The Cat Thread

These two little things arrived at our flat about two weeks ago.. My wife and my son found them from a lady in Haringey who's cat had a litter..
Winston and Nelson, a girl and a boy..
Very sweet, energetic and often sleepy.

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Now why aren't there more comments about this? There is a level of hypocrisy that is astounding.

Personally I know you never own a cat and it will do what it wants.

The "owners" are cool with it. They've got a small child and a hyper dog so I think it suits the cat better to be next door where it's calmer. My friends don't mind as the cat is super chill and gets on with their cat okay.

It is a cat, you never own a cat. You are just it's staff.

staff? More like slave...

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I love you Patch, however evil you actually are in your little mind!!

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i have no problem with my cat hanging around with other human slaves - i just get a bit irritated if/when they feed him.

In our old flat our next door neighbour's cat used to come hang out with us all the time. I wouldn't let him in the flat though or feed him. Garden hang outs allowed only as much as he tried to sneak in the back door whenever we had mistakenly left it open.

Sadly in our new place I have no garden cats to hang out with. There's one who runs across our back wall every now and then. One day we will be friends, one day.

Does she have any more? Ive just had to say goodbye to lovely Meo - and his bro Bertie looks lost. I'm in E Finchley.

I've 'owned' a couple of cats that would hang out with neighbours. The neighbours were open about that and everything was cool. They weren't fed, or kept in, which in my eyes, makes all the difference, as the cats happily came back home at night. Not disappearing for days on end, with the neighbours blatantly telling fibs about not having seen them.

There were four in the litter but I'm afraid the other two have already been allocated their human servants..

Just spoted a skin tag bump thing on Patch's lip, should I be worried? Or wait and see if it'd go away on its own? No idea how long it's been there...

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A cat

Oh hey

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Allow hiking in Canada...

Someone posted it on Reddit and there's loads of creepy stories in the thread about people in the US and Canada being followed by mountain lions in the woods while walking.

Also, in some places, it's not uncommon for there to be one hanging around preschools.

This is why we bred little ones to keep as pets. They get kind of scary at dog-size.

When I lived in whistler, walking through the few hundred metres of forest path to get to my front door was the scariest thing I have ever done. Worse in the summer when the bears were there too.

My canadian housemate mentioned that they are probably always around and pretty much if they allow you to see them, they have already decided you might be next. when my cat is in silly mode and digs her claws in it's fucking painful, cannot even imagine trying to escape one of those.

Don't think I wore earphones outside for an entire year.

Haha! Fuck that.

The photo up there is actually from whistler. I'll try and dig up the article but the Tl;dr is that it charged at a couple's dog and they waved their arms in the air to make it back up. It follows them for a bit and then two mountain bikers with their dog running ahead startled it up a tree.

As you say, the General wisdom seems to be that you may never see one when out hiking but they've certainly seen you.

Worst thing is to run away, they go in to ball-of-string mode and just can't help themselves. They won't mess with a fully grown human that stares them down, usually.

One recently stole a Koala bear from L.A zoo.

One recently stole a Koala bear from L.A zoo.

i have a vision of a mountain lion keeping a koala as a pet now.

Stole? It took it to eat presumably, it doesn't really have a concept of possession.

Link to the Canada sighting:
http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/cougar-encounter-prompts-warning-from-conservation-officer-service/Content?oid=2755421

and the Hollywood zoo incident...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/11/mountain-lion-kills-koala-in-hollywood

twas a warm day

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Thanks bb - Bertie, the surviving mogster, has discovered that being the only cat in the flat has its advantages and is now king of the heap (of 1) and loving it. Crisis over!

Yeah, was whistler, it was doing the rounds on my mates facebook. it's why it's good to have a (big) dog when you go hiking. normally enough to scare them away.

There were always sightings around some of the cross country ski tracks so I never went. The last thing i wanted was to be strapped into some skis on flat ground with one of those coming at me!