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Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.

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UrsulaMumsnet · 23/11/2015 17:29

From the award-winning Kes Gray and the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Jim Field, comes an hilarious rhyming tale about a frog who discovers that all animals have their special places to sit!

Cats sit on mats, hares sit on chairs, mules sit on stools and gophers sit on sofas, but Frog does not want to sit on a log! Jam-packed with animals and silliness, this original rhyming story will have young children in fits of laughter.

'An absolute treat.' - Daily Mail

'Hilarious illustrations and rhymes which are easy to recite and join in. Everyone will love it.' - The Guardian

Tell us about the funniest places you've found your pet hiding (or post a picture!) to be in with a chance to win a copy of Oi Frog! plus a Christmas hamper from Waitrose which includes two bottles of wine, Prosecco, almond biscuits, savoury crumbles, flavoured nuts plus much, much more.

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Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
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Birnamwood · 09/12/2015 00:09

My old terrier used to love sneaking up and having a kip in a proper bed, she'd mould the duvet into a cosy nest. One day she didn't come down when I called her and upon investigation, I found her trapped inside a pillow case!

Toystory36 · 09/12/2015 06:44

I had a cat who used to like to sit in the tumble dryer! We had to always check it before we turned it on!!

sashh · 09/12/2015 08:31

I got a desk from freecycle - the cat can get in to the lowest drawer from the back, she then miaows for me to open it.

She has been spotted on top of the door, and on the roof.

She picks a place to sleep and then uses it for a month - 6weeks then moves on to the next, places have included radiators and shelves.

See pics

Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
sashh · 09/12/2015 08:38

oops posted two the same

Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
Ferryfairy · 09/12/2015 08:48

Our cat Spia gave birth to four kittens under the bed in the spare room, so we made a nest for them out of a sturdy box and put them in a warm place in the kitchen. The next morning there was no sign of cat or kittens. We found them snuggled up in the bottom of our wardrobe. Mumcat had carried each one through the quarter light window in the kitchen, back in through a three inch gap in the dining room window quarter light and upstairs. We decided she knew best and left them there.

Zilla101 · 09/12/2015 08:56

when i was a child we had a beautiful saluki, he was good natured and happy, and very athletic. he could run faster than a greyhound and could jump over high fences. however whenever he saw a cat he would tremble and jump on my dads shoulders and sit there. it was a funny sight to see, a saluki hiding from a cat on my dads shoulders.

mrshumphreyjr · 09/12/2015 08:57

No photographic evidence but best place I ever found our cat, was behind our fridge, after she managed to steal a six month old duckling from its mother, bringing it into the house, but then it managed to get away and behind our fridge. Jones our cat followed but it had wedged itself into the space where the motor was, and she couldn't get to it.

I come downstairs hearing all the commotion and hearing the fridge 'quack'. Suffice to say, getting a furious cat away from her dinner, and then managing to get the duckling out from behind the fridge was a job, but happy endings, going back outside, hearing the mother screeching for her baby, they were happily reunited. Ou cat wasnt too happy though but we were impressed as she was smaller than the duckling, and had carried it over three six foot fences.!

Zilla101 · 09/12/2015 08:58

when i was a child we had a beautiful saluki, he was good natured and happy, and very athletic. he could run faster than a greyhound and could jump over high fences. however whenever he saw a cat he would tremble and jump on my dads shoulders and sit there. it was a funny sight to see, a saluki hiding from a cat on my dads shoulders.

janine0187 · 09/12/2015 09:22

I once found my cat hidden in the freshly washed bed linen all cuddled up.

danileith23 · 09/12/2015 09:49

In the chimney! I think he wants to be Father Christmas...

sashh · 09/12/2015 10:15

When I was about 7 I came home from school and went looking for the cat. I found her in my bed under the duvet, I picked her up and underneath her were 4 kittens!

Another time she brought a live mole in to my bedroom - she wasn't hiding that time.

I have fostered cats for a long time, I came home one day after the cleaners had been to find kitty noises coming from a kitchen cupboard - she'd been accidentally shut in by the cleaners.

She also hid in the sofa bit of a sofa bed when the bed was 'out' - but stayed their when the bed was folded away - she claimed through the cushions a couple of hours later.

Another foster cat used to walk across the curtain pole to get from the top of one wardrobe to the other.

I also had pet chinchillas, they managed to escape their cage and chase the cat under my bed. I never in my life thought I would be woken by a chinchilla chasing a cat.

dannydog1 · 09/12/2015 10:27

My daughter came one Christmas to stay with her cat Quncy. After a couple of hours we couldn't find him anywhere. After looking everywhere inside and out the conclusion was drawn that he had somehow escaped(my partner was allocated the blame for that).At bedtime after tears etc re the lost cat we retired to bed only to find him actually happily curled up asleep inside our duvet cover.

TERRAD · 09/12/2015 13:04

I once caught a mouse on Boxing day an the children decided to keep it as a pet however it escaped the same day ,we searched the house to no avail and no sign of the mouse was seen again, that was until Easter the following year when my wife who had saved half of the Christmas cake for Easter opened the package and there sitting in the middle of the cake and twice the size from when I found it was Christmas MOUSE.
This is 100% true and we put the mouse in a bird box in the garden but sadly he was not to be seen again.
Regards TERRAD

Isis1981uk · 09/12/2015 13:12

This is how we found our cat sleeping....he's not right.

Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
molliegatens · 09/12/2015 13:12

Our little rescue cat Joey loves hiding and jumping out on you from places like, the washing basket...in shopping bags...in cardboard boxes...under the bed...IN the bed...even under the table and hogging the money when we play a game. But most of the time you will just find him sprawled out on the sofa :')

Thegentlemonkey · 09/12/2015 13:40

I used to carry my cat along with me on my paper round as a teen - nestled snugly on top of the papers in the satchel!

foxessocks · 09/12/2015 14:24

My parents have just got two new puppies who are, as you'd expect, full of mischief! The other day we found one of them on the bookshelf! He'd pulled all the books of the second shelf and then climbed in himself and fallen asleep. The other puppy was whining at the bottom wanting his playmate back! We didn't manage to get a picture unfortunately as when we found him there he woke up and jumped off straight away. It's a shame because we'll look at him one day and wonder how he was ever small enough to fit on a bookshelf. Funnily enough my toddler did the same thing on the bottom.shelf of our bookshelf yesterday, I wonder if she learned this trick from Barney the puppy Smile

eden03 · 09/12/2015 14:39

I found my daughter's pet budgie in her pink toy car and could not resist taking a picture.

Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
vestandknickers · 09/12/2015 16:09

When they were kittens, our cats liked to take a turn in the doll's buggy!

Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.
IrritableBitchSyndrome · 09/12/2015 16:16

Years ago, my DD1 lost her hamster. We were all very sad for a while. Except, as it turns out, the hamster. He turned up safe and sound some months later in the bathroom cupboard under the eaves, where he had relocated, popping out at night to stockpile hamster food from the container we were storing the remaining hamsters food in. He was not pleased to be discovered. DD1 was delighted. We also later on had a cat who found his way into a wall behind plasterboard, but that's a whole other sorry tale!

Purplehonesty · 09/12/2015 17:36

This is purple cat. She is usually found scrounging for food, trying to climb in the fridge etc.
When she is shut in the utility room this is where we normally find her, yowling like a banshee in indignation!

iloveeverykindofcat · 09/12/2015 18:11

I found Zara kitty in a bush at the front of our house. Crying. Because she was lost. She didn't understand that she had to turn around because the house was behind her.

She was bred for looks, okay?

Nodney · 09/12/2015 19:17

I quite often find Batman, our bengal cat, in the drawer under my divan bed. He opens the drawer, drags all the hand towels out and then gets in. Then he shuts it to on himself! Still don't know if he can get out alone as I usually hear him mucking about in there, see the heap of towels and get him out!

glasgow1975 · 09/12/2015 20:14

Shortly after I got my cat Dawkins, I couldn't find him anywhere, and as he's an indoor cat was starting to get panicky . . . Suddenly I looked up, to find him perched ON TOP of the open living room door!

flippinada · 09/12/2015 20:28

I think this picture says it all. That's my cat. Bum in the air, drinking out the toilet.

I'd like to point out that a) I'd just put down a bowl of fresh water and b) the toilet was clean.

Tell us about (or show us!) the funniest places you've found your pet for a chance to win a Christmas hamper worth £100 and a copy of Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field.