The Cat Thread

Basil might be a bit lonely, especially if neither of you are at home during the day. However, that doesn't mean he wants another cat for a friend. He just wants you at home more often.

Ours are a mother-daughter pair and don't always get along. On fact both of them seem more friendly with the neighbours cats than each other. Play in the house often escalates to fighting.

If you do it, definitely a kitten. It'll learn behaviour from Basil a lot quicker than another cat.

then we moved house and they bonded over a new territory and now they're best mates.

This is a good point - it will have worked because there was no territory in the new place already staked out, and they'll have needed to negotiate it between themselves. That's a lot easier than Cat #1 being the Lord of All He Surveys for n years and then suddenly there's a Cat #2 sitting in his favourite room and using his litter box and getting all the pats that were rightfully his. No wonder the poor little furry bastards get angry.

If Basil has access to outside when you're at work he probably doesn't care much about being left alone all day as he'll have cat things to be getting on with. But if he's an indoor cat or he only gets to go outside when you're home then he'd probably appreciate things in the house to climb over and jump off if you don't have much by way of cat entertainment - they like clambering up things more than they like pawing at stationary toys on the floor. Cat shelves with bits of carpet stuck to them and that sort of thing. Bonus is that if you do end up getting another one then with a good cat climbing system there'd be places for Basil to go and hide in while he comes to terms with what's happened.

You cat clambering stuff should look like this.

Or you could built a CAT-ST

OMFG I want that!

http://www.boredpanda.com/hobbit-cat-litter-box-sauron-scratch-tower-superfan-builds/

Video what your cat does all day. It will be eat, sleep and shit....

Or is it that you just want another cat.

@nesbit

ha, nice..

Latest vids are up on wolfiewatch.blogspot.co.uk
including pigeonicide.

some local feline in the process with his trademark 'air raid siren'

haha, just watched this over at the place where I'm cat-sitting at the moment, and the sound completely freaked out one of the cats living here!

I was playing the vid earlier with Wolfie on my lap,it totally confused him.ears up then ran into the next room to investigate.

I rub my scent on it so it's mine.

My cats have destroyed the Christmas tree at my mums house twice in the 3 days we've been here.

Strong work, cats. Keep destroyin'

Do they know it's christmas time at all......

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That's beyond awesome.

James had been spending loads of time around the house over Christmas, sleeping on the bed, lying in front of the fire etc.

Today his behaviour changed, like flicking a switch, and he's gone straight back to popping in for food and then running back out of the cat flap.

Have the people who are letting him in just come back from their Christmas break today?

If I get him a collar that has a tag on it saying "DO NOT LET ME INTO YOUR HOUSE IF I AM NOT YOUR CAT" would anyone pay attention to it?

How about a collar saying 'leave my fucking cat alone'?

Attach GPS watch and note 'I'm watching you.'

Definitely need a spy camera for James.

collar needs to say 'I will piss on your bed and destroy all your knick knacks'

That'd be useful, like those camera on bicycle, people think they won't get caught until they realised they've been filmed.

Agreed on the spy camera, ideally one with gps.

Project: hands off James.