New cat, old cat isn't a fan

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garythesign

2,056 posts

87 months

Saturday 19th August 2017
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TheAngryDog said:
FOUND HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! biggrinbiggrinbiggrin
Such good news

every time I saw you updateing the thread i hoped it was good news

little buggers get under your skin!

ali_kat

31,988 posts

220 months

Sunday 20th August 2017
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OMG
woohoo

So happy for you bounce

That's not ungrateful scratches & bites, it's love bites & scratches to scent you so he won't lose you again wink

TheAngryDog

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12,394 posts

208 months

Sunday 20th August 2017
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Thanks guys!

Lol Ali, they bloody hurt I'll tell you that! I had a tetanus less than 10 years ago so I wont need one of those lol.

Little bugger had us up at half 5 scratching cardboard downstairs and then wanting fuss.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Sunday 20th August 2017
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We had one that went walkabout. He was chipped as well but the new slaves thought he was stray (not checked the chip) and he did not get on with their cat so they put a cat hut in the garden and fed him. A week later we were walking by looking for him and saw him sun lounging on the lawn. He did recognise us and ran over berating us for leaving him. The new slaves were thankful he was found though.

Then he escaped from a cattery by tearing out the security in the ceiling and making a break for it.

2Btoo

3,410 posts

202 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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TheAngryDog said:
Lol Ali, they bloody hurt I'll tell you that!
Sweet, sweet pain. You didn't mind one bit!

smile

ali_kat

31,988 posts

220 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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''Tis but a scratch

Pictures??

FurtiveFreddy

8,577 posts

236 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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Only just found this thread, but very glad you found him.

One of ours went missing for 4 days just after a big thunderstorm. Sod's Law, the tracker battery had given up before I started looking for him, so we had a similar few days to you but eventually we got some local sightings and he eventually turned up in a school nearby.

He still goes a fair way from home but we've got a GPS and RFID tracker on him now and we regularly check them to make sure they're in good working order, so can't do much more than that really.

Our two cats have some pretty bad fights every now and then but the rest of the time the reluctantly tolerate each other. We've just started trying Feliway Friends, which I'd say has helped a bit. The other thing which seems to calm them if they're both in the living room with us is a lavender scented candle.

Oh, and maybe you should get some tea-tree oil on those scratches biggrin

TheAngryDog

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12,394 posts

208 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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jmorgan said:
We had one that went walkabout. He was chipped as well but the new slaves thought he was stray (not checked the chip) and he did not get on with their cat so they put a cat hut in the garden and fed him. A week later we were walking by looking for him and saw him sun lounging on the lawn. He did recognise us and ran over berating us for leaving him. The new slaves were thankful he was found though.

Then he escaped from a cattery by tearing out the security in the ceiling and making a break for it.
Sounds like he might be "Hulk Cat" when he gets angry? hehe

That was our concern. He doesn't wear a collar so he could have been taken in by someone as a stray and the only time his chip might have been read was if they took to a vet at some point.

2Btoo said:
TheAngryDog said:
Lol Ali, they bloody hurt I'll tell you that!
Sweet, sweet pain. You didn't mind one bit!

smile
I'd take them again, having him back is more important smile. They're healing up and only a few are still sore now.

ali_kat said:
''Tis but a scratch

Pictures??
















FurtiveFreddy said:
Only just found this thread, but very glad you found him.

One of ours went missing for 4 days just after a big thunderstorm. Sod's Law, the tracker battery had given up before I started looking for him, so we had a similar few days to you but eventually we got some local sightings and he eventually turned up in a school nearby.

He still goes a fair way from home but we've got a GPS and RFID tracker on him now and we regularly check them to make sure they're in good working order, so can't do much more than that really.

Our two cats have some pretty bad fights every now and then but the rest of the time the reluctantly tolerate each other. We've just started trying Feliway Friends, which I'd say has helped a bit. The other thing which seems to calm them if they're both in the living room with us is a lavender scented candle.

Oh, and maybe you should get some tea-tree oil on those scratches biggrin
Typical! How long do they last for? We have tried the feliway and it hasn't done much, but they seem to tolerate each other on their own accord and stay out of each others way in general lol.

The scratches aren't so bad now, just a few that are sore. I'll live hehe

FurtiveFreddy

8,577 posts

236 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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In total, I've tried 4 different GPS trackers on our adventurous cat (the other one never goes too far from home, so we just have a short range Loc8tor tag on him).

The #1 issue is battery life, the way we configure it.

There are some good trackers on the market now, but if you set them up to report the cat's location every 5-10 minutes like we do, the battery inevitably lasts barely more than 12 hours.

You can configure them just to respond to an SMS message with the current location and in that mode some of them last for several days on a charge, but the trouble with that is if your cat is hiding somewhere indoors or is curled up sleeping with the tracker buried in his fur, deep in the undergrowth, it may not be getting either a GPS fix or a GPRS signal, so you won't be able to get a location from it.

At least if you've got the last-known position stored on a server you can start looking in that area. Otherwise you'd have to keep regularly sending SMS messages in the hope the cat has moved and the tracker is now in the open.

The tracker we've been using for the last couple of years has been very reliable and sends out position updates every 10 minutes which I can then supplement with SMS messages to get a more up to date fix. The battery lasts easily for a day on a full charge, so we take it off each night and it's charged ready the next morning. Sadly, this tracker isn't made any more, so I don't know what I'm going to do when it eventually fails.

I also put a camera on our cats for a few weeks to see what they get up to. That was quite interesting, but it had to stop when they started taking more artistic photos than I can rolleyes







ali_kat

31,988 posts

220 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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I meant of the cat laugh

TheAngryDog

Original Poster:

12,394 posts

208 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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ali_kat said:
I meant of the cat laugh
Well, you did quote the scratch bit hehe








Ahbefive

11,657 posts

171 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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A friend had a cat but one day found a kitten under their car and decided to take it in and nurture it. It was ok for a couope of weeks before the old cat upped, left and never returned.

ali_kat

31,988 posts

220 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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I quoted Monty Python laugh

He's lovely

TheAngryDog

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12,394 posts

208 months

Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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Ahbefive said:
A friend had a cat but one day found a kitten under their car and decided to take it in and nurture it. It was ok for a couope of weeks before the old cat upped, left and never returned.
The old cat is the more stable of the two.

ali_kat said:
I quoted Monty Python laugh

He's lovely
LOL, I never watched it(!)

He is, and very annoying at the same time hehe

Pinkie15

1,248 posts

79 months

Friday 8th September 2017
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Great news you found him.

Hope he doesn't do the same again.

TheAngryDog

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12,394 posts

208 months

Friday 8th September 2017
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Thanks. He isn't allowed out at the moment. We are still trying to decide the best way to let him go out again.