General Chat

Because children can be taught to behave, animals are not so easy! My OH is worse than me, he even lets them claw him in play.

I know you ladies will not like to hear this....but how can you let animals ruin your homes.?

If it was children destroying you home, I am sure you would put a stop to it. the mind boggles.

Merlin .you are absolutely right, We dont own them ,they deem to let us live in their house providing everything is to their liking.

our Lizzie would tear at the corners of the armchairs at the back, until My OH got some long lengths of sandpaper and stabled them round the corners. Now she occasionally has a go at the centre of the backs, but has discovered our old cat's scratching post in the garden and uses that. Funny to watch because even stretched out she doesnt come anywhere near the height he could go!. The post need renewing too now.

What you must remember is, Cats Love En-Suite Facilities.The outside is for recreation and fun,Scratching posts are anything you have bought to enhance your home,(Which for them is a plaything )You are only there to facilitate anything they require,other than that you,re just a lodger in their home.**M**.

Carpets? Nina???
I now only have a stair carpet. - all the rest have been removed.
First it was years afo - my daughter's bedroom carpets, because a cat we were looking after (?) for a friend peed in their rooms. I wonder why he never took her back?
My bedroom carpet went 4 years ago when a rescue cat (allegedly spayed - but mother of the cats I have now) decided she wanted to be the only cat and started peeing on my carpet - and IN my bed! Beautiful cat - rehomed very quickly as the only cat in the house!
The living room carpet went, because an old tom - no, it was my ex - (hard to tell the difference LOL) came round one Christmas, about 7 years ago - and the wine carrier he was toting, containing 6 bottles of wine, broke - as did the bottles! The red wine did no favours to my lovely pale green carpet.

As I said, I only have stair carpet now - perfect for George to pluck the feathers from his kills - they slide all over the place anywhere else!

yep you love em,non cat lovers though must wonder why we "let" them destroy the house, thing is most times Mirabelle does it when we not looking as she knows she get yelled "Mirabelle,stop it" if shes caught, crafty too aint they !

Cats.......CATS, don't talk to me about cats!!

My four have turned my new leather suite into draylon,my ceiling-to
-floor curtains into candlewick bedspreads,my eye-wateringly expensive hall stairs and landing carpet into cotton wool,and my incontinent adopted stray leaves black pools of poo all over my oatmeal bedrooom carpets.

Don't bother with expensive cat scratchers,door mats are much cheaper and more durable.,Also don't bother buying fancy beds,because they park themselves on your bed anyway.


Don't you love them??

Gosh Shirley - you've brought back memories - I had a stair carpet like that once. Basil was the cause! He's been gone 15 years now.
Cats since have demolished the arms of my sofa, and the current ones - they've destroyed a wicker chair. Yet ALL these cats had free access to the outside.
My side gate has been worn so much over the years by scratching, there's a gap at the side
I had a scratching 'thing' hanging from the table for years. Not one of the approx.10 cats I had used it.

Of my 3 cats, one, Betty is petrified of fireworks. George isn't too bothered unless he thinks he can get somethng out of acting 'pathetic', Mr Miu isn't bothered at all.
So, when there are fireworks about - like last night - I have a litter tray in the kitchen, so Betty doesn't have to go out. Usually the 2 boys turn their noses up at using the litter tray.
Well, yesterday, I caught Mr Miu using the tray THEN going out the cat flap!!

Oh yes very contrary lol
Our Mirabelle is 12 now .had her from 8 months old. we had a scratching post for her in the hall just outside the lounge door and she used to give it a good going over so much that the string around it got all frayed and finally didnt want to be saved anymore so we bought a new one and swapped em over. She totally ignored the new one even when i bought some catnip spray and gave it a big dose,.Nope she didnt want to know ,the stair carpet on the step immediately to one side of it was a much better option ,she stands on the second step /landing .(it goes up two steps from the hall to a landing then turns to the left to go up stairs),and bends over to give the carpet on the first step a right going over,result now got a hole on it that looks really unsightly. cant afford to redo the stairs at the mo so got to live with it, In any case she would probably "do! any new carpet too

About 2 years ago, I bought a radiator hammock for my cats.
I put it on the radiator in the spare room, near my computer.
Not one of my 3 cats used it, and I started using it as a sort of shelf.
Two weeks ago, one of the cats showed an interest, sat on a stool that was up against the hammock, 'removed' the papers that were on it and plonked himself in!
He's there nearly all the time now - and the heating is rarely on!

I've just been downstairs, 'persuading' said cat that he really wants to eat the mouse he's caught, outside.
Came back to find cat #2 snuggled up in the hammock!!

I wonder how long it will take cat #3 to take a liking!
I may have to buy another one for Christmas.