Are cats sickly little beasts?

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Drago

Legendary Member
Im a cat lover, had 6 since I left the Army.

Three died at a ripe old age, one got run over, the remaining 2 (Lois Griffin and Tibbles) are now 12 and 14.

None have needed treatment for any illness or injury.

All my cats have either been unwanted pets about to become homeless, or rescue cats. All but one have been girls, as girl cats are generally more affectionate.
 
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Poacher

Gravitationally challenged member
Location
Nottingham
@Accy cyclist, I hope Zeus comes home soon, and has a good excuse for not telling you he'd be gone for a while! Looking forward to your report (hopefully soon) that he is home again and has offered you his apologies for worrying you. He's a gorgeous boy. Keep us posted.
I was hoping we'd have heard, @Accy, that Zeus would have come home by now, or at least written you a letter to let you know that he would be staying out just a little bit longer. Keep us posted, we will all be glad to know when he has returned. 🐱👍
We’re still rooting for him, @Accy, remember, by nature our boys are extremely resourceful. Not to mention lovable. But hopefully he’s just exploring, and chilling. He knows where home is, he has ventured far and wide and safely returned before.
😃👍🏻
Come on now, Zeus, daddy is getting nervous and wants you home.
Don't quite know how to break this to you @kayakerles , but Accy doesn't have a cat.
He's a grade 1 WUM who is copying Barbara Rishton's posts from his local facebook group, and deriving much amusement from your responses.
Don't give him the pleasure.
 

Saluki

World class procrastinator
One of my colleagues adopted 2 street cats from Egypt. Flown in by some cat charity or other. This was 18 months ago. The first 6 months they were in the vets pretty much every week. The male cat was PTS then, she still has the female who has ultra specialised food, forever at the vets with everything from gingivitis to some enzyme disorder of the stomach. She is up to around £10k if spending now.

I have had mogs in the past, free to good home ones from various farms. Never had all this paying out.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
I never had furry friends growing up, except for a parakeet. Okay, technically that was a feathered friend. 25 years ago I got a taste of living with cat. Now we're married and we have shared our various abodes with between 1 - 3 kitties ever since. Such a silly thread, “Are cats sickly little beasts?” Except that I knew I'd get to hear stories from other fellow cat-people, and meet some new vibrissae-ed faces.

Don’t care for cats? Don’t bring them into your life. Same for dogs or other people for that matter. We’re all free to choose. All of our kitties have been rescues. They've all brought more to our lives than anything money could buy. 👍🏻

For those of you other owned-by-kitties folk (you know who you are) here's our two older buddies… Benny, 14 yrs old…

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Charlie, 17 years old…

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Sadly he's still missing.:sad:

**STILL MISSING**
Last seen Lynfield Road, Great Harwood, 13th August 2021.
It's been 2 weeks since I last saw my boy Zeus
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I want to thank everyone who has messaged me with possible sightings of him.
My other fur-baby Athena crossed over the Rainbow bridge earlier this year, heart failure
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Her ashes are on my fire place where she loved to lie.
I've lost family and friends over the last couple of years and
I cannot take anymore loss
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I just need to know what has happened to my boy.
I am putting up a few posters in the area today, hopefully someone will be feeding him and realise he already has a home
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cyberknight

As long as I breathe, I attack.
our cat bought a mouse in nearly a week ago , we now have 5 traps and rodent poison around the house and the bloody thing is still about.Found out its eating the bait off the trap ( non poisonous ) and its not setting off the trap :sad: .
Getting pissed off now as some areas smell like wee , boxed the mouse in an area last night and sealed the gaps so it couldnt get out and apparently the cat got in and got it out but didnt kill it so its now behind the display cabinet .
TBH about had enough of the cat as much as we love it we have had enough of this all the time
 
our cat bought a mouse in nearly a week ago ...we have had enough of this all the time
I presume the cat can come and go freely eg cat door or similar? I used to have this problem until I limited where the cat could enter and what it could access, once it entered the house - I changed her access point to a small window in what had been a built-on afterthought downstairs lavatory, and set it up as 'her' space to enter if she wanted to come in 'independently'. I made sure there was no egress point for even the smallest rodent - if you can stick a pencil in, a mouse can get in - put in a preferred piece of fleece on a cushion in a big box for the cat, and some of her favourite food, and a couple of cardboard boxes of different sizes but far too small for the cat to get in (to persuade any rodent to go into a box as the safest retreat spot.
Apart from anything else, having to jump - albeit only a few feet, and onto a very wide windowledge - with a mouse, or bird, in the mouth, was more difficult than coming straight in through a cat door, and I often found bits of mouse on the path outside where the cat had clearly decided to eat what bits she fancied rather than struggle with carrying the takeaway and risking dropping it. So fewer mice were being brought in in the first place.
When she did succeed in bringing a mouse in, it was enclosed within the four walls of the lavatory and when I went to check on the cat and let her into the house 'proper', I could check for rodents with little to no risk of any entering the house as any the cat had brought in live would be hiding in or behind one of the cardboard boxes I had placed for that purpose.
It took a few weeks of vigilance and plenty of her favourite food served ONLY in her 'private entrance parlour' to get her to 'convert' reliably to using the 'lavatory entrance' rather than her standing outside the back door miaowing at her now-closed cat door, but it worked fine, except occasionally in high summer when the back door was left open in good weather - but that was never the 'busy season' for mice anyway; autumn was the busy season.
 
I don't own one. and I'm not a big fan of the species. I seem to have a large number of friends who spend vast amounts of money at the veterinary surgeon so that their unhealthy feline monsters they can continue to crap in secret corners. Seems rum to me.

It's a conspiracy: cats run the world and are siphoning currency to their massive bank accounts. Vets are complicit.

This is why cats disappear: they're spending the money.

It's also why they always look so smug.
 

cyberknight

As long as I breathe, I attack.
I presume the cat can come and go freely eg cat door or similar? I used to have this problem until I limited where the cat could enter and what it could access, once it entered the house - I changed her access point to a small window in what had been a built-on afterthought downstairs lavatory, and set it up as 'her' space to enter if she wanted to come in 'independently'. I made sure there was no egress point for even the smallest rodent - if you can stick a pencil in, a mouse can get in - put in a preferred piece of fleece on a cushion in a big box for the cat, and some of her favourite food, and a couple of cardboard boxes of different sizes but far too small for the cat to get in (to persuade any rodent to go into a box as the safest retreat spot.
Apart from anything else, having to jump - albeit only a few feet, and onto a very wide windowledge - with a mouse, or bird, in the mouth, was more difficult than coming straight in through a cat door, and I often found bits of mouse on the path outside where the cat had clearly decided to eat what bits she fancied rather than struggle with carrying the takeaway and risking dropping it. So fewer mice were being brought in in the first place.
When she did succeed in bringing a mouse in, it was enclosed within the four walls of the lavatory and when I went to check on the cat and let her into the house 'proper', I could check for rodents with little to no risk of any entering the house as any the cat had brought in live would be hiding in or behind one of the cardboard boxes I had placed for that purpose.
It took a few weeks of vigilance and plenty of her favourite food served ONLY in her 'private entrance parlour' to get her to 'convert' reliably to using the 'lavatory entrance' rather than her standing outside the back door miaowing at her now-closed cat door, but it worked fine, except occasionally in high summer when the back door was left open in good weather - but that was never the 'busy season' for mice anyway; autumn was the busy season.
unfortunately the chip controlled cat flap is in the kitchen and due to lay out of the property and cost it cannot be changed
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
our cat bought a mouse in nearly a week ago , we now have 5 traps and rodent poison around the house and the bloody thing is still about.Found out its eating the bait off the trap ( non poisonous ) and its not setting off the trap :sad: .
Getting pissed off now as some areas smell like wee , boxed the mouse in an area last night and sealed the gaps so it couldnt get out and apparently the cat got in and got it out but didnt kill it so its now behind the display cabinet .
TBH about had enough of the cat as much as we love it we have had enough of this all the time

I cought ours bringing one in last night. Fortunately caught it and popped it outside with a saucer of water as it was in a bit of shock. These are house cats, but have a 'run' in the garden - poor mouse must have got in through the wire.
 

cyberknight

As long as I breathe, I attack.
Oh well that puts paid to that idea ... I suppose you could always restrict the times it's allowed out and back in, but knowing cats it will either try to blackmail you or try to leave home for what it thinks are greener pastures ...
its already known to partake at another house , we found out when we walked to the corner shop with the cat following us and a lady said it came into her house .
 
Location
London
I see that too (anyone seen this cat ?)
For chrissakes, they're quite capable of looking after themselves and bear allegiance to no-one .
Day after day In our local FB page, you'll see pictures of ungrateful cats and pleading messages from hapless 'owners'.
Was reminded of your "ungrateful cats" post today by this - here for your dossier:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58597174

The cat was apparently only two miles away.
Well cats wander a fair bit and are also, we are told by their fans, pretty damn clever.
Wouldn't one expect it to maybe have wandered a mile towards where it was found in its previous life, and a mile back towards its former home in its later life? And therefore have recognised something and been able to find its way back? If it had wanted to?
 

Mike_P

Guru
Location
Harrogate
Could depend what was in the two miles, say it had managed to cling onto a cars chassis originally and when it left it was on the other side of a watercourse.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
Thanks, Poacher, a weird way to be entertained. :addict:
That's quite untrue! I do not gain some kind of pleasure from such things at all! I'm an animal (no matter what type) lover and feel saddened that someone would think/say that about me. I posted the info' about Zeus in good faith, seeing as you asked me earlier to 'keep us updated'. Yes, i don't have a cat, but i've never said i did own one. I've waited quite a while to post this due to certain circumstances! i hope you accept my explanation of why i posted about Zeus!
By the way, Zeus was found safe and well about 3 weeks ago!!:okay:
 
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