General Chat

What' s worse - the hunting or the wall-of-death up your curtains and all over the wallpaper? Or - and I think this has my vote at the moment - the pouncing on your feet through the duvet at 3 o' clock in the morning and then sitting looking shocked and huffy when you are less than pleased about it!

Mine used to go up the curtains when he was a kitten, but he's such a big lad now (not fat, just big) that he'd probably have the curtain rail down if he tried to climb the curtains. He also seems to think he's a dog. Walks around with a ball in his mouth and loves lying out one the grass in the rain. Then when he comes in he shakes himself like a dog! Don't think he's read the manual!

He's not a ragdoll is he? Ours - the latest addition to the household- seems to think he's a dog as well. He insisted on bringing a stick in from the garden and he drops it at your feet and chases it all round the house. He also pinches toys out of the childrens' room and hides them in the front room. The other two - a now grown up rescued kitten and her daughter - look at him with contempt - especially when he wags his tail (when he's happy not angry!) and lies on his back with all 4 paws in the air. He's given up on them now, just about, and plays with my mum's dog instead - chases her round and round the place for hours! He has only managed to catch flies and spiders so far. Truly horrible when the legs are sticking out of his mouth! OH thinks it's funny - I have to bravely run away at that point.

My cat is too old now (16) but at one time regularly brought in rabbits and an occasional rat. We have foxes in the area and I asked the vet if they were a danger to my cat. He said the average house cat was more than a match for a fox. Len

He's not a ragdoll, just a moggy. He does that lying on his back thing too. Stretched out with his body twisted and all four limbs sticking out! He looks so uncomfortable too. He's 9 years old, but pretty active for his age. He also presents us with lots of headless mice and voles, sometimes a bird (but not very often) and we once had a rat (I presume a water rat from the river?).

Well, Vlad the Impaler has just come in for the night and he's currently peddling on OH.

Len of Chiltern - I'm not a vet - but I have to disagree on the foxes I'm afraid. My sister-in-law ended up with hundreds of pounds of vets bills when a fox got hold of her cat and it was touch and go for a long time - luckily he pulled through in the end - and he was a farm cat so pretty tough. My OH lived in a farming area and they kept the cats in when the foxes were around. Next door's cat nearly lost his tail from another fox attack - very gruesome - they go to sever the spine (yeuch, sorry about that, but that is what they do). So I wouldnt bet on the cat in a cat/fox disagreement I'm afraid, and with foxes getting increasingly urban it is only going to get worse. Try very hard to keep my girls inside on a night - and the ragdoll has to stay inside unless accompanied by a responsible adult - adorable, loving - but not the sharpest tool in the shed I'm afraid so he isnt allowed out on his own! Will be a big problem for rabbits and guinea pigs too of course - if animal lover's cat hasnt eaten them all.....

He's certainly trying to eat them all. AL