General Chat

btw, I love Jean's cat relocating fish. Catch and release!

I thoroughly agree with all of that. If I type anything else I'm going to get myself into strife.

See nearly did it again!!

OK one more story. Labrador hates cats. Few weeks ago very hungry cat got in through the doggy door and pinched the steak I had thawing out on the sink. We found meat tray in garden. So of course we closed back door for a few weeks. Other morning OH got up to find half frozen chicken on floor in passageway. (Of course it was dead and plucked). OH had very stern words with labrador. I entered the conversation with, "so that was what all he ruckus was about last night, dog chased something out the back door." So cat beaks in, pinches chook off the kitchen bench, dog hears/smells cat, gives chase, cat drops chicken, dog finishes showing cat the door, re-enters house, finds chicken on laundry floor, picks up chicken carries it up the passageway, decides plastic wrapped half frozen chook not worth effort, drops chicken on floor, and gets a serve from OH in the morning. All I could say was, "Dog is too fat to reach the top of the cupboard anyway."

Well Aunty ... at least your cat doesn't puke on you ...

;)

If there are any otters around where you live they will have the fish.Last year near us peoples fish were disappearing and then someone got a photo of an otter at their pond!!

Unfortunately for my pond fish I have a fishing cat..........when I noticed the first one gone I was really puzzled , then a second went , so I put a net over the pond and bought a nice new biggish Shubunkin ( which has since gone missing ! )..................I seem to have a fair few " tiddlers" in the pond still so I'm just hoping my crafty cat leaves them alone .

Twern't my cat. Just a nocturnal visitor. I'm afraid this family only has overfed animals. When we take them to the Vet, he just smiles and says, "Here comes the good life."

A while back, I used to have fish in my pond..........
Then a stray cat (previous neighbours left it) re-emerged.

Then neighbour told me that she had to take her cat to the vet's to have it's stomach pumped - as the cat was allergic to the fish she had been eating.
When asked how cat had got fish - neighbour informed me she had seen the stray and her cat at my pond. Stray was 'hoiking' fish out and sharing them with her cat!!

Stray cat moved into my house and lived with me for 10 years - I never bothered restocking the pond!

Racoons are good at getting fish from ponds. Just a thought.

We had a pair that lifted the lid off the hot tub and washed their grubs/worms in there before they ate them.

Very smart animals :)

Deb

JEST, a thought........
you dont have any Garden gnomes, with fishing rods nearby?

Bob

Bob. Snork.


Deb -- I don't think they have raccoons over there!

Watch out for the hot tub if you have baby raccoons. I had one of those small deep inflatable swimming pools up a few years ago. It never entered my head that the baby raccoons would get up on the edge to launder their food. (Actually, the 'washing' has to do with feeling the food; the washing is just a side effect.)

One morning I found a baby raccoon drowned in the pool; it hadn't been able to get out when it fell in. Not a nice moment. I had learned to put an upright two-by-four in my rain barrel after finding a drowned squirrel in that, but a pool drowning just hadn't occurred to me (don't know how they got up the side). Secure that lid, or put some timber in the tub!