Cat chat thread we've lost count

[QueenPawPaws]

New thread as we hit 1000 posts!

Both your cats slept well. 🥰

Getting up at 4am to check on 'not my cat' Paws is true devotion, QueenPawPaws. He is definitely getting more used to life inside.

@nettie434 I worry he will want to go out so I staggered out of bed at 4am and 6am
6am he was sat up, looked outside and went back to sleep
Even Ollie slept through without waking me after howling at paws for a bit (paws was sat on HIS chair...)

Dedicated pet parenting knows no bounds at Palais de Paws.

My support bubble has either COVID or pneumonia. Or manflu. Test results awaited. Why is there no test for manflu?

@Fluffycloudland77 a valance hides the shredded divan.

Awww I didn't know Charlie was scared of fairy lights!

There’s a lemsip type drink called manflu. Apparently quite effective.

@Supersimkin2 it’s the head boards, they are all huge now. We had velvet sofas when I was little and the chinchillas laid waste to them. Dm had a Victorian chaise recovered and they demolished that.

Why is there no test for manflu?

Because Manflu is caused by any viral infection, too many to test for in one go - could be real flu, could be a cold (loads of different strains of the common cold), could be minor covid, anything that makes you feel a little tired & achey counts. The sheer volume of bodily fluids that would be needed to test for all the possible causes is massive!

@Allergictoironing it was a joke. One I shan’t be trying again

@Fluffycloudland77 get a wooden bed or an antique one, miles cheaper and nicer

[quote Supersimkin2]@Allergictoironing it was a joke. One I shan’t be trying again

@Fluffycloudland77 get a wooden bed or an antique one, miles cheaper and nicer[/quote]
So was my response!

Why is there no test for manflu?

On another thread elsewhere I think the event of manflu was confirmed by the wearing of the Dressing Gown of Doom.

Awww I didn't know Charlie was scared of fairy lights!

I think it was Charlie (?) I remember a post about a cat having to be carried home because the neighbour's outside lights scared him ...

At the time I thought 'how adorable'.

My neighbour's cat used to be scared of bubbles.

Two of mine love chasing bubbles, but don't dare pump up a bicycle inner tube in their presence! They hate the hissing sound and throw themselves out the cat flap at high speed.

Yep it was Charlie, I remember now! Bless him.

@Allergictoironing BRILLIANT

Rib cracking laffs here, that’s made my year already

Still cacklin’

I remember one year when I was working away and had a bad cold. When I or my siblings get a bad cold, it's BAD like a full box of tissues every other day and that's filling the tissues (yuk).

There was a guy there complaining about how dreadful his cold was, and how he thought it may be flu instead. He then got a tissue from his single pocket sized packet (the kind that has about 6 in), gave one minor snuffle into it, and threw it away complaining that he wasn't sure whether the packet would last the day.

There was also the guy striding quickly down the platform at a London terminus saying to his mate he had "a touch of flu".

Definition of flu according to a nurse I used to teach riding to:
If you are lying on the edge of a 2 acre field & there's a £50 note in the middle, if you can get the note you haven't got flu.

Definition of flu according to a nurse I used to teach riding to:
If you are lying on the edge of a 2 acre field & there's a £50 note in the middle, if you can get the note you haven't got flu

I've heard the same, except that the note is pushed under the door.

Tbf I diagnosed Manflu when DH put on The Dressing Gown of Doom and it turned out to be Covid 🙈🙊

Boy who cried wolf effect?

Hehehe 🤣

@YetAnotherSpartacus

Boy who cried wolf effect?

Very much so.

Seriously, whenever he's a bit off colour he makes more fuss than a full delivery suite in a maternity hospital that's run out of pain relief. Whilst telling me, repeatedly, how he doesn't make a fuss and "just gets on with it". 🤦🏼‍♀️

A colleague sent her teen boy in with a cold, turned out to be meningitis and school put him in an ambulance. Tbf to dh he does try to get on with it despite having heart failure.

It was the smoke alarm Asbo hated @TheLongRider, I was trying to train him to run out the house when it went off after spotting his first reaction was to hide under the dressing table but I didn’t have time, oh and brown tape. Dh put parcel tape on him once and he was really freaked out by it and he always kept an eye on packing tape rolls after that. Dh got severely bollocked for that one.

I fell down 2 flights of stairs, landed sat on my ankle. It was facing the wrong way
My mother commented "I'm not sure whether it needs hospital"
Me and my dad really?!
Broken foot, ankle, snapped ligaments, 12 weeks in plaster and rehab physio. No, sure it's fine mum

Grey cat would run away from my Mum when she visited because she brought him to the vets twice. It took about three years before he'd stay in the same room as her. Mum has had cats for all of her 80+ years so she was mortally offended.