The One where TC moved to Scotland and joined the Excellent Cats

[TheShellBeach]

Failte gu Alba!

Then standing in the doorway, trying to decide if it's worth going out

TC Gizmo has spent so long trying to get into Grumpy's house and now he has achieved the feat of getting into a different house in a different location he clearly doesn't want to risk going out!

That last picture is a very Gizmo pose. 😻

We do miss the little furry sod - but sitting in the living room on a sunny day with the patio doors wide open is a revelation.
Gratuitous picture of Sybil enclosed - she's enjoying the fresh air too.

Still not taking the plunge to go out.
He's right by the door here but not risking it yet.

Getting closer…

As @CassandraCross said, now he's finally achieved his aim, why go out? He can fill the time he usually devotes to annexation/mutilation with napping.

Argh Linney!

He's just brought in an almost-dead bird.

We've ordered an igloo for Gizmo because he keeps going into Linney's.

Hard to be cross with such a beauty though!😻

He made it!
He ran back in when he heard a dog barking.

Hissing at each other

I miss him a lot. Especially this morning, got woken up at 04:20 by the chickens. I opened my bedroom window and saw what I believe was Carl running out of the chicken cube. Gizmo is maybe a TC, but he just guarded the garden and his friends the chickens and the dogs. May have to let the dogs take over to patrol.

I can neither confirm nor deny that Karl (and Lenny) were both dirty stop outs last night.
However - when they came in this morning neither had any feathers attached nor did they smell of chicken.
I think they've been framed 🤣

@TCsDad it must be hard, missing him so much. He clearly has a lovely home with @TheShellBeach and you can see he is safe and well but who would not miss such a big character?

@TheShellBeach that most recent picture clearly shows the size difference. For some reason I thought Gizmo was a huge panther, now I can see that it's his character that's super-sized!

I'll try to add some recent pictures of my 2.4 kg powerhouse who rampages around the place as if she is a Rottweiler

Random change of subject - but is anyone here any good at identifying insects.
T'internet suggests it's a female swollen thigh beetle but if anyone knows better?
We were attacked by two of these in bed last night. 🤣

We were attacked by two of these in bed last night

Oh grim.

Fair's fair. You brought in another cat, Linney wants to choose his own pet tyvm 😂

Linney was showing GIzmo what he was missing outside.

Linney went out early today, and returned with a dismembered mouse in his mouth.

He then ate the remains of the mouse and refused his usual pouch of Felix.

He didn't share his mouse with TC?

Linney needs a copy of 'How to win friends and influence cats people' 😁

It's just occurred to me that we can leave the window open now.

Gizmo has braved the outside world at last. When he'd had enough, he came straight back in.

Clever boy!

That's great news. Gizmo also eats his catch, but he also eat everything you give him too. So you need to watch his figure 😂

good news on TC

In other new Picasso the supermarket cat sits next to the sign saying Do not feed me looking very dejected. That is a bowl of water!

I love Picasso's little scarf, @Breadcat24

Last night I was watching TV till late.

At 1 am I decided to go to bed, but quickly realised that Gizmo had gone out and failed to return.

I therefore woke Mr SB up, who paid no attention and went back to sleep again. By this time, Linney had come out of his cave and gone out, too.

I decided to put on my shoes and go and look for Gizmo. I armed myself with a bag of treats to shake.

To my delight, I saw a cat approaching at a run - then realised it was Suzy.

Honestly - do all the cats round here listen out for bags of treats being shaken at odd hours of the night?

Anyway, I then saw Mr. Gizmo, also approaching at a run, from the same direction as Suzy had.

I rewarded them both with some treats and Gizmo ran into the house.

Then I had to wait another half hour for Linney to return at his leisure. I couldn't leave the window open in case Gizmo got out again.

I didn't get to bed till nearly 2 am.