Popular Post Phil Parker Posted July 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 20 minutes ago, Hobby said: However I think we should get back to cat piccies, much more pleasent! Very true. Here is a picture of next doors cat. 21 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 On 03/07/2021 at 21:37, Trog said: Have just had a baby Blackbird removed from its nest in my log store and killed by a cat presumably belonging to one of my neighbours. Why people are allowed to just let such vicious and destructive vermin roam free is beyond me. Daughter is walking her extremely nice well behaved dog, a Shiba Inu when she spots three large black cats dozing in the hedge bottom. Dog walking on the kerb side, carries on totally ignoring the felines when a small tabby leaps out and rips a chunk out of his nose. Dog is too shocked by a face full of blood to respond. Tiny tabby is driven off by a swinging size 4 and the dozy threesome don't bat an eyelid because it probably happens all the time. An alternative return route was selected and fortunately the nose didn't need a trip to the vet. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Over the years we have been involved with around twenty cats. Only four have been hunters. The first, Sphinx, confined her activities to the annual harvest time when, for three or four days, we would come down each morning to find a dozen or so field mice neatly lined up on the kitchen hearth. This continued for five years until we moved house. Guinness was a prolific hunter until, aged two, she grew out of it. Her party piece was to bring live presents to my wife whilst she was in the bath. Blackbirds, sparrows, rats, the bigger the better. Her fur made her look much fatter than she really was and she was lighting quick over five metres. She was an essential part of Darwin's selection of the fittest, eliminating the most stupid of birds and rodents. Misto was only a generation removed from farm cat. He would happily spend several hours in the long grass in all weather's waiting for the mouse to come out. We usually had to deal with three or four each day and I fabricated a box to catch them in. When Teaser arrived he took her under his wing and they worked as a pair laying about three metres apart on what they had identified as a rodent super highway. Sadly we lost him to an aggressive tumour but Teaser had learned. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 10 hours ago, Andy Hayter said: One of ours has taken out a magpie on more than one occasion That poor magpie must be getting sick of it. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 58 minutes ago, Phil Parker said: Very true. Here is a picture of next doors cat. At least he's wearing a hi-vis fur jacket when he goes lineside. I hope he's reported that rockfall that's blocking the line. One of our previous cats was nicknamed Obstruction Danger because he wore Six Bells to warn our feathered friends. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted July 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2021 38 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said: That poor magpie must be getting sick of it. Not as sick as we are of finding part devoured magpie in the kitchen! 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 We don't have many songbirds around, the lack of insects due to insecticides not to mention jays and magpies, has seen to that. Toto does bring in the occasional rat and, rarely, a mouse but, although he seems to enjoy hunting, it's a rare pleasure for him. Personally I regret the disappearance of song birds, they kept slugs and snails down, but while we were without a cat the population of rats rocketed which was truly nasty. The way to encourage songbirds is to discourage the use of insecticides although, in truth, a cat flea specific insecticide would be a great help too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted July 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) deleted Edited July 5, 2021 by J. S. Bach to do a minor edit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TheEngineShed Posted July 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 Lizzy Kitty thinking she likes the "shelfie" box. Going to have to break this habit.... 19 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Craigw Posted July 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 6, 2021 I like to keep my cats arranged tidily. Regards, Craig W 14 2 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 On 04/07/2021 at 20:13, Butler Henderson said: Their is a line of thought that cats should be not be neutered immediately and allowed a litter, that way they will evolve over time and the need to hunt diminished. I don't think that would work. My MaineCoons, Badger and Tilly, came from a long line of cats who, being kept for breeding, never had to hunt for anything. I doubt if their parents, grandparents great grandparents, great great grandparent etc ever saw a mouse or rat and they certainly weren't bread for vermin control. However Badger and Tilly reverted to the ways of their remote ancestors in Maine the moment they got the chance. They celebrated New Year 2011 by dumping a dead rat on my doorstep when they were 9 months old! 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted July 6, 2021 Author Share Posted July 6, 2021 I suspect that hunting may well be hard wired in their DNA. One or two of ours hunt occasionally, but on the whole don't bring things in the house. Cookie our male ginger cat was sat in the garden watching the Red Kites when one swooped down dambusters style and picked up a bit of bread left out by the wife. He got already to pounce, but thought better of it when he saw the size of the thing! 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) Our cat, inherited from my parents and now eight years old, was a rescue cat - we believe she had been maltreated as a kitten. She's very nervous and appears to have no hunting instinct at all - the other day she sat on the back door step idly watching a jackdaw hopping around right under her nose. The jackdaw seemed to have no sense of peril either. I suspect she was separated from her mother at a very early age, before she's been taught to hunt or had any play-hunting with her siblings. Edited July 6, 2021 by Compound2632 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Sidecar Racer Posted July 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 6, 2021 9 hours ago, Craigw said: I like to keep my cats arranged tidily. Regards, Craig W Thats the starter unit . Next stage is this . 6 1 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted July 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 7, 2021 Nicola has decided she does like the bed after all 23 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Craigw Posted July 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 7, 2021 22 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said: Thats the starter unit . Next stage is this . I have 9 cats, I could give it a go! 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2021 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/738765.Cat_Is_Sleepy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted July 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2021 On 06/07/2021 at 07:11, Sidecar Racer said: Thats the starter unit . Next stage is this . Hmmm, that proves that one can herd cats! I also wonder just how long it took to set that photo up. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Cat nip in each box! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted July 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2021 48 minutes ago, Hobby said: Cat nip in each box! Probably not, the cats appear to be too relaxed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 One length of Hornby short straight in each cubby-hole should do the trick! C6T. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Oliver ( please can I have some more). We haven't seen him for a couple of days but he is looking unusually smart. I am beginning to think that hie might have another human who works silly shifts or even works away leaving him an open cat flap and a bowl of dry biscuits. Not a great photo but he likes at least a full metre of personal space. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 52 minutes ago, doilum said: Not a great photo but he likes at least a full metre of personal space. Well he can't wear a mask while he's eating so he's social distancing. He probably missed the PM's broadcast the other day. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Adrian Stevenson Posted July 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 7, 2021 Tonight Patch is cuddled up to me laying on the Sofa. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 (edited) Some archive pictures of old Misty. This is him indulging in his favorite occupation of scoffing Honeys dinner: This is him indulging his second favorite occupation: Edited April 12, 2022 by eastglosmog Restore photos 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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