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Do you ever wonder what your cat's doing when they go out for the day?

48 replies

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 27/05/2013 18:07

If you own a very chatty cream cat with darker stripes on the legs and tail and absolutely beautiful blue eyes, I can reveal he's spent the past four hours trying to get in through my kitchen window Confused I don't think I've ever met one quite so persistent before! He's talking to me every time I walk past too.

Oh, and if your sneaky long-haired black cat was out last week it was trying a new hunting technique. We have a bird house like this and it had squashed itself inside, waiting for the birds to visit. Until I spotted it and chased it off.

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DarkHorse2013 · 29/05/2013 10:51

Before I started shutting my cat in at night, my neighbour's daughter awoke in the early hours with our cat sitting on her chest! Cat had climbed in through the open window.....
Also, same neighbours used to have caged birds in their conservatory - same cat apparently decided it would be fun to go and hang off the cages and play with the birds!

Manchesterhistorygirl · 29/05/2013 11:01

My little black and white girl is a bugger for going to her other house. Both dh and I were concerned that she was getting fat, but neither of us was over feeding her and being spayed she couldn't be pregnant. Then we noticed she was off down the road to the house on the corner and they were feeding her too and then we noticed next door was also feeding her! Grin Little bigger always comes back here for cuddles though.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 29/05/2013 13:02

He was chipped,and he was lost, he'd been missing for two weeks. He's called Sky (because of his eyes I suppose) and is a tabby point Siamese.

A very pleased owner has called and collected him Smile

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cozietoesie · 29/05/2013 13:08

Best post of the week, Polkadots.

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PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 29/05/2013 13:11

I don't know if he'd been 'missing' missing for the whole time though, he wasn't bedraggled or anything, maybe a bit skinny, but it's a long time since I had a cat so wasn't sure. He was very hungry though, so I presume he's not eaten so well the last few days

So pleased he has a nice home to go back to, I didn't like to think he might have been abandoned. I keep smiling Grin

Thank you for all the advice Thanks

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bootsycollins · 29/05/2013 13:16

One of these days I'm going to follow our boy and see what he gets up to. I'm loving all these stories, especially the cat who escorts Norman to the shop to buy cat food Grin.

Arw Polka I'm so glad Sky's people have been reunited with him, what a lovely boy. That's how we ended up adding a cat into the mix, we had a cat lodger for a week and we missed him so much when he'd gone home that we went and adopted our gorgeous first cat from the local Cats Protection shelter.

cozietoesie · 29/05/2013 13:17

It's so good to hear - and you did all the hard work on this!

Has it given you a thought for a Siamese yourself?

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BlingLoving · 29/05/2013 13:17

Oh, that's so nice. I love hearing a good story about pets being found. My mum got a call when she was visiting us once to say someone had found her dog... which she'd left, she thought, with my dad! Dad was frantically searching neighborhood and not answering her calls as he didn't want to tell her the news. We had to call a neutral third party eventually to get him to realise we had found the dog! Grin

As for what my cat does by day - sleep. Night however... whole different story. DH and I joke he's heading out to party as he insists on being let out the front door as we go to bed! (in summer anyway. In winter he's curled up on our bed or the couch!)

cozietoesie · 29/05/2013 13:26

PS - I should have added.

On the link I gave ^^ to the Siamese Welfare trust, you'll also find their 'Homes Wanted' page (for SCCWT cats and personal ads) and also links to associated groups and regional Siamese groups. Many of the cats are looking for homes after the death of owners or something.

Just in case you had developed a thought for one. Smile

DontCallMeBaby · 29/05/2013 15:22

I'd love to know where mine go. One chap at work said he sometimes follows his cat - he must have a very sedate cat, there's no way I could follow mine, their travels usually commence with the Sekrit Tunnel into next door's garden and then ...

We do wonder if one of them has another home - he can be gone for ages, and is quite chunky for a serial vomitter. Hmm

Fluffycloudland77 · 29/05/2013 15:28

That must be one happy owner. It's nice to have a happy ending.

Do you know if he was far away from home?

TooTabooToBoo · 29/05/2013 17:41

Aww, lovely happy ending for Sky!

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 29/05/2013 20:54

About three miles, we're in a village that sort of running into the side of a town, and he was from the other side of the town, but there's quite a countrified bit in the middle, so I wonder if he got to that bit, got a bit lost, and then headed towards the lights and houses, but the wrong way.

Unfortunately it wouldn't be ideal to have a cat at the moment, but I did enjoy 'borrowing' one for the night Grin But maybe in a couple of years, yes, I'd definitely consider a Siamese.

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pamish · 31/05/2013 01:07

Next door's Siamese at my last flat was a sock thief. Only socks. She would steal them from washing racks, and her embarrassed owner would do the rounds every week or so with the latest stash.

sashh · 31/05/2013 05:16

bootsycollins

I should have also added Norman does not own any pets of his own.

Polka

Glad Sky has gone home

Panzee · 31/05/2013 05:26

A relative if mine used to live in a house with (I'm talking duck pond, croquet lawn & woodland). Once I arrived early to meet her. Her cat took me on a tour of the gardens! He kept looking to check I was following him Grin

dawnz · 31/05/2013 11:12

I love this funny thread - cat people so often seem to have 'my' SOH. Some lovely stories on here!
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VenusUprising · 31/05/2013 11:28

What a great thread, so glad Sky boy was looked after so well.

It's easy to fall in love with a Siamese! Our Tonkie is half Siamese on both sides, half Burmese as well. They're amazing, like distilled cats.

bootsycollins · 31/05/2013 19:37

sashh Grin I need details! How the heck has Norman been blagged into this by your cat?. I'm having visions of Norman hiding behind the settee then being berated by your moggy and promptly frogmarched to the shop Grin

fackinell · 31/05/2013 20:10

I met one of my 'lads' in the middle of the night 3 streets from home, last week. We had an awkward acknowledgment of our mutual naughtiness and went our separate ways. I heard the cat flap rattle ten minutes after I got in!! Grin

sashh · 01/06/2013 04:56

bootsycollins

I only met Norman the other day, I'm disabled so drive past his house but he was in the Doctor's. I asked him if Misty was being a nuisance and he told me about the tapping on the window and buying her cat food.

I think some people have 'mug' written on their forehead in invisible ink that only cats can read.

I think she gets away with a lot because she is small. When she first arrived I thought she was 4-6 months but the vet said about a year. She is still only half the size of the other cats around here.

I have two 'cat crossings' one across the front of my house that you can actually see, it is so well worn by the various cats. The other is at the back and is a right angle, from the fence to the shed and then down the path.

I'm sure I could write the cat equivalent of a soap opera.

There are:

Misty - my little lady

The cats next door who consist or Tigger2, sooty, Tigger's other kitten and 2 refugees, one is a manx, all female.

Thomas - the stray ginger and white tom who is possibly the father of all the other cats who were not fathered by Snape. I feed him in the garden but he has taken to sneaking into my bedroom and hiding on the windowsill behind the curtains.

Snape - not been seen for a while, another stray tom, completely grey plush fur,who is probably the father of sooty and possibly other cats in the area.

Hermione - a kitten who moved out, she was an almost apricot colour.

The black and white cat that lives at No4 and does not associate with any other cats but does go under the fence opposite and probably has kitty adventures there.

The other cats using the crossings

2 torties, one is dark and ginger, the other is what the americans call 'calico'

Another tabby who looks like a giant Misty and hates Thomas, the feeling is mutual, they do that face to face slowly walking round each other thing.

Another stray ginger and white, possibly related to Thomas, is never seen at the same time as Thomas but is thinner so they are not the same cat.

Fluffycloudland77 · 01/06/2013 07:23

I think the cpl would do a trap, neuter & release program if you alerted them to these un-neutered toms.

We had a small female who everyone assumed was a kitten.

bootsycollins · 01/06/2013 18:52

sashh I wish there was a cat soap opera.

Arw bless Normans cottons Smile

Arf at invisible ink that only cats can read Grin

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