Catiquette

[Vault_girl]

If you really are against cat flaps but want to provide the beast with some shelter when you're out you can get "cat cabins" - http://www.petsathome.com/shop/outdoor-plastic-cat-house-by-katkabin-13622?DisplayProductList=true is one but there's plenty of others - You could probably get one with space for a food bowl as well.

 

[littleme]

Where do all the cat collars go? Tiny cat has come home without hers again....





*Thinks Blackadders got 'em all!*

 

[Withnail]

In rather disturbing news, the beast has registered his first kill. A severed blackbird head in the garden is testimonial.

And this is why i didn't want a cat.

 

[Gramaisc]

Timpsons, in Princes Street, can supply small plaques, should you wish to display it over the mantelpiece.

 

[Withnail]

Funny you should say that but i did consider keeping it as some sort of momento mori .

Thought better of it.

 

[littleme]

In rather disturbing news, the beast has registered his first kill. A severed blackbird head in the garden is testimonial.

And this is why i didn't want a cat.

I would like to congratulate cat-beast on his first kill (it is what they do after all!)

I hope he didn't manage to sneak the rest of the blackbird into the house?!

 

[Withnail]

I hope he didn't manage to sneak the rest of the blackbird into the house?!

Reader, he ate it.

 

[flossietoo]

Have you found the spleen yet?

I'm not sure if they have the same problem with birds' spleens but when they have a mammal for supper (as the main course, not the guest), they can't digest the spleen. They either eat round it and deposit somewhere surprising or vomit in your slipper.

I unwisely tamed a robin. It would eat from my hand. I think the cat may have got jealous because the headless body of the poor robin was left by my car one morning.

 

[Withnail]

Have you found the spleen yet?

There is also a section of carcass next to the head that remains unfinished. I have not inspected it in any great depth. Nor am i likely to.

 

[Withnail]

In rather disturbing news, the beast has registered his first kill.

x2

Redwing.

 

[tek-monkey]

Does it have a bell? Maybe put a light on it too?

 

[Withnail]

Does it have a bell?

It did have - bugger managed to ditch it somewhere, so in my typically stoic fashion i gave up.

 

[Withnail]

The killing spree continues unabated...

I have lost count of both the number of bell/collar combos that have gone awol and the dear departed - strangely enough almost entirely Shrews. I did think of inviting the Mayor round for some sort of internment ceremony for the first one but have heard that he has been banned from burying Shrews. Something like that anyway.

The beast usually eats what he, eventually, kills - most recently an impressively large Wood Mouse - then almost inevitably vomits forth in spectacular fashion. It is all rather unsavoury.

Is there any way to encourage him to accept a more sedentary lifestyle? Will this behaviour diminish with age?

 

[Glam]

Is there any way to encourage him to accept a more sedentary lifestyle? Will this behaviour diminish with age?

No, I'm afraid not.

 

[littleme]

The beast usually eats what he, eventually, kills - most recently an impressively large Wood Mouse - then almost inevitably vomits forth in spectacular fashion. It is all rather unsavoury.

Is there any way to encourage him to accept a more sedentary lifestyle? Will this behaviour diminish with age?

My 2 do this too. I really do not understand why they eat the shitting things if theyre just going to vomit them back up on the kitchen floor. I mean, if I eat something & it makes me sick I tend to avoid it. I might try it again once, but if it made me sick again theres no way I would eat the same thing day-after-day-after-pukingDAY!

Ive tried making sure theyre stuffed full before I go to bed, & leaving them bowls of biscuits, but every morning I come downstairs to the same carnage.

Im seriously considering getting a litter tray & locking the cat flap at night for next summer.....if you find a different soloution Withnail, please please let me know.

 

[Alee]

One of my cats managed to sneak a whole nest of birds in to me house ( Still alive !!) and left them behind the tv . I though I had birds nesting somewhere because of all the chirping . I found them all the next day . Mummy bird was dead and all the babies died the the next day :-(

 

[littleme]

One of my cats managed to sneak a whole nest of birds in to me house ( Still alive !!) and left them behind the tv . I though I had birds nesting somewhere because of all the chirping . I found them all the next day . Mummy bird was dead and all the babies died the the next day :-(

Oh dear poor birdys. I wonder why the cat didnt eat them?

Our tom cat has brought home some weird stuff, cheeseburgers (from the car boot sale), sausage roll (god knows), raw sausages (dunno), a bag of wrapped chips (we live near a chippy) & once I woke up to find 6 slices of toast by the back door!

 

[flossietoo]

You can't stop the killing but you can reduce the impact on your floor by setting the cat flap to exit only.

It is possible that this may even bring down the morbidity count as your cat realises that he can't deliver his deathly gifts to his esteemed human companions.

I did this after my cat brought me half a rabbit. For a while he used to leave a trail of dead mice leading all the way to the door of my Morris Minor. Then he tried scaling the outer wall of the house to appear, silhouetted in the window at my bedside, dead thing hanging from his jaws.

Eventually, he gave up.

 

[My Name is URL]

I guess this thread is more for cat lovers to discuss their lovely vermin pets but cats and I are now officially at war.

Defcon 1 was officially reached recently when:

1. I netted the vegetable patch to stop the blighters crapping in there and they subsequently crapped on top of the netting.... WTF!
2. My littl girl picked up some cat crap left on our lawn.
3. I managed to step in some cat crap on the lawn and subsequently tread it into the house.

All of that is on top of finding regular parcels of crap in my flower beds, veg beds and lawn for months/years one end.

If anyone has any tips that may save my sanity / low scale discomfort to a cat then please speak up. Although I have to say - I am very much of the mind that I shouldn't need to shell out lots of cash just to keep the gits off my garden....

 

[tek-monkey]

I had that problem in Southampton but I got the bugger, a supersoaker water pistol with added eucalyptus oil. Dunno why it works but he never came back, something to do with buggering up their sense of smell for ages.

EDIT: Or maybe he just crapped in my neighbours from then on as they didn't have a water pistol?