Everyone should have at least one pet.

[longers]

Time for a torch and wellies....

Give her chance to get lost first, don't spoil her fun.

She'll be really happy to see you if you wait a while.

 

[Noodley]

Give her chance to get lost first, don't spoil her fun.

She'll be really happy to see you if you wait a while.

I know, but there's big bad cats and foxes and owls and stuff....she's my wee girl.

 

[longers]

I know exactly what you mean,

you big Jessie

 

[surfgurl]

It sounds like it is time for treats for all the animals in your house! My cats have now decided they no longer want to be IAM's cats and are tucking into cheapo tinned food like there is no tomorrow.

 

[Noodley]

I know exactly what you mean,

you big Jessie

I was the same when Rosie started going out, now I am very relaxed but it took me a while....the fact that I have 'had a word' with all the tractor drivers who race up the road helps, but sometimes they need a "reminder" (which involves me going out and swearing and threatening them but it works). I met a new tractor driver a couple of days ago and flagged him down - he said he had been told by his boss that I was a bit mad! But all of them have been great.

 

[ttcycle]

This is a great thread- don't have a photo to put up of my cat Eris - Noodley your post reminds me of a couple of weeks ago when she jumped out the top floor window and escaped without me knowing - was shouting for her in the street and found her cowering by the downstairs window sill - still a baby but thinks she owns the world.

 

[Noodley]

This is a great thread- don't have a photo to put up of my cat Eris - Noodley your post reminds me of a couple of weeks ago when she jumped out the top floor window and escaped without me knowing - was shouting for her in the street and found her cowering by the downstairs window sill - still a baby but thinks she owns the world.

It's really bad, they don't realise how much 'we' worry

 

[dav1d]

I have two pets, not exactly cats or dogs lol They're gerbils:
Sandy's actually bigger than her younger sister.

 

[longers]

It's really bad, they don't realise how much 'we' worry

indeed.

nine hundred and ninety times out of a thousand they'd be fine, but we/you are still out there in your/my dressing gown with a torch.

 

[Noodley]

I have two pets, not exactly cats or dogs lol They're gerbils:
Sandy's actually bigger than her younger sister.

My first memories of 'pets' are looking after the school gerbils at summer holiday - great pets!!

 

[longers]

not exactly cats or dogs lol

yes, not quite cats or dogs

are they friendly?

nocturnal? - scritching about now?

 

[dav1d]

yes, not quite cats or dogs

are they friendly?

nocturnal? - scritching about now?

Yeah, they're friendly. Although Sandy did use to bite. Her Dad was a pet store gerbil and bit everbody (except for me for some reason), maybe he was not looked after in the pet store (I don't know, but they did sell my sister a plastic cage and accessories which are not suitable for gerbils)? So Sandy took after her Dad. But she no longer bites. One of the gerbils my sister got died, so she got another one from Pets At Home, but they sexed it wrong, it was female, not male, so got pregnant twice (they're fast workers!) and that's how I ended up with my gerbils.

They're quiet at the moment, but they're often not, they sleep both during the day and night, at different times. They are awake most of the time though, digging their tunnels or gnawing wood.

I let them out for a run in the hallway often (only place in the flat with no nooks and crannies for them to get through), and Sandy once settled down next to me (I was lying down supervising them) and went to sleep. She's also developed the knack of climbing back into the cage (gerbilarium: part tank and part cage) when she wants to be put back in it or when she wants to get something from it (she'll often climb back out again when she's got what she wants and continue running about)!

Sometimes, they will both just climb up the cage bars for no reason other than they like to climb, it looks dangerous when they're upside down climbing across the cage roof!

 

[ttcycle]

Noodley -you sound like the classic anxious parent!

 

[wafflycat]

My pets? Three cats, four hens, three bicycles, one tricycle, husband & son.

 

[scots_lass]

Here is one of my cats - a real cutie! A 'Usual' Abysinnian.