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Thug cat part 3. Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone.

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 14/08/2020 09:53

Since the second thread has now been promoted to 'classics' here is part three.
Links (hopefully) to the first and second threads below

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TC is clearly suitably impressed by his fame

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nettie434 · 03/06/2021 19:44

Great photos, Grumpy. I often think that the adventures of TC on a boat (with suitable omissions like peeing and hissing) would make a brilliant children's book. Defending the Grumpy house against TC's onslaughts aside, it sounds as if you are creating a very civilised work life balance.

AlfonsoTheMango · 03/06/2021 19:23

Cats have evolved to deliberately not evolve.

Think about it. Man's best friend: wears a collar, is taken for walks on leads, learns to do tricks on command, put to work in war zones, herding sheep, being charitable (seeing eye dog, etc).

Cats, on the other hand: come and go as they please, constantly change their minds about what they will and will not eat, sleep 35 hours a day, etc.

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 03/06/2021 19:08
Grin
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Supersimkin2 · 03/06/2021 19:05

TCs made the Viz letters page.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 03/06/2021 14:26

I can only tell you what I told my dh, repeatedly. I don’t think it’s the Bengals fault.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 03/06/2021 14:24

He's just doing his job.

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 03/06/2021 14:05

Any door or window in our house is a summons to TC. I think he views an open one as a statutory right of entry to our home.

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YetAnotherSpartacus · 03/06/2021 13:57

Or, as TC interprets it, a summons.

AnneKipanki · 03/06/2021 13:40

Any open window or door is an invitation.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 03/06/2021 13:17

Of course ... re the boat, it could be another cat that is pissing in there and TC is braving the stench to protect HMS Grumpy? [hopeful]

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 03/06/2021 13:06

This is wholesale territory invasion

Agreed. He doesn't often get inside and we really don't know how he did today (possibly via an open kitchen window?). We think he had eaten our cats' food and also knocked over a bag of dried food on a shelf.

My cats were in and just studiously ignored him. (Hopeless buggers Grin)

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JoanOgden · 03/06/2021 12:50

This is wholesale territory invasion. I'm surprised Sybil and the crew actually let him enter the house Shock

AlfonsoTheMango · 03/06/2021 12:45

Not cool, TC, not cool.

CassandraCross · 03/06/2021 12:44

Hmm oh dear.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 03/06/2021 12:31

Oh dear ... I'm on team TC for the first offence but even I am struggling to say anything other than 'naughty boy!' for the second.

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 03/06/2021 12:22

I'm less than impressed with TC currently for other reasons too.
We've seen him going into the boat under the cover fairly regularly. Having now got the boat out we've realised he's been pissing on the bimini cover that was inside. 🤮

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 03/06/2021 12:15

With apologies for the state of our stair carpet Grin

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 03/06/2021 12:14

Re the teleporting cat thread elsewhere.

DS just asked why TC was sitting on our staircase Shock

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AnneKipanki · 02/06/2021 16:03

😂

YetAnotherSpartacus · 02/06/2021 15:21
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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 02/06/2021 15:19

@FricasseeTurnips
Shock

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FricasseeTurnips · 02/06/2021 14:55

TC's just waiting to take Sybil for a ride.

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YetAnotherSpartacus · 02/06/2021 11:52

She's looking for her beau!

Supersimkin2 · 02/06/2021 11:06

Sybil's a fine and thorough Waterways Warden.

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 02/06/2021 09:35

Sybil is now investigating. Fairly sure TC isn't under there now Grin

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