General Chat

I (reluctantly) put a few Christmas decorations up today - I have younger daughter and her partner staying Christmas Eve, and elder daughter's husband will be bringing me a Christmas tree sometime soon.

Anyhoo, when I'd finished, there was a pastic carrier bag on the sofa - which Betty the cat immediately settled on!!
Betty's idea of heaven is a carrier bag and hair ties.
Any carrier bag, nomatter where it is, is 'perfect' bedding for her.
Leave a bag of hair ties anywhere, she will find them, steal one, and play with it for hours. When she considers it 'dead' she'll seek out another one.
That's her sorted for Christmas - an early present for her!! LOL

...I have no idea what the other two would like - well I do, but I can't 'magic' up a rodent for Mr Miu, and I'd prefer it it George didn't pluck a pigeon on my new stair carpet!!!

What will you be buying/obtaining for your pet?

wmsl, arnt cats funny, id recently gotton stuff and emptyed them in living room, cats jump straight in empty boxes and seem really happy xx

Reminded me of a cat we had when I was little.
She loved cardboard boxes. I used to cut 3 sides of a square to make windows in the sides.
Then I'd poke my finger in the window, and the cat would try to pull the window shut - severely clawing my finger in the process - but I still carried on doing it!!

Current cats are a bit more spoiled - they climb into the 2 dolls houses that are on the floor for my grandchildren to play with, squeeze themselves into a room, and sleep for hours!!

My cat loves hiding under the Christmas tree and pouncing on you as you walk by. He also loves sleeping on any bag left on the floor, and will eat after playing with any elastic bands/hair bands. God help you when you open a candy wrapper, he's there waiting for you to throw it for him....and when he's tired with playing with it do the kids pick it up oh no of course not we'd be knee deep in them if it weren't for me.

mine has her own stocking placed next to littlmans on the fireplace, she loves bags to

and why do thy always pluck the birds ont he stairs??? lol


stray, gets cat treats n a few new toys, one yr i got her a cat sofa bed its brill, x

I bumped into a friend a couple of days ago and she was buying her dogs christmas pressies from the charity shop.

She said that the fluffy toys donated there last much longer than the pet shop ones and her dogs get endless fun from them.

Her money is also going direct to the charity shop which is good.

Teresa:)

One of the feral cats we feed has had his present already. OH made him a wooden shelter , with a doormat as floorcovering and newspaper as blankets, and he loves it. Caught a glimpse of the back end of him tonight as he went in to bed!

We have kittens. Sounds like a disease, like the pox. It pretty much is.

Two feral kittens.

One, I found abandoned on my back porch, wailing at the top of his tiny lungs (this is a long story ... someone has been poisoning our ferals and probably got the mother cat ...) after likely about 3 days alone in our garage, maybe 5 weeks old, 3 weeks ago. I immediately became his mama. It's been getting a little cloying, the face-nibbling and ear-sucking. He's a long-haired blue (solid grey).

The other, our neighbour nabbed for me a week later, from a litter among the ferals she shelters on her back deck -- like you, Jean, she has old kitchen cupboards there for them, only she has about 15 cats. (At my house, we feed them on the porch and let them use our crappy garage for shelter, with old blankets and such.) She's a couple of weeks older, and she's stunning -- a dilute tortoiseshell with more and longer fur than I've ever seen on a cat. But she's still convinced we're trying to kill her. I've only managed to get hold of her four times and hold her for a while. Got her to purr once, but she's still untamed, but coming around inch by inch.

They have just reached the climbing stage. I thought one side of the kitchen was safe -- the counter on the other side has a chair beside it that Spud climbs to the counter. This morning he climbed the drawers on the other side, up to the counter. Where Spud goes, Patsy follows, and then behaves even worse. We found her in a new nesting place a couple of nights ago: the dishrack beside the sink. One of them apparently gnawed through the bread bag on the counter last night and chewed on the bread.

They're systematically trashing our ground floor. So what are we not giving them this year? A Christmas tree. ;)

I have 4 cats all with very different personalities.

Coco - is a rescue cat and spends her life pushing things of sides to see if there is such a thing as gravity! She looks so surprised when every item - ornaments, glasses, a hearing aid (which the puppy then chewed), a couple of bottles of wine over the years.

Pip - I had a as a feral kitten but she has never been fully comfortable around us just loves washing carrier bags - you put one down - and seconds later she's licking it

Poppy - loves the glass decorative marbles and can be found quite often sitting in the bath batting them around!!!

Toffee - the little old elderly lady - well she still loves tinsel and even at her advanced years still gets excited at the sight of the tree.

I must be horrible - I never even think to buy my little dog a Christmas pressie. Do you think I could teach her the 'true' meaning of Christmas?

S x

my sister is besotted with our dog and if we go away and dont ask her to have her gets upset and she never come sto seeme it always to see the dog. She always buys her a present and has this year bought Lissys cat a present.

Lissy cat is a bit confused he loves me more than her so shes buyinghim a new bed this year to see if he will stay in her room.
He has also adopted her old toy cats and they are his lady friends who he very kindly sees to as we are trying to go to sleep.

Hes been good with tree again so far more interested in my blinds.

Dog not bothered by it all shes getting too old to care now as long as shes fed and watered and gets a few treat hell be happy lol.

I 'acquired' a couple of wicker beds for my cats - they never used them, they're now taking up room in the shed.
However - my wicker laundry baskets - I can't keep them out of them.
Apparently, they're extremely comfy whether empty or when filled with clean stuff needing ironing.
When filled with clean laundry, they're all the more appealing when the cats have muddy paws!!!!