fingers. Like watching ET play the piano. Gave me the creeps.

Or he's got a crayfish sticking out of each sleeve.

[Bunnylump]

Like you do...

[Bunnylump]

My son has fingers like that. Weird. Mind you, his Dad has webbed fingers so he's odd too...

[dramaticat]

Apparently my cat has been sitting under my desk all the time I've been in hospital.

But when I came home last night, he was scared of my cast and my crutches. Neither of us are very happy at the moment.

[tricia]

When did you fall

Hope you are not feeling too sore - very soon your cat might use the crutches as a scratching post

Tricia

[dramaticat]

On Friday. Half an hour sitting on the snow until the ambulance came, and then 7 hours at the hospital with a wet bum. Not recommended

[Bunnylump]

Just been round to feed my Mum's cat (who's living still in her house). Stupid cat had got himself locked in the bathroom, and instead of opening the door, he'd dug up all the carpet, thus totally jamming the door. I could hear a pitiful miaowing as I opened the front door, I then had to force the bathroom door open, clear up all the POO and re-lay the shredded carpet. I REALLY must send my sensible cat round to give him
a) Door opening lessons
b) Going outside to do his business lessons

[tricia]

poor cat

tricia