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I'll see if I can locate a piccie!
No, that's no use. I won't change my opinion! http://i42.tinypic.com/mmpy1j.gif
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Here's an up to date one and kinda makes her look bigger than she is
I found a photo:
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It doesn't do him justice, he was a huge cat and so sweet.
Thanks for throwing that pic up walps , he really was a bruiser wasn't he. I can see what you mean about him being big but not fat , you can really see muscle mass around his shoulder and hip area. Awesome looking cat
Walps :lolsign:
Geoff: have you named yourself after the German prog band? I might give 'Queen of Saba' a spin later on..
Don't get me wrong, I really like cats, but would never have one over a dog. However, having a dog at the moment is just not possible so we've given a new home to this little (actually he's quite big) fella. He's 4 yrs old and called Sid...
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Brought him home this morning and he's settling in ok - a bit wary for the first 30 mins or so (he sat under the dining roon table) but he soon came out and is presently chasing the invisible mouse upstairs. Daft b*gger.
Bella is a new addition to our household. She is a Shar Pei and is just 8 months old. Her previous owners not only starved her but beat her too. How anyone could do this to a young lady with such a loving temperament is utterly beyond me. We were fostering her initially for our local dog rescue charity but we have utterly fallen in love with her. How could you not fall in love with that face?
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Sorry for the quality of the photos but it was the devils own job to try to get her to keep still while aiming a camera at her... :lol:
More photos of our two beautiful girls, Pepper and Bella:
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Nice photos Dave :)
They look too active for me :lol:
You are so naughty Al, she is beautiful. I will tell her what you said upon which you will suffer death by licking :ner: :lol: ;)
My old mate Ginge (1974 - 1992)
Not especially big, but I once saw him climb a six foot wall with a full-grown rabbit in his mouth. Had a habit of catching and eating anything smaller than himself, but always left the stomach. Usually outside my bedroom door.
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Domestic pet position now occupied by Tuggs:
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We had a tabby like that once - his name believe it or not was Slug! He'd bring rabbits into the kitchen through his cat flap during the night & eat the lot except for one front leg and about 4 inches of large intestine - weird!
I got home from work once to find him curled up on the sofa with a proud look on his face. Proud because, laid out in the middle of the rug was a massive but very dead weasel.
Don't thing Ginger ever got any weasels, but we did find guinea pig heads on the landing on two successive mornings.:stalks:
Sid's first outing into the garden...
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Guinea Pigs - Yikes!
We lived in an old house and we got Slugger to the catch mice. He got a bit mixed up - started bring frogs in when he was a kitten and moved straight on to rabbits. I don't think he ever caught a mouse in his entire life!
I, unfortunatley, don't currently have any of my own lovely creatures BUT I have befriended a lot of the local cats, they just love me... maybe because I feed them tasty stuff
Am I allowed to post their pics??
One day I will again own my own little one.... I'm more of a Whippet/Greyhound/Saluki/Lurcher kinda person really but I love all animals really
This is all rather weird, as all ours ever bring in are butterflies, wasps and flies... In 48 years of owing a multitude of different cats, I've never had one bring into the house anything bigger than a sparrow!
However, our cats are more 'house cats' than anything else, groomed (and spoiled) to be purely pets from when they were kittens. They only get out to 'play' for a few hours each day in our garden, in largely urban surroundings, and never at night. They're also extremely pampered and well-fed (on all the best cat food), and so I guess that they feel no real compulsion to hunt for food in the short time they are allowed outside.
Perhaps that might explain the lack of 'free meals' being delivered on our carpet? :)
Abella: far too much of a princess to bother mixing with ruffians, like mice and other rodents...
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Marco.
Sounds like a good situation.
Our two are also fed on high quality cat food and kept in at night, however they are free to come and go during the day. The female basically kills anything that moves, including mice, voles, shrews and, sadly, baby rabbits - on two occasions I've come home to find the rear legs and the white fluffy tail of what used to be a rabbit sat on the kitchen floor. I've also seen her have a go at a squirrel on the bird table and very nearly succeed in catching it!
The male will occasionally bring a mouse home but is generally less interested in these sort of animals - very often when he does bring a mouse in, it is still alive and unharmed so I catch and release it. However, he is completely obsessed with birds. During the course of a morning he once killed and brought in an entire nest full of adult and baby sparrows and I then caught him trying to drag the actual nest through the cat flap! Unfortunately we do live out in the wilds of the countryside completely surrounded by fields, meadows and woods so I don't suppose all this is likely to stop any time soon!
Now if only I could persuade one of them to have a crack at the pheasant that often wanders into the garden...:eyebrows:
My mutt 'Tippy' the lurcher, is constantly trying to catch rats, but he's not very good at it. He's not caught one in the year plus that I've had him and there are plenty around here. Never mind, he's good lad.
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Decisions, decisions...
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I just love all the pussy cat & doggy pics.... I soooooo miss my own little ones... One day when I have a garden again I will have some of my own
As it is I feed the local little ones, they seem to like my little treats I leave out for them....bless their little cotton socks... !!! :D:D
Just been out feeding some very tasty morsels to the local little ones.... I also have some city foxes around here but I don't think they have ever helped themselves to the treats I've left out... Normally just the local pussies...
Our 'wee Emrys' when he was a little 'wee-er' than he is now:
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He hasn't changed much in the last year, other than being much fluffier now, and his tail has grown to being almost as big and bushy as that of a fox!! Being a feral cat, he's also totally off his nut (in a very fun and entertaining way) :mental: :D
I will take some recent pics and post them, too :)
Marco.
Cool thread :thumbsup:
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Thats Freyja, she was a beautiful Russian blue X Birman. She came to an untimely end about 4 months ago due to 'boy racers' using the lane as a race track... She left behind 6 one week old kittens too :(
We hand reared them all summer and thankfully they all survived & are now at happy new homes [apart from the cutest one which we kept ! I'll have to take a piccy.]
Sorry I missed your comment, I dont visit this part of the forum much ! Exactly :thumbsup: I feel that we did her justice :)
She now resides in the sunniest spot in the garden with a flowering fuschia bush above her... Anyway, enough morbid talk here's a rubbish phone picture of one of her daughters looking more than a little dazed :D
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Arrr James, she's also gorgeous :)
This is Clio. She arrived 2 or so years ago. The story goes like this and this is absolutely true...
Decided to go to lunch in town, walked into the barn and could hear odd animal noises, looked around and found nothing. Drove into town, had lunch, dropped the boys off at the swimming pool and drove home. Pulled into the barn and could hear the noises again. Looked around and realised the noises were coming from the car. Looked in the engine bay, in the wheel arches and found nothing. The noise seemed to be moving from front to back so we looked inside the car.... Finally we realised there was a creature in the bit where the exhaust goes down the middle of the car. Enticed it out and there you go. She'd obviously been dumped at the side of the road and found her way into the barn...looked around and no siblings. We assume that she was underneath the car on the journey into town and is very luck not to have fallen out....she would have been Clio Lane then and not just Clio (we had a Renault CLio at the time). We were all madly allergic to her to start with but took antihistamines and we now seem to have desinsitised to her. She rules the roost with an iron fist!!
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Here's "He Who Must Not Be Named" who despite our best efforts has been named Salvador as Mrs HP reckons he looks like Dali (the artist not the speakers). He's not allowed in the house but has a nice warm house/bed in the back porch. He just turned up from the farm up the hill and never left. He never shuts up!
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They're lovely, Stu. I've said this to a few people who say they are allergic to cats - that you do desensitize after a couple of days - but no-one believes me.
I have a theory about allergies that I've convinced myself will be proven one day....I reckon you can catch allergies from other people. I was never allergic to anything then started knocking around with a guy who was allergic to everything....I get allergies. Now, I'm allergic to chocolate which I know sounds odd -I don't swell up like a balloon (though I do resemble a balloon from certain angles most of the time) or anything, I just have violent sneezing fits and Mrs HP has developed (only in the last few months) exactly the same reaction to the same types of chocolate.
"He never shuts up!"
That's because he wants inside the house. Let him in, give him a nice bed or some clean laundery to snooze on, and he'll be a happy, quiet, contented puss.
Hal55
He can't come in the house I'm sorry to say. Mrs HP comes out in a very nasty rash if she touches him. In the summer he gets bathed and washed but she has to double up on antihistamines and wear rubber gloves...oh, and the black beast pictured previously would "have him"! He is sort of inside in the porch with a nice little house built for him with lots of nice warm bedding...
'Do you mind? One is trying to eat one's tea!'
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An up-to-date shot of our little long-haired ginger tom, 'wee Emrys' (now 2 and a half years old):
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Marco.
Marco-that moggy of yours took 10 minutes to download!