The Cat Thread

There's just so much hair!!! She does sometimes look sleek, she loves being brushed. But yeah. The house is covered in hair.

Edit: just realised how defensive this sounds. Sorry! I'm a crazy cat lady!

Inquisitive neighbour cat.
Still would like a kitten, I know the right thing is to rescue (as suggested upthread).

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Definitely, cat or dog; met a brilliant West Highland Terrier earlier this week nearly as old as @>>>>>>

Sounds rude, how much time have you got for a cat.

How about a fiv cat.

She's cute isn't she ?

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Aww! Beautiful eyes!

They are.

Celeste is a greedy little cat, and although I am grateful she doesn't wake me up demanding to be fed, once I'm out of bed in the morning it's deafening MIAOW MIAOW MIAOW until she gets her wet food (she always has dry food out, but she wants what she wants), batting my legs as I walk and reaching a crescendo if I go in the kitchen. This is all repeated at 6pm when it's dinner time. Recently she's bitten me on the leg as I've either been opening the can in the kitchen or decanting the food into her bowl in the other room, and I'm really keen for her to stop biting me! Any suggestions? Water spray? Paint my legs with something foul tasting?

Jaffa will bite Nic to try to get her to feed him. He daren't do it to me. If he goes to bite me I just stare at him and don't react, he doesn't get what he wants if he bites me whereas Nic acts scared..

With a dog, the way to deal with that would be to immediately stop what you are doing, ignore the dog and not to give it what it wants. Act like it doesn't exist for ten minutes and then try again.

I'm fairly sure cats aren't dogs though.

Scared the shit out of me a few days ago, I was rummaging around in the cellar looking for the light switch. I’ve now got rid of the stair lift so won’t be happening again 😉

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Don't reinforce it. Let her do it but don't feed her. Or feed her at different times when she doesn't bite you.

It'll take a bit, but animals just re do whatever worked, when they try to communicate with us.
If that doesn't work or gets them something else they didn't want, they'll stop doing it.

I really hope so, it's quite annoying and she's not actually hungry as there's always dry food in her bowl. I think she's quite smart (I taught her to play fetch!) but my boyfriend maintains that she's not very bright, so we'll see if she can be trained.

Living his best life

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Those paws!!

Cuuuuutteee

I'm confident. It's basic instinct for them.

What a poser.

Today's vibe

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:heart:

Why have you cleared the garden? Where am I gonna hide to catch the birdy?

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Today's vibe

haha

What looks like an un-neutered male stray cat has been staking out the back garden for the last few days and having occasional fights with my cats.

Is there anything to do about this?

A yelp or show that it hurt can some times make them stop. Or a simple Oi! Then no food for 10 mins

Me, every day.

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