The Cat Thread

Visitor to my workplace garden. Very friendly and with the hardest headbutts ever. Surely this must hurt the cat? Our two headbutt our faces when we are in bed and I often feel it must hurt them. This one was launching him/herself at my hands.

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It's a very lot of floof, for sure

Yeah I have a tiny sun, orbiting around my head. What of it?

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Best six quid I've ever spent!

Tiny scratch pad arm chair thing from Tiger, she's obsessed with it.

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Did they smear catnip on it ?

Ours won't touch scratch posts, prefers stair carpet ripping, or undersides of chairs.

Do you have a link for that, think that is just what terror monkey one would like.

MIA giving me build advise..

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Don't think they do online, it was from Flying Tiger I picked it up in the Lewisham shop

11pm trip to the emergency vet last night as Mogget seemed completely out of sorts. Not necessarily in pain but didn't want to walk anywhere or even eat dreamies. Were worried he might have been poisoned. Turns out he must have been in a fight with another cat and was in shock. Had tiny puncture marks and scratches in and around his ears that the vet could only find using a scope and by shaving some of the fur off.

Painkillers, anti-biotics and £220 later we took home a spaced out cat. Was back to normal this morning, if a bit tender around the head.

Cheers will have a peek, think I've seen a store in Wandsworth

Fleur has recently gone nuts for the smell of peanut butter. She’s never had human food and trying to keep it that way..

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Life is good

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Could've done without witnessing a furr ball barf the size of an owl pellet this lunch time, thanks Buzz.

https://twitter.com/NickDixonITV/status/964402804931534848

Larry the cat has a face off with Palmerston from the Foreign Office...

Cos a brexit in it.

Late night present time.
Swapped for some go-cat biscuits to distract cat who cant see flying mouse.

It was a goner.
cat has gone off again to find something else

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any one recommend a north london cat friendly vet?

am in haringey and Alley is a little out of sorts and want to get her checked out.

These guys were always good with ours:
Hill's Veterinary Practice Ltd 178 Park Rd, London N8 8JT 020 8340 5453
https://goo.gl/maps/QxhRJ7cmn6u

We are Leyton now so need a good vet around here..

Cheers dude.

Unfortunately missed this. Took her to canonbury and she's gonna be there overnight.

300 quid. Hope she's better. Hurts to see her sad.

Has anyone found a good solution to stop cats from scratching sofas? Ours has destroyed one chair and is on her way to the next. I've covered every corner in masking tape which stops her, but I can't see that as a permanent solution.

Get a better/more scratching posts.

Do they have access to the sofa when you're not there? If so, you'll probably find it pretty difficult if you haven't already managed to stop it.

Cat's will learn pretty quickly from positive punishment, ie a bop on the head or a spray with a water bottle whenever they exhibit the behaviour. The problem comes when they are unsupervised for long periods of time as they'll just learn to do it when you're not around...

I got my girl a decent scratching post and doused it in catnip. 5 years on and it's still going strong and the sofa remains unscathed. First thing she does when she comes in from the garden is go up to it and give it a few tugs, it's like a ritual for her.

Those cardboard scratch-beds are very popular: