The Cat Thread

Colleague: This is how you can.... etc etc
Me: Sorry mate, can I call you back in a moment, my (annoying) cat has just brought in a (another) mouse. I need to go catch it.

Surely this make me the winner of this week’s WFH interruption contest?

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No matter what wet food I buy for James he licks the gravy/jelly off and leaves the meat/fish/ghastly reclaimed gristle and sphincter shapes behind until I eventually give up and throw them away.

Has anyone experienced this, and worked out how to persuade a cat to be less annoying?

This is exactly what my cat does, although more so in summer when she eats less.

I only give her half a small packet a day to save waste with dry food available all day - she is a grazer and doesn't gourge like some cats will.

I just wish they would sell packets of jelly TBH

Try mashing them right up?

One of my cats was like that for a while.

I've had reasonable success by hacking at the wet food with a pair of scissors so the solids and liquids are more mixed up and harder to separate

Doesn't work 100% as the little bastard always leaves some meat flakes behind, but gets the majority eaten

Yeah my cat was/is like this with most wet food, only ones we've found she'll actually eat are this Wilko's stuff and Tesco's "cat's choice" (which appears to live up to the name)

As others have suggested, mashing them up with a fork has helped, but she definitely isn't happy about it.

Two new additions for us, Farm next door found them in a barn, and they have dogs who aren’t too keen, so we have adopted

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Incredibly jealous! do they have names yet?

Currently called Kit (tabby) and Rosie (tortoiseshell) as names by our 4 year old...

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My cat does exactly this too with food in gravy (she won’t touch jelly). Most of the solid food goes in the bin, so now we just buy the packets of soup by Sheba, Purina or Felix. They still have solids in them but there’s a lot more gravy, which she loves. She always has kibble in her bowl as she’s not that much of a foodie cat and can be trusted not to over-eat. But yeah, we end up throwing stuff away each day. It’s annoying, but...

There’s also a yoghurt-like product called Lick-e-lix, which she loves too. That comes in tubes and is more of a treat.

They’re gorgeous. They’ll grow into fine-looking cats, I bet.

My mate Blue can be quite picky sometimes, only interested in jelly. We normally mash a few dreamies in when he's like that and it seems to work!

So they have been named ;)

Now you can see if two cats or one child cause more chaos.

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I need help. So the cat brough in a mouse over 10 days ago and it is still alive, but I can't reach it as it's hiding behind the cookers and washing machine and kitchen cupboard.

I have put down traps already but no luck. Just saw its tail, very much still alive. What can I do other than taking the kitchen apart, which isn't an option becaue I know I'd likely break something during the process.

You certainly can take the kitchen apart but I doubt it would help with getting the mouse:

Earlier neighbour one and neighbour two cats were in the living room with Barley. When they heard, neighbour one cat, Barley and neighbour two cat ‘flew’ down the stairs into the garden.

It seems likely that eventually either it will escape or the cat will assist in solving the problem.

I am actually very surprised it hasn't come out for a visit during the night yet and it's stayed in the same area the whole time... Not a single droppings in sight so I know it's not been out.

I am getting a bit concerned that it might chew through one of my pipes (washing machine or cookers etc)... other than that, I don't care it being there to be honest.

kitten found a home already?

I think you can be patient for a tad longer. When we moved in here I spied a mouse. I plugged the entrance holes to the flat (which I was aware of) and laid humane traps with peanut butter. Nothing for days. I renewed the peanut butter and put it back. One morning the trap had caught not one but two mice. That was it - no more since.

You know you only have one - so that's a bonus.

You'd hope it will get hungry and if you are not providing other sources of food (where's the cat fud at?) then the mouse will eventually find your bait.

No, you're not coming in. Piss off, this is not your house.

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Oh OK, have some dinner with us.....

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Has this been resolved?

Fanny the gipsy hill station cat getting me my cat fix.

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