Pets' Corner

@Sh8ron He's just gorgeous! I love B&W boys, (I've had 3) and rescue cats are just the best. He sounds like a lovely character. Well done you having an older cat too. They have so much to give. I ended up with two aged 8 and 10, and the 10 year old outlived all my other cats, making it to 17. The younger ones succumbed variously to road accidents and cancer. The two I have now are wrapped in cotton wool - it's hard not to get overprotective when you go through it so often.

Looking forward to hearing more about the wonderful Boris!

@Sh8ron he is saying hello!! cats are very very clever. Mine holds quite lengthy 'conversations' with me bless her🙂

He looks a really lovely puss is he quite big?

My puss willl go out in rain, but can usually avoid it and if she gets caught out comes back in running shrieking at the top of her voice 🤗

I can see Boris is a big boy and must be a great distraction and comfort as is my puss. Those tails can do a bit of damage!

You too have a good day Sharon take care 

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This one had just spotted Elsie, my other puss, but she wasn’t brave enough to say hello

@frogmorton They do, they were taking turns at sniffing the tips of my fingers through the fence, they're so sweet. There's one ram in with a small group of ewes, but not all of the ladies have yellow bums yet (he has a big patch of yellow dye on his chest so they can tell when he's done what's required of him), so he needs to up his game a bit!

Most of my cats have been very curious about the sheep, and it seems to be mutual. They used to put cows in the field years ago, and it was just the same then. The cow's nose was bigger than the cat's head! Before I "Colditzed" the garden, the cats were quite happy wandering around with the sheep in the field.

I used to have just chicken wire on the metal post and rail fence to stop the livestock eating my garden, and at that time I had one very bold cat, Mo, who used to like nose touching with the sheep. He also used to follow me from house to house, so when I was in a neighbour's garden which didn't have chicken wire on their fence, he was nose touching with the tups as usual, and one of them decided to show him who was boss and head butted him down the garden!

Lillymary we have cows or sheep in the field next to us cows in the field behind....the one next to us is only that stuff the farmers use and my puss can get through no problem. So far 'no-one' has taken the slightest bit of notice of her thank goodness.😮

Do you have a sheep nut shed in your field? OUrs do and this year in the warm they used to play 'I'm the king of the castle' on top of it! The sheep not the cats😁

Stellabean my youngest's pusskin is a tuxedo cat. I must post a pic of her in her pyjamas if I can find one. So cute.

These are my previous two before Toby and Elsie, Lily (left) and Mitz (right), who had spent two years in an awful rescue centre together. They'd been with me around 4 days when I took this. They were sooooo relieved to be in a warm home again. I thought they'd have all sorts of emotional baggage, but they settled in and became wonderful funny loving cats from day 1. We realised Mitz was blind soon after we got him home, but he coped really well and had a happy life with us. They were 8 and 10 years old when we got them, but they were wonderful cats. Lily was the older one but despite so many health problems she lived longer than all my other pusses. We lost dear Mitz to cancer when he was 12, and Lily to multiple conditions when she was 17.

Mitz was such a huge cuddle munchkin. When I went into their enclosure in the rescue he put his big white paws out and asked to be picked up, and he snuggled into my neck. He stole my heart from that moment. When we realised he was blind there was no way I was sending him back.

Lily was such a shy thing in the rescue, and Mitz being blind didn't put on a performance for visitors, and they weren't exactly a matching pair (he was huge and she was tiny, and tuxedo cats are often last to get picked), which I guess is was why they got overlooked for so long, but look at her on day 2 in her new home! She was such a stoic little cat, she put up with an awful lot during her life, including awful arthritis. They were wonderful cats. I still miss them.

Well Meg seems to have cracked the housetraining BUT we have a HUGE problem with behavior problems. She has taken against the oven( it makes a squeeking noise if you move the shelves.) but you only have to open the door with the thing off to send her into a total panic and she tries to climb onto the window sill to jump through the glass. She panicked as she was let out into he garden the other day and leapt the wall she was found in a house the other side of the road a field away having gone through their cat fllap!!. We are going to get in touch with a specialist trainer. We have had dogs with behavior problems before and her reaction is similar to a Ridgeback we had but more extreme we have started her on Scullcap and valarian to help her a bit but it takes time to work.

Thanks Mike we are using the dog version someone has lent us I am going to get a new refill as we are not sure how old the one in it is.

@stellabean , that sounds so distressing for your poor dog. I do hope you can get her sorted. I’m a bit of a cat whisperer, but am clueless when it comes to dogs.

Thanks Mike - I will have to do that. Then I can catch her chomping !

@Sandy1964 Bailey and Benji look like really lovely boys🤗 Of course they make you smile even on bad days bless them. They made me smile and that was only a photo!🙂