General Chat

..and dogs, and me! :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D :-D. I like my bikkies too as my waistline or lack of shows ;-) :-D :-D

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I will have to watch out for who is coming through my cat flap.

:-D :-D :-D Don't worry Sharron I am definitely to large to get through :-D :-D

The reason I am wanting another cat is that I now don't have a cat or a stroke victim and I don'y have a stroke victim flap so it has to be a cat.

Does Shadow actually come through the cat flap?
If he does, that's very brave.

When I 'kidnapped' Sophie (left when the neighbours moved), she would only eat outside, for months, but I would talk to her, and stroke her (she knew me)

She and my huge (neutered) ginger tom (Basil) got on alright when she lived next door -- he'd try to be friends, she'd shriek, then this amazing caterwauling session would go on (mainly her) - so much so, that her owner (who abandoned her) accused Basil of attacking her. I asked if she was badly injured - umm no - nothing!
He was trying to be friends!
Basil liked female cats - I had his sister, Tansy, who was very shy - and Basil was very protective of her. That doesn't mean he always got his own way when it came to the 'favourite' chair, or bed area.

As summer was approaching, I fed her nearer and nearer the back door - and left it open. Then fed her inside. One day, I left her food inside the door, with the door shut.
She came in the cat flap.
I took the bl**dy collar she'd been wearing off, gave the furless area of her neck, where the collar had been, a thorough scratch - and she was mine!
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I was feeding what I thought was a feral cat on the window sill when Desmond was still alive. After he died, she started coming round the back and I put a bowl of biscuits ( I call them bikkies because I tell him to eat his bikkies when he is a bit wary and the word 'biscuit' does have a small hiss in it which could be threatening to a scared cat,) in the bit between the kitchen and wet room. She came in there to eat and brought her tabby kitten with her. Another tabby cat also came with them sometimes, almost identical to the kitten, it was only when I saw them together that I knew there were two.

I made arrangements to have them all seen to if I could catch them. In fact I did catch one tabby in a trap but it was terrified indoors, running up the window terrified, so I let it go.

It turned out the black one belonged to a neighbour who was also feeding them and said he wanted to keep them so I stopped feeding. He had the kitten and the black queen neutered, after I explained to him how you went about that.

He did keep them outside in his shed but, to be fair, he has a lot of land, she was a farm kitten and he did want them as ratters. Sadly, the black one was killed on the road and the others left.

One night, my back door was open and I noticed a cat in the kitchen in the dark so I put down biscuits. It was Shadow and he has visited ever since.Once it was/is too cold to have the back door open I have the cat-flap wedged open for him and other passing cats have been in too.

Ahah kibble. Not the best of options but convenient.
Which dictionary?
I have never installed a cat flap not being in the catnapping business. Cats are intelligent creatures and are quite capable of asking to go out/come in and understanding nothing doing 0200-0630. Besides cutting holes in ancient oak doors can provoke expensive problems or landlord wrath.

I would not have expected you to have anything other than a plastic door like the rest of us. Come off it!

Definition of “bikkie” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus - a biscuit.
One presumes a person has to use the 'Advanced Learner's Dictionary', before attempting the 'ordinary' Dictionary.
It's always handy to start at the bottom - otherwise important elements can be missed! :-D :-D

Kibble, however is different from bikkies.
noun: Kibble: ground meal shaped into pellets, especially for pet food.
or
verb: grind or chop (beans, grain, etc.) coarsely.

George can open the doors, (providing they're not locked, obviously) he can also bang the letterbox.
I'd rather not encourage these skills though - hence the cat flap.

It's bad enough him 'banging' the cat flap for me to open the door for him, when he knows I'm in the kitchen. :-|

I have a magnetic cat flap in my common old plastic door as there are loads of moggies around here and I would not like the fur to fly if one came in face to face with my feisty old lady :-D

He has made his first visit of the evening and he turned his back on me again.

Typical cat ;-) :-D :-D

Well, no. isn't it supposed to mean he trusts me?

Yes or else he is trying to decide to adopt you or not :-D

Maybe he just doesn't like the look of me, it puts him off his bikkies.

:-D no telling with cats they are a law unto themselves :-D

Isn't showing their bum and invitation to sniff, to show they're friendly?
I know it's usually dogs that do this........but my cats do it too :-S
(their mother was feral - may have something to do with it)