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

[TheLongRider]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_litter_tray/4114520-cat-chat-thread-we-ve-lost-count

Oh dear. That’s not the face of forgiveness.

When’s the next vet trip?.

I haven't booked another vet trip yet - it's not urgent, and I feel bad about messing the vet around so want to master my cat-scrobbling technique first. The problem is, she is large, and determined, and I live by myself...

So, tomorrow my two rescue cats are coming. They are being brought over by the rescue so they can check out our house at the same time. I'm super excited but I find myself crying when getting their things ready. I just miss my lovely Ruby cat so much and this has woken up the grief. Hopefully it will feel better once they are here.

JoanOgden Put the cat box in the smallest room, usually the bathroom, wear your thickest sleeved clothes, entice cat into bathroom, block all exits, grab cat and shove into box, job done.

Alternatively sneak up on dozing cat, whisper sweet nothings into her ear as you grip her firmly and swiftly put her in the box before she realises what happens.

It helps to have an air of full confidence in your cat boxing abilities. They can smell the fear...

Thank you for the tips, @TheLongRider!

The problem comes with the "grab the cat and shove her into the box"... I can do the grabbing and shoving, but I don't have enough limbs to hold her in and zip it up simultaneously while she hooks her claws onto me and fights her way out again.

Still! Perhaps practice will make perfect

It is a bit like trying to put an octopus into a string bag!

& the string bags team octopus.

Guess who is back...

@QueenPaw let me know if Walter finds his way to you 😂 Mouse looks very sweet!

Hope all members of the litter tray are well. It's my birthday today! I usually hate it, but I've had a lovely day despite not feeling well. Walter made me laugh so much earlier. My dad is not a fan of cats, and was so surprised to find Walt perched on his lap, doing his best innocent face.

Happy Birthday! I’m glad you had a good day.

Happy birthday @coastergirl . Wishing you lots of purrs and cuddles

Happy Birthday 🥳 @coastergirl

Happy Birthday! May you have many good years ahead of you.

Happy Birthday coaster 🥳🧚🏼‍♀️

Mouse looks quite fat tbh. I think Ollie's selling tickets...

Happy birthday! Ollie has gone off with Mouse and is refusing to come when I shout him

Thanks all!

Oh Ollie! Hope he comes in soon. Naughty boy. I like the sound of the cats protection person who is coming to scan Mouse and have a word with Ollie 😂

Happy birthday, Coaster. You almost share it with Matt, who turned 7 yesterday. To my shame, I forgot. DD2 and I sang happy birthday to him this evening.
Bless you, Hemskis. I know it feels like betrayal but you won't stop loving and missing Ruby by having two new kitties, although hopefully it will ease the pain. You're doing a lovely thing, giving them a home. Share pics when you can.

@coastergirl he's back! I went looking and found him coming back with mouse trailing after him 🙄🙄

... and I'm just thinking @TheLongRider truly has the gift of seeing into the future, bearing in mind this thread's title! "QueenPaw's cat cafe - all welcome"

On a previous thread I described Ollie as being like Samuel Pepys. Now I think he is the cat version of Fred Sirieix, the maître d'hôtel from First Dates. Everyone is welcome at Chez Ollie.

@TheLongRider I tramped all the way to the main road looking for him, then he strolled out a bush with Mouse behind all "wait for me"

Happy Special Seven Matt the Magnificent. Capn suggests you take it easy.

Happy birthdays Coaster and Matt!

Any locked-room mystery fans about who want to help me solve MN's Very Own Mystery?

Here goes.

When I go to bed in the evening, I make sure that all windows are closed and that both the front and back doors are locked and bolted.

I close my bedroom door at night because AlfonsoCat likes to wake me up at silly o'clock. When I get up in the morning, AC is waiting for me next to the bedroom door and regales me with tales of how he almost died of hunger overnight and is weak from malnutrition and lonely lonely lonely, never having had a cuddle in his entire life. Hmmm.

Except for this morning... No AC. Anywhere. And his food from supper is partially uneaten.

So, alien abduction? Cat burglars? I am absolutely baffled.

I do hope he is Ok!