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John W
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« Reply #180 on: 16:58:18, 30-07-2008 »

Yikes!

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« Reply #181 on: 17:10:40, 30-07-2008 »

Can't blame the cat, BBM. He was just trying to show you how to be a more effective hunter.
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« Reply #182 on: 00:55:16, 31-07-2008 »

My sister in Orkney (where cats are essential to prevent your house from being overrun with mice - and rats) maintains that telling a cat off for bringing in a mouse is no good at all. The cat interprets an angry voice as saying "That mouse isn't nearly big enough - go and catch me a bigger one!" so off goes the poor cat and brings back another one in the hope of approval...
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« Reply #183 on: 08:22:59, 31-07-2008 »

Well, I was'nt exactly blaming the cat, KB. Just rather annoying when your engrossed in a dvd at the time!!
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« Reply #184 on: 11:57:49, 31-07-2008 »

Worry, worry, worry. Sad

I've been keeping the door of my bedroom closed so that Pixie doesn't get in. However I'd inadvertently left it ajar and when I went in just now, she was standing on the windowsill looking out of the wide open window Shocked I hurriedly got her off - but I'm worried she might jump. Might she? If she did, she must injure herself surely? I only have large opening windows in the bedrooms, not smaller top ones. I suppose I've just got to be more careful while the weather is hot. I have the window in the computer room wide open, but only when I'm in here.
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« Reply #185 on: 11:59:28, 31-07-2008 »

Tigger was tasting Dudley's cereal-based bunny food today. Dudley, about a quarter Tigger's size, nudged him away with his whiskery face. Tigger wants to be friends but gets a bit twitchy when Dudley skips around him.

Here's a pic of Tigger guarding Dudley in the garden, taken a few days ago by Little R. As you can see, Tig's on full alert!


PS Does anyone else have a problem with having more than 6 pix in any one album in Photobucket? The 7th one is beneath the 1st and they overlap so you can't copy the one above (which is the one you've just added and want to copy)? Apart from moving the 7th to another album, how can I stop them overlapping?
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« Reply #186 on: 12:02:11, 31-07-2008 »

Worry, worry, worry. Sad
Catflap,catflap,catflap!  Cheesy
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« Reply #187 on: 12:11:17, 31-07-2008 »

Cats can jump (and even accidentally fall) quite long distances without being hurt, Andy. They quite enjoy sitting at open windows; cats like the warmth, but they can get too hot, and they enjoy fresh air. She may have been looking to see if there was a route she could use to get down via intermediate projections - or perhaps even up: they like high vantage points so that they can see what's going on: outside window ledges are great, rooftops better still. The majority of cats have very strong self-preservation mechanisms inbuilt - one of the reasons they're fabled to have nine lives  Wink
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« Reply #188 on: 12:17:43, 31-07-2008 »

PS Does anyone else have a problem with having more than 6 pix in any one album in Photobucket? The 7th one is beneath the 1st and they overlap so you can't copy the one above (which is the one you've just added and want to copy)? Apart from moving the 7th to another album, how can I stop them overlapping?

It might be a browser thing MJ, your photobucket albums look OK to me in Firefox. Depending on the width of the window I get 5 across, 3 across etc and then another row underneath. Are you using Opera?

Worry, worry, worry. Sad
Catflap,catflap,catflap!  Cheesy

Easier said than done, it would have to be through the wall, my back doors are double glazed glass. Though my brother reckons that drilling through the wall is dead easy, I'm not convinced Undecided

She'd been out in the garden earlier so shouldn't have been desperate to get out. Perhaps Ron's right, the house is q warm for her at the moment and it would certainly be cooler by the open window. There's nothing she could use to help her to get down from the window - it's next stop concrete slabs.
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« Reply #189 on: 12:31:49, 31-07-2008 »

PS Does anyone else have a problem with having more than 6 pix in any one album in Photobucket? The 7th one is beneath the 1st and they overlap so you can't copy the one above (which is the one you've just added and want to copy)? Apart from moving the 7th to another album, how can I stop them overlapping?

It might be a browser thing MJ, your photobucket albums look OK to me in Firefox. Depending on the width of the window I get 5 across, 3 across etc and then another row underneath. Are you using Opera?
Yes. This pc isn't right for lots of things but I won't be using it for all that much longer so once I have a new pc set up I'll try to get everything correctly working. (eg on this one, I can't even get email addresses to appear in the To window after typing the first few letters - I have to copy and paste or reply directly to the person I want to email!)

I agree with Ron - cats do like to breathe in fresh air from a window-sill. You'll have to place a trampoline beneath if you're worried! My parents removed some bricks from their wall instead of installing a cat flap, and stuff the hole with newspaper at night when the cats are in. The cats pull out the newspaper when they want to go out...not ideal, but a solution of sorts! (Actually a temporary solution which has remained unchanged for nearly 16 years! Roll Eyes)

Edit: Just found that if I shrink the size to 50% there's no longer a row of pix beneath so I can copy the bit I want to. Smiley
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« Reply #190 on: 13:18:21, 31-07-2008 »

On winter evenings, if the room's too warm, cats will often sit on the window side of drawn curtains so that the cold glass cools them.

I've seen houses with little ladders as access for cats to first floor windows, or a couple of small ledges on brackets on the wall below a window for the same purpose, but that does presuppose that there's someone in the house - nowadays you might not want to leave a house with windows open, even upstairs.
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« Reply #191 on: 15:21:24, 31-07-2008 »

Let's not overlook the Cat Curiosity Factor Wink She'd never been in the room before because of the closed door (contravenes the First Law of Cats, remember). Sees open door, in there like a flash to explore. It's what they do to drive us to distraction ::)During this hot weather my cats having been placing themselves anywhere they can get a passing breeze.

One of mine fell out of a first floor window once in the act of trying to catch the swinging rope on a painter's cradle Shocked He was fine, although rather baffled as how he got from the windowsill to the garden so speedily!
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« Reply #192 on: 16:00:42, 31-07-2008 »

I came across this picture of Bubbles, the cat I 'left behind'  She did enjoy sleeping on our kitchen stool !



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« Reply #193 on: 17:42:30, 31-07-2008 »

A, was she really asleep?!!

because of the closed door (contravenes the First Law of Cats, remember).
I'm not saying Tigger's stupid but he does quite often scratch on the closed oven door... Roll Eyes (Not when it's on, fortunately!)
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« Reply #194 on: 17:48:47, 31-07-2008 »

A, was she really asleep?!!

because of the closed door (contravenes the First Law of Cats, remember).
I'm not saying Tigger's stupid but he does quite often scratch on the closed oven door... Roll Eyes (Not when it's on, fortunately!)

MJ, Tigger is no fool. He knows it is the Source of All Food (apart from the fridge. Wink). Even if he doesn't want to eat it Roll Eyes
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