Thug Cat part 2. What, has this thing appeared again tonight?

[Grumpyoldpersonwithcats]

I hope the literary TC will not object to being referred to as a thing.

Link to previous thread
TC part 1

Our cats appear to be happily communing with TC today. I suspect it won't last however since the band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity .

They'll come round, he's adorable.

TC looks rather subdued in that picture, doing his best please feel sorry for me act, "let me into your utopia, you know you love me really" and when they do let him in......

Poor TC sitting with his head bowed looking forlorn 😿

Basil looks very erm, 'square' in that picture Right angles are obviously the way to go to ward off unwelcome visitors.

I was working at the front of the house today - only to spot TC making a break in attempt. I persuaded him to change his ways. or so I thought
30 minutes later DW found the persistent little sod inside our house tucking into the cat food. .

Mind you - NDN did find Lenny and Sybil in his (open backed) workshop today .

TC came back to see us later in the afternoon looking very smug.

Aw he looks so grumpy and so cute 🐈

... and solid, very solid

Mission successful! Well done TC!

Well I mean the door was open and everything... what’s a thug cat supposed to do?

TC has NOT won the war. Sucessfully breaking in yesterday (and stealing supplies) was merely winning a battle .

Yeah, he'll have won the war when he and Sybil have a candlelit dinner at your dining table and spend the night curled up together on your bed :)

Don't blame little TC, he just thought restaurants have reopened post-lockdown. Confused with dates, who isn't.

Awwww, he's not lost his "winter coat", has he? .

TC has NOT won the war. Sucessfully breaking in yesterday (and stealing supplies) was merely winning a battle

You mean TC has won yet one more battle in the campaign for dominance of the Grumpy household, he's playing the long game every victory is a step forward!

Yeah, he'll have won the war when he and Sybil have a candlelit dinner at your dining table and spend the night curled up together on your bed

I foresee that happening sooner than you think, with you as the maitre'd Grumpy

How many times a day does he need to 'win a battle' before he's won the war?

Even when @Grumpyoldpersonwithcats is awoken by the Facehugger position, as performed by an 8-kilo Bengal cat, he will only grudgingly concede that just one rogue agent performed a lone incursion, never to be repeated.

Morale is all in wartime. Grumpy's stance is truly Churchillian in the face of the Cat Who Acts Like Hitler.

Incidentally, Churchill changed the law on Endangered Species during WWII because someone gave him a tiger cub and he insisted it lived with him in Downing Street. The episode was the beginning of what is now CITES, the international convention that protects the larger kitty.

Loving all your responses .

I just opened our front door to let Poodley out.

No prizes for guessing who was waiting to come in.

He wasn't impressed that I shut him out.

Poodley?

Karl's current 'nom de plume'

Oh, dear. Poor Karl. :)

It gives me such joy to think of Karl walking around like that, knowing there's people he will see out on his travels who think he's been deliberately groomed to look like that

Haha here comes thug cat 😼

TC , he's a trier!