The Cat Thread

Yeh, tell your neighbour to fuck off, that'll improve your life in so many ways.
What is best for James? Where would he go if the neighbour did not let him in? Painful though it may be to contemplate, if he is not happy sharing a home with other cats maybe you need to think about finding someone else to adopt him? Do you want his home to be somewhere you have forced him to tolerate or somewhere he really wants to be?

Gomez right now.

Dammit, I'd lend you the kitty cam but I know James doesn't 'do' collars.

I can see your dilemma, if you want James to be happy then you might have to let him go - I'd gladly have him, but I don't think the wolf would take to another ginger, let alone one a lot bigger than him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG_NB2cQnGU&feature=youtu.be

I started looking at this, thinking "I could move there, no one to steal my cats then"

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/33186792

Was it the street name that attracted you?

I spent way too much time in that place. His name is in homage to my poor taste in nightlife.

You know you are getting old when you have a cat named after your old favourite club.
A cat is acceptable.

Naming your children after favourite haunts/woodland animals/towns they were conceived in/dead rock stars, so not OK.

Currently we have a neighbour cat who does exactly what James do, shoots in, eat, and then shoot back out of the cat flap.

Way I see it, this Barry chap have a choice, either accept James as his own and start paying for his insurance, medical etc. or simply stop letting James in.

a James barrier

Owning a cat - good luck with that.

So cat wants to a single household cat yet you wonder why James wants to go else where. Cats go where ever they want/they define as their territory. If he is coming back for food does that indicate that he is not being fed?

This is an interesting discussion. Here is another side. I have a cat that comes in all the time. It is a neighbours cat and it forces it's way through the magnetic cat flap. He is very good friends with my cat, (they even have the same name).

I spoke to his owner and chased it out for years until I found out she had a Rottweiler. Because all he was doing was coming in, sitting at the top of the stairs quietly and then going after an hour.

He since comes in and eats all my Sam's expensive dental diet food. I am essentially feeding two cats. My cat is not the slightest bit bothered about him (unless he comes in my bedroom) although sometimes he does chase him out in play.

However for the past year or so I haven't chased him since I found out her husband has cancer and they might be moving away (we had a conversation about 'I'm not sure what to do about the cat'). She has at least one other cat too, who I do chase out all the time.

I'm getting a chip cat flap fitted this week once the front door has been repainted and I'm in a dilemma whether to let her cat in or not. He has been coming in for 7'years... And I spoke to her last year to let her know what I was doing and ask if he was chipped, and she seemed okay with it all. If she had asked me to chase him out all the time then I would. Sam too is her cat, not mine. I'm just concerned how distressed he would be after being locked out of here after all these years.

I also have a neighbour who admitted to feeding my Sam and I told her please not to because he has had cancer and is on a special diet (true). I know you think you are doing a good thing but then you don't have to listen to him vomiting or clear up all the cat sick or cover the vet bills/insurance.

Probably rambling too much here. Sorry. ;)

My Sam just now after being out and sniffing too many cars. All that grey stuff is dirt.

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I used to have a cat, at the flat, that I called step cat. The cat firstly came in through the front door and then would no go out till I caught him. Once caught, i would take him out and he came straight back in. Yeah I know, so went through the rigmarole again. Then he sat a the door, meowing and not letting me get past with out coming in to the foyer. Finally cheated and scoop and dropped him out the front door. This went on for a while. Occasionally he'd get in and I'd not notice till I was on the sofa and suddenly had a cat meow at me.

After a while, this quite bright cat figured out it could climb up the ivy of the house and get in to the flat via the open bathroom window. At that point I gave up. It came in through the window and meows to leave through the front door. Most I did was leave water out. What was I supposed to do?

At the unit I had a couple of cats, now one, that I am their entertainment, sleeping area. The other is a friends cat, that lives nearby, that loves me if the owners are out or the dog is home, then billy is around the finding somewhere comfy to sleep and or tool rearranging.

Jenga Cat - YouTube

My cat has been really going for it in regards to chomping a particular claw. Sometimes it seems to make herself jump and legs it into another room. I've had a look and can't see anything. Is this something anyone's seen before?

dammit can you infest james with fleas and send him round
or shaving foam round the mouth ?

I'm experimenting this evening by moving the armchair in front of the cat-flap.

James is currently asleep on the bed.

My cat has been really going for it in regards to chomping a particular claw. Sometimes it seems to make herself jump and legs it into another room. I've had a look and can't see anything. Is this something anyone's seen before?

I think you should take her to the vet.

Yep

My cat has been really going for it in regards to chomping a particular claw. Sometimes it seems to make herself jump and legs it into another room. I've had a look and can't see anything. Is this something anyone's seen before?

Just took one of ours in from exactly same symptoms. Overgrown nails were the problem. Happy as larry now.

Do you guys cut the nails at all? I cut them every 2 weeks. Saves my own skin more than anything else really!

I have never clipped any nails for any of my three, they do run around outside a lot, up trees etc.

I guess for outdoor cats they need their claws more than an indoor like mine. If indoor only I'd definitely suggest clipping the nails every once in a while...

goonz, does your cat not use a scratching post? Fortnightly does sound like a helluvalot!

What do you mean I have to eat those funny looking biscuits? I want your protein powder!!!