The Excellent Cats welcome the new year by planning an expedition in search of 'She who must not be named'

[Grumpyoldpersonwithcats]

Carried forward from the previous thread.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_litter_tray/5440081-prison-dramas-bands-and-ouija-boards-the-excellent-cats-audition-sing-and-plot?page=1

Lenny however needs a rest before he starts searching.

Stripey did jump onto the piano keyboard once. She was so horrified by her playing that she just collapsed sideways and fell on top of Snowcat who was standing on the floor nearby. Both of them then panicked and ran away.

I don’t know why she considers the piano a safe space at all to be honest.

It must have been funny though.

I’ve got a noisy, messy cold. Is Kitty being sympathetic? No, if I wake her up coughing or sneezing in the night she’s huffing at me & going off to sleep on the sofa, then being all welcoming at breakfast time.

Although I am still permitted to stroke her if I’m not making annoying noises, so I suppose I should be grateful for that.

Basil is currently cuddling Sybil. 😻

Kettle is practising his 'Blue Steel'.

Linney is looking down at Gizmo, and wondering what he's up to.
Gizmo is practising his "innocent" face, despite having knocked down another bowl of sweets a few minutes ago.

He's nailed it!

The evidence, M'Lud.

Gizmo was framed!

Most cats look angelically innocent even after committing the most heinous of crimes.

Gizmo, however, always looks as if he's straight out of a secret meeting behind the bikesheds to organise a lucrative shipment of bootleg Dreamies.

Breaking news!
A cat has been reserved for us subject to final checks!
She is a long haired black stray very smal- anout 1 year old and a completely scaredy cat. very nervous.
Pictures to follow when we get her home!

Oh what fantastic news @Breadcat24 Keeping my fingers crossed that it all goes ok with the final checks and you have your new owner soon! Does she have a name?

@Breadcat24 that's wonderful!

Such welcome news @Breadcat24 !

And an extra ❤️ for your 🐈‍⬛

That’s fantastic!

Huzzah!

Great news @Breadcat24.
Looking forward to welcoming another black hairy cat to the Litter tray 😁

Do not want to tempt fate but I am so excited I cannot resist

She's gorgeous 😻. Keeping fingers crossed.

She's beautiful Breadcat! Fingers crossed everything goes through for you and she can come and join the excellent cats.

Lovely cat @Breadcat24!
Very exciting.

Ohhh Breadcat!

What's her name? Or what are you going to call her?
I always change my rescue cats' names (Linney was called Billy) apart from Gizmo's.
It seemed unfair on his previous dad.

(I did actually want to call him MacIntyre but decided to leave his name as Gizmo).

I'm saving MacIntyre for another day, another cat.

Breadcat lovely news she's absolutely gorgeous.

She doesn't have a name beginning with B by any chance does she Breadcat?

You did rename him - his real name was TC/Thug Cat 🤣

She is currently Babe which I am not sure we will stay with. She was a stray taken into the rescue so she has not been called that name for more than 8 weeks.
We are having a discussion! I pointed out that we call all our cats Pusski so we could short circuit the name and go straight for what we call her