Machiavellian Misbehaviour- the Excellent Cats Deny Everything

[TheShellBeach]

Clarion call to all the cats from the last thread and a warm welcome to any new ones who want to join us.

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Boone has the right idea for today.

Happy birthday to Truffle! Raising a glass of pawsecco to mark the occasion 🥂🎂

And this is how black cats earn their "Welcome to the Void" reputation! 😆

All my photos come under this category (sigh!)

Frankie sends sleepy birthday greetings.

Oh Frankie. Are you worn out?

Linney just came in from the rain 🌧

He's drying himself very carefully now, in preparation for going out and getting soaked again.

So many tired kitties. Clearly we've been working them too hard.

Rosie popped along to say that you can't get two much of a good thing!

Arthur and myself joined the thread yesterday. Last evening I saw him in the garden marching on the spot, tail up spraying up the fence!!! Are neutered toms meant to be doing this??? 🐈‍⬛

@DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats I used to have a neutered cat who sprayed. I put it down to the UTIs he'd had previously but I don't know if that actually was the reason. He sprayed my leg once, that was...nice.

Frank seems to have only 3 modes: sleeping; stealing food from my plate; glowering.

Truffle briefly woke up to date thank you for all the birthday wishes. Such a shame that her litter-mate, Fudge, isn’t here to enjoy it with her, but she crossed the Rainbow Bridge about 8 yrs ago.
Neutered males can and do spray, as can females on occasion but more rarely.

@RumNotRun Hmm he hasn’t had any wee infections. He had his anal glands cleared (?) at the vets a while ago. All very odd. Loving Frank’s glower. 🐈‍⬛

@DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats (totally agree with your user name btw) my 17 yr old girl does this in the garden, I think it's something to do with next door's 5 cats who are frequent visitors, she's just marking her territory!

@DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats Ours do this occassionally when outside. I tend to think if they are weeing up a tree or a fence outside it's a bonus because it saves them using the litter box.

Boone, our older boy did this when we got Eko. I took it as marking his home territory. Never did it again.

@DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats - Perfectly normal. Even neutered animals mark. It's less territorial, more for information iykwim. Leroy pisses up everything like a dog when we're out 🤦🏼‍♀️

Don't think it’s weeing Grumpy it’s sort of a spray. Bless him. At least he doesn’t do it indoors 😱🐈‍⬛

I think that could be it. There are certainly other cats in the vicinity x

Frankenstein is actually a very sweet handsome little cat (who has commandeered my pillow) but he looks demonic in all photos.

@RumNotRun Frankenstein! 🤣🤣

That's his full name for when he's being naughty but usually he is just Frankie. Also known as Frankincense, Frankfurter, Franklestiltskin, or Lego cat (as he has a strangely cube shaped head)

My youngest daughter is named Francesca. She goes by the same nicknames as your Frank @RumNotRun 🤣🤣

Ha ha ha! It’s so hard not to call them by all sorts of weirdy names that aren’t theirs. My black cat is Arthur but we call him lots of things. Shinny. Mr Shins. The Shinmeister. Can’t help myself

I need to leave the house in 13 minutes. Sybil has her backside on my shoulder and is purring her head off pacing on my arm (which of course I can't move).
Suggestions? The church choir needs me (and definitely needs DS2 as he will be playing the organ)