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« Reply #135 on: 22:27:43, 11-07-2008 » |
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I always liked Top Cat as well, tho he was only a cartoon version of Bilko wasn't he? Any more Pixie updates, Andy? Is she pleased with the luxurious new litter tray  Hope so for your sake. I thought I'd give you all a break from wee and poo for a while! She seems happy with the new covered tray  (colours may vary) though I've not fitted the catflap-type door, as I didn't want to put her off going into it, so she has a tendency to sit with her bottom poking out of the entrance. I had to leave her alone for 12+hours today but she seemed fine when I got home. She was sitting under the stepladder on the landing, which is where she sleeps at night. A few strokes from me and she was chirruping away. |
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Morticia
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« Reply #136 on: 23:03:35, 11-07-2008 » |
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She seems happy A few strokes from me and she was chirruping away.
Andeeee, sounds like she lurves you Gosh, that's a much posher tray than mine have. Oh Gawd, I'll have to upgrade  |
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Andy D
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« Reply #137 on: 21:50:10, 13-07-2008 » |
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Do cats prefer drinking from buckets/watering cans? I heard a noise from Pix just now and she was busy lapping up water from a bucket waiting to be taken down to my greenhouse. She has bowls of water waiting for her in the kitchen but they're obviously not quite as good. Before I brought her back here, when she was still at my mother's, I found her sticking her head into a neighbour's watering can and drinking from there.
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MabelJane
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« Reply #138 on: 21:55:23, 13-07-2008 » |
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Do cats prefer drinking from buckets/watering cans?
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #139 on: 22:04:58, 13-07-2008 » |
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And puddles (even those that look like strong coffee).
We had one particularly daft tortie-and-white who used occasionally to balance her hind legs on the loo seat, with her front paws splayed wide across the pan, so she could dip down and drink from there. (She also used to play a game of going round the sitting room without ever touching the floor: book case, chair, TV, mantle-piece, radiogram, armchair, window sill, armchair, bureau, armchair and a leap across the doorway to the bookcase and then start again....)
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Morticia
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« Reply #140 on: 22:11:53, 13-07-2008 » |
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They have also been known to drink from toilet pans as well  Sorry Andy! However, back to watering cans, my cats will regularly tip over a freshly filled watering can to get at the water. Even if there's no water in it, it still gets tipped over. Cue sound of watering can scraping along the ground as cat gets head stuck in it. Ah, I see Ron has already posted about toilets. A previous cat of mine actually used to pee in the loo as well when he was a kitten. Lord knows how he never fell in. |
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MabelJane
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« Reply #141 on: 22:19:04, 13-07-2008 » |
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(She also used to play a game of going round the sitting room without ever touching the floor: book case, chair, TV, mantle-piece, radiogram, armchair, window sill, armchair, bureau, armchair and a leap across the doorway to the bookcase and then start again....)
We had an athletic cat called Matilda when I was a child - black, half-Siamese, very vocal. She played the above game - it was known as "Feet off Ground". Her most memorable leap was onto a high shelf above the piano - a number of glass photo frames crashed down onto the floor but within seconds she was upstairs hiding under a bed, fortunately unhurt. She enjoyed playing the piano too. A previous cat of mine actually used to pee in the loo as well when he was a kitten. Lord knows how he never fell in.[/color]
Matilda's predecessor (sp?) was Dinah, also half-Siamese but tabby - sadly she died of cat flu when only 9 months old - no annual injections for moggies then. I once witnessed her weeing into the outside toilet. No-one believed me.  |
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martle
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« Reply #142 on: 22:44:28, 13-07-2008 » |
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Andy, the point you have to get used to re cats drinking is that the stuff you put OUT for them is the last stuff they'll want to drink. They much prefer dripping taps, your own glass of water, puddles, fetid pools of ooze... anything, in short, that they have 'discovered' rather than been offered.
Here endeth Cat Drinking Psychology 101.
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Morticia
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« Reply #143 on: 22:49:40, 13-07-2008 » |
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Yup, that just about sums it up Martle. This also extends to cold tea, drinking chocolate and lager. Actually, anything is up for grabs |
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MabelJane
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« Reply #145 on: 21:32:48, 18-07-2008 » |
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That's sad, pim. And after such a lovely, kind adoption by the cat. |
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Andy D
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« Reply #146 on: 00:21:21, 19-07-2008 » |
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I've been away for 3 days - see Happy Room for details - so it was very nice to get back again to see Pixie. My brother's been round here a couple of times to see she was OK and give her some strokes - and food! He even tried to get her to talk to me on his mobile but I couldn't really hear her.
Pix & I have had lots of cuddles since I got back - though she's disappeared somewhere now.
martle: I went to my brother's on Tuesday to give him my keys and watched with amazement his rather elderly cat Cassie drinking from their dripping tap! So it's not just yours that do it.
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MabelJane
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« Reply #147 on: 10:57:35, 19-07-2008 » |
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martle: I went to my brother's on Tuesday to give him my keys and watched with amazement his rather elderly cat Cassie drinking from their dripping tap! So it's not just yours that do it.
Most cats do it, given the chance. That's what bidets are for! There are lots of images of cats drinking from taps online:  |
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Morticia
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« Reply #148 on: 12:14:28, 19-07-2008 » |
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Here's the latest one from the Simon's Cat creator. This chap ought to get some kind of award. His animations are hysterically funny and so true. As those who have cats will ruefully testify ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s13dLaTIHSg |
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« Reply #149 on: 12:56:01, 19-07-2008 » |
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That's brilliant Mort!  As to the cats drinking from taps, every morning when I filled the kettle I had to let the tap run so that Portia could drink from it. Also, each night I took upstairs a glass of water - not for me, but for her! Happy memories of a lovely little cat. |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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