General Chat

Big gold fish! I think you underestimate, and they were undoubtedly priceless Koi! You're lucky your cat didn't do five years. ;)

A couple of years ago No.1 and I were helping a neighbour around the corner plant some excess perennials we'd donated for his new front garden. He dug deep to make a hole, and dug up -- a fish. A big fat fish, a foot long. Very fresh. Quite the gobsmacking discovery in an inner-city front garden. We scratched our heads, and finally decided that one of the Vietnamese neighbours across the street who fished must have left it in a bucket on the back stoop, and the local skunk had come across it and decided to tuck it away in the freshly turned earth for future reference.

My own garden is a graveyard of deceased cats, budgies, hamsters ...

Big fish....thats why I never asked around lol. I did tell him not to do it again though...what a stink it made.
Must have looked funny though him walking down the road with a big fish in his gob and taking it through the catflap.

I'm really jealous now........my cats are soooooo boring compared to yours!! LOL

Mary

My old ginger Tom ,besides sitting up and begging ,would wee down the plug hole in the bath,and suddenly jump onto the back of my shoulders.He also used to like perching on the top of the door and leaping on me.
He was the best cat I ever had.He just walked in off the street one day looking like a bag of bones,I gave him some food and that was it .He was mine.

Janey, Cats do not have or learn new tricks. They groom you to do exactly what they require you to do,and we fall for it every time,clever Cats.**M**

Ummmm, Helen, you mean you were his lol

Merlin, that is really very true, about cats learning new tricks. The thing about cats is that once they learn something, they will not unlearn it.

I had two sister cats that both lived to ripe old ages. When I moved house, they learned that the back door opened on the right. After some renovations, it opened on the left. I would go to the back door to let them in for years after that, and they would be huddled on the right side of the doorway, and looked dumbfounded every single time the left side of the door opened.

That's what's often so entertaining about cats. They think they're so smart, and they do the most amazingly dumb things.


Aha! my latest squirrel friend has climbed the outside wall and is fishing in the window ledge for nuts. Gotta go feed him/her.

Janey, they are clever,they just let us believe they are silly, but get us to do exactly what they want us to do for them**M**