Cat chat thread the umpteenth - the Café is open all welcome

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He's beautiful!

I was sitting in the lounge last night with the back door open because Walter was going in and out. I was very surprised when NMC peered at me round the corner of the other sofa!

@QueenPaw they are lovely cats.

Paws is a bit of a hearthrob, bless his fat white footsies.

Happy Easter from ‘Two Dinners’

That floof takes a lot of nutrition. The toe floofs are splendid.

Oh my goodness, that photo of Cap'n is quite something! 🧡

@Fluffycloudland77 please feel free to tell me to sod off! I've been wondering about Asbo. It was early days of me being on this thread when you lost him 😢 and I never really knew what sort of antics earnt him his nickname. I wondered if you might tell some of his stories? If it's too painful then I really apologise for asking.

Beautiful Cap'n!
You have a NMC too, *Coaster?" I must have missed that. How does Walter feel about that?

He was a typical territorial Bengal, when other cats fight there’s a period of howling that gives one of them the chance to bow out but asbo didn’t bother with any of that and quickly escalated all confrontations to a punch up to the delight of my vet.

So, Cozie nicknamed him Asbo which stuck but Cozie knows her cats. She said he’d carry weaponry if he could and she was right.

When he wasn’t beating up the neighbours cats he was a very affectionate lap cat which I don’t think anyone who saw him fight believed.

Cozie was good at nicknames. Ollies was "weirdo"

@Papergirl1968 I do seem to have an NMC! He's been around for ages, on and off. He was even around before Bertie died, which was really freaky because one night I thought I saw Bertie come in the door, then did a double take because Bertie was at the opposite end of the room on the windowsill! He's not been around for ages but has reappeared the last few weeks. Walter sometimes plays with him and gets a big fluffy tail, but mostly doesn't seem bothered.

Fluffy thank you for sharing about Asbo. He sounds like such a character. I can just picture a kitty punch up! I've no idea who Cozie is I'm afraid!

Stories.

He wouldn’t come in one night when about 6-7m old, dh found him and got shredded for his effort, blood dripping off him. T shirt ripped. Routinely went stealth when dh was trying to get him in. Tried leaving him with pil for a holiday but he vanished and I had to drive from Devon to the midlands and back on the first day of our break to get him and put him in a cattery. I drove 1200 miles in two days.

Had to have a general to have a blood test, sedation didn’t work.

Nearly got kidnapped by a lady with a carrier who said he looked like her cat. Dh went out and I found out later. She would have got shredded only I could box him.

Had a massive black farm cat and ginger cat as friends. Tried to take gingers tortoise out of its shell.

Could open all the doors, tried to open windows, could do sliding doors too and drawers. Took the kickboards off in the kitchen to find spiders. Could open autofeeders which sort of defeated the whole idea.

Head butted cat flaps till they broke.

Tipped glasses over to play in the puddles.

Tapped on the window if a cat went past so they knew he was there.

Fell off the conservatory roof onto concrete 🤦🏻‍♀️ Chasing pigeons.

Ignored dh for the first 6 years of his life.

Sprayed on mils new coat but she tried to murder him with a Xmas tree so it was fair.

Obviously to us he was the platonic ideal of a cat.

Cozie is the FairyCatMother who recommended the website "CatChat" when I was looking, then encouraged me to go for it when I saw Leroy even though I was out of that particular rescue's catchment area.

A true star 🌟

Well I've never seen him do this before...

Think mine are looking for a new home...

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/why-animals-dont-get-lost

Glorious Easter story

That was cute! I'm glad Billy found his hooman 🥰

I read the rest too, which was really interesting.

I'm one of those weirdos who could tell instinctively if I was going the wrong way on the London Underground even before I lived there, and given a moment or two I can work out which way is (roughly) North even on a cloudy day 🤷🏼‍♀️.

My other "party trick" is to tell you the direction someone's garden faces as long as I can picture the route there in my head.

I doubt that would be much use in the big scheme of things though!

That’s deeply impressive Yes for a hooman.

Ollie says you never get lost if you stay right next to mama

(I can dowse for water as well - fuck knows how!)

Love the stories about Asbo. Sounds like he got Walter's share of the brains!

So can I! I never realised it was woo - my engineer uncle does it all the time on his sites at work. He taught me.

A lot of so-called psychic abilities are perfectly standard human skills that only some of us have. Just another of those things that scientists are wrong about, like saying animals are dim.

@Supersimkin2 - Yep, I found out it was considered woo long after I'd been doing it. It kind of got hijacked by people claiming to dowse for spiritual energy and people claiming to have psychic experiences within the energy fields of water. Or something like that.

I must admit I love all that kind of stuff, but more from the scientific point of view.

Can I ask how your uncle taught you? I'd like to teach DS, but I don't know how I do it!

They key to spiritual success is the right stick - you're after a straight, smooth two-pronged fork from a local tree.

Not a big knobbly branch, cos what you want is a nice straight line from you through the stick to the water. I wouldn't bother dowsing with rods, unnecessary expense.

My uncle taught me by a) going shopping for sticks in the park b) showing me how to walk round over a spot holding stick out by the forks where he knew was water beneath - until you feel the pull c) hours of happy practice in the woods.

😂😂😂😂😂

I use a cut up wire coat hanger!!!!

That too!

Capn says he dowses for dreamies.

I used to help publish a lot of woo at work - we had a thriving list that I commissioned bits of every now and then.

A lot of the quasi religious stuff got no time of day from yrs truly but the health stuff often is really good. Woo goes from shameful con to unacknowledged genius - acupuncture works, but no one knows how. Feng Shui, however, who knows? But the instructions rely on male toddlers pissing in corners to bring you wealth.