Pets' Corner

This is Toby being an idiot

Sussing out the neighbours

Thanks Toni,. That’s such a shame that Daisy catches so much, I’m sure Toby would be the same if he had full run of the neighbourhood, another reason for fencing them in. We moved the bird feeder to the front garden, once he showed a taste for dunnocks and blue tits, so we have saved a lot of lives that way. We don’t have many rabbits round here thankfully, although one of my previous cats brought a few home in his time,

I used to have a huge long haired tabby called Daisy, but sadly she was one of those who fell victim to the road. She was beautiful. Her companion Mo got run over twice but survived both times, but we lost him to cancer aged 7. He was a ferocious hunter, even got a jackdaw in through two cat flaps once, and also brought a snipe home one night! In 30 years I’ve never even seen one round here, but he managed to catch one!

I see a robin!

Lovely Mike1 Is Vixen and indoor puss then? My daisy would catch them so I can't have a feeder 🤔

You'll know this pose...I call it 'flat cat' she was waiting to pounce on one of the kids in our old house.

Lovely! Just what you want a mouse for breakfast!

I was think that about your cage for my birds. 🤔

Happy belated 4th Birthday to Vixen.

I hope and am sure she loved her cooked Turkey 🙂

Ah good bless Vixen having good birthday. Of course I'm sure she knew it was her birthday. I did have some plastic mesh you know and I'm sure I can get some zip ties.

One of my neighbours is nurturing a slightly injured blackbird in her garden. He's eating well and his wife is visiting him too. Luckily for her she doesn't have cats!

Woken up to Daisy standing on me shrieking as soon as it got light this morning.......bless

A very late reply to Toni's comment - yes, we're opposite a river, but I've never seen a snipe in the neighbourhood, they're normally sea-shore or wetland wading birds.

Finding a cat-safe neighbourhood is always my first priority, but this road has got much busier since I got here. So I cat-proofed the garden, it cost a fortune and looks like a cross betwen Colditz and Whipsnade zoo (the chap who fitted it had done the lion enclosure at out local zoo!), but I'm soooo glad we did it - I know they're safe, it stops our idiot Toby from picking fights with every cat in the neighbourhood (despite him being a 5 pound weakling) and he would be slaughtering all the mice and birds on a daily basis. We now feed the birds in the front garden, where they're much safer, and any mice who are fool enough to enter the back garden and get caught and brought home by Toby are rescued and deposited in the front garden, where they can feast on all the seeds the sparrows drop from the feeder. He did bring a blue tit home the other day, so I grabbed him with blue tit in mouth, took him out, poked his mouth to make it open and the blue tit flew away out of his mouth!

Anyway, here's a picture of them socially distancing in the queue for the cat flap. Elsie is the ginger, Toby is the B&W. (The cushion is their step up to the cat flap, although Elsie often sleeps there to control Toby's shenanigans!)

She looks like the cat that got the cream!

Ooh, don’t give her sultanas or raisins! They can cause kidney problems in cats! I had a cat who liked sultanas (among many other odd things, including garlic mushrooms), and in my ignorance occasionally let her have one or two. I lost her to kidney failure, and while I’m not drawing a direct link in this case, as it’s very common in cats, there’s a small corner of me that can’t help wondering .... 😢. Chocolate is toxic to dogs, don’t know about cats, but I wouldn’t want to find out the hard way. My puss obviously had no idea what was good for her, cos garlic and onions are supposed to be bad for cats too. I loved her to the moon and back, and still do 20 years later 💔

Luckily most of my cats have only liked cat food apart from this one puss, although Toby goes into a feeding frenzy at the slightest whiff of ham!