General Chat

Twelve years ago I took him in.


This week I have spent £103 on a prescription and 200 on-line pills, a saving of something like £100 on buying the pills from the vet.

Is the arrogant little sod grateful. Of course not.Whatever else would anybody do? He is Desmond after all!

I buy Frontlind online as its so much cheaper than the vet price .

My vet did suggest this a long time ago saying. I didn't tell you that though !

Love to Desmond :-D <3

I always wonder if it were the other way round whether the money would be spent on me and I very much doubt it would!

Same with Fred. If the boot were on the other foot there I think I would be told to shut up and look out the window because I wouldn't be able to get on the bus in a wheelchair.

Do I have Muggins tattooed on my forehead I wonder?

Not Muggins, Sharron, Magician! Cos that's what you have done with Fred, worked your magic!

Lizxx

If the boot was on the other foot I certainly would not ever have brought in live rats as tokens of my esteem for him.

After the fiasco with the electricity the other night, I now have the housing associatin pest controller coming tomorrow about the rats.

Well, those rats are long gone and I know I have no rodents at the moment because the Christmas cakes are out on the side with looseish covers that mice could get under. They have not been nibbled and I don't think my cake is so bad that a mouse wouldn't touch it.

Oh Sharron, I had to laugh at what you ay about your Desmond...I too, have taken a stray into my house, he has completely taken over...this is mostly my fault.But it costs such a lot to go to a vet over here.Last week it cost me 52 euros, just to confirm he had a few scratches inside his ear...hmmmm.I used to clean my cats ears myself as a teen when living iin the UK...now I have to believe there was an infection in one....yeah, well. Okay, I paid. but thought it was a high price to pay for the diagnosis.Phew! Have to say he is adorable-mostly, but a terriible fighter. A woman accosted me when I was getting out of my car, said he scared her Sheltie, so much, that he didn't dare walk past my house, because my cat attacked him!!! She then told me I should attatch a rope to his collar, as her daughter does, thus confining him to my garden.....can't do, he has been 'on the road' for many years, so is traumatised when being closed in, as it were.He also has developed expensive 'tastes' the little sod.What to do, what to do.? x

Resign yourself of course.

LOL Sharron!! Have more or less done so...

My Hat off to you Sharron :-D.You love Desmond and Desmond loves you ..even if he doesn't appear grateful lol
I have been trying for ages to 'makes friends with a little Black and White puss with a very damaged leg.One day it looked fine ,the next it looked like a broken leg .Maybe hit by a car! There was blood around it's foot.But sadly I haven't seen it for a few weeks now.I just have a horrible feeling that puss might no longer be around :-(

Our junior ( rescued ) cat is black and white the spitting image of Felix on the box. Back in August he had an accident to his back leg and nearly snuffed it ... as he was not insured the vet ( who had already saved his eye ) decided to try and save the leg as it was cheaper than having it off!

I had lots of very helpful advice on this board.

Now after 4 months indoors he is running around as happy as larry. Senior cat posh paws is chuffed too. And I am a few hundred pounds less well off :-(

They are very funny and entertaining and affectionate in the way that cats are - when they are in the mood never mind you. I couldn't manage without them as I always forget to set the alarm. I am always desolate for people who suffer loss or injury to their felines.

This is a good read if you like cats:
http://www.dorislessing.org/oncats.html

:-)

Mond is the third stray I have taken in. I was never allowed to have a cat when I was growing up because Fred hated cats so when his parents cats died we didn't have any more.

Then a sick cat turned up at Christmas 1988 when I was skint and likely to be so for a couple of years and I had flu as well.

I had bought some cat food for it left it downstairs with it's dungy bum while I took to my bed.Fred might hate cats but he is not cruel.

When I crept out of bed I asked him if he had opened the cat food and he said not.

So what had he been giving the cat then?

A bit off the joint of course.

:-D

When we moved to our current house we had light coloured carpets fitted,as this seemed to be the fashion.

I took in a poorly homeless cat to join my other furry babes. It turned out that he had something like Chrones disease, resulting in him being very,very incontinent.

Despite this,and the resulting horrible stains on said carpets,we loved him and cared for him for about two yrs,sadly having to put him out of his pain when it got too much. RIP Willfred,who cares about posh carpets enyway. :-) :-) :-)

We took a friend to visit his aunt who lived with her daughter in a lovely, immaculate house with beautiful furniture,three cats and a sofa with the stuffing hanging out of the end!