The Cat Thread

wtf

Want one. As a pet. Not waaaant one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27507950

ha!

such longth!

Who's this little cutie?

Sorry I have to say this, it does look a bit like a mouse...

Is it a cat or a doorstop?

New avatar sorted. Ta.

Sorry I have to say this, it does look a bit like a mouse...

Hamster?

Hamster?

Richard Gere?

Fabric is having his dental surgery today. The little bastard is conducting a campaign of civil disobedience because he hasn't been fed since yesterday.

House plants being tipped...clawing at furniture for attention. If he wasn't off to have some teeth pulled out later I'd be angry with him.

poor Fabric.

Little shit!

Expensive little shit.

I'm going to get him a little cart so he can go out and do some removals and bring some fucking money into the household.

This is Peggy feeling sorry for herself after falling in the bath

Here she is in a happier mood, relaxing away from teh pesky humans

my norwegian has "upped his game" in the past week. ha managed to get his collar off in next door's garden, within 24 hours he'd taken advantage of the lack of bells around his neck and left the remains of a squirrel in the hall.

this morning i woke up to the remains of a parakeet (green feathers is a confusing thing to find strewn throughout your house when you wake up) and a frog.

i'm a bit grossed out. but also a bit proud.

Death to parakeets, fucking things wake me up at 5am every morning. Well done cat!

Still at a bit of a loss as to what I should do about James.

I'm also wondering whether I am anthropomorphising the little fleabag.

The fundamental problem is that Mr Barry, the neighbour, lets James in - but I can't stop him doing that.

This is compounded by James preferring a house with no other cats in it - and I'm unwilling to get rid of Tesla and Higgs (and the kittens, but they're in a box).

Currently I pay for James' insurance, his food, flea treatment and worming, and see him as he shoots in through the cat-flap, eats, and then shoots back out of the cat flap.

Mr Barry, who insists he doesn't feed James, therefore pays for nothing but gets the benefit of his company almost all day every day.

Now I don't want to make James unhappy, and he is clearly happier at Mr Barry's than he is at mine.

What can I do to increase the appeal of being "my" cat, or should I come to terms with this, and ask Mr Barry to start paying the pet insurance and food bill?

Lock the cat flap

Currently we have a neighbour cat who does exactly what James do, shoots in, eat, and then shoot back out of the cat flap.

Way I see it, this Barry chap have a choice, either accept James as his own and start paying for his insurance, medical etc. or simply stop letting James in.