The Cat Thread

Oi!

What s/he waiting for?? A whole roast chicken??

needs gif of it banging it's paws on the table

maybe even photoshop in a knife and fork

BAHAHAHAHAHA!

thanks for the LOLs, this is cheering me up immensely today :)
(I love the way it just slides unceremoniously down the bonnet, luckily the gap's big enough)

It meant to do that. That's why it's casually sitting and washing itself in the garage afterwards.

I can heartily recommend this, had it for about 18 months now and havent needed to change the batteries, its his everyday feeder as well. At first he was a little nervous of the noise it made but now he hears it whirring in the morning from upstairs and runs down from his bed and waits for breakfast. I have a cheap wireless ip cam on it, which has motion detection, so we can always check that he's eaten and is coming and going, when we're away. He is a good little hunter as well, and eats everything he catches.

Andrew James New Large 90 Meal / Day Automatic Pet Feeder / Bowl with Voice Recorder: Amazon.co.uk: Pet Supplies

I bought one of these a couple of weeks ago to save spending about 3 times as much on the cat sitters to come and feed our two over New Years when we are in NI. Got some really cheapo batteries (takes 4 x D cells) just to try it out and they're still going. Will stick some new duracells in there for when we actually go away. The only downside is that the dispenser is just a simple cylinder with a slot that rotates to pick up food and then dump it into the tray. If the level of food inside drops too low, it doesn't pick up as much on each cycle so the portion sizes are smaller. Not a problem if you keep it filled up though.

Currently set for 3 times a day but will probably do 4 while we are away so if the neighbour cat nicks one meal, there will be enough throughout the rest of the day.

You can also control the portion size (number of rotations of the cylinder) for each feeding.

Balls. I've lost my instructions and need to change the feeding cycle. The download link on the Andrew James site doesn't work for me. Anyone got one of these and fancies scanning the instructions?

BAHAHAHAHAHA!
This made me laugh several times this evening.

And still is now :)

If you cats want to go out 2 in the morning and wouldn't stop meowing and scratching the flap, and if this is not their routine, do consider letting them out. I have just learnt a smelly lesson never to ignore my cat when she begs to go out at unusual time... Pleas let this be a one off... I have decided going to the vet is stressful for both of us.

Balls. I've lost my instructions and need to change the feeding cycle. The download link on the Andrew James site doesn't work for me. Anyone got one of these and fancies scanning the instructions?

ha I'm trying to find mine at the moment as it threw a spaz and didnt feed the wolf for two days and I had to reset it, I have them somewhere - when I find them I'll scan them and send

Got an email last night from them with a PDF. Let me know if you want a copy.

I'm hoping that when I reset it it loses the very lame recording of me saying "DINNERZ" as a joke, not realising it would play three times at every feeding with no way of deleting it.

hahahaha

^ My, EEI has come on in leaps and bounds with his art lately.

RIP Colonel Meow

#fallensoldier

Woman throws out pet cat for ‘being gay’

http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/29/woman-throws-out-pet-cat-for-being-gay-4282096/

Hah! contradicted the law of nature.

^^^ Made all the more sad because clearly that cat is an absolute boss!

My friend's cat has been kidnapped before Christmas, I just found out today. She is a very very friendly cat and is used to people as there is a college campus directly opposite to her house, so students and staff are used to this little furry friend, she loves them too. She is used to roaming around all day long, very very smart... someone must have been very desperate for a cat... as she is about 16-17 years of age... sad time...

I don't wish this to be the case, but any chance she might have gone somewhere well hidden and spent her last hours?

theres a black kitten in the back yards currently that is so dark it acts almost like an event horizon, the only thing you can make out is the eyes the rest is soooo black it doesn't appear to have any features ... light just gets sucked into it's centre
hopefully will get a snap once i have abducted it !!
sooooo cute

like the monsters from take the block .... but in a nice way

RIP Colonel Meow

#fallensoldier

What an amazing looking moggy, he's like an ewok, so cute.

Sorry to hear he's gone.

I'm hoping that when I reset it it loses the very lame recording of me saying "DINNERZ" as a joke, not realising it would play three times at every feeding with no way of deleting it.

Just found the instructions and scanned them in before reading the above.
Ours has Mike saying 'Ah! Wolfenstein' (his normal greeting for the cat) very loudly.

The bromance continues

It's finally going out day for Ripley and Newt.

I'm a bit scared scared that they'll disappear and get lost. Part of me wants to keep them as indoor cats and never let them go. The other part of me wants to stop coming down in the morning to the smell of poo and for them to go and shit in someone else's garden.

How did it go? Did they come back? I was worried every time mine goes out for about 2 months then I decided if she likes here enough, which I think she does, she will always come back, and she always does! Now I think she likes the flat too much she has made herself an indoor cat... Maybe it's just the cold weather...

Not too bad. Newt was a bit overwhelmed by it so did a bit of mooching about and then ran back inside. Ripley freaked out a bit the first time and was looking very twitchy so we had a bit of an operation around the neighbours gardens to herd her back in. Second time she wandered off calmly and came back a while later for food.

Tonight we're going to spend some time posting Ripley through the cat flap so she gets the idea and then leave her to her own devices. Newt will probably require some more supervision as we've realised it would be easy for her to get into a place she can't get back from.