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Cheddar & Pickle.

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Toddlerteaplease · 23/01/2024 18:26

I'm amazed that the first thread has filled up. So he's another thread about the inmates of Toddler Towers!

Cheddar & Pickle.
Cheddar & Pickle.
Cheddar & Pickle.
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Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 10:29

I don't think Pen will be an issue. She lived with other cats. And Cheddar was the aggressor usually. She never reacted. He seems very placid.

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Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 10:30

I think he'll either remain Teddy, or become Paddington. He's definitely not a Parker.

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SoDoffYourHat · 27/04/2024 11:01

"Please look after this cat" - 'Paddington' label very appropriate as he's come into rescue with a box full of things; he must have been loved but his previous human no longer able to care for him 😥

Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 11:07

SoDoffYourHat · 27/04/2024 11:01

"Please look after this cat" - 'Paddington' label very appropriate as he's come into rescue with a box full of things; he must have been loved but his previous human no longer able to care for him 😥

😰😰😰😰

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Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 11:08

He clearly has been loved. And his stuff was clean.

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Breadcat24 · 27/04/2024 11:22

lovely little chap

Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 11:24

@Breadcat24 he's. It little, he's huge!!

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SoDoffYourHat · 27/04/2024 11:56

Big, soft cuddly boy!💕

Anniegetyourgun · 27/04/2024 12:38

When I first met my late little Bubbles she was lying under a table, curled up on top of what appeared to be a big fluffy cushion, which turned out to be her housemate. Unfortunately I was unable to adopt him as well, and her relationship with the evil Oscar was nowhere near so cordial. But perhaps Penelope and Teddy/Paddington will find a similar dynamic. You could call it a Pen Pad.

There's also the mournful possibility that, given her history, she will go "A bloke? I know what you're trying to pull! Not having any of that". Obviously everyone here is crossing all digits that they do hit it off. The auguries are promising so far.

SoDoffYourHat · 27/04/2024 13:08

There's also the mournful possibility that, given her history, she will go "A bloke? I know what you're trying to pull! Not having any of that"

Has Paddington been castrated? If he has, hopefully he will not smell like the studs Penelope has encountered.

Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 13:24

Yes. He was castrated in February

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Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 13:29

Pen is also a lesbian, she refused to do her duty. (Good girl!) j Pen Pad is a great idea!

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SoDoffYourHat · 27/04/2024 13:38

She will hold her own with a big soppy boy!

Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 15:23

Yes. She's got small cat syndrome. I don't think she'll be an issue. She never reacted when Cheddar was chasing her.

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SoDoffYourHat · 27/04/2024 16:53

My girl is literally half the weight of my boy but she puts him in his place if he annoys her.

SoDoffYourHat · 27/04/2024 17:14

Thinking about it, Cheddar was a marmalade coloured cat, so she would definitely approve of marmalade-loving Paddington !

Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 18:24

What about Bubbles? My sister is still insisting on Goblin 🙄

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Scampuss · 27/04/2024 18:46

Not Bubbles.

Anniegetyourgun · 27/04/2024 19:01

What what about Bubbles? You're welcome to use the name if you want, it's not copyrighted and I would be honoured rather than miffed, but I don't think your prospective new cat looks like a Bubbles - though he looks even less like a Goblin. Or do you mean how did she and Oscar interact? Well, mostly he leaped at her shouting "let's you and me wrastle" (not in English, obviously) and she would go "Eep!" and bat him on the nose before fleeing under the furniture.

They were both black and white DSH, Oscar being around twice the size of Bubbles, one of those force-of-nature cats who leaped fences in a single bound, sort of thing, and ate anything that didn't move faster than him (including Bubbles's dinner), while she was little and fussy and cuddly. They occasionally sat near each other in, not exactly friendship, but toleration, and even more rarely teamed up to chase strange cats away. Eventually he got epilepsy and then kidney disease, poor boy, so he was quiet and flat, which she liked much better. When he had to be PTS she was ecstatic. All the attention! Meals in peace!

Alas, she didn't get to enjoy being an only cat for long; she died of heart failure only a few months later, during a bout of hideously hot weather, at the age of 10. I was devastated and took the solemn oath not to make myself so emotionally vulnerable again. Gave all the cat gubbins away. It was nearly 5 years before I realised that my home (and heart) was missing a Very Important Ingredient. Hence, Thrifty and Izzy.

Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 19:12

@Anniegetyourgun I saw CV your cat was called bubbles and thought it was a cool name!

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Toddlerteaplease · 27/04/2024 19:45

That*

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Anniegetyourgun · 27/04/2024 20:16

Sometimes I catch myself calling Izzy Bubbles, out of habit. They're not really all that much alike, aside from being small black and white cats with adorable little faces. Breathe it softly, but Izzy is quite clever as cats go, whilst Bubbles, with all her cute ways and street smartness, really wasn't. Also Izzy's markings are quite like Oscar's, nearly 50-50 b/w, whilst Bubbles was mainly black with clownish splashes and dashes of white. I guess her previous owners thought it looked like... bubbles. I once had an argument with DS1, who has a pale ginger BSH, as to whose cat was cuter. I said "Bubbles has a little black moustache!" He said "Like Hitler. Are you saying Hitler was cute?"

I don't think I have a picture of her, sadly. Not sure why because I know we took some. Here's one of Oscar though.

Cheddar & Pickle.
Anniegetyourgun · 27/04/2024 20:32

Anyway - sorry - hijacking your thread. Polluting it with photos of common moggies! If you do get your young fellow he has a white moustache instead, so like Bubbles in negative. But I think he may be Too Big To Bubble.

Allergictoironing · 28/04/2024 09:19

I would avoid naming him anything your sister suggests - think of the dreadful names she's called your girls by over the years!

I like many of the "B" names, plus Teddy and Parker. But my problem is when I think about names that go with Penelope I keep thinking of Dick Dastardly!

Heronatemygoldfish · 28/04/2024 09:41

Ha! Grin At least Dick Dastardly did have a moustache!

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