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To think my new cat is a bastard

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Oldsu · 30/08/2018 20:17

I have never had one before but my sister gave me a sob story how poor little Alfie needed a new home, how she'd moved into a flat and how the poor thing was being bullied (yeah right) by other cats, so I said I would take him as long as he got on with my Pugs and new rescue Staffy, I should have known I was suckered when after a week I put in a cat flap let him use it and then locked it, came down next morning and the flap was hanging off its hinges and the cat was in the garden, he has his own basket but that's not good enough he uses the biggest one that belongs to the Staffy and wont move out of it unless he decides to and not before.

I thought I had cracked it when I went to feed him and he purred and rub himself against me, after he had eaten I went to stroke him and he nearly took my hand off.

He has now worked his way round the front of the house, when I came home from work I saw him sitting right in the middle of the road, there was a car behind him but he wasn't moving, in fact he turned round and meowed at it, tried getting him in by calling Alfie, Din Dins, not budging for no-one, eventually he sauntered on to the pavement and sat in the front garden washing himself, I gave up and went inside , guess what when I went into the kitchen there he was, purring and looking at me lovingly, so I fed him, he went straight back out without a backwards glance

Are ALL cats like that

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jellyandsoup · 30/08/2018 20:20

Yep all cats are arseholes!

maZebraltov · 30/08/2018 20:22

They are all bastards, yes. You either get into the groove as a cat slave or you don't. So... is he terrorising your dogs or not?

Aprilsinparis · 30/08/2018 20:23

Have you not heard the saying, 'You don't own a cat, a cat owns you'.Grin

BloodyDisgrace · 30/08/2018 20:28

He's doing well in a house full of dogs, bless him. He'd need all that confidence. What do you mean you installed the cat flap and then locked it? so he couldn't get in? Well done him to rip it to bits then (I must have misunderstood it)

FASH84 · 30/08/2018 20:30

They are all like this, mine wakes me up to run the cold water tap for him by meowing and hitting me in the face with his paw (he has a water bowl and a water dispenser but they aren't good enough). I've also seen him attack a fox. We thought we'd lost him once, the day we were moving, I took him to my brother's (round the corner to old house) shut him in their kitchen while the movers were in, with the aim of picking him up en route to the new house. I thought he'd escaped, I was beside myself, they live near a main road, he'd but been there before, DH left the movers in their own to help me hunt for him, at had a row because he thought I'd been careless and he was gone forever (this is the cat he says he's not fussed about). This went on for over an hour, turned out he was inside the extractor hood above the kitchen, quiet as a mouse, only reason I noticed was by climbing onto the worktop to look on top of the cabinets, sky-high we could see from the ground he wasn't up there, luckily it was dusty and I saw paw prints heading towards the side vent on the extractor. We eventually got him to the new house (meowed for 30 miles), then he promptly pissed in our new bedroom. I do love him though.....

apostropheuse · 30/08/2018 20:35

Sounds about right.

One of our cats flung herself on the road in front of our car and rolled about like a hussy today. She obviously didn't want us to leave. The daft eejit could have been roadkill HmmConfused To be fair, she's a bit thick.

Oldsu · 30/08/2018 20:36

BloodyDisgrace sorry I locked him IN for the night, so he would be safe and not wander off and get lost - I have a lot to learn haven't I

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FASH84 · 30/08/2018 20:36

I would say that in addition to all that (and the fact he chucks his biscuits all over the kitchen floor every single day), I wouldn't be without him, he loves to be the littlest spoon when we go to bed, he's taken to lying on my tummy, purring and trying to lick me when the baby kicks, and he's hilarious, he meows when we take a shower (thinks we're drowning), carries around a glove puppet like it's his baby, leaps in the air to catch treats with his paws, appears randomly upside down from underneath furniture face first and is a brilliant mouser (we have a very old house). Your cat is establishing his place and he'll have you trained soon enough.

jumpingeasel · 30/08/2018 20:39

All cats are bastards

Cheby · 30/08/2018 20:39

YANBU. All cats are bastards.

maZebraltov · 30/08/2018 20:42

Lock him into a room inside house with full size doors. Unless he learns this trick, of course.

LynetteScavo · 30/08/2018 20:47

Hahaha at trying to lick a cat in!

My non-bastard cats have broken through cat flaps during the night. I've actually wondered if they've had military assistance.

LynetteScavo · 30/08/2018 20:48

Lick a cat?

Freuden phone! Grin

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