Chez Ollie - The Not My Cats of many colours edition - All welcome

[TheLongRider]

New thread time.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_litter_tray/4244039-Chez-Ollie-All-welcome-especially-Not-My-Cats-General-Cat-chat-thread

@Oldraver Mica is by far the most ferocious Savannah I have, she's definitely the most serval out of any of them. She made light work of an enormous squirrel not long ago, she's not one to be messed with

I wouldn't want to mess with those teeth, her claws are bad enough!

Wow! Mica could give TC a run for his money. I am imagining all the little birds in Just's garden hopping about excitedly watching the contest not knowing whether to support Mica or the sparrowhawk. I've only seen a sparrowhawk once in real life and if I were a bird I would take my chances with a cat over a sparrowhawk any day. At least cats spend quite a lot of the day asleep!

@Justonedayatatime11

I wouldn't want to mess with those teeth, her claws are bad enough!

Oh my, yes the thought of her claws

Ive just got out the shower and thought ooh stingey legs, and looked down at all the kitten claw marks as they think my legs are for climbing on

A Savannahs claws though....

Ollie is not impressed with work

What a perfect frowny face

He makes me laugh every day how he perched on my desk
I know he looks a bit scruffy, he's lost muscle recently but the vet says it's just with getting older

He certainly looks unimpressed!

Have you done something to upset him

@Oldraver

Have you done something to upset him

I only gave him 4 meals and tea was 15 minutes late...

Betsy was sat on my desk earlier and one of her whiskers just fell out!!

Is this normal??

I have literally owned cats since I was a foetus and I have never seen a whisker fall out....

@cricketmum84 yes, I regularly find whiskers on the bed, floor, dressing table.

Now she is 15, one of my two pure black cats grows an occasional white whisker, you can see it growing and then it falls out and regrows

Ollie has lost them before, I found one on my pillow! He's all snotty today, I think from sticking his nose in the neighbours water fountain

I used to love finding whiskers around the house. DCat, being nearly all black, started with black ones, which went white with age

I saw this recently, it's true!

"Cat Tips
@CatTipps
Long ago exactly one cat died from being fed four minutes past feeding time and cats have told their children of this for 3,000 generations"

Exactly, time is very flexible to them. Dinner 15 minutes late = eternity. Taking 3 months to settle into a new house = short period of time.

Well mine are settling on, still occasionally skittish at new things. I think the postwomen got them yesterday as they came racing in the living room and I've just had the temerity to turn on the shower and the scarpered

Came out to find two little heads poking out from under the bed, Trev came out first but Trina had to be told it was ok

The did come straight to me on the loo this morn and weren't like er who are you

@TheLongRider

I saw this recently, it's true!

"Cat Tips
@CatTipps
Long ago exactly one cat died from being fed four minutes past feeding time and cats have told their children of this for 3,000 generations"

Oh, my. That is so funny and so true.

Good for Trev and Trevina for being so bold!

Trina sent Trev out to see if it’s safe. If anyone’s going to get murdered it won’t be Trina.

That made me laugh. Good on Trev for being willing to take one for the team, what with Cat Eating Monsters lurking around every corner and all.

@Fluffycloudland77

Trina sent Trev out to see if it’s safe. If anyone’s going to get murdered it won’t be Trina.

She is by far the more clever of the two, OH calls Trev Ernie 2 as he's not quite so bright but bold and snit if a bully to his sis

Whiskers are really lucky!!!

I keep Mr Cs in my jewellery box. And Capns. One day, when cloning goes on yellow sticker, everyone on the thread is getting two nutritionally challenging pets for Xmas.

Since you ask, yes, whiskers do shed like hair but not that often cos there aren’t that many of them.

I’ll try and edit out the M&S gene but no promises.

Wow I can't believe I've never seen stray whiskers hanging around before! Maybe I should have kept it. It's in the bin now.