One toy mouse found for PB........

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.....so temper tantrum forestalled for 10 minutes. Edited by MNHQ at OP's request

O is doing cute chatting at me
https://www.facebook.com/olliebobcpl/videos/1804849192892742/

PPPPrrrrrtttt! wot a sweetie, have you tried chirruping back. Known in this house as 'happy pratting' , me and Mr C can get up to six in a row.

Mr C at vet end this week. NB is thriving!! Heard caretaker doing the feeding earlier, screams of joy as he appeared. Dachshund spotted too, now spherical and smiles at me.

Anything with red feathers is now being jauntily carried off somewhere..........

Which one was screaming with joy?? NB or the caretaker?

They both were!! And the owner was allowed to join in.... :)

The 'owner' sounds like a second fiddle.

She is, now. Needless to say I am still forking out to feed NB, which is fine, but you would have thought, wouldn't you. She hasn't said thanks. Anyway, he's happy, the caretaker is happy and the dachshund is the size of a collie, so satisfaction all round here :)

....the size of a collie....??

A small collie. He's obsessed with NB's Royal Canin.

'Happy pratting' is berting here. My ruler goes 'brrrrrrt' at me and I reply. Can go on for ages, especially if I'm in a different room. It's like some kind of cat sonar.

I can't sleep tonight - and he's staying in his LWT, more or less.

PS - no getting up to biff mice around. (Which he normally does at about 2.30. He's had one desultory saunter.)

Our collie always eats The Lodger's leftovers. Having said which, I recall an acquaintance commenting how good it was to see a collie that wasn't overweight.

PB's fully passed out, always a good sign.

C Bad luck with the insomnia. It might be the change in weather, you can get chilled to the bones without realising and knacker your internal thermostat. Awake for hours. Not that this could apply to PB :)

A brandy might help. I do lying-down stretches, they work brilliantly, but you have to do them for a week or two before the craving for slumber kicks in.

Sorry if this is derailing, but lying down stretches sound intriguing to this insomniac - is there a reputable site that explains how? I don't have parental controls set and googling brought up some, er, interesting results.

Well, you know how a cat does really satisfying stretches before they settle down? like that.

So... lie flat on back. Breathe in through nose to 5 out via mouth for 8 throughout.

Start by flexing & splaying toes, hold, release. Ankles stretch out next, hold, release. Calves, knees, then hands; carry on go up through your body clenching and releasing till you get to your shoulders. Keep breathing right - that's the difficult bit.

For shoulders - press them down and at the same time pull your shoulderblades in to the middle of the back, still not allowing them to rise. Shrug shoulders a bit, slooooowly.

At this point your cat will be intimating displeasure at the risk of being disturbed, so flick the light out.

The key is to accept that it probably won't work for a week but it will get better, perseverance is the annoying secret.

Also it helps if your furry Pilates pal, by your side natch, gets a mood on if you stretch too vigorously or for too long - slow and elegant for 3 min is the way to land of nod for you both.

C shall I start on some more biffers? Waiting in for the washing machine repairman (don't ask).

Afraid that the white night last night has made me out of sorts. I'm currently trying to steel myself to undertake some significant chores.

Bad luck Cozie, don't do most of them. The world will carry on turning regardless; feeding PB excepted. Whatever you can do is brilliant and a big plus, but manana is always there.

whatever you do, line up something brilliant on screen in case it happens again. Making the effort to set that up guarantees you sleep through at least half of it, ruining it forever

I think it's going to have to be........

PB has, seemingly, made his peace with the fan heater. Before today it frightened him silly. Today, he sat in front of the heated air and washed some. (Then gave me a mouthful when it switched itself off via thermostatic control.)

Really remarkable talent for the finer points of self-expression.

I have made an omelette with O sitting screaming at me. He's been sent out the room to brood on his sins which seems to involve mournful howling
I had a stern word with myself after realising I was contemplating not cooking because I couldn't deal with the cat noise

Required at once: a stiff drink and a blanket on. Not for PB, for you (for a change) :)

Mr C has stolen a double-yellow-stickered Oriental prawn. He won't eat it, perish the thought; I have to peel off the Oriental Crumb Coat and hand feed him the LW bits. Slightly disappointed as I was rather looking forward to it myself, there were only 4.

Ah. For a Siamese, serious howling upon exclusion usually means they don't understand what they've done wrong. Did you tie the exclusion to a known sin-type?