It's Caturday- Post some cats (vol 3)

[anonymous-user]

ali_kat said:

You've seen the cat hating threads in here, right?

I think people over react and think they know what's best for them - not the animal, which is fairly sad for both parties IMO

[jmorgan]

Anyone have a clue as to how long for fur to wear off around the neck with a collar incorrectly fitted?

[Steve18]

Ace-T said:

I am looking at something like this



From these guys www.woodenart.org.uk

I used this ... http://protectapet.com/ ... fortunately the garden was completely enclosed with 6ft high fencing so it was a simple operation. It doesn't look like it should work but it does Both cats have run up the fence and then stopped at the 'barrier' and only once has a 'foreign' cat come in (SWMBO dealt with it at 3am - I was away )

[jmorgan]

Starting to leave her food, so far she has taken the surface off the bowl and never left any bits. Still feels like a skeleton under a tissue.


Edit. Pic deleted as there is an owner.

Edited by jmorgan on Thursday 8th September 19:31

[FGB]

jmorgan said:

Starting to leave her food, so far she has taken the surface off the bowl and never left any bits. Still feels like a skeleton under a tissue.
IMG_0324 by Jeff, on Flickr

Good job on the food. Are you also leaving her water?

[jmorgan]

Yep. Not touching it. Its out of shot, ours rarely touch theirs indoors. Probably using the bowl of water outside. I understand they can get a lot of moisture from food?

[FGB]

jmorgan said:

Yep. Not touching it. Its out of shot, ours rarely touch theirs indoors. Probably using the bowl of water outside. I understand they can get a lot of moisture from food?

Certainly from wet food. Not so much the dry stuff .

Keep up the Good work she should improve

[paintman]

^^^^
Ours get wet - 1/2 pouch each twice a day - and dry kibble to graze.
Water - a Cat Mate fountain - is always available. Lily has had a couple of bouts of cystitis & on vet's advice gets a couple of teaspoons of water mixed into her wet food. Pate types are easier to mix water into & also much easier to mix medication into.

[shep1001]

jmorgan said:

Yep. Not touching it. Its out of shot, ours rarely touch theirs indoors. Probably using the bowl of water outside. I understand they can get a lot of moisture from food?

Leave a couple of bowls outside to fill with rain water, when its nice and mucky the cat will drink it. My two drink out of the dirty bowl in the garden or off the plant leaves, water on the car or any other surface where it collects but the clean filtered stuff from the tap they aint interested in!

[jmorgan]

shep1001 said:

jmorgan said:

Yep. Not touching it. Its out of shot, ours rarely touch theirs indoors. Probably using the bowl of water outside. I understand they can get a lot of moisture from food?

Leave a couple of bowls outside to fill with rain water, when its nice and mucky the cat will drink it. My two drink out of the dirty bowl in the garden or off the plant leaves, water on the car or any other surface where it collects but the clean filtered stuff from the tap they aint interested in!

Yep, I have bowls around the patio also. They get a refresh often though.

[jmorgan]

Wowsers. Puss is chipped. Puss is a he. Puss last seen by vet registered with chip in 2007 some 25 miles away and contact number is now a business. Puss born 2001.

We have paper collar on with contact details but the vet is concerned about his condition.

[motco]

jmorgan said:

Wowsers. Puss is chipped. Puss is a he. Puss last seen by vet registered with chip in 2007 some 25 miles away and contact number is now a business. Puss born 2001.

We have paper collar on with contact details but the vet is concerned about his condition.

Poor old fella! Well done for looking after him.

[Munter]

jmorgan said:

Wowsers. Puss is chipped. Puss is a he. Puss last seen by vet registered with chip in 2007 some 25 miles away and contact number is now a business. Puss born 2001.

We have paper collar on with contact details but the vet is concerned about his condition.

Scraggy looked a lot like that when he turned up. You could feel every bone in his spine, and he looked...well...Scraggy. Turned out to be the old hyperthyroidism problem that Cats seem to get quite a lot. He'd eat everything but just couldn't put on weight, until we got him on the drugs.

If you're prepared to take him on it might be worth chatting with the vet getting the tests done to see.

[anonymous-user]

motco said:

Poor old fella! Well done for looking after him.

+1

[Gretchen]

25 miles! Bless him. Someone could be heartbroken. Did they have an address? Well done for checking and taking care of him.

[motco]

Gretchen said:

25 miles! Bless him. Someone could be heartbroken. Did they have an address? Well done for checking and taking care of him.

They do get around! The house I now live in used to have a cat called Rambo living in it. The day we viewed it Rambo turned up and wandered around the house crying and mewling. His mistress had gone on holiday alone on a cruise and died in Serbia. Rambo was taken a few miles away to a farm across the valley and was carried in a van and a cat carrier. It didn't take him long to find his way back though! We didn't move in for a month or two and he had settled in back on the farm by that time or we'd have had a new feline friend to accompany Boris, our own moggie! The daft thing was the lady who died was a 75 year old widow with a succession of live in boyfriends. Her current occasional house guest (and last) one, Dennis, was here too when we viewed and I commented to him that Rambo's world had collapsed around him. "So has mine..." sobbed Dennis!

[jmorgan]

Gretchen said:

25 miles! Bless him. Someone could be heartbroken. Did they have an address? Well done for checking and taking care of him.

Probably data protection however our vets have spoken to the vet in the chip scan, chip had vet contact, and an old number, no address. Reckon someone moved and did not update, number was not a home anymore. They get reallocated when someone gives up a phone number.

We did not check boy or girl and took the word of the name on the collar, "Princess" so think someone was trying to be kind. We could not really get too close before this am not wanting to scare away. Curiously he took the cat box and ride all in his stride and only kicked off when the vet wanted to check the missing canine. Apart from that purred all the way to the vet and back.

Disappeared last night then reappeared this am when we nabbed him for a visit to the vet. Had to go out today and just come back to him sitting on the front step waiting. Just had another belly full of food.



Just put an ad on animal search uk.

He is back in for more food. I hope we have not subverted someone else's work but he is in such a state.

[motco]

jmorgan said:

Gretchen said:

25 miles! Bless him. Someone could be heartbroken. Did they have an address? Well done for checking and taking care of him.

Probably data protection however our vets have spoken to the vet in the chip scan, chip had vet contact, and an old number, no address. Reckon someone moved and did not update, number was not a home anymore. They get reallocated when someone gives up a phone number.

We did not check boy or girl and took the word of the name on the collar, "Princess" so think someone was trying to be kind. We could not really get too close before this am not wanting to scare away. Curiously he took the cat box and ride all in his stride and only kicked off when the vet wanted to check the missing canine. Apart from that purred all the way to the vet and back.

Disappeared last night then reappeared this am when we nabbed him for a visit to the vet. Had to go out today and just come back to him sitting on the front step waiting. Just had another belly full of food.



Just put an ad on animal search uk.

He is back in for more food. I hope we have not subverted someone else's work but he is in such a state.

Better two families looking after him than none! Anyway he seems to have taken to you.

[jmorgan]

Well, hissy fits with both our pusses now. Problem is he has some bits that need attention. Would rather someone else can take him in but not convinced considering the initial state. He was wet through this am as well. We can but try. He has gone for a wander now.

[Patch1875]

Hamish has been in the wars!