The Cat Thread

Was Patch a bit more lively today? Lucky her that you work from home!

Mine have been doing some comedy chasing and wrestling this evening. On my bed mainly. Thankfully they've worn themselves out now.

thanks for asking Miss Mouse, she has been a little more lively today yes, but still not her usual manic self... I have worked out she would only go out very early (between 5:30 to about 8) then stays home all day napping, and then out again between 5-6pm and come back for dinner at about 7 ish, so in total she is only really out for about 2 or 3 hours... I am starting to get a little worried, she hasn't touchd the little tray either, so I can only assume she has gone out for her toilet needs. I was thinking of locking her in for a day to see if she is going to the toilet normally... good / bad idea?

Do yours follow you around or do they sort themselves out most of the time with doing what they did tonight? I don't know what else to do with her, she seems so bored even with when I try to play with her...

And what is it with cats and beds? Do they not understand beds for for sleeping not playing?? Every single cat I have every known love a good chasing around on a bed... ???!!!

Has she been drinking water and eating normally, do you think? If she is still not herself tomorrow, I would get her seen by a vet. It could just be a small virus - better to have her looked at quickly.

She isn't eating as much but she does finish maybe 2/3 of her 85g pouch each meal plus maybe half a bowl of dry food throughout the day, as for drinking, I have no idea. She was sneezing quite a bit a couple of weeks ago and even then she was more active and ate more than she has been this last few days.

Time for a visit to your vet I think.

Sounds like change in temp cold or flu. Mine had something similar last time it came close to winter. Sneezing loads and runny poos too. Vet gave me some stomach settling food and a paste I had to feed her seemed to sort her out in a few days...

she spent about an hour this morning biting me feet in bed and then vanished her breakfast, and she drank a lot of water this morning. She is still not going out though... maybe I will give her another couple of days... are vets usually keen on giving quick advice over the phone? Don't really want to take her out unless it's necessary...

Try check if her poo is runny or not, that will tell you a little.

I call Celia hammond, they usually are quite helpful but most will still stay bring the pet in to see what is really wrong

Her poo is still solid but slightly soft, just paid visit to Celia Hammond on my way home, as some of you might know, I go to Goldsmiths, so it's handy. They said not to worry about it for now after I have told them my observation, they think she might have been bullied by one of the cats in the area and just feeling a little nervous hence not going out and as for the eating, this might be the normal amount she eats as she was eating more than she needed given her history being a stray. All seems make sense, so I guess I will just keep a close eye on her, coz if she is indeed a little anxious for whatever reason, last thing I want is to put her in a cage and take her out...

They also told me to speak to the rescue team to see if they will send someone down to have a look at the cats here as given the descriptions I gave them, they reckon these might be feral cats or ones that haven't been done, so they tried to bully my princess...

Better to keep her indoors for a while?

I will be working from home again this fri and weekend so will keep her inside and go out with her to keep an eye. If she is indeed bullied I don't know if there is much I can do, really...

No, there's nothing you can do really. When we moved house our cat was bullied during the day, so would stay inside during the day, then go out at night. After a few months he found a friend, and I think they've now become the bullies so he's settled down and gone back to his usual routine, with occasional going out at 3am, coming back in soaked after a hour outside in the drizzle and jumping into bed to dry off...lovely

I take it that's your bed you are talking about?? Lovely indeedy!! I am not comfortable to let her out at night as we also have resident foxes, one of them would sleep by my kitchen window during the winter months...

I have an idea, would getting a water pistol and start spraying those cats who have been allegedly bullying my princess be too mean?

#pellet gun

JOKE!

Years ago, I deterred an interloping cat that was bullying our previous kittens by setting the catflap to in-only, trapping it in a laundry basket, and giving it a very thorough soaking with a hose pipe. It avoided our garden for years afterwards. I would hesitate to do that on a very cold day though, especially with a long haired intruder.

My parents lodger (in Tooting Bec) once went a step further and trapped an invading cat in a duvet, walked up to Tooting Common and tossed it (just the cat, not the duvet) into the pond. It climbed out and sprinted off towards Streatham, directly away from its home next door. It took a couple of days to find its way back, during which there was some public "No, I haven't seen your cat" and private ohshitoshitwhathaveidone from Mark. A step too far.

Errrr......

now that's just wrong... maybe I will just stick to a water gun...

Years ago, I deterred an interloping cat that was bullying our previous kittens by setting the catflap to in-only, trapping it in a laundry basket, and giving it a very thorough soaking with a hose pipe. It avoided our garden for years afterwards. I would hesitate to do that on a very cold day though, especially with a long haired intruder.

My parents lodger (in Tooting Bec) once went a step further and trapped an invading cat in a duvet, walked up to Tooting Common and tossed it (just the cat, not the duvet) into the pond. It climbed out and sprinted off towards Streatham, directly away from its home next door. It took a couple of days to find its way back, during which there was some public "No, I haven't seen your cat" and private ohshitoshitwhathaveidone from Mark. A step too far.

your parents' lodger sounds like a c*nt

i wonder what would happen if your parents lodger did a similar thing to your neighbours kid !!

yes, that wasn't his finest hour.

Maybe I am missing sth here, what did that cat do to Mark exactly??

Come in the house and bully local cats. He was certainly wrong to do what he did, I think it was the angry response of someone who felt protective towards those who were threatened. Not that that justifies it, but it goes some way towards explaining why an otherwise reasonable person would do such a thing.

fair enough...

Funnily enough we dont get any intruding strange cats through our cat flap. I cant think why.......

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