Bad cat!

[Wayne]

So, here I am sitting at my desk staring at the screen when I hear cat noises from the living room. Lucky's running around the room and making a lot of noise. I wander out and he's got something in his mouth, it looks like one of their cat toys but on closer inspection I notice..... it's moving. He drops it for a moment and I realise it's a mouse! He picks it up again and runs around with it, drops it again, chases it and grabs it. That's all we need, a moose in the hoose, so after I finish panicking (I hate crawly things and mooses) I get the ex to fetch a box for the moose and put it back outside. It's prolly a field moose as there are some small farms and allotments around us. The cat is whining 'cos he can't find his new toy! Our other cat never does stuff like that!

Still shivering from the thought!

Wayne

[scotta3234]

Hey think of it this way.... it's way cheaper than paying for an exterminator :p

[Wayne]

Hey think of it this way.... it's way cheaper than paying for an exterminator :p

Sure, if you have mooses in the hoose, but we don't, the little monster brought it in!

Wayne

[scotta3234]

See... I'm normally a dog person, but they have their fair share of bad habbits. Cat's are usually perfect 99% of the time..... I guess until they start bringing "presents" into the house for you. I wouldn't worry too much about a mouse, just make sure he's not bringin anything bigger than that in the house!

[Wayne]

See... I'm normally a dog person, but they have their fair share of bad habbits. Cat's are usually perfect 99% of the time..... I guess until they start bringing "presents" into the house for you. I wouldn't worry too much about a mouse, just make sure he's not bringin anything bigger than that in the house!

Oh, I don't know, I wouldn't mind a nice young cutie (human, of course) with all the right bits in the right places :D

Wayne

[scotta3234]

Oh now that's an easy one. First, get yourself a nice cute puppy. Then visit any college campus here in the states on a nice sunny day and PRESTO, you'll have yourself a swarm of beautiful women flocking all of you! It never fails!

[Wayne]

Oh now that's an easy one. First, get yourself a nice cute puppy. Then visit any college campus here in the states on a nice sunny day and PRESTO, you'll have yourself a swarm of beautiful women flocking all of you! It never fails!

Umm, wonder if that will work with the main moggie, he is kind of cute :D

Wayne

[scotta3234]

That he is... although it would be a little hard to walk a cat I think. Then again... I have seen people take guinea pigs out for a stroll. Who woulda thought!

[Dan]

That's not a cat! That's a shag carpet with claws!

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[brunson]

You know, if you soak that mouse in anti-freeze, it'll take care of your cat problem just fine.

[Wayne]

That's not a cat! That's a shag carpet with claws!

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And teeth! We use him to sweep the floor. The other cat is less hairy but highly naughty!

Wayne

[Dan]

Meet Frankie. Born a year ago on the 6th of March.

http://www.zianet.com/ZYLOO/Frankie.jpg

We named him that, because he's got blue eyes, howls a lot, and runs in a bad crowd.

Dan

[Wayne]

Meet Frankie. Born a year ago on the 6th of March.

http://www.zianet.com/ZYLOO/Frankie.jpg

We named him that, because he's got blue eyes, howls a lot, and runs in a bad crowd.

Dan

:D

A blue-eyed cat I'd like to have is a ragdoll. They look really cute. Ours is an American Curl.

http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/ragdoll.html

Wayne

[Dan]

Ayup! Frankie is an LJCAC.


(La Junta Colorado Alley Cat)!

He was a pretty normal cat, until I blew his little mind with a laser pointer. :D

He's been more brat than cat since then.



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[Wayne]

The little blighter did it again! Don't know if it's the same rodent! This time I chased him out with it and closed the window downstairs. I'll only let him in rodent-free!

Wayne

[Dan]

Aw, c'mon, Wayne! It's only breeding stock!

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[Wayne]

Aw, c'mon, Wayne! It's only breeding stock!

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The little monster was in the garden tossing the poor little mouse up into the air, I just went out the and the poor thing's laying there with it's feet up in the air. I covered it with some soil and branches from a tree. I'll bury it later when the cat stops sniffing around for it.

Wayne

[Wayne]

The rodent hunter is pictured trying to blend-in with the tree and annoying the Curl as usual.

Wayne

[ibbo]

The cat looks like my neighbours (who has a little ginger in the fur).

The neighbours cat is a very good mouse catcher and will put a full days work in for a bowl of milk (trust my entire block had an infestation). The trick is to entice the cat into the house before you go to work. You can acheive this by using milk or cream (both are effective).

Once pussy starts siipping head for the door and go to work. Return home 8ish hours later to find your house clean of rodents. Repeat daily if needed.

I stopped seeing mice after just over a week. They also like to do the spiders in so if no mice you can swap roles for spider hunting.

Ibbo

[rick3878894]

The little blighter did it again! Don't know if it's the same rodent! This time I chased him out with it and closed the window downstairs. I'll only let him in rodent-free!

Wayne


Could be worse. When I was a kid we toke in a homeless cat from out nahbor hood. We feed it and gave it a place to sleep. I was so greatful that after about a week, it would take off at night, by jumping through the bloken windows in our home, and when we awoke the next day on our door step would be a pile of tails. It seems that the little guy was cleaning out the squirle population in our area. It keept this up for months. I wonder how far it went to find them for us b4 it quite.

I do find the way that they hunt to be creepy though. Always playing with it and the like.

[dickinsd]

The cat we have now is horrible - it's a really good hunter and kills pretty much anything thats smaller than it.

That's natural I may hear you say - but it's the way the cat kills things - it doesn't just go out and grab some take away mouse and chow down - it brings it back to the house - which is not nice - and then tortures it until it dies of either shock or pain and then just leaves the dead creature for us to clean up!

I've put a bell on the cat now - but this does not seem to work so well - I'm not so bothered about the mice - and I'm not so bothered about the frogs - but the birds - I wish the cat would leave the birds alone - it's almost as if they wander around trying to eat worms and hear this bell tinkling away and think to them selves 'Hmm, I wonder where that bell noise is coming from...' and then BHAM - the cat has it!

Our previous cat was not like this at all!

[rick3878894]

The cat we have now is horrible - it's a really good hunter and kills pretty much anything thats smaller than it.

That's natural I may hear you say - but it's the way the cat kills things - it doesn't just go out and grab some take away mouse and chow down - it brings it back to the house - which is not nice - and then tortures it until it dies of either shock or pain and then just leaves the dead creature for us to clean up!

I've put a bell on the cat now - but this does not seem to work so well - I'm not so bothered about the mice - and I'm not so bothered about the frogs - but the birds - I wish the cat would leave the birds alone - it's almost as if they wander around trying to eat worms and hear this bell tinkling away and think to them selves 'Hmm, I wonder where that bell noise is coming from...' and then BHAM - the cat has it!

Our previous cat was not like this at all!

Dude that sucks. If I had a cat like that I would get ride of it.

[dickinsd]

Dude that sucks. If I had a cat like that I would get ride of it.
Yup I've tried - unfortunately it keeps coming back...

No unfortunately it's not just MY cat - the other owners like the darn thing!

[sej7278]

i had a mouse problem in my house, i only had a kitten, so not much of a mouser.

so i borrowed my sister's cat for a few days, which is semi-ferral (it wanders off in the fields for like a month, then comes back one day and does nothing but eat, clean and sleep in the clothes hamper for a week!) i put it in the loft and it disappeared.

i thought the cat had jumped off the roof or something awful as it didn't even come for food or when i called it.

a few days pass and the cat is screaming to come out of the loft and has done the biggest turd you've ever seen, as it hadn't eaten anything i guess it found the mice!

my sister reported that she had a mouse yesterday until her three cats (and husband) set on it!

it's funny, i'm a pretty big bloke, but really hate mice, i think i'd be less scarred if a shark came after me! that said, my gran has taken out rats with a carving knife but is scarred of spiders.....

[dickinsd]

spiders <shudders> :)

[Dan]

Spiders! <COOL!>

http://www.zianet.com/zyloo/spider1.jpg

http://www.zianet.com/zyloo/spider2.jpg

http://www.zianet.com/zyloo/spider3.jpg


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[JN4OldSchool]

you wusses would never survive where I live. Scared of a cute little field mouse? Before one of the hurricanes a couple years ago we had a possum get in the house via the drier duct. I'm laying on the couch watching TV and catch this HUGE rat running across the kitchen floor. The cat is freaking (stupid cat) and trying to hide under a chair. I finally cornered the bugger in a closet and as possums are vicious when cornered I used a broom to steer it into a box and took him back out. Really cute little buggers though, just dont need them in the house.

[thedude]

so many cats, so few recipes.....

[scotta3234]

you wusses would never survive where I live. Scared of a cute little field mouse? Before one of the hurricanes a couple years ago we had a possum get in the house via the drier duct. I'm laying on the couch watching TV and catch this HUGE rat running across the kitchen floor. The cat is freaking (stupid cat) and trying to hide under a chair. I finally cornered the bugger in a closet and as possums are vicious when cornered I used a broom to steer it into a box and took him back out. Really cute little buggers though, just dont need them in the house.


Ahhh come on now... You can do better than that! I really thought you were going to tell some crazy alligator story! Although I'm sure you know quite a few living down there.

[Seve]

The rodent hunter is pictured trying to blend-in with the tree and annoying the Curl as usual.

Wayne
Hello Wayne:
That cat has the "who me ??? " look. :cool:

Have a peek at this hunting machine :)


Seve

[Wayne]

so many cats, so few recipes.....

Funny how you never see any strays around Chinatown :D

Wayne

[Seve]

Funny how you never see any strays around Chinatown :D

Wayne
Hello Wayne:
You had to mention that didn't you ...... now I gotta go and do a head count :eek:

Seve

[parish]

<...snip> I've put a bell on the cat now - but this does not seem to work so well - <snip...>
Many years ago we tried belling on our cat to keep it from catching so many birds, but it didn't work. We learned why when one day we happened to look outside and saw him stalking a bird with the bell in his mouth. The little #(*$ would maneuver his collar until he could get the bell in his mouth for stalking and then spit it out as he pounced.

Daniel

[Wayne]

Many years ago we tried belling on our cat to keep it from catching so many birds, but it didn't work. We learned why when one day we happened to look outside and saw him stalking a bird with the bell in his mouth. The little #(*$ would maneuver his collar until he could get the bell in his mouth for stalking and then spit it out as he pounced.

Daniel

Cat's are too clever for their own good! The rodent hunter has learned to jump up at door handles to get in or out a room! :eek: This started with the downstairs door to the sister-in-law's area. The handle is near the bottom of the door so she can open it with her foot (She has MS and can't use her hands) Once he learned how to open that door it escalated! :D

Wayne

[Seve]

Hello Wayne:
I can believe it.
The picture of the fella I posted can open cupboard doors with ease and has figured out the door handle thing as well.
I swear he watches TV and has friends over when I'm not around.
The odd thing is I can't for the life of me get him to sweep up or do any dusting ... :)

Seve

[Wayne]

Hello Wayne:
I can believe it.
The picture of the fella I posted can open cupboard doors with ease and has figured out the door handle thing as well.
I swear he watches TV and has friends over when I'm not around.
The odd thing is I can't for the life of me get him to sweep up or do any dusting ... :)

Seve

Hi Seve,

Sliding doors they can open with ease, they just get those claws in the space and pull..... I'm just waiting for them to learn how to open the fridge!

They're just like kids who leave their toys and clothes trailing around the house!

Wayne

[Seve]

Hello Wayne:

Why can't we train them or at least persuade them to fetch a beer now and then ? :cool:


Seve

[Wayne]

Hello Wayne:

Why can't we train them or at least persuade them to fetch a beer now and then ? :cool:


Seve

Great idea Seve! Probably quicker than training the kids! One thing best not to teach them is how to open the cans and pour, you don't want fur in your ale, or worse, them getting a liking for beer and bringing home a couple of hot kittens to party while you're out! :eek:

Wayne

[sej7278]

Great idea Seve! Probably quicker than training the kids! One thing best not to teach them is how to open the cans and pour, you don't want fur in your ale, or worse, them getting a liking for beer and bringing home a couple of hot kittens to party while you're out! :eek:
Wayne

I've never managed to get a cat to drink alcohol, i knew one that was a stoner though, well the owner was and the cat liked the smoke ;)

my folk's dogs however, one likes whiskey and one likes beer, you can't leave a glass on the floor at their place!

[JN4OldSchool]

cats are way smarter than we give them credit for. They notice things but if it doesnt interest them they ignore it. For instance, I know for a fact cats do indeed see and notice what is on a television. My cat likes animal shows. It wont even glance at the TV most times but show some lions or even fish and that cat watches intently. The two big oscars in the aquarium provide endless fascination. That cat will watch those fish for hours. And the oscars know and like the cat too. Anyone with oscars will know what I'm saying here.

[John the train]

This hansom chap is Patch, a BSM ( British Standard Moggie ) who lives next door, but prefers to spend a lot of time in my garden. When it comes to hunting he's a fraud, I've seen him snoozing on the lawn while birds feed on the ground a few feet away. In fact, despite being originally a feral kitten who homed himself he's quite a wimp, unlike Rambo across the road, who can intimidate dogs with a look!

[JN4OldSchool]

OK, I just had to show the ugliest cat in the world. Well, she is getting better looking as she gets older but when my wife brought this thing home I about threw up. It looked like a hyena as a kitten. She is a good cat though. Strictly indoors though.

[Boris Cat]

Its alright for you lot, you only got the furry monsters in the garden

I have to fight mine for the right to use my PC's

Thats my PC collection all running windows... guess thats why he looks so p***ed of

Boris

[John the train]

In all seriousness Boris, someone has written freeware to detect ' cat typing ' ( when puss strolls across the keyboard ) and play a loud noise through the speakers to say " scat, cat. " Evidently your cat has the right opinion of Windoze!

[niko123456]

This is my little boy Koala, because he is grey with a white stripe.

[Thecowking]

This hansom chap is Patch, a BSM ( British Standard Moggie ) who lives next door, but prefers to spend a lot of time in my garden. When it comes to hunting he's a fraud, I've seen him snoozing on the lawn while birds feed on the ground a few feet away. In fact, despite being originally a feral kitten who homed himself he's quite a wimp, unlike Rambo across the road, who can intimidate dogs with a look!
I wonder, he certainly looks real, how does he cope with the MFT (Mad feral Tom)?

My friend's cat sits in front of their conservatory, waiting for the stunned birds that fly into the glass to drop down.

Saves them a fortune in food.

[dickinsd]

Many years ago we tried belling on our cat to keep it from catching so many birds, but it didn't work. We learned why when one day we happened to look outside and saw him stalking a bird with the bell in his mouth. The little #(*$ would maneuver his collar until he could get the bell in his mouth for stalking and then spit it out as he pounced.

Daniel

That is shocking - maybe I should try to watch ours - to see if it is quite so clever.

[dickinsd]

Spiders! <COOL!>

http://www.zianet.com/zyloo/spider1.jpg

http://www.zianet.com/zyloo/spider2.jpg

http://www.zianet.com/zyloo/spider3.jpg


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YUK!

I'm ok with spiders as long as they stay away - If I see one in my room - I don't mind as long as it's quite far from me (like the other side of the room) and as long as it doesn't move towards me - if I feel 'threatened' :eek: then I try to move it outside maybe 50% of the time - the other 50% - well - it's not so lucky...

[John the train]

I wonder, he certainly looks real, how does he cope with the MFT (Mad feral Tom)?.
With adult cats Patch just uses his size - he's nearly as big as a Jack Russell - to bluff, they usually keep a tactful distance, but he hates young cats who seem to think he'll want to play.

[Thecowking]

With adult cats Patch just uses his size - he's nearly as big as a Jack Russell - to bluff, they usually keep a tactful distance, but he hates young cats who seem to think he'll want to play.
My dog has the same problem with puppies. I think it's universal, I feel the same way about children.

[sailor]

Since everyone else is coming out of the closet...I am a cat lover too :p
here is my little tiger, Aeka(she is about 2-3 years old now, her family was killed by a dog and I found her hiding under our rosebush). She is currently living with my stepdaughter. At first she was very close to me, but became very attached to my stepdaughter who cares for her now.

[John the train]

This thread really makes a lot of sense - unusual for a Wibble! - as we're probably all agreed, cats are independent minded critters, so are Linux users!

[rick3878894]

Here is my rat. just got it.

[slade17]

many cats are rather smart. my cat is smart. but my sister's cat, on the other hand... he's a lazy ball of fat, fur and stupidity.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5514/pawstongue27ch.jpg
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/5238/img03618jy.jpg

to illustrate that point, when my friend was over a few hours ago i threw a blanket on top of him. he's still sitting there, under the blanket.

he's never caught a mouse in his life, but he always catches chipmunks and frogs, and lets them go in the house. although this past year he's been too lazy to even do that.

my cat, on the other hand, catches everything. mice, voles, chipmunks, birds, rabbits... one time she even dragged in a weasel. that thing made such a loud screeching racket. when she brings something in she'll meow around it and bring it up to us, drop it, and watch us try to catch it. she thinks she's a mother and she has to teach us how to catch food and survive on our own.

my other cat was even worse as far as animals he would catch. he would only go for the big stuff. he always caught rabbits, and one time dragged in a crow. my sister came home from school and saw a crow standing on the counter in the corner of the room.

That's natural I may hear you say - but it's the way the cat kills things - it doesn't just go out and grab some take away mouse and chow down - it brings it back to the house - which is not nice - and then tortures it until it dies of either shock or pain and then just leaves the dead creature for us to clean up!
thats because its not natural. cats were artificially bred and domesticated to catch mice for farmers and show them their work. cats rarely have to do that anymore, but many housecats still have it in them.

[sailor]

LOL...yup that is a cat...:p

[rick3878894]

Could be worse. When I was a kid we toke in a homeless cat from out nahbor hood. We feed it and gave it a place to sleep. I was so greatful that after about a week, it would take off at night, by jumping through the bloken windows in our home, and when we awoke the next day on our door step would be a pile of tails. It seems that the little guy was cleaning out the squirle population in our area. It keept this up for months. I wonder how far it went to find them for us b4 it quite.

I do find the way that they hunt to be creepy though. Always playing with it and the like.

Found out way they play with their kill. It's becuase it builds up the arenaline and they like the tast of it. So their you go.

[RupertPupkin]

My cat, Sato-Ichi, died last year. :( I really miss that little guy.

[Wayne]

Sorry to hear that :( Are you thinking of getting a new kitten?

Wayne

[RupertPupkin]

Sorry to hear that :( Are you thinking of getting a new kitten?
No, I'm going to wait a while before getting a new cat.

[scottro]

It's very hard losing a pet. I had to put one of my two cats to sleep early last year, and it was a hard decision.

Since then, the other cat has become more dependent. I thought of getting another, but as they were both adults (about 12 years old) I think it would be a hard adjustment.

Rupert, I very much sympathize, even though months have passed, it is very fresh in my mind. I think that we can tell ourselves that we did our best to give them good lives while they were here, and make as much of that as we can--far easier said than done of course.

[Aaron_H]

We've always had a few cats in our house (4 at one time!), unfortunately we're down to just one now, but he's lovely and playful (doesn't act his age) when he feels like it, whereas other times he just doesn't want anything to do with you (very independent)..

He liked bringing "presents" back.. one time he managed to bring one in without anyone noticing it (god knows how) and hid it underneath the sofa for a few days! (It was still alive, but couldn't move) - That was until one of the other cats got it from under there when my parents were in the room and ran off with it. (It wasn't brought back after that, thank god.)

He always looked up to the oldest cat we had too (which died about 7 years back.. the day before my 12th birthday! :(), and even taught him (the older cat) how to open the kitchen doors to get food! He used to invade the fridge too. :confused: (he even managed to move a 5kg weight from infront of the door, so we had to put a lock on it.)

We've had some strange pets.. :confused:

We have him and a golden labrador retriever who's 5 now. :)


It's very hard losing a pet. I had to put one of my two cats to sleep early last year, and it was a hard decision.

My dad had to do that a few years ago.. I'm glad I didn't have to make that decision. I don't think it's anything I could possibly do. You just have to tell yourself it's for the best. :(

[Judy]

I've always had cats and dogs. Love them!
Sadly, my last dog died some years ago, but I had two cats to keep me going. One of them died (in strange circumstances) about 5 years ago, but the other remained with us until last year. Some b*****d shot him with an air-gun about the same time the other died but he kept on going, bless him :)
However, we finally had to take him to the vet and they discovered that, apart from his gunshot wound that they were aware of, he also had a tumour on his liver so, according to the vet, it was kinder, although I'm not sure about this, that we had him 'put down'. This broke my heart. Bubs was 22 years old. I cried for days.

The 'Not so awful Granny from Hell'

[piga]

Some b*****d shot him with an air-gun

:eek: That is Sick

Anyway, I currently have four cats (Black Tom Cat, two Orange Tabbys, and a Grey Tabby, all of them not pure though) and two dogs (Border Collie and Labrador/Catahoula Cross). We used to have three, but it got hit by a car. Then we got a new one, same. Damn oil traffic!