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Title: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 19, 2017, 09:54:09 AM
Gather around and tell tales of your pets adventures......Enjoy.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 01, 2019, 05:36:39 AM
Happy New Year Everyone!

I woke this morning, shuffled to the kitchen to make my First COFFEE of the New Year, and before I can even start, there is Tattoo, poor face all scratched up, and the whole coffee kit area a shambles.   He'd had not one but TWO major accidents over there.   And he'd managed to put the sheets of paper towels and pot holders OVER the mess.   That is kind of amazing, I think.  The vet told me years ago his allergies and immune system troubles will likely make it difficult for him to 'contain' his wastes at times.  He sometimes soils the area and himself when he sleeps.   He did not get scolded, spanked, sprayed or anything.   He meowed pitifully.   I cleaned up the mess, Lysol the whole area, and THEN start my coffee.  I poured it and went to my bedroom.  20 mins later, went back for another cup.   Tattoo had gone to the 'apartment' already.  I greeted Mogwai, who really craves attention.  Finally, I spoke with Tattoo.  More COFFEE.   Meds and insulin, breakfast finally.   More COFFEE.   Finally feeling almost human!  Hard to believe this is already my fourth cup!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 01, 2019, 01:32:18 PM
LOL......I have that many before my second eye is open  :borednow:

Yup on the scolding etc.  Oz gets in trouble at times by getting into things he shouldn't....and sometimes when he does that...he ends up punishing himself..... :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 01, 2019, 05:35:57 PM
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray this cushy life to keep.
I pray for toys that look like mice,
And sofa cushions, soft and nice.
I pray for gourmet kitty snacks,
And someone nice to scratch my back,
For windowsills all warm and bright,
For shadows to explore at night.
I pray I'll always stay real cool
And keep the secret feline rule
To never tell a human that
The world is really ruled by cats!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 01, 2019, 05:41:16 PM
You have been talking to Watanuki and Smoky haven't you
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 01, 2019, 06:03:50 PM
LOL....Oz is added to that mix...and I'm sure many others will join in...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 01, 2019, 06:49:40 PM
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray this cushy life to keep.
I pray for toys that look like mice,
And sofa cushions, soft and nice.
I pray for gourmet kitty snacks,
And someone nice to scratch my back,
For windowsills all warm and bright,
For shadows to explore at night.
I pray I'll always stay real cool
And keep the secret feline rule
To never tell a human that
The world is really ruled by cats!

Make purrrrfect sense to my cats! :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 01, 2019, 08:14:49 PM
Mine too.   :sure:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 05, 2019, 03:37:08 PM
Well, now the little one, Smoky has been doing nothing but getting in my lap off and on and going to sleep.

Not something he does on a regular basis ... the funny part was at one point based on the position he had assumed, he actually started tipping over in my lap and woke up multiple times to correct his posture :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 05, 2019, 03:39:29 PM
You lap have become the comfort Zone.  Oz does the same thing....on selected days LOLOLOL....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 27, 2019, 07:52:22 AM
Yeh, that's cats, easy to see why they are just so lovable!   :viking:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 27, 2019, 08:05:50 AM
The latest two points that he is going to have to get over is the incessant crap of turning over the water dish.

I don't get it, stainless steel bowl basically fairly heavy when full and all either of them do is paw at it as I can hear their claws tapping it and the next thing I know, especially if it is less then 1/2 full is that one of them tips it over.

His newest trick that is causing annoyance is that he is getting up on the computer desk, all right yes, if I am not around that is going to happen. The part that is annoying me is that apparently he is prancing about on the keyboards. He has managed to lock up Stormbringer once, and closed out all programs running.
The other system he managed to open no less then five windows and sign me out ??? :whatthe:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 27, 2019, 08:24:00 AM
Haven't you the possibility to find something heavy even when empty to avoid they turn it over?
Puce turns regularly over the pot of catnip, so recently I have looked an found a kind of sandstone one. Tried and approuved.

For the other problem. Not all cats accept to obey and don't go where we don't want they go. It wasn't easy to learn to Puce and Giro to don't go on the table. But when came the time for the desk, they understood quickly it wasn't accepted. They tried a little, but we have find a deal: they don't go on, they have the square below the drawer, with a cushion. Like that they are near.
Smoky doesn't care of the clear "no" with the index up?
Or can you cover the keyboard with a kind of box, something not bending under the weight of a cat?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 27, 2019, 08:42:27 AM
Hmmm, maybe I can put a rock in the bottom of it to give it some extra weight. Have some interesting stones from the Crazy Horse Mountain in South Dakota that could work.

So far all I can think of to do with the desk top is to move the keyboards to the top of the rack I built for the towers.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 27, 2019, 09:20:53 AM
Your keyboards are wireless....Right.....Oh wait...this is "J" I'm talking to so they might be wired LOLOL.....

Simple solution...If wireless....turn that little switch on the backside of the keyboard to OFF....  If Wired...Unhook from the puter. 

Takes two seconds to turn the keyboard back on in either case....

As for the water....all cats do that.....  Aelin hit it on the head....get a heavy stone bowl...They'll still make a mess with the water...but won't knock it over....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on January 27, 2019, 09:23:42 AM
I use flat bottomed crockery bowls for my cat's food and water. Never had her turn either one over.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 27, 2019, 09:27:48 AM
Your keyboards are wireless....Right.....Oh wait...this is "J" I'm talking to so they might be wired LOLOL.....

Simple solution...If wireless....turn that little switch on the backside of the keyboard to OFF....  If Wired...Unhook from the puter. 

Takes two seconds to turn the keyboard back on in either case....

As for the water....all cats do that.....  Aelin hit it on the head....get a heavy stone bowl...They'll still make a mess with the water...but won't knock it over....


Excuse me silly rabbit both systems are wireless keyboard and mouse. :nanana:

Hadn't thought about turning them off that might just work.

As to the water bowl might have to look for a heavier bowl made of whatever material. Right now I have a large stone as mentioned in there now.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 27, 2019, 09:28:59 AM
For some reason Oz LOVES water.   He'll play with his water, put toys in his water, play with the wet toys for hours....and then dip them in again :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 27, 2019, 09:33:22 AM
I use flat bottomed crockery bowls for my cat's food and water. Never had her turn either one over.

Haven't seen them turn the food dish over yet, or try. They are usually to busy scarfing it down to mess about like that  ...

The water dish is flat bottomed so that much is good, it is stainless steel and heavy "eh" sort of, the stone I put in there today will allow me to gauge how sturdy a bowl I will need to look for, it is just weird to see them tap the side or the surface of the water.. Not certain why they are doing that well, maybe it is to see where the surface of the water is before they drink. Not certain, I find it unusual, but then again theoretically I am human and my vision and senses are tuned differently.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 27, 2019, 09:48:50 AM
For some reason Oz LOVES water.   He'll play with his water, put toys in his water, play with the wet toys for hours....and then dip them in again :thud:
Here Puce makes nothing with water, except drinks.
But Giro loves to sit before the bowl and wait wait wait. It's like if she is thinking before :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on January 27, 2019, 09:54:20 AM
Do the sides of the dish come up 90° from the bottom of the bowl or do they curve upward and outward to some degree? I'm betting it's the later.

The dishes that don't spill have sides that go straight up or actually get a little smaller diameter toward the top than the flat base is.

Just because the bowl is heavy when full doesn't mean it's immune from spilling. It's basically the structural design of the bowl that keeps it from spilling, or in the case of stainless bowls a square wire frame to sit it in that keeps it from spilling. If the sides are curved upward, the cats can rock it and tip it.

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on January 27, 2019, 10:28:55 AM
Here Puce makes nothing with water, except drinks.
But Giro loves to sit before the bowl and wait wait wait. It's like if she is thinking before :tearlaugh:

Lol...my cat does the same thing as Giro. She sits and stares at the wall for awhile then drinks.


J, if you go to   chewy.com   and type 'water bowls' in the search bar, you will see all the different sorts like I was saying. The white embossed bowl that says 'water' on it is similar to the ones I use. Most all the ones with rounded bottom edges can theoretically get dumped.

Aren't we glad they don't have opposable thumbs?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 27, 2019, 11:11:09 AM
Do the sides of the dish come up 90° from the bottom of the bowl or do they curve upward and outward to some degree? I'm betting it's the later.

The dishes that don't spill have sides that go straight up or actually get a little smaller diameter toward the top than the flat base is.

Just because the bowl is heavy when full doesn't mean it's immune from spilling. It's basically the structural design of the bowl that keeps it from spilling, or in the case of stainless bowls a square wire frame to sit it in that keeps it from spilling. If the sides are curved upward, the cats can rock it and tip it.


Not curved per se, more like a slight angle outward of maybe five degrees. (larger at the top then the bottom, very slightly)

Like the idea of maybe finding a base to enclose it around the bottom to improve the stability
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 27, 2019, 11:21:27 AM
Some pretty cool selections they have in there, will have to wait till my next paycheck to avail myself of one. Tis the beginning of the month for me and have already allocated this check just past to the money grubbing parasites.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on January 27, 2019, 11:33:01 AM
Not curved per se, more like a slight angle outward of maybe five degrees. (larger at the top then the bottom, very slightly)

Like the idea of maybe finding a base to enclose it around the bottom to improve the stability

Yes, a sturdy wire-frame would be of great help in stabilizing it. I like that Dog Water bowl in the sort of wrought iron frame.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 27, 2019, 11:51:45 AM
Indeed that one does look very promising ....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 27, 2019, 02:31:56 PM
Haven't seen them turn the food dish over yet, or try. They are usually to busy scarfing it down to mess about like that  ...

The water dish is flat bottomed so that much is good, it is stainless steel and heavy "eh" sort of, the stone I put in there today will allow me to gauge how sturdy a bowl I will need to look for, it is just weird to see them tap the side or the surface of the water.. Not certain why they are doing that well, maybe it is to see where the surface of the water is before they drink. Not certain, I find it unusual, but then again theoretically I am human and my vision and senses are tuned differently.
When a cat taps the surface of the water, I think it is because they are wondering who that is that is staring back at them from in the water dish. Water can often act as a mirror, especially when there are no ripples on its surface. Of course there is the condition of lighting which if it is bright, you get a stronger reflection from the water. Dimmer lighting allows for less reflection.


I'm thinking this because I know how lots of cats get when they see their own reflection in a mirror. Just do a search on YouTube "Cats Reacting to Their Own Reflections". You'll see how that can be an issue. It's really quite funny to see.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 27, 2019, 02:41:04 PM
Lol...my cat does the same thing as Giro. She sits and stares at the wall for awhile then drinks.


J, if you go to   chewy.com   and type 'water bowls' in the search bar, you will see all the different sorts like I was saying. The white embossed bowl that says 'water' on it is similar to the ones I use. Most all the ones with rounded bottom edges can theoretically get dumped.

Aren't we glad they don't have opposable thumbs?
We have a water dispenser type, and i put it in a type of frame to stop the tipping that Buster Boots likes to do. Somehow he figures that out too, and tips it anyway. As soon as we discover a spill we have to get it cleaned up immediately. Otherwise our floor will rot through. I'm still trying different solutions to that problem, but so far he has solved every puzzle I create! Cookie Baby and McCartney don't do that with the dish.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 27, 2019, 02:41:51 PM
My cat must be odd then.....he doesn't care about his reflection.....he needs a water park to play with his toys in.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 27, 2019, 02:58:05 PM
My cat must be odd then.....he doesn't care about his reflection.....he needs a water park to play with his toys in.....
Cats have their own personalities. I'm sure you know that. What one cat will do, others in the house may not. My cat Cookie Baby will push stuff off a table or desk, while staring me in the eye! When Pop was alive, she would do that with the TV remote. We had to replace it three times in two years. Itty Bitty never did anything like that. Cookie has taught Buster Boots and McCartney that trick though. I think she does it to get a certain type of attention, which I call negative, but she obviously thinks it's good.


At least they aren't cookie cutter cats, all acting the same way! That would be boring indeed.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 27, 2019, 03:08:23 PM
Well, typically I keep the lighting some what on the dim side in the kitchen, where their food and drink is located, and the rest of the place, then there is the concept of when all lights are off and I am in bed they must be drinking from it then, as the dish is about empty in the morning and boy howdy do they make a mockery of the litter box :sigh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 28, 2019, 04:10:49 AM
TL, Mogwai has played with several of his toys all his life, and likes getting new ones.  There is one that he is very partial to, a zebra pattern stuffie 'kitty' with stuffed tail and a pull string vibro-motor.  It shook itself around for about 10 seconds.  He grew up with that one.  He still has it, though the 'motor' fell out last year.  Didn't work anymore so no biggie.  At first I thought he was just washing his 'baby kitten'.  But just watching him late one night showed what he was doing.  Even as Tattoo and Blackie taught him, he was teaching his Baby about Food and Water.   He put Baby in the food bowl first, sat and waited a minute, then moved it over to the water bowl.  After a minute, he took it out gently and put it beside water bowl.  Later when dried, he carried it to the couch and put it in his spot for a nap.   
Tell me cats aren't smart!   He plays dolls with his Baby. 
Tattoo never had a 'baby', and is the one that plays with the water.   When I drip the kitchen faucet for freezing temps, he gets IN the sink, sits and plays with dripping water, shapes water puddles and flows and watches it for hours.
I've seen I THINK that cats vision is pretty blurry in like the first foot in front of them.  After that, pretty sharp with lots of peripheral range.   They never really see what they eat or drink, being below the plane of their muzzle as well as blurry.  Most of the time, they close their eyes while eating.   They sniff the foods location out, and munch away.    Also Tattoo paws the area at the water bowl, while lowering his face to the water.  I think he does that to disturb the surface so he can tell where it is and not dunk his nose getting too close.  Mogwai hasn't snapped to that trick yet.  He dunks his nose a lot.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 30, 2019, 04:08:31 AM
Poor Mogwai.  He's losing his teeth!   :OMFG: :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: :cry2: :puah:

Probably Friday, I'll get him in to the Vet.  Poor guy, I see now why he fights my looking in his mouth.
 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 30, 2019, 06:52:37 AM
Time for him to stop dry food :panic:  But cats don't love we look in their mouths, at least I know no one liking that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 30, 2019, 02:08:00 PM
That's so true, but he usually lets me have a quick look.  I had to trick him so I could see.   His lower right canine is all black around the base, and he has gumboil looking area.  This happened pretty fast.  He had a full dental less than a year ago.   Today he is running around, energetic and playing, a happy Moggie.  He's feeling better.  It is still his turn  to go to the Doctor though!  He needs his shots and a good checkup plus the Bravecto flea med.  Around here, mine HAVE to have that.  SO many outdoor cats and dogs in this area it's ridiculous.  And they keep the fleas going all over this part of town.  Bravecto one time and they have peace.  :)  For like 4 months.  Worth it to me they don't suffer.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 30, 2019, 02:09:20 PM
I looked up "Puce" in the dictionary, Aelin.  It's a color, right?  Kinda like a plum red/brown? Is that where Puce's name is from? 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 30, 2019, 02:14:49 PM
Oh, stop his dry food?  He'll just go get some of Tattoo's dry food.   He does like that Meow Mix moist food with sauce in the little tubs.  Tattoo just adores that stuff, and whatever Mogwai leaves, Tattoo vacuums up.
When Mogwai had his dental work-over last year, they removed a rotted molar.  Now he's sure to lose the lower right canine.  That is a huge tooth too, all 4 of his canines are BIG, bigger than Tattoo's, who is a bigger cat.  Anyway, he wants his dry food when he's done with the moist.  Really!  He likes both, but demands his dry food always. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 30, 2019, 02:30:40 PM
I looked up "Puce" in the dictionary, Aelin.  It's a color, right?  Kinda like a plum red/brown? Is that where Puce's name is from?
No Puce is like a "flea" in English.
I don't know if she obtained that name from her first owner, from the second, or if she was named at the shelter where I adopted her. But she always answered to her name; then heard to answer to the nicknames we gave to her.
Yet, she is a bouncing cat when she decides to run everywhere. Even if she sees an obstacle at the last second :hypno:

She is a striped grey and beige cat, and (before she removed by stress part of her hair on the belly) she has some dark spots on her belly.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 30, 2019, 02:35:48 PM
Oh, stop his dry food?  He'll just go get some of Tattoo's dry food.   He does like that Meow Mix moist food with sauce in the little tubs.  Tattoo just adores that stuff, and whatever Mogwai leaves, Tattoo vacuums up.
When Mogwai had his dental work-over last year, they removed a rotted molar.  Now he's sure to lose the lower right canine.  That is a huge tooth too, all 4 of his canines are BIG, bigger than Tattoo's, who is a bigger cat.  Anyway, he wants his dry food when he's done with the moist.  Really!  He likes both, but demands his dry food always.
I never had cat with missing teeth, but had 2 cats with diffetent diets.
When Tania became ill (kindness and heart issues), she had to eat special dry food, and a bit of chicken/turkey/fish that we cocked for her. In the time where Giroflée arrived to the house, Giro had a normal food. So it was several meals by day under watch of somebody; and Tania was lucky because Giro can't jump very easily at the top of furnitures (she is a 'small' gabarit) so Tania had a spot for herself all the long of the day.

Even if Mogway doesn't like to miss dry food, with less and less teeth it's an option alas.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 01, 2019, 02:48:51 AM
Ah, ok I see about Puce now!  Cool!

It is difficult sometimes managing our pets health and diet.   But we love them, they love us, and we do the best we can.  Life goes on!   Mogwai has an appointment with the vet Tuesday afternoon.   I gave the assistant there all the info about Mogwai.  And asked about his tooth issue.  She said just let the Dr. have a look at him and he'll tell me.  She did say its actually sort of common, pets lose teeth all the time.  Most go through and out the back end though.  Not many bring the tooth to their humans like Mogwai did.  I'm sorry, he came, got me and took me right to it on the kitchen counter.  Then made a funny sound and gently pawed at it.  His tail was up, so he wasn't stressed too much over it.  That was yesterday, today he's running around the walls, playing, and eating ok.   He still goes to the Doc Tuesday.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 06, 2019, 05:19:27 PM
Mogwai went to the Doc.  Got checked out good end to end.  Wound up with worm med, flea med, antibiotics AND his Rabies/Feline leukemia vaccinations.   He was NOT happy with me when we got home either.   His top left lip is swole up.  He will get a dropper of antibiotic for 7 to 10 days.  Not feeling good, so he is staying with me.   They don't feel good *I* don't feel good.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 10, 2019, 12:47:39 PM
Four days later, the little furball is wearing me out!   He is feeling a LOT better, and Tattoo is too, with getting de-wormed and flea meds.   Now I remember how Tattoo got all that muscle.  Zoom zoom whoosh zip zap vroom!   And Mogwai learned it all on first try too.   But I am very relieved they're both much better now.   Whew!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 10, 2019, 01:28:06 PM
That's great for them :thumb_up:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 12, 2019, 11:44:35 AM
Thanks!  Yeah, he is dodging me trying to give him his dropper of antibiotics now.  Hmpfh!  Well, that's CATS for ya!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 13, 2019, 04:36:28 PM
That's great news Mc-G......
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 18, 2019, 06:09:56 AM
(fast foreward to a few days later) 

Gee, I'm starting to think maybe Mogwai needs a younger more spry human!   He sleeps about the same amount, but more like a deep restful sleep.  And when he's awake, HE is UP!  And all over the place.  When he gets tired of chasing dust bunnies he comes looking for me.  He scratches the door, reaches under and paws around, tries to peek under the door, talks to me, trills, warbles, meows, pretty much everything  but English and barking.  Of course I let him in.  He is up on the back of my leather office chair right now.   He's finished grooming my head now.  Sheesh.  It's ok till he starts scratching at it.  I guess he's combing it with his claws?  He has as much energy now as he did at 6 months old!   So that sinus infection-tooth abscess was bugging him for a long time it seems.   I am SO glad he is feeling better now! 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 19, 2019, 11:59:42 AM
LOL.....Wonder if Mogwai and Oz is related LOLOL....  Glad Mogwai is spry now....  When we humans have problems we tend to mope and not be active....so thats a sign of bad things happening....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 21, 2019, 09:41:56 AM
The Vet Dr's made me well aware of how severe Tattoo's allergies are.   And what to expect in his behavior.  SO far, they are spot on, and ol Tattoo isn't as bad as I was expecting.  I give him plenty of love and he gives it right back. 
Mogwai is now behaving like a typical Cat.   And is as happy and playful as any younger cat.  He's just catching up some lost time I figure.  They have Cat stuffy toys by the dozen.  Mogwai has his gathered in his sleeping spot.  During the daylight UP time, he carries one or the other around, throws it around, catches it etc.   Warning!  Do not toss out the one with a 2 meter string tied to it, you will catch a Mogwai and have to play Fish n Fly! for about an hour!  Even Tattoo gets involved in that one when he feels good.  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 21, 2019, 09:48:15 AM
Good to hear they are both doing so well.....

Oz's favorite pastime is taking his toys and putting them in his water.  Then takes them out and gets everything around them wet :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 22, 2019, 09:35:18 AM
Aww he's just making sure HIS little buddies don't go thirsty!   Mogwai has a couple, one especially, he does that with.  He also gives it dinner.  Drops it in the dry food bowl, or beside the moist food plate.  Ah, catz!  LOL!  If its still too wet at bedtime, it sleeps outside his box/apartment!  He loves em, gives em hugs and licks their faces.   Like his Mom and Tattoo used to do for him.   
All you need is Love!    :luv5:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 22, 2019, 09:36:25 AM
BTW:   I have never licked them!   LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 22, 2019, 09:44:42 AM
Nor have I :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 23, 2019, 07:10:19 AM
This morning, Mogwai woke me up with his purring.  Right in my ear.   I'd shut the door with him in the room, asleep in my desk chair.   5:30 sharp PURRRRPURRRRPURRR!  He knows I don't want any deposits to clean up.   I got up.  Sheesh.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 23, 2019, 08:43:36 AM
Oz sleeps in Lornas room at night until she kicks him out due to his wanting to play way to early in the morn. 

We've been lucky....From day one Oz uses that cat little box and never has made a mess...except for one time when Lorna fed him something that didn't settle with his stomach.  Lorna learned the hard way that cat food and cat treats are made for cats....and human food is not. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 23, 2019, 09:15:47 AM
Wish I could say the same about Smoky, that little brat delights in digging the deepest hole he can in the litter box which results in litter all over the floor. As in so much that it requires a broom and dust pan to clean up after the little ****
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 23, 2019, 09:29:30 AM
Smoky is always little, but that doesn't want to say he will stop.
Giro is very proper, she is able to dig her hole, kind of (http://www.animated-smileys.com/emoticons/animated-smileys-garden-004.gif) And she does inside litter box. But either when she digs, or when she covers, she launches a lot of litter around. She doesn't mesure her strenght.
So now there are several cat/dog rugs around the litter box. They are made for the feeding area but they can be used for the litter box area too. It's less mess, just to take rugs and put what is on in the  :dustbin: then clean the few what was further.

I wish I could say Puce is using so easily the litterbox. One of the two boxes, she likes to use to do the #2 outside these last times. 9 on 10, the rugs suffer now. Don't know what happens with her, but some times ago she made that. It's only 1 of litter boxes. It was cleaned, washed, even changed of place, but no way :lostme:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 23, 2019, 09:38:45 AM
And she does inside litter box. But either when she digs, or when she covers, she launches a lot of litter around. She doesn't measure her strength.


That would be him

Watanuki on the hand some how manages to hit the side of the box liner (have one of those baking soda style of boxes that help control odor inside of the normal litter box) anyway he hits the side of that and it is like glue when I clean the box .... :puah:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 23, 2019, 11:36:34 AM
Wish I could say the same about Smoky, that little brat delights in digging the deepest hole he can in the litter box which results in litter all over the floor. As in so much that it requires a broom and dust pan to clean up after the little ****

Lorna got this for Oz.  Works like a charm.  Easy to maintain....Unsnaps so it's easy to clean...keeps the smells out and has it own catch it all mat....

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 23, 2019, 11:38:59 AM
Further details as in a link to this item would be nice

Thank you
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 23, 2019, 11:48:33 AM
Wish I could say the same about Smoky, that little brat delights in digging the deepest hole he can in the litter box which results in litter all over the floor. As in so much that it requires a broom and dust pan to clean up after the little ****
Invest in a cheap large and deep storage container, set the litter box down inside that. Any litter that escapes the box goes into the bigger container, with the possible exception of what gets stuck between the kitty's digits.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 23, 2019, 11:51:25 AM
Invest in a cheap large and deep storage container, set the litter box down inside that. Any litter that escapes the box goes into the bigger container, with the possible exception of what gets stuck between the kitty's digits.

Yep got one as a test and now need a second for the other box to keep it under control
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 23, 2019, 11:59:50 AM
Iris Large Hooded Catlitter box with Scoop and Optional Mat (https://www.amazon.com/IRIS-Large-Hooded-Corner-Litter/dp/B07C4V6CXM?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07C4V6CXM)

When Lorna got it the Mat came with it-the whole set cost her $24

But that was at Walmart...and Not Amazon.   Can't find a link for it in Walmart....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 23, 2019, 12:09:14 PM
Oh we are liking that set up ... regardless
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 23, 2019, 12:20:30 PM
Yup...Oz likes it a lot.  Privacy for one thing....and he can be as messy as he wants LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on February 23, 2019, 12:26:21 PM
:tearlaugh: Be glad you don't have my long-haired tortoise-shell.

I clean the bathroom floor of kitty litter like 8 times a day. It doesn't matter.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 25, 2019, 06:09:21 AM
Yeah, but she's your baybe Ray, so you love her and help her out.   Like with Tattoo.  He tries to get to their box, sometimes doesn't make it.  He hollers, I check, and clean, he purrs.   My buddies!    I love em.    :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on February 25, 2019, 10:27:54 AM
Yeah, but she's your baybe Ray, so you love her and help her out.   Like with Tattoo.  He tries to get to their box, sometimes doesn't make it.  He hollers, I check, and clean, he purrs.   My buddies!    I love em.    :)

Yes, I do love her or I wouldn't have had her for 14 years. She makes it to the box just fine. I was speaking of litter. Just litter.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 25, 2019, 06:03:33 PM
Cool!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 02, 2019, 08:33:22 AM
McG said he can't get in here.....anyone else having this problem?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on March 02, 2019, 08:40:44 AM
No.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 02, 2019, 08:44:30 AM
McG said he can't post in here and I want to figure out why....

I'm going to have him test it again....no reason why he shouldn't be able to.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on March 02, 2019, 08:58:44 AM
Unless he was naughty that is .. :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 02, 2019, 09:21:54 AM
LOL....Even if naughty...we notify them.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on March 02, 2019, 12:03:22 PM
Testing it myself. Looks OK to me.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 02, 2019, 12:08:16 PM
I think Sir Knight hit it on the head.....

I don't think he followed the instructions we have posted.....we shall see how he does later on today....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 03, 2019, 08:08:26 AM
The ones I couldn't post to did not have the WWW in the url.  Thank you Aelin!   :viking:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 03, 2019, 08:13:44 AM
Well the boys are putting up with a little dandruff on their backs where the Dr's applied their dewormer meds.    seems there are several meds that now go ON the coat, not IN the throat. 
 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 03, 2019, 05:13:46 PM
The ones I couldn't post to did not have the WWW in the url.  Thank you Aelin!   :viking:

LOL.....  Like I said.... "Following instructions" 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 04, 2019, 08:36:37 AM
 :lost: :talkin2me: :nanana: :funny: :thumb_up: :shock:

SO, what was the FA problem the other day?   That was actually it?  The "New Rulz" for international interwebbing?   There aren't many things we little peoples (The Users!) can prefix an url with anyway.  Not that will do anything useful.   So why the absolute requirement that all urls be prefixed with 'www'?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 04, 2019, 06:23:46 PM
I actually think it's just a glitch or a hiccup on our servers end.....not ours...though it becomes ours since they are our server....and it does become our problem when it's their problem....

But it's a good fix for now so CHEERS.....  :toast:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 09, 2019, 02:27:08 AM
Blows me away just how MUCH fun (and trouble) a 7 year old cat can find to get into in such a small place!
If Mogwai is in my room while I sleep, he patiently allows me 5 good hours of delicious lovely SLEEP, then starts waking me up.  Grooming my hair, sniffing my ear, and that gets LOUD.  Talking to me.  He tries all kinds of sayings.  If he ever figures out how to say "Potty!" I'd be up instantly!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on March 09, 2019, 07:20:18 AM
I'm lucky then.
Cats here prefer to sleep after a little 'party' they have the secret when they are in bedroom: jump on, jump down, eat, drink, push you it's my turn, jump on, jump down, I'm back to eat, jump on... :thud:
Then it's the time to sleep. And when the clock says it's time to wake up, if they are on a body they do like if they didn't hear anything  :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 10, 2019, 03:37:02 AM
All that jumping would bother me.   Mogwai likes being very stealthy.  Until he gets in position at my ear.   Then he PURRS.   Tattoo only bothers me when he is very hungry.  Then he lets me know he is there.  Big trilling ROWR!  Beside me.   Over the years I guess I kinda grew used to that.   I stay sleeping a lot of the time.  Then he does it again.  I usually get up then.   Sigh.  Well I chose to have them here!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 10, 2019, 03:38:47 AM
I think Tattoo thinks he is too old to "Play".   Now he acts a lot like Garfield. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on March 10, 2019, 07:58:15 AM
They have 12 and 14 this year and for them play is a big  :yesway: :yesway: but only when they decide. Jump on the bed isn't a play, except if the door is well opened and they can run a lot.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 14, 2019, 10:56:52 AM
Yeah, yeah even Tattoo still plays The Race game.   Looks to me the 'leader' chooses a path/destination and they both run it, then leadership switches and that one chooses.   No worry, they cover the whole house like that.  But playing "Fly Fishing" with me?  Mogwai yes, Tattoo only rarely.  He loves to watch with huge eyes when Mogwai is 'flying' for the toy though.  I keep forgetting just HOW big Tattoo's eyes are!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on April 10, 2019, 01:18:05 AM
Cute - :tearlaugh:

Yes indeed, we are all 'loyal servants' if we have a cat, aren't we?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 10, 2019, 09:17:18 AM
Whew....Batai DOES look serious.....But a handsome fella indeed.....and yes....Cats rule the roost in most homes LOLOL......
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 10, 2019, 11:12:31 AM
Sweet cat!
Cats love to command, and make always a "face" when we decide to don't obey to them :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 10, 2019, 03:15:20 PM
Oh wow, utter agreement by all speaking?!  definitely the work of Cats!   LOL!  Batai is a fine looking fella!  Can I ask his weight?   Both of mine weigh 11.8 to 12.6 pounds.   Heavy mid size guys.  Tattoo is a marble tabby, Mogwai is a Seal Point Siamese, says the vet. 

Yep, while Dogs have masters, Cats have *staff* !!!   :mwah: and, we do love our furry friends!


TL, see I told ya Oz would get In Control ASAP!   Was I wrong?  he he he he!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 24, 2019, 07:35:44 AM
And how are Smoky and Watanuki, J?

I had Puce here in a period of panic crisis, mainly evenings, sometimes during nights, but it seems it's better now. No more panic meow, even when near her. At least I cross fingers for that part is over.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 24, 2019, 01:39:35 PM
Yup Mc-G.... Oz has command here.  He has now chosen to sleep in my bed at night now instead of Lornas.  I think it's because once I'm comfortable in the bed....I never move.  I wake up with Oz sleeping on the back of my legs each and every morning....LOL..

How are you feeling Mc-G.....you're taking care of yourself?  Hope so...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 24, 2019, 02:05:34 PM
It's comfortable for Oz if you aren't moving indeed... but aren't you the one who gives him the food in the morning? I bet he prefers to be with you because he is surehaving food faster than if he meows at your door each time :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 24, 2019, 04:02:39 PM
You know what....I never thought of that  :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 24, 2019, 04:13:35 PM
Cats are in my life since I was born. But I really started to take care of them when I was 4 years old. When you have in charge a kitten and your Mom doesn't joke with that (it was one condition for having a cat in a flat), you have all interest to understand what they want.
Even if sometimes I have always "what do you want?" moments :tearlaugh:
But cats are pragmatic for food :pervy: I know for example it's not completely for myself the youngest (the boulimic) is near me the evenings. It's because I have the food, and control it if never she starts to eat too much. It's only once she has her second 'wave' of food she is near me for me.

I bet also Oz has a free heater thanks to your legs.
You have 2 schools with cats. The ones liking legs; the others prefering (if it's possible for them) the tummy. Imagine when you have one of each at the house :psycho:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 24, 2019, 04:28:50 PM
LOL....Oz will pester me in the morning once the alarm goes off at 5AM.....and if I'm not fast enough....I get nibbles on my toes, nose and whatever else is exposed.

But I get him back....if he's still sleeping after the alarm goes off, I tug at his whiskers, flick his ears, tickle his nose and then he yawns and gives me a dirty look :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 24, 2019, 04:36:47 PM
And who started that ritual first? :tearlaugh:

No ritual here. Main of time when cats are in the room the alarm sounds... and nobody moves for letting me go out of bed :tearlaugh: They simply hope all days are kind of Sundays :tearlaugh:
But sometimes, no matter they are out of room or inside, they can decide it's time to wake up, even 1 or 2 hour before the hour. And it's not for the food, like they have it for the night. No, it's just they want 'move' in the house. Then they install themselves for sleeping during the breakfast :shrug:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 24, 2019, 05:33:39 PM
LOL.....Point taken......

I always keep dry food in Oz's bowl....I only have to give him wet food in the morning....but he's always thinks he's hungry in the morning....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 25, 2019, 07:00:55 AM
Wet food seems to act like the "candy time" for cats, they wait very very much for. Here it's the night they have it, and they love to watch the preparation in the plates.
And it's that it's necessary to look carefully. Because Puce takes big mouthful and if we don't take care, in 30 seconds she has ended everything. More, she tries to take the wet food in the plate of her sister; it's funny to see in those moments the dominatrix dominated, it's the only time where roles are inversed between them.

The dry food is also removed 1 hour before their wet food time, or the boulimic will profite before and after wet food, until it's too much for the stomach.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 25, 2019, 01:11:31 PM
Oz seems to leave the Dry Food alone in the morning.....he's waiting on the wet food....and yes....he goes to the cabinet where the wet food is and will start to whine and rub against it until I get the food out....

And he really gets agitated as I wash the wet food bowl before putting the wetfood in LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 25, 2019, 01:14:37 PM
I'm glad we only have one cat LOL.....I can only imagine the ruckus that would be raised if we had two LOLOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 26, 2019, 02:31:15 PM
Hi folks!   TL I feel pretty good after being awake for two or three hours.  Takes a while for the meds to get to work.   Gabapentin.   The stuff *WORKS* man.  Just takes a while to get traction.   Life without it would be abject misery, like it was 10 years ago.  The neuropathy was just getting into full swing back then.   Yes I AM doing what the doctors and nurses say, I get to my appointments, I submit to the vampires and am getting better, slowly but surely.   Compression AND elevation are normal routine life habits now.  I do them or I suffer.   Tough choice! 

Y'alls cats are doing exactly what my two are doing.   I have to put dry food out in a bowl for them every day.  And it lasts the day.  But in the morning they let me know they are ready for their wet food.  Tattoo will literally stand up on hind legs and dance for it too.  Well, he's reaching and stretching towards it anyway.   I put a tub of their wet on a pie plate, separate half on one side, half on the other and they dig in.
They don't leave any.   These are the 2.5 oz plastic tubs of Meow Mix, in a variety pack.  There are 3 types, I get all 3 along and by.   They like the Real Chicken and Turkey in Gravy the best.   They really clean the plate with that one.

Its spring, pollen and blooming things all over.  Tattoos allergies get horrible at times now.  He licks fur off his chest, has hives all over the area.   I make cool plain water compresses for him, and hold him for half an hour.  It helps relieve the itching it seems.  Ten years old almost, and he cuddles up, pushes right against me, and cries.  Breaks my heart.   He finally feels relief, I feel him purr, and he wont move away for a while.
Mogwai often comes up and stays with us while the wave passes.   Can't help it, love the little guys man.

Their veterinarian doctor learned from Heska Labs his allergies aren't food ones.   Nope, he is allergic to grass, weeds, flowers, trees.   But not munchies.   So, keeping him indoors full time has helped a lot.  But he still has em.   And he wont take the immunotherapy serum any more.  He hides for weeks from me if I try to give him a shot now.

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 26, 2019, 06:31:02 PM
Oz's mother was a rescue cat from Hurricane Harvey in the Rockport Tx area.....So he was born in a shelter....He's never been outside and we decided to keep him in....He doesn't even like the smell of outdoors.  If Lorna or I spent to much time outdoors....he won't even come near us till we change clothes and shower. 

But then again....when Lorna comes back from her walks I can smell the outdoors on her....and neither Oz nor I will go near her till she showers and changes clothes LOLOL.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 26, 2019, 08:27:07 PM
LOL!   Thats cool :)   Right, if it don't smell right he don't want it near him.   
Mogwai was brought inside from that old truck bed of junk, put in a big cardboard box with fresh towels in it, his mom hopped right in with the two newborns and took up Mommie duties instantly.   And she was SO proud of those two babies.   By next morning, the other gray spot baby had passed while on the teat.  Blackie put it in the furthest corner of the box and settled back down with Mogwai, the sole survivor of her very first litter.   And, he was the runt.  Half the size of the other four.   He has never sat outside even a full minute.   He has shot out the door a few times, showing how big and brave he is, to ME.  If I don't step out he don't go shooting out.  And he always shoos back in quickly.   He is totally like a child, and whenever he wants time with me, he gets it.  Well Tattoo does too, he doesn't want that level of attention that Mogwai does.   

And Mogwai brings me mice.   they don't move no more, but he brings em to me and is super proud he Got Em!  LOL!   Out here, you can't help having mice.  Haven't seen any rats in here, just cats, possums, mice and some few bugs.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 26, 2019, 08:52:29 PM
I must say I was never much of a cat person....but Oz changed my mind....Right now he's on my hassoc that is under my computer station sound asleep...

We have mice around here but they stay mostly in the farmers fields....but if some come down from the field...there are roving patrols of kittens and cats that keep them at bay....or have them for breakfast, lunch or dinner LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 27, 2019, 06:51:49 AM
First flat here, it was when I was 4 years old, and during 2 years.
It was rare the trap for mouses was working, but they learnt how to avoid it :shrug:
What they couldn't avoid, it was Juliette, the cat we had. Very bourgeois cat, sweet, delicate, proper in her attitude... but when we weren't there, and one mouse tried to look inside the flat, we found it killed but not ate.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 14, 2019, 07:25:32 PM
Yup....I have a friend in Newfoundland whose cat brings her presents every morning.  Drops them right on the front door mat LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 21, 2019, 06:28:34 PM
I think well cared for cats tend to kill the pests and not eat them.    Both mine will kill mice and rats, and any bugs they encounter in the house.   Mogwai puts his where I am sure to see, or step on, in a certain spot in the kitchen floor.  Tattoo just buries his in the litter box.  No kidding.   I make sure to shower them with praise for their gifts too.   They just keep bringing more of them :oD
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 22, 2019, 10:13:44 AM
Thankfully Oz is a indoor cat and we have no critters around.... :noway:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 22, 2019, 10:14:26 AM
Though a bug or two has been known to fly in and that's all day entertainment for him LOLOLOL....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 22, 2019, 10:32:33 AM
Here sometimes a spider comes. If cats see her, they try to play with :thud: Last spider tried to enter in my indoor shoe but I crushed it with the other :shrug: Cats were disapointed by the end of their new toy.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: dRaCX on May 22, 2019, 10:49:22 AM
I want a pet spider monkey named Wilson and teach him to do back flips. Flip Wilson, Flip!!! That would be so awesome.
 :java: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 22, 2019, 11:12:44 AM
Well, since Aelin most likely had to pick up  the dead spider.....

She could get a Spider Monkey and name it "Wilson Pickett" up.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on May 29, 2019, 07:31:53 PM
OK I have just been gobsmacked and bafflegabbed

Came home and went upstairs to enter more volumes in my inventory ... a little bit each day and eventually I might get up to date.

Any way the reason I am posting this here is that before I went back downstairs and was going to use the bathroom and what do I find ... the strangest thing I have seen yet.

It looked like ye ole Watanuki must have had an upset stomach and actually :puah: into the toilet bowl

 :thud:

Seriously ... perfect aim except for some dribble on the side. The largest portion a simple flush to clean up ... certainly didn't see that happening and trust me I have had to clean up after previous cats when they have had events of this nature in the past.

This however was a first ...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 30, 2019, 06:46:57 AM
Maybe he was looking the toilet bowl when that happened.
Or he has really understood than toilets are useful for some things, and being not far away of that he decided to go on.
You'll see if that happens again or not. Have you give him a word to tell he was a good boy? That can help too.

And how with Smokey?

During a time I convinced Puce to do that on the litterbox or on the special rugs around, in
case she was near of. Alas, it was only a period :shrug:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on May 30, 2019, 02:41:55 PM
I did give him the high five for doing it there instead of on the carpet or in a bookcase.

Went out the sliding doors to my back yard and left the door cracked and Smoky got out, he took off running, obviously there was something he saw that was entirely to fascinating and that was the last I saw of him.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 30, 2019, 02:50:10 PM
Oh that's a sad news. I hope it's just he wasn't able to find his way back, and finally met a family who adopted him :sigh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 22, 2019, 01:35:09 AM
That is a thing Cats have a tendency to do in a way entirely their own.    Like Li'l Mister, I allowed him to stay in as it was ice and sleet everywhere and close to 0°F, and he was about 3 months old and had a bad respiratory infection.  Got him to vet,  only took a week and he was good as new.   He ran IN to play with Mogwai.  That's it.  Not for me or Tattoo, and the good things like medicine, health, fresh food and water, treats and toys were just "Oh Wow!" then forgotten.  He wanted Mogwai.   3.5 years later, when poor  ol Mogwai was having to hide from him, Mister scratched at the front door and did the attention getting stuff.  I opened that door and haven't seen him since.  But, he did leave as a very healthy neutered male 3 yr old cat.  Neighbors and family say they've seen him all around the neighborhood, and looked fit and happy.   So I quit worrying about him.   
If a cat wants a human, they go to them.  If not, they just avoid them.   And they are very good at both!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 22, 2019, 02:40:07 AM
Our grey tabby, McCartney roams the area here, and is great at keeping out of reach of the dogs running loose.


Recently he came in with a couple thousand beggar's lice stuck in his fur. Seems he ran or pushed through a big patch of the plants that produce them. He had them everywhere, even in his facial fur, his ears, etc. I took down the pet brush and began brushing as many as I could out of his fur, but it was tedious, as I was having to stop and clean the brush every ten or so minutes, so I gave that up in favor of just picking them out with my fingers. He just let me do it with no fuss, even though I know it had to be irritating to have me pulling on his fur like that. He was purring the whole time! I think he was happy to have my help getting rid of them for him. He only reacted when I was working around his lower leg joints, which I think are ticklish, because he reacts the same way when I play with his legs like that. He will play bite me, never trying to hurt me. He's a really good cat about that kind of thing.


As for those beggar's lice, he would occasionally end a picking session himself and go get some alone time. When he came back, I'd find he had picked a good few out himself. He would jump into my lap and would expose an area that still had some in it, as if to say "Help me get these out." Of course I would pull those out, and he would then turn and expose another area he was not able to remove them from, and I'd pick them out too.


Now that is a cat that knows how to communicate with his humans! Very smart, don't you think? I'm proud of him!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 24, 2019, 03:30:34 AM
Heck yeah, cats are smart!   they know exactly how to keep us En-Thralled !!!     Wish I'd had a camera out this morning while I fixed our breakfasts.   Tattoo was out and looking happy for once, Mogwai was 14 pounds of Frisky Fun and burning off excess energy a few ways.   He'd sit stock still, then suddenly launch off to the bathroom, then to the bedroom, then out to the living room, then over the furniture and back to the middle of the kitchen floor.  Then Tattoo just stood in place "cat smiled" (opened mouth with tongue out) and hopped straight up and down all 4's clearing the floor a few times.  Then Mogwai shot off for the circuit again.  Tattoo just stood and watched him.  He was 10 yrs old this month.   LOL!  Then I set their plate down and they chowed down.    But that was fun to see them being cats yaknow!   :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 24, 2019, 01:11:11 PM
LOL....sounds like Oz when you mention "TREAT".  It takes him 5 minutes to finally get done with his antics before I can give him a treat LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 24, 2019, 01:58:36 PM
We estimate McCartney's age at about 2 to 2 1/2 years. He is a very vocal cat, and when we talk to him he eats it up, talking back to us as thought he's discussing something with us.


For Cookie Baby's age I had to do a bit of calculating. I knew we got her as an eight week old kitten about one month after my Mother passed away, and that was in 2010. So she is definitely 9 years old now, and she's very healthy for her age. She still likes to play, and one of her favorite things to play with is my hand. We have mock fights between my hand and her. She tries her best not to scratch the blood out of it. And she'll only mock bite my hand. When she's had enough play time, she'll give me a "Mmgrrrowww!" We stop, and she goes to sleep across one of my thighs. I have an artist's fan brush that I use to dust off certain things, and she has always been fascinated with it; to the point of stealing it if she can. I get it back when I catch her playing with it. If I watch her with it, I can see how she makes it do what she wants. She tosses it up in the air with her mouth. when it hits the floor she pounces on it, or bats it across the floor so that she can chase it. It really is a funny thing to watch. For a 9 year old cat that's really great! I want to get her another pink Swiffer Duster. The one she had before, she would hug with her fore legs and carry it around on her hind legs. That was hilarious to see. That duster was her best friend, aside from me.


Of the 2 cats we now have, McCartney is the most gentle, even when playing. He tries to keep his claws sheathed when we play with him.


We get the Temptations treats for our cats, and we call them Thnick Thnacks. We can just mouth the words Thnick Thnacks, and both are there in a heartbeat! McCartney will sing to us while we are getting some out for him. Cookie Baby jumps on the desk and waits patiently for hers. The 2 of them are very different from each other concerning the snacks, but they both love them. I think they are addicted to them because of the catnip that's in them. But they do get frisky after having some.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 30, 2019, 04:47:15 PM
Its getting pretty warm again, with tomorrow marking July 1 and my 65th year in the world.   Cats seem to be better able to deal with hot weather than us or dogs.   Mine have always preferred the warmer places around the place.   That said, they seem better able to handle cold better than us humans too.   Pretty amazing critters!  CATS, not us, so much.  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on June 30, 2019, 05:34:14 PM
http://www.thefantasiesattic.net/attic/index.php?topic=20478.0;topicseen

The usual crowd haven't come by yet. Have a good one! Enjoy. Throw :confet: and have :0704:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 09, 2019, 02:06:19 AM
and so here is a belated but enthusiastic Thank You!  Ray!   :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 16, 2019, 03:19:03 PM
The cats are pretty smart critters.   They know where they are going to be comfortable, and I see mine claiming those spots.   They do like it warmer than we do it seems.  but when its time to get cool, the usually go lie down in the bath tub, stretch out and snooze a couple hours.  Or till someone wants a shower.   The floor of that enameled steel tub is definitely cool.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 05, 2019, 10:38:48 PM
that discussion of Cat Caches has me very curious now.   I know I have things that have inexplicably gone missing, not a trace of where off to.   And the only one that really comes in this room now is Mogwai.  Soooo.   Anyhow, just wondering if both my cats might each have their own personal treasure trove.  Got some snooping to do!    Hope I don't find any gremlins hiding out here...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on October 06, 2019, 10:20:05 AM
Thank you for bringing that over here, McG  :mwah:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 08, 2019, 12:39:50 PM
IT was looking like a conversation, so sure, I brought it here.  :o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sidherose on October 09, 2019, 08:55:14 AM
IT was looking like a conversation, so sure, I brought it here.  :o)

Most of it had already taken place in the Coffee Shop, when you did. :shrug:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 18, 2019, 04:40:54 AM
My youngest, Mogwai, has been behaving very antsy lately.   Might be his teeth bothering him, might be something else.  Will get him to the vet, see what he says.     Until lately he would be sound asleep most of the night.   I still find the occasional croaked mouse gift!   But its his overactive behavior that worries me. 


 :singing2:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 18, 2019, 03:07:26 PM
Oz is Oz.....he's doing great.  One of the funniest and strangest things he does is do a speed run all through out the place right after he takes a poop.  Never saw a cat so excited about going to the bathroom....and he goes regularly so don't get what the big thrill is....but for him.....it's cat happy dance time :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:

https://youtu.be/yZhHT-pQU8c
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on October 18, 2019, 03:10:15 PM
Puce does the same TL. Always for her poo, and sometimes for her pee. Running everywhere in the house, even in obstacles (head first of course :shrug: ). But in her case, I don't know if it's the joy which pushes her, or if she is running far away of the odor :thud:  :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 18, 2019, 03:55:28 PM
I'm thinking the odor....I told Lorna the same thing....  Good thing the litter box is in her hallway :tearlaugh:

But yes, head first, with no regards to what is what.  He's taken some chunks of hair out of his head at times but no cuts or anything.  It's so crazy to watch LOLOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 19, 2019, 01:23:20 PM
Hmm!   Maybe they are just burning off excess energy, right after eliminating excess weight?  Heh!   
Mogwai HAS been flying from back door to front door and back, then a sharp left to the hall and bathroom and back to the kitchen.   Its funny when he runs over the back of the sofa and Tattoo is peacefully snoozing away then Moggie zooms by, smacks his bottom lightly and zooms back to the kitchen.  Tattoo wakes with a start and a hiss, looks around confused, then settles back to sleep again.   
Maybe Mogwai is actually feeling BETTER after a bout with a bad molar?  He IS burning off energy every day though.   If they are doing that, they are probably doing pretty good :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 20, 2019, 11:18:07 AM
LOL...that's funny.  Oz does the behind the couch thing also then slides down the hallway....smacks into the computer room door, speeds back down the hallway and slides to a stop in the kitchen...and starts all over again LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 22, 2019, 09:59:52 AM
Back door to front door, with a spring off the coffee table onto back of couch pop right into front (100 yr old solid wood) door at 4 to 5 feet bounce back to couch-coffee table- hard run thru house to back door.   They get a lot of speed with a straight shot like that.   The living room to hall to bathroom is hardwood and their slip n slide.   *I* can't keep up with em!  LOL!

Mogwai definitely defers to Tattoo's Seniority.   Gives over food to him even.  But at play time like that, I note with a wry grin Mogwai's batting Tattoo on his butt while flying by!  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 22, 2019, 10:02:36 AM
TL have you had a cat just take off all wide eyed, overfull of energy and run around the room ON the WALLS?    I have not showed mine that trick!   Have seen it done many times, but not by these two...yet.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 22, 2019, 10:32:33 AM
Nope...thankfully.....he's crazy enough as it is..... :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on October 22, 2019, 01:53:23 PM
TL have you had a cat just take off all wide eyed, overfull of energy and run around the room ON the WALLS?    I have not showed mine that trick!   Have seen it done many times, but not by these two...yet.
On the walls, that's what I call skateboard!
Before we moved 17 years ago, Juliette played to run after her sister Tania. We had a corridor. Juliette ran on walls, ended before her sister. They turned back, Juliette behind Tania, running on wall, ending before. They loved that!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 22, 2019, 02:02:01 PM
Oz gets reckless enough without running on walls. 

He's sleeping on my footrest now because he's been going crazy as he was watching the guy FINALLY come and fill in the holes, add more soil, smooth it out with the tractor, and put grass seed and hay on top of it. 

Not sure what good putting grass seed this late in the season does...but then again....it may be the ideal time I'm thnking...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 23, 2019, 06:41:03 AM
Mogwai did the Speed Racer thing a while ago, but this time, Tattoo was just pretending to sleep.  When Mogwai swatted at his butt on the way by, Tattoo popped Mogwai's rear and made him miss his landing.   That was funny, glad I got to see it!   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 23, 2019, 09:13:13 AM
LOL....too funny.   We have fun with one cat and when he's really in a mood....he'll stand up tall and "Kung Fu" either Lorna or me as we walk by....  It's so funny to watch...Sometimes it's not so funny for Lorna because her hallway is dark unless you have a light on (no windows like my hallway) and she can't see "Kungfu Kitty" is waiting in the dark to Kung Fu her :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 24, 2019, 10:29:39 AM
LOL!    Kung Fu Kitty, saw a couple those on YouTube!   Ha!  I like it, good boy OZ!   :D

Tattoo and Mogwai were both real agitated yesterday morning while I was getting trash out to dumpster.  Then Tattoo bolted out the door and I managed to stop Mogwai with my foot in the door.  Got it shut, then saw why they were both upset.   There was this LARGE very dark 'melanistic black' tabby in the yard, marking it and smelling all around.   Well, Tattoo is Da BOSS around these parts, and that would simply not DO.   So he instantly tangled with that cat, which freaked it out somewhat.   It ran off a few feet, saw Tattoo, motionless as a torpedo waiting to be launched.   Then he did, and ran low, IN the grass, like he did while he was nailing a bird or squirrel or rat in the yard.   Ruler straight line about 30 mph instantly hitting his spot.   He bit it I think!   IT shot straight up, clung to the fence, then over the other side of it and gone.
Then Tattoo promptly gets up, starts acting like himself again, talks to me and with his tail straight up rubs my legs.  I pick him up and pet him, telling him what a Great Warrior he is!    He ate it up :)   We proudly went back inside, no protest from Tattoo or Mogwai.   
That dark tabby was gorgeous, and almost twice Tattoo's size!      Love these guys!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 24, 2019, 11:18:11 AM
Thankfully Oz has no use for the outdoors.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 24, 2019, 09:28:31 PM
Tattoo spent most of his first year outdoors.   He wasn't allowed to live in the townhouse they were leasing at the time.   So, when his brother got run over, she scooped Tattoo up and brought him to me.   He is ten now, and pretty content to be indoors.  Especially now.  He knows what snow is, and he don't like it.  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 06, 2019, 12:44:44 PM
Tattoo, the genius tabby cat!    I keep several blankets and comforters spread out on my sis's sectional double recliner sofa, to protect it.  More or less.   That was the opening idea anyway.  SO, Tattoo has figured out how to create his very own cozy Cat Nest in it, by dragging the edges  around and making a big knothole in it.   Then of course, plop right in and nap all day.   At first I thought he'd "covered some of his bizinezz" with blanket.  So I carefully tugged at a hem of one and POP!  There's Tattoo!  Talking like a crazy kat being freshly woke up.  I patted him and let him back to sleep.  Sigh.   Something new every day!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 06, 2019, 05:06:31 PM
LOL.....Smart cat indeed......one that knows what it wants and gets it.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 11, 2019, 09:02:01 AM
Oz is a lot like that TL!    :haha:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 11, 2019, 10:15:34 AM
LOL......Yes he is.....

He was on his cat stand this morning looking out the window at the birds trying to hang on the bird feeder when a gust of wind blew a dove that was about to land right into the window he was looking out of. 

Didn't hurt the window nor the dove but Oz jumped 5 miles high fell out of his cat stand.... and then went running back to the window to see what attacked him....He jabbered away at the Dove the whole time it was there eating the seeds on the ground..... :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 13, 2019, 02:46:18 PM
Cool!   you ought to get a quick video of him  doing that stuff.   I'd be interested to hear HIS language!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 13, 2019, 02:59:28 PM
Let me tell you something...when that Dove his the window I jumped as high as Oz did....and anything in my hands would have gone flying also :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 14, 2019, 06:53:05 PM
awwww....   welllll oh kay.   Since you are having all these jitters and stuff mayhap Kianna  :nurse: can calm ya down!   :haha:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 03, 2019, 09:04:50 AM
Scouse wouldn't like that....Thankfully :xmas2:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on December 04, 2019, 04:24:46 AM
Yet Scouse, doesn't mind when Kianna takes a few moments to soothe thy troubled self.

She is a busy lady but always has time for the pair of thee.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 04, 2019, 08:47:43 AM
The problem is.....I MIND.....so No Thank You  :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on December 04, 2019, 09:09:40 AM
I dont mind when shes doing her job...


shes always doing a job on me so someone else can have a turn...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 04, 2019, 09:27:06 AM
NO THANK YOU.....

I can see how well you turned out .....
  :odd: :crazy: :shj:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on December 04, 2019, 09:46:11 AM
and just what are you incinerating???


 :crazy:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 04, 2019, 09:56:11 AM
If I had to deal with her all the time...that is what I'd want to be.....Incinerated   :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on December 08, 2019, 09:10:38 PM
Its rather interesting hearing about the furry family members that are out there.  Speaking for myself, I have always been a dog person.  German Shepard for the most part.  First pet I had was a dachshund mix, named Tinker.  My wacko sister got rid of him while I was in school.  She didn't like him and he definitely didn't care for her.  They'd fight in the bedroom.  She'd try to smack him with the broom, he'd duck and run under the bunk beds.  She'd shove the broom under to get hm.  He'd bit the broom and hang on until she got him in the clear.  Then try to swat him with the broom!  He'd just drop off and back under the bunk beds he'd go.  To this day, I still don't know what happened to that dog.
Next pet I got was a black and silver German Shepard.  Named him Saladin.  Go figure.  Beautiful animal, and one hell of a baby sitter.  Put a baby near him and you needn't worry.  If the baby started fussin', he'd come get either Connie or myself.  I set him to watching my brother's girls out in the yard.  They were out there having a grand time and Saladin was under the porch in the shade.  My brother came by in order to pick them up, Saladin watching him all the way.  He did pick up one of his girls - she screamed - don't know if scared or what, but she screamed and Saladin went into action.  He put my brother OVER the fence, and didn't relent until Connie or I came out in order to order him off.  He's gone now.  I don't have a picture of him as they are all in storage. 


Right now, since time is catching up - never was much of a runner anyway - I tried to swear off getting any more animals.   I tried.  Unfortunately, or Fortunately as the case may be.  Connie was given a little critter that someone actually threw away!  IN THE GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!   She already had Tink - a little white and brown Chihuahua - to look after.  She wanted to give her to me.  Stupid me. I said not no but hell ----- awwwww, look at those little eyes!!!!  And that was how I came to have my little Princess.  An all too cute black and tan Chihuahua.  By the by, she likes riding in the car behind my neck, and eating ice cream.

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 09, 2019, 09:32:08 AM
Tis sad what folks do to animals.  Let's see if that new FEDERAL LAW changes anything.   

But yup...I can see why it was hard to say no LOL.   

Love the shots.....and they look well rested and HAPPY.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on December 09, 2019, 06:18:28 PM
My fav as well.  And I already own a Subaru, and not willing to trade it in.

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 09, 2019, 07:23:00 PM
Cool looking ride indeed.  I'm a Honda guy...Just traded the SUV for a HRV...Love it...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 11, 2019, 06:37:37 PM
Santa Cat....

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 22, 2019, 01:37:42 PM
Someone don't care for that Santa Cat outfit methinks!   LOL!  (SMACK!) 

I had a Subaru once.  Loved it actually.   4 cyl pancake, 5 spd overdrive, all wheel disk brakes, front wheel drive.  Used, $1100.00 cash.   Very clean car!   A 82 GL Wagon.   Being a pancake, one paid very close attention to the oil changes and level.   Even so it was the most under powered vehicle I ever owned.  There were much better engines for those cars around I found.  that one was just the weakest of the lot.   I have seen the 2 door Subaru Baja trucks.   Now they are all 4 door?  Oh well,  they are all  wheel drive, nice :)
Wish I had one that gets 35 mpg plus.  My old Jeep has been getting 19 to 20 mpg combined.  22 to 24 highway only.   Pretty good for a nearly 2.5 ton SUV.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 24, 2019, 07:42:07 PM
Oz helping me wrap presents..... :thud:

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 27, 2019, 11:18:53 PM
Oz helping me wrap presents..... :thud:

All cats love boxes!   But you know that yeah!   LOL!    It appears that Oz is a "Bombay".   Special kinda cat!   My Mogwai is out of a Bombay Queen.   Recessive genes produce them, and they are a very cool cat.   Have a very distinct personality, pretty darn outgoing, interesting vocals, VERY picky as to their human, and loyal to that human IF they choose one.   I have seen them choose a family, not just one person.  Or no one at all, but gets on with everyone.   Needless to say, I LIKE Bombay cats.   The very first one I ever called my own was one.   And where I went, she went.  If she didn't fit anywhere else around me, it was on my head.   Hat ornament.   Mom got rid of her when I enlisted.   Family huh?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 29, 2019, 05:42:20 AM
Hey TL, tell Oz I said he's Gorgeous!    see what he sez  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 29, 2019, 03:15:52 PM
I shall do that.....

In the meantime....here is a Christmas Shot of OZ....and no, we did not keep him in this outfit all day....

As you can tell by the look on his face....revenge was being plotted....


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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 31, 2019, 03:05:36 PM
HAPPY NEW YEARS TO ALL OF OUR PET LOVERS......

CLICK HERE (https://llerrah.com/viewcard.php?vflg=1023671) TO VIEW CARD...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on December 31, 2019, 06:04:00 PM
:tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 01, 2020, 08:58:40 PM
Love the card!    And Oz is so *CUTE* !!!!   He's smiling too, I see the tip of his tongue sticking out.   He is definitely enjoying all that attention.   Thanks for posting that pic Dan!   :o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 02, 2020, 09:00:53 AM
LOL.....He is certainly a attention hog....that's for sure.  And glad you liked the shot my friend....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 08, 2020, 03:13:11 AM
Well well well.   I noticed last week that Tattoo jumped normally up to the counter, and almost missed it, too low.  Have y'all ever seen a cat look embarrassed?!  He did!   I now have him on a diet of sorts.   He gets fed apart from Mogwai, as he ate his food AND Mogwai's.  Hm.   

I also bought one of those cool new-fangled heavy glass digital weight scales that gives up all sorts of other info I don't need.   Just the accurate weight thanks.   Me and cat are over 300 pounds.  HMM.  Old scale goes E-5 and quits.  New scale sez 304.  OK Tattoo my buddy me and you are on the same diet!   EAT LESS.  Period.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 08, 2020, 08:55:02 AM
Yup....that would be a good thing to do.   I'm still at 148 with clothes on.  Before surgery I was 165-170.....with clothes on....

I haven't weighed Oz in a while but then again...he zips back and forth so often that he doesn't keep to much weight on him.  When Oz tries to jump on the counter he slide off the other side because he goes so fast :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 08, 2020, 04:23:13 PM
 :cheer: Go OZ Go, Go!   Go OZ Go, Go!

Both my boys do the slide-off-other-side of the coffee table.   They also know full well the meaning of 'drifting' the curves and corners in the house.   Smooth hardwood floors make that easy for them.   They do sometimes drift right into the wall here and there ;)  But with both of them, I see "Cat Smiles" while they are doing it.   They often do it together, so we can call that a "Cat Rally Race" !   Tattoo has been losing all the races lately, and he guards the food bowl.   Well, now there are two food bowls.   The one in the kitchen where Tattoo guards it stays empty mostly.  Mogwai's is in my bedroom now, and keeps some food most of the time.    It shouldn't take too many weeks to see Tattoo lean and mean again!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 08, 2020, 04:25:04 PM
Fully dressed, I see 288 here and at the VA.  As with Tattoo, it shouldn't take TOO many weeks for me to improve that.  Downward being 'improve'.   And TL, I do not like being (literally!) TWICE the man you are.  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 09, 2020, 01:34:22 PM
LOLOL.......   Got it.....

Right now I'm watching "White Zombie" made in 1939...and it stars Bela Lugosi ..... It's part of the Creepy Koffee Movie Time with Balrok and No Name
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 11, 2020, 11:37:36 AM
I've been surfing channels looking for something interesting.    :coffeemaker: is the only thing on worthwhile right now.  That channel works great!   So, I can put one of my movies on and see if it knocks me out again.  :o)

Had to get out in the frozen stuff earlier.   Got home, had 4 paper bags of groceries, put most away and fixed me some lunch.  And fed the boys some smoked turkey deli shaved lunchmeat.   Not that much but enough they were dancing around singing for their lunch.   Guess that makes ma a cruel pet parent huh?   Picked each up to hug, pet and 'weigh' and yes Tattoo is less bloated now.  I am relieved about that.   He is getting noisy now when he's sure its way past FEED ME time!   I just give him a little bit each time.   He's been looking at me like "What are you, crazy@@??!!!  Mmm hmm, sure am buddy.  Sorry bout dat!   So now he's guarding the bowl less.   Good.   :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 11, 2020, 02:56:00 PM
I find all sorts of crazy stuff on Youtube which I do enjoy....  Depends on the mood.  Sometimes it's rock concerts and other times it's crazy movies LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 14, 2020, 11:22:00 AM
Yeah I look for the oldies there.   I do the same on VUDU (a Walmart possession).  Better to buy cheep at Walmart.com and get the digital copy put right into your VUDU account that way.   They do not believe in the Walmart sales!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 14, 2020, 04:06:16 PM
Yup.....Amazon does the same....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 15, 2020, 06:48:34 PM
Oz chilling out on my lap while I work on the computer in the bedroom.....

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on February 18, 2020, 10:48:07 AM
Yes... they are very good at that...

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 19, 2020, 10:14:17 AM
:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:   Yup...relaxed and then some...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on February 19, 2020, 11:40:32 AM
actually... he's only like that cos he tried to balance on the back of the sofa
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 19, 2020, 11:44:33 AM
So it's one of those "ooooops" moments....Kinda like when Oz tries to stop on the newly polished floor and ends up rolling onto the carpet and lays there trying to figure out what just happened.....  :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on February 19, 2020, 11:48:54 AM
I think it was more "eaagghhh" than "ooops" for him...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 23, 2020, 02:16:40 AM
Ha ha ha!   Mogwai gets in a grooming mood, hops up on the back of my chair, and grooms my hair for a bit.   I thank him kindly, and get the honor of rubbing his belly.   I mean how many cats want their belly rubbed?   :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 23, 2020, 04:26:33 AM
Ha ha ha!   Mogwai gets in a grooming mood, hops up on the back of my chair, and grooms my hair for a bit.   I thank him kindly, and get the honor of rubbing his belly.   I mean how many cats want their belly rubbed?   :)
Cookie Baby and McCartney like me to rub their bellies. That's because I have the magic touch. All my cats liked it, with the exception of Sylvester the 2nd. Cookie likes it so much, she'll crawl up into my arms, and squirm around onto her back, presenting her belly for me to rub. When I rub her belly, that's when she purrs loudest.


McG, you must have the magic touch also, because not many folks can rub a cat's belly and not have their hand attacked for it.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 25, 2020, 12:10:42 PM
As long as its when THEY want tummies rubbed, it's OK.   If they aren't in the mood, its attack mode!   Tattoo, the 10 yr old, demands to be in my lap when I sit down.   Then he gives my upper arm a hug and that is when I am supposed to rub HIS tummy.  He is in a half standing position that way.  But, that is HIS way and HIS time :o)
Mogwai normally just flops over on his back while on my desk, for me to rub ever so gently.  Now,  if its on  the kitchen counter and he flops over, watch out cause he is in full on PLAY! mode then.   Reach for his tummy, ATTACK!  pull hand back, ATTACK!   Yup.  Gotta do it their way or ELSE!    :coffeemaker:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on February 26, 2020, 02:18:04 PM
Don'tcha just LOVE the little divils?  Majik, the black cat, likes to crawl up on everyone's shoulders and go for a ride.  Just loves my son, and my son loves him back, he's just got to fight with the allergies he has to the furry little dickens.  My daughter's cat, Meow - go figure - is an outdoor cat.  Problem, she brings him in because she worries about him, and he only stays in a bit - you know, get something to eat, drink some water .... and then its right back to the door yowling to be let out.


   :yeow:


I let him out .... usually with a size 13 right up the ........
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 02, 2020, 11:15:20 PM
Aw you're so mean!   Wanna hold this cardboard for a bit?   The tank crew is readying  a round!  ;o)

Allergies.   My cat Tattoo has seriously bad ones, and to most things growing outdoors.  Grasses, weeds, trees, bushes.   For about 2 years he put up with the side effects of the Immunotherapy serum (inject).  But that might have really hurt his intestines.   Time will tell.   
I learned after dealing with that for a bit something interesting about humans with allergies to cats.   It isn't the cats fur that is the problem.   It is the dried saliva in their fur that's doing it, according to the doctors of today.   :o)  And its more treatable than the allergies the cats have!

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 07, 2020, 01:16:07 AM
Ok, I GET Tattoo...he instinctively gets as far above whatever ails him, so he is in the topmost cupboard (no doors on this row) right under the ceiling and stays there till he feels better.  Or gets hungry.
But Mogwai is taken a turn to jumping, running, twisting, turning, wriggling and foo fighting some of the furniture.   Wondering where he got all this energy?!  I want some! 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 28, 2020, 03:57:39 AM
I love seeing a cat getting ready for the Ambush Pounce on one of their toys.   They get hunkered down, wiggle their butt a few times to settle their rear paws into a sprinters cleat position, their ears pointed forward, their whiskers too, their nose all aquiver, their eyes opened wide then closed to a mere slit..then...WHOOSH!  they got it!   Hey ya gotta let it go so we can play some more!  YANK!  and its behind the couch now.  Sheesh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on March 29, 2020, 10:36:25 AM
Now I have seen everything ... almost ... Watanuki is now fascinated by one of the clocks I brought back from the old mans place. Haven't put all of the clocks away and it is just laying on the low table. However, the second hand has his attention to the point of him pawing at it and trying to bite it

:thud:

WOuld not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 01, 2020, 06:34:46 PM
He doesn't pounce on the mouse pointer?     And the clock widget for the sidebar, I had to turn OFF the second hand cause it got slapped a few times by Mogwai.  And he give me a speedcheck if I am typing too fast, and the cursor flows across the screen with letters forming in its wake.  SLAP!  I noticed his eyes get really big right before a pounce like that.   Of course, that don't help one bit if you're looking at the back of his head!
But that's cool with Watanuki and the clock!   LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on April 01, 2020, 06:53:53 PM
Watanuki seldom gets in my lap while I am at the computer. Which based on your tale is a good thing.

I guess that he satisfied his curiosity because he didn't go after a second time. So finally got around to putting away and all is well in the house of ..  well not certain what the name of my place would be, but I am certain that if this place was a temple it would be ancient, crumbling, haunted and probably cursed.

:tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on April 01, 2020, 08:02:02 PM
Okay, in response to McG's earlier post, I shall attempt to refrain from adjusting his headspace from the rear.
*rattzle, frazitx, no good .... AHEM!*

It's not that I don't like cats, its just that I don't care much for THAT cat.  (Kitty's another case entirely!)  Bloody beast will yowl to go out and yowl to come back in, just before going back out.


 OY.  :nopanic;



My daughter will bring him in .... to the point of carrying his lazy as* into the house.  She'll then go 10-7 - temporarily out of service to those in the know - and not wake up in order to let the hairy critter back out.  She'll then wake up later and, finding him NOT in the house, will go outside calling to him - no matter WHAT the time.
 :lostme: *can you say Oh dark thirty?????? 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 05, 2020, 04:36:00 PM
Yeah, my eldest was exactly like that.   And THEN...she grew up.  Became a Mamma.  4 times.  Now, she is about to be a Grandma.  Twice.  I beseeched her on ye ol phone....Ya know what that did to ME!?  I'll be a GREAT Grandpa!   GAAAH!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on April 05, 2020, 05:16:54 PM
:heeheehee:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 10, 2020, 08:01:19 PM
and and and they'll all want Computers!   :cry2:

nope, I hereby quit building em for anyone but me now!    :coffeemaker: :woohoo:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 10, 2020, 08:03:10 PM
Jherrith, Mogwai doesn't get in my lap.  He gets on the desk between the keyboard and me.  And all too often some  of him rolls onTO the keyboard.  And presses keys various and sundry.   :shock:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on April 10, 2020, 11:41:58 PM
Sounds like all kinds of fun
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 13, 2020, 03:27:03 PM
Yeah,  :whatthe: I'm bad enough, then HE gets in the act!   LOL!    :coffeemaker: :cheer:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: M-Callahan on May 02, 2020, 12:10:25 PM
7 Sounds Cats Make and What They Mean


I imagine that cat owners know what these sound are. 


https://youtu.be/pjRs_WT8VzM
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 02, 2020, 12:19:53 PM
Yup...hear most of them, but to date...no hissing....thankfully LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: M-Callahan on May 05, 2020, 05:32:33 PM
Taddy Snowskate 2020 Best Cat Skate Video Ever! "Hustle To Meowtivate"


I never knew Cat like to Snowboard. 


https://youtu.be/YiE8V7sqjvw
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 05, 2020, 06:12:43 PM
Love almost all cat vids I've seen....cool ones...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 07, 2020, 12:12:02 PM
M-C thanks, enjoyed those vids!   

Cats do have 'talk' that is for their Tribe.   Meaning their Human and maybe cats in the immediate family.  Like Tattoo accepted Mogwai immediately.   Never been a problem between the two.   Tattoo does hiss when he's hurting, like when his allergies really get to burning and itching him.   Sometimes he does when its uncomfortable using the bathroom.   He cracks his Vet Doc up.  Very expressive cat!  When we are sitting in the waiting room I get him out if the place is empty.  So, rather than run around, he hops right in my lap, looks around, turns back at me and starts his 'talking', combination of meows, trills, twittering and even low barking like sounds.   Remember, he is a hybrid, F5 Bengal.  That is natural for them.
When I used to go walking, he just HAD to go too.  But he would 'shadow' me, from across the street where he had a clear view of me.   I moved, he moved.  I stop, he stopped.   When I sat down, he came up and hopped in my lap.   We really enjoyed those outings.  Except for the dogs.   Then he was on top of my head clinging tight.  Ow.   He wears a collar and tags fine.  No leash though.  He fights against any leash when I try leading him.   But like I said, he will stay abreast of me from across the street, no matter where I walk off to!
There is one sound they didn't show us in the videos.  Spitting!  Sounds like a 9mm with silencer!  And, Tattoo got surprised by a big Great Dane puppy from next door, it put his nose right into Tattoo's face.  Instant machine gun spitting, all fur puffed right out, and he became grafted to my left arm instantly.  Another Ow.  THAT'LL make your ears wiggle!   Tattoo is very muscular, strong and incredibly quick.   He has had many animal fights and has never lost one.   Even taking on dogs.   He'd rather NOT fight, but if something jumps on him, IT'S ON!  And over very fast.   He turns 11 years old next month.  My Old Man!  Love the guys!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on May 24, 2020, 11:36:54 AM
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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 24, 2020, 12:06:32 PM
LOL.....That is some pose LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 08, 2020, 10:57:51 AM
[moving this post here from the Poser 11.2 thread, where it  didn't belong!]

I got to see Mogwai getting some great exercise yesterday.   He was scrambling like crazy after what I thought was some imaginary prey.   Turned out it was him chasing a bug.   It must have had 8 legs at one time, and they were quick legs too, for him to be moving like that.   He never took his eyes off it until his paw had it.   It looked like it used to be a Wolf Spider, but black.   Will have to look that up.   But HE gave it the WHOA MULE! STOMP and SPLAT!  And he looked up at me, his face SO proud and pleased!  HE GOT IT!  I gave him all the positive encouragement and praise I could think of, then got him some treat food.   Yup, he was doing it to it!  I cleaned it up like any ol kitty 'accident'.  eh HEM.  Yes.   So he has the right idea.
Even if it's a Jumper, he/they will both be praised and rewarded for all bug and spider kills.   I WANT them to treat them all that way, so none of the bad ones get treated nicely, yaknow?   I don't doubt their abilities.   I do seriously doubt mine in being able to teach them the difference between good and bad spiders.   So for their safety especially, STOMP is an excellent response.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 08, 2020, 11:04:22 AM
Glad you did it because I was going to after I got done with my stroll in here..... 

Believe me....I spend a LOT OF TIME moving my threads from one place to another 
:iminnocent:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 08, 2020, 11:15:31 AM
Oz decided he wanted a shower I guess.  Didn't even see him sneak in until after I shut the glass shower door.  And the look on his face says...he didn't care if he was shut in there LOLOL

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 08, 2020, 12:34:00 PM
[moving this post here from the Poser 11.2 thread, where it  didn't belong!]

I got to see Mogwai getting some great exercise yesterday.   He was scrambling like crazy after what I thought was some imaginary prey.   Turned out it was him chasing a bug.   It must have had 8 legs at one time, and they were quick legs too, for him to be moving like that.   He never took his eyes off it until his paw had it.   It looked like it used to be a Wolf Spider, but black.   Will have to look that up.   But HE gave it the WHOA MULE! STOMP and SPLAT!  And he looked up at me, his face SO proud and pleased!  HE GOT IT!  I gave him all the positive encouragement and praise I could think of, then got him some treat food.   Yup, he was doing it to it!  I cleaned it up like any ol kitty 'accident'.  eh HEM.  Yes.   So he has the right idea.
Even if it's a Jumper, he/they will both be praised and rewarded for all bug and spider kills.   I WANT them to treat them all that way, so none of the bad ones get treated nicely, yaknow?   I don't doubt their abilities.   I do seriously doubt mine in being able to teach them the difference between good and bad spiders.   So for their safety especially, STOMP is an excellent response.
McG, I have to give you a warning on cats treating all spiders that way. The real baddies make webs, usually funnel webs. these include fiddle-backs, brown recluses, grey recluses, and the infamous black widows. Because of this, they are not spiders that move fast if found on the ground or other surface. They can move fast in their webs, but that is when they have snared prey, or when they perceive being attacked. Often times pets will inadvertently disturb these deadly spiders, and sometimes the spider will end up somewhere on the pet. If further disturbed, they will bite, and the consequences will be devastating.
Personal example:
We had a black female cat named Midnight in 2009. she was a sweet girl that loved all of us (Mom, Pop, and myself). There was a black widow we could not reach living under a heavy cabinet in our house, and we had discovered her by shining a flashlight under the cabinet. We needed to go find something we could use to pull the spider out from under that cabinet and deal with it, but before we could, Midnight had crawled under it. About fifteen minutes after she came back out from under the cabinet she was very sick. I picked her up and was petting her to comfort her, while Mom was trying to concoct something to make her feel better. Midnight continued to get worse, and then I discovered a bump between her shoulder blades on her back. I moved the fur out of the way to see what it was. It was a spider bite, and I instantly knew it was from the black widow. So we took Midnight to the vet, hoping to save her. The vet told us there was nothing he could do with what he had on hand, and there was no time to get what was needed. By that time she was suffering really bad. It was super hard to have to see her like that. The vet said our best option would be to euthanized her and end her suffering; otherwise her suffering would only continue to get worse. So that was what we had to do. We were all crying as we stood around and watched the vet administer the dose that ended her life. We buried her in the back yard in a little pine box I made for her.


My point is that not all spiders can be treated with the stomp to get rid of them. The web makers usually require more elaborate means, and they can make that difficult. The real baddies mentioned above are particularly hard to deal with; and for that reason I recommend keeping your pets away from them as much as you possibly can. The best one to deal with those deadly spiders is an exterminator, but if you cannot wait for that (and I advise not waiting), find a way to deal with them yourself. Make sure you get any egg sacks they have also. This will reduce the amount that may be lurking in your home or around it. I dealt with the one we found under the cabinet by finding a brush I attached to a broomstick, sticking it under there and sweeping the bitch down and out from under. There were three egg sacks that came out with her, and I made sure to grind her and the egg sacks into the floor. (Yeah, I was being vengeful!)


While I am an advocate for the "Live and Let Live" policy, the really bad spiders do not get to stay where I and my pets live. Rather than moving them to distant locations, those get treated with extreme prejudice. I kill every one I find in or around my home. Besides, I don't think it is good to take such a spider to another location, adding to the danger to animals and people there.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 08, 2020, 02:52:56 PM
Oz is a beautiful Bombay, TL!   Simply beautiful.   And as long as they are loved, they don't care a whit what they look like.  Still, we folks around here do have a pile of beautimous felines!   You, Cleve, Me, J!  Yep, that gives me a warm happy feeling :)

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 08, 2020, 03:04:17 PM
Hey Cleve, I get you on the spiders, the web weavers, and how different they are from the active hunters that get out and about daily.    Jumpers and Wolf spiders are the two main hunters we have here.   True, there are a lot more species of the web-weavers, and those ones tend to be dangerous to both us humans and our pets.   best way to handle them is with Broom & Vacuum!   Man I am still a scaredy cat with those like the fiddle-back (recluses), black widows and others.  The huge Garden Orb Weavers (family - Argiope) are poison, make us sick, but they avoid contact with us big time.   They are beneficial, and always outdoor type.  And have HUGE fangs!   Though when you step outside early in the morning and run afoul of some webbing you never even saw it is likely theirs!   They eat *LOTS* of bugs...like flies, mosquitoes, wasps and (yup!) spiders. 

Tattoo definitely noticed Mogwai getting his praise and extra goodie too.   Though he is just as likely to hunt something down, bring it to my door alive, then make sure I'm SEEING him do it, and kill whatever it is.   So HE gets tons of praise and goodie too.  And he's just turkey enough to be sure he gets praised longer than Mogwai was.   Yeah, he can be a turkey at times!
I think it WAS a wolf spider, and looked black cause it was all, um, wet.  Its own juices.  Ichor its called?
I don't leave webs around FOR the boys to get into.   I see one in construction....sweep, vacuum, wash.  There, nice. ;)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 08, 2020, 03:13:45 PM
I have seen Lynx spiders and Wolf spiders kill and drag off mice and small birds.   Nobody believed me until I found a photo online of a Wolf Spider leaping off a flower onto a hummingbird, biting it in the head, and hanging onto it as it fell, paralyzed, to the ground.  Lynx spiders are smaller than full grown Wolf spiders.   But they must have very potent venom, because even though smaller,prettier they are every bit the bad azz hunters the Wolfs are!
Jumping ON a bird, and killing it in mid air!   Wow.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 08, 2020, 04:46:52 PM
TL, I have to agree with McG on the beauty of Oz! He is Gorgeous!


Gotta get some photos of the two my brother and I include in our family and upload them. My cat Cookie Baby is a Mottled Calico with lots of colors in her fur, and she has that Phantom of the Opera look to her face. She's ten years old now, and Loves both of us fiercely.


McCartney is a rescue we took in and he is a beautiful grey tabby. Of all the cats I have ever known, he is the sweetest. You can try hard to get him to attack your hand, and he never has! When he has cockle-burrs in his fur, no matter where they are on him, he lets me pull them out. When he got dowsed with some grease one time, I had to give him a bath, and he did not fight me. During the cold days of winter he came in soaked to the skin and shuddering from the cold. I grabbed a towel and actively dried out as much of the water as I could, then wrapped him in a dry towel to keep him warm. He went to sleep in my arms. By the way, he got his name because he sings for his supper.


I'll try to get some good photos for you guys.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 08, 2020, 07:19:35 PM
Thanks Mc-G and Agent.... 

Ozzie knows he's a handsome devil.  Whenever I call him a "Pretty Baby" he poses for us LOL 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 08, 2020, 07:25:28 PM
And yup....photos of cats are always fun....as well as doggies....but I've never really been a Doggy person....though we did have Missy for 18 years....but Missy was more Lindas then mine...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 08, 2020, 11:42:13 PM
Missy was simply Family, TL.   Linda might have been why she came into your life, but once there, she's Family.   

i love dogs as well as cats.   And still had Penny for another year when my dotter brought me Tattoo in 2010.  Weird but it was one year later that Penny passed.  Heart worms.  I am so glad Tattoo was with me during that time.   I grieved her loss as much as I have human family.    Can't help it.  she was just 15, and I'd known her since she came home a 5 week old golden butterball falling all over her own feet.  She was my bro-in-law's girl.  But the last few years of her life she spent with me.  And we got close.  But no matter how close, she was always the BiL's little girl.   She died under the house, exactly beneath his bed.   I still choke up remembering her.   She was about 12 in this  pic.   She'd had her sausage & cheese kolache, the chewy dry food, lots of cold water.  She was happy here.  Copper nose, copper eyes.   Hence, "Penny".  :'o)


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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 09, 2020, 08:49:05 PM
BTW - when Penny loved you, goodness! :cheer: you were LOVED!   She showed my her appreciation of the shared morning kolaches by walking right into my lap and just wagging her ol tail and talking to me.  Whatever kind of dog she was it was 65 pounds of sometimes deafening dog talk for "I Wuv Oo!".  Sis and BiL had always enjoyed having their 'babies' sing for their dinner.   All the babies.   Every one of them knew exactly what McDonald's was.   Payday nights, when BiL was off, he or sis would ask "Who  wants to go to McDonald's!"  and the whole household (and yard) erupted into canine renditions of 'McDonald's is a happy place, a hap hap happy place!'  And before ya say that jingle isn't for McDonald's...shhhh!...the 'kids' don't know that!
 :coffeemaker:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 11, 2020, 11:06:42 AM
Missy passed away shortly after the wife passed. Missy was 18 years old which a ripe age for a dog.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 11, 2020, 11:07:31 PM
Yes, it sure is TL.   I am sad for your loss.   I am very glad you had a great life with them!   That is a blessing beyond words man. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 15, 2020, 04:15:50 AM
My elder cat, Tattoo, is starting to worry me.     He stays hid all day long.  No moaning, scratching, spitting , hissing and won't come out when I call, and call.  And even holler "Goodie!  Come eat a bite Tattoo!"  Which usually has him trotting right up from where ever he'd hid.  Near 4am, it's cooled down from 109°F to 70.   I go to the kitchen, check my sugar to get MY goodie (supper?), get a tub of his goodie out and holler him up.   Suddenly from under the sofa, I hear the rapid thumping of someone attacking their itch! Then a meow-moan...so I holler "Goodie get a bite!" again.   And I hear the trotting and suddenly he is right at my elbow looking intensely curious, nose wiggling like a wabbit!  I am happy, my buddy is ALIVE!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 15, 2020, 12:05:34 PM
Glad to hear that......Oz is still under the bed....when the storms are over...he'll come out....

He IS NOT a outdoor cat at all.  He was a Rescue Kitten from Hurricane Harvey....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 15, 2020, 04:58:21 PM
Oh, Harvey was a mess up there if I remember right.   He'd remember it too.   Poor guy.  But,  he has a wonderful forever home with you, TL! :mwah:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 16, 2020, 10:33:23 AM
He truly is pampered LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 16, 2020, 10:36:48 AM
He came to us from Texas....Harvey was a mess there....and then some....

Hurricane Harvey was a devastating Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths.

Hard to believe we've had him for 3 years now....how time flies....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 19, 2020, 03:32:05 PM
Oz is playing hide n seek with the Daughter.....  He's not really that great at it yet....  :iminnocent:

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Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on July 19, 2020, 03:58:31 PM
Practice makes perfect so the say ... methinks he needs to figure that bit out ....  yet
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 20, 2020, 12:33:16 AM
Ha ha!   As bright as cats can be, they seem to live in First person view only.   You can't see me cause I can't see you!   Three years huh, cool!   No he don't seem that old :)
J, how long Watanuki been with you?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on July 20, 2020, 05:35:54 AM
Had to look it up.

He was a year and a half when I got him and that was Oct 2017

So I have had him for three years

Which makes sense since I got him about the same time that Luffie got Oz.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 21, 2020, 09:25:57 AM
They are both Cool Cats guys!    :coffeemaker:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 21, 2020, 10:34:13 AM
Yes they are Mc-G.....    Right now he's watching Oz TV ..... The birds are feeding and the squirrels are using the new feeder I got them.  And bird and squirrels do get along pretty good it seems.  Oz gave up chattering at them all.  Now he just enjoys the view.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 21, 2020, 12:38:13 PM
Got startled out of my sleep a couple nights ago! Went looking to see what had become an avalanche at 4:30 in the morning! Was using my flashlight to see to keep from awakening my brother. At first I could not find the source of the "catastrophe"; and there in that word was the culprit, but in a good way. McCartney had caught a rat, and was playing with it, as it was still alive!

Suddenly the rat jumped high in the air and backwards in the same jump, landing in the trash can. I looked in and could see the rat was weakened already. McCartney knew exactly where the rat had gone, but could not figure out how to get to it in the can. So I scooped the rat out and let McCartney have it. As I watched his method, I saw him toss the rat up in the air, flipping it end over end, and then catch it as it came back down. He finally killed and munched out on the dead rat.

I let him eat until he wanted no more, and then I cleaned up the area, and what remained of the rat. I was so proud of McCartney, doing one of the things we keep cats for, taking out the vermin when they invade our homes. I rewarded him with some Temptations treats and much petting. He was feeling great, I'm sure. He laid next to me and commenced washing up, in his feline manner. This was the second time I found him doing that job, and I'm sure he has done this several times more. He doesn't just kill the critters. He actually eats them; and to be real, that's what cats are supposed to do. Cookie Baby may be doing it too, but I've never seen her with a catch.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 21, 2020, 12:40:23 PM
Thankfully I have no rats or mice around.  Oz would be terrified of them LOLOL.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 22, 2020, 01:33:10 PM
Great job McCartney!   He's a WINNER, Cleve!  :o))
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 22, 2020, 04:05:35 PM
Great job McCartney!   He's a WINNER, Cleve!  :o))
Thanks, McG! We think he is too! Incidentally we have seen him catch mice and rats outdoors too. Never seen Cookie Baby catch anything other than various bugs, and she only does that to play with them. Thing is, even that usually ends up killing the bug. But McCartney is able to fend for himself quite well, catching critters for his meals, even though we do feed him twice a day. Some days he won't eat what we give him right away. He comes in later to eat from his bowl, and usually polishes that off. We can sometimes tell when he has eaten something we did not feed him by the size of his belly. I think he saves his claws for such catches.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 23, 2020, 05:04:13 AM
He seems a right smart cat!   Tattoo still catches common rats and mice, and even rarer small mammals and reptiles that get in.   Both do actually.   Tattoo buries his deados in the litter boxes, Mogwai happily brings his to me, all excited like a kid showing his parents what he did.   I make a big fuss about it, give him lots of love and praise.   I like that a little praise really works for them.   Then I flush it.   :coffeemaker:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 23, 2020, 05:06:27 AM
maybe mine are too well fed.   Neither will eat their kills.   BUT when Tattoo gets out, if there is a bird nearby, its on his menu.   He loves fresh bird!   But not mammals.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 23, 2020, 12:41:10 PM
McCartney was a stray when he chose my brother and I to be his companions. So he most definitely knows how to fend for himself, should the need arise. It is so ingrained in his personality that he continues to hunt all the time. I've seen him sleeping outside, and becoming fully alert when a small animal get's near. Then he move like lightning, and usually catches whatever it is. All of the black cats I and other family members have had to pleasure of keeping in our family, plus the one declawed white Persian my youngest brother had, were able to catch their own meals. I had three black cats, all male, and all named after Sylvester the Cat. I'll tell more about Sylvester the First later. He was special to me, because of how much he loved me, and his awesome loyalty to me.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 25, 2020, 02:20:51 AM
Every animal I have ever had in my company has been as much a unique individual as any human I have ever known.   And, I have cared as much for some of them as I have my own family.  I consider them Family as well, in fact.   
My FIRST companion CAT I named Baby.  She was a Bombay, and also a midget!   She looked exactly like a full grown cat at 1 year of age, but stayed the same size as a 6-8 week kitten.   I thought she was a silent cat, but her voice was so tiny, like her.  She talked in my ear all the time.  Oh, I'd been happily surprised when she got ticked off at me walking away from her, to tease her, and she ran like a shot straight to my jeans leg and right up to my shoulder and 'yelled' at me.  Like she was saying "I'm trying and TRYING and you're LEAVING ?!?!  *NOT!*   So when she wanted to be with me, she mostly climbed up me and sat on my shoulder.   My last two years at home, that is where Baby was most of the time.  Or, on top of my polka dot train engineers cap, sleeping.  But she wasn't content unless she was with me.   When I enlisted, Mom kicked her out.   Just like that.  I didn't learn this until I got home from Basic on leave.    All the things my people did to me, I never forgave them that one.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 25, 2020, 03:39:02 AM
Sylvester the First was my buddy, and I was his buddy! I used to buy the Tender Vittles and Gaines Burgers for him. I'd put it on top of the China Cabinet to keep the other cats from stealing his food. He would feed himself twice a day, by jumping up onto the top of the cabinet, taking one package and jumping down and tearing into it. He would not get down more than he was supposed to have.


There was a pane out in the window of my upstairs bedroom, through which he could come and go. One night I had gone to bed and was nearly asleep when his silhouette appeared in the window, just as my eyes lazily opened for that last time for the night. He leapt across the room from the window sill to my bed; startling me out of my sleepiness. I got a fright because of it, but when I realized it was him, I quickly calmed down and welcomed him. He liked sleeping against my head, and wrapping his tail around it.


One day, one of my "friends" came to visit me, and he brought his big black dog with him. Well the dog wanted to catch and maul Sylvester, and I told my "friend" to control his dog. That "friend" told me he hoped his dog killed my cat, so I told him to take his dog and get out of my yard. Before he could though, Sylvester, already ill with the dog chasing him, jumped on the dog's back and sank his claws in. He rode that dog like a bucking bronco, and I was laughing my head off. My ex-friend did not like that, so I told him he should not have brought his dog with him. He said I shouldn't be laughing, and I said "You would not control your dog, so Sylvester made sure he got what he deserved, and he made sure that dog would never mess with him again!" Then I told him "I don't care what you think anymore, because you wanted your dog to kill my cat! Go home now, and never come back!" And that was that! I was glad to see that Sylvester knew how to defend himself.


Soon after that, I had to leave town (Abbeville S.C.), and moved to Georgia to find a job. I stayed in Georgia for 2 years, without my buddy Sylvester. When I returned to Abbeville, my family was living in a different home in town, and Sylvester's whereabouts was unknown, as was whether or not he was still living. I thought I'd never see him again.


Soon my family moved to Georgia, as Pop had become the manager of a Pic N Pay Shoe Store in Americus Georgia. I stayed in Abbeville and took over the house they had been living in there. At that time I was working at the Hospital with one of my best friends. Another year passed, and Sylvester crossed my mind only ever so often. So imagine my surprise when I heard a scratching noise at my bedroom window one night. I went to the window and looked out, and there he was, begging to be let in! He had found me, and was so happy to see me again! I took him in and we resumed our relationship with each other. I had five more good years with him, and then he disappeared, never to be seen again.


He was such a great cat to have as my companion, and I only wish I could have kept him with me wherever I went. He did live a fair length of time when I had him, and I'd like to think he lived a good bit longer. I miss him even now.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 27, 2020, 01:27:36 AM
I can name a few cats I loved that are no longer with us.  Baby, Patches, Fizzgig and my own Sylvester.  I had to have him put down, that last one.  He had gangrene and was losing his fight for life and was  in terrible pain.   I was petting him, laying down beside him, talking to him when he died.  Patches was hit by a car after the wicked old witch of the west 1st ex took her from me.    Fizzgig was a neutered male, and a marbled silver tabby,  a beautiful cat.  I was told to get rid of him or my aunt would come kill him.  He was killing ALL young tom kittens born to all the females around.   Since that couldn't be stopped, I took him to work with me, and he got out, and an old couple that drove a rig cross country for their retirement took him in.  Over 15 years later he still graced their dashboard.  Then one day they came in to pick up a load, and I didn't see him.  I asked them about him, they said he'd passed the year before.  Yeah they couldn't have asked for a better cat than him.   I was glad for him.  He'd had a good life after all.    He had outlived that old aunt of mine too.   He was seven years old when they coaxed him into their truck.   

I got Tattoo on February 4, 2010.  He was born in mid June of 2009.   So he turned 11 last month.   He has been with me for 10 years now.   
Mogwai was born here in the old busted Ford pickup bed April 5, 2012.  And he's been with me his whole life.  From a weak little mousey baby runt of the litter to the big, happy and nutty Siamese cat he is today.   I love both of these guys to bits!   They get on well with each other and love spending time right against me.    Mogwai has not spent 5 minutes outdoors since I brought him and his mama in the house after she littered.   She did leave when she had him weaned.  She was so proud of him!  And was happy he was doing great in here.   She would come in for a brief visit often, through the next few years.    Mogwai was the only survivor of his litter of 5, and the runt of that litter.   Two others lived long enough to nurse a little on their mother.  When they died in their sleep, still nursing, she moved them to the far corner of their box.  They were beautiful, white with gray patches, all had gray tails.  I carried them off.   I expected to find Mogwai the same way, next day.   After two weeks, he was out of the box, crawling around, shaky but very much alive and wiggling.  His eyes were just starting to open, he was alert to voice, turning to 'look' when I spoke.  I spoke, and HE spoke, very softly.   Then he crawled my direction.   My sis saw this and grinned.  She said he's a tough little rat!   I said "Yup, can I keep him?"  She said she didn't care.   Asked me what I would call him.  Looking at him rearing his head up and trying to look at me, I said 'Mogwai!'.   And he answered softly.  And so today, he doesn't wanna be held, but will press himself right up against me.   I speak his name and he answers softly.   
I know they will likely pass on before me.   I will sure miss them terribly.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 27, 2020, 01:28:28 AM
Wow.  Just realized I built my old PC a year before Tattoo was even born!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on July 29, 2020, 06:38:16 PM
Regarding sleeping habits that have popped up in the coffee shoppe thread.

Watanuki is a bit weird, while I am up he is content to lay on the floor in multiple spots, sometimes tries to tears the carpet up and or get me to play fetch with him, by bringing his toys over and hoping I will toss them back and forth ... sounds off to me.

At any rate when I decide to go to bed it is just moment before he is jumping up on the bed and trying to decide where he is going to sleep for the night.

Usually winds up with his head towards my feet and the rest of his body next to my leg all night long. Matters not if I get up in the night time for whatever reason he will get back in his "sweet spot" once I am back in the bed.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on July 29, 2020, 06:53:02 PM
Oops wants to play fetch now :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on July 29, 2020, 07:02:21 PM
Take it back now he is just chilling ... talk about "mood swings"

:thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 29, 2020, 07:09:25 PM
I've noticed that cats have an attention span of 5-10 minutes when playing with Humans but an endless attention span when they are getting into mischief
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on July 29, 2020, 07:29:59 PM
Or staring at whatever they see on the door that we are incapable of seeing .....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 29, 2020, 07:56:48 PM
Mine don't wanna sleep with me any more.   Rolled over on em too many times I think.  Snore way too loud maybe too.   But, they are happy to sleep in my new Serta office managers chair.   Leather cushions.  Tattoo rarely deigns to participate in the fetch/fishing games.  Mogwai will go get the thing off the wall where I hang it and bring it to me though.  He loves playing with that thing.  And Tattoo gets all bug eyed watching intently, tail tip twitching.   He used to play all the time, till the allergy thing set in.   You guys are lucky yours want to stay with you all night!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 29, 2020, 07:58:45 PM
Yeah, that staring at the door thing, looking like they are ready to pounce or charge right at it.   Weird.   Haunted maybe and they see the whatevers and we can't?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 30, 2020, 08:56:05 AM
Oz doesn't stare at the door....he's got OZ Tv.  Two Birdfeeders, Two Finch Feeders, two Suet Feeders, a Bird Bath and a Squirrel feeder keeps him entertained most of the day since they are always active....

Every now and then a very pretty grey kitten will come by trying to sneak up on all....but it never works.  It's not malnourished so I'm thinking it's someones kitten....  But around here...the strays are feed by many...Plus we are right next to a cornfield and you can bet plenty of mice are out and about.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 31, 2020, 01:59:12 AM
My baby sister loves critters.   Like me.   And now that we have a new huge Animal Control & Shelter/Rescue Center, the "kill room" and associated tactics are no more.   Once a week, if there are any cats brought in, they take their lot to the Veterinarian for neutering.   Then, a week later, they are 'chipped' and released in the area they were captured at.   Cities and counties were convinced finally that the felines at least earn their keep.   They are natural predators and keep the rodent population under control.   In the areas where the stray dog and cat population was "cleaned up" they found themselves getting overrun with rats, voles and mice.   So the no-kill + neuter and capture area release plan was instituted state wide.  It seems to have caught on nationally too, and I hope it stays that way!   
This resulted in the local feline population of "loose cats" changing in breed types but not numbers.  There are now a much larger percentage of short and no-tail domestic type cats running around.   My sisters ad-hoc breeding program at work, I think  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 31, 2020, 09:54:44 AM
We still have a few birdbrains around here that don't like the strays....but they are outnumbered by those that think they are an asset. 

I've hear a lot of cities and towns are tagging and some are even setting up "Cooler Type" shelters for those in the colder climates....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 31, 2020, 09:19:06 PM
Most of the cats I see out doors here have gone feral.  Won't come near a human.  Which is the perfect setting for the CAT to choose its human, if it wants one.     I spoke to Cleve about my very first cat, a tiny "midget" Bombay female.   Well, there is a small Bombay female hanging around my front door now.  A young one, still basically a kitten.   She is adorable too!   Might see if she wants to come in... and be part of the family!   :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 10, 2020, 05:53:05 AM
She don't.  Not yet anyway!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 23, 2020, 12:36:06 AM
Now I learned that little black Bombay young one belongs to my great-niece.   Who doesn't even look at her, WHEN she comes by.   Oh well.  I best leave it alone.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 23, 2020, 08:59:42 AM
Indeed....Dealing with relatives is usually harder than dealing with animals LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 25, 2020, 12:28:33 AM
you sure got that right.   sigh.

 :coffeemaker:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 18, 2020, 08:30:45 PM
Dang!  So what is it with kids these days?   The great niece is now mid 20's, shares apartments with her buds, and owns THREE pets and cannot have even ONE of them at her apartment.   I looked over at BiL balefully and suggested calling the city Animal Control right now and end it all neatly.   He gave me the same look.  This horrified the gt niece.  Suddenly the two dogs that were to be staked out in the front yard vanished, as did their stakes and 'long run' leashes.  That young cat might still be around as she is feral, NOT at all socialized to humans.   Though she is to BiL and me.  We are nice to her, scritch her as she likes and feed her.  Nobody gets to pick her up.  Except me.  Heh!   She will be napping in my lap soon, being as the gt niece cannot catch her!  LOL!   
I have never known anyone that is taught carefully about Car Care to totally ignore everything they were taught, never one time checking the engine oil level (let alone get an oil change!) or the radiator.  Then two years later the engine explodes on the highway.   Right.  Hey, no sympathy from the McGrumpus folks!!!!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on September 19, 2020, 08:33:30 AM
Every family has one of those....believe me LOLOL.  I always call it NCS.   And it ran rampart on the wife's side of the family.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 19, 2020, 08:35:19 PM
Well I would give you big hearty "ROFL!" on that one TL, but I KNOW just how serious a problem that is! :coffeemaker:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on November 11, 2020, 08:18:21 PM
Sorry to post a bit of a downer guys.  Found out recently that my "Matriarchal Cat" as I call Athena, had diabetes.  That was on Monday.  This sort of thing is definitely not good for those of the feline persuasion.   Especially when it takes so long to show up that the damage is irreversible.  Apparently she started seizing in the night and them morning my daughter found Athena on the floor, totally out of it.  Diabetic coma, and this despite getting insulin over the past three days.  Took her to the vet and she managed to get Athena stabilized, after a fashion, but the seizures continued to get worse.  No choice but to issue a ticket on the Rainbow Ferry.  Had her put to sleep.
Damn, but I hate that!!!!!!
Had to send far too many furry friends on such a journey.

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 14, 2020, 09:03:34 AM
That's sad to hear HS.....Not a good month for our Furbabies in here.  But you and yours did your best and I'm sure Athena is purring contently where she is....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 25, 2020, 11:05:50 PM
My younger cat, Mogwai (8.5 yrs) took his days nap in my room today.  He'd hopped all the way up on top of my "file crates" stacked on the dresser.   And I didn't see him at first.   Well, he demonstrated his innovative abilities when he needed OUT while I was sleeping.   He got behind my head, reached his head over to get a bite on my widows peak and began growling and worrying that till I actually woke and started sitting up.  Then he shot over to the door and meowed real loud.  Oops, right!   I let him out and he made a bee line for the litter box, not to food and water!   I was very pleased with him for that!   LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on November 28, 2020, 04:00:30 PM
All right we all love our pets and care about them a lot.

However I have a question just how much does it cost to rent a full sizes billboard?

In Orlando it costs between $800 to $4,500 a month

So why for the love of all that is sane would a person rent a billboard to advertise for their lost dog and state a reward is offered too.

Why, am I asking, well think about it ... the pet went missing ... haven't found it anywhere ... oh I know let me spend a crazy amount of money and rent a billboard to find my pet.

Sort of, kind of, thinking if you went to that extreme you have more money then common sense ... because one you have either found it or not, it got ran over in traffic, or it has been picked up by animal control.


I can't wrap my head around this at all ... and yes I saw a billboard today in Orlando advertising their pet dog named "angel" is missing and that a reward is being offered.




Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 29, 2020, 12:05:56 PM
They have the money and they are missing someone they love.  Simple....Love is a powerful thing.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on November 29, 2020, 12:37:04 PM
Up to $4,500 a month; wish they would spend that much on looking for the missing and kidnapped children instead.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 29, 2020, 12:42:08 PM
Maybe they have...... :java:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on November 29, 2020, 12:56:46 PM
Not on billboards in my area, all I see is the printed paper signs in supermarket windows. Have yet to see one on a billboard.

Seems a bit unbalanced to my eye.

A barely legible picture on paper with the details on the person, that is only seen by those who shop there provided they even pay attention, now compare that to a full sized billboard visible by all driving on that road from several blocks away on a daily basis.


Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 29, 2020, 12:58:40 PM
LOL......You have to many things to complain about already...no need to add more my friend.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on November 29, 2020, 01:00:39 PM
Wasn't complaining it was an observation.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 10, 2021, 04:51:47 PM
They have a missing furry, not a missing kid!   :blownaway:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 22, 2021, 12:38:14 PM
Nurse visit this morning, Tattoo decides to own my lap while she is working on my leg.   Then he  eases over to the  couchs arm pillow.  AND PEES ON MY ARM!   Ok so I push him off to the floor.  He takes off running, all around the house.  Slows down a bit on lap 2,  heading to the kitchen.  He hisses,  and SPITS!   Something is  really bugging that cat.  Gotta get him in to the vet.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 31, 2021, 08:27:57 PM
Nurse visit this afternoon (antibiotic IV infusion), and Mogwai zooms by the nurses chair.  She and I are conversing pleasantly and ZOOOM!  There goes Mogwai.   ZOOOM!  There goes Tattoo.  HUH?!  That ain't happened in years!   ZOOM  Mogwai, ZOOM Tattoo then ZOOM Tattoo then ZOOM Mogwai!  Wow.  Okaaayyy.  I'll keep an eye on him.   He IS happier, I check and his eyes are still tearing up, but his "output" isn't bothering him so much.   That's good.  The old man still has a bit of oomph it seems, if he's  happy, then  I am too.  Mogwai is tickled pink with this!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 01, 2021, 06:31:35 AM
Love to see cats running after teh other when it's not for fighting.
That remembers me when Juliette and Tania made that. The corridor with placards was prefect for Juliette launched herself on the wall, ran on and end before her sister that she was running after at the beginning of the rush :tearlaugh: Yeah, she made skateboard without the thing!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 01, 2021, 07:35:21 AM
LOL!   Tattoo was a grown cat when Mogwai was born.  I brought Blackie,  the new mom, into the patio with her own box and plenty of old towels for bedding.  She loved that.   We had rescued 6 newborn kittens from the old pickup truck bed.  Two were still alive, I put them in that box, and in Blackie went and pulled both babies to her tummy.  And PURRED!   I always liked Blackie, and she liked me fine.  But Alan was HER human, the rest of us were just buddies.   Anytime she wanted food, attention, whatever from me, she got it.  Tattoo and she got along great too.  So, when I brought her and the two babies in, Tattoo was so proud to have them in his home too!  Next day, the other big white with gray patches died.  Blackie had put him in the far corner of her box.  I got a cloth and picked him up.  Cold. And he'd died on her teat, his mouth still shaped like suckling.  Sad, but he died in peace in his sleep.  Mogwai now, puny, small but lively and HUNGRY hung on.   He was premature I think.  Took him a month to open his eyes.   Took him over a month to grow to the size his brothers were at birth!    But he was curious about his world and us in his world.   He scooted over the edge of the box to check out Tattoo, then  me.  Momma watching everything he did intensely.   When his eyes did open, there was no stopping that little boy!  Not long after he was eating milk-soggy dried kitten food.  And some canned moist food.   He put on size fast then.   And he has never stopped trying to get Tattoo to play.  Every day.   He grooms Tattoo, and will lie down with him to keep him company.   These two are so good together, they amaze me!   I love em to pieces!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 01, 2021, 07:40:58 AM
Tattoo taught both Mogwai and Mister stuff.   Like how to "ice skate" across the coffee table and fall off the other side.  They all thought that was great.   Then I made room and mopped and waxed the floor from the kitchen to the front door.  A whole new skating rink for them!   And they all had fun doing that.  I'd get out their fishing pole-string-stuffy toy  and they'd latch on to it with their teeth and let me 'skate' them across the slick floor.   Animals DO play, have fun, show all the feelings we have.   Life is better with critters sharing it!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 07, 2021, 12:37:39 AM
Mogwai's Birthday.  April 5th.  Came and went.  Whoosh!   But I DID sit him in front of me while on the couch, and started singing to him.  He got all interested in that, started sniffing my face, purring real loud and meowed softly whenever I sang the word "Happy"  :)  Then I did the two things that mean a lot to him.  I got a string toy out and played with him for a bit.  When he stopped chasing and swatting at it, I went to the kitchen, with him 'following by leading' me.   I got out one of HIS favorite moist food cups and put on a saucer.   He stood and danced on hind feet for it.   And so did Tattoo.  LOL!   So that was Mogwai's 9th birthday party!  Ha!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 07, 2021, 06:56:49 AM
They need few to be happy :yes:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 07, 2021, 11:33:06 AM
https://youtu.be/sivyQU-6wns

Happy Birthday Mogwai's
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 07, 2021, 01:52:21 PM
Cookie Baby is 11 this month. She has begun showing even more affection to me in recent months, even to the point of hugging me around the neck. How could anybody not think "That's Adorable!"?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 07, 2021, 02:00:46 PM
I agree.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 07, 2021, 02:06:48 PM
When I carried Juliette and Tania, they put their paws around my neck. It was something I learnt to them when they were young but not too much young, and they liked that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 07, 2021, 07:25:28 PM
Cats help calm me. They are independent, but can give love intensely to their humans. The purr always soothes.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 08, 2021, 06:14:25 AM
But don't ya just love em!   :D  My older one, Tattoo, has his allergy problems.   When I  have a seat and he can get to me, he is IN my lap and won't take no for an answer! He wants the comfort.  Even if I am not petting him, he is happy to just be in my lap and just purrs all the while.    That's ok, he used to comfort me when I was in pain, and he was younger.   He used to take my walk with me.   Still will, if I ever take off down the block.   He turns 12 in June!    It's kinda funny listening to them.  They each have their own 'words' for me.   And though they might mean they same, they do not sound the same.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 08, 2021, 06:42:21 AM
McG, don't you know we never say "no" to cats, but only "yes"? :tearlaugh:

I don't remember if I told or not, but Puce has an allergy too since few years. Sun! She can't stay under the sun, even 30 seconds, or she has sudden crisis to scratch her ears.
Since we have moved, it's a little better. The crisis can come only after 2 days. And we had a hope, with no crisis during almost a full week. She understands now it's the sun the problem, but here, to look outside when she wants in the angle she wants, sometimes she just decides to override our warnings. A moment ago, she was before the window, she looked me, I warned her, and after less than a minute, she came to me. Now, she is looking outside at 2 meters of the window, near me. Of course with the curtains and the sun, she sees very less.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 08, 2021, 05:00:43 PM
McCartney has allergy issues too. Sometimes he has coughing spells. We just have to let him get through it when it happens. How do you keep a cat away from the pollen?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 10, 2021, 08:52:50 AM
 Ya don't!  But you can lessen it quite a bit by just keeping them indoors, no outside time for that one.   I do take Tattoo out for maybe a minute every few days.   On my arm, he doesn't get down and jam his face into every clump of grass in the yard looking for that ONE piece that helps his tummy.  But not his nose, throat, eyes and ears!   He is slowly realizing that outside is where most of his hurts come from.   So, he tries to battle his instincts!   Yep I can handle his just having to own my lap!Have been noticing something else too.  As he ages he gets darker.  His cool crazed marble patterns are coming together, so his back is almost all black now.   He's bigger now too.  15 pounds is his new normal.  Not fat, he's muscular.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 10, 2021, 10:50:34 AM
Thankfully Oz has no desire to go outside.  Being a rescue cat from Hurricane Harvey knocked all of the outside desires out of him...  He loves it when the windows are open and the air comes in...but never goes near the door, even when we have it open to bring groceries in.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 10, 2021, 01:25:49 PM
I guess he prefers to stay not far away of his Mom and his Dad, in case something terrible happens again in his life.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 10, 2021, 01:46:30 PM
Yes indeed.....He's sound asleep right now in front of my window as the rain gently hits the window....LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 10, 2021, 04:37:37 PM
Heh!  As well he SHOULD!   I am glad Oz found such a great home.   :o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 24, 2021, 07:15:29 PM
UH ohhh...  my 9 year old, Mogwai, has been quietly easing  through the house, walking slowly.  Not hauling ashes hither and tither per normal.  His tail is literally dragging behind him, the end on the floor.  This boy is not feeling well at ALL.  I am worried, this has never happened to him before.   He eats sparingly, just a tiny bit.  Drinks just a little water.  Goes to bed.  I will keep a close eye on him, he really has me concerned.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 25, 2021, 07:27:32 AM
Maybe just a little bad stuff. It seems he is taking things slowly to don't push himself too much. That's better than running everywhere and being worse after that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 25, 2021, 03:13:49 PM
Oz has days like that also....I just got done reading that the two time of day that cats are most active are Dawn and Dusk......and when they want to eat LOL...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 27, 2021, 02:38:49 AM
Yeah ok, we'll see soon enough I guess.  His appetite is better, he drinks more too.  He ain't stopped up.  Now I am looking at the height of the upright freezer he steps off of in the pantry.   It's near 6' tall.  He does stretch down with his front over a foot then hops outward to land on all 4's on the floor.   He is 13 pounds I think.  He could have hurt himself internally maybe.   Strong cats are still small animals.   Even Tattoo don't do THAT kind of step down!   Might have to saw off some of that freezer, or something.   Make it safer.   I don't see him up on it that much now.    I'll move his bed down to the counter way below that level.  DOH!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 03, 2021, 01:29:47 PM
Mogwai's appetite is good enough he growls at Tattoo now when he gets piggy and pushy.  He drinks plenty of water.   He purrs a lot, still wants by me but still droopy tailed. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 04, 2021, 09:59:09 AM
Sounds like progress is being made.  I have no worries about Oz being hungry....He sleeps in my bed at night and at 4 AM....right on the nose....he starts his purring, pawing and nudging to let me know it's his breakfast time.  I use to drive Lorna to work at 3AM and get back around 3:30Am and figured while I'm up...I'll feed Ozzie... 

BAD MOVE.....Now it IS his breakfast time...and their is NO changing it.  He is a PERSISTANT CUSS.....LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 04, 2021, 01:25:17 PM
"No" doesn't exist in cats' language. It's necessarily a "yes" you are telling.

So Mogwai is back in the good move?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 04, 2021, 01:29:24 PM
LOL...No is not a known word to Oz....That's for sure.....LOLOL.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on May 04, 2021, 07:25:49 PM
Watanuki doesn't like that word either, and on the nights I teach and do not get home till almost 9:00 PM boy does he complain about it ... loudly, continuously and with feeling.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 04, 2021, 11:48:58 PM
I forgot to pick up a bag of their dry cat food.  We have plenty of the moist, so I figured I'd give them that today, but no dry.   I am hearing all about that now and loudly!   They both gobble the moist food, lick the plate clean, get a drink then look for the bowl of dry food.  No wonder they're fat now.   I gotta remember to adjust their intake. Somehow!  LOL!
Yes, Mogwai's mood has improved, and he even wiggles his tail a little but still not carrying it high like normal for cats.   Sprained back around pelvis maybe?  If I'd seen him limping even one time he'd have gone to the vet doctor.   I feel no 'jag' or spacing anywhere in his tail, and he takes it from me when I check.  It isn't likely a break.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 04, 2021, 11:51:39 PM
Yaknow, all of us have some Kool Kats!  :D   Cats respond way better to positive enforcement than to negative.    Rewarding them with a food treat, praise and lots of scratching their ears seems to help. 

More than any cat I've ever had, Tattoo likes to be WITH me.   If I walk around the block, he keeps pace with me.   From across the street, cause he don't want me to carry him home and put him in the house.   At first, he was right by my feet.   He didn't care where we went, as long as it was "WE went" there.   I miss that now.   His allergies caused me to start keeping him inside all the time.  And he is smart enough to figure out why I am too.   It's the grass he's wanting to eat making him itch and burn the worst!   Since I started keeping him IN, and he stopped the injections himself, he has cleared up big time.  He still scratches and hisses a lot, and sometimes does cut himself.  But he isn't raw bloody hamburger head and front now like he used to be.  He has scars, but he don't care about them.  Perhaps the year and a half of weekly serum injections had a lasting effect in his immune system.   I am thinking, yes, it has. When I sit down, HE owns my lap!  If I ever get a girlfriend, me and Tattoo gonna have a talk.   He will have to let her in our lives!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 05, 2021, 09:24:52 AM
Yup....we have fun with Oz.  My living room is his toy box.  Must be 20 balls in there, a tunnel complex, all sorts of little things he calls his own such as bottle tops, straws, pipe cleaners, etc....LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on May 05, 2021, 09:36:04 AM
Cookie Baby is a bag and box freak. For her to come running, all I have to do is shake a bag vigorously. When I drop it to the floor for her, she will do her best to get inside it. One time she jumped into a big plastic bag before it touched the floor; in mid air she entered it.AND LANDED ON HER FEET, like all normal cats do, but she's not a normal cat. She does a lot of weird stuff. Just her shedding fur year round proves that. I swear she sheds enough fur to equal her own weight every year; so there's at least 10 times her weight in fur in this world already. Talk about leave something of yourself behind?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 05, 2021, 09:39:50 AM
During the season change is when Oz sheds a lot...but Lorna does a good job of keeping him brushed....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 05, 2021, 11:10:37 AM
Cookie Baby sounds like Mogwai.   He has mid length hair, and sheds all the time.  I see puffs of white and light grey hair all over the house.  I sweep and vacuum and next day it looks like I never did.  Oh well! 

Hey Double OH Hiccup!  Been missing you!

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on May 05, 2021, 02:20:04 PM
Been really busy with lots of non-tech life things. As a result, I have little time to give to online things, unfortunately. I barely get to check my email, let alone visit the sites I have a lot of fun at, like this one.
Thanks for the mention, my friend.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 08, 2021, 12:06:35 PM
It's good to see you pop in now and then, Cleve!   We get worried about folks yaknow.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on May 10, 2021, 03:29:36 PM
I do too.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 16, 2021, 01:57:03 AM
Oh me.   Well, my Mogwai still has his tail, and it's as limber, supple, beautiful as always.  And he is still keeping it completely down.  I don't see any indication that he is even able to move it, not even a twitch.  Monday he goes to the vet.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 16, 2021, 06:43:39 AM
Ouch, I hope he won't have to have the tail cutted.
Maybe just a nerve blocked? I remember Juliette (we lost her in July 2005) once was suddenly moving her ass again and again from a side to the other, unable to stop her movement. She was looking desperately her ass. My Mom touched the vertebrale region, found a nerve badly put. She moved it back and the move stopped.
Few minutes after, back to the move. Nerve moved once again. Poor Juliette pushed a big meow that time, but the nerve was back to its place, and never again annoyed her. We suspected she made a bad move when jumping on the ground.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on May 16, 2021, 02:51:50 PM
Well, the good news is that Watanuki has not had any difficulties as mentioned here by others. The worst thing that happens here is on the nights I teach which means he doesn't get supper till 9:00PM

Boy does he cry about that when I finally get home.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 17, 2021, 02:00:06 PM
I am hoping he just bruised the tail right there at his pelvis.  And he may recover use of it in time.   I still need to get them both to the vet, shots and checkups.   I am thinking something happened when he was jumping off the top of that upright freezer in the pantry.   He's strong, but his tail is thick and heavy, and not as strong as a leg.   But he still needs the vet.  And a xray.  And a dental checkup, and rabies shot!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 17, 2021, 02:16:24 PM
I called his clinic, got appointments made for both.  Mogwai tomorrow at 11am for Doc G. and Tattoo anytime next month.  Neither are due rabies shots for quite a while yet.  Cats. Amazing critters!   :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 17, 2021, 02:19:03 PM
Cross fingers for good news  :peek:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 17, 2021, 02:34:05 PM
For sure!  Thanks Aelin.   Oh, he hasn't even approached that old upright freezer since he drooped his poor tail.   I made him beds in a few places easier to get to, and he's using them :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 18, 2021, 12:53:19 PM
Ahh we're back from the vet now! 
Mogwai has been nesting in his apartment cat-bed on top of the old upright freezer in the pantry.  I'd washed it months ago and put it up there to dry out.  He found it and liked it up there.  I saw how he was getting down, though, and got alarmed;  he stretched down far as he could reach then pushed off altogether and landed on the floor.   Over 5 feet to hard floor. 
Last 3 weeks now, he has been tail DOWN all the time.  Took him to his vet today, got xrays and all OK with his bones, spine, organs.  Doc did see some inflammation right behind the hip, but nothing that just grabbed his attention.  He gave Mogwai a steroid shot and said that WILL help that inflammation, and he will be able to move his tail normally in time.   Doc G. was more interested in how his BM's were, if he had trouble doing his business and if he was dragging his tail through the stools.   He wasn't, all clean that way!  Then we saw him move his tail away from the Doc's hand.  HA!  Gotcha!  :o)We got home and Tattoo just looked on my making a happy fuss with Mogwai and went "HUH?!"  But from a cat it sounds more like a 'brrrRRRIIIPPP!' going up the scale.  Heh!   I am very relieved now.And J, he and Tattoo both run from Kianna!  LOL!  For the first time ever, Mogwai was kinda mad at me surprising him with the ride to the doctor.  (shrugs) that OK, he's fine and I'm happy too!
 McG.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 18, 2021, 01:25:06 PM
Excellent news to learn!
And better to have him mad after you than leaving him without know what happened. With time, he will pardon you :winks:
But now Mogwai will have to learn to jump down from less tall.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 18, 2021, 01:30:07 PM
Yeah, I kinda blocked that.   I also moved his cat bed down to the counter top in there.  But he hasn't used it since he 'hurt his back end'.   OK.  He likes the arm of the couch, with one of my pillows on it.   Kinda weird how cats prefer a smaller area to lie on rather than a full cushion area on the couch or even  my bed.   They prefer the desk space between me and my keyboard.   :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on May 18, 2021, 03:14:32 PM
But Kianna is such a sweetheart she would never harm him at all.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 19, 2021, 08:54:15 AM
That's great news indeed McG......I bet you went "Phew....that's a relief" LOL....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 21, 2021, 05:06:22 AM
Yah I did!   They even emailed me his xrays :D   Not that HE gave a hoot about em.   Nope, he did pig out on a piece of turkey lunchmeat I cut up for him.  He's off napping again ;)With the weird weather, both my and Tattoos sinuses are giving us grief.  He finally got comfy and konked out on the coffee table, snuffling away.    Guess it's my turn to konk out! 

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 21, 2021, 04:35:32 PM
That's great news.....

I have OZ on my lap with the keyboard on his back LOLOL....He loves it....he gets a massage and loving all at the same time  :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 22, 2021, 08:47:50 AM
Our little friends, they just run us!  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 22, 2021, 09:46:41 AM
Indeed LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 28, 2021, 12:45:54 PM
Yep, Mogwai got his mojo back!   Still doesn't lift his tail up much, but moves it all around, twitched the end, and he gallops all over the house again!   He also talks to me, chatters quite a bit more again.  I am much relieved!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 31, 2021, 11:52:20 AM
AHA!  He is now lifting his tail again!    :woohoo:    Tattoo, I wish would put his DOWN a little more.   Grrr.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 31, 2021, 02:21:17 PM
 :grenade: good news!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on May 31, 2021, 02:55:54 PM
Better then Watanuki as he walks about with his tail held high looking for scratches on his back and then stays right at the reach of my arm ... guess he thinks that I am going to follow him .... NOT
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 31, 2021, 10:01:06 PM
Yeah it sounds like he is baiting you.   Maybe to test the limits of your boundaries eh?  LOL!   :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 31, 2021, 10:03:34 PM
Tattoo has moments where he just hisses and scratches is [pickaspot].   Sometimes that gets so fierce he makes an impromptu deposit.  UGH!  That includes when he is sitting in my lap, sometimes.  GAH!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 02, 2021, 01:05:58 PM
OK  time to take Tattoo in for his appointment!  Later y'all!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 02, 2021, 03:16:52 PM
We're back, he's ALIVE!  and now he don't want out of the pet taxi.   So I left it open on the kitchen counter, he will come out when he's ready.  :) \Doc gave him a different kind of allergy shot, and put him on hypoallergenic dry food.   Pricey, but if it helps him, I am all for it!   He weighed in at 16.4 pounds.   He is now officially cut back a bit.  Heh!
Mogwai got up on the counter, looked at the Pet Taxi all big eyed, cocked his head over and chirped at Tattoo.   Tattoo hissed back!  How Wude!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 03, 2021, 03:04:08 PM
Gee whiz.   Yesterday we got home, I opened that bag of special cat food for him, gave him about a third of a cup.  He eats his fill which was pretty light.  But he LIKED the new protein pellets!  Drank a lot of water behind it then he went to bed.  Under the sink, where it's dark and cool.  Mogwai also tried some of the new food, he liked it a little, then went to his regular food.  He too drank a lot, then went off to bed.  That was yesterday afternoon about 5pm, and Tattoo is still sleeping!   I woke him to make sure he didn't die.  Nope, he's ok, just very sleepy still.  Wow!  He gets only the new food now.  He also got that steroid shot.  So he felt way better and enjoying the sleep now.   Mogwai too.   I have a feeling they will eat less of this new stuff, and the 7 pound bag might last a month.   We'll see!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 06, 2021, 05:04:39 AM
Hm.  Tattoo is spending like 98% of his time under the kitchen sink.  Yes both the cats know how to open all the doors in the house.   Happily they can't turn round doorknobs or bent over nails, or everything in the house would be on the floors!   The nails=simplified cabinet locks.   :whack: :iminnocent: :coffeemaker: :thumb_up: :cool: :phfft: :yippee:   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on June 06, 2021, 06:51:47 AM
The only door that I have seen Watanuki mess with regularly is the folding door that has the A/C and water heater in it. Why he messes with that one on occasions .. unknown ... granted sometimes I have properly closed it and that is when I find one of his toys inside the area.
I have seen him work a room door if it is partially closed and he can't get out when he wants to but cabinet doors not so very much
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on June 06, 2021, 07:10:49 AM
When I was a child, none of our cats (Juliette and Tania) knew how to open the doors. One day, I decided to show to Tania how to do if ever she had a need. Put her on the door handle (a plastic one).
During the night, I was awaken by a noise: an inside door opened suddenly. Then my room door. It was Tania opening to join me, followed by her sister :tearlaugh: I brought them back in the living room, go back to sleep... And the living room door was again opened. When cats have an idea, they have an idea :tearlaugh: I ended the night by closing the living room with the help of shoe laces - a end in a loop on the living room door handle, the other loop on the key of a placard. Tania tried again several times that night of course, but she failed.
That system worked during many years.
Later, new flat, new door handles. She tried, but the handles were in iron, so she quickly abandonned to avoid to hurt herself.

Puce tried to open my room door to go outside during the first week after I found her to the shelter. Still the iron handles, so she failed. She never tried again.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 06, 2021, 01:37:38 PM
All cats love to investigate new places.  Especially if they are "secret" spaces inside their home.   Lever handles, easy.  Round knobs, nope.  Cabinets with the magnetic door holders, easy.  Ones with the slip spring catch, easy.   This house has both those on all the kitchen cabinet doors.  And any door that is open even a crack...will be wide open by morning!   THAT is a CAT!  LOL!   So J and Aelin, Welcome to the club!  We are all in great company eh?   
When he was a young kitty,  Tattoo loved sneaking on me.   He'd figured how to get on the  top cornice shelf around half the bedroom, and he'd wait till I got very engrossed in something on the computer, then he'd land right in front of me on the desk.  GAH!  Gave me a start.  THAT he enjoyed very much.   When it was Play Time, he played whether I would wake up or not.   Ball point pens were just toys to him.  He found the old transparent glass marbles I kept and fished them out of the cup they were in, played with them till they all got lost.  When we got up here, he was 3 years old and his allergies hit him hard.   Once in a great while, I can get him to play with the toys on a string thing till he gets tired and pants.   But then he just curls up in my lap and snuffles (snores!) in his sleep.  :o) 

 His 12th Birthday is this month!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 07, 2021, 06:51:33 AM
Can she stand and stretch up tall enough to reach the doorknob?   Tattoo is, and even now still reaches up to door knobs and rattles them from time to time.  Sometimes he mutters while he tries.  Then I 'catch him' at it, he is surprised and quickly talks to me.  Not the door knob.  LOL!   He is a nut!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 15, 2021, 05:18:24 PM
Ah me, my eldest Cat, Tattoo, is TWELVE years old now!   I'd give him a birthday treat but his doctor said don't do that.  Just give him THIS food and when it's gone, we'll do a follow up visit and see how his allergies do while he's on this.  So, I just pick him up, love him to pieces, talk to him real happy like and he purrs and talks back.  That was his bday present today.  Sigh.  BUT his scratching is a lot less now. So there is something to this food.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 17, 2021, 10:04:44 AM
Good news on the food helping McG....and yup...."Cuddles" always get them purring LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 21, 2021, 11:05:47 AM
I am feeding Mogwai in my room, out of sight of Tattoo.   Can't give him bits of my meats, no moist food treats.  But Mogwai is missing that stuff.  And Tattoo is asking nicely for some other food also.  He is not going hungry.  He just wants some variety, I guess.   Can't blame him, but everything else aggravates the allergies.   Vet doc said that this food will help only if this is all he gets.   So, lots of loving to make up for it might help a little. 
 :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 22, 2021, 12:47:52 AM
It's kind of unfortunate that Tattoo has such an allergy. I know cats live for the variety of flavors and textures in their food; at least my two do! Cookie Baby and McCartney both love the variety! I feed them twice a day, and between their meals I give them Temptations Mixups with Catnip. They know the treat as Snick Snacks; just saying those two works has them running to get some.


I feel for Tattoo, McG. He will likely grow tired of the same food every day. Here is hoping he will be fine.


BTW, Cookie Baby is 11, as of April. Not sure of the exact day. As for McCartney, we have no idea how old he might be, as he is one we took in when he chose us.

Someday I'll tell you all about the way McCartney treats Cookie Baby!
For now, suffice it to say he is a true Southern Gentleman Kitty! So Awesome he is!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 22, 2021, 01:45:04 PM
Hi Cleve!    Man when I got up today and headed to the kitchen with empty coffee mug in hand, Tattoo greeted me LOUDLY from the lamp table cornered 'tween the hall doorway and the sofa.  I have to go by that spot when stepping out of my  room.   I stopped and talked with him, and he chattered happily away while I spoke and petted him.  He is being SUPER nice now.  And he is fully aware that HE is being singled out (again!) for 'special treatment'.   I am starting to think he actually realizes why, too.  But, while it does clearly help him  to feel much better, he still WANTS some of that ol variety.  Ah that means I am to do the Daddy thing and find some THING besides "Royal Canin HP Veterinary Special" for him to have.   I knew when I put the first cupful in his bowl that it HAD to get tiresome and quick.  He IS good about it, that's for sure!  It has helped clear up his innards issues quite a bit too.  His output is now controllable again, and he is using the litter boxes, again!  His output is looking very normal again too!   WOW.  His little bumps on top of his noggin are almost gone now.  He still has runny eyes.   I did not expect to see such major improvements in just a couple weeks.  Some of it was completely unexpected, like his playing like a kitten again.  But a 16 pound kitten with lots of big teeth and claws!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 23, 2021, 02:36:29 AM
Hi McG. Perhaps Tattoo will be able to get at least some extra variety in his food.


So here is what I mean when I say McCartney is a true Gentleman Kitty. When he and she are outside and it is time to bring them in, He will come up to the top of the doorstep, then wait for Cookie Baby to come inside first. He does the "Ladies First" thing! My brother and I know this is not just a random behavior, because he does it every day!


To further show how nice McCartney is, I can be playing rough with him, tickling his belly so he will react by attacking my hand. He will attack, but will do all he can to keep from drawing blood with his claws, and his biting is superficial, like he knows if he bit me hard it would hurt. But he won't bite hard at all. So what he does is hug my hand, purring the whole time, and give me his love bites.


Cookie Baby is a whole other personality! She has made pin cushions out of my knees and my brother's too. As for how she treat McCartney, it is funny to watch. If he approaches her, she gets defensive. She will start to slap at him. He just puts his head down in front of her, and lets her repeatedly slap him on the top of his head, until she has "made her point". LOL Later, we will find them both sleeping against each other.


Now here is the best part, so far as I am concerned. My brother says I am a Cat Whisperer! Every day I get both of them jumping into my lap and sharing it with each other. I do my "Magic Hands" thing that keeps them coming back for more. It is true that cats are attracted to me. Even Big Cats want to be next to me, as was so perfectly demonstrated to me when a 10 month old Spotted Leopard was brought to the middle school I was attending at the time. I just happened to be at the front entrance, when the cat's trainer/caretaker brought him in on a leash. The cat more or less dragged his companion over to me. I was scared at first, but the man told me I did not have to be afraid. He said the cat just wanted me to pet him. So I did, and it was one of the most awesome feelings I ever felt, being able to get friendly with such a big cat. I have always wanted a Black Panther ever since that day, (black cats are the most beautiful ones to me). Throughout my life I have had lots of cats come to me for petting, even though they did not know me at all. They seem to know I'll never do anything to hurt a cat. The cat is my Totem Animal, as a Cherokee Medicine Chief told me in Cherokee NC. They are also my favorite animal. My affinity with them amazes people all the time. It makes me happy to know my favorite animal likes me a lot too.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 23, 2021, 04:06:44 PM
I hear THAT Cleve!    I love critters.  Be they birds, cats, dogs.  Life!  IT is fleeting and so precious.  We waste much, true.   Some of us learn to love and respect all life around us.  You do well friend!I haven't had opportunity to get close to any big cats.  Well, when I was like 8 I had a Bobcat hop up on the old junk washing machine hulk I was sitting on.   He looked me over hard, sat down next to me. I stroked his head and back some, and  got purring going.  I figured that he'd be dirty, matted and all but nope.  Even though it was wild and lived in the woods and reservoir there, he was clean.  Fur coarser than our little cats.   This one looked sized like a dog about 30 pounds.   He was like 3 times as big as Tattoo, head was huge, and amazing paws.  And a short tufted tail.  Hence the name, Bobcat.  Thing was all muscles.   And happy to be sitting there beside me!   I heard Momma calling from the front door again.  I said goodbye, he just watched me get down and walk out of the pasture onto the street to home one block away.   Never saw him again.   I told Mom I was sitting with and petting a big yellow cat with cool looking splotches.  Learned later those are called roseates.    Mom was clearly upset about that incident.  Pop would talk with me about it later.   No biggie though.   But I was shocked at the size of his head though, and mouth!   So I can imagine how you feel about that Spotted Leopard wanting your attention!  Thats a big cat man!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 23, 2021, 04:14:04 PM
Ah I have SEEN a Puma up close man.   Puma, Panther, Mountain Lion.  Same cat.  BIG cat.  Head bigger than mine.  Huge teeth!   It was curious about what was inside the office building where my BroInLaw works.  We were there for a Employees Christmas Dinner.  Big catered thing.   I got us there early, and saw its face put right up to one of those tall narrow windows just about dark.  I rattled Alans shoulder and said lookit that window!  He did, grinned, said that happened quite a bit there.  ITs a cattle fattening yard.   When they are near capacity, there are some 40,000 head there.  I figure that  is just a big dinner bell for big predators!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 24, 2021, 12:52:30 AM
Woohoo! You got to pet a wild Bobcat! That is totally awesome! I met one once in Charleston SC. We stared at each other, and then he slinked away. There was a big patch of forest surrounded by the marshes near the Apartment building I lived in from age 5 to 8. A female bobcat had taken up residence in that forest. The closest I got her to come to me was about 7 or 8 feet. She would not come any closer. Crazy thing is that a couple of months after that incident, my oldes tsister and I were back in the forest playing, and we heard a hi pitched meow coming from a hollow in a tree trunk. So we investigated. There was a kitten about 7 to 8 weeks old, with markings like what I saw on the Bobcat. I figure it was her kitten. My sister picked the kitten up and carried it home, with me telling my sister we might get in trouble because we were not supposed to do things like that. But we knew mom would fall in love with the kitten, and we'd be able to keep it. It was a male, and he got about twice the size of most housecats. We named him Banjo because his back looked like it had banjo strings running the length of it and out along his tail, which was only about half the length of a normal cat's tail. He was yellow and grey in an interesting patterned blend. We had him until we moved to Virginia, and our next door neighbor took him in, because we could not take him with us. I think he was part Bobcat and domestic tabby.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 24, 2021, 12:58:21 AM
Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion, Florida Panther, all the same species of cat, as I recall. Awesomely beautiful cats!


Near here there is a preserve where a Liger (part Lion, part Tiger) is kept. I hear it is almost half again as big as a Bengal Tiger. It is said he is quite tame though.


I want to go meet him. Someday I plan to go and do just that. I bet his head is like four time the size of mine.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 24, 2021, 11:54:18 AM
Oh for sure you should go!   Is that HERE (https://www.ligerzoos.com/liger-zoo-tiger-world-rockwell-north-carolina-usa)?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 25, 2021, 09:26:22 AM
It may be there now, but several years ago the Liger was in a place in the Pine Mountains here in Georgia. Either way, I plan to take a trip to visit wherever the big cat is.


I think I got that right...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 01, 2021, 06:43:46 PM
Sounds good to me!    :woohoo:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 03, 2021, 12:34:28 AM
Tattoo has been feeling a LOT better the past few days.  He still sleeps a lot.  But that is normal for cats.  What he does when he is awake is the difference.  He is PLAYING now.  First time in years.  He was hiding behind the LR/Dining divider wall/curtain, and when I walked by he pounced on my foot!  He was sure considerate as to how forceful he was, cause 16 pounds of muscly cat hitting you at speed would be an upset!  And I watched him and Mogwai tussle and wrestle a bit.  That was fun.  both came up cat-laughing.   All by changing his food and making him  stick with it!  No more bumps and scabs on his head.  He feels good and shows it.  Sure makes me happy!  :D 
 :woohoo: Now we get to  help  him burn off that energy!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 03, 2021, 09:02:47 AM
That is so awesome McG......And yes on the sleeping part for cats....it's a hobby that Oz is great at LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 03, 2021, 02:42:07 PM
I remember now that Tattoo used to love ambushing me when I go by.  He is doing that again a bit.  And he will lay or sit just talking up a storm.  But only when I'm in front of him.   Poor ol Mogwai is getting worn out trying to keep up!  LOL!   So that's a Oz hobby, I like it!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on July 07, 2021, 10:29:54 AM
Saw this on Facebook yesterday

"I wonder what my cat (dog, bird, fish, reptile) named me?"
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 11, 2021, 04:26:11 AM
I've wondered that too J.  About me, not, um, you.  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 25, 2021, 10:43:24 AM
Oh nuts!   I stepped on Tattoo's tail a while ago.  I bet what he calls me is knucklehead or sompin! :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 31, 2021, 02:22:25 PM
Nope I am still Tattoo's friendly neighborhood scratching machine!  He plops down in my lap and I  start the scritching, which he loves.   Purring ensues.  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 31, 2021, 02:29:39 PM
I'm on my office computer and Oz is laying underneath the desk on my comic book box footstool....sound asleep....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 01, 2021, 12:51:13 PM
Even if he snores I bet it's cute!  :D    Sometimes, Tattoo doesn't plan out his nap so well.   And when he falls asleep, there are times he rolls right off the edge of the counter/desk/bed/couch/coffee table and usually wakes up from a hard sleep (and harder fall) with a questioning RowrrrRR?  And looks around for the responsible party.   I look over, make sure he isn't hurt, then just smile and slowly shake my head.   I sometimes pick him up, place him across my lap and sooth him till he is again sound asleep.   Mogwai has been studying these scenes intently for nine years.   And even HE falls off the desk or coffee table occasionally!  :D :thud:
But they are not young any more.   They actually sleep around 20 hours out of every 24.   And, in their old age, they never sleep next to or on me anymore.  I toss and turn too much for their liking.  Not to mention, SNORE, loudly.   



 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 05, 2021, 09:36:46 PM
Tattoo has shifted to a new spot.  He has opened the lower kitchen cabinets, under the counter, and pushed out the bottles I stored under there and is sleeping soundly in their place!  Ahh, CATZ!  Don't ya just love em?   Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on August 06, 2021, 02:29:21 PM
Watanuki has pulled a new one on me, although I think it is just because I disappeared for so long and when I cam back I was not my usual self.

He has brought into the bedroom four of his toys, and actually dragged two on top of the bed. Plus there is another in the hall next to the bedroom.

Guess he is wanting to share since I seem to be down in his mind?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on August 06, 2021, 03:25:12 PM
He wants to share good will and joy with you, for that you feel better.
Here cats are more like "hey we are going to sleep together during the day, because it's the best medicine, specially with our purrs".
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 06, 2021, 03:59:19 PM
Yup!  I agree with Aelin 100%!     Our pets sense the differences in us very keenly.   Both my boys hop up on the bed and settle close as they dare to my face, and just PURRR, anytime I am under the weather.   And it seems to help my emotional state, if nothing else.   Like Aelin points out, it shows they actually care about us.   When I have allergy attacks, I take Benadryl.  And always get that warm cozy feeling, and fall asleep on the sofa with a movie on.   I wake up to both cats piled right up against me.   Makes me smile.  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 06, 2021, 04:00:05 PM
I'd say that J and Watanuki are "denmates" for sure!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 21, 2021, 10:51:06 AM
I found a people food that makes a great Special Treat for cats.  And my two love this even more than fresh raw meats!   It is John Souls Chicken Fajita Family Size pack, 1 pound.   Just take some and break it up a bit, put it in a bowl for each and leave em alone till they are done.  They growl when eating this stuff!  LOL!   So I tried giving them this in separate rooms.   All was fine till I put my hand near the bowl while either was chowing down.  Ha!  So now when I open the fridge and they hear plastic pack rustlings they come to see if it's for them! 
:D :grenade:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 21, 2021, 04:04:27 PM
I have to bribe Oz in order to open the Fridge without his approval LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 23, 2021, 09:08:37 PM
I must have hurt Mogwai's feelings a while ago.   I allowed him in my bedroom while I was eating, as he was too (bowl on the floor).  After our dinner, he hops up here and is insistent he be allowed to stay.  Well, I can't type replies while he is piled up on the desk, which means half of him is all over the keyboard too.  So, I got him down to the floor, but he was seriously vocalizing his objections.   Done replies, time to see if he still wants in :-P
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 25, 2021, 01:37:35 PM
The three kittens are sleeping on my porch ....I can open the door to step out ..... and now it doesn't upset them.  Today was the first day I saw them eating the wet cat food...To me that's progress.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 28, 2021, 02:11:04 PM
Heck yeah it is.   Since you have not been handling them since they were born, it's a miracle they have already taken to being indoors and playing and sleeping!    After two weeks they tend to be pretty feral, if not handled by humans during that time.   I've dealt with enough of them over the last 60 years.   That OK, I still love em.  And the puppies too.  !!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 23, 2021, 03:05:02 PM
Aelin, I am saddened by the news about Donald.   So sorry for your loss!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 06, 2021, 11:51:38 AM
It still warms me ol heart to see a nine year old cat getting all kitteny on me!  LOL!   Cats, gotta love em!  :D   Yeah it was Mogwai, doing the head turn hop and barrel roll and grab for my hand for Lunchtime!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 06, 2021, 06:56:23 PM
Yup...they are doing great.....Love the little critters...and Ozzy is really doing great with them...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 08, 2021, 04:33:06 PM
If they're older when you get them, you can win them over.   And that is usually for life man!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 09, 2021, 07:13:18 AM
Yup.....Woke up this morning with Ozzy sleeping right next to me and the three wee ones sleeping on my legs and feet LOL....hated to move....but then Ozzie remembered it was 5AM .....time for breakfast LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 10, 2021, 07:48:14 AM
That boy does like his breakfast!  LOL!   That sleeping arrangement is so like a bunch of cats too.  :o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 12, 2021, 09:23:47 AM
My living room looks like a cat playground LOL....good thing we don't entertain that much.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 12, 2021, 01:37:29 PM
Well, me, I would find that great entertainment!   And kittens, sharpening their ambush skills can be hilarious!   

Uh oh, sounds like Tattoo et something don't agree with  his backside.  I hear a bunch of hissing going on in there.   I best follow him around with a roll of paper towels I think.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 18, 2021, 02:11:10 AM
He had a LOOOoooong silver hair hanging out his backside.   Must have been MY hair.   Somehow he ingested one.   So I helped to carefully remove it.   Said hissing stopped replaced by purring.   No bloody stool after.  Whew!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 20, 2021, 10:36:37 AM
Glad all came out well ..... odd as it may be LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 23, 2021, 01:03:30 PM
LOL!   Tattoo thought that was funny too!    :psycho: :seeyou:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 25, 2021, 08:15:16 AM
Yesterday a large cardboard Walmart box arrived, full of heavy stuff like pasta sauce, bottles of dish liquid, etc.  So I tote it to the kitchen, unload and stow all the goodies.  Put all that brown paper padding back in the box, folded all the flaps inside, set it in the LR to see what the boys did about it.  Well, cats DO love boxes and bags.  Mogwai was first, and took a running "cat leap/cannonball right into the middle of it.  He had a blast too.  So a few mins later, he hops out and Tattoo does the same thing.  I tell ya they sure look funny, flying through the air in a short arc with back humped and all legs straight down with all claws spread then CSHHH!  IN the paper!   They sure have no problem figuring out ways to have fun!   :happydance:  Even 10 and 12 yrs old, still act like kittens at times!  LOL!
 :thanks1:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 26, 2021, 01:34:25 AM
Hey the boyz are still loving their new box with looong brown padding paper.  They had a bit of supper then both ran thumpety thump straight to their box.  Not playing, they got comfy and purring and ready for another nap!  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 26, 2021, 05:02:31 PM
Oz and the kittens enjoyed Thanksgiving....they liked the dressing better then the Turkey....LOL  But they only got a wee nibble of both....Don't want them to get to spoiled....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on November 26, 2021, 05:35:28 PM
Do not allow mine any such tidbit, after the first couple of times, since all he does is just sniffs it a million times gives it a lick and then walks away

Why waste trying to coax him to try it?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 26, 2021, 05:44:24 PM
I give them only a tidbit to test...if it fails the test....it goes into the outside cat collection...and they never refuse ANYTHING LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on November 26, 2021, 06:11:14 PM
Like I said have tried it in the past it is refused every time ... why bother
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 26, 2021, 06:48:23 PM
LOL.....So many things I can say....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 26, 2021, 11:57:18 PM
do you ever offer Watanuki any UNseasoned treats?   That always kills it for my two.  And Mogwai is worse about that than Tattoo!   I can steam or 'water fry' any meat in the skillet and both will gobble it  down when its cool enough.  But Mogwai smells everything 'deep' first.  If it gets past his nose it's gone!  LOL!   For Tattoo, sometimes it is SEE>GOBBLE GOBBLE!  forget smelling it.  He does that afterward.  Heh!  They have one 'light chunk fish in gravy' moist treat both adore.  Period.  It never lasts long.  Ever!   The outdoor cats rarely get a treat from me.  If both mine refuse it, then they do.  Like your outside cats, TL, they never refuse anything!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 27, 2021, 05:28:37 AM
Well, you've seen some of the stuff "J" cooks....so if I were a cat...I wouldn't eat it either :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:

And before you get your feathers ruffled "J".....I'm just picking on you.....which I know you love LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on November 27, 2021, 08:33:22 AM
 :thud: Just because I cook in the :waveass: ... oh wait you meant what I cook, not how I cook :tearlaugh:

And you claim I have no sense of humor :@u:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 27, 2021, 08:51:06 AM
 :odd: :nopanic; :worried?: :(ROFLMAO: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 28, 2021, 02:22:25 AM
EYEBLEACH!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on November 28, 2021, 08:23:23 AM
EYEBLEACH!
Here ya go! Hope it's enough! :tearlaugh: ;perplexed:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on November 28, 2021, 09:21:02 AM
And why pray tell did you even look if you knew what was going to happen.

All the eye bleach in the universe will be insufficient to cleanse thee now ... :heeheehee:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on November 28, 2021, 09:50:58 AM
And why pray tell did you even look if you knew what was going to happen.

All the eye bleach in the universe will be insufficient to cleanse thee now ... :heeheehee:
My thoughts exactly,... If I were Jherrith...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on November 28, 2021, 10:01:55 AM
Gotta tell you all about Cookie Baby's latest trick.
As a person that does not fair well in cold climates, (like Air Conditioners provide), I have a baby blanket I wear over my shoulders a lot. Well Cookie Baby continues to amaze me with her intelligence! I'm sitting at my computer, working on a project, blanket on my shoulders as described above. Cookie Baby is on the easychair arm to my left. She reaches up with her paw, grabs a corner of the blanket, pulls it to herself, and crawls into the little pocket she makes out of that corner. Obviously, she was cold too! This is an 11 1/2+ year old cat, and she is still extremely smart for a cat.
I love her so much! :hartz:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 29, 2021, 04:19:57 PM
I got a 12 yr old and a 10 yr old and they both still amaze me.   Their intelligence and curiosity are wonderful things to stimulate, but not allow to go unobserved.   They are using that big Walmart box for their sleeping apartment.  And for now, if one is ready to sleep but the other isn't in there with them, they go get him!  LOL!  Then they fur puddle together, purring, then serious SLEEP!   They  love awakening to the sight of me.  And even more when I utter the magic word as a question.  "Goodie?"  They are out in a flash headed for the kitchen.   I sometimes enjoy quietly getting their breakfast ready and set out when its almost time for them to wake.   They then eat, socialize with me, play...have water then relieve theirselves...then back in da box!  Heh!

Cleve, your life with Cookie Baby sounds a lot like what I could have had with my tiny girl,  Baby, back when I was a teen. But, I enlisted and my Mom threw Baby out.   Damn shame.   It totally lessened my caring as much for my Mother, frankly.

And thanks for that Eye Bleach, it was a help!   ;oD
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on November 30, 2021, 12:16:44 AM
I sleep in an easychair, because laying on a flat bed causes problems for me. My cats sleep next to me, one on either chair arm. Sometimes I wake and they are against each other, on the same side, copping some Zs, my arm laying across their backs. Can't help myself, I gotta pet them!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 30, 2021, 03:11:26 AM
If I slept in the LR my two would be piled up right next to or on me.  No wonder we love em eh?   :happydance: :xmas11:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on November 30, 2021, 01:28:53 PM
We love our sweet kitties a lot, you and I.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 30, 2021, 07:22:20 PM
Yep, these guys are not just my buddies.  They are my family too!   I do love em.   And I love seeing them happy.    :glittery:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 01, 2021, 09:12:36 AM
I totally agree....Nothing better than waking up to one "Fat Boy" Ozzy and three kittens all cuddled up around my legs and feet. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 02, 2021, 08:34:48 AM
No wonder they love ya, TL.   They get to snuggle up with their favorite human parts, legs n feets!  LOL!    My two love to burrow under the covers, make a cave then snooze a few hours.  Only problem is I move too much for their liking.  So they burrow and snooze a bit then want out to the LR and the big heater.   No problem.  :) 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 03, 2021, 09:44:14 AM
l got Tattoo to dance for his treat while ago!  Heh,  Mogwai just stared big eyed and lashed his tail and meowed.   They do LOVE those little tubs of Ocean Treats Chunk from Meow Mix.   
Yeah, now they are both napping!   :happydance: :glittery:
 :xmas11:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 03, 2021, 10:00:04 AM
Girls here love their little daily surprise for their teeth:PlaqueOff by ProDen.
Well, there are days where Giro won't take all teh 4, but Puce never misses her moment. If we forget, be sure she will pout, or make meows until we understand :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 04, 2021, 02:36:10 AM
Your Puce sounds like she is real sensitive.  The true sweetheart!   And, they are really smart, aren't they?!    My boys know I always skip a day between their moist food, but they get dry food every day of course.  They don't pester me on their off day.  But the next day, they let me know IT'S TIME HUMAN!  when I first shuffle into the kitchen!   Both of them talk up a storm, they make sure to prance back and forth real pretty, those tails straight up.  Then they see me with the tub in hand and those tails get krinkly.  Like a zig zag!  Seriously!   And Tattoo will rear up and dance a bit trying to get to their plate.  They are so eager and they KNOW when I open that tub they WILL be eating their treat in just a moment.   They leave only a clean plate too.  Not a speck of food on it.   That stuff has GOT to be good for them, they love it so much.   Trying new dry food for them, and so far both like it.  Purina Friskies Ocean Favorites.   Seems if it has any fish in it, they love it.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 04, 2021, 06:45:39 AM
Puce is a boulimic-anorexic cat. Even if it was worse before we move, she still has that. It's linked to stress, but she was also abandonned twice, and when she arrived at home, she obviously didn't have all nutriments for the development of her body.
So any little food is welcomed by her.
Dry food 24/7; and once a day wet food. But last times, Puce is meowing if we don't go enough fast at her eyes after we have ended the dinner. Meaning, we have 1O seconds to obey :tearlaugh: She turns around the table and meows, sometimes in grumpy voice. The worse is, the year I adopted her, we still had the old doggy, and she knew him for few months. He turned around teh table, asking that way his food, but didn't voice. Each time he passed near Puce by doing his turns, she slaped him; she didn't like dogs, she didn't like he made the turn of the table - and now she is doing the turn :tearlaugh:
They love too their dry food with fish, better than with chicken. But we can't give to them salmon things. Giro can't keep that in her stomach.
But for wet food, we have 2 schools to eat here: Puce, almost the speed of light and looking if her sister hasn't more than her, Giroflée taking her time and eating several times the evening. Of course, we have to rescue her food from her sister :psycho:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 04, 2021, 07:14:52 AM
Since I've got the kittens I had to figure out eating habits. 

Ozzy is no problem....he'd eat all the time if he could...and by the size of him...it looks like he already has.  I told Lorna twice that he needs to diet....but now with the kittens around, he thinks their food is his buffet.

So I wake up at 5AM....Give them all a little wet food...and watch them eat to make sure no one steals the others food and see who is NOT eating.  Puss-Puss and Henrietta and Oz love the wet food and gobbles it up quickly....Boots not so much....he's the finicky eater....  But they all love the dry food and drink plenty of water so I'm not to worried.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 04, 2021, 11:59:05 PM
By now the kittens got to be pretty big, right?  I mean, they are in YOUR house, so we know they eat well!   This latest visit to the veterinarian clinic, Mogwai hit 13.8 pounds.   And he don't even look that big.  Tattoo hit 16.5 pounds.  And he does look that big!  Plus, he feels that heavy.  Yeah.  But the new doc got Doc G. (the owner of the clinic) for second opinion.  Who handled him, picked him up, felt his tummy, listened to his chest, from everywhere and finally said "This one is not overweight.  But much more and I think he would be!"   Tattoo has gotten longer over time too.  His head is bigger.  His paw prints are bigger.  Honestly all that just totally snuck up on me!  And he also thinks ALL food put out is HIS and he generously shares a little bit for Mogwai.  I have been making Tattoo wait while Mogwai eats first.   That only lasts while I am right there, though.  Sigh.   Separate room feedings again, is next.   Moggie loves that.   Tattoo?   Not so much.  But he will get over it!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 05, 2021, 12:01:27 AM
That is odd that all but one love the moist food, TL.   But he loves the dry food same as the others, so (shrugs) life goes on!   :)   :glittery:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 05, 2021, 12:14:59 AM
Ha!  Aelin, I am about to start feeding my boys in different rooms (with a closed door!) so I am sure Mogwai gets his fill every day.   He too takes his time to eat.  But Tattoo gobbles till he's full.   Then he guards the food!   This is why I am going to feed Mogwai in my room starting tomorrow.   For moist food they eat together for now.  I will keep their dry food separate though. 
 
They have both always had plenty to eat.  Neither have ever been abandoned.  My daughter and granddaughter brought Tattoo to me at 9 or 10 months old.  He chose to stay with me while they left.  As they were leaving, he grabbed me, jammed his face into my middle, and purred loud.  That is how I figure he Chose to stay.  Mogwai was born here.  I was handling him, washing his face and eyes daily with warm water.  His mom did too, and the rest of him.  He was the only survivor of a litter of 5 or 6.  All the other babies were BIG, Mogwai was tiny.  The Runt.  But, HE lived, and I asked my sis for him.  She said "OK, sure!"  and so I got a new family member!   
 :happydance: :glittery: :xmas11:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 05, 2021, 09:31:57 AM
Well, I changed up the schedule Mc-G.   Even though Oz and Henrietta were normally the ones who bugged me to feed them at 5AM....Puss Puss and Boots weren't that interested. 

So I figured once a day with the wet food....and that will be at 7AM....and EVERYONE ate then.  Maybe it was way to early for Boots and Puss Puss to be Hungry. 

And we also decided wet food will be in the morning only since they all are lovers of water and they eat dry food most of the day anyway.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 05, 2021, 10:51:43 PM
Sounds good TL!   I give mine their wet food every other day cause the Vet said its better for their teeth to eat the dry food.  Acts as toothbrush for them, as well.   But I sometimes (often) split one tub of wet for them on their 'off' day.  Heh!  Thing is they insist on having dry food too.  Like yours (and most cats) they go get a nibble here and a bite there all day long.   So, as long as they DO eat the dry every day, I can't see any harm to a little treat every day.  Especially since both of them absolutely adore it!   Ha!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 06, 2021, 09:47:51 AM
Day One of separate room feedings.  IT Worked!  Of course.  Heh!   Mogwai ate his fill, and is one happy cat.  He started playing with my hand when I straightened the couch back covers.  He rolled that big ol middle up for me to scratch for him, tucked all 4 legs right in.  So I gave him his gentle scratching.  He did try to catch my hand as I walked off to do my feet.    But he looked at me, gave me a big happy purr-meow and left his tongue out.  Happy Cat Smile!  LOL!  Tattoo?  I think he was actually mad at me.  He didn't get to Play BOSS on Mogwai.  Oh Well!  ;o)
 :happydance: :glittery: :xmas11:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 06, 2021, 09:51:19 AM
I wonder if Mogwai don't care for sucking water through his teeth like most cats do.  And might be cause it opens the Jacobsen Organ 'vents' in the roof of his mouth up front where his missing tooth was.   Either way, he does it but not with strength or very often.   I tried using a toothbrush but he just played with it.  Figures eh?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 06, 2021, 11:38:24 AM
I read where a lot of cats don't like the wet food and eats dry food only....which is OK if they drink a lot of water also.

My friend Mel has two Maine Coon Cats and one of them would not drink water or eat wet food.  Only liked the dry food and soda...(yup....they gave it to her) but soda does not hydrate so they ended up having to pay $600 to a vet to clear out the blockage....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 06, 2021, 06:58:52 PM
My my my.   That ain't good at all, TL.  Poor cat.    Mine like their water too.  A LOT, and more than once a day too.  Which I think is great :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 06, 2021, 10:24:26 PM
Tattoo just HAS to have at least *A* bite of whatever it is I fix for myself.   Tonight, I took a Jalapeno and Cheddar link, sliced off one end and cut it up for him.  Put it over by their food bowl.  Mogwai was sound asleep keeping the living room heater company.  There are times I figure I may be doing Tattoo a little harm by giving him tidbits of my stuff.  Normally he turns away from seasoned stuff.  And this new sausage is most definitely seasoned.   But, he ate the bits I cut up.   Gone in two seconds.  I will remember giving him this tomorrow while I clean up his output where ever it may plop. Duh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 07, 2021, 10:05:12 AM
Good MORNING all Attic Denizens!  Whether ye be with skin, fur, feathers scales or or whatever!   Have a Merry and GOOD one!    :happydance:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 15, 2021, 10:34:04 AM
Dry Cat Food.   I decided to try one of those  better ingredients foods.  That Blue Buffalo is more expensive than the hydrolyzed protein stuff I have to buy from the Vet clinic only!  Even Purina has a couple of types like that.  BUT, I saw they had improved 'kinder' ingredients cat foods too.  So I tried a small bag from Walmart, and oh did the boys like it!  They both got where they did not like the old Meow Mix regular dry food at all.  Something changed in it.  And, apparently, to the cats, it literally stinks.  They didn't eat it.   Uh Oh.  That's why they are now eating from this new 22 lb bag of Purina Ocean Treats Dry Cat Food.  I think the main ingredient is Salmon.  Then some brown rice, green  peas, stuff they can actually digest that is also somewhat hypo allergenic.  Tattoo isn't scratching his face off, and Mogwai enjoys it too.   So far their most favorite foods are Seafood!  Cool.   :cool: :pervy:
 :tree: :xmas8: :santa3: :xmas: :merryxmas: :snowlady: :xtree:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 15, 2021, 01:36:58 PM
I think many cats are loving better fish than chicken. Here, when it's the moment to alternate between the dry food (a old pack and a new one), you can be sure the fish dry food keep its success, no matter it's the old dry food or the new one!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on December 15, 2021, 11:24:11 PM
Dry Cat Food.   I decided to try one of those  better ingredients foods.  That Blue Buffalo is more expensive than the hydrolyzed protein stuff I have to buy from the Vet clinic only!  Even Purina has a couple of types like that.  BUT, I saw they had improved 'kinder' ingredients cat foods too.  So I tried a small bag from Walmart, and oh did the boys like it!  They both got where they did not like the old Meow Mix regular dry food at all.  Something changed in it.  And, apparently, to the cats, it literally stinks.  They didn't eat it.   Uh Oh.  That's why they are now eating from this new 22 lb bag of Purina Ocean Treats Dry Cat Food.  I think the main ingredient is Salmon.  Then some brown rice, green  peas, stuff they can actually digest that is also somewhat hypo allergenic.  Tattoo isn't scratching his face off, and Mogwai enjoys it too.   So far their most favorite foods are Seafood!  Cool.   :cool: :pervy:
 :tree: :xmas8: :santa3: :xmas: :merryxmas: :snowlady: :xtree:
That's awesome, McG.
We had to try three different types of dry, before settling on one they would actually eat. They were leaving about half of the old in the bowl. Once a week I put minced garlic in their wet food. That helps keep fleas and ticks off of them, boosting the work of their collars. Now when they get dry, they actually eat nearly all of what I give them. McCartney was leaving half of his dry before we got this bag, and Cookie Baby about a quarter of it. Now they are eating well.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 16, 2021, 12:13:25 AM
Cool stuff!   I think cats prefer fish, generally.   These two sure do!    I am glad we all got our little ones on foods they enjoy.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on December 16, 2021, 12:27:00 AM
Our cats are finicky about what type of fish they will eat. They like my fried Perch or Flounder, sometimes Salmon, but mostly Tuna. They also love poultry, like chicken and turkey, but only the wet. TYhey love the pate versions, but shreds and diced are their favorites. Cookie Baby likes to suck the gravy up before eating the meat, while McCartney just goes all out. Sometimes they leave some wet in their bowls, and nibble on it for the rest of the day. When it is time for their dry, the wet is usually gone, and I just replace it with dry food. We have Temptations with catnip in it that we give them for treats. They really love that. Also, to get them to eat sometimes I have a small spritz bottle of catnip in liquid. Just 1 spritz will do it, and they will eat the food with gusto!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 16, 2021, 11:23:20 AM
My two gave up and walked away from catnip years ago.  Still have a good bit of it sealed up.  Not being used.   Sigh. 
Do we all feel like our little furry ones are finicky eaters?   Unlike the yard cats, which gobble up whatever is put out.  Especially warm meat!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 19, 2021, 05:55:40 PM
I have kittens who are now picky eaters....

At first they gobbled up anything you gave them...then when they found out that were "ALWAYS" going to be fed...they got PICKY.

I can put a plate of Lorna's rotten cooking in a bowl and give it to the outdoor cats and they would lick the bowls.  The Kittens run away from it :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 20, 2021, 02:45:57 AM
LOL!  Sounds like my two.  They loved  the new dry food at first.  Now, they'd rather I give them some wet every day.   It's tempting it is!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on December 22, 2021, 06:07:13 PM

I can put a plate of Lorna's rotten cooking in a bowl and give it to the outdoor cats and they would lick the bowls.  The Kittens run away from it :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:


Hilarious :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on December 22, 2021, 06:08:50 PM
Watanuki is starting to get demanding in regards to the wet food, he thinks he should have it nightly, however not happening.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 23, 2021, 07:01:45 AM
Depends when you give it to him in the day. But sometimes they make their best to push the limits.
You see, girls here have their PlaqueOff for their teeth. It's always around a certain hour in the day, but those last times, Puce is trying to push earlier the moment. She waits, waits, waits, thinking her look will be enough to make things change :tearlaugh:
But at the evening, after we end to eat, we have few seconds to acceed to her demand for wet food, or she starts to meow :thud: Not that she has faster than usual, but she isn't ready to stop that bad habit.

After, it happens the stomach of cats is changing a little. Before, the PlaqueOff was twice a day, 2 in the midday, 2 before we start our dinner. But it happened the girls were no more able to have them staying in their stomachs at the begining of the evening. And same with their dry food. Now we have removed dry food for a moment before we eat the evening, and during the dinner itself, they are better. And the 4 daily PO are in once the midday, and problem.
It's perhaps just a problem with "teenager" cats :shrug: But keep an eye on if Watanuki has something changing or not around his usual wet food time.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on December 26, 2021, 05:49:46 PM
Damn, got a definitive wink plus two from Watanuki this evening ... have thought that I have gotten one previously but tonight's were undeniable and since I am the only human under the same roof they had to be directed at me :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on December 27, 2021, 09:21:24 AM
Even Watanuki is well read :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 28, 2021, 07:49:18 AM
:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: Cute.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 01, 2022, 10:41:40 PM
He sure looks satisfied!  Mr. Cool!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 13, 2022, 12:36:28 PM
That Watanuki is one pretty fella, J!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 20, 2022, 11:39:53 AM
I MISS MY BOYS something awful!   :cry2: :sadder: :thissmall:

I can't wait to hug em and love em!  Hang in there Tattoo and Mogwai,  I'll be home soon!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 20, 2022, 01:21:24 PM
And they must wait impatiently to see you coming back :yesway:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 20, 2022, 02:48:35 PM
I agree with Aelin.   Even a simple thing as going to the store and coming back home is a party for them...they act as though we were gone for months :tearlaugh:

Any idea on a release date?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 20, 2022, 03:22:26 PM
Soon is all I get.  They go a week at a time.  I know having a ramp to the front door would accelerate that date arriving.  There can come a point I won't even need the chair or walker.  OR the ramp!   
DOH! :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 20, 2022, 03:36:13 PM
Well....as they say....take one day at a time....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 20, 2022, 11:49:07 PM
yep, will do!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on January 22, 2022, 12:40:42 PM
Greetings fellow Attic denizens.  Have been out, owing to various situations.  Mostly this Covid/cold/pneumonia/whatever.  My son was very worried about Connie and myself so "coaxed" us to get a Covid test over at the VA.  Yep.  Connie and I both tested positive.  So, staying home and hiding under the covers while it runs its course.  A little rough, but survivable as we both got the jab, but refuse to get that damn booster.  Things are starting to return to normal, if you could call it that.  Been attempting to work up some enthusiasm for work/fun, but so far . . . . meh!!!!!

Hopefully, this too shall pass. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 22, 2022, 02:02:50 PM
You and yours take care.....I got both boosters with the understanding that it does not keep the virus away but makes it more livable if you get it....But I'm old so it was highly recommended that I do so...  Haven't had no problems with any of the shots thus far...and it been a while since I've had them.  Next up is the pill....maybe.... :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 22, 2022, 03:16:56 PM
To each their own, no jab, no booster, no pill ... body immunity at this point as I walked through the valley of ... now the Jewish penicillin is working just fine for nourishment. Last night we had a serving of one of those heat and serve meals. Surprisingly it was tasty ... I do remember the old times when those meals were as tasty as cardboard with a side of ketchup.

So my body fought it off successfully and things are back to what passes for normal in my life, still short on the full piss and vinegar circuits, but we are getting there .... :heeheehee:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 23, 2022, 09:34:04 AM
This supposed pandemic is being used to exert control over the people. I have not even considered getting the shot or the boosters. I have to say it is being handled really badly by our US government.

A little more than a year ago, when I got really sick, it was Staph Infection. I was given two bottles of antibiotic pills (60 each), and had to take all of them. When I asked the Doctor about how that would affect my system, he said the only thing it would do to my body is remain in my system for 18 months. Now here is the kicker: Since that time I have been exposed to Covid 19 at least 5 times, and have not caught it! I would say the antibiotics I took are working overtime for me. As for the injections, I see no need for me to get any. This Pandemic is nearing the end of its course, but if Big Pharm had its way, they would want it to keep going. They make lots of money, with the drugs they produce and distribute, and a really big amount of that is ill gotten gain! Not gonna let them make money off of me!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 23, 2022, 10:03:33 AM
  :hijacked:  :drHiJack:
I think Hips looked for Coffee Shop, not the Pets room :tearlaugh:

Here the thing, to stay in the messing news (and while I have a cat in my laps).
I have friends in Oklahoma. One has health issue, and absolutely can't take the injection (not that she wanted to take) or she'll die. I'm not allowed to tell what, but what she has is pretty important.
Since the beginning of that "pandemic", she didn't catch that virus that was supposed so terrible we must be died since before the end of 2020 (if you listened the news, it was the way it was presented).
Then, recently, she caught the omicron. Her daughter too. None of them injected, they are now negative. No second effect, except less envy to eat for several days while with the thing. That's all.
Now see that. Her brother-in-law had 2 injections for his job (and jockingly even with that, it's not enough to travel in Mexico nor Canada, he is treated like non injected people). He caught the omicron at the same time that my friend and her daughter. And he is STILL positive. The injected one.
So, nope, the injections serve to nothing, except the companies to make money, with the help of governments.

BTW, since the beginning, I never caught that spreading thing. Even when we were supposed to be under a tsunami in our area. :shrug: Except one cousin, nobody was in my family. Not even my aunt who is a nurse.
One of my former colleagues has her husband working in hospital. He never caught.

And now, it's time to go back to our beloved pets! The one in my laps (Giroflée) is awaken now. Probably she doesn't like I write so much :tearlaugh:

(If you want to continue the other talk above, don't forget to look to go there, there are talks about
https://www.thefantasiesattic.net/attic/index.php?board=530.0 )
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 23, 2022, 01:57:29 PM
Yup...back to the pets....At least I can talk about living things that I like.....:java:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 23, 2022, 02:02:19 PM
Yup...back to the pets....At least I can talk about living things that I like.....:java:
Why I suspect than the attic nurse isn't between the "living things that [you] like"? :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 23, 2022, 02:07:25 PM
LOLOL.....So you're saying we should consider her a Pet?  :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 23, 2022, 02:10:05 PM
I have no idea of how is her relation with J  :java:

How are your 4 panthers? And how are outside cats?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on January 23, 2022, 02:10:38 PM
Wouldn't recommend it unless you really want to see how much fun she would have with you .... continually instead of the infrequent moments that she currently bestows upon you.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 23, 2022, 02:16:58 PM
I've got enough critters here without adding a two legged critter that scares shadows away.... :nopanic;

As for the tribe...they are doing fine.  Personalities are coming out full scale.  Oz will be Oz and is getting along with Henrietta and Puss Puss fine....he has issues with Boots who is a little slow on the draw.  He always has that confused look on his face...I think he was dropped on his head when born...but he's my favorite cuddler LOL...

Henrietta is the Queen and the whinner of the group.  You look at her the wrong way and she whines...:thud:

As for Puss Puss....she is the sweetheart of the group....She loves everything and everyone...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 23, 2022, 02:19:40 PM
And Blacky, Blacky 2, McGruff and Stripes....they were all sitting on the stairs this morning waiting for their food...and I wasn't going to feed them until I was done with the snow shoveling....otherwise they would have been in the way...so they waited patiently until I was done....and got a treat for doing so...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 23, 2022, 02:25:42 PM
I know if I was before your little Queen, I couldn't stop myself to have hands on the hips and to whine on the same tone. There are cats who like, other don't, but you catch their attention :tearlaugh:

Maybe Oz has issues with Boots because he is a he, even if a tiny one for now :winks: You know sometimes brothers don't understand each other. It doesn't matter it's a recomposed cat family.
But that Boots slow or not, sometimes it takes time for same gender to be friendn fully friend. Look, after 14 years Giroflée isn't as close of Puce as she was with Tania. Since the move, their relation really improved (I don't remember the date of their last fight), but they stay more near me, than near together.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 23, 2022, 02:26:46 PM
And Blacky, Blacky 2, McGruff and Stripes....they were all sitting on the stairs this morning waiting for their food...and I wasn't going to feed them until I was done with the snow shoveling....otherwise they would have been in the way...so they waited patiently until I was done....and got a treat for doing so...
I imagine their common internal shout while waiting for: "go faster!" :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 23, 2022, 03:09:44 PM
It was like having the group "Talking Heads" looking at me as I shoveled.  All heads turned the same time, no matter what direction I went in...it was comical...and when I had to take a break because this old body demanded it...they all looked confused... :nopanic; :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 23, 2022, 04:07:47 PM
LOLOL.....So you're saying we should consider her a Pet?  :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Oof! Perish the thought! :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 23, 2022, 04:17:59 PM
Oof! Perish the thought! :nopanic;
While McCartney is the Gentleman Cat, treating Cookie Baby with the respect a Gentleman give to a Lady, Cookie Baby is the Protester. She will protest when I scold her for doing something I don't like. Then she will crawl into my arms for reassurance that I still love her! I of course love her as well as McCartney.
I really can't say how old McCartney is, but in April, Cookie Baby will be 12. For a cat that old, she still has a lot of spunk. She really loves to play, and I encourage that. She's my Sweetheart, and McCartney is also!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 23, 2022, 04:39:54 PM
Yup....they grow on you and then some.  The outdoor cats last year wouldn't even come near me when I fed them or went outside....  Now, I even have the most fearful one, McGruff, rubbing against my leg as I'm feeding them all.

As for the indoor babies...they all have personalities of their own...but they all have one thing in common...the urge to aggravate Oz at times...all at once....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 26, 2022, 05:55:00 AM
OZ . . . the mountain that MUST be climbed!  (yuk yuk yuk!)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 26, 2022, 06:28:56 AM
As longer as the moutain doesn't enter in rebellion against climbers :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 26, 2022, 11:47:48 AM
Which seems likely at some point.  OZ *IS* the Boss, after all!
 :phfft: :icu: :dk2: :shock: :heeheehee:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 26, 2022, 12:58:33 PM
He'll play with them for a bit and then when he's down with the playing...he ignores them or swats them depending on the mood :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:   But on a good note...they keep going back for more so they think it's a game...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 29, 2022, 10:23:50 AM
That sounds like Tattoo with Mogwai, when he was little.  Moggie just had to have 'just one more just one more!' then BOP upside the head, then a hiss, and all was quiet.  They were snuggled up together sleeping.   Almost 11 now, Moggie don't pester Tatters anymore.  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 29, 2022, 11:12:08 AM
McCartney seems to like getting swatted on his head by Cookie Baby. He will approach her and put his head down toward her, and she will swat at him. LOL
Cookie Baby does not act like a cat about to be 12 years old, which she will be around the 10th of April. My little sweetheart still likes to play, and she still figures thing out on her own. She really is an amazing cat.
McCartney is amazing in his own way, being such a gentleman cat, practicing all the things that true Southern Gentlemen practice. The only things he cannot do requires human hands to do. He pretty much has all the rest built into his demeanor. I can even get rough with him when I play with him, and if he accidently sticks me with a claw, he is immediately apologetic! How could anybody not love a cat like that?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 29, 2022, 02:45:19 PM
Oh for sure Cleve!  I have a couple of long scars on my calves.  My bad really.  I wanted Tattoo to JUMP way high, or 'fly', and he sure did.  In mid air, nobody has control.  He saw where he was gonna land and tried to miss me.  Didn't work, but i got raked by a hind claw a couple times.  Cats can't retract the hind claws.  Just their fore claws.  He licked my wounds.  I knew he didn't mean to hurt me.  I got a feeling I have stepped on paws and tails way more than i got scratched!  I feel bad when I hurt one of them.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 29, 2022, 02:47:47 PM
um, I also use 91%+ alcohol on all my scratches.   Ya never know where those pretty paws have been!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 29, 2022, 03:20:57 PM
Yes you do...it's called the "Liter Box" and we know what goes on in there :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 29, 2022, 11:54:23 PM
Got both of them on my lap right now; snoozing in kitty dreamland.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 30, 2022, 10:33:30 AM
Right on TL & Cleve!  Just had another stranger barge in, telling me "time for final scores" which I refused, politely.  Anyway, I can't wait to get home and hold my buddies again!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 01, 2022, 02:42:14 PM
I Made it home yesterday afternoon,  and I could see the surprise and joy in their little faces!   My buddies didn't hate me at all.  Whew!  When we  rearranged most of the house for wheelchair, it wore me out.  I hit the sack.  Both of them ran into my room and piled right up against me, purring.  Happy to be with me again.   I am amazed by them!   :happydance:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 01, 2022, 02:47:35 PM
Hey, Daddy didn't abandon them and he is back! That's for the happiness for sure. Now, you have to catch up the missing time!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 02, 2022, 02:10:49 AM
And they are not letting me forget it!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 02, 2022, 09:34:44 AM
They are both making sure I don't get far from them for now. Where I go, they are both there.  And both meowing for more petting!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 02, 2022, 09:38:29 AM
Good to see that you're home...and the Kittys are welcoming you with open arms....now, as I've said numerous times in here....BEHAVE....LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 02, 2022, 10:35:00 AM
Yessir!   Behaving now!   :D

 :happydance:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 03, 2022, 06:56:59 AM
Tattoo cracks me up.  When I got up at 5:30 to fix me some coffee, both he and Moggie got up with me and we all headed for the kitchen.  I get coffee going and they have a snack and a drink.   Then raced back to the bed where it was nice and warm still (thanks mainly to them!).  I get back with 2 hot drinks (I cheated!   Used bullet proof lidded tumblers for the hot drinks! wrapped all 3 in a bag to carry) and a diet soda,  got out my Nacho Cheese Doritos chips and made a lite breakfast.   And Tatters is curled up in a big fur ball, snoring!  LOL!   Hey, he's happy, Mogwai is happy, McGrandpa is happy, Let It BE!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 03, 2022, 07:24:06 AM
Yep, free hot water bag cats, even when we ask for a break :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 03, 2022, 08:03:38 AM
I wake up every morning with Boots right next to me and Oz, Puss Puss and Henrietta sleeping on my legs...I LOVE IT.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 03, 2022, 08:08:12 AM
Yup, furry heaters!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 03, 2022, 08:14:31 AM
Boots doesn't want to sleep with the others?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 03, 2022, 08:32:37 AM
During the day time they all cuddle up together for a nap...but at night....boots like to be up close....Our boots is a little "Slow" but the most fun....She get's into trouble without knowing she gets into trouble.

Boots is a she, Henrietta is a she, and Puss Puss is a he.  Took Lorna a while to figure that out.  Oz gets along fine with all of them but prefers the company of Henrietta.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 03, 2022, 08:39:29 AM
With little princess, huh? :tearlaugh:
Kittens are hard to determine who is what sometimes. But don't worry, that happens also with hamsters. We thought Bébé Castor was a "she" during perhaps 4 months, I don't remember exactly the duration. Anyway, once I had the time to see the little belly during a bath in chinchilla sand... and to tell "so in fact you are a boy". If only I had a camera to take his face when I said that, like if he was surprised by the news :tearlaugh: But that explained why Bébé Castor (like Donald) obeyed so much to Coquinette to make music with bars during the nights :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 03, 2022, 09:13:49 AM
LOLOL......I know what you mean.....We knew that Henrietta was a girl right a way.  See's jet black and short haired. 

We figured Puss Puss was a he about a month after bringing them in. 

But Boots was a mystery LOLOLOL...Glad that mystery is finally solved.  Boots is our furry one...soft and cuddly and will be our hair shedder for sure...but sooooooo lovable. 

Henrietta is alof...she's the queen...and Puss Puss is her servant :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:

Oz is Henriettas Favorite....and he loves that...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 03, 2022, 09:22:05 AM
So Henrietta has the 2 boys for herself :psycho:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 03, 2022, 09:37:40 AM
Yup....and soon to be fixed.... :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 03, 2022, 09:49:30 AM
Heh!   Up to your eyebrows you will be if ya don't get some pile of kittens fixed!   :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 03, 2022, 09:50:52 AM
I think they are a little too young for the moment. But TL certainly doesn't want to have a full tribe of cats at home.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 03, 2022, 10:25:49 AM
yup....To young yet.....Lorna is in charge of that part...she's had many kittens at one time or another....

Well, she didn't have the kittens...but you get my drift LOLOL...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Wizzard on February 03, 2022, 11:27:47 AM
And she always struck me as calm. Never considered Lorna "having kittens"..... unless...... thel?....  what didyou do?
8 )
Cheers
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 03, 2022, 11:36:41 AM
The Daughter said she's going to hunt you down Wiz :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Wizzard on February 03, 2022, 03:07:23 PM
Left at Mars, straight on till evening.  See? I'm easy to find. 8 )
Cheers
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 03, 2022, 03:11:32 PM
She was in the Army so she's damn good at tracking.... :yesway:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 04, 2022, 02:22:31 AM
i JUST caught Tattoo dominating Mogwai.  And  also saw WHY.  Mogwai had jumped Tattoo like a kitten would, trying to get him to play.  He didn't want to!  LOL!  They both seem real happy to have me back home.   Love.  That's where HOME is!  Now they are lying together, grooming each other.   :o)

Goodnight folks!

McG.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 04, 2022, 10:27:40 AM
Oz dominates ALL of the kittens LOLOLOL....but he's really loving their company...most of the time
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 04, 2022, 12:40:35 PM
Hey Oz is the Ol Man, it's his place to in the natural realm!   Tattoo accepted Mogwai when he was born, took him proudly as his own (if cats even DO that!).   Tattoo taught the young ones out in the yard, and Mogwai in the house.   Mogwai, even 10 years old, tests the limits I guess.   Tattoo up and reinforces em pretty much as needed.   AH the old man just got up and strolled over to my lap.  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 04, 2022, 01:35:58 PM
Oz is the big brother, as well as like a father for them. To him to decide what role he takes and when.
Juliette was that way with Tania, and even Harry (the dog). The difference is she didn't want to have them at home, and was shocked when they came. But she was a kind soul, so quickly accepted them. Harry just in cohabitation (and occasionnaly a pushingball if he put his nose in the fights of cats); Tania trully like her baby. At the point that when Tania had issues with her womb and didn't show us (not a sign of her inside pain), Juliette took the thing in her paws: she grabbed Tania by her throat, something she never did before, and never did again once Tania had her surgery. We didn't understand what she wanted to show, but the day after the second time, signs started to come and Tania had a surgery in emergency - infected womb to remove fully.
Tania tried to accept Giroflée at her turn, after Juliette passed the rainbow bridge, but she was more distant. Yet, she was like a landmark for Giro who liked her like a sister. And Giro was lost and angry when we took at home Puce. She needed time to accept her like a sister - but during years she was like the chief. Since we moved at the end of 2020, we had only 2 fights. They act more like sisters now (jealous from each other at some moments :tearlaugh: ).
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 04, 2022, 02:27:17 PM
Hey Oz is the Ol Man, it's his place to in the natural realm!   Tattoo accepted Mogwai when he was born, took him proudly as his own (if cats even DO that!).   Tattoo taught the young ones out in the yard, and Mogwai in the house.   Mogwai, even 10 years old, tests the limits I guess.   Tattoo up and reinforces em pretty much as needed.   AH the old man just got up and strolled over to my lap.  Heh!
Oh Yeah! He knows when you're thinking about him. Our cats are the same way. In fact, Cookie Baby just laid down on the back of my easy-chair, next to where my head normally rests. LOL! She's purring!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 08, 2022, 04:24:46 PM
When Tattoo is in my room, at 05:00 he slowly sneaks on top of me (like a 16 pound  cat can even DO that!) and slowly creeps to my head.   Then he "snuffle purrs" in my ear.   It Is Time To EAT Human!  Heh!  :o)

So how does HE know what time it is huh???
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 08, 2022, 09:50:06 PM
I think they have better internal clocks than we do. Cookie Baby and McCartney are the same way, but with different actions. Cookie gets on my stomach and kneads it, like she's making biscuits; while McCartney gets on my chest and buries his face in my big old beard. I pet him and he purrs loudly. I pet Cookie and she purrs almost inaudibly. LOL
And yes they do that when it's time to feed them.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 09, 2022, 07:55:45 AM
I have all four of them on the bed at 6:30 every morning nudging, nibbling, meowing as if they've never been fed in their life....and then after all that....they get picky and only eat a little of what is given to them ... but on a good note....sooner or later it's all gobbled up.  I keep dry food out all the time....it's the wet food that they get picky with.  :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 09, 2022, 12:01:55 PM
Mogwai eats his want of whatever I put down, then strolls off to groom and nap.  Even with fresh cooked chicken.  Tattoo cleans the plate though.  Then grooms and naps.  So, he's normal after all eh? 

Heh!    :happydance:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 09, 2022, 12:30:11 PM
Both of our cats are hard to determine what they like, opened two cans of pate cat food, and one can of chunked light tuna in three days, and they turned their noses up at all of it. Somedays they will eat what I give them, but other days it gets wasted. When cat food is over $2.00 a can (not those big cans, but the small ones, 'Little Friskies'), well you can see how that can be expensive after wasting several cans because that's not what they want. This morning I opened another can, and divided it between Cookie Baby and McCartney. Thankfully, she gobbled hers down, but McCartney just sniffed it and walked away. To be fair, he does catch a lot of prey and eats it. I suppose he prefers that over processed cat food.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 09, 2022, 01:13:51 PM
When my tribe of indoor cats get picky....and don't want to eat what is given to them...My tribe of outdoor cats love it....something different for a change LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 09, 2022, 01:26:12 PM
When we started with organic food, our 2 ladies weren't happy, specially with the wet food. But it was that wet food, or no wet food at all. And the dry food was organic too, but they accepted it easier than wet food. After 2 or 3 weeks, they understood they wouldn't be back to old wet food and tried for good the new one; it was 13 years ago. Now, they love their wet food and one even turn around us before the end of dinner to have it quicker :tearlaugh: And when we have ended, she meows loudly (or even loudly if she started when turning) because we shouldn't make more than 10 seconds to prepare the table for them :tearlaugh:
Of course, once in a while, one or the other can refuses to eat many of the wet food. Generally, Puce eats all her part in once; then minutes later (like now) is meowing to have more :shrug: :psycho: Giroflée prefers to take what she needs at that time, and continues her plate later, under watch to avoid her sister steals the food. No wet food during the night, but in the morning yes if she always has somethin - which is regular. And she can refuse the wet food at that moment because she wants to have something else. Knowing no way, but you know how cats are stubborn :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 09, 2022, 01:38:04 PM
Cats are willful creatures, and I believe they would just need the right shape of mouth to talk to us. Then we might get them to say what they want. LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 10, 2022, 12:21:15 AM
That would probably work for that moment.  Then there's the next!   :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 11, 2022, 08:24:13 AM
This morning's 'efforts' on part of the cats to get me awake to go get their foods ready for them started at 2am and ended at 5am when I moaned groaned and sat up in bed.  I grabbed the wheelchair over,  transferred to it, gathered the things I take to the kitchen.  Which is the moment two cats tails went straight up and the cats ran like a shot out of bedroom to the kitchen.   They Are Waiting For ME!  That was the message I think.  Hmm.  Two things had to be emptied in bathroom first.  That got Tattoo's curiosity going.  He saw then ran back to the kitchen.    In kitchen finally, I put COFFEE on!  Then checked my blood sugar.  THEN got boys wet food out of pantry, got out a saucer and loaded it up for them.   This is the stuff that disappears in only a few seconds.  It had been 4 days since I put any wet food out for them.  They were craving it real good!   Wow, as clean as the plate looks, I will still wash it proper.  They licked it clean!   I put fresh water and dry food down.  I must have gotten their meaning correct.   They didn't make an armed escort back to my bedroom to pester me with attention!  LOL!   They will do that until I DO get it Right.  Ha! 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on February 14, 2022, 02:10:30 PM
Been reading these posts. Having three doggies I can’t help wondering if I’d fit in too well here…
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 14, 2022, 02:21:17 PM
We are many cat people, but we accept crazy ones with dogs :iminnocent:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 15, 2022, 12:45:53 AM
 Yeah Scouse, Dogs are people too!  :D 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 16, 2022, 01:51:55 PM
This is a Open Minded Pet Shoppe....All pets are welcome....except for chain smoking gorillas  :java:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on February 17, 2022, 07:06:47 AM
Drat
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Wizzard on February 17, 2022, 10:15:55 AM
C'mon Binky....  Lets go....
Use an ashtray!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 17, 2022, 05:25:50 PM
 :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 17, 2022, 06:46:12 PM
What about a crowned Saxe-Coburg
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on February 18, 2022, 04:45:10 PM
We’re moving from animals to parasites now?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 18, 2022, 06:46:52 PM
Only if you know where the reference is from ... :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 22, 2022, 02:55:25 PM
I am so NOT letting my cats see this thread now!   :yeow:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 22, 2022, 04:31:02 PM
I am so NOT letting my cats see this thread now!   :yeow:
Too Later for me! Cookie Baby is on my knee as I read the comments here! Pretty sure she has seen it! Oh well! Maybe she'll be OK?
 :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on February 22, 2022, 04:48:09 PM
Needn’t worry. Aforesaid parasites only affect humans…
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 23, 2022, 08:31:31 AM
And plus the language spoken ... er .... written here might be a bit too sophisticated for them
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on February 23, 2022, 09:08:07 AM
Indeed, good Sir... thou mayhap hast a valid point...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on February 23, 2022, 10:31:41 AM
Occasionally
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 26, 2022, 12:15:01 AM
Hey Scouse,  there is even a pet Whale in here!   :D   :happydance:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 04, 2022, 01:10:35 AM
Did y'all know that cats actually get gas?  And, FART?!@  Tattoo been doing that!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on March 04, 2022, 10:49:43 AM
Hey Scouse,  there is even a pet Whale in here!   :D   :happydance:

Yes I saw that. Do they need a licence for him/her?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on March 04, 2022, 01:05:35 PM
Did y'all know that cats actually get gas?  And, FART?!@  Tattoo been doing that!
Heh heh heh! Can't tell you how many times this sniffer was assaulted by that stench! :nopanic; :thud: SHEESH!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Jherrith on March 04, 2022, 06:36:34 PM
Then I am very lucky both on the part of having a diminished sense of smell and having not hear any such discharge
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on March 05, 2022, 12:59:41 AM
Then I am very lucky both on the part of having a diminished sense of smell and having not hear any such discharge
Oh, the discharge is silent but deadly!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Scouseaphrenia on March 05, 2022, 06:44:12 AM
Then I am very lucky both on the part of having a diminished sense of smell and having not hear any such discharge

i outbid you sir, with not ever being able to smell... well... not in the manner here discussed anyway...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 05, 2022, 07:27:59 AM
Yes indeed....Oz is the king of "Silent but deadly"
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on March 05, 2022, 09:51:28 AM
Makes one understand why Lisa Kudrow wrote the song "Smelly Cat".
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat,
What are they feeding you?
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat,
It's not your fault!
 :odd:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 05, 2022, 01:59:59 PM
LOLOL....Yes indeed....and with 4 of them here....sometimes I just don't know who to blame so I end up blaming my daughter Lorna  :nopanic; :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 06, 2022, 02:11:08 AM
I realize if I give them their regular (Now Purina Ocean Variety) dry food, less of their wet food and DO give them plain chicken or turkey (cooked unseasoned) that makes things way more agreeable with their insides.  But, they beg SO nicely!  I can't resist them!  (SIGH!)  SO they get some wet food too.  I love hearing the SMACK smack SMACK smack!  they make while devoted to cleaning their plate!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 06, 2022, 04:20:49 AM
TL does Lorna even know she's being blamed for some "jet propulsion"?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 08, 2022, 12:20:55 PM
Hm.  Basket of fresh laundry done, sitting in living room.  Uh sitting a day too long.  Tattoo is now using it as his Bed!   Close to that big heater, he keeps his old body warm for sure.   And he enjoys the nice rub I give him when I roll by heading to the kitchen.   Can't blame him!    :viking: :grenade: :mwah: :psycho:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 29, 2022, 07:17:02 PM
As Promised, here are the kitten pictures.....

Puss Puss is in the old style collar

and Henrietta is in the new style collar...though she looked a little dazed...she had 1/4 tab of her pain med...she's kind of loopy....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on March 30, 2022, 12:25:39 AM
They don't look too happy about those collars, but to keep them from getting to the surgery sites...
They'll get over it. :peek:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 30, 2022, 06:23:10 AM
YUP!  They be teenagers.   You should be glad you caught that stuff when you did, TL.   That is something that when it starts, it don't stop!   And honestly, they will be happier and healthier with this done.  And you won't pull out all your hair over it!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on March 30, 2022, 06:59:20 AM
I hope you continue to tell them how beautiful they are with those things, despite the  killing eyes they give in exchange when you say that :tearlaugh: Sooner it will be just a remembering, and they'll be glad to no more have that stuff... while Bootsie will have one! What was the reaction of Bootsie when she saw them like that?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 01, 2022, 03:33:59 PM
Bootsy missed them so much that she didn't notice the collars LOLOL.  They are doing great... I only put the collar on when I see them going to lick themselves....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 01, 2022, 03:46:09 PM
Which must be something regular, knowing cats.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 01, 2022, 05:11:26 PM
LOL....Yes indeed....but it's where they lick that I keep an eye on....so all is good...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 02, 2022, 07:21:54 AM
Yaaay!  Cool beans, TL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 08, 2022, 02:18:28 AM
Well, seems the boys and I have a little guest at the moment.   Alan told me one of 'the kittens' got in and disappeared behind the sofa.  That was Wednesday, and he/she/it is still in here.  I cleaned up a deposit that clearly wasn't out of either Tattoo or Mogwai.  Also, they are clearly accepting of it, which I caught one glimpse of it, and see it is a teenager size young cat.  Pretty, a marbled tabby like Tattoo in fact.  But, is clearly hiding from me.  Sigh.  Oh well, if it won't accept me as well as it does my two cats, then I have to get Alan to fetch it out of this house.   I don't mind having another little buddy here.  But not if it doesn't want to be one!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 08, 2022, 11:31:29 AM
Yup....they have to like you to live with you LOL.....Kinda like having a relative that doesn't like you wanting to stay with you....that just doesn't work... :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 08, 2022, 01:41:41 PM
Leave the little one time. It happens cats aren't immediately ready for humans when they don't know them yet.
When Giroflée arrived at home (a weekend), her first idea was again and again to hide behind the tv furniture. Then, when my grandparents and one of my aunt who brought her from the shelter left, she made her way in the next opened room at that moment: my bedroom. And she was hiding under the chest of drawers. I simply stayed a while near to talk to her, before to go and do what I had to do. She left her hidden place some after. And she adopted her Mom in the same time - my Mom. It was fine, she was the planned Mom for her :tearlaugh:

Puce didn't hide (except to flee her sister when meeting), but she was very shy with us, and still has tendencies to hide if we are 'on her way'. She doesn't like to cross us in the corridor of example. She doesn't like the broom either, despite we tried to show her it's fine.

But you are a stranger for the little one, McG, so that's new for him; it's a new house too. It's a good step if already he accepts and is accepted by your cats. Just give him time.
And, if you can't catch him, try to push him gently in a room where he can be quiet. A room where you can go some times to interract with him, even if it's just by talking. With a little cover for his comfort, or something like that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 09, 2022, 10:36:28 AM
I know its hearing is good.   I meandered into the living room this morning in my wheelchair.   Even I hear that thing creaking along.   Kitten was in kitchen eating a bit of the boys food.   No problem, I just bought a big bag of it!   Eat well kiddo!   But it just froze, looking at me.  When I blinked it vanished.   Ah well.   Plenty of time.   I noted that it has had lots of opportunities to leave the house too.  Like the back door blowing open that the "grandkids" don't close well.  The front door standing open taking in a delivery.  Yep, opportunities!   Looking at it for a bit, me not speaking, I can see that it IS a marbled tabby, like Tattoo, but a bit lighter.  More grays in it, than the dark browns in Tattoo.   I've tried calling many names like "kitty kitty" but it doesn't even notice them.  I figure it isn't used to or socialized with humans yet.   Means it is gonna be very slow to come around to visiting me!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on April 09, 2022, 01:51:22 PM
One thing I'm thinking about, by reading your message: you are a weird guy, in a wheelchair. What is that thing?

The good point is you offer a tasty food for him, so that's not bad to stay and see what happens. Already you looked each other, and you did nothing to him, didn't scream because he was eating in the kitchen.

The only 'wild' kitten I knew was a grey one, when I went at my dad's farm. Nobody could approach it. I passed a full Summer month there, taking time with the animals in general, but with all cats and kitties accepting me. The grey one finally accepted I touch and take it in my arms, and with other children we discovered it was a she. It was in 1992.
With time, and different holidays, I saw her again, and during some we could touch her. I don't know what happened but the latest I saw her, she heard me, watched me, but didn't try to come.
Except talk to her and the other cats, I have no idea why she accepted I was the first to touch her.

Have you tried to call him "baby"? :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 12, 2022, 10:58:42 PM
Yep, tried all kinds of nice names, Aelin!   It still vanished.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 15, 2022, 10:58:18 AM
Had to put this up....after a night of raising hell...Puss Puss finally passes out on Lornas Bathrobe....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 16, 2022, 11:29:14 AM
Not just ON her robe, but hugging it!   LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 16, 2022, 11:33:28 AM
Yup....he LOVES to hug....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 17, 2022, 12:54:22 PM
My kitties like soft things too!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 21, 2022, 07:57:20 AM
Alright!  So the brats next door (aged 19 and 21) owned up to this small marbled tabby being theirs, and his name is "Dobby 2" so I speak Dobby and he looks up and sneaks a couple steps closer.   His respiratory issue seems to be clearing up, slowly.  His appetite is good, he actually meows now, and is getting closer and closer day by day.   He is a great looking SMALL cat.  Brats and BroInLaw say he is over a year old for sure.  Ok.  He don't look like a him, actually, but whatevah!   He showed me this morning that he wants to be part of the "US!" that's me and my 2 cats.  Ok, c'mon over Dobby!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 21, 2022, 08:05:25 AM
Dobby seems to have choosen "the" favorite home.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 21, 2022, 08:08:05 AM
Good going McG.   :yesway:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 21, 2022, 09:56:26 AM
Dobby is definitely a good li'l cat.   As he feels better his curiosity has him exploring more, and even playing with a toy or two I put out so he'd have to run across it.   He will end up fitting I guess.  Heh!   :happydance:  Also, he is used to me being IN the wheelchair all the time.  So when I pushed the wheelchair into the house, he kinda panicked for a moment.  Then when I sat down in it, he came out and almost right to me.   To some, the Unfamiliar is Freaky.  I get that.   I keep it in mind.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 21, 2022, 10:15:52 AM
Yup....the little ones here are also the same way....do something out of the ordinary and they panic.... :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 21, 2022, 10:18:20 AM
That can happens also to some "teenagers" between cats. Puce is one of them.
Giroflée didn't care.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 21, 2022, 10:26:24 AM
Like Ozzy hummm......he doesn't care either...unless it's more new kittens LOLOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 01, 2022, 07:21:48 AM
So, Dobby went missing for a couple days.   Turned to 4 days.   Alan comes in and helps lift furniture and I sweep out from under it.  Dobby was under the last sectional sofa recliner.  I got him out, we got him in bags, and took out.   I saw a long sliver of old bone sticking out of his  mouth.  Seems he'd got a hunk of chicken bone, and it stuck in his pipe.   He finally got it partly back out and that's where he passed on.   If I could have gotten hold of him, he'd have gone to the vet, pronto.   But Dobby wouldn't let anybody touch him at all.  I feel pretty sad about all that.  I liked the little guy.  Given more time he would have come to me.   Sigh.

R.I.P.  Little Dobby.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 01, 2022, 08:03:46 AM
Sorry to hear that my friend....always hard when our furry friends pass on.  :insist:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on June 01, 2022, 01:29:42 PM
So sorry to hear about Dobby, and so sad he didn't decide to approach you for help.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 01, 2022, 04:33:59 PM
Thanks, TL.   All of us in here know how this is.   We, their Humans, got to keep living.   Though his time in here was short, I will never forget the little fella.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 03, 2022, 09:41:43 AM
That's why I love the new technology....Cell phones cameras....Got more pictures of Oz and the kittens then I do of family :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 04, 2022, 05:32:51 PM
Oh, so I ain't the only one like that.   COOL!   :D  :woohoo:

And I thank you, Aelin.    We just didn't have that time that he needed.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 05, 2022, 12:56:15 AM
Now I'm very concerned about my Tattoo.  His allergies are playing up on him.  I wash his face and eyelids with plain cool water to clean and relieve his burning a bit.  And he wants to just stay in my lap.  No matter where he settles, he don't want to move at all.   He's 13 now, I worry about him.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 05, 2022, 10:04:40 AM
Now I'm very concerned about my Tattoo.  His allergies are playing up on him.  I wash his face and eyelids with plain cool water to clean and relieve his burning a bit.  And he wants to just stay in my lap.  No matter where he settles, he don't want to move at all.   He's 13 now, I worry about him.
My Cookie Baby is 12, and I worry about her. She has a condition that makes her regurgitate what she just ate sometimes. I worry that she's not getting enough nutrients into her system.
McCartney has a respiratory problem, like your Tattoo. He goes into coughing and sneezing fits. Don't know his actual age, but he is the Alpha Male in this area. I think where he roams a lot may have hazardous airborne chemicals in the air, and that it is what the cause is for his breathing ailments.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on July 05, 2022, 01:30:57 PM
Agent, Puce (and even Giro) had more and more regurgitations. Until, by luck I discovered an article on a french blog (I was only looking if a organic food was really organic and quality or not).
I suggest to you to translate that article for full details
http://monsieurchatatestepourvous.eklablog.com/monsieur-chat-a-teste-la-gamelle-orthopedique-anti-vomissements-de-pet-a202185028
But we didn't buy a thing like that because there aren't here, and we don't buy online. So basically, we took a carton box (from shoes) and cut it just the size the cats have not to bend their throats, or at least not too much; like a simple table for them. Since, they had very less problems. Puce is still here to confirm. In addition of less regurtgitations, most of those she can do are by stress (her mommy not at home :tearlaugh: ) but generally no food at all inside.

Puce has also still her allergies, but only on her eyes now it seems. I have no idea what changed, because when we come here she still had allegies and even had a big one, at the point we almost had to pass from essential oils (accepted by her pervious vet) to go to the vets in town. But it was the last crisis.

McG, are you sure you are too "cozy" under his body? :winks: Cats love to be on us.
Perhaps also Tattoo feels you aren't well some days?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 06, 2022, 01:55:24 PM
Tattoo does love to be ON me.   if I lie down, get gets on my shoulder.  Hm.  On my back, he is on my chest.   I never lay on my stomach, it's the ostomy in  the way there.   I will change their food yet again Aelin.   His eyelids started up on him big time, and he is rubbing way too much with his dew claws.  But no other signs of his allergies.  His BM's are good again.   Even Mogwai is doing that a little.   Both have good appetites, neither are fat, both eat as much as they want, drink as much water as they want, that is ok.  No vomiting at all.  There are still various foods to try.  Even when they are picky, plenty to choose from these days. :woohoo:

Yes too;  they DO sense when we are not well.   Both know of my foot wound, of course.   Neither get too close to the foot.  When the nurse is tending it, they ignore what she is doing and both pile up in my arms.  Both want to be loved and to give love.   Amazing critters eh?  Tattoo loves to give me "hugs".   Means washing the fresh holes with alcohol of course, but gee, it's LOVE!  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on July 06, 2022, 02:00:17 PM
See, I talked yesterday about allergies of Puce and I forgot she has still her one if she goes under the sun. Even 30 seconds :shrug:
Alas, today she seems also to be back to sneeze. Before to go to bed, she will have the right to her good old essential oils before the thing takes too much place.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 06, 2022, 08:50:47 PM
Cats have NO sense of propriety!    They know NO embarassment!   They can sneeze right in your mouth and it's like "So what!"  GAH!  Yes, Mogwai did that to me yesterday, while I was sitting in wheelchair at kitchen counter fixing them both a chicken treat.   BLEAH!  :yeow:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 07, 2022, 12:40:17 PM
Just as bad as having them on your lap and you're petting then and the "Happy Gas" is released....  :nopanic; :OMFG:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 07, 2022, 05:28:16 PM
Cats have NO sense of propriety!    They know NO embarassment!   They can sneeze right in your mouth and it's like "So what!"  GAH!  Yes, Mogwai did that to me yesterday, while I was sitting in wheelchair at kitchen counter fixing them both a chicken treat.   BLEAH!  :yeow:
McCartney sneezed into my eyes about 3 months ago. He was getting his petting from me when he suddenly had to sneeze! Next thing I know, I got two eyes full of his sneeze spray. Not got in my mouth, but I had to clean my eyes in fresh water, and my glasses needed some serious work to be able to see through them again. I had no ill effects afterward, so that was OK. Still, it was a gross out moment, so I can imagine just how grossed out you were, getting a mouth full. :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 09, 2022, 07:52:54 PM
I am glad I hadn't eaten yet!    :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 09, 2022, 08:57:25 PM
:tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 11, 2022, 11:11:31 PM
The Mint Listerine was great.   DAWN dish soap did the outside.  Yuck.

I'm not mad, they can't help it.  Tattoo has done the same a couple times through the 13 years we've been together.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 18, 2022, 01:26:09 AM
Helloool Llola  Lane!   :happydance:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Llola Lane on July 18, 2022, 10:23:21 AM
Helloool Llola  Lane!   :happydance:
Heeeyy... HOW did you know I was here????  I tried to sneak a peek and got busted!!!  lol
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 18, 2022, 10:33:45 AM
Hard to sneak anywhere in here my friend LOLOL....though some DO get lost.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Llola Lane on July 18, 2022, 11:19:07 AM
Hard to sneak anywhere in here my friend LOLOL....though some DO get lost.....
haaaa.. Me for one (raises hand)... I guess I need to sneak around here more ;)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 18, 2022, 11:43:11 AM
Take you time...plenty to see....I'm off to find a new kitty kat gif.... LOL....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 25, 2022, 01:50:12 AM
Poor old Tattoo.   He's gone and scratched his face (EYE lids n temples) just raw, again.   Allergies working on him.  I gotta ask the doc about some kinda topical salve to help with this, at least a little.   He absent mindedly moves around, all jerky like, trying hard NOT to scratch.  Hissing at every turn.   I grab him up, hold him still, for just a couple minutes, and the sensations subside.  He relaxes, then goes and eats a bite.  He even lets me wash his face with cool water!   He gotta have some relief.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Llola Lane on July 25, 2022, 11:39:40 AM
Poor old Tattoo.   He's gone and scratched his face (EYE lids n temples) just raw, again.   Allergies working on him.  I gotta ask the doc about some kinda topical salve to help with this, at least a little.   He absent mindedly moves around, all jerky like, trying hard NOT to scratch.  Hissing at every turn.   I grab him up, hold him still, for just a couple minutes, and the sensations subside.  He relaxes, then goes and eats a bite.  He even lets me wash his face with cool water!   He gotta have some relief.
awe... poor baby.  We had to put our Weeble on flea meds in the summer... We use Catego (all our cats get this in the summer)... It seems to help him.  He would rub a spot on his butt raw... I found a tiny bit of Vaseline on the spot helped relieve the itch.  Maybe try a little dab on your Tattoo's face...  No fun itching. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 25, 2022, 02:26:55 PM
Yes on the vasoline.  Oz has a habit of licking his belly to the point it gets a little raw.  Nothing is their but it's a old habit of his...He'll sit like a buddha and lick away....Thankfully it's not a every day, week or Month thing...just a now and then thing.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on July 25, 2022, 02:47:35 PM
Lick on the belly is sometimes a sign of stress. Puce and Giro started like that when we "won" the horrible neighbor where we lived before. It's only the 2 or 3 last months of her life that Giro stopped that. Meaning we were here since around 1 year when she stopped to remove hair from her belly.
For Puce, she still has her moments. In fact in our previous flat she started by remove all hair from the end of her tail  :OMFG: Yep, rat tail by a way. I convinced she to stop, just by talking. So she started to lick too much the base of her tail, the under part. Then she stopped that and started to attack her thighs. Then since it's her belly. 15 days ago, she had back most of her hair on the belly; she removed them again :sigh:
And it happens you don't know the exact reason of the stress :shrug:

McG, Puce is also back to her sun allergy. Scratching her ears. Tonight had to put her the inverted 'lampshade'. I'm going to try to remove it now she is quiet.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 25, 2022, 03:02:54 PM
Oz has been doing it ever since we got him.  As mentioned...he was a rescue baby kitten after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and was flown to a Wisconsin Animal Shelter and then moved again to Local Animal shelters...Then we got him as a Christmas Gift from Travis and Mindy...  But yes...I'm sure it's a stress habit from all he's been through...and then we got the three kittens....but really....he doesn't do it more often because of them....Just every now and then.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 25, 2022, 07:54:38 PM
My cat Cookie Baby sometimes gets ear mites in her right ear. I think she does in the left one too, but it is not as bad as her right one. If I try to get some ear mite medicine in her ears, she will detect the scent immediately, and she fights light a wildcat to get away, even though her ears are bothering her. She once scratched the underside of her right ear till it was bloody. My solution to keeping from being ripped to shreds by her claws is to wrap her tightly in a bath towel so that she cannot get her legs out and do damage. (She ripped my arms up fiercely when I first tried to get some medicine in her ears!)  Then I can put the medicine in her ears, and rub it in. She always thanks me for that, when she no longer has to suffer from those evil little critters.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 26, 2022, 12:45:08 AM
I Will Try The Vaseline on Tattoo's eyelids and temples!   Used to have some Star ointment, but being a small jar, the boys would turn it on a side and roll it all over the house.   I got no idea where it ended up!   But some Vaseline I can get hold of.

I hear you all speaking of things that one or both my boys have dealt with in their life times.  Fungus (Ring Worm!), Ear Mites, Fleas, sun burnt ears.   They also get mosquito bites.  If Mogwai got out for a while, he would have those burnt ears too.   SO.  Tomorrow, Tattoo gets the Vaseline face!    :woohoo:   I am glad someone thought of that!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Llola Lane on July 26, 2022, 10:26:34 AM
I Will Try The Vaseline on Tattoo's eyelids and temples!   Used to have some Star ointment, but being a small jar, the boys would turn it on a side and roll it all over the house.   I got no idea where it ended up!   But some Vaseline I can get hold of.

I hear you all speaking of things that one or both my boys have dealt with in their life times.  Fungus (Ring Worm!), Ear Mites, Fleas, sun burnt ears.   They also get mosquito bites.  If Mogwai got out for a while, he would have those burnt ears too.   SO.  Tomorrow, Tattoo gets the Vaseline face!    :woohoo:   I am glad someone thought of that!
I hope the Vaseline helps... remember to be sparce with it.  Just a dab'll do ya ;)  At least it should relieve his itching... Let us know how it turns out. (hugging Tattoo)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 30, 2022, 09:17:39 PM
@ Llola;  yep it does help a bit.  He has stopped scratching so often, and when he does, he don't do it for as long.  Means less of a hamburger texture above his eyes.   I am still taking him to his doctor this coming  week.   He's due I figure for rabies booster and a checkup.  He being 13 now, I am sure he needs it!
ANd thank you all for your support, guys.   I appreciate you all!   :woohoo: :happydance:  :java: :yippee:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Llola Lane on July 31, 2022, 06:53:46 PM
@ Llola;  yep it does help a bit.  He has stopped scratching so often, and when he does, he don't do it for as long.  Means less of a hamburger texture above his eyes.   I am still taking him to his doctor this coming  week.   He's due I figure for rabies booster and a checkup.  He being 13 now, I am sure he needs it!
ANd thank you all for your support, guys.   I appreciate you all!   :woohoo: :happydance: :java: :yippee:
ooo wonderful news McGrandpa... I love Vaseline... It's a wonder salve... The vet may have something similar with antibiotic in it... but in a pinch... I always use Vaseline.   

Our cats are due for shots in September... We keep up on them cause we foster kittens who usually have some sort of sickness.  We keep the babies separate but I don't wanna take any chances.  The babies don't get any shots til they are 2pounds and 2months.  Lots of times I'm bottle feeding them...so they are pretty tiny when we get them. 

Keep us posted... and give the big guy a hug for me please!  ;)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 01, 2022, 11:08:44 AM
I use it on the kittens and Oz...Got a squeeze tube of Vaseline.  Easier to handle when you have squirming kitties...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Llola Lane on August 01, 2022, 11:20:34 AM
I use it on the kittens and Oz...Got a squeeze tube of Vaseline.  Easier to handle when you have squirming kitties...
Oh yes... good idea... We have a few pots... they last a looooooooooooooong time.  lol
Squirming kittehs???  What's that????  lol
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 01, 2022, 11:24:55 AM
LOL....indeed.....

Today will be "Clean the Ears" day...  I get prepared...  Long sleeve shirt, long pants, Gardner gloves, and hope I'm quick enough when they squirm out of my grip LOLOL....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Llola Lane on August 01, 2022, 11:52:01 AM
LOL....indeed.....

Today will be "Clean the Ears" day...  I get prepared...  Long sleeve shirt, long pants, Gardner gloves, and hope I'm quick enough when they squirm out of my grip LOLOL....
ah.. You fostering kittens these days??? 

We tag team with our cats... First Saturday of the month... They get 'spa' day.... Hubby holds them whilst I clip nails... clean ears... flea meds... etc.. etc... We can do all 4 cats in less than 15minutes!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 01, 2022, 12:08:03 PM
They adopted us.  They were hiding under my door Jam during a Thunderstorm.  So the Daughter and I gathered them up. And yes...bottle fed all three...  They all have been examined, boosted, chipped, and fixed. They will be a year old this September.... Been feeding their Mommy and Daddy for years...still do...They are truly outside cats but I've got a shelter for them a few years ago...and they are on the steps at exactly 6:30 AM every morning and 4:00 PM every night...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 01, 2022, 12:27:04 PM
This is Henrietta after her Vet appointment....she didn't like the body suit so we had to switch it out to something more practical and the sleeping babies are PussPuss (the male) and Bootsy
The cat in the background in the Henrietta shot is OZ....we've had him now for 7 years...he's a rescue kitty from Hurricane Harvey.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 02, 2022, 12:22:14 AM
THey're all gorgeous, TL!   You make a wonderful cat parent!    :woohoo:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 08, 2022, 01:00:42 PM
Thanks McG....Just saw today that their mother must have had another litter but I only see one little kitty.  As mentioned...we ended up with our tribe because she left them at our door step during a storm.  Now the little one comes to breakfast with Stripes the mother, Blacky and Blacky II...and not sure which Blacky is the father, but truthfully, I don't think either one is.  This kitty is a brown and white calico.....So I'm assuming only one kitty survived this time. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on August 08, 2022, 01:34:13 PM
It happens, but rarely, that a cat Mom has only 1 baby. The aunt of my Tania has once only 2 babies, a black and a orange. She was herself a calico, and no male around was from colors of her babies. Btw, the Tania's Mom was also a calico (the 2 Moms were from the same litter, and almost fully identical), but Tania was a turtoise shell.
Another baby to find a family for?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 08, 2022, 02:41:58 PM
LOL.....Hopefully....but first they have to catch the speedy critter.  This is the first time I saw it come up for food and I only had the door cracked a little bit and it ran under my shed.  Stripes just kept on eating LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 09, 2022, 07:19:05 AM
That one little kitty will have lots of kitties to play with it!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 29, 2022, 07:04:20 PM
For the first time in the almost 13 years Tattoo and I have been together, he spent a night outside.  Somewhere.  I tried to call him up, no answering voice.   Same all day today.   He is supposed to go to the Vet tomorrow morning.   Not if he isn't here.  Looked under everything here, no Tattoo.  Drove around the neighborhood, no Tattoo.    I am very concerned now.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 30, 2022, 09:34:31 AM
Hoping for the best McG.....Sending out positive vibes and hope Tattoo feels them and comes home....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on August 30, 2022, 01:42:59 PM
I hope he is just hidden to avoid the vet visit and be back sooner :peek:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 30, 2022, 04:12:30 PM
Still no Tattoo.   I am hoping that some lady lured him into her home with some fresh bird or fish, and is keeping him.   Not gonna think about alternatives to that.   I have hope he is alive, in someones home.   I had to cancel his Vet visit this morning.   He wasn't here, so?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 30, 2022, 05:16:41 PM
Got my fingers crossed my friend....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Llola Lane on August 30, 2022, 10:07:31 PM
Still no Tattoo.   I am hoping that some lady lured him into her home with some fresh bird or fish, and is keeping him.   Not gonna think about alternatives to that.   I have hope he is alive, in someones home.   I had to cancel his Vet visit this morning.   He wasn't here, so?
Oh bummer... I know the feeling... I read somewhere if you leave his kitty box out he may come around.  But that won't work if someone has taken him in :(... We are pretty diligent about making sure our cats don't get out... but at least they are chipped if they do.  Gosh... now I'm scared... Never a perfect way to keep them in if they want out.  :(  I will pray he makes it back home. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 30, 2022, 11:50:14 PM
I don't know what I'd do if Cookie Baby disappeared. She is like the daughter I never had. I think of her as family, and the same goes for McCartney. He chose my brother and I, and we had to take him in.
I know how attached you are to Tattoo, McG. There are some folks that care for all the cats in the neighborhood, either by feeding them, taking them in, etc. Hopefully that's what is up with Tattoo, and he'll find his way back to you. McCartney has gone missing for up to three or four days. He always finds his way back to us. He benefits my brother and I in multiple ways. I pray that Tattoo is safe and in good health, and that you will see him again very soon.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 31, 2022, 07:48:26 AM
My Kittens have chips and so does Ozzy.  He was chipped in Texas...The kittens got theirs when I took them in for checkups.  It was free so why not.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 31, 2022, 09:33:38 AM
Me too Cleve, thanks.  But every day goes by and he isn't home, lessens my hopes.    If he DOES manage to get back home, he is going to the vet, and will also get chipped!!!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 31, 2022, 12:53:31 PM
In my experience, chipping a pet does not always work. A cat I had up to 2 1/2 years ago was chipped. Her name was Itty Bitty. One day, she got spooked big time, and slipped out the door, and bolted! I tried using the tracker app on my smartphone to find her, but it detected nothing. Whatever it was that spooked her was enough to keep her from ever returning, and I have not seen her since then. So the chip did not help at all. Cookie Baby nor McCartney are chipped. They stick around the extended neighborhood, and always find their way back home.
Still holding out hope for you and Tattoo, McG.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on August 31, 2022, 01:55:41 PM
Still no Tattoo.   I am hoping that some lady lured him into her home with some fresh bird or fish, and is keeping him.   Not gonna think about alternatives to that.   I have hope he is alive, in someones home.   I had to cancel his Vet visit this morning.   He wasn't here, so?
No poster around the district to ask if somebody saw him?

Not sure we can follow animals in France with a phone, and I don't care because I don't have one. But I guess nowadays when you find an animal you can see with the vet or his secretary if there is a chip. At least it's the first thing I would to do. And it was what a woman made once in town - I was at the vet cabinet at that time. The doggy had a chip but the vet couldn't keep him (no place), and the woman couldn't stay nor keep him (more in tourist way) and the owner wasn't yet available. We took the dog, on our feet, leave all possibilities to be found by owner and vet at the cabinet (postal adress, land phone).... and finally the owner crossed us just at the foot of our building! The funny part? The secretary of the cabinet didn't recognize the dog of her own sister!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 31, 2022, 03:40:25 PM
The newer chips work great Cleve....better to have a little something then a lot of nothing.

Still got my fingers crossed for you McG....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 31, 2022, 08:25:59 PM
He is HOME!  Alan just walked in with Tattoo in his arms!   Yaaaay!!!!   Oh it's great to see my old man, he looks pretty good, but skinny.  I gave him chicken bits and fresh water.   He dug right in!   Will try  to get him in to his vet tomorrow morning!   One item on my list;  CHIPPED!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on September 01, 2022, 07:26:12 AM
Good News indeed....and glad you're getting Tattoo the "Chip"  ... Less worries....and damn easy to use. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on September 01, 2022, 01:36:58 PM
I just read the good news in the Coffee Shop. I hope it will serve of lesson to Tattoo to don't go outside so much like that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 04, 2022, 01:51:43 AM
I try to keep him inside.   He plans and executes his jail breaks perfectly!   Sad huh?   He can't be expected to understand.  Not even when I have him curled up on my chest, just looking at me, listening.    When he wants out, he goes out.   And it is usually right between my legs!  Sigh.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 04, 2022, 08:19:19 AM
Ah crap!   I forgot all about asking them to chip Tattoo!!@!!!!  Well, he goes back then!   :woohoo:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on September 06, 2022, 07:58:01 PM
OK McG...as promised.....

Picture one is of the new kitty (Whom I've named Cali) debating if it should come over to the food or not because I'm sitting on my steps

Picture two is Cali slowly heading toward Mommy and the food

Picture three is Cali eating and Mom (stripes) looking on

Picture four is Cali well fed and looking so darn cute while "Mom" eats....Temptation is there...but Lorna slaps it down :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on September 07, 2022, 01:43:50 PM
Too cute!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on September 07, 2022, 02:11:05 PM
Yes indeed....as mentioned...Temptation is there....but I know better....Stripes is taking care of this one so I feel better about that...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 08, 2022, 02:21:17 PM
They're both beautiful!   Cali is at that Oh TOO Cute! stage I think.   It's a real pretty tricolor.   


The kids still have ALL my old film photography.  Including prints.   So I can't post a pic of Patches.   She got killed by my first X.   But, not before she had a small litter of GIANT kitts!   Two lived.   One up and ran off.   Oops.   The other, looked like a long hair salmon colored Siamese with white toes all around, with dark tan leggings, ears, face mask.   I gave him to a friend of the family, and she absolutely fell in love with that cat.   Last I saw of him, he was over 20 lbs and was very protective of his human.   He allowed me to touch him, but Kathy said he didn't really like men.   goes like that sometimes.   He knew me from his kitten days, so yeah.
She named him Pepper.   cause of the 'freckles' he had on his sides.  Light gray.   Just tiny dots.  Like, well, Pepper!   All that was over 30 years ago now.    His Queen, Patches, was a small cat.   7 or 8 lbs is all.   She was the best little cat I ever had man.   Wherever I went, whatever I did, she was right there.  She slept on my chest, every night.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on September 08, 2022, 05:37:26 PM
My bedmates include Puss Puss by my legs, Henritta on my legs, and Bootsy cuddled next to me...good thing I don't move much when I sleep LOLOL..Oz will come in every now and then and cuddle with Henrietta which is cute...but a lot of times Henrietta and Oz will cozy up on the back of the couch....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on September 08, 2022, 07:39:12 PM
As mentioned...Oz and Henrietta Relaxing on the back of the couch....had to put the throw the long way since Oz hogs most of it LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 09, 2022, 01:49:18 AM
I love your pileup of Kitties man!   You are definitely the center of their Den too.   I sat a while tonight with Tattoo, washed his face, tried a different way to give him his bitter pill (prednizone).  Take a small piece of chicken breast, slit a side across the grain, stuff his pill in and watch him wolf it down!  Beats trying to pop it into his mouth and get him to swallow just the pill.  That didn't go well at all.   But the stuffed meat trick did!  LOL!   Yes I love dogs too.   And birds, and fish.  I simply have two cats I am totally "In Family"  with, and love them to pieces!   Like you do with  your bunch.   

I see the pic of Oz and Henrietta and it brings up memories of the first cat that ever claimed ME as its own.   

When Baby (her name) first got off her mother, eyes barely open, she ran around the house looking into everything from the POV of a 3" long kitten.  Then she ran back to her momma, Calico (what my mom named a female that wandered into the house and stayed) and had more lunch.   I was like 14 or 15, and I reason Baby claimed me by literally climbing me like a tree and sitting on my shoulder.   She had a very tiny voice.  But she was a very tiny cat too.  At about 2 years old, she weighed maybe 3 to 4 lbs, tops.   And where I went, she did too.  Bicycle?  No problem, she stood on the top frame tubing and front paws on the handlebars.  She LOVED 'going!' like that.  She wasn't allowed in the school, obviously.   I walked to/from school.  She didn't follow me, which is odd to my thinking.  I had taken her the one time, she must have seen enough I guess.  I grabbed my books, she just watched me head out in the morning.  She was waiting for me at the curb when I got in after school.   I never had any creature behave like she did.   I didn't  try to get her to do any of this stuff, she just up and did it.  I'd put my polka dot engineers cap on, and she hopped right up on top.  And often curled up and slept there.   When I enlisted and headed off to boot camp, I asked Mom to look after her for me.   She didn't.   Mom kicked her out.  I miss that little black cat more than any critter I have had through the decades since.   Her and my relationship might be why I tend to be partial to black cats too.  As she was jet black, and short haired.  She had gold eyes. 
I will likely always have a cat in the house with me now.   At least one!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on September 09, 2022, 12:55:09 PM
Was never a PET person because I traveled so much for my job...but Linda loved her dog and cats.  They were hers and not mine and they let me know it LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 10, 2022, 09:27:45 PM
LOL!   Ok, I can't touch that one!  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on September 11, 2022, 01:38:11 AM
The first cat I ever had the pleasure of being chosen by was Sylvester. He was a solid black cat with just three white hairs on his neck under his chin. He and I were great buddies.
There was a pane of glass out in my bedroom window. At night Sylvester would come through that opening and jump across the room from the sill to my bed. First time he did that, I was nearly asleep, and had just barely opened my eyes for the last time of the night. But it was not to be like that! He chose that moment to jump across the room at me. It actually frightened me to full awake. When I saw who it was, I laughed at myself and him.
I moved away for about a year and a half, and when I returned we were living in another house across town. Soon I had the house to myself, as the rest of the family moved to Georgia. I had no idea whether Sylvester was still around or not. One night I was in the living room watching TV, and I heard a scratching at my window. I looked to see who might be pulling a prank on me, as I had some friends that were always doing that. Instead I see it is Sylvester! He had found me all the way across town from where we had once lived. Of course I was so happy to see him and have him back in my life. I was like he knew exactly who he wanted his human to be, and it was really me! He had a wandering soul, but he always returned to me.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 13, 2022, 09:56:01 PM
Tattoo never wanders too far.  Where ever he is, he can hear me holler his name, and yells back.  Heh!  At least, being altered, he is exercising his kitten era exploratory urges and not prowling for a mate.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on September 14, 2022, 01:58:51 AM
Our cat McCartney has that wanderlust too, but he has not been neutered. Even so, there are plenty of females in our area that he can mate with. As he chose us as his forever family, he always comes home for his meals, unless the lady across from us lets him in for the night, and he cannot get out. But in the morning, he shows up here, if that happens.
I think Tattoo knows who loves him best, and that is you, McG. He definitely loves you, I think. It's the same with our male cat, and my Cookie Baby. She has been fixed, and cannot have babies, so McCartney cannot mate with her. Still I think if she could mate, her babies would be quite interesting, if he was the father.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 15, 2022, 06:14:31 AM
When he was carried back in after 4 days out and hungry, Alan laughed when I wheeled into the kitchen.  Tattoo had been moaning and hissing till I did, then it was a constant high pitched "MEOW"!   Heh!   I got some treat out for him, grilled chicken breast bits.  He was steady talking around each bit too.  Yeah, he was glad to see me as I was him!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 15, 2022, 06:27:29 AM
Tattoo was neutered by veterinarian when he got his kitten shots, at 4 months old.   He has never felt that urge, far as I know.   But, when he accepts another cat as his friend, have mercy on the idiot that messes with them.  no matter the species.   For a mid size cat, he can sure pour the mean on in a hurry!   Been many a round 1, never been any round 2.   They either left pronto, or got buried.   Tattoo was taken out of his litter at 2 months.   Then the vet thing, then 4 months of wonderful outdoor living.   Including quite a variety of fresh birds.   REAL fresh.   I've seen him catching em first hand.   He loves it when they 'buzz' him right overhead.   SNACK!  Biggest bird I've seen him catch was a Crow.   This is the jumpingist cat I ever seen!   He can run pell mell straight across the yard, then spring up to miss a pile of whatever and sail some 20 feet or so, then land and keep running without missing a stride.  Just so effortlessly!   I have watched him and thought "Pity he is neutered, he'd make some real cool kittens!" many times through the years.   But that he IS neutered may be why, because of his breeds behavior traits, he is still very much alive today.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on September 15, 2022, 12:57:08 PM
When he was carried back in after 4 days out and hungry, Alan laughed when I wheeled into the kitchen.  Tattoo had been moaning and hissing till I did, then it was a constant high pitched "MEOW"!   Heh!   I got some treat out for him, grilled chicken breast bits.  He was steady talking around each bit too.  Yeah, he was glad to see me as I was him!
That is awesome!
I figure you are like me when it comes to our cats. They make life bearable for us. I love both of my cats with all my heart, and I'm sure you love your cats the same.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 21, 2022, 06:37:10 PM
Yeah, I do.   They are my FAMILY.   Period.   I love them, and they love me.   I have to tolerate some behavior I don't care for, but, I DID accept a F5 hybrid into my life.   Means some things are not Felis Catus Normal.   It all OK though.  They're my furbies!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on September 21, 2022, 08:44:34 PM
Yeah, I do.   They are my FAMILY.   Period.   I love them, and they love me.   I have to tolerate some behavior I don't care for, but, I DID accept a F5 hybrid into my life.   Means some things are not Felis Catus Normal.   It all OK though.  They're my furbies!  :D
Yeah, our cats are our family too. McCartney never gives us much trouble, but Cookie Baby has some habits we would like her to lose. That said, I'd be lost without her. She's the child I never had.
Wow! I just reached my 6000th comment here at FA!  :woohoo:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on September 22, 2022, 10:55:15 AM
Oh heck, I thought you were gonna say '6000th BIRTHDAY', Agent!  LOL!   ;o)   :yeow:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 05, 2022, 02:24:07 PM
Goodness, Mogwai has been sitting just outside my door, hollering at me to let him in.   Can't do that without letting Tattoo in, but can't do that so, I go to THEM!   :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 07, 2022, 09:36:01 AM
Oh, Tattoo has reclaimed his old fave spot, a shelf above the kitchen sink.  Has a LED light on the underside, keeps it a little warm.  Cold is coming now too.  Bet that's why he's suddenly up there!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 07, 2022, 12:23:33 PM
Smart Kitty.....Warming the buns....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 15, 2022, 06:39:21 PM
I am very concerned about Tattoo.  He has lost a lot of weight, has loose movements all the time.   He eats, sparingly.  Though he does like the chicken bits I give him and Mogwai.   He isn't scratching his face as much, but has 'vice' type licking fur off his chest and arms.   Yeah, I worry over them.   They are family.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 15, 2022, 06:51:25 PM
Sometimes Ringworms will cause that loss of hair.  Get some spray and follow the directions and the hair should stop falling out...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 16, 2022, 09:28:02 AM
We already did that TL, that be the fungus pill, they're finished.  The steroid shot and pills didn't help that much, he is still kinda puny and has bouts of the runs.   He is getting lots of rest, and I come in and just bother him to no end...loving on him.  He purrs for a minute then gives me a little hiss so I know HE is satisfied that I loved him enough.   If I mind my manners, he stays where I can see and touch him.   Bother him too much he disappears for a bit.    He came down for some dry food last night, but turned away from the fresh opened chicken bits he usually just gobbles right down.   His 'deposit' last night was a nice regular log, happily!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 16, 2022, 03:50:35 PM
Well, hope all works out ...... Oz just jumped on my keyboard which happened to be on my lap........he's trying to tell me it's close to dinner time....:thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 20, 2022, 11:46:10 PM
This morning, while still getting things ready for the VA med cen visit today, Tattoo jumped up on my knee, clambered into my lap.  Sat upright with back to me.  Means I can love on him now.  So, I stroked him, hugged him to me.  He turned around, stood up and gave me his hugs and purred like crazy.   Then he sat down, curled up and he stayed there till I had to get up, go out to the car.  Wasn't near as long a day there as they have been each visit last 2 weeks, multiple appointments on those visits.  Just the one today.  CAT scans.  Done.  Tattoo has got to be in constant pain right now, his ruined eye bulging out, leaking down his face.  His doctor called me, wanted to do another $300 of labs, but I emptied my debit card to them, and they do not DO installments.  So.  What's the minimum?   $639.20  "Do it."   I can live on ramen noodles the rest of the month.  The Doc suggested that the symptoms tell her, along with his age, he is having thyroid issues.  Said it is quite common with cats.  His issues won't stop with this surgery, this is just damage repair.   Payday we go back for those tests.   The steroids had no apparent effect for him.  I won't make him suffer more of those shots and pills.  Doing more harm than good, I think.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 20, 2022, 11:57:42 PM
I love my boys, and I will do everything I can to help them, to give them the best life they can have.  I owe it to them, I believe that.
I know this:  they would do it for me.     
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 21, 2022, 08:34:19 AM
You're a good person my friend....I have been sending positive thoughts to both you and Tattoo....Hope all turns out well...and know this...you are doing your best...and that's all one can do....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 22, 2022, 07:17:38 AM
I am much relieved now, Tattoo is home and seems fairly well, all considered.  I'm dealing with his 'cone collar' as much as he is.  He has already tested it, tried it for mobility, jumping, etc.  And he gave up, found a way to get comfortable, and slept a lot on the kitchen counter.  Would not stay on the floor.  He did jump to the counter and settle down on it.  Twice.  So I leave him there.   Yep, his right eyeball is gone now,  lids stitched together.  I see the cuts he did they micro stitched.  He seems comfortable and in no pain now.   He purrs for me, I take him in my lap and he gives me my hugs.   He is not hissing or moaning.  So, i go and see him every hour or two, take off the cone, and he EATS a bit, then drinks a while.   Still not in a playful mood though.   I will say I am thankful for his cone, as he wants to scratch a bit, in different spots.   That puts moot to that problem.  For now.  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 22, 2022, 07:19:19 AM
Thank you TL, I am just very defensive of my family is all.   Tattoo is one of my family!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 22, 2022, 08:19:50 AM
Glad Tattoo is doing better....and yes...those cones are a good thing.  I'll keep the positive vibes heading Tattoos way....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on October 22, 2022, 10:38:19 AM
Excellent news about Tattoo, McG. Too bad his eye had to be removed, but to save his life, one must do what is needed. Good to see he is not in pain, and that he is happy to be with you. Keep caring for him, as I am sure you always do. You love your cats like my brother and I love ours.
Yes they are family. For me, Cookie Baby and McCartney are like daughter and son, as neither of us ever had any human children. (I believe I'm impotent, due to a brown recluse bite when I was in my twenties.)
Keep an eye on Tattoo's eye socket, as it could be a target for infection. Whatever the vet told you to do for Tattoo, concerning keeping the site clean, you should do. It is for his well being, as he is for yours. Love him like I know you do, and reassure him when he needs it. I think he is a real trooper, with all he has gone through while you were working to get what was needed done. He probably is having some discomfort, but is braving it out. That is a really good sign that he will get through it all.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on October 23, 2022, 06:49:15 AM
You can call him your little pirate. I'm sure it's confusing for him, but the best is he is back with his Daddy and his brother too.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 23, 2022, 12:16:38 PM
Mogwai is also very happy to have Tattoo back.   He comes and checks on him regularly.  He brought Tattoo his fave stuffie to play with.  Tattoo just swung the cone over and gave Moggie a long quiet look, then laid his head down.   He takes his squirt of medicine pretty well, and doesn't want a drink or food after.   Time to go love him, fix some lunch, and let The Prisoner out of the cone for a bit!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 24, 2022, 04:19:01 PM
Tattoo doing a bit better today.  Took his squirt of antibiotic ok, then ate like a horse.  Nurse came, he trotted in and got in my lap, nurse laughed at him.  He flopped down and slept.  He is still sleeping, and he sure needs it.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 24, 2022, 04:44:06 PM
That's great news....Sleep is a good thing....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 27, 2022, 10:46:06 PM
Yeah it is, TL!   Tattoo is picking a little weight back up now.  He is using the 'puppy pads' I put out for him.  YAAAY!   :woohoo:  Much good that.   He had finally got down and to the food bowl.   Ate like a horse, then over to the water.  Never saw him sucking up water so fast before.  He was thirsty!   Then he slept literally 12 hours.   Got up, used the pad, headed for the food bowl, then water bowl, I squirted him his antibiotic, he went back to sleep.   I am relieved!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 28, 2022, 11:46:23 AM
Great news my friend.  My crew got me up at 5:30AM (Normally they wait till 6AM LOL)  But all is good with them also.  My pretty Bootsy is my lovebug.  She is the most skittish of the three kittens but loves to cuddle up with me at night when I'm playing scrabble on line. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on October 31, 2022, 02:47:29 AM
We all know cats sleep a lot.   Tattoo is still sleeping more than usual.   He is taking his med, and then eating/drinking after.   Leaves a better taste in the mouth, and he has that down pat.  He still has soft stools, and I stay busy cleaning up.  Even with the pet pads, he misses sometimes.   I take off the cone to clean and dry it, and give him a break.  Which he takes advantage of in eating and drinking free of that hindrance.  And then cleaning.   Much less of scratching.  He starts to, then eyes me picking up the cone and stops.   He isn't fighting it, so that's great for him.  Still got draining going on, that isn't so great.   Got to get him back in for that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on October 31, 2022, 08:16:49 AM
All will be fine due to your TLC.....And yes....they raise hell for an hour or so and sleep for 3 hours and then back at it :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 11, 2022, 02:09:59 AM
Yeah, Tattoo is feeling better.  He eats/drinks, then raises hoodoo for half an hour, then curls up on the couch for a few hours.   I am starting to think I may  get my sleep cycle from them.   Sheesh!   So, it's 2am, time for me to konk out a while.  Heh!

Mogwai has his winter on now.   He is fat, like a seal, and so full of energy, he has to play hard to burn some of it off.  His coat is almost like straight hair wool it's so thick now.   All fall he shed like crazy, could see his skin.  Now suddenly POOF!  He's all furball again!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 11, 2022, 09:12:43 AM
Same here with our furballs.  Gotta vacuum every day else you can't tell carpet from cat hair LOLOL......  Glad to hear your Tattoo is feeling better.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 12, 2022, 10:34:09 AM
He is feeling better , eating better, sleeping better.   He somehow managed to strip that felcro collar off.   And as long as he ain't scratching,  I will leave it off.   His right eye socket is sunk in, but the lid is heal closed now.  He seems used to it and not bothered by it.   He does have to swing his head a lot more to see everything though.   He still likes hopping up in my lap, and staying there a while.   I sure do worry about these little folk,  I do.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 12, 2022, 10:37:24 AM
Gotta say it, he ain't feeling up to playing any.  Mogwai has grabbed all their toys and tosses em around ridiculous like, trying to get him interested.  Even a little bit.   He heaves a sigh and lays his ol head down.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 12, 2022, 10:55:01 AM
Takes time and I'm thinking the sight thing has Tattoo a wee bit confused.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 13, 2022, 02:28:08 PM
yuppers...this is what it seems like x 4 LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 14, 2022, 08:07:28 AM
LOL!  Yessir, it'd be like that here too.  IF I was to leave my BR door open!   Since I have this aversion to waking covered with pee pee and/or poo doo . . . I leave that door shut!

I still clean up plenty of it around the place through the day.   Just not in my bedroom.   Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 14, 2022, 11:39:43 AM
Thankfully all 4 of ours love the litter boxes...None have had a "Accident" to date. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 16, 2022, 02:48:38 AM
Ain't no accident to it.  I think it is Tattoo's 'recessive gene' pool awakening and saying "I Wuv Ooh!" being as he IS a hybrid, and some of that be wild kitty (Asian Leopard Cat) and some be good ol American wild alley kitty (stray tabby tomcat) equals, well, a MESS!  LOL!   He gots great teeth though!
The ONE great complaint about BENGALS being their "eliminating waste habits".   I've read from past Bengal parents their beautiful cat has the most atrocious potty habits.   At odd times when in owners lap, they will hike it up and let go right on the owner.   It is supposedly a sign of great affection.    Hmpfh!!!!!  Humbug!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 16, 2022, 04:17:57 AM
He just gave me his raspy MRowr!  which along with his trying to head me off at every pass . . . he was trying to hop in my lap and rub all over me, and have me rub all over him.   This, right after me heading HIM off at da pass of about to poo doo in my lap in the kitchen after feeding him!    So, I am safely alone in my room with the door shut, drinking my coffee and relaxing just a bit.   ;o) 
 :nopanic;
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 16, 2022, 09:11:46 AM
We have two litter boxes because of the number of critters....but here is the strange part....They have designated one for poop...and the other for piss.  And they all follow that system...even Old Oz.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 16, 2022, 08:44:52 PM
That is so cool!  LOL!    Wish mine would do that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 17, 2022, 08:09:59 AM
Lorna and I were amazed by this.  We had nothing to do with it....it's like, they all had a meeting and said...."Now listen...this is how it's going to be" and they all agreed :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 17, 2022, 12:59:42 PM
Ah, amazing stuff.  OZ be the head honcho as he is clearly the elder and Resident En Doma (he da BOSS!)  I think cats do that instinctively.  It is maybe their "DEN" aspect, versus their "Lone Hunter" aspect.   What I KNOW is our furry family members really are a lot more than "science" sez they is!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 17, 2022, 07:28:57 PM
Indeed....each has their own personality...which I love
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on November 17, 2022, 11:14:42 PM
All you cat lovers, do you want to see a great vintage movie about a special cat? I suggest looking up and watching "Three Lives of Thomasina". It is a fantastic movie that is supposedly narrated by the cat herself. It is a fantasy, but a very well written story. Some of you may have already seen it when you were a child. It was released by Disney in 1964, back when the Disney Production company was doing great family oriented movies. I first saw the movie as a child. I finally found it and watched it on YouTube. Even now it is every bit as good as I remember! So drop in at YouTube and find that movie. I'd post a link, but forgot to collect it, as my brother and I had a discussion about it once the movie was over. Still, if you copy the title here and paste it in the search bar at YouTube, you will find it. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 21, 2022, 03:18:13 AM
OK I got it, will watch it when I have a chance!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 21, 2022, 03:22:05 AM
TL, don't they JUST!  LOL!   Tattoo is like The Fonz, while Mogwai is more like The Beaver Cleaver.   UNTIL it's time to catch a mouse/rat/lizard/bug.   Then Tattoo is like 'ho hum so whut?"  While Mogwai is all over it like an NFL Left Tackle!   *WHAM!*  GOTCHA!  Which he then proudly brings right to me.   He gets tons of praise for that.    His victim gets ye olde Flush.   ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on November 21, 2022, 11:01:45 AM
McCartney is the best mouser my brother and I have ever seen! A couple of weeks ago he caught 6 mice and rats within a half hour. We allow him to eat them when he catches them. He doesn't leave any to clean up afterward. Cookie Baby catches some but only eats part of them if she does at all. Usually she lets McCartney have them. Both are good at catching them, but McCartney is like lightning when he finds one. When he knows where one or more are, he holds vigil nearby, knowing they must come out sooner or later. His patience rivals my own, and to be truthful, I think it surpasses mine. I'm quite sure he catches more than we see, because he is just that great a hunter. One day a few months ago, we counted 9 rats he caught. I know they were rats because they were much bigger than the mice he catches. He has gotten fat, but not unhealthy fat, from all the critters he catches and eats. He is a big cat, for a house/alley cat. He is the alpha male in our area. We love that he is so great at doing his job, and he certainly knows we approve.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 21, 2022, 01:49:38 PM
"Three Lives of Thomasina" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057579/) quick review....

Typically it's the females who do the Hunting and Stripes proves that point LOL...She stalks with the best of them.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on November 28, 2022, 02:59:13 PM
Yup, if the Feline Females had to depend on the Feline Males to hunt, they would go hungry a lot more.   But if the pride needs some protection, then that Male is all over it!   I will steadfastly support Tattoo all his remaining days.   For 12 solid years he protected OUR abode, killed rats, mice, snakes, birds, cats and even ran off some dogs.   So, now I got this ratty looking OLD one eye kitty cat.   And I love him, always will.   I am up most nights, from say 1 am on to noon-ish.  That is when the Boys get up, and when I clean up after them, fix them food and fresh water, wash all the dishes, then have a bite myself.  :)  It is when Tattoo wants in my lap for a bit.   He gives me his 'grunt' greeting, then jabbers at me, stands in my lap and jams his head up in my beard and start purring like crazy.   Great way to start a day!  Even though daylight is still hours away.  Heh! 
:java: 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on November 28, 2022, 03:23:37 PM
Yup...sounds like a wonderful way to start the day....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 01, 2022, 01:30:16 AM
"There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, at the end ... of every DAY!"
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 01, 2022, 07:45:36 AM
Indeed....  I'm thinking the aminals will agree.....that's what I call them when they've messed something up.  When I say AMINALS....the ears fold LOLOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 03, 2022, 01:58:57 PM
Tattoo is gone.   He was found about 2:00 am today.  He had been getting worse, and was 13.5 years old.  He and I did spend some time together last night.  All seemed well enough, he was happy, purring.  And now he's gone.
I am really going to miss him.  Mogwai senses something is wrong.  He will miss Tattoo a lot too, he was part of Mogwai's life.  Every single day of it.  More than 10 years!  And almost 13 years of my own life.

Rest in peace old friend.  Go with love! 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 03, 2022, 02:06:41 PM
So sorry to hear that McG. I feel for your lose, like we lost Giro earlier this year. Our babies are our babies and we feel the gap they leave behind them.
At least Tattoo no longer suffer, even if it's never a consolation for us.
I hope all will be fine for Mogwai and that you'll help each other.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 03, 2022, 02:47:47 PM
So very sorry to hear that my friend....My condolences to you and Mogwai.  Always hard when those we love pass away...be it human or pet. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on December 04, 2022, 11:03:14 AM
Tattoo is gone.   He was found about 2:00 am today.  He had been getting worse, and was 13.5 years old.  He and I did spend some time together last night.  All seemed well enough, he was happy, purring.  And now he's gone.
I am really going to miss him.  Mogwai senses something is wrong.  He will miss Tattoo a lot too, he was part of Mogwai's life.  Every single day of it.  More than 10 years!  And almost 13 years of my own life.

Rest in peace old friend.  Go with love!
My condolences, McG. I know you will miss him. I would too, if he had been one of my cats. Like you love him and Mogwai, I love both of my cats.
Do you have any other cats, aside from Tattoo and Mogwai?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 06, 2022, 11:22:35 PM
Hey folks, thank you for your support.   I have just Mogwai now.   While he revels in the extra (now normal) attention, I see him wander to Tattoo's old fave spots and smell them, then lay down in them for a little bit.  I think that is his way of remembering his enjoyment with Tattoo.   I do kinda the same.   I will have just one furry heater against me this winter.  Sigh.   Tattoo is resting, and I think he is at peace now.   I love ya ol man!  G'nite buddy.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 06, 2022, 11:25:24 PM
I may, in time, get another cat.   Maybe kitten?  Cause, if raised in the house, they tend to want to stay in the house. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 07, 2022, 01:38:32 PM
Perhaps a couple of kittens then. It should be easier for 2 when Mogwai will follow Tattoo (in many many many years I hope for him and you).
I'm talking by experience, like when Tania was alone we had Giroflée (8months then) arriving at home. When Tania disappeared, Giro never fully admitted the loss. She was forced to accept Puce, because I took her at home; but, even if with the years Giro loved her sister, there was a distance between them, because of the welcome made by Giro.
Puce was alone since February. A grumpy little lady, becoming more and more grumpy each day. We were thinking to adopt 2 at the same time, for when Puce will disappear that one isn't alone. And, the babies arrived in time. When we were more or less ready, when Puce was ready (but we weren't sure). I think today than 2, and specially 2 babies, was a good choice for her way too, that she simply doesn't reject a lonely cat.

The problem of adoption is when to be ready. And when your little one is ready. But I'm sure you know enough Mogwai to know when he will be ok for a new adventure with furry ones.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 07, 2022, 05:50:25 PM
Well said Aelin....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 12, 2022, 12:03:30 AM
Yeah, that is an excellent point, Aelin.   Right now, what Mogwai wants is me, and plenty of it!   He hates being alone so much.   Well, he talked to me at the bedroom door even with Tattoo in there with him.   He must have felt put off by Tattoo  being sick and sleeping so much. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 15, 2022, 03:50:52 PM
I just spent half an hour tossing his stuffies around for him to catch and maul.  He had a ball wearing me down for a nap!  LOL!  Next time I might set up a smart phone on a selfie stick and record it all!   LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 16, 2022, 09:59:25 AM
I don't have a living room anymore....I have a pet playground.... LOLOLOL   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 16, 2022, 02:26:13 PM
Exactly! And here, my room is no longer mine, we learnt to tell "the Puce's room" :thud: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 16, 2022, 02:48:49 PM
LOLOL....I've got Ozzy on my lap and Bootsy sleeping in her little bed behind me and Puss Puss sleeping in his little bed next to me....only one not in here is Henrietta...She's the Queen Bee and is sleeping on the Living room sofa...

Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 22, 2022, 01:01:37 PM
I had some roast beef n veggies, a hominy corn n tater salad with peach cobbler for dessert.  AND Mogwai hopped up and wanted some Treat right NOW!  So, I cut up some beef and set that out for him.   It didn't go far, and it did get gone!  LOL!   Slowly, he and I are adjusting to the Ol Man's absence.   Sigh.   l
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on December 22, 2022, 01:13:27 PM
Our cats are Lasagna freaks, like Garfield. When we have it they are right there waiting to get some of it! LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 22, 2022, 02:32:47 PM
Puce loves to have a little piece of emmental time to time, one by quarter perhaps. The one we buy hasn't really salt in, and the piece is generally tiny.
We offered several times already to Nenya and Harmonie the occasion to smell the emmental, but they walk back and flee! Good to know we can keep safely our cheese with them :tearlaugh:
They are more interested by being near Puce or to play together when we are eating, than trying to come for having something. Even if tonight it was "flying cats time" on a portion of the table :thud: :tearlaugh:
Puce doesn't try to go on the table while we are eating, we learnt her to respect that. And in fact, no table for her in all time. Except... these last days, she has decided she has teh right to go on the table in the end of the afternoons while waiting for her evening wet food! That surely not helping to try to learn babies not to go on, nor to don't play with the tablecloth when putting on :hypno:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 22, 2022, 02:41:22 PM
LOL...Sounds like our clan.  I have the table decorated with Christmas stuff and Cards we got (Since we never use to the table to eat on LOLOLOL) and I've caught PussPuss on the table a time or two...but .....not a thing is ever moved or knocked down...  I have clips for our tablecloths Aelin...they work MOST of the time LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 22, 2022, 02:50:27 PM
How our table is done, it's not possible to do with clips unfortunately, and the shape of any tablecloth isn't fitting with.
In addition, since the big statue of a dog was sent on the ground in october, no decorations at all in the living room. Not even a tiny Christmas one. And not Christmas tree, or to see it on the ground even before to have ended to be redone (it's a fake one, made in 3 pieces) and without a single piece of decoration. We'll try tomorrow of the day after to add temporarily Christmas decorations just to do photos in the room but even at two humans it's not enough with the babies!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 22, 2022, 03:54:42 PM
I'm still in shock.  I put the Christmas Decorations up on the table and other places and the critters have not disturbed any of them.  Knock on wood.  I have a small fake tree in the office with a Nativity Scene and a Christmas Village all set up and the critters are not allowed in there anyway....so that works out good.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 23, 2022, 12:10:35 PM
Aelin, I remember catching Tattoo teaching Mogwai how to "skate".   He got running fast, then just dropped to his tummy, claws retracted, and slid from living room into dining area.    I recall all those times I should have recorded things, and didn't even think to.  But I sure enjoyed seeing it all!
Yeah, cats DO play like that, and so do dogs!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 23, 2022, 12:12:00 PM
TL, that is boggling.  Young cats that aren't playing with little decorations.   gaaaaahhhh!!!  :yeow:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 23, 2022, 02:28:28 PM
Skating on walls was something Juliette was able to make. She ran after Tania and boum! On the wall from the corridor taking them from kitchen to the entry and she ended her race before Tania. And bang! The same in the other direction. She ran on that wall better than Prince of Persia!
Unfortunately when we had to move, it was something she couldn't do again, the shape of the flat wasn't made for.

Puce and Giroflée never tried in the previous flat, nor here.
But I see nowadays Harmonie playing by running after her brother or the shadows, and she seems to have the skill to do that one day.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 23, 2022, 02:44:56 PM
Oz and the kittens OWN this place now...nothing is ours anymore LOLOL....and yup McG...Mindboggling indeed.  And I'm not going to pat them on the head and say "Good Babies" yet until Christmas is over. LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 24, 2022, 03:59:01 AM
So true, to both of you!    Christmas trees, specially decorated ones, seem to just draw cats attention right in.   Like "Lock ON!" with a missile!   Can't miss it when they are studying the situation and making plans for conquest!   Ha ha ha ha!   :glittery: :all-lit-up:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 01, 2023, 12:51:55 AM
Mogwai and I have enjoyed our New Years Eve.   I ordered a celebration meal from Domino's!   And now, we are full and content.  Heh!  :D
 :ny-fathertime:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 01, 2023, 07:47:25 AM
I had Oz and the kitties in bed with me but I have no idea when I drifted off to slumber land...I woke up at 2:30AM and the TV was still on so I had all intentions of making it to midnight.  If these critters didn't wake me up so early in the morning I'd be able to stay up later :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 05, 2023, 07:35:42 PM
Mogwai slept through it, I was up for it.   I am happy and relieved that no one close to us tried to explode the place with a misplaced boomer.   About 2, I joined Mogwai for a good night sleep.  :o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 06, 2023, 11:48:43 AM
LOL....I figured when I woke up it would just be another day....in another year...meaning I made it thru another year...which is a good thing...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 10, 2023, 10:28:58 AM
It's always a good thing, TL!   Always.   Even if it takes an hour to sit up and get outta bed!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 13, 2023, 10:22:57 AM
Good Morning from Oz, Henrietta, PussPuss and Bootsy....and me of course....and maybe Lorna if she's awake.  Yes, look at the time...and then say "Hummmmmm"
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 14, 2023, 04:31:05 AM
Isn't Lorna kinda old to be called "KID" nowdays?  ;o)  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 14, 2023, 07:01:39 AM
They are ALWAYS your "Kid" no matter the age :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 15, 2023, 02:06:18 AM
Good Point!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 24, 2023, 07:26:47 AM
I opened the front door a little while ago, so Mogwai could see the snowfall clearly.  He did, and his nose started quivering like jello, getting a whiff of whatever was outside.  He did not venture off the back of the couch though.   That gust of cold air got to him.  Heh!   But that satisfied him, he isn't upset at the strangeness outside.   Specially as I was laughing about it.   :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 24, 2023, 08:59:04 AM
Oz and the kids get a kick of watching it come down....but when I bring a little in for them to feel....they want NO part of it.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 24, 2023, 02:54:37 PM
Look for one of the music lover cats :tearlaugh:
https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/black-cat-horror-movie-music/?gg_source=ttg&gg_medium=house&gg_campaign=clickformore
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 25, 2023, 03:07:18 PM
LOLOLOL.....That is funny and then some...but I liked the sounds LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 26, 2023, 05:04:28 PM
Look for one of the music lover cats :tearlaugh:
https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/black-cat-horror-movie-music/?gg_source=ttg&gg_medium=house&gg_campaign=clickformore

That was great, Aelin!   Loved the cats voice too!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on January 26, 2023, 07:58:19 PM
Hi Guys.  This is a good/bad one.  Unfortunately, had to book my border collie/shepard mix on the Rainbow Bridge today.  Doc suspected cancer and lord knows what.  Couldn't keep his chow down and was loosing weight like crazy.

Anyway, got home after it was all over and it was time to take the others out for their evening constitutional.   Kibitz - the chaweenie - was looking back to see if Paddy was coming.  Opened the door and he then ran out into the laundry room, only to look back to see if Paddy was just late on the join up.  He then gave me a look as if to say WTF Dude????????  Even little Princess, my little black and tan chihuahua was looking around for Paddy.  As well as Tinkerbelle.  In any case, we're all back inside and the little ones are still looking around for Paddy.
OY!!!!! :sadder:
 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 27, 2023, 06:34:04 AM
I'm sorry to read about Paddy. The others will probably look for for some times - Giro looked weeks after for Tania. But at least they are 3 and they can count on each other to continue. And during that time angel Paddy will watch on them  :peek:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 27, 2023, 07:01:35 AM
So very sad to hear that and yes,  it's hard when we have to put a pet down so they won't suffer anymore.  But you, the family and the other pets will forever have Paddy in your heart. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on January 27, 2023, 10:52:04 PM
So true, my friends.  So very true.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 28, 2023, 04:05:10 AM
I so feel for you all, HS.  I know just how terrible a choice that one is you had to make.   Almost did that for Tattoo too, but he passed before I could take him into the vet.   Mogwai still looks for him.  Hi probably always will.  Was born with Tattoo looking over him, and near 11 years later Tattoo is gone.
We all know our little friends don't live as long as we do.   It still hurts when they leave us.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on January 28, 2023, 02:13:36 PM
Yeppers.  Unfortunately, I have had the (mis)fortune of having to do that on far too many occasions.  Being the oldest male in the family after dad passed, it fell on me to do the right thing.  I won't bore ya'll with a roll call of the honored dead, but there have just been far too many.  As McG said, we live longer than they do and that's the price we pay for all their love and affection.  And wouldn't have it any other way.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Hipshot on January 28, 2023, 02:15:20 PM
That, I think is enough maudlin thoughts.  I will now get off my soapbox and return control of the channel.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 02, 2023, 08:59:28 AM
Just watched a couple programs on Netflix about pets that were pretty darn good.  The one on cats was great, lots of smiles in that one.  The one, Secret Lives of Our Pets, that one covered both feline and canine pets right well.  I enjoyed that one the most!  I think Mogwai did too!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 03, 2023, 02:23:14 PM
I love watching them before I start my day out...makes me cheerful for a moment or two LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 04, 2023, 02:32:59 PM
When we are watching TV together, and Mogwai gets tired of watching it, he turns around and faces the sofa.  Then he konks right out.  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 04, 2023, 02:41:03 PM
Believe me...very seldom so the 4some "Knockout" at the same time.  I always have one looking for trouble while the other 3 sleep :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on February 04, 2023, 04:35:29 PM
My cat "Sally" loves to jump up and stand in front of the computer monitor, if I try to look over her she stretches her back so I still can't see...So I stop what I am doing and give her a big rub and tell her she's wonderful, she then gives me this look as if to say "about time" you acknowledged me, then hops down!



Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 04, 2023, 05:07:18 PM
LOL....Sounds like our Henrietta....she knows what she's doing every step of the way...yet..pretends she has no clue why you're talking to her....then, when she's tired of ignoring you...she does what's asked of her :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on February 04, 2023, 05:43:54 PM
Yep exactly that, they sure are smart
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 07, 2023, 09:41:50 AM
Sounds just like a lot of human kids, TL!   LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 07, 2023, 09:42:37 AM
Hiya Sanbie!   Good to see ya all over the Attic!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on February 07, 2023, 04:13:34 PM
Hiya McGrandpa...Yeah I'm like a bug crawling everywhere...just don't go squashing me! lmao
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 08, 2023, 07:26:35 AM
Yes indeed McG....No matter the age :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 18, 2023, 07:40:50 PM
IT is a total trip sometimes, to be sitting in the living room, happily engrossed in whatever movie I was watching.  Then seeing Mogwai go charging around playing with whatever toy has caught his fancy at the time.  Batting it back and forth like a hockey player with stick and puck on the run.  Or tossing a stuffie way up and catching it midair like he can fly.   Just glad he ain't trying to get me to play by landing on me!   12 pounds of puddy tat, WHAM!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 18, 2023, 07:42:26 PM
Ah, he DOES hop up on the bed, then jump up to land all 4's on my belly.   Instant I'M AWAKE ALREADY!  He thinks that is great fun.  GAH!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 18, 2023, 11:39:16 PM
Cookie Baby jumps on my stomach sometimes with a fair amount of force; almost like getting punched in the gut. Thing is, it always happens when I least expect it, and I think that's the way she has it all planned. LOL
When they want something to eat, either Cookie Baby or McCartney will get on my tummy and knead it. We call that making biscuits. Until I get up and do what they want, the activity will continue, with small breaks in between.
Now they are doing a tag team thing, switching out with each other. I sense a bit of urgency to have their bellies filled. LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 19, 2023, 12:58:40 AM
Yeah I think they really do plan stuff out that way!   They're something else!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 19, 2023, 08:45:30 AM
All the critters are already napping after a morning of raising hell...and it's not even 9AM LOL. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 19, 2023, 09:16:07 AM
We knew that Cookie Baby would continue to show her intelligence throughout her life, as she displayed her smarts when we first got her at abut the age of 2 months. It is why she has Cookie in her name, because she really is a Smart Cookie. I capitalized those words purposefully here, because she makes me proud of her. The fact that she is always finding new ways to show her love for me does my heart a lot of good. And even though she is the oldest pet I have ever had (she turned 13 around the 10th of April), she does not seem to be have the age issues I was expecting by now. That makes me even more happy and proud.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on April 19, 2023, 09:32:44 AM
We've got a house full that need loving equally.....and they are all our favorites LOL.  But Ozzy is KING of the Castle.  He's the oldest...maybe not the wisest....but certainly the oldest.  The smartest one of the bunch is Henrietta....and she's also the biggest trouble maker :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 19, 2023, 12:08:27 PM
Your Cookie Baby is blessed, Agent!   Enjoy her to the max man!
Some cats are simply healthier than most.    Obviously, Tattoo wasn't that healthy.  He was the product of selective breeding a HYBRID.   In Texas, there are strict laws governing breeding of domestics from a wild breed.   Like the Bengal, bred from Asian Leopard Cat with a well established domestic breed such as Egyptian Mau or Abyssinian.   Public availability for these begins at F4.   Tattoo was an F5, and the queen his litter came from had genetic related health issues.  All breeding with her stopped soon after Tattoo's litter.    Tattoo was the longest lived of that entire line.    He was only 13 1/2 when he died.   And, he was one of the smartest cats I've ever known.   He was also loyal to a fault.   He didn't care for other people touching him at all.  But ME?  He demanded and even craved MY holding him, petting and scritching him.   His normal greeting for other humans was hissing.   His normal greeting for dogs was spitting like a machine gun.   I never knew him to deliberately scratch a human.   He never bit one.   Not even me.     Yep, I miss the ol man.   Sigh.

Tattoo sitting in laundry basket.  Never figured why, but he really liked sitting in this basket often.  Even dragging clothes out of it TO sit in it!
Tattoo sleeping on desk in 2009.    Pretty clear where his name came from, I think.

Our little Buddy, Mogwai, at about 6 or 7 weeks old. 

 :thumb_up: :cool: :mwah: :happydance:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 19, 2023, 12:51:26 PM
Tattoo was a beautiful cat McG. Thanks for the pic. Mogwai is cute in his baby pic.
Yes I will enjoy whatever time I and Cookie Baby have left with each other. She is so loving, I cannot deny her when she wants some cuddle time.
Gotta figure out how to move pics from my smartphone to my PC. I can then share Cookie Baby's best photos with you all. I'll be looking into it with a bit of online research.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 19, 2023, 11:49:34 PM
If it IS a smartphone, it connects to PC via USB port for Data and for Charging.  Some auto select function, others like mine make you manually select the function.  Stoopid Google droid.   Anyway, with it plugged into the PC via the USB port, open a File Explorer, then look toward the top of the tree on the left.  Should see the device in there.   When you expand the device, it should show you at least a folder named something like 'Internal Shared Storage', with some subfolders.   One should be 'DCIM' and should have a folder named 'CAMERA'.   Bob's yer uncle!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 20, 2023, 12:27:54 AM
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy A51 - 5G. I have unlimited data, and yes it is protected against malware and other hacking attempts. It is also my connection for my PC to the internet. With unlimited data, why not?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 20, 2023, 04:11:34 AM
I have unlimited data too, but that does NOT include any connected devices.   Such as with a HotSpot.    I can stream and download to my hearts content *IF* everything is saved to the phones internal storage.  Later all the stuff can be transferred to the PC.   But the PC cannot do the downloading to itself through the phone.  (HotSpot).   I derailed all that quibble talk by just getting the High Speed Home Internet, and using a stand alone Gateway, then having all my machinery connect by WiFi to the new Gateway.   Works a treat man!   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on April 20, 2023, 04:19:44 AM
I can stream movies in HD all day long, every day, if I want.   And, sometimes, I DO!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on April 20, 2023, 12:06:15 PM
I have unlimited data too, but that does NOT include any connected devices.   Such as with a HotSpot.    I can stream and download to my hearts content *IF* everything is saved to the phones internal storage.  Later all the stuff can be transferred to the PC.   But the PC cannot do the downloading to itself through the phone.  (HotSpot).   I derailed all that quibble talk by just getting the High Speed Home Internet, and using a stand alone Gateway, then having all my machinery connect by WiFi to the new Gateway.   Works a treat man!
My phone service actually allows me to do all those thing yours will not allow. I can download to my PC using the Mobile Hotspot on my phone. If the signal coming through is strong, the speed of downloads is acceptable. Not saying it is the best, but I get through with it. Our biggest problem here in High Falls Georgia is the distance we are from the nearest cell phone tower. The signal fluctuates in strength due to that distance. If I get 3 bars on my signal strength, I'm doing good, but stronger is better.
Not sure what is allowed by other carrier companies, but my plan through T-Mobile does allow this.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 01, 2023, 06:25:03 PM
TMobile IS my carrier, Agent.   It's them wot won't allow that stuff for me.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on May 01, 2023, 08:22:44 PM
TMobile IS my carrier, Agent.   It's them wot won't allow that stuff for me.
Surprise! My carrier is TMobile also. It may be the plan I am on that allows me to use my smartphone as a hotspot. As you have unlimited data, I have to wonder why you don't have what I have.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 10, 2023, 07:21:21 AM
After that post, I had to pay my bill, so I perused all those plans to see what was which.   I have Magenta MAX 55 + but also have the high speed Home Internet.   I CAN use a hotspot, but after x number of gigs they cut its bandwidth back.   I have Unlimited Everything I thought. So it must be their 'farmed out' workers in the Philippines did not get the memo.  :sure:   That is where the Customer Service calls have been going for a couple years now.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 11, 2023, 10:30:51 AM
Oh Carp!  All that stuff was in THE WRONG THREAD!   GAAAHHH!  :yeow:

On Topic again:    Mogwai is finally adjusting to being the ONLY cat in the house.   He still doesn't like the outdoors.  Unless it's me that stepped out the door and left it open.   He suddenly just pops out with a big cat smile on.  Mouth open a bit, tongue out, eyes open big, ears and tail straight up.  Cat smile!   Then he comes and rubs on my legs.   We both miss Tattoo.   I am glad Mogwai and I have each other!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 11, 2023, 10:35:12 AM
That is a good thing for sure McG.  Our newest addition, Cali, is still not use to the idea that she doesn't have to try and beat everyone up to get some dinner or play.  She's coming around slowly but surely.  She loves Oz but not to keen on the other three as of yet.  But then again...it depends on the day.  There are times I see her cuddled up with Bootsy or Puss Puss.  Not so much with Henrietta....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on May 11, 2023, 01:19:04 PM
Hey, Henrietta is a rival and Henrietta must think the same about Cali :tearlaugh:
At least they don't bite each other.

On a funny note. Harmonie likes to "meow" with a weird angle of the mouth when seeing birds outside. It's swallows time, and they made nests on the buildings around. Yet less than the other years I'm afraid.
Nenya looks them with attention but says nothing. Harmonie makes sometimes noises like if you have something in plastic around :tearlaugh: Even her brother looks her with an astonished face!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 11, 2023, 02:57:12 PM
LOL.....that is totally funny Aelin.....

And when they fight here it's like a swat fest.  I call it "Bitch Slapping" one another.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 12, 2023, 11:22:00 PM
Got the new window AC installed, Mogwai has been wide eye curious about that.  He's rubbed all over the face, the remote, so he's happy it's ours for sure.  That's how they claim things.  Put their smell on them.  So the new portable washer and drier arrived too.  Got em out of their boxes, and started making The Place for them.  There is an unused 'stacking rack' for apartment size stackable units here, will use that too.  I can just see it now, Mogwai 'nesting' on top of the dryer!  Ummm but he has to get UP that high first.  We will see what he does :)  He does like having New Things come in.  Not people, things.  I wonder if this is what the experts meant by Enrichment of their lives?  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 12, 2023, 11:25:09 PM
Swat Fest.   Makes me think of the two kittens beside the house under the old car.  The sun comes out, they do too.  And those two are constantly AT each other!   They are so CUTE too.   I wants em!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 13, 2023, 07:53:28 AM
Our Cat and kittens claim anything new that comes in here....it's theirs....not ours....and if we want to use it...we have to be nice :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 18, 2023, 02:35:15 AM
Like with my new little apt size washer & drier.   Mogwai hops up on the dryer, stretches out and pretends to nap.  Alan tried to get him to move, and got hissed at!   First time I ever heard Mogwai hiss in his entire 11 years of Life!  :D 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on May 18, 2023, 09:34:32 AM
That seems fair to me LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on May 20, 2023, 10:44:07 AM
I chuckled all night long over that one!   :D  heh heh heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 04, 2023, 09:54:16 AM
This is my Cookie Baby, about whom  you have heard much. She is 13 now, and still quite active in playing. She is always amazing me with her high level of intelligence, finding her own ways to do things. She loves me with all of her heart, and I love her with all of my heart.
We are now living in a better place, me, my oldest brother, his cat McCartney, and my Cookie Baby. Got some adjusting to do, but we are making it work for all of us. The cats are quite happy to be with us, and  that makes us happy.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on June 04, 2023, 01:08:12 PM
Glad to read that everyone is happy with the move!
Your Cookie Baby remind me of my Tania physically, even if I bet she is must "taller" than Tania was (our cats of Bretagne are the tiniest at least in our country, and she had a strong line in her veins).
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 04, 2023, 01:39:12 PM
What a cool looking kitty Agent....and I'm sure all will enjoy the new digs....

Someone was watching over all of you and is smiling also.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 04, 2023, 01:42:48 PM
Glad to read that everyone is happy with the move!
Your Cookie Baby remind me of my Tania physically, even if I bet she is must "taller" than Tania was (our cats of Bretagne are the tiniest at least in our country, and she had a strong line in her veins).
Cookie Baby always has a deadpan expression,even when she is playing. It's like she is thinking "Been there! Done that!" She is definitely an extremely smart cat,but where and when did she get all of her experience from? She has never been anywhere but with me, and I  don't remember any of those experiences  If she could talk, I'm sure she would have a lot to tell me about!  LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 04, 2023, 01:46:20 PM
What a cool looking kitty Agent....and I'm sure all will enjoy the new digs....

Someone was watching over all of you and is smiling also.
I think  you're right!
BTW, she is in my lap right now.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 06, 2023, 04:02:38 AM
That is wonderful news, Cleve!  Thanks for filling us in as to how everyone is doing after the Big Move!   How you speak of your Cookie Baby reminds me much of both Tattoo and Mogwai.    I KNOW that neither of them have been 'off and away' far enough to see many of the things they figure out and *DO*!   Yet, they sure do them!    I figure they maybe inherit some low level memories genetically?  Whatever, they are sure smart critters, and also so loving, compassionate and tender.   As well as vicious horrendous fighters when need be!   I've seen some of Tattoo's fights.   I've seen bigger animals cowed, scared and run off as well as left for dead.   Tattoo loved living in peace, with everything and everyone!  But, jump on him...and it's ON...and over in mere seconds.  Hawks and owls, other cats, dogs...he ate the birds.   Killed the cats attacking HIS domains residents...and killed or scared off the dogs.  Tattoo, well, he kept the peace.   Don't ever say a neutered male is a wuss.    Tattoo was neutered at 4 months old.   And he was THE Top Cat of the whole area!   LOL!  That boy loved being ON me, like Cookie Baby does you, Cleve! 
Mogwai and I are working out how we wanna live together.   He wants lots of my attention, but he still won't sit in my lap!   He WILL lie down right on my arm rest, and purr himself to sleep.  That's OK with me, whatever makes my buddy happy!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 06, 2023, 09:56:45 AM
Very rarely do I see this happen...but the clan has gathered in one place
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 06, 2023, 09:58:17 AM
And even more astonishing....Our Newbie Calie feeling relaxed enough to cuddle with the big fella Oz.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 06, 2023, 10:43:26 AM
That is wonderful news, Cleve!  Thanks for filling us in as to how everyone is doing after the Big Move!   How you speak of your Cookie Baby reminds me much of both Tattoo and Mogwai.    I KNOW that neither of them have been 'off and away' far enough to see many of the things they figure out and *DO*!   Yet, they sure do them!    I figure they maybe inherit some low level memories genetically?  Whatever, they are sure smart critters, and also so loving, compassionate and tender.   As well as vicious horrendous fighters when need be!   I've seen some of Tattoo's fights.   I've seen bigger animals cowed, scared and run off as well as left for dead.   Tattoo loved living in peace, with everything and everyone!  But, jump on him...and it's ON...and over in mere seconds.  Hawks and owls, other cats, dogs...he ate the birds.   Killed the cats attacking HIS domains residents...and killed or scared off the dogs.  Tattoo, well, he kept the peace.   Don't ever say a neutered male is a wuss.    Tattoo was neutered at 4 months old.   And he was THE Top Cat of the whole area!   LOL!  That boy loved being ON me, like Cookie Baby does you, Cleve! 
Mogwai and I are working out how we wanna live together.   He wants lots of my attention, but he still won't sit in my lap!   He WILL lie down right on my arm rest, and purr himself to sleep.  That's OK with me, whatever makes my buddy happy!  :)
Can't recall if you have uploaded one, but I'd love to see a picture of Mogwai.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 06, 2023, 10:46:36 AM
Luffie, that's a fine troup of kitties you have there. from what I can see, you have 5 beauties there. Thanks for sharing your photos.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 06, 2023, 11:02:59 AM
Yup...4 beauties and one little terror....But Calie will calm down after a bit...as seen in these two RARE instances :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 07, 2023, 04:28:17 AM
Very rarely do I see this happen...but the clan has gathered in one place

Heeeyyy!  Very cool!   Cali must be the Calico.   The fat cat to the right of her must be OZ?!!   The rest, I haven't a clue!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 07, 2023, 04:29:48 AM
And even more astonishing....Our Newbie Calie feeling relaxed enough to cuddle with the big fella Oz.

Aw that is so nice!    And she is looking straight at the camera too.  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 07, 2023, 04:46:39 AM
OK, here are a couple of Mogwai.    In the one with orange, he hopped in my chair, to keep my seat warm of course.  And the other, classic Sphinx pose, his favorite.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 07, 2023, 04:48:13 AM
This fella knows "kneading" well.  He does it with all four feet!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 07, 2023, 07:12:57 AM
He is most certainly a handsome fella.....Great shots Mc-G.   As for my clan.....  You know Oz...he's the oldest and biggest of the group...and yes...Cali is our calico...then you have....in no particular order....Puss Puss, Bootsy, and Henrietta....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on June 07, 2023, 07:29:09 AM
A lot of beautiful and cool cats guys!  :peek:
It's never easy to have 2 cats together for photos, so a team like you have TL, it's even harder!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 07, 2023, 08:31:51 AM
They play together and sleep together a lot....when Oz tires of her....he lets her know...sometimes politely...most times not LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 07, 2023, 10:19:43 AM
McG, Mogwai appears to have a lot of Siamese in him, and he is definitely handsome! I'm sure he loves you a lot.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 07, 2023, 06:44:56 PM
Yup he sure looks Siamese.   I have read that Siamese comes from a Bombay female, and a tabby male.   BUT, Siamese are slender, smallish fine boned cats.   Mogwai is NOT smallish, fine boned or slender!  LOL!   If his dad is which one I think he is, he was even bigger.  Mogwai's mom looked like a Bombay, but were these cats what they looked like?   NAY my friend, they are simply Yard Cats!   :D  When one of them looks like it's Siamese, well ya just can't fake it huh?  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 07, 2023, 06:47:20 PM
The actual Siamese cats Ive known were also temperamental.   OR even downright mental!   Mogwai is pretty laid back, easy to get along with, smart and curious about anything different popping up in his Domain.   Oh, um, he's calling for me now.   Gotta go!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 07, 2023, 08:08:56 PM
We had a Siamese female that was really temperamental named Frosty. She had bad sinusitis and it killed her; you don't want to know the particulars there. I learned that most Siamese cats do have inherent health issues, and a lot have really bad ones like she did. Yes they are all skinny cats, so Mogwai is, thankfully for you, not one. He looks quite healthy in size and demeanor. I expect you will have a few more years with him.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 08, 2023, 06:20:56 PM
I sure hope so!  In this pic I am having the daily topical oxygen therapy, and Mogwai takes his usual spot on the arm of the sofa.  He likes to put one or both front paws out and touch me while he sleeps.  And he is totally out in this pic.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 08, 2023, 06:47:54 PM
Absolutely and totally out of it indeed.  Looks to be a very sound sleeper....Cool shot...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 08, 2023, 10:26:33 PM
Our cats find the oddest and most uncomfortable looking places to sleep! I've found Cookie Baby sleeping with her head hanging off the edge of my table! If I did that, I'd have the biggest crick ever in my neck!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 09, 2023, 12:27:33 AM
For sure, Agent!  LOL!    And TL, he seems a super sound sleeper.   But the slightest thing unusual and *POP* wide awake.   Tattoo was the hardest sleeping cat I ever knew.   I would see him slide off the desk and hit the floor THEN wake up.   What a jolt!   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 09, 2023, 07:47:23 AM
Oz is our sleeping beauty.  But then again...he is the oldest.  Bootsy is a close second....she's my cuddlebug.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 14, 2023, 10:40:47 AM
Speaking of sleeping cats, check this picture out! I took it just a couple of days ago. Cookie Baby is to the left, and McCartney must have thought she'd make a good pillow for his head! LOL
This is a rare thing for these cats, and this one was too cute to pass up photographing!
:ifonly: :odd: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 14, 2023, 12:03:09 PM
LOLOL....Cute Shot indeed....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 14, 2023, 12:48:19 PM
She is usually slapping at him when he wants to be near her. Only rarely does she allow him to sleep against her. She is spade, but he has not been neutered. Some day soon we will have him neutered, maybe. I think she smells other females on him, and disapproves, even though she cannot mate. Sad really because I think the two of them could produce some beautiful offspring if she was able to have babies.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on June 14, 2023, 01:52:49 PM
That's a cool photo Agent!
Because of the beginning of their relationship, Puce never accepted that Giro came close to her. No trust in her sister. 2 or 3 times Giro found a way to put herself against Puce without awaken her; but as sooner as Puce woke up, she left.
Despite their fights, Nenya and Harmonie are able to sleep together. They are currently, head against head. And I'm hearing Eleni isn't sleeping and must be doing follish things :tearlaugh:

I wanted also to say. I heard - maybe it's just a 'urban legend' - that tortoise scale cats can't have babies in most of the existing cases. I can't tell for Tania or Giroflée, who never had that occasion. Tania ended with her uterus removed after a sudden infection when she was around 7 years old. I know her calico cousin had babies with plenty problems that she killed herself; and the Mom of her cousin had issues to feed her babies. Perhaps just a thing in the family.
I know also once last year I crossed here a future mom cat which was tortoise scale: big belly and all signs for sooner babies. Unfortunately, she was afraid by humans. She was on the way for my quarter, but I never saw her again.
Of course, that doesn't prevent us to imagine a result for our beloved babies if they could be little couples.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 14, 2023, 02:49:27 PM
I love cats, tri-color and calico too!   Plenty of variety in the calico's here.  And they all have babies, no problems with them having or raising them.   There are a few new kittens out by my porch, and they are friendly and will come to me, in curiosity.
Cleve, y'alls cats are gorgeous!   And Cookie Baby is a real sweetheart man.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 14, 2023, 04:12:17 PM
McCartney is the one I call the Gentleman Cat. He actually has manners like that of a Classic Gentleman; treating Cookie Baby like a Lady. It is obvious to my brother and I that he loves her, and just as obvious that she loves him too. They have a strange relationship you don't often see between a male and a female cat. I think part of it is that she is fixed and he is not. I could be wrong though.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 18, 2023, 08:49:29 AM
Haven't see that with any of mine, but my baby sis had a spayed female named Babers, and the 'family' had a whole male named Acer;  the two hit it off great with the best Him/Her fights ever!  After a few months, she settled down and accepted his presence around her.  Couple years drift by and they're sleeping with/on each other.  And, if he didn't come find her, she went and found him.  And plopped right on him.  And he just purred.   He was a few years younger than she.   When she passed at about 15, he was devastated.  He barely drank or ate, became a furry bag of bones.   And finally, he grieved himself to death.  They are buried side by side in the little pet cemetery behind the garage.  Now, Tattoo rests beside Acer.   Suddenly I am missing ALL of them.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 18, 2023, 08:53:30 AM
I think the dynamic  between an un-neutered male and spayed female can be amazing, Cleve.   I haven't seen many of these take up with each other like that.  But, those that do, all seem to behave like this.   Pretty impressive.   Mostly, the fixed female steers clear of the unaltered males!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 18, 2023, 09:01:22 AM
I cannot say how old McCartney is, as he came to us looking for a good forever family. We took him in immediately. I believe he is probably around 7 or 8 years old, but really can't tell for sure. I do know he is younger than Cookie Baby, as she is 13 years old. The two of them do sleep together every once in a while, so long as she is in the mood to tolerate him against her. That last picture I uploaded was the most recent time they were sleeping together. There have been times when a third family member was included; a human one named L. Cleveland Major! (Me!) LOL I look at it as an honor to be included.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 18, 2023, 09:04:44 AM
I think the dynamic  between an un-neutered male and spayed female can be amazing, Cleve.   I haven't seen many of these take up with each other like that.  But, those that do, all seem to behave like this.   Pretty impressive.   Mostly, the fixed female steers clear of the unaltered males!
Yeah, which makes the relationship between these two special. I think it is the fact that McCartney treats her like a Lady, as he is a true little Gentleman!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 18, 2023, 03:49:37 PM
When a cat chooses to add their human to their innermost DEN, it IS a special honor.   TO have a cat enjoy sleeping with or even on the human is wonderful.   I have had a couple cats that did that.   Tattoo was the last one that loved sleeping right on my chest.   Mogwai likes to stay beside me about an hour, then he just has to BE somewhere else for a while.  He doesn't give the signs of 'restless'.  Just gotta go make the rounds of HIS domain.  He KNOWS this place is his!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 18, 2023, 04:33:15 PM
Our cats take turns sleeping on my chest. It lasts maybe 2 hours, and that's fine. any longer and the weight on my chest would aggravate my asthma. Still I like that they want to be near my heart. I think it reassures them that I'm doing well.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 19, 2023, 11:31:43 AM
Ahh right, that's it, they feel our heartbeat!   Mogwai sleeps in the crook of my arm, for about an hour.  Then hops down and goes elsewhere.  I found he comes back in to check on me regularly though.   I mean, heck, who woulda thought it?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 19, 2023, 11:59:18 AM
I am not the only person saying this. I figured it out long ago with Sylvester. He did that a lot too. Other cat owners have noticed it too, and the only reason cats do that which makes sense is that they are either feeling or listening to our hearts. I find that to be even more evidence that they love us!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 21, 2023, 12:36:37 AM
AGREED!   :-)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 25, 2023, 03:39:48 PM
I awoke much earlier than I'd figured, when I laid down, yesterday.   A great sleep was rudely interrupted by the hard voices of two dogs and the growls, spits and hisses of a cat.   MOGWAI!   I snap awake, dress and roll out of my room as fast as I could, and caught "the idiots" two dogs IN my home (not ever allowed!).   And they had my Mogwai pinned to the floor, and he was soaked.   Dunno how he got so wet, the toilet was closed, and his water bowl can't hold that much water.   Both dogs reacted nicely to me bellowing NOOOOO!.  I called Alan, he was at hospital sitting with my sister.  He came home to help me clean up the mess the dogs made.   And poor Mogwai was absolutely terrified!   I calmly told Alan if either got in the house again, I would kill it, then beat its owner.   MY cat is MY FAMILY.   I don't harbor ill will against animals at all.  I DO against the humans that are the cause of these incidents.   They/someone opened the door for those dogs.   Warning levied.   
I washed Mogwai up with a cloth and warm water twice.   Whatever it was in his fur, is largely gone now.   Dog slobber I think.   That he'd  just made himself submissive, saved his life, in this case.   He has finally started acting like himself  now.   He plays with my hand while I am petting him.    He decidedly does not like dogs now that he has had his first personal taste of them.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on June 25, 2023, 03:57:38 PM
Poor Mogwai!
For the future, you'll probably have to close with keys your door even when you are at home (and key staying inside), because it's a risk that situation is back again. I know it's not pleasant to do that, but believe me when I tell you that avoids to any idiot trying your door to come in without invitation.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on June 25, 2023, 04:14:11 PM
All I can say is "Some Peoples Kids"   Right MG....No matter their age...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 26, 2023, 01:35:32 AM
McG, I tend to act very quickly when a dog goes after my cat. The dog, if it lives through what I do to it, always learns a quick lesson! One that it won't soon forget!
With Sylvester I did not have to worry, because he declared war on dogs that are like that. Obviously, there must have been an encounter that made him like that. All one had to do to get attacked by him was go after him. He'd turn the tables on the dog quickly and teach it the amount of damage sharp claws can do. Even big normally mean dogs were afraid of him.
I've had 3 male black cats I named after the Loony Toons cartoon character. There was another male cat that chased my Sylvester the 3rd into my home, and at the time I was living with a group of friends, some of whom I worked with. They witnessed how quickly I responded to the situation, jumping up, grabbing the other cat by the scruff of his neck, opening the front door, and throwing that cat a long distance away from our home. All of that happened in about 15 seconds from start to finish. All of my friends looked at me with a lot more respect after that. They knew that I would take whatever action I had to, in order to protect me and mine! I told them that they too were under my protection, and that if it became necessary, I would do no less to protect them also, against all comers!
When it come to keeping my people and pets safe, I don't play; I get serious very fast!
I'm happy that Mogwai was not hurt seriously, but if I were you, I'd report those dogs to animal control. In the place I am living now, certain breeds of dog are not allowed, because of their tendencies to often be mean dogs. The number one breed not allowed is the Pit Bull. I've been a victim of one when I was a very young kid. It burst out of the door of its owners apartment and attacked me, chewing up my left forearm. I've only ever met one pit bull that was a sweet dog, which tells me it has to be the owner in most cases that is at fault for any dog being mean. Yes there are some dogs that apparently cannot be trained, but then there are also some people that appear to be able to train any dog! Usually though, the demeanor of a dog kept as a pet, is due to how that dog is treated by its owner. If the dog is mean, you can almost bet that its master is too!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 26, 2023, 04:34:09 AM
Tattoo was a War Cat on dogs too.   If they behaved themselves, no problem.  If not, WHAM!   Mogwai didn't grow up outdoors.  He has always been an indoor cat, and a gentle one at that.   So when two rowdy dogs live in the back yard, you get used to that level of noise.  But when it was TOO loud and at the same time I hear Mogwai yell, I was UP and headed for any trouble there.   I never touched them harsh, as Mogwai was only being cowed.  They didn't bite him, and I am still looking for  ANY tell tale marks on him.   Seems they came in quiet, found him asleep on the arm of the sofa.   One of them dragged him to the floor, stood over him and barking furiously.   What one dog does the other follows suit.   They both crowded Mogwai, and really terrified him.   IF Mogwai had a rough raising like Tattoo did, he could have been a tough fighter too.   But at 11 years old, he has no clue what to do in that kind of mess.   I do.   The word is out: I will kill any unwelcome animal that gets in this house, no matter what it is, how it gets in, or who's it is.   DOGS are unwelcome in here.  That is all.   

Is there a way to turn this damn spell chucker OFF?!?!?!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on June 26, 2023, 08:54:47 AM
I agree that is what you should do McG. Mogwai does not need to be terrorized, and at his age that could cause him to have other health issues. Some do not realize that animals can also have stress related issues to their health, just like we humans can. The truth is they can. Just not being able to understand something can and has caused health issues in animals. So I say do what you must to protect your cat.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 27, 2023, 03:50:00 AM
Just now he was on the kitchen counter where I was having some turkey pot pie.   WE were, that is.  I set some out with a bit of meat, gravy and crust.  He gobbled it down quick.   Like I was gonna take it back or something.  Heh!   We got his coat back to normal.   He walks around ears and whiskers forward, eyes bright and happy, tail up.   I doubt he will ever forget that encounter with the dogs though.   I have seen what total trust is now.   HE trusts ME that way.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 28, 2023, 05:52:46 AM
Aelin, how many cats you have now?    What about other pets too?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on June 28, 2023, 07:05:05 AM
There are 3 cats at home currently. If I want more, I'm afraid I have to find a large house in the countryside :tearlaugh: But if an unfortunate cat cross my way, I won't close my eyes. In addition, when Puce needed cares at the vet office, we met a taxi driver who takes a lot of animals on her property; she has a large area for herself, and she is able to find new 'parents' for animals sometimes.
Puce left one week before March, almost 1 year after Giroflée. I still miss her a lot, the twins too miss her. But some things make me think she has an eye on the home, and specially on the little one.
Hamsters unfortunately left that planet. Bébé Castor less than a week after our coming here. Coquinette the next July; and Donald left the Fall day, same day than her ashes were back at home. All the 3 in less than 1 year.

I'm not alone at home, and I hear sometimes "I want a dog". Hum, no way in a flat, except of course an unfortunate on the way. But I'm pretty sure, even with a tiny dog friend of cats, that Nenya and Harmonie wouldn't accept that. And like Eleni copy on them, I guess he neither.
Must I add I'm not as friend of dogs as before, after one of the family tried to eat my hand? The only dog I trusted since so many years is one living currently in the complex flat. He is tall and loves everyone: humans, cats (friend of those in the rez-de-chaussée), other dogs (males and females)... Once, I surprised myself to cuddle him by "reflex".
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on June 28, 2023, 07:35:29 AM
Cool!   Mogwai brought me a mouse yesterday.   He left it in a spot I had to look at to round the corner.  And he was chilling out on a lamp table with a clear view.   I saw it, noted its very non-functional state, picked it up, made a big thing to Moggie at just how great he is, and a great hunter too.   Then slid it into the trash bag.  Then fussed over him some more.    He rather enjoyed all that.  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on June 28, 2023, 07:43:02 AM
Harmonie is the one bringing me mouses... toy mouses fortunately :tearlaugh: At the beginning, only on the bed. Since yesterday, putting in the bed too :hypno:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 01, 2023, 04:10:24 AM
Sounds like Harmonie wants to play, Aelin.  And you must be her fave play mate!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 01, 2023, 04:18:29 AM
Tattoo was finicky about what things he put where and how.   He'd seen that living things, once dead, fairly began to stink after a bit.   In the house, he didn't care for that at all.  Oh he did kill the rodents and birds.   What he found edible, he ate (birds).  What he didn't, he either dropped it into the toilet or buried it in his litterbox.  That is where most things ended up.   And while I was scooping out the litter box, if he'd made any "dead" deposits, Tattoo was right there, chirruping and paying close attention.   He wanted the praise from a good hunt.   If no deposits were made, he was elsewhere while I scooped His Serene Output.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 01, 2023, 07:34:18 AM
Yup....My tribe is sleeping off breakfast.  Got the windows open but I'm thinking the humidity is going to make the open window policy short lived.  Not one of the cats are sleeping in front of a window LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 02, 2023, 02:49:07 AM
I think your tribe are pretty smart critters, TL!    Don't let em grow opposed thumbs, they get into enough mayhem as is!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 06, 2023, 06:47:36 AM
I wonder how Mogwai would do with a handful of little kittens in the house?   Uh...I wonder how *I* would do!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 06, 2023, 06:54:31 AM
So I woke at 5:30am, got me up, stuff to take to kitchen loaded in chair with me, wheeled out, and there is Moggie, waiting, laying right at my door.   We go to the kitchen, he takes to kitchen counter, I get coffee going,  start sorting stuff, take my morning meds.  The whole time I realize for every word I speak, Mogwai is also speaking!  That is cool!   Mostly he speaks kind of low, softly.   Now I wonder how long this has been going on?!   I didn't hear it at first, I saw him moving his mouth, then listened closely.   That is when I heard him speaking this morning.   I feel so dumb sometimes.  Gosh.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 06, 2023, 08:14:59 AM
Like you, we talk to our tribe all the time.  And this is what happens with each:

Ozzie will whine when he wants attention, food, treats....but will talk when asked if he wants another treat LOL.

Puss Puss is our quiet one.  He is our weird water drinker:  I have a fountain that has a filters in it and a pump that lets the water flow continuously thru the filters and he will not drink out of it unless forced to.  That happens when we refuse to turn the faucet on in the kitchen so he can lap up the water from the faucet even when he tries his best speech to let us know it's what he wants.

Our little Bootsy will always let me know when she wants a treat.  She does not eat any wet cat food at all but loves her water and her hard food...and she let's us know this LOL.

Our chattiest two are Henrietta and Callie.  Henrietta is more of a whinner then a chatter...but when asked a question...she'll whine out an answer.

Callie is our marvelous chatter.  You talk to her and she will talk your ear off...and you HAVE to answer her or she'll keep tapping you until you do.  And she'll answer every question you ask her with a chirp or a flurry of different meows. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 06, 2023, 05:08:29 PM
Ha!  So cool!   Mogwai also likes lapping up the dripping water in the kitchen sink.   Even with a bowl of fresh drawn water, he prefers the drip.   I have learned that cats can make a LOT of different sounds.  And usually do.   Ah right, I am typing this stuff and Mogwai starts talking.  Loud.  My guess is, it's time to give him some dinner!   When Mogwai hasn't got quite done with being petted, he taps me till I pay attention to him.   Then too, if he gets too much and is overstimulated, he chomps on my hand!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 06, 2023, 07:55:44 PM
Gotta love them and their habits...Cute always helps eases tension when they do something wrong LOLOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 07, 2023, 03:44:11 AM
He is still curious about stuff.   If i leave a supply carton open, it often ends up on its side on the floor.  With him in it.  :)   He went nuts with a roll of toilet paper.  Once.  It didn't rewind itself.  Oh pshaw.  Never bothered a roll again.   Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 07, 2023, 07:55:56 AM
Yup....I think all Cat Lovers have learned...when you bring new stuff home...it's not yours until "Cat or Kitten Approved"
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 07, 2023, 02:21:08 PM
He is still curious about stuff.   If i leave a supply carton open, it often ends up on its side on the floor.  With him in it.  :)   He went nuts with a roll of toilet paper.  Once.  It didn't rewind itself.  Oh pshaw.  Never bothered a roll again.   Heh!
When we still had Itty Bitty, she and Cookie Baby were like best buddies. One day me and my Pop had to go shopping. We were gone for about three hours. Both cats were in the camper we were living in, as we could not let them out, due to some roaming dogs. When we got back, the whole inside of the camper had been rolled! They had found the open pack of toilet paper and somehow got all but one of the rolls out of it; a six pack of jumbo rolls. They rolled the place with the one we had out plus four of the rolls that had been in the pack. They hardly missed a spot in the camper, even having it strung through the air from different fixtures and stuff. We had to tear our way into the camper. As we were cleaning up, we were laughing about it, imagining what the event must have looked like if we had been there. We found them both sleeping together in a pile of the stuff, buried under more of it. It's surprising how much one roll can cover, but nearly 5 rolls? It was everywhere it could get to! That was a two bedroom camper! LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 07, 2023, 06:05:14 PM
Knowing that just two little cats did all that would have made it worth the trouble to clean up, to me!   Ha!   But like you,  I would have wanted to see em doing it!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 07, 2023, 06:08:20 PM
Yup....I think all Cat Lovers have learned...when you bring new stuff home...it's not yours until "Cat or Kitten Approved"

That is SO true!   Mogwai (and Tattoo when he was here) waits on the back of the sofa when we bring anything in the front door.  So he can give it the quick sniff as we go by him.   Even obvious stuff like a 6 pack of Diet Mountain Dew gets sniffed!    I figure they are reading the Cat Newspapers doing that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 07, 2023, 07:02:14 PM
One more note on that McG....if it's NOT Cat or Kitten Approved....Make sure their claws have been trimmed :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 07, 2023, 08:37:43 PM
Knowing that just two little cats did all that would have made it worth the trouble to clean up, to me!   Ha!   But like you,  I would have wanted to see em doing it!
We had to save as much as we could for cleaning up messes that happened. Had to buy two rolls to last out the month with the one they did not get to out of the six pack. One thing Cookie Baby does to this day is eat too fast, and them upchuck it. I've cleaned up a lot of that from her through the years since we first got her as a kitten. The compromised toilet paper lasted three months, being used only for clean up. We stored any new packs in a cabinet after that incident.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 14, 2023, 03:18:11 PM
Yeah, I know that place about "cat-i-fy'ing' the home.   Might as well say child proofing it.  Except human kids don't  run ON the walls.  Or chew through electrical cords.  But only while live.   I'm not able to get over to the animal shelter to look for another cat.   Someday I may be, again!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on July 14, 2023, 03:32:42 PM
Or perhaps one morning you'll simply find a street cat/kitten asking to be in your home.
Too bad you aren't neighbor of TL, because he has 4 new ones in his garden :tearlaugh:

And yep about skateboard on walls. Harmonie started to do but with the little one, she doesn't run as much as before. I suspect she waits until THE moment where he'll be able to interract fully with her and Nenya.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 14, 2023, 05:53:03 PM
It's raining again but at least it's not a downpour so the kitties should stay dry under the shed.  I put more straw under there so they can lay on higher ground.  Got two little shelters out there for them and they play in them but won't go in them when it storms LOL....

And I just looked out the window and they are playing in the rain :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 15, 2023, 07:50:46 AM
Must be one BIIIG storm front, to reach all the way down to me from Wisconsin!  Sheesh!    :nopanic;

This started a  few hours ago, when I was getting into the hyper oxy  wound therapy boot, we had flashes of low lightning (distant) that looked like welding in the area of  my Jeep.   Nowhere near that close though.  Then, the booming started.   Like Fafnir said, Thunder Boomers!   BIG ones.  Even a big lightning strike right in our intersection.  No, Mother Nature didn't throw frozen rocks (ice) at us this time.  Whew.    Seems the weather really IS going on like it did 60 years ago man.   I remember that stuff!   Freezes so hard after a sleet rain it froze to the streets solid.  I mean like over an inch of ice on all the streets we had!   Then, I hadda walk home from school in it.  I was wearing hard sole saddle oxfords then.  But I was 6, everything was cool to me.  And little bitty me, slip sliding all over the place, trying to walk the half mile to our home on that sheet of ice.   I dreaded the dip to bridge over the creek.  Oh Nooo!  Yaknow Ice can be rough.  It was enough to tear up the backside my jeans!   But summers were milder than now too.   I remember frosty mornings most of the month of May that year.   June got us rain a lot.  July and August, that got hot.   After all that rain, the yard still cracked up like Death Valley does.   Mom watered the grass and trees every day.  Our street was graded dirt road, dugout ditches, cement culverts for all the driveways.  And two yards of oyster shells for the driveways.    And I loved the times we were in.   It was cool, learning all nature had to give us.   I never did learn to walk proper on ice though.  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 16, 2023, 09:59:57 AM
Oh BOy!  Mogwai got me another mouse today!   Then, after picking it up in a paper towel, folding it in nice and neat, Carefully depositing it into the Mouse Grave (trash can).  Fussing happily over Moggie being a Great Hunter!  He was sure pleased with it all.  Huff-purring the whole time.   He likes me fussing over him like that.   It's cool, and cheap!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 16, 2023, 12:32:54 PM
Good Morning (Now Afternoon) to all,

I started this at 10AM.....been interrupted many many many times since then.

Anyway.....

A wonderful 77 degrees out and Sunny....  Cats are fed and Stripes has moved the Babies to a new location....Thankfully.  I can't afford to bring anymore in :tearlaugh:  But as they get older, they'll know where to come for Breakfast and Dinner.  I think she did it because the Neighbor Girls were getting to close to them.  So I'm happy she moved them.

No plans for the day...at least none made by me.  I know I've got to blow out the office computer.  Cat Hair accumulates fast in computers along with cat and kitten dander....and Human dander also.  I do it once a month and it takes no time at all.  Well, it takes "Some Time" but not a "Long Time"

My Nephew in RI (my brother Jimmy's Son) got married yesterday....She's a lovely girl.  Met her a couple times on my visits to Rhode Island.  They both have never been married...and they are both in their late 30's.  He's a good kid and lives near my brother and sister in law. 

Anyway....As I was saying.  I've got to get the office computer ready for Lornas work at home job for Colony Brands.  It's seasonal work but she got a $2 raise this year because she did a good job last year and they are starting her earlier this year. 

Hope all have a great day and great weather.  It is Super Duper here.....LOVE IT.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 16, 2023, 01:23:48 PM
Stripes left one for me the other day McG as a thank you for being nice to her and her furry family....Mr. trashcan appreciated it....I think LOLOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on July 16, 2023, 02:05:26 PM
We are fortunate to don't have mouses in the flat. But yesterday Harmonie showed me a spider on a wall. She didn't try to catch it, thank you lord!

This morning was "thunderstorm" between the trio. Eleni decided it was good to bit (or try to bit) Nenya and Harmonie, and me :thud: Harmonie found it was good (even before Eleni tried his thing) to try to slap him. And Nenya looked on his brother like if he was a toy :hypno:
This afternoon, Eleni was still excited, Harmonie too but less than in the morning. Nenya was a quiet guy - despite the 3 times Eleni launched actions against him :thud:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 16, 2023, 03:44:47 PM
With a farm field right across the way mice are easily caught by the cats and kittens around here.  Thankfully we don't have any in our place either.  And as mentioned...this was the first time she ever did that....or maybe one of the babies caught it and she was being a proud momma.  It wasn't there when we went to bed LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 16, 2023, 04:36:53 PM
If I read the Title Deed right (Alan is proud to be a Home OWNER!) then this house is 103 years old now.  No kidding!  Seeing it on the outside now, I wonder what it looked like new in 1920!   Cause I think it resembles 60's styles right now.   Anyway, it has developed all manner of small holes and spots where mice can get in, but not something size of a rat.  Over the dozen years here, even in Mogwai's 11 years, dozens of mice have been caught, shown off (put in middle of floor) and either flushed or buried in trash can.   There is so much grassy land here, no way to avoid having them around.   So when one gets Mogwai's attention, it's good to see it when I roll through!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on July 16, 2023, 05:30:42 PM
My childhood was spent with the Micky Mouse family and the cat we had was scared of mice.  The same cat got my Mom in trouble with the Fire Department many times.  It would climb up a phone poll and could not get down....Always the same pole....just a different day....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 21, 2023, 11:19:00 AM
We had this yellow herringbone tabby, Dad said his name was "Mister".   So, later, in the house, Momma asked me what I'd named the cat.   So, naturally, I said "Dad said his name is Mister!".   I guess I can figure how Dad hated me, after all.  Sigh.  Wonder what he will say when we are both in an Urn?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on July 22, 2023, 07:05:09 AM
At the beginning, Eleni had sparse hair compared to most of cats. Dark grey, a little stripped. Since almost 2 month, his hair are better. He is less dark grey now, he has stripes on the paws. And spots on the body.
No idea of which cat is the Eleni's Daddy, but he doesn't have that by his little Mom. Found a photo of Serengeti cat and  :nopanic; that's pretty him. The ears and some marks remind me of Puce too. It's almost like if we had a Puce's baby at home finally.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 22, 2023, 07:41:32 PM
Cool.  But the Serengeti is about 3 times bigger than a domestic cat.  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on July 23, 2023, 07:14:22 AM
Oh you know, he started very little for his age, like his Mom is a little one. And Nenya and Harmonie are the biggest cats I have seen in all my life, including those I lived with, knew or still know of the family and of friends.
Nenya himself makes easily his 7 kg also. So we'll see, it's all I can tell.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 23, 2023, 01:22:56 PM
OMG!  And they are still KITTENS !?!?!?!   WOW!  :yeow:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on July 23, 2023, 01:31:22 PM
They had their birthday the eve of our national day. And like I read cats can grow up until around 20 months, not sure if it's over or not :tearlaugh:
I remember I adopted my Puce when she was a little over 1 year old, and she grew up a little after that. The twins were around her size when she left us. She would have been the dwarf of the house if she was still here, after all that time she was the tallest :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 23, 2023, 03:38:57 PM
Yep  they do most growth in 1 year.  But finish getting their size in 1 more year.   Then, they can get heavy while the bones stay same. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on July 23, 2023, 03:46:16 PM
Yep  they do most growth in 1 year.  But finish getting their size in 1 more year.   Then, they can get heavy while the bones stay same.
They don't have to be fully grown when they mate for the first time. We had a cat that got pregnant at about 9 months old. She had her first litter before she was a year old. She was a Siamese Bluepoint named Frosty. She had a very loud meow!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 25, 2023, 07:18:11 AM
Right!  Neither did we, yeah?   I have seen two young cats (6 months) litter mates makin bacon and they made a beautiful litter of 7 kittens.  All healthy, all lived, and we gave them all away.   Including the mama cat.  The male I had for like 8 years, and he went with a couple driving a big rig.   Now, I have the toms neutered before 6 months because of that bit of feline incest!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on July 30, 2023, 05:45:30 AM
Ol Fizzgig.  He never wanted to be around Grandpa Bill after that fateful day...neutering day.   Grandpa Bill just got a rubber wading boot, put Fizzgig in it head first, butt up in the air.  Two quick snicks with a razor blade, nuts pop out, cords got sliced, lemon got applied, didn't even need a band aid over cuts!   And, no more little Fizzgigs running around!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 02, 2023, 10:34:07 AM
Allergies.   We have them.  Our pets have them too.  Dogs and cats sneeze too.   Cats, even with such tiny nares, can REALLY sneeze BAD!   IT's everywhere!   But mostly right in front of them.   Mogwai has 'summer allergies'.   Not as bad as Tattoo did, but he still gets stuffed up, and sneezes kinda often.  Messy sneezes.  YUCK!   Do ya think HE is gonna clean up that mess?   Noooo it's the lowly HUMAN has to do the dirty work.   Excuse me, I have to wash off the front door.   The kitchen cabinet.   My bedroom door.   At least it wasn't me.  That time!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 02, 2023, 11:43:37 AM
Calie is a real picky eater...she's checking out the ingredients on the label before she indulges herself with a snack...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 02, 2023, 01:48:46 PM
That she is!   Giving it quite the study too.   She is a beautiful Tri-Color, TL.   She is she the Boss, eh?   ;o)

Reminds me a lot of one I had many years ago.   Got her and one littermate free at the weekly Saturday Night Auction.   I had named her Patches.   She had more white in her than your Cali does though.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 02, 2023, 04:30:21 PM
Yes indeed...she is the boss and smart as a whip.  She forgets nothing, listens to everything....is NOT afraid of having a smack down with the other critters....LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 02, 2023, 10:20:35 PM
I could do with another one like that.   Mogwai is a GOOD boy, honest.   I'd love to give him some more company though.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 02, 2023, 11:19:46 PM
Our cat McCartney was Alpha Male where we used to live. After the move, that changed. There is a black and white Tuxedo that is Alpha Male where we now live, and he is bigger than McCartney. He also has a habit of trying to run other males off, but McCartney knows we love him, and knows we will protect him. Still, because that other male is around, McCartney does not want to be outside much. When he does go out, he sticks close to the home we are in. But if that Tuxedo is out and about, he purposefully comes looking for McCartney to start something with him. There's no way that he and McCartney could become friends. So McCartney has become a mostly indoor cat. Unfortunately, that means our kitty litter gets used up way too fast.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on August 02, 2023, 11:46:12 PM
Cats are not allowed to roam here in Queensland...if caught you will get fined... we have a cat enclosure out the back...but we still let Sally out occasionally.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 04, 2023, 12:13:05 AM
Cats do not work that great with leashes.   The local leash laws apply to dogs.  Considering there are local breeders for monster dogs, that law was a necessity.   If a roaming dog bites a kid, the dog is killed and the owner is jailed.  There are two breeders of monster dogs around here.   Those wire cages cannot stop them from getting out if they really want out.  One breeder does Rottweilers, the other does pit Bulls.    Both breed dogs over 200 lbs.   Even I get worried when they are that big, and vicious.   
Cats, being small, are accepted as feral animals.   To stem the overpopulation thing, a catch-neuter-release where caught policy is in effect nation wide now.  No kill rooms allowed.  Well, that is the ideal, and I personally doubt it is implemented everywhere. 
WHEN a dog pack is learned of, an animal control team is launched and the pack captured, the animals dealt with.  Owners rounded up, fined/jailed as appropriate.   NO DOG of any size is allowed to roam free in the city.  The cat policy does help.   The feral cat population does a great job of keeping the vermin population way down.  As in rats, mice, snakes.   You no longer see a pack of rats scurrying down the street in broad daylight, or at night.   IIRC, the lack of cats is what actually caused the major deadly plagues in Europe.
Well that is what they get for stubbornly choosing to be dumb asses!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 04, 2023, 12:27:23 AM
Sanbie, why can't cats be allowed to roam freely?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on August 04, 2023, 07:42:56 AM
I suspect in Australia like in New Zealand it's because of the native fauna. I know in NZ, the national bird was the prey of cats and almost extinct.
Humans are responsible for having took them there, but it's descendants of those animals who are bad seen. Humans are like that unfortunately.

Loved the photo of Calie, TL.

McCartney isn't depressed by staying more inside?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 04, 2023, 10:57:20 AM
I suspect in Australia like in New Zealand it's because of the native fauna. I know in NZ, the national bird was the prey of cats and almost extinct.
Humans are responsible for having took them there, but it's descendants of those animals who are bad seen. Humans are like that unfortunately.

Loved the photo of Calie, TL.

McCartney isn't depressed by staying more inside?
When he goes outside he is either attacked by the Tuxedo Alpha Cat, or there are sounds that scare him. He wants to get back inside fast. Cookie Baby on the other hand, likes being outside, and is hardly ever frightened by new sounds and sights. My worry with her is how she likes to get in someone's vehicle when they are not looking. I fear that she will be thrown out miles away and have no way of knowing how to get back home. I'm always telling folks to keep their car doors shut, and the windows up. I can't tell that to everybody. It would not be right for me to do that. Still if it is a friend, I'll let them know how she is about such things, and to please be aware when she is outside.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on August 04, 2023, 01:52:44 PM
Does Cookie Baby have a collar? Or any other way to identify her?
I would be scary and force her to stay home (I know I'm a bad girl just by such thought :psycho: )
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 04, 2023, 06:27:12 PM
She has a flea collar for all the lack of good it does her. There's a law in my state that all collars for Cats or Dogs must be of the breakaway type. It isn't enforced much, but the reason for the law is something I agree with, as animals wearing the other type have been strangled by their collars when they got caught in a bad place that won't let them get free. McCartney had flee collars too, and the breakaway got it lost off of him four times. We cannot afford to buy a new flee collar every time he chooses to get it caught in one of those types of situations. As for an ID collar, those must be that type also, and she would definitely lose hers if she had one. One cat I had was injected with a tracking microchip. That was Itty Bitty, and she ran away when I moved from one home to another because she and Cookie Baby were suddenly blaming each other for the move. I reported her as lost , and gave the authorities the chip info. It did no good for finding her. I think she took up with another forever family. At least I hope she did.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 09, 2023, 11:21:35 PM
In my Live With Cats, there have been a very few that chose to go be with someone else.   But hey, they are people too!   And as much as I love em, I know I just can't be THE human every Cat wants or needs.   Tattoo stuck with me till his very end.   Seems Mogwai is going that way too.   But, Li'l Mister, he was here to play with Mogwai, not be with me.   Oh I was fine, and we played and had fun and he purred a lot.   But, this just wasn't what he ran IN the door for, yaknow?  So, he ran right back out, 3 years later.   Honestly he wasn't the brightest bulb in the pack soooo.    :shrug:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 09, 2023, 11:24:46 PM
Getting my cats 'chipped'.   i've thought about that a few times.   But Tattoo always came right back home.  He liked his bed better than sleeping outside.  So, he'd roam for the day, be home by dark.   Normally cats want out for the night, and come dragging on home at dawn.   So, Tattoo had a different drummer.   And Mogwai is an indoor fella.   :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 10, 2023, 07:37:53 AM
When we got all of our inside clan fixed....they were also chipped....JIC....We know how quick and sneaky they are LOL...It was $15 at our local Animal Shelter....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 10, 2023, 10:16:51 AM
I think when Itty Bitty was chipped, if my smartphone could have been linked to the chip, I could possibly have tracked her down on my own. But with no connection of my own, and only the authorities having a connection, the motivation of those authorities to help with finding her was next to none. I paid $20.00 to get her chipped, and another $20.00 to have her fixed. That's $40.00 in one pop, from a guy who could ill afford it. I loved her so much I was willing to let other things wait, just for her.
For chipping to work right, the support organization needs to be dedicated to the program. In my area that obviously was not the case. The only person that was doing their part was me> No one else seemed to care at all. When you report a missing chipped animal, and provide the helpful chip info, and the person on the other end of the call has a tone of voice that says they are getting bored, you know instinctively that they could not care less. I looked for a way online to connect the chip's signal to my smartphone, but my search skills in those days was far worse than they are now; and I still have bad search skills.
No, I'll never trust chipping a pet again.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 10, 2023, 10:29:05 AM
I don't plan on letting any of the critters get out but for that price, it was worth it.  And things are different nowadays...You can track your chipped critter with your cell phone when you download the free program they list for you.  I've used it a time or two when one of the troublemakers want to play hide and seek or get in a place where they can't get out on their own...(like closets etc...LOL)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 10, 2023, 12:05:59 PM
Now that is useful, as it can let you know if your cat is even indoors or not.   Now who is sneaky?  ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 10, 2023, 03:07:18 PM
LOLOL....Yup....but so far none have escaped .... and actually....none want to go back outdoors...they remember it and weren't to pleased with it when they were Kittens LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 10, 2023, 03:14:22 PM
Hummmm...Technically....they are all still kittens except for Ozzy LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 12, 2023, 06:49:13 AM
Yeah but they are no longer two month old LITTLE kittens!   :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 12, 2023, 08:25:49 AM
Nope.....They are now learning how to be a PITA without even trying :tearlaugh:   But we still love them....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 12, 2023, 08:28:13 AM
Still have Stripes, Blacky I and Blacky II outside with the 4 kittens.  Both of the Blackies watch the kids when Stripes needs a break....it pretty cool.  Right now they are saving me on Birdseed since only the brave birds go on the feeders....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 14, 2023, 03:04:07 AM
Tattoo used to do that, and have fresh lunch al fresco.   Normally under our car.   The pile of feathers under that Jeep was scary.   I wonder where all the bones went?   He would spend most of the day outside if the weather was nice.   But he came IN to head straight for the litterbox.   Then he wanted out again.   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 14, 2023, 03:27:39 AM
McCartney always ate all of what he caught, meat and bones mostly. With birds he caught he was careful not to eat the feathers. I watched him pluck his bird catch before eating it one time. Did not know he could be so smart.
My point is that most of what a cat can catch can be eaten both meat and bones. Cats have pretty resilient stomachs it seems. If they are careful while eating, the bones don't get caught in their throats. McCartney is obviously a careful eater. Tattoo most likely was also.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 14, 2023, 06:51:23 AM
T he cats I know of that are good hunters never took long to get things figured out.    Tiny birds might have softer bones maybe?   Did see him down a few Jay birds.  He did leave a bit of carcass with those.   I really hated finding a Ruby throated Hummingbirds gorget once.  Sigh.   How does the cat know they are little treasures of birds?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 14, 2023, 07:39:47 AM
Stripes is a great hunter and is trying to teach the other girls how to hunt...since the males are lazy and do no hunting LOLOL.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on August 14, 2023, 05:27:38 PM
Sanbie, why can't cats be allowed to roam freely?
Sorry just saw this...
Because they kill the wildlife McG...if caught several times they can be put down... It's a load of bull if you ask me.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 14, 2023, 06:50:29 PM
Sorry just saw this...
Because they kill the wildlife McG...if caught several times they can be put down... It's a load of bull if you ask me.
That is a load of bull. If you experience rat and mouse infestations (another type of wildlife), you know they are pests that can destroy property of many types. So having cats around is a really good idea, because they hunt these little pests and keep their populations down. Your government there should be taught about how the Black Death and Bubonic Plague happened in Europe. It was because the Catholic Church declared all cats to be witches familiars, and put the decree out that all cats are to be destroyed. When there were no more cats in most parts of Europe, there was a population explosion of rats, and to perhaps a lesser degree (still devastating in their own right) mice! Europe was overrun by rats and mice. As these rats and mice were carriers of the diseases that soon devastated Europe, all that had to happen for the diseases to be transmitted from the rat and mice to human was to be bitten by a flea that had first bitten a rat or mouse that was carrying one of the diseases. Millions died because of what the Church Authorities declared; including many who were among the clergy.
Now it is important to remember that these two disease pandemics did not happen at the same time. One happened a few years after the first. That said, neither would have occurred if the cats in Europe had not been killed off both times!
So my point is this. Having cats roaming free is not as bad as the governments say. The amount of other types of wildlife taken by cats is minimal compared to the most hunted species by cats. Besides, there are many other predators there that live in the wild, and they kill far more of that precious wildlife the government is trying to protect. Also many of those wild predators are a danger to humans, but I'd bet my bottom dollar that the government officials are not even thinking about that!
Government in most cases are big mouths with little minds!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on August 15, 2023, 02:21:29 AM
OMG Agent we have already had an influx of mice! I don't think it's in Queensland yet...but down south has.


Hope this shows up for you.


Australia mouse plague: Millions of mice are swarming NSW towns. Now, there's a plan to end the plague with poison | CNN (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/20/australia/australia-mouse-plague-dst-intl-hnk/index.html)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 15, 2023, 10:12:38 AM
Got curious about Australia and Cats and went to my information place....Wiki....and found this:  Cats In Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_in_Australia#:~:text=Cats%20are%20an%20invasive%20species%20in%20Australia.%20Because,million%20feral%20cats%20continue%20to%20live%20in%20Australia.)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 15, 2023, 11:51:45 AM
They are using estimates, and claiming them to be actual numbers. Of course the feral cats will kill what they can catch, as it is their only source of food. In the area where I live, the main diet of feral cats is rats and mice. Our feral cats do kill other species as well, but not as many as the pest species by far. As for domesticated cats, of which I have a lifetime of experience, if they are fed cat food they don't go hunting as often. When it comes to the pest species (rats, mice, etc.), I want my cats to be hunting and killing them. I know that the rats and mice multiply much faster that cats. Killing off all the feral cats in an area will cause a population explosion of those species, even though the domestic cat population remains the same as it has been.
I'm not saying that the population of cats, both domestic and feral does not need to be controlled. Rather I'm saying that removing a very large percentage of their population can be the cause of a devastating population explosion of pest species, that more than likely are carrying diseases, that could decimate the human population by a very large percentage. The European example speaks for itself, concerning that possibility. It has always been true that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and in this case it is actually worth far more.
In our area of the US, we have a program called Catch, Neuter, and Release. It isn't any more perfect than other programs, due to releasing them in areas they did not come from. Many domestic cats and dogs have been relocated by the program, and unable to find their way back to their homes. Their human companions then suffer a loss that they are unable to resolve.
As for putting a chip under an animal's skin for tracking purposes, in my experience, it requires the supporting personnel of the program to be competent in the technology, and we must face the fact that most of them are not competent. There are even members of such programs that just don't care, just being a part of it for their own personal gain.
I really don't know how many apex predators are native to Australia but it makes no sense to me that they are few. Apex predators should be at the top of their food chain, dominating over all other predator species in their area. I know that foxes in the US are known to be killers of cats, though a cat can kill a fox. The difference in the 2 species boils down to how sociable each species is with their own kind. Turns out that foxes, like most canine species are more sociable. Yes there are cat troops, but when out hunting, they prefer to be alone. Most canine species that hunt do so in packs, cooperating with each other to bring down their prey. I see no reason to believe foxes are not the same way, as they too are canines, and they live in packs.
There are also wild dogs, descendants of domesticated breeds, that run in packs, and you will see the evidence of mixed breeds among them, even to the point of mixing with wolves, coyotes, and foxes in the areas where those species exist. Many of those packs will corner a cat and kill it, if the cat is not lucky enough to escape them.
And this brings me back to the question of estimates. How does the authorities know that the studies they do concerning such estimates are accurate, especially when their own experiments are done under controlled conditions. That control is what determines the outcome, forcing the subject being studied to act in conditions that limit their options. I call that "Guided Science", which will never be good enough to show fully true results concerning the whole of a species. Estimates are never accurate, sometimes far over the numbers given, other time far under those numbers. So when I see a report that uses the word estimate, or its derivatives, or synonyms of the same, I must question that. Such things can be estimated with bias toward a desired result, which is what many estimators will do.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 15, 2023, 12:09:41 PM
I just found the article...and didn't write it :java:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on August 15, 2023, 04:41:27 PM
Wow Agent, you sure do feel strongly about this...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 15, 2023, 10:45:23 PM
I do feel strongly about it, because it is humans trying to make animals act outside their own nature. Every time humans do this, it turns out to be bad, either for the animals in question, or the humans, or both. Yes in the case of the pest animals, I do wish for them to be greatly controlled population-wise; but mainly because of the extreme problems they cause due to multiplying so quickly, and the fact that they can carry deadly diseases. I'm not saying eradicate them completely, but allow the nature of animals that hunt them to control their populations. The amount of other species that those animals prey upon is usually much less than their predation of the pest species.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on August 16, 2023, 01:23:18 AM
Now that's so true...every time humans interfere with nature nothing good becomes of it.



Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 24, 2023, 12:45:12 PM
So true.   Yet, is having them WITH us as pets, family, against the actual nature of any of our non human friends?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 24, 2023, 10:50:17 PM
It is not unheard of for even wild animals to seek out humans for help. I see videos on YouTube about that all the time. Humans have abilities that animals sometime see a need for, which they are unable to do themselves. This shows me that many animals are much smarter than many of we humans are willing to give them credit for. It just might be how certain animals became domesticated. It is known that dogs and humans formed a mutually beneficial relationship very early in human history. Who is to say that other animals, like cats for instance did not do the same? I believe they did. Otherwise, how did humans know cats could be great companions? Then there are animals known as beasts of burden, such as horses, donkeys, elephants, and so on. Even goats have been used to pull carts. And nearly all of the animals that are work animals actually like their work. In the case of cats, I believe they took up with humans to get at the pests that were infesting human homes, and they became friendly with the humans in order to keep that going. So the domestic cat came into existence, and now they have developed a relationship that goes deep into the hearts of both human and cat. Witness the relationship I and my cat companion Cookie Baby have. It's a relationship in which we have worries that we might not see each other again, when one or the other of us is gone for a longer time than we normally are. I'm sure that there are many of us here that have that same type of relationship with their cat companions.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 25, 2023, 09:42:14 AM
Cats and Dogs are entirely different People.  We here all see this.  I feel that dogs did put themselves forth to BE domesticated, to become "pack" with us.   The rest, is truly history.   Cats saw us, and I think liked us, and came and walked among us before we were even allowed to touch them.   Like I said, they are different people!  Even so, both look for the same things with us human people.  They look for food and safety, sure.  They also look for and find comfort and affection with us.  Often at the same time. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 26, 2023, 09:37:30 AM
Exactly.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 26, 2023, 11:42:25 AM
It would be terrific if my bro in law would be allowed to bring Mogwai up here for a little visit, for sure.  But, if it isn't a handicap assist animal, nope.  None allowed at all.
I get to speak to him on the phone occasionally.  But I think Alan figures it just upsets Mogwai when he hears me but cannot see me there.   OK.  I will get my work done in rehab, and get me home quick as I can!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on August 26, 2023, 04:49:18 PM
Awww...my daughter said when I was in hospital for the 2 weeks my cat just moped about...she slept on my bed, on my pillow most of the time apparently...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 26, 2023, 06:43:41 PM
It would be terrific if my bro in law would be allowed to bring Mogwai up here for a little visit, for sure.  But, if it isn't a handicap assist animal, nope.  None allowed at all.
I get to speak to him on the phone occasionally.  But I think Alan figures it just upsets Mogwai when he hears me but cannot see me there.   OK.  I will get my work done in rehab, and get me home quick as I can!
I'm sure he is missing you, McG. I'm also sure you're missing him also.
When I'm gone for just a couple of days, my brother says Cookie Baby goes around the house looking for me, and calling for me loudly. She is normally a very quiet cat. Even her purr is quiet. She only gets loud when she thinks she needs to, or when she gets underfoot and I step on her tail be accident. I will pick her up at such times to let her know I'm sorry, and to ask her forgiveness; which she readily gives.
My younger brother had a White Persian, and his landlady made him bring the cat to us. We tried hard to make him feel welcome, but he missed my younger brother so much he stopped eating all together. Soon after he disappeared, and a couple of weeks later, I found his under a camper shell we had in the yard. He was already gone. I cried about that one, because of the injustice of forced separation. When I met that landlady I had some choice words for her, especially since she had several cats of her own. I told her she might as well have murdered the cat, for all the good she did not do for him and my brother. I asked her what she would think if I were her landlord, and told her to get rid of her cats. She said she would cry, but the look in her eyes said much more. I knew she'd be devastated. I then told her she should be ashamed for treating other people and their pets that way.
My apologies, for the story. It's just that our pets obviously have an emotional attachment to us, and it can have a really be effect on them when they are separated from us for a while.
One cat I had name Sylvester, did not suffer that way. He was a roamer, likely having several home he could go to for food and affection. But he was still mainly my cat. After well over a year in another state, my family had moved across town from the home I had him at. He obviously survived the separation by having other homes, until one day he found and recognized me, after I had returned to that town. I had taken over care of the house that my family had moved to when they moved out of town. He had found me after I had done some shopping that day, and he followed me home. I was none the wiser that I was being followed. I was just finishing putting the groceries away when I heard a scratching sound at the kitchen window. It was him wanting to come in and rejoin me as my cat. I had him for a couple more years after that, then had to move out of town also. He went back to visiting his other homes. I know though that had I returned again and he was still around, he would likely find me again, and rejoin me again. That was the type of relationship we had with each other, granting our partner the freedom to go whenever it was necessary.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on August 28, 2023, 03:06:32 AM
Yeah buddy, I miss Mogwai awfully!  When I finally do return home, I hope he doesn't hold the absence against me for long.   I can't wait to gather him up in my arms for a big warm hug!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on August 28, 2023, 05:19:54 AM
It's a shame he can't be brought outside of the hospital...that's if you can get outside yourself that is.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on August 28, 2023, 08:53:47 AM
Sanbie, that is a good idea!
If a wheelchair can be appropriated for you McG, maybe you could get a family member to bring him for an outdoor visit. The hospital authorities would need to be asked for permission to do that. They might not give it, but then again, if they have kind hearts, they could approve such a visit. Not only would it be good for Mogwai's heart, and yours; it would also be good to get some fresh outdoor air! A Win Win, all the way around! Couldn't hurt to at least ask.
Thank you Sanbie for the suggestion!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on August 31, 2023, 09:52:17 AM
Kitten Up Date: 

FIrst picture is the Morning Feed with the clan.  Just missing Blacky II.  He's always late coming for the feed...and yes...I use my empty Folger Coffee Containers for their water bowls.  They don't break, big enough to hold plenty of water for all and can be cut down to size to accommodate kittens and cats...  Plus I use them as storage containers for all sorts of other items I collect such as screws, nuts, bolts, wiring, nails, etc etc etc LOL

Second Picture is the kittens relaxing after dinner yesterday.
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Post by: thelufias on August 31, 2023, 09:53:36 AM
The grass stays pretty green under the trees but you can see the dryness beyond that.
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Post by: Aelin on August 31, 2023, 01:56:17 PM
Trees and grass help each others, it's the same all over the world when the Nature needs to go that way. Unfortunately, it's forgetted in towns where often the grass is removed from trees' feet.

They are cute little babies. I hope they'll find also a home in houses around. I know you can't, but maybe neighbors can do it.
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Post by: thelufias on August 31, 2023, 06:17:52 PM
My neighbor to the right of me has 3 little girls with a fourth due any day now....and she has 3 cats so she's out...we babysit the girls from time to time and will babysit them when she goes to the hospital to deliver her baby...and they love playing with Ozzy and Calie and Puss Puss.  Henrietta and Bootsy HIDE....and they are good at that LOLOL

My Neighbors across the street has 3 cats and one kitten....so they are out

AND

The neighbor next door has 3 yapping Chihuahuas and a big dog whose breed I have not a clue to.  It's big...and is not
barky...almost looks like a Dalmatian but  is not....

One of the babies already found a home down the street from us....but these wee ones will be taken care of...Winter is always my main worry.
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Post by: McGrandpa on August 31, 2023, 10:33:51 PM
Great pics of the Outdoors Clan!
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Post by: thelufias on September 01, 2023, 09:15:17 AM
Thanks McG....They are getting older and braver so sometimes, like this morning, I only get one of the wee ones joining the adults for breakfast.  It's the tiny Cali who hangs around most.  And Tiny Cali was in a playful mood this morning and started to climb up my sweat pants with those tiny sharp claws LOLOL
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 02, 2023, 05:33:48 PM
Ah ha!  You've made another Friend, it seems!
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Post by: thelufias on September 02, 2023, 06:36:36 PM
Just got in from spending an hour outside with little  the grey and white kitten (Grey Baby)...Grey ... Mom (Stipes) must be teaching them how to be on their own a little at a time. 

He came over to eat and decided to stay and play while I was outside.  Sat on the steps for a bit and the little son of a gun climbed on my lap and started playing...  Lorna saw this and shook her head...but she's just as bad as I am. 

I am going to see if I can coral all them up before Winter and take them to the shelter...  Can't afford any more cats and kittens LOL....Even though I AM FEEDING  these 3 kittens and the three adults who are outside.
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 03, 2023, 08:44:07 AM
I wish you were in my neighborhood kinda.   I'd love a new kitten.  Thing is, there are a dozen + at the house now.  Alas, me and wheelchair don't venture outdoors so often.  I'd sure love to, though.  Mogwai still plays with the little ones paws when they show under the door!  BUT he actually growls at em running in the open door.   So the babies don't run inside here so much.   
I can't wait to pick him up and give him a huge hug, claws and all!
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Post by: thelufias on September 03, 2023, 08:51:56 AM
LOL....Yup....the claws are vicious and them some.
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 06, 2023, 06:57:15 PM
Aw man, Alan got us home, and got me in the house.  Got a couple things sorted (turn on AC and PC!)  then went looking for Mogwai.  He was sound asleep on top of the upright freezer in the pantry.   I went in there, carefully stood up, and started calling his name softly, and rubbing his side.   Then his eyes popped wide open, his head popped up, and he let out the biggest MROWWW!  I ever heard from him.  He is still ramming his head/nose into my hands, and talking up a storm.   I am so happy he isn't mad at me!
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 06, 2023, 06:57:57 PM
So, "MROWWW!" must be his name for me.  Heh!
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Post by: thelufias on September 06, 2023, 07:31:47 PM
Your furry one is a great "WELCOME HOME" greeter....and I bet you were purring also....Woooohooo
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Post by: Agent0013 on September 06, 2023, 07:46:10 PM
Somehow I knew when you made it home, Mogwai would be super happy to have you back. He loves you just like my Cookie Baby loves me.  Such a heartwarming reunion you are having!
 :grpwave: :3flower;
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 07, 2023, 09:47:34 AM
Quoth Dorothy:  There's no place like HOME!   
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Post by: Aelin on September 07, 2023, 01:24:16 PM
That's sure, specially when a great friend is waiting for you there :thumb_up: I'm glad for you and Mogwai!
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 08, 2023, 06:08:41 PM
Thanks guys!   It is great having you all, friends, here too.   You mean a lot to me, truly!
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 13, 2023, 12:04:16 PM
Mogwai has been hiding the last few days.   Thought it was the allergies gone to upper respiratory infection (head cold!).  Nope, he's had a tooth ache.  And apparently an abscess opened in there, and he's starting to feel better again.  Sheesh.  I gotta find a new vet doctor nearby!
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Post by: Aelin on September 13, 2023, 01:25:57 PM
Poor Mogwai!
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 13, 2023, 05:03:59 PM
I know right!   I saw what was going on this morning, and just scooped him up, gave him the biggest hugs, then set him on counter so could wash his face.   He'd got it messy, of course.  He fought it, but with me  and Alan both doing it, well it worked great.  His face is all cleaned up, boogers all gone.  He feels better now.   He got down, drank water a while then had some of his dry food.  Then he  was rubbing my leg.   Yes, better!  :D

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Post by: sanbie on September 13, 2023, 05:06:55 PM
Aww poor Mogwai...so glad you got to clean him up...
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 14, 2023, 01:16:54 AM
In all  my  years with cats, they never have a messy face.  Unless something went messy they couldn't control.   So, we, their humans must up and fight for our little ones!  Yah!  SO grabbed a fresh paper towel, warm water and wipe wipe wipe with a total yuck yuck yuck look on his face the whole 4 seconds!  LOL!   He greeted me with purrs and cat talk when I woke up at 1am.   Ah my buddy is back!  :D
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Post by: thelufias on September 14, 2023, 11:22:47 AM
I just read this and it must be something in the air McG....I had to do the same thing for Blacky this morning and I put that up in the Coffee Shoppe LOLOL  We do take care or our furry ones...
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Post by: Agent0013 on September 14, 2023, 01:13:05 PM
McCartney is the cat with allergies here. He had that a few days ago. I used wet paper towel to give him some relief. When I help him he never fights it, even when my help is a bit painful. He knows I'm doing it all for him. After, he gets in my lap and thanks me in his own way. He really is a good cat.
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Post by: thelufias on September 14, 2023, 03:29:14 PM
Yup...the only one who shows signs of allergies is Blacky One.  Blacky Two, Stripes and none of the little ones have that problem.
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 16, 2023, 11:05:23 PM
Mogwai does have allergies, but very minor and light compared to Tattoo's   But Tattoo had perfect teeth, Mogwai has bad teeth.  He had an allergy outbreak that seems to have triggered his getting an abscess in a tooth.  Again.  It seems to be clearing up after emptying itself, which is much of that messyness I was cleaning off his face.  He has taken up residence in a large box in the kitchen thats waiting to go out to trash Monday.   His appetite had gone for a few days, but is back now.  He is enjoying good food, nice apartment, fresh litter box and lots of loving.  He happy :o)
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 19, 2023, 09:32:15 PM
I woke at 9pm, roll to the kitchen and see two empty bowls and one cool kitty pacing, talking and purring.   He needed some FOODS he did!   Cleaned his bowls, got fresh water down and a full bowl of Purina Seniors chow.   He had an abscess for sure, and he lost his lower right canine this time.   The socket is healing up and he got his appetite back now!   Yippee!  :yippee:
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Post by: thelufias on September 20, 2023, 07:37:52 AM
That's great news for sure.  Got all of the outside and inside tribes fed LOL....
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Post by: sanbie on September 20, 2023, 05:22:25 PM
Oh that's great news McG...when our pets are happy...we are happy!!
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Post by: McGrandpa on September 21, 2023, 07:22:13 AM
Yep Yep Yep!   (remember Ducky from Land Before Time?)  (was a dinosaur animated movie from the 80's, KIDS show!)  (but we all loved it!) So, Mogwai is still officially a Senior, an old fart....he hit 60 this year.  OR 11 actual years.   After a few early years,  we see their years as 4 cat years to 1 actual year.   He is long past his teens and twenties for sure.   He needs old grandpa naps just like I do!   Still, when he's up, he is happy, wants his scratches, and any playing that comes his way. 
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Post by: Agent0013 on October 06, 2023, 09:05:12 PM
We have a new member in our happy family, a female kitten rescue about 7 weeks old. She has some unusual markings, that will make her super easy to identify if she is lost, and then found.
She took to my brother and I right away. she has a healthy appetite, is very loving, and had made us fall in love with her really fast. Because of the markings on her head and ears, we named her after Halley Berry's CatWoman character secret Identity "Patience".
Here's a few photos.
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Post by: Aelin on October 07, 2023, 06:46:43 AM
She is sooo cute! Congrats for that new baby in your family Agent!
How is it with your other 'babies'?
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Post by: thelufias on October 07, 2023, 06:59:23 AM
Awwwww......so sweet.....Good for you and your brother for doing that. 
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Post by: Agent0013 on October 07, 2023, 09:30:05 AM
She is sooo cute! Congrats for that new baby in your family Agent!
How is it with your other 'babies'?
Cookie Baby is keeping her distance from Patience, and she hisses and growls at her if she gets too close. McCartney is working to become friends with Patience. Patience is quickly warming up to him.

Patience is obviously happy to be with us, as we spend good quality time with her. She already feels safe with us, and she is playful in a delicate way; so cute to see her play. We feed her three times a day, making the portions just enough for her tiny belly. She eats with gusto, going at it like she's ravenous. LOL
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Post by: Aelin on October 07, 2023, 01:40:22 PM
Perhaps Cookie Baby sees her like a rival for your love and attention. It's the reason for why Eleni isn't my baby but the one of my Mom. Because Nenya could have been jealous. And in fact, at the beginning he was, even if he was patient and mainly kind with our little one. But now he understands he is my boy, and Eleni isn't.
But Cookie Baby will probably take care sooner of the little one. In a moment you'll turn your backs, just for you don't see her "in fault" by taking care :tearlaugh:
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Post by: Agent0013 on October 07, 2023, 05:18:00 PM
Cookie Baby is a jealous cat, not wanting to share me with the others, much of the time. But, she will come around, sooner or later to welcome the baby of the family. When I first got Itty Bitty, she took her under her care, and soon they were the best of friends. Then when I moved in with my brother, the two of them blamed each other for the move. Itty Bitty then ran away, and I never saw her again. Since then we have had three other cats join our family. Two were killed by dogs, and the other one is McCartney, and we still have him. He needs a female that is not fixed, and we decided the best way for that to happen is to get a female kitten. By the time she is old enough, we want her to become McCartney's mate, and produce at least one or two litters before we get her and him fixed. With her markings, we're sure the kitties will be born with interesting fur patterns. McCartney is a grey tabby, so imagine what the patterns will look like.
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Post by: McGrandpa on October 08, 2023, 12:54:56 AM
Patience Phillips!    I remember that well, it's still a great movie.   Good name for her.  Congrats man!  Good thinking about breeding some before neutering.   I wish I'd had that opportunity with Tattoo.  But, he came to me at 8 months old, nearly full grown and already neutered.  Mogwai might still respond to a female in heat.  Not sure.  Yes, the vet did the fixing on him.  Time will tell.  :)
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Post by: Agent0013 on October 08, 2023, 02:01:53 AM
Patience Phillips!    I remember that well, it's still a great movie.   Good name for her.  Congrats man!  Good thinking about breeding some before neutering.   I wish I'd had that opportunity with Tattoo.  But, he came to me at 8 months old, nearly full grown and already neutered.  Mogwai might still respond to a female in heat.  Not sure.  Yes, the vet did the fixing on him.  Time will tell.  :)
I had McCartney in my arms yesterday evening and Patience came and crawled up to snuggle with him and me. He was the perfect gentleman cat, like I knew he would be. She has already taken to me and him, and of course my brother. Cookie is the one being antisocial thus far. She'll get over it.

Yes, that is an excellent movie! Halley makes a perfect Catwoman! She makes me eyeballs pop outta me head to look at her in that hot looking catsuit! :hubbahubba:
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Post by: McGrandpa on October 08, 2023, 10:21:37 AM
Not just in that wild cat suit, but That WALK!   MMPHH!   Woohoo!   :java:  (that's dessert with coffee!)
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Post by: Agent0013 on October 08, 2023, 10:24:56 AM
Oh yeah! She looks Smokin' Hot walkin' away! :hubbahubba:
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Post by: McGrandpa on October 10, 2023, 03:58:44 AM
Even at/over FIFTY now, she is still HAWT!
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Post by: Agent0013 on October 10, 2023, 09:33:15 AM
So true! :yes: :yes: :hubbahubba:
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Post by: McGrandpa on October 11, 2023, 11:18:05 PM
We have Cat Woman costumes in 3D yaknow.   That's got my brain on a roll.   I think we came up with my MUSE for a while!  :D
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Post by: McGrandpa on November 11, 2023, 10:36:19 PM
Oops.  The brain had a flat.   :cry2: :OMFG:
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Post by: Agent0013 on November 24, 2023, 03:42:46 PM
Our new feline family member, the kitten we named Patience, has an unusual way of playing. She finds something she decides is a toy, and dances with it. She jumps and spins around with kitty grace, looking like a feline ballet dancer! It is amazing to watch. She also jumps and flips over backwards. She's a regular little acrobat, or should I say acrocat?!
We estimate her age at about 3 1/2 months. At that age she is already eating as much as Cookie Baby eats; looking like she swallowed a baseball afterwards. She's smart too. We had to change the eating arrangement for all of our cats, because after she finishes her meal, she wants to finish the other two cats' meals as well. so we finally settled in on a routine, and she picked up on it immediately, knowing exactly where she gets hers, and where we put the other cat's dishes during feeding time. McCartney and Cookie Baby sometimes leave a little in their dishes. Patience licks her dish clean, and will do the same with theirs if they leave any. Makes washing their dishes much easier.
When Patience wants some attention, she'll stand on my chest, and look me in the eyes, meanwhile putting her paw on my mouth, gently. It is so cute, I cannot resist petting her. And like the other two, she loves to bury her head in my beard. All of our cats love my beard. Makes me think I better not cut it off! LOL
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Post by: McGrandpa on November 28, 2023, 06:42:05 PM
Patience seems to fit right in with the whole gang of you!    How do Cookie Baby and McCartney take to her?

We have had first freeze, and also first snow (on Good Friday!).  So Mogwai is growing his Winter Coat now.  All his undercoat of very soft hair is getting longer.   He is looking like a sheep!  LOL!   We had a couple dark brown field mice decide to come in the house from some hole or other.  Mogwai brought me one to the kitchen, laid it in the middle of the floor where I usually park the chair.   I made the usual Good BOY! fuss over him, he looked suitably pleased and next thing I know he just jumped straight up off the bed where he'd been napping, and the mouse chase was ON!   I think he is deliberately letting this one live.  So he can play with it, and practice his skills.   I have seen him corner it twice, so he IS letting it live.   For now.    BUT the dang mouse had crawled OVER him and surprised him, on my BED!   I don't want it in bed with me, sheesh!
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Post by: Agent0013 on November 29, 2023, 12:02:12 AM
Patience seems to fit right in with the whole gang of you!    How do Cookie Baby and McCartney take to her?

We have had first freeze, and also first snow (on Good Friday!).  So Mogwai is growing his Winter Coat now.  All his undercoat of very soft hair is getting longer.   He is looking like a sheep!  LOL!   We had a couple dark brown field mice decide to come in the house from some hole or other.  Mogwai brought me one to the kitchen, laid it in the middle of the floor where I usually park the chair.   I made the usual Good BOY! fuss over him, he looked suitably pleased and next thing I know he just jumped straight up off the bed where he'd been napping, and the mouse chase was ON!   I think he is deliberately letting this one live.  So he can play with it, and practice his skills.   I have seen him corner it twice, so he IS letting it live.   For now.    BUT the dang mouse had crawled OVER him and surprised him, on my BED!   I don't want it in bed with me, sheesh!
Cookie Baby was standoffish at first, but now she is getting to be more accepting of Patience. On the other hand, McCartney and Patience took to each other almost immediately. He lets her play attack him, and sometimes acts like he has been brought down by her. The way it happens looks comical, and make us laugh. When it is time for bed, I often have all three of them sleeping on or against me, and each other. I woke one night and found Patience sleeping on a sleeping Cookie Baby's back, with Cookie Baby on my left leg crossways. McCartney was right next to her, also asleep. So it seems our cats are pretty much accepting each other now. Cookie Baby does sometimes growl at Patience or McCartney when she wants some alone time. If they keep bothering her, she moves to a spot where they won't bother her. From there she watches them, and if they come her way she gives a warning growl, and will swat at them if the insist being with her. Cookie Baby is the oldest of them, and she thinks she's the boss. They let her be the boss most of the time, but sometimes they want what they want, and insist more strongly. Then I either step in if things get too heated, or if things remain mild, I let them work it out. If the fight is happening on my lap, I step in and prevent it pronto. Not gonna be the "cut to ribbons battleground." LOL

Edited to add:
McCartney would catch the mouse and gobble it down in a heartbeat. Cookie Baby does that sometimes, but when she does, she always leaves something to cleanup. As for Patience, we think she is going to be a good mouser, because of the way she is so energetic when play hunting. Even so, I think McCartney will continue to rule in that department. He is one amazing mouser! Nine in just two hours one time, when we lived in the RV trailer. That just might be a world record!
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Post by: McGrandpa on November 30, 2023, 12:43:46 AM
Way cool!   Cookie Baby sounds like a normal Queen.  THEY rule the world of domestic cats!   The males, as big brother or elder sorts, are usually very good teachers for the kittens.   Tattoo did that for Mogwai.   Great stuff man!
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Post by: Agent0013 on November 30, 2023, 11:18:14 AM
Way cool!   Cookie Baby sounds like a normal Queen.  THEY rule the world of domestic cats!   The males, as big brother or elder sorts, are usually very good teachers for the kittens.   Tattoo did that for Mogwai.   Great stuff man!
You got that right, McG! Cookie Baby is the Cat Queen around here. McCartney is usually subservient to her, and treats her as a true Southern Gentleman would a lady. I count myself among the true Southern Gentlemen,because I treat the ladies with great respect. That is the way McCartney treats Cookie Baby. As for his relationship with Patience, we believe he knows why we adopted her into the family. When she gets old enough, she will be his mate. We want her to have 1 or 2 litters before we have her fixed. That will instill the Mother Instinct into her; at least we hope it will. For now, she is quite happy with us.
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Post by: McGrandpa on November 30, 2023, 10:54:26 PM
I hear ya!  Just don't go counting kittens before they're born!  ;o)_
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Post by: thelufias on December 01, 2023, 07:44:58 AM
I wake up every morning with at least 4 out of the 6 on the bed snoring away.  Good thing I'm not a restless sleeper LOL....and they take turns as to who ends up on the bed I guess.  Henrietta and Bootsy are always on the bed...but the others change up as to who gets the next berthing spot LOLOL....
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Post by: Agent0013 on December 01, 2023, 03:25:17 PM
I hear ya!  Just don't go counting kittens before they're born!  ;o)_
We know. Anything can happen before the time she is old enough to mate. The fact that McCartney and Patience are getting along well is encouraging though. I think Cookie Baby will likely get into the Grandmother role if and when it happens. We are hoping everything goes smoothly concerning this, but as always we are preparing for possible troubles, in case they occur. With McCartney being a handsome Grey Tabby, and Patience being the most unusual Tuxedo we've ever seen, we are wondering what their offspring will look like. Some of his offspring in the place we used to live were interestingly patterned; with one black and white female tuxedo, he sired some awesome looking Grey Tabby Tuxedo cats, both male and female. We were seeing a Grey and Orange Tabby Mix also, which was a very unusual looking cat. She had patches of the two colors all over her body, plus a few white patches. Another of his offspring was a male that looked like a Dark Chocolate Tabby. I thought he was a real handsome kitty. Another male had the front part of him all white, and his rear half all Grey Tabby. So McCartney's genes are quite strong. And the way they mix with other types is very interesting. Patience is mostly white, with just a few small patches of black here and there. The largest patch of black is on her head, looking like the Catwoman cowl from the movie Catwoman starring Halley Berry as the Catwoman Patience. This is how our kitten got her name. That said, she is not actually a Patient cat by any means. She is also a very insistent cat, determined to do what she wants to do, despite our wishes! She is also displaying plenty of intelligence. We like that, although it could mean a fair amount of troubles with her in the future. I and my brother are accomplished cat trainers, though; so we shall see how that works out. Hopefully her smarts will have her learning what we will allow, and what we deem a no no. She seems to be getting it thus far.
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Post by: McGrandpa on December 02, 2023, 09:12:11 AM
I cranked up the heater this morning, and  around 2 will likely tone it down a bit.   Meantime, even though I usually like it kinda cool, I want to be warm today!  And I greeted Moggie this morning, but left him snug on the back of the sofa.  As cool as it is now, low 30's most mornings, Mogwai won't move from whatever spot he's warmed up already.
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Post by: thelufias on December 02, 2023, 09:23:57 AM
Woke up to 27 degrees....Told the outside critters to gobble the wet food down fast....as if I have to tell them that....it's gone as soon as I turn my back to come inside LOLOL...  Warmed up a bit though...it's 32 degrees right now..
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Post by: McGrandpa on December 05, 2023, 01:20:27 AM
I woke up at 7:30, looked at the window, still dark as heck.   I sat up, noted the text from the nurse, wanted to see me at 8:00 am.  I go SHEEIIT!  I got 30 mins to get ready and in the living room with a cuppa coffee!  So I get in The Chair, and head for the kitchen like I am driving the Thunderbolt Greaseslapper....bang it on every corner, get coffee going, get the cup ready.  Check Mogwai's food and water, make that cup and put on another while sipping that first down quick.  Then looked at the glucometer, it says it is still Monday Dec 4.  I get to my room and see it is even darker out.  It is now 8:00.   *PM* !!!  I am 12 hrs early!   LOL!  Mogwai didn't care one way or t'other, cause he got to sleep in bed with me.   Right against the back of my legs.  I could feel him purring whenever he did.  Heh!   Cool weather, he sleeps a LOT!
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Post by: thelufias on December 05, 2023, 09:08:24 AM
LOLOL.....Hope you were that prepared 12 hours later LOLOL
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Post by: McGrandpa on December 11, 2023, 02:50:19 AM
Well, yes, I were, actually!  LOL!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 14, 2023, 08:13:08 AM
Eleni has found an activity he likes: he looks screens. Yep, technologic lil guy at his moments. But not for everything.
He looks 3d movies (it started with Epics) for example.
And on internet, he loves to follow daily life/adventures of a little monkey in an Asian country; that monkey was saved from an abandon. Only knew humans. And the other evening, I learnt Eleni was looking that little monkey sad because his "Daddy" was traveling for his job. Eleni in this occasion put his pawn delicately on the face of the monkey, like to comfort him.
With movies, he just tries to reach the characters to interract with them :tearlaugh: And last evening, Harmonie joined his dance!
Nenya prefers to rest quietly on his place; if he wants to look, he just have to open his eyes.

But the other day, I found 2 mouses we hide some times ago - I even forgot their existence until then :tearlaugh: Both of them having a big ball at the end of their tails. The problem at the time we hide them was Harmonie was playing to put them in the water. For the moment, she stopped that.
2 mouses for 3 cats is working. Eleni likes to look the Twins playing with, and when one stops, he takes the mouse.
Nenya still loves the pink one more than the blue.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 14, 2023, 08:34:25 AM
Sound like all our critters are doing good and learning new tricks.  Boo Bear is now best friends with Cali today...I'm not sure if they all realize that they all are related...with the exception of Ozzy.  They all have the same mother...and lord knows who the fathers are....LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 14, 2023, 01:25:49 PM
Well their Mummy knows where her babies are. I'm sure now you took 3 in once, she is telling to the next "this is a cool home, several of your siblings are living there. Try your luck" ;)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 14, 2023, 04:59:26 PM
Yup...she's still hanging around here along with Blacky Two.  I think Blacky One has passed away sometime during the fall...he was not doing well at all and as time went by he did not want to be bothered with...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 15, 2023, 07:32:26 AM
So sad. Unfortunately, even with good wills, they live rarely in their old age in the streets.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 15, 2023, 08:01:38 AM
Yup....I agree.  But now the little ones hang around Blacky two and Stripes, the mother of all of these kitties and the new member of the group....Grumpy....Yes...I renamed the neighbors cat that they abandoned.  He's got to eat since catching his food without claws well be tough...not impossible...but tough.  And being indoor cats since they were kittens, he and his sister have no hunting skills and that doesn't help matters.  Don't know where Snowball is...I don't see her around.  Hopefully someone took her in...she doesn't hiss and spit like snowball does.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on December 15, 2023, 08:10:54 AM
That's disgusting, specially when they have no longer their claws.
If he isn't too much "wild" when you'll be able to put the kittens in the shelter, maybe you can brig him too. He deserves not to stay outside with no possibility to defend himself.
I guess Snowball is fully white? If so, unfortunately, the white cats are very often deef; and then, they have more risks with running vehicules.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 15, 2023, 03:48:48 PM
Nope...Snow ball is a Calico like Grumpy....The kids named them when they got them...The kids suffered in this as much as the cats did.  And then to top it off....they moved out without telling anyone and left a mess inside and out....I feel sorry for those kids....what a poor example of parenting those two make.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 24, 2023, 02:12:27 AM
Mogwai is having himself a BLAST the last few nights.   Weather changed again, for wet and warm this time.   Each weather change brings a few new mice into the old house.   And you can see it on Moggies face, "OH BOY!  MOVING TOYS!"   I wake up and the room is in disarray.   Stuff on the bed table scattered, odd things on bookshelves knocked off, trashcan tumped over with contents on the floor.  Yep, he was close on the tail of a mouse!    When I find where he left it (dead of course) I will make a due fuss over him being such a Great Hunter!   Then go flush his catch.   Meanwhile, he has no shortage of tiny squeaks and scratchings to enjoy everywhere in the house!   Merry Christmas, Mogwai!

And to ALL, a very Merry Christmas too!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 24, 2023, 07:12:49 AM
Our clan has toys that don't move thankfully LOLOL.....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on December 24, 2023, 10:41:13 AM
Patience found one of my hair bands, and made a game up with it. She figured out how to stretch it a bit then shoot it across the room. She immediately chases after it. Sometimes she manages to shoot it up in the air, and will jump to catch it before it gets to the floor. For a kitty that is 4 to 5 months old, she's quite smart. Reminds me of Cookie Baby at that age. Cookie's favorite toy was a pink feather duster. She would hug it with her front legs, and traipse around the place on her hind legs; very comical!
Anyways, I plan to give my old hair bands to Patience, when they are stretched too big for my ponytail or my beard. Yes I tie my beard sometimes.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 28, 2023, 01:12:32 AM
Ha!   Mogwai has two upright pine 2x4's to use for scratching posts.  And he loves using them, not the furniture.  He still plays with his regular toys, specially one white stuffie cat or puppy, can't tell what it  once was anymore.  He sometimes lays on his side, hugging that thing, and purring himself to sleep.   It is a real 'moment', to wake up, with me on my side, Mogwai on his side right up against me, and him hugging his stuffie and sound asleep.  Never even realized he'd got into bed, till I woke up.  Heh!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on December 28, 2023, 01:25:20 AM
VERY early Christmas Day, I had a scare.  A  electrical fire kind of scare!  I kept hearing this  sizzle like sound then a light POP sound.  Hmm.  No taste or smell of hot copper, no smoke or fumes of any kind.  No warm outlets.  No sparks.  SsssssT pop!  there it is again!  I waited a good while, but called Alan  over as soon as I figured he'd be awake.  He came in, all groggy from sleep, and that sound repeated, several times, and he found the problem.   I keep a Walmart shopping bag in my small trashcans for liners.  Cheap, always have some, and right size.   A mouse had fallen into the bedside one, the sizzle sound was it racing up that bag and the pop was it falling  to the bottom.  To my ears, it sounded like 30 years as an Electrician taught me a bad connection sounds like.  I guess my ears just ain't what they used to be!  DANG!   LOL!   
Then, later on throughout Christmas Day, Mogwai caught FOUR of the little rodents!   Oh I made lots of fusses over him being such a GREAT Hunter!   He got all the meat treats he could eat too!  :oD
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on December 29, 2023, 01:04:57 PM
That's some adventure for the both of you.....Santas presents to the furry one....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 07, 2024, 05:20:53 AM
Wasn't it ?!!!?   Had me and Alan laughing for most of the morning.    Plus, Mogwai caught even more mice after those!     

We who never met Oz face to face, still develop a great fondness for him.    So, we each find our way to say "Good Night ol man, sleep in peace."   And we will all miss hearing about him.   Great guy, your Oz!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 07, 2024, 09:27:33 AM
VERY early Christmas Day, I had a scare.  A  electrical fire kind of scare!  I kept hearing this  sizzle like sound then a light POP sound.  Hmm.  No taste or smell of hot copper, no smoke or fumes of any kind.  No warm outlets.  No sparks.  SsssssT pop!  there it is again!  I waited a good while, but called Alan  over as soon as I figured he'd be awake.  He came in, all groggy from sleep, and that sound repeated, several times, and he found the problem.   I keep a Walmart shopping bag in my small trashcans for liners.  Cheap, always have some, and right size.   A mouse had fallen into the bedside one, the sizzle sound was it racing up that bag and the pop was it falling  to the bottom.  To my ears, it sounded like 30 years as an Electrician taught me a bad connection sounds like.  I guess my ears just ain't what they used to be!  DANG!   LOL!   
Then, later on throughout Christmas Day, Mogwai caught FOUR of the little rodents!   Oh I made lots of fusses over him being such a GREAT Hunter!   He got all the meat treats he could eat too!  :oD
Mogwai sounds like a mix of Cookie Baby and McCartney all rolled into one cat. What I mean is he seems to have traits that the two of my cats also have.
Now I cannot sleep on a flat mattress, because it messes big time with my asthma, so I sleep in an easychair that is reclined. I'll go to sleep with one cat either beside me, or between my legs, or on my chest (that never messes with the asthma). I wake to go to the bathroom, and I am Cat Central Sleep Station. And all 3 are there sharing warmth with each other and with me. They get warmth from me also, so it is of mutual benefit to all of us. It did not take Patience long to take her place in the system and routine. To get up and go though, it is a bit of a struggle, making them all move so I can. LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 07, 2024, 09:45:35 AM
McG...Everything that was his is still being used by the others....which is only right since they loved him also.  Not a one of the little ones miss the opportunity to sleep in his spot and cuddle up on his blanket....they loved him...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on January 07, 2024, 09:52:05 AM
I still have THE toy of Puce. The Twins weren't allowed to play with when they come at home. For a piece of property for Puce.
Since she left, I took it from its place and they smelt it. Very very interested. And before Christmas, I presented it also to Eleni. Obviously, there is really something interesting with the toy, because he wanted to follow it step by step and even further, like the Twins (but in that occasion he smelt it the first and never saw the Twins doing it).
Otherwise, all spots of Puce are taken since a long while. Such at the exact place on the bed. And all other toys are theirs, like she wasn't a playing lady except for balls. Mouses, even with a ball at the end of the tail weren't her thing. The 2 with ball at the tail seemed even unnatural at her eyes :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 07, 2024, 12:54:18 PM
Yup....I'm glad they are playing with Oz's stuff....They still smell him on the toys and sense that he's around everywhere they go in the place...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 08, 2024, 08:25:39 PM
That is wonderful, Dan!   I am sure they will look for him, far down the road of Life.   Mogwai saw and smelled Tattoo when Alan brought him in to me, to love him and say goodbye.   Mogwai too does the rounds to all Tattoo's spots.   Except my lap. 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 08, 2024, 08:27:10 PM
Be back later, I have a cat occupying the desk & keyboard right now!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 09, 2024, 08:29:25 AM
LOL....My morning starts out with the clan on my bed trying to get me to feed them breakfast....and they are PERSISTANT.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 10, 2024, 03:22:12 AM
Heck Mogwai don't wait for morning.   If his bowl gets even low-ish, he sets up to hollering at me.   While I am sleeping, he puts his face right in mine and "ROWRRRR!"  If that doesn't work, he has some little slipping accident walking along the headboard 2 x 6 and thus, claws my head somewhat.  And if THAT doesn't wake me up, then he bites hold of the nearest finger and pulls hard on it!   Then as soon as I rouse up at all, he starts head butting my hands or arms, purr-meowing and being ever so sweet.   Hmpfh.  Right.   OK, lets go inspect the damage.   Ah!  It's empty!   Quick fix for that, fresh water, all set buddy.   Then that ever so sweet cat growls at me for interrupting his eating.  HA!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 10, 2024, 03:25:37 AM
Um, I can type these longer messages cause Mogwai is freshly fed and now snoring in his bed on the couch.  Really!  LOL!  Yes I did put  a cat bed on the couch, and he likes it there, not on the floor.   Weirdling!   :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 12, 2024, 08:10:11 PM
As of yesterday, Mogwai began doing things a bit different.   He is in a very playful mood now.   Read that to say MOST of the time.  He is sneaking up on his 12th birthday too.   Oh he loves the hands/feet under the covers thing.   Something moves, ATTACK!   Sometimes with growls and scratch/kicking too!   But all with that playful expression on his face.   He doesn't have that look with the mice, for sure.  I don't want to see THAT look while we are playing!   Clearly he is feeling much better lately.  That is great!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 12, 2024, 10:26:41 PM
It's good to hear that Mogwai is doing a lot better, and getting back into playing! I wish you and him all the best.

Cookie Baby will be 14 in April, and she is still playful. But these days she spends lots of her time cuddling with me. My brother says she pines for me when I'm gone a while. Clearly she loves me with all her heart. When she is feeling the need for some good petting, she pushes her head into my hand. It's so endearing, I cannot help but love her back. Sometimes when she sleep with me, she lays her ear against my chest, listening to my heartbeat. She also likes it when I hold her in my arms and dance with her, to some great music. Sometimes I pet her to the music, kind of vigorous, but not hurting her. She is really into that.

I figure she may have only a few years left, as she is quite old for a cat. I will alway cherish the time I have with her, and when she is gone, she'll live on in my memories and my heart. I only wish she could have had some babies of her own. I would have kept at least one for an addition to my extended family. Of course I hope she lives longer than I expect. She's still rather healthy for her age. All I can do is keep on keeping on with her, and enjoy every moment I have with her. I can do that for her, at least.

McG, you keep on keeping on with Mogwai, too. He is your great companion, and I know he loves you a lot. I'm sure you love him a lot also. Cherish your time with him, and let his love heal your heart.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 13, 2024, 03:47:15 PM
Glad to hear you have an active cat once again McG.... 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 13, 2024, 09:52:50 PM
Yep, he is more than a companion or friend.  He is family!  :D   :mwah:  It is weather like this that makes both of us cringe at the thought of opening an outer door!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 14, 2024, 11:06:46 AM
Just think....I have outside critters that are at my door at 6AM demanding to be fed LOL....Even in -8 degree temps like today....but alas...no wet food for them....just dry.  The wet food would harden to quickly in this temp.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 15, 2024, 04:05:34 PM
You seem to be their best source of food, Dan!   I don't laugh at that either.   It is a great kindness you do, and you do it just because it is right to do so.   Me, I am not the hard hearted ignorant sort I once was.   I have a soft spot for ANY critter that is needing help these days.  Yeah, even snakes and spiders.   But FLIES, I simply put them out of my misery.   :OMFG: :explode:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 15, 2024, 05:10:22 PM
Our cat McCartney is a self reliant cat for sure. He catches and eats his prey quite a lot. Since we Moved from High Falls, GA to Macon GA, he has fattened up even more, because the new area has plenty of mice and rats. He knows where to find them, and is really good at catching them. He is now among the biggest cats in the area, and still we feed him twice daily. It gives him a reason to be loyal to us, and he certainly is loyal.

The other day, a stray dog decided to try attacking me. McCartney got right between the dog and me, and dared the dog to come any further. The dog decided he did not wish to be the victim of McCartney's claws, and ran away. McCartney chased him until he was far enough away for McCartney to figure I was safe.

Watching him do this without needing to be prompted amazed me, and I was laughing at how he made that dog run away. The dog even yelped when he thought McCartney was near enough to slash at him, and the cat was a few feet behind him. Afterward, McCartney came back to me, and looked me in the eye, as if to ask, "Are you OK!"

"Good Boy! Thank you, McCartney!" I said to him and reached down to pet him.

How many cats do that? I have heard of, and seen some, but most are the opposite, running away from the dogs. McCartney though is not afraid of any dog, and will protect his humans when he thinks he needs to. Still, it is funny to see him lording it over the local stray dogs!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 16, 2024, 05:32:04 AM
Some of my cats have done that.  Not all, for sure, but some have.  Like Tattoo.   He was never afraid of any dog, but a huge great dane puppy did walk right up and stick his nose right in Tattoo's face once.  And he never saw it coming.   He freaked right out!   And became this new fur puffball suddenly attached to my left forearm!  Hissing and spitting like a Gatling gun!   I scratched the pups head and said gently 'Go on now, I gotta calm my buddy down!'  The pup snorted and moseyed home, next door to us.  I still got a few little scars from that scene, but an incredible memory too!
What you describe is what seems to be the defining difference between Cats n Dogs.   You can teach a dog to do that, just that way.  You don't have to teach a cat to.  THAT is simply part of their nature.
Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, thanks to humans and their animal husbandry.
Cats generally come in one very small group of size ranges.  You can change bits of their looks through husbandry. But, the fundamental CAT is still the same.  Even breeding with wild cats, they still tend to be 13 lbs as the mean.   I have had many cats through the years.  Males tend to be the larger, and have averaged 12 - 14 lbs male, and 9-10 lbs female.    Tattoo was a 13.5 lb pack of muscles.  That was the Bengal cat.   An Asian Leopard Cat female was in his line, just 5 generations earlier.   He got intelligence, strength, speed and a few personality traits to boot.   At the same time, you could still see the good ol everyday CAT in him.   It was the gorgeous coat that drove the Bengal program.   We got quite a bit more than that.   But do note, the CAT is still right there!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 16, 2024, 08:20:33 AM
You seem to be their best source of food, Dan!   I don't laugh at that either.   It is a great kindness you do, and you do it just because it is right to do so.   Me, I am not the hard hearted ignorant sort I once was.   I have a soft spot for ANY critter that is needing help these days.  Yeah, even snakes and spiders.   But FLIES, I simply put them out of my misery.   :OMFG: :explode:

We get all sort of critters come over here for food as some of the photos I posted will show.  Everything from other cats in the neighborhood to skunks, possums, racoons, a mother and two baby foxes, and others who are night feeders and I have not seen yet...LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 16, 2024, 11:36:26 AM
Some of my cats have done that.  Not all, for sure, but some have.  Like Tattoo.   He was never afraid of any dog, but a huge great dane puppy did walk right up and stick his nose right in Tattoo's face once.  And he never saw it coming.   He freaked right out!   And became this new fur puffball suddenly attached to my left forearm!  Hissing and spitting like a Gatling gun!   I scratched the pups head and said gently 'Go on now, I gotta calm my buddy down!'  The pup snorted and moseyed home, next door to us.  I still got a few little scars from that scene, but an incredible memory too!
What you describe is what seems to be the defining difference between Cats n Dogs.   You can teach a dog to do that, just that way.  You don't have to teach a cat to.  THAT is simply part of their nature.
Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, thanks to humans and their animal husbandry.
Cats generally come in one very small group of size ranges.  You can change bits of their looks through husbandry. But, the fundamental CAT is still the same.  Even breeding with wild cats, they still tend to be 13 lbs as the mean.   I have had many cats through the years.  Males tend to be the larger, and have averaged 12 - 14 lbs male, and 9-10 lbs female.    Tattoo was a 13.5 lb pack of muscles.  That was the Bengal cat.   An Asian Leopard Cat female was in his line, just 5 generations earlier.   He got intelligence, strength, speed and a few personality traits to boot.   At the same time, you could still see the good ol everyday CAT in him.   It was the gorgeous coat that drove the Bengal program.   We got quite a bit more than that.   But do note, the CAT is still right there!
I see you know cats the way I know them, with perhaps one difference. Even cats that are normally wild, and I'm talking about the big cats like leopards, lions, panthers, etc., seem to be attracted to me. I have a good bit of Native American in me, with ancestry from a Cherokee Medicine Man. A distant cousin at the Cherokee Reservation recognized me as a member of his family, able to sense things about the weather, as well as having a strong affinity to cats of all types.He told me that my totem animal is the cat. With all the cat related events I have experienced in my life thus far, I have to believe he is right about that. When I met that Medicine Man, I had my first black cat Sylvester. The only white in his fur was just three hairs on his neck behind his chin. He was not just my companion; rather we were like soul mates, knowing each other's mind at any given moment. He was also a free spirit, whom I allowed to roam freely. I knew he could take care of himself, and he proved that many times over. When I last saw him, he knew that I was going to be moving away soon, and he also knew I could not take him with me. I knew that if I could have taken him with me, he would have come willingly, because of how connected were were to each other. I had him off and on for nine years, and I know he lived a good few more years after I last saw him. I had two other Black Cats after that, and I named both in his honor, Sylvester 2, and Sylvester 3. They were my soul mates too, but not like him. In fact, I was Sylvester 3's protector from, dogs and other male cats. He disappeared one day and I later learn he was picked up by Animal Control as a supposed stray, even though he had a collar with his and my name on it, and a tag registering him as my pet. It was a collar made of leather by a friend who was into leather crafting. That collar would not come off without a human to take it off of him, so how he was considered as a stray is beyond me. Now Sylvester 2 was my silly one. He would do crazy cat antics to get my attention. If I laughed, he just redoubled his silly antics, making me laugh harder. Then he'd jump into my lap for a petting session. He got cornered by a pack of wild dogs, and they tore him to shreds. I killed as many of them as I could when I caught up to them. I had called Animal Control about that pack before they killed my cat, and they did nothing. So since they would not come out and catch those dogs, I took it on myself to end the danger to other cats in the area in my own way. I don't like having to do things like that, but if I have to, to keep people's pets safe, I will. To me that is a big part of Animal Control's job, and if they are not doing that, why are we paying their salaries?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 21, 2024, 12:34:52 AM
I guess I am lucky, Cleve.   Here in Pampa we have an animal control guy that feels as we do.  He loves Life!   He has cats and dogs of his own.   And while he hates taking any life, he does what is necessary to save other lives.   Repeat offenders of the Leash Laws dogs here are caught, fixed then adopted out if their behavior is good.   There have been a couple HUGE dogs, with strong bulldog and Rottie traits, he didn't want to tangle with.   But, they were terrorizing the are, had bitten a couple of adults, eaten some small pets like cats.  Those ain't around no more.  Their owner/breeder is known, and also known for deliberately turning her dogs loose at night.   They usually come home on their own.  But now, when we in the hood see them, we call animal control.   This guy is a BIG fella, like The Shaq big.   So if he don't wanna tangle with a dog, I just ask if it's the 'breeder'.  And I get worried.  Because this person just reoffends on and on and on.   I figure I got to go to court and make complaint against her.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 21, 2024, 01:08:18 AM
Just about two years ago, my brother and I had a tuxedo cat named Buster Boots. He was killed by two really mean mastiff breed dogs. There was a neighbor in the area that was breeding them and making them mean. That neighbor hated cats, and taught his dogs to corner and kill them. I got in that SOB's face about his dogs killing cats, and told him I was going to round up the cat owners that had suffered loss due to those dogs, and we were getting ready to sue him! The witness to the event when our cat was killed had a smartphone video of what happened, and when I watched it I was torn up inside! It was all I could do to keep from stomping that SOB into the ground. We don't live in that area now, as we moved in late June of 2023. I heard that the dog breeder is still at it. He needs to be chased out of that community for his extreme antisocial behavior.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 22, 2024, 06:16:47 AM
I have heard we ain't allowed to kill humans for what their animals do.   Reallllly?   We see bout dat...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 22, 2024, 11:25:10 AM
I don't want him dead, I want him to feel the pain of losing his dogs, and to be banned from ever raising dogs again!

Animals are affected by the way they are treated, and once someone makes an animal mean, it usually cannot be retrained to be docile. That is especially true for dogs. They learn certain types of behavior according to the people that raise them.

I'm not against dogs, as I have had my share of them, and all of my dogs were good dogs, because they were raised in a loving environment. My family's dogs and cats were friends with each other, and would protect them as one of their own family members. They had a strong sense of loyalty. My first cat 'Sylvester', and my first dog 'Pepper' even slept together. Pepper had momma instincts long before she ever had a litter of puppies. She did not get pregnant until she was 7.5 years old. She got hit by a pickup truck when she was 9, and coming home to have her second litter. She was in labor and did not think to look both ways before crossing the street. The accident killed her and her puppies before they could be born. It was not the fault of the driver in any way, but seeing it happen affected me heavily. Even now I am still affected.

Still, none of our dogs ever attacked any of our cats, and we'd never allow that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 24, 2024, 05:31:52 PM
You have had a lot of joy, and some sadness, in your life with your pets.   I guess that is gonna happen if you keep them all your life.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on January 24, 2024, 11:54:14 PM
Yes, that's true. It's good that the joy far outweighs the sadness. As for living most of my life with pets, I'd have it no other way. They help me keep what little sanity I have, and the love between them and me is so real, as to be unmistakable!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 25, 2024, 01:37:30 PM
Agreed.   Mogwai is doing some new things I am noticing.  When we are lying down, and he is in front of me against my tummy, he will turn and just watch my face a while.   And I talk or sing to him, he does the 'quiet speak' (mouth moves, no sound) and bump or bang his nose into mine.   His neck is strong!  While I am wearing it, he gives my prosthetic leg a good smelling over too.   I am waiting for him to just jump onto my lap one day.   :D :hug:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on January 31, 2024, 01:15:34 AM
Yaknow, I can tell Mogwai is an old man now.   When I got up, noticed he wasn't in bed with me, I went  looking for him,  He was in Living room asleep in his bed on the couch.  I started calling his name, talking to him softly, and watched him sleepily raise his head, look over at me, and his ol head just plopped right back down.  He heaved a big sigh and went right back to snoring.  Sometimes, waking up can be a long painstaking process, for cats as well as hoomans!  :o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on January 31, 2024, 09:12:38 AM
Tell me about it......When you have 5 of them wanting to eat at 6AM it's even worse....they WILL NOT let you get back to sleep until fed....and once I'm up.....I can't get back to sleep so my day starts at 5:30AM
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 01, 2024, 09:18:35 PM
That Munchkin with the pacifier is a riot!   It will never quit, never think its legs are too short, never have to duck when running under furniture!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 08, 2024, 08:18:47 AM
We humans often miss seeing that important shift between simple acceptance, and total adoption by our furry babies! 

TL, your entire clan totally adopted you, as shown by their all running riot when they are UP!   :D

Same for you, Aelin!   And Cleve!   Um, and me too, by my Force Of One!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 08, 2024, 09:45:25 AM
Yes indeed McG....though, like today, a time out goes into play every now and then.  Love being greeted by the outdoor clan also.  The two kittens did great this winter because it was actually mild except for a couple of weeks of below zero temps, which they weathered well in their houses full of straw.

They now greet me on the top step as I go out to get their food bowls and wait at the bottom of the steps when I bring out their breakfast LOL.  Then I have Stripes joining them, and Blacky II, and a new one....A big white one with orange markings and a orange/white face.  She's not use to me yet so goes running when I come out....but only runs to the vehicle and sits under it...and when I'm on the top step...I see her slowly making her way to the food.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 08, 2024, 04:35:45 PM
We humans often miss seeing that important shift between simple acceptance, and total adoption by our furry babies! 

TL, your entire clan totally adopted you, as shown by their all running riot when they are UP!   :D

Same for you, Aelin!   And Cleve!   Um, and me too, by my Force Of One!  :D
My brother calls me the "Cat Whisperer", because they all want to be with me most of the time. Sometimes they compete for the cuddle position.
Patience has begun doing a new thing, petting my beard. It's really so cute when she does that, I can't resist petting her back.
McCartney likes to bury his face and head in my beard, which I like also. I have to pet him when he does that.
Cookie Baby has been my number one for a long time, and she knows it. She pushes her head into my hand when she wants some petting. Of course I give her what she wants.
All of them love me a lot, and I think they see my as their Daddy. I'm a proud Cat Papa!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 09, 2024, 06:14:46 AM
Head jammed up into beard . . . I called that Tattoo's cat hug!   He'd jam his head up in the beard and just purr and purr.   Mogwai has his own 'hugs', he beats up my hand/fingers/forearm with his nose.  And pushes HARD with his nose!   At first I thought he was just cleaning his nose out on me.  But nope, no boogers on me!  It is definitely him being affectionate.   Heh! 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 09, 2024, 11:39:26 AM
Head jammed up into beard . . . I called that Tattoo's cat hug!   He'd jam his head up in the beard and just purr and purr.   Mogwai has his own 'hugs', he beats up my hand/fingers/forearm with his nose.  And pushes HARD with his nose!   At first I thought he was just cleaning his nose out on me.  But nope, no boogers on me!  It is definitely him being affectionate.   Heh!
I figured you would know about that "Head in the Beard" thing, seeing that you have a luxurious beard. I have one that compares to yours. Patience's way of petting me is by stroking my beard with her paw. The also gets right in my face and looks me right in the eyes, purring loudly. Of course I pet her when she does that, to encourage that kind of behavior.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 12, 2024, 08:40:59 AM
I do encourage that sensitive behavior too, Cleve.  I love finding what new thing he comes up with next.   Yesterday, he was jammed up against my back sleeping.  He woke when Alan came in and started banging my spine with his nose.  Hah!   Mogwai enjoyed the pregame shows with me, and puppy bowl XX was cute at least.  Then about time for kick off, Moggie went over to the couch, curled up and went to sleep out.  Heh!  :D
Alan had come in proudly holding up a ROKKU and parts, then went to living room and attached it to my TV in there.   Cool, it worked great, and I now have YouTube TV, and many other great networks and channels.   And I watched the Superbowl in glorious 4K HD and saw Frisco get doused in the last 1 minute of the game.  Was a good game though!   And I have a lot to explore on that Rokku. 
The eggheads mostly say that to dogs and cats, we are just an ocean of pixels.   Well, I have observed that cats and dogs recognize all sorts of things on tv's and monitors.  Like people, critters, scary things and happy things.  At times, Mogwai even tries talking to some thing on the TV.   And if he watches my doings on the monitors, he often tries to play with the cursor.   At first, he even tried leaning in and turning his head various ways trying to see under or behind the cursor.   Then just pat the cursor with a paw. 
With a smartphone, we could make a game for cats.   Like a pong sort of thing, where he can try to catch the ball.  And being touch, if he did, make it squeak like mouse or bird he caught!  Hey  yeah!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 12, 2024, 01:17:30 PM
Yeah, Eleni loves the cursors too. He tries to pass the paw behind the screen and also along to reach it. But he loves in general what is moving in the screen.
Even TV screen can appeal him sometimes.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 13, 2024, 03:05:25 PM
Ha ha!  Eleni sounds like a cool kitty!   Did he look behind the monitor for whatever was on screen?   First time I saw that was when Tattoo was figuring this stuff out.  :o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 13, 2024, 03:12:24 PM
He still try a little for the comp, probably hoping for a sudden secret door. But mainly he looks the screen and try his paw in all directions to enter into.
Concerning the TV, he stopped to put on his back legs at the bottom of the furniture. Now he installs himself on the low table. And time to time he tries to go to 'meet' the DVD reader because he sees us turning on the TV and putting those fancy shiny disks in the engine - then the images come.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 13, 2024, 04:42:11 PM
I'm glad my critters find it boring to sit on my lap while I'm on the computer....  They pay NO attention to the screens at all....and I'm certainly thankful for that LOLOL.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 13, 2024, 06:06:17 PM
Most of the time Mogwai lays on the desk facing me.   So he doesn't see the screens to mess with them.  When he travels in little hops from floor to bed to desk he sees the screens then, and if I am moving the mouse around, he notices it.  Sometimes he ignores it, sometimes he plays with it.  When I am having a battle with the Sentinels on screen he sometimes tries to get in on the fight.  Heh!  When he does I usually lose the battle.   And he looks at the sudden death screen and his expression is "Hey what the heck?!?!"  Then he looks back to me and goes ROWRR?  like he is telling me to get it back.  Hah!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 13, 2024, 06:42:25 PM
Oz was the one who I couldn't have in my lap if I was on the computer.  He was after my arrow Constantly.  The other ones get bored when they sit on my lap and I'm on the computer but if I have the TV on, they love watching it and finally fall asleep....Nothing more comforting then a sleepy furry one on your lap purring away.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 13, 2024, 08:46:45 PM
Cookie Baby is on my lap right now. She does that a lot while I'm on my computer. She doesn't seem interested in what is on my screen and doesn't mess with the connector cables. For her it's about being with her daddy; Me.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 14, 2024, 07:12:34 AM
Eleni doesn't need to come on me, he just have to sit near the screen and watch. Today, he tried to eat the cursor. The screen has always the mark of drool :tearlaugh:

There is something funny happening at home. The Twins still like to play, but not like when they were babies. Eleni loves to play, but he tries to be "an adult" by sleeping with the others; still he has his crazy moments.
Since 2 days, the Twins are back at some moments to play like babies. Even more than what Eleni is doing now. You see big cats with or without toys pasisng under your nose, and you you try to don't fall on them :tearlaugh:

During a while, Puce and Giroflée liked their TV nature shows. They could hear and see other animals and that was fun for them. It was also at that period that I missed to change the channel and children series started after the nature shows. So they started to look what was that, and they looked for "Animalia" and specially Iggy D'Iguana :psycho:

Like you Agent, Nenya is interested by me and not by the comp. He tried a little, but after a moment he chooses to look at me. With eyes that even Pussy in Boots couldn't challenge him!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 14, 2024, 10:23:29 AM
I have two "Needy" ones who constantly vie for my attention....Puss Puss and Henrietta.  Puss Puss more so now that Oz is no longer with us.  Oz and Puss Puss were best buddies.  So I have Puss Puss sitting with me a lot...Henrietta just wants to be nearby...but at night...none of them takes her spot on the bed...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 15, 2024, 10:08:32 AM
I got up this morning, and Mogwai got up with me, both of us stretching.  Then off to the kitchen, meds n breakfast.  That done, I come to the desk and Mogwai to the sofa for yet another nap, HA!
All through the night, about every 2 hours, Moggie was up, and talking up a storm, and beating me with his nose like "Hey  pet me, that is what being in bed is FOR yaknow?!?"   Really?  Aw, c'mon buddy!  BUMP BUMP PUSH SHOVE!   NOW!   Ok ok I'm petting, ok?  zzzzzzz
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 15, 2024, 06:19:31 PM
Take that times 5....and in the morning....it's a nudge, paw, nibble, whine, climb under sheets and nibble toes, lick the ears, etc etc etc....Until I get up and feed them....After that they ignore me for an hour or so while I catch up with things on the puter....and then it's time for snacks...Nudge, paw, nibble, whine and constantly jump on the lap and lick my face...after licking their ass...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 16, 2024, 06:48:15 AM
 :(ROFLMAO: Unfortunately, it's pretty common with cats to do the last action you described
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 16, 2024, 08:54:34 AM
LOL....Unfortunately for us.....so true LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 16, 2024, 11:07:24 PM
Yeah, so right guys.   I  just read online that when cats do the butt in your face thing, that is their way of letting others know they really LIKE you.   Imagine that.   :whatthe: :lostme: :odd:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 17, 2024, 08:28:18 AM
And here I always thought it meant "Kiss my ass...I'll do what I want to do"  :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 17, 2024, 01:32:34 PM
I think both theories apply in that matter :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 17, 2024, 05:34:51 PM
:yesway:  You are so right :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 17, 2024, 06:46:42 PM
Aelin, that must be it!  Eeeewwwwww . . . . yuck
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 17, 2024, 11:22:23 PM
When one of my cats tries to put His/Her butt in my face, I gently push it to the side. Two of our cats have really stinky gas, and I don't want that in my face. Now they rarely stick their butts in my face. Instead, McCartney and Patience put their face right in front of mine and they look me in the eyes while kneading my chest. Cookie Baby decides to use my right arm as her cradle, presenting her belly for me to rub. She loves that. I can do that with McCartney too, and he loves it.
There's a right way to rub someone the wrong way! I wrote a song about that!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 18, 2024, 06:12:34 PM
Our clan bugs us in shifts.  They'll bother me for a few hours....and when Lorna wakes up....it's her turn to be the cat whisperer....and it's back and forth until Lorna has to go into the office and work....then I get them the rest of the time. 

But I have a secret weapon I use on them.  I play with them and won't let them relax and then they get worn out and all take a nap for a few hours....woooohoooo
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on February 18, 2024, 10:04:34 PM
I still play with Cookie Baby, and she enjoys it; even though she's almost 14. I play with Patience too, and sometimes with McCartney. He is the laid back one, and it's hard to get him to play; but sometimes he gets in the mood, and I take advantage of that. Patience is the rambunctious one, and when she plays, her antics are so comical and cute, she makes us laugh.
Sometimes I will sing Pink's song "I'm Gonna Start a Fight" while playing with them. They love that.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 24, 2024, 09:48:53 PM
I have been having a kind of rash of 'seeing' Tattoo trotting around the place, and hearing his voice in the distance.   But he isn't too far, buried with other beloved furry relatives behind the garage.   Our Family Cemetery.   He and I were together longer than I was with any other animal.    But, Mogwai is CATching up!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 25, 2024, 06:40:55 AM
It's cool when it happens, isn't it?
One day, Puce showed herself - not the first nor last time. 3 days later, she litterally passed a door of the flat before my Mom. We decided to call the vet, to check if they had news from her ashes. They didn't call but the ashes were there... since 3 days.
Since few times, I can time to time feel hair passing on my leg while the 3 cats are sleeping further in the flat.

All I can tell is she isn't the first we see or hear or feel. But clearly the strongest and longest to do.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 25, 2024, 12:45:07 PM
We know when Oz makes a visit....All 5 of the furry clan will stop what they are doing and look in the same direction....and follow his path through the house.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 28, 2024, 08:35:33 AM
That kind of thing used to freak me out.   Then, I remembered hearing that our human babies and most of our furry family can see the "unseen" ones in the spirit world.   Just like those ones were standing right in front of them.   Now it's just normal.    :hug:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 28, 2024, 06:28:38 PM
Yup....you learn to accept......and be grateful that they cared enough to come back for a visit....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 28, 2024, 10:11:29 PM
I just wish I could give the Ol Man a good hug and scratching!   
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on February 29, 2024, 11:47:06 AM
Just put your hand out....Close your eyes....and you WILL feel it....believe me.....I know and so does Lorna
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on February 29, 2024, 01:13:25 PM
Some times they can also come into our dreams.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on February 29, 2024, 04:35:36 PM
He does Aelin.     And I will do what TL suggests.  Even if I end up hugging Mogwai, he sure don't mind!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: sanbie on February 29, 2024, 05:33:25 PM
Yep...I have one of my cats who passed years ago...she still jumps up on my bed at night and tucks in with me...I love it.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 01, 2024, 01:45:16 AM
Gonna hop in my WayBack down memory lane thing.   My first cat, the first one that ever claimed ME.  I named it Baby.    She was born, nursed, weaned in the same house I lived in.  Her and all her litter.  Don't recall how many were born that litter, just that there was a bunch fur babies and their Mom was ol Calico.  She was a good old cat.  Always there.  Was still there when I left for boot camp, not there when I got home though.   But, Baby was the runt, and nobody thought she would make it, so small and weak.   But she did.  One fine day as I was headed to the front door, she darted out and latched onto my pants leg.   Three steps later, I was outside and she was on my shoulder.   SHE got there, no getting put by me.   I thought, cool!   So, I left her there, got on my bicycle and headed to my buddys place.    Neighbors greeted me as usual, but when they saw me with a kitten on my shoulder they made a range of expressions.   Got to my friends place, parked the bike by their steps, spoke to his mom as she hollered me in.   Went up and woke my friend.   He sat up, got quizzical looking, said "What the hell is THAT?"  Oh right, David meet Baby, Baby, David!  She claimed me when I  walked out the door just now.   That was the summer before I started high school.   She stayed with me constantly from then till I went off to Coast Guard Basic in California.  She stayed real tiny, about the size of a normal 8 week old kitten.  But she was grown.   She had plenty of appetite, so being underfed wasn't it.   Three years that cat stayed ON or close to me.   She was kinda like a living ornament.  She caught and ate flies.  YUCK.  But she liked em.   Her balance was amazing.  She liked riding my bike with me, her front paws on the handlebars, and hind feet on the frame.   She didn't fall off.   And she loved going anywhere at all.   When she wanted a nap, she climbed atop my cap, curled up and slept.   She didn't meet me at school when it let out in afternoon.  She waited for me on the front step at home.  We had fun playing together.   Her fave toy was any bit of string or ribbon.  Easy to please.  I miss that little black cat.   Pure black with yellow eyes.  Baby, I miss you girl!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 01, 2024, 08:13:07 AM
No pets allowed where I grew up....Housing Projects....well...unless you consider mice, rats and Goldfish a pet...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 18, 2024, 11:30:33 AM
Mogwai.   I gotta write a song for him!  :)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on March 18, 2024, 02:28:14 PM
My Mom said to me that this morning she heard the ball with a bell inside pushed to play with. She arrived in the seconds to see if it was Eleni or one of the Twins playing with, and congratulate the cat. The 3 of them where laying or sleeping in the places she left them. No one had moved.
Yet ball had moved and did it few times after that. Cats still not moving to play with.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 18, 2024, 03:06:24 PM
Hummmm.....I wonder what's ringing the bell :java:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 20, 2024, 05:00:51 AM
EEEEEK!   A  M-m-m-MOUSE!    :OMG: :phfft:


Mogwai got me up at 4 am.   Then ran off the bed out the door toward kitchen.  He did that again when I didn't just hurry up.    Third time he put his icy cold nose right on my nose purring like crazy.   ARRRGH!   Ok I'm up!  And he hopped off the bed, all 4 paws spread, landed running right under my chair and to the kitchen,  seems he was hungry.  Ya Think?   ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 20, 2024, 05:17:59 AM
I have been feeding Mogwai Purina Cat Chow for Seniors for a couple years now.  He likes it ok.   If his bowl is empty,  he fusses at me till I put more in it.  Heh!   Must be pretty good.   Tattoo is the only cat I had for 13+ years.  Was hoping for 20, but we can't  predict nature.  Mogwai turns 12 in two weeks.   So, the vet says that's pretty old, he is in his 60's in people years.  He still plays and acts all corny when he is excited, sometimes just takes off running full speed all over the house.   Then, comes and stops right along side me, then literally flops over against me and sleeps.  MY Buddy!  :D
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on March 20, 2024, 08:15:42 AM
Until 2022 and the lose of her sister, Puce was pretty a playing girl. Born in 2007. So you see, around 15 years old before she started to be 'more quiet'.
I liked to be able to make her play, such has my hand below her cover. She knew what it was, but liked to jump onto, and to roll on, and to bit it. Not counting the action of back legs :tearlaugh: But she made her best to do it softly.
Before 2022, she liked her balls, or simple wild rushes. Some ribbons or thin cord was ok for her too. Oh, and one rectangular cat toy, with catnip inside. She loved that one, not to play with, but to sleep with during the day; and to rub her head on also, even without catnip smell. She never was a catnip girl. I think it's the color (a nice orange) which made her happy.

So to end, Mogwai can be a playing guy for a very long time.
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on March 20, 2024, 09:18:05 AM
Enjoy all the time your cats give to you, especially the playing, and most definitely the cuddle time! When my cats want to cuddle, each one has their own way of showing it:
Cookie Baby has two main ways, and sometimes combines them;
Getting on my stomach and kneading it with her claws means "Come on! I wanna cuddle!"
Crawling into the crook of my right arm means "Ahhh! A nice place to curl up and cuddle!"

McCartney just jumps onto my lap, starts purring and headbutting my chin, then rubs his face in my beard, meanwhile doing the kneading wherever his paws happen to be.

Patience is still developing her habits, but her main way is to climb onto me, look me in the eye, rub her face on my hand or push her head into my hand, then plop down in her kind of languishing laying, stretching her hind legs one at a time, (trying to look sexy, I suppose). She will then explore my beard by pushing her head through it, worm her way up to my face, and gently nibble the tip of my nose, at which point I shoo her away from my face. Finally, she lays in the crook of my arm, or on my chest, and pets my beard.
So two of my cats love my beard. I can't say whether my beard loves them or not! LOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 20, 2024, 10:08:10 PM
Mogwai is piled up on desk now.   Real hard to type this way!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Agent0013 on March 21, 2024, 10:10:21 AM
Mogwai is piled up on desk now.   Real hard to type this way!
Try having three cats blocking your view of most of your screen, and you cannot see your keyboard at all! LOL
And you just can't resist petting them when they do that.
Another thing my cats all do is wiggle their way into my arms between me and my smartphone, so that I cannot see what I'm doing on it! One time I was typing a text message, McCartney comes and bumps my hand in a way that causes me to tap the screen several times. When I finally was able to see my screen, a cartoon cat image was staring back at me! How McCartney did that I don't know, but I do know it was a big surprise to me! Maybe cats have magical powers!?!?
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 23, 2024, 06:36:52 AM
Naw man I think Google just saw them coming!   Maybe he meowed into the microphone ;o)
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 23, 2024, 07:16:48 AM
Boo Bear has decided he likes this spot.....I kinda told him....No you don't.....so far he has stayed off the fridge...
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 23, 2024, 07:18:31 AM
Click on the picture for a closer look LOLOL
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 23, 2024, 07:52:39 AM
LOL!  That is truly . . . a CAT!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 23, 2024, 08:13:23 AM
Indeed.....but he is my morning cuddle bug...and aggravator :tearlaugh: 
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: Aelin on March 23, 2024, 03:19:32 PM
Harmonie and Eleni are the 2 ones trying to jump higher. Eleni is the winner, specially when it's "no" and he does his best to don't be caught when we try :shrug:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 23, 2024, 04:00:29 PM
If our cat family members were any bigger and had opposing thumbs, we would REALLY be in trouble!

Tattoo had figured out how to open lever type door handles, cabinet doors, some simple latches.  And he got onto Mogwai for copying him doing that too.   Hissing and swatting his head.   But both were excellent jumpers, climbers, mousers and best of all, cuddle bugs!
Sometimes, while petting Mogwai here on the desk, I feel like it is Tattoo there.  I try to be careful not to speak his name to Mogwai.  He hops down till I get that right.  He is a very sensitive boy.   And he loves when I show him he pleases me.   I try to do that all the time too!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 23, 2024, 05:03:46 PM
The one thing no one can deny....our furry family members are certainly entertaining :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 24, 2024, 03:54:11 PM
Absolutely!   :viking: :shock: :explode: :thumb_up: :java:
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 27, 2024, 08:20:17 AM
I love this time of day.....After they eat their breakfast.....they all take a LONG nap.  I've got Bootsy, Puss Puss and Henrietta in my room...all sound asleep...and....Cali and Boo Bear are in the living room....Sound asleep.  Ahhhh.....Peace and quiet....
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: McGrandpa on March 28, 2024, 02:50:25 AM
AND we enjoy it while it lasts!
Title: Re: The Pet Shop
Post by: thelufias on March 28, 2024, 08:04:33 AM
Indeed.....I'm laughing my butt off because Cali is on my bed watching TV and meowing at something on the screen .... Didn't make it in the bedroom in time to see what it was....