I seem to be picking Newboy up tonight......

[cozietoesie]

Currently in the middle of making arrangements to meet - he's a breed rescue - and yet to check over the house for 'breakability' issues etc. (He's only young - and it's a good few years since I had a cat that could potentially leap living with me.)

Yikes!!

Our ex neighbour worked with Dh & called ours "a bloody nightmare" because he wouldn't leave her tortoise alone.

That tortoise suffered with its nerves.

Actually, I do feel for the tortoise. :(

I know, but how many times do cats get to meet a tortoise? It's not an oppurtunity to pass over is it?.

Well, no but maybe the tortoise was happier not meeting the cat :). I thought they could give some hard nips btw... :)

Tortoise would've (sensibly) drawn his wrinkly little limbs into his shell. Asbo probably was probably at the moving rock.

Little M's the same weight as Newboy Cozie, vet weighed him at 3.87k. Was told to keep an eye on MCats weight though, while vet pointedly feeling his tummy. Like Mr. C he's big boned...

He lived with a cat but I don't think their cat had the enquiring mind that our cat has.

He lived with a cat but I don't think their cat had the enquiring mind that our cat has

Or s/he had heard the saying about curiosity and the cat ...

Ollie would shriek at a tortoise and run. Stable cat would probably terrorise it then try to eat it

'probably'?

Only probably because she might go straight for eating

Last night one of the boys brought in what I though initially was a mouse: I was alerted by its squealing.

On investigation (and having shut both boy cat and Old Girl in the dining room) I noticed that a) it was bigger than a mouse and b) it was a baby, with barely any fur and its eyes were still shut I'd even have thought it was a mole if it hadn't been for its tail

Having decanted it down to the bottom of the driveway, I let an indignant cat out of the dining room.

Half an hour later, I heard the cat flap go at speed again, went out into the hallway and saw boycat coming up the stairs again with the rat in his mouth. He took one look at me and turned and ran back downstairs and out the car flap at speed

Dh came home a bit later and saw the two boy cats with the rat close to the door. This morning it was still there but now dead so he's put it into the wheelie bin.

Why is it they'll eat mice except for the tail but not rats?

Not sure if it was the same one that I "rescued": I have a suspicion that they found a nest and just went back to get more of the defenceless little ones.

I've just 'upped' the temperature in Newboy's empire. Gawd help my utilities bills.

Jolly brave of the cats to go for a rat. London cats are petrified.

Mcat is in his prime M; only right that a mature gentleman of taste and refinement should hold a position as a cat of substance.

Gor, freezing innit. Good luck with Club Tropicana for Newboy, I'm gladM C can't read, he's be jealous.

Not brave : the rat was so young its eyes were still closed and it had barely any fur. I only recognised it cos of its large tail (would've been a whopper once if it had grown up).

Mr C is frightened of plastic rats.

I bought him a remote control one and all hell broke loose. It was small, pink and polka dotted. Eyeroll.

A few days ago one of the boys brought in a large rat* *
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** a soft toy - but larger than life size.

Can't really go round the neighbours asking if they've lost a rat

Maybe it was practice!

For cats who spent their first 6 months cooped up inside, they're making up for list time

Cozietosie - any progress with Newboy?

He's back to eating and traying again. I'll go with that for the time being.

My black boy keeps bringing in baby rats At first I thought the first one was a mouse, then he brought another one in ... when he brought the third one and I noticed the size of its feet ... I realised he's probably tapped into a rats nest... Then a couple of days later I was greeted in the morning by half an ENORMOUS rat - tail end. Now he's not allowed in and out as he pleases ... we vet (ha!) him at the door to make sure he's not bringing us a "gift"!

Blueboy weighs 5.1 kg ... he eats for a living though ... takes his food very seriously.

Brilliant news C - hardcore progress. That was a rapid recovery IMHO. Even Mr C took a good 72 hours to recover from the first vetting scenario and he was older, more phlegmatic and not Siamese.

Self and pet clasping each other for warmth - London freezing for some reason. Movie and lie-down situation overdue.

He seems to like the Club Tropicana.

I sprayed most of the sisal legs of his activity centre with catnip spray this afternoon and I can hear 'sounds' from across the hall. Gawd knows what he's doing.

Are you sat earwigging and dying to look? I would be!

I'm certainly earwigging. I keep hearing strange sounds but the house looks just the same!

prettybird mine eats the centre to leave a scooped out skin, with attached limbs and head, waiting to be stuffed with a frog, a shrew and a moth, a la Fearnley-Wittingstall...

Actually, he might be mousing. (Your post made me realise.) He's certainly food motivated.