What's your DCat up to today? (Thread 7!)

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I wanted to reply to @EachandEveryone but thread number 6 is full! That cooling mat thing looks fab.

What is everyone's cat up to today?

Today I am 26 weeks pregnant and my cat Freya is communing with the baby. Mainly purring and gentle pawing in response to little kicks. I am hoping they'll be friends! Meanwhile Maisie is looking on disdainfully. She's in the huff because I tipped her out of the pregnancy dungarees, which she had commandeered as her personal nest.

What are your furry overlords all up to?

I know!

What is it about cats and boxes?

They love them, don't they? Much more than any expensive toy you might buy them 😼

I'm thinking of treating my gang to one of these cat fountains ⛲

Have any of you got one? What's the general consensus?

Any good or waste of money? 😸

That's cute. I haven't got one, but might invest for this girl, who isn't a good drinker of water

Apparently the gentle trickling catches their attention, and really does encourage them to drink more.

And because the water is constantly circulating, through the pump and a filter, it stays fresher for a lot longer than water just sitting in a bowl.

I'm quite tempted.

@WheresThatCatGoneNow

Ernie has a fountain and loves it. He's also claimed the water fountain outside, he gets his paws wet on the stone but doesn't mind

Ive been tempted to but him the cat grass thing, but as he has ignored the outside cat grass, cat mint and another huge bush I bought him in favour of my water grass. Which is he is always decimating

This is my big boy, waiting for the grass to grow....

My lot really do enjoy their pots of cat grass.

The instruction leaflet is quite funny too. Whoever wrote it definitely has a sense of humour 😸

Hope you can enlarge the photo enough to read it.

Went shopping in Morrisons yesterday morning. Saw these on special offer.

10p per foil tray, or £1.20 for a full tray of twelve.

Absolute waste of money. Wheat free indeed!!

My cats backed hastily away from their dishes, absolutely appalled at what I had so well-meaningly offered them to eat 🙀

The expressions on their faces were priceless! If they could speak, they would have said, "Seriously??"

I've never met a gluten intolerant cat in my life. Is that even a 'thing'?

Do any of you think cats understand what you say to them?

I only ask because my Mother cat seems to take notice when I remind her that she should crunch biscuits, and not swallow them whole.

She has a tendency to just swallow Dreamies and other cat biscuits without biting them first. And it always results in her sicking them up again soon after.

But, if I say "remember crunch crunch" when I give them to her, she always does actually crunch them all. It's very odd!

What do you all think?

Today he is a plant.

WheresThatCatGoneNow, I think they definitely know what we want from them at certain specific times, because they do obey. It's all to do with routines. Most of the time ignore us, unless something's advantageous to them

@WheresThatCatGoneNow

I think they understand more than we think.

Have you ever read an article by an animal communicator? Bloody terrifying.

@wheresthatcatgonenow

I have the exact one. Emma had a water infection and we thought it might be from her not drinking enough due to her utter refusal to drink from anywhere other than the basin. Took her a few days but she happily drinks from it now. Wish I'd got one sooner shes ever so old now and it's much easier for her.

I'd definitely recommend

Karl is having great fun catching and eating hoverflies.

That tail!

I hate to say it but it does look silly. :)

No - it's the latest Parisian fashion you know .

I just want to know how long it's going to take to grow back.

Sitting a bloody (empty) nest

He's been up the tree twice already

Put a comfy blanket in there. He won’t go near it then.

Ernie! Put some eggs in it for him and we can have Ernie kittens!

There is obviously something of interest in the tree (that we cant see) as he's obssessed with it. That or he just wants to frighten us. We were hoping to get rid of the trampoline but it's his safety net

Can you ost videos staright to MN or do they have to be posted to YouTube first ?

I think you have to post to YouTube first - that's what Queen does with Ollie.

I'd love to see an Ernie video.

I wish you had one of the time you cut a path for him in the snow and poured boiling water down so he could have a crap.

Presenting...Ernie the Twat cat

Yea the toilet he is not mostly avoiding. God knows where he's crapping at the mo hoping its my cunty neighbours at the bottom

I think I may of mentioned Ern was at the vets limping a couple of months ago, and we thought itt was a recurrance of and injury when he fell out of a tree as a kitchen.

He had to have an x-ray and it turned out to be a frigging (very clean) round hole in his paw. Co-incidence that cunty neighbour had put up a very nasty cheap anti-cat spike in a four foot fence

Oh, Ernie! I love the way he heard 'if he was smart' and then followed the instructions :).

Can you put a ladder by the tree?

And that's just nasty of your neighbour. Poor Ernie.

The offending spikes. Apparently you can get some rubber ones but these are nasty and sharp, IH cut his hand on them praising them off

I may if taken a hammer to the ones I could reach. I think anti- cat people kid themselves they are a deterrent but they serve no purpose but to injure any animals. The positioning of these on a lower fence means cats will jump down on to them