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Continuation of previous threads.

Congratulations, Allergic. He is beautiful.
Thanks for all the good wishes.
I should be out in 3-7 days, Grumpy. I suspect it will be 5-6 days.

Tobias looks like an excellent fellow and I really like his name. Nice to see Paws curled up asleep too.

Sending you my very best wishes for Tuesday, Papergirl1968.

FWK has just sent me her latest picture of Doris.

Doris is a sweetie.

She’s stunning. With opinions.

Best of luck with Tobias Allergic. Girlcat will certainly put him through his probation period.

Bella the foster kitten went to her forever home on Friday. The boy kittens are bereft. They play with each other but they were really attached to her. Despite having seven cats, the house is much quieter with one missing.

Plans already in place for the weekend. Spare bedroom will be his initial base camp rather than it's current usage as a store/dressing room for my nicer clothes, which will have to be boxed up. This will be where he stays until he's comfortable here. Will also let Girlcat get used to the smell of him before they meet. Have plenty of spare bowls, and the large litter tray that has sat unused in the living room since the day Boycat & Girlcat came home.

Mon/Tues/Wed booked off work. Kindle will be charged so I can spend loads of time in "his" room reading etc. Will take a radio up there, probably tuned to a mix of easy listening & chat, for when I'm spending quality time with Girlcat and if he's still in 1 room when I go back to work.

DBro & DSil are bring a large pet pen round at the weekend which will go in the living room for introductions.

He's using the same litter as I already do, so no problem there. Similar dry (same make). Slightly different wet, but he can be a bit of a greedy guts with wet so that shouldn't be a problem. Plenty of Dreamies already in the house, will lay in a larger supply of Webbox chewy sticks.

What have I forgotten???

In other news, half asleep this morning in bed I could have sworn that not only did I see Boycat come in the room but felt him jump on the bed. When I realised he wasn't there, had quite a sniffle 😢

That sounds perfect preparation Allergic. I'm sure this will be fine (unless Tobias's musical preferences favour Heavy Metal or the Second Viennese School over easy listening 🤣)

Sending loads of good wishes and (((hugs))) in Paper's direction.

Bet you flirt with the surgeon while you're under anaesthetic 😂

💐💐

Massive love for the op Paper. You’ll feel
so much better afterwards - we’re all thinking of you and sending you all the very best.

Oh well done Allergic. Have you got a toy? And a catnip mouse? PM me yr address quick. I’ll post today.

Best wishes and healing purrs @Papergirl1968

Just doing Morning Dreamies here. The procedure:

Prince bites my leg until it creaks over the edge of the bed.

Coffee machine on, pouch down, open back door. Prince out, Havelock in.

Coffee, taken not in state of mental
capacity.

Both cats at my feet, glaring at the coffee cup, till it drains. Phone will be kicked away with sneaky paw.

4 green eyes narrowed to slits on me, slightly flicky tails. A fat fluffy black paw reaches across to swat a ginger tail- the mood is elevated. Morning coffee is not leisurely.

Megatub appears. They get about six rounds each cos they know i’m still unconscious.

Both heads stroked. Cats out to fight a geranium.

Old people across the garden open windows to wave at ‘adorable’ cats promenading to be admired, while I am
caught staggering out in my nightdress refereeing the geranium issue.

🤣😂

That sounds very similar to life here with The Tribe. I tend to channel the pigeon lady from Mary Poppins when giving Dreamies and just scatter them. I tried giving each cat the same amount but by the time I get to the last cat, the first one begins protesting that they haven't had any.

Blep!

My FattyBoy went to vet hospital yesterday for radiation treatment for his thyroid. Can’t come home for two weeks! Am so worried as he’s a lapcat love bug and for the two weeks the cats can’t be handled at all due to radiation issues. Litter tray changed, fed and watered, but no other interaction. He’ll be hating it, and I’m so scared he won’t make it to come home. He wouldn’t survive without the treatment though. Wish us luck?!

Very very best of luck to you and your lovely fluffy boy @MotherOfPuffling !

Massive love 💕 and luck to you both. Mr C my huge cat had it, and we made it through fine. It’s a lot safer than a major op, and you can always scent blankets from you and wrap the patient up all snuggly.

Thank you both! That’s really reassuring. I bought a special blanket to go in with him and we all snuggled with him in it for the week before he went in to the vet hospital 😊

Doing well, thanks everyone, but missing the cats and dog so much!
Allergic, my parents were the most rational, un woo people ever, and my dad felt our cat jump up.on the bed soon after he died. And I heard a miaow in my house when I was putting my make-up on one morning for work, grief stricken of course but not particularly thinking of him at that particular time.

Really pleased to hear you are doing well Paper.

And you'll be back with the cats and dog shortly.
Wishing you a speedy recovery recovery from your op.

Get well
soon Paper!

So good to hear you so soon after the op - take it easy. Matt and Socks and The Dawg will see you soon😀

When one of our cats was PTS, I distinctly heard scratching on the wall behind the bed that night.
That particular cat had always jumped on to the bed after I got in, and came up to be stroked.
I am the least woo person on the planet, too, so I was really surprised to hear the scratching.
But it was unmistakable.

I think they come back to say goodbye.

And after my dad died, I was coming in and out with buckets of water washing the car when there was a sudden smell of orange which just as suddenly vanished.I
I have heard friends mention seeing the outline of their pets once they've gone, or the briefest glimpse out of the corner of your eye. It's comforting.