Mieow !

Ren
Your cats are so beautiful,we must take some piccies of ours and post them!CB was treated to a fleece blanket for HIS chair at my desk—-that was his 8th birthday pressie,hes fast asleep on it after having fed his face the others are asleep as well !What a nice life!

Originally posted by Guzzineil
thanks all for your advice!

I think Kenneth is right about decidign on one or the other… perhaps I’ll just carry on going over to see my nephews and making a fuss of their cat !!

Neil.

Oh just get one, you won’t regret it. They aren’t all natural born killers. 😀

or perhaps a stuffed Goat could be the answer.. either as a sustitute for the cat or to scare it off from chasing the birds..

so Snapper, where would one purchase such a thing??!!!:D

Drill holes in its ears and the wind will rush through them making small whistling noises.

Or maybe you’ll get adopted by a feline as it happens to pass by, mabe even a neighbours… Mentioned before but my brother had the neighbours cat give birth on his bed! He got one of the litter for his troubles, though.

Flood.

thanks all for your advice!

I think Kenneth is right about decidign on one or the other… perhaps I’ll just carry on going over to see my nephews and making a fuss of their cat !!

Neil.

You have to decide for (a) birdlife in the garten, or (b) a cat. The two options are not mutually compatible! Forget about keeping the cat indoors, if it wants to get out it’ll terrorize until you give up. They always have it their way. Giving it a collar with a bell is one of the more cruel things you can do to a cat; they have extremely sensitive ears which register a much wider frequency and amplitude range than the human ear.

Kenneth
(Cat Host – Appointed without prior consulation by a black moggy three years ago)

“I’ll settle for another ten minutes in bed”

“I hate birds I do, gimme a Yorkshire terrier anyday of the week”

Only one of mine gets out and it’s never brought a thing back. I’m convinced it thinks it’s a dog though as it growls a lot and likes to fight the neighbours terrier. My last female cat used to bring home birds all the time, not all of them dead either.

The one that goes out gets hassled by the local Magpie population though, so I suspect he’s gone right off the birds, if you pardon the expression. :rolleyes:

Forgot this one ————Charley brought me a seagull chick one night/early morning(02.00) this summer,wondered why he was bellowing beside the bed,put the light on and was horrified !!!!!As he is Mummys boy I had to go down the garden and drop it over next doors fence into the undergrowth!The worst thing was it pecked me-I dont think he went on the roof to get it from the nest think it was pushed out by its mother as a reject.Charley did get a telling off though!

I think the term you were looking for was slaves, staff, or servants…
My brothers ‘young lady’ doesn’t seem to kill things, instead likes to bring them in so that he can see that she has been able to catch live slow worms, chicks, frogs, dormice, etc.
My mothers menagerie (all male) have all had ‘that’ operation and as they get older seem more than happy to find sunbeams to lay asleep under or mug other neighbourhood moggies for their bits of dead wildlife. Occasionally they do bring things in but if you have a cat then that is the price for being allowed to share their home…
If you are really concerned about one particular area then you could buy a thing I saw at a pigeon-keepers house, which sends out directional ultrasonic waves which cats apparently don’t like, and position it to defend a particularly popular tree or hedgerow to give the wildlife a chance.
Personally I am not in favour of collars for cats after having experienced finding an elderly neighbours cat hanging, dead, by its anti-flea collar from a tree in another neighbours garden. If you are worried about identification then see your vet and get your little darling/devil microchipped.
If you want a catflap then position it to give access only to a conservatory – not the full house. There is very little worse than coming home to find the local tom has gotten in to your home and marked his territory – the smell will be difficult to shift and your cat/s (if they have had dealings with him) will not feel safe inside unless you are present. I believe the local tom in my area got a surprise when he got into a neighbours house and sprayed a hairdryer that was still plugged in! He is a bit more weary now…
Get the dry food – there is very little in this world than the smell of tinned cat food that has been festering in the heat, like we had this summer, and financially there is nothing worse than a two-for-one deal on a flavour that your cat liked yesterday but won’t even look at today.
Try to encourage your kitty to use the great outdoors instead of the litter tray – but you must keep the tray since you wouldn’t want to go out into a cold and stormy night any more than your cat!
Enjoy…

Flood.

Little girls in our opinion dont hunt or kill as much as little boys-our 2 youngest (14 months old )are TERRORS!They catch frogs, mice, and birds, though birding did stop when we fixed a cat alert bleeper to their collars-Henry lost his after 2 weeks its probably up a neighbours tree(and these cost 19.00 each!)They both have bells on as well —–as they get older theyseem to get out of the hunting habitand sleep more-the others have all been as bad when they were younger .
If you live on a busy road try and position the cat flap to the rear only as they will be wilful and cross the roads often just to chase other cats!
They may be naughty but w’ed not be without them and weve got 7!!