Hard News: Blog About Cat
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Yo Sof'- you're absolutely right: dogs are individuals too!
Unfortunately, there has been a large number of instances of dogs - paticularly & especially - killing birds in Big O. For a long time. Adult birds. Breeding birds. Which is why I'd only entertain the idea of a cat round my place. OK, my Mum's wee dog probably wont go out there and hunt - but she's a Bichon. And they demand a whole lot of attention-
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3410 - I was born with an extraordinary stomach(for digestion of extraordinary things) & set of tastebuds that can sort out tumeric from turmeric :)- which is one more reason I cant live in cities- o pity me! I have to live in glorious places and make my own fishnchips! (Which are extremely good, actually-)
but city-hardened castiron tummy I just dont have... -
Unfortunately, there has been a large number of instances of dogs - particularly & especially - killing birds in Big O.
I'd suggest that is a sign of neglect. Are ya starving them or something? And how could you suggest Bella would not probably eat birds. She's knows better.:)
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Ooo phuqe Sofie! How did you know about Iago's disappearance???
Nah, most of the dogs (in fact almost all of the bird-killing dogs - 'cos us sweet wee locals shoot the local criminal dogs) are brought in by loops who - Hey! Lookit beach! Let the dog have a run !Sorry dottrels etc.
"Hey! Bush track! Let the dog have a run!
Sorry kiwi et al-
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They also seem to prefer semi-stagnant, for some reason. I'll put out some new water and they'll ignore it and go off and guzzle from the saucer of a plant pot.
Ours was greatly disappointed when we got rid of the convenient fishtank she'd been drinking out of for the last year or so. Water and entertainment in one neat package.
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Well ;) in the Far North, Where Kiwis roam, dogs are a no no but Stella becomes the honorary cat for human reasons.As a cat? Go figure.Thems are the rules. in Kiwi protection land. She is well known for hanging out with all sorts of animals. Not judgemental at all. We got a great photo whilst up there last, of a beautiful Kiwi (on a tiki tour around the front yard), and also Kereru, couple.They are quite friendly :) Lovely photos. If you let dogs out on a blind run, one should be running with them maybe?
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I'd pay money to see Stella with a Kiwi. Such a sweet dog. You'd love her , Megan. She is, apart from my dog, one of the smoochiest creatures alive. Unless you're an Alsation. I love her.
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There are very clear messages everywhere round Big O - dogs welcome but MUST be on a leash at all times...so, FJG DoC gets dozens of messages a week about free-roaming dogs?
People can be really really stupid - and selfish-
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Unless you're an Alsation
Or Colin, the cat, but in defence, only wanted to make friends. :)
People can be really really stupid - and selfish-
Aye. Everywhere you look, there they go.
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Ha! Was just thinking about Colin pinned and rather strategically poised on the curtain in the boys room with a comment from Leo. "Hmm, don't think he's done that before".
Here was Stella just in for a visit and proceeding to make friends, with the afterthought I am sure, 'Well that didn't work." Gotta love the cool pets. :)) -
and yet they sometimes seem to be thinking "if only I were bigger, you'd be dinner"
I told our late, lamented pussy cat, Paget, regularly during the later months of 1999 that he was our Y2K emergency food supply - 9kg or so of mostly-muscular cat would have fed the family for the requisite 3 or 4 days...
stories about cats dying are the worst thing in the world to read because it's pretty much what I'm most terrified about in my life.
I'll spare you the touching tale of Paget's last moments then.
admiring the skillful segue to dogginess in the cat thread
A decent interval after we lost Paget, we got a wee doggie, and our Charlie is at least part cat. He's a Cavoodle (that's not him, but looks like him before a bath).
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Our cats used to drink out of the toilet too right up until when our oldest child was a toddler who liked throwing toothbrushes down there. By the time we were game to unlock the lid the moggies had lost the habit.
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That photo of Marbo caused some serious squee over here on Auckland's westside, let me tell you.
Glad to oblige. I got to hang out with him on the weekend. He's my favourite animal in the world. Including the human ones.
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I told our late, lamented pussy cat, Paget, regularly during the later months of 1999 that he was our Y2K emergency food supply - 9kg or so of mostly-muscular cat would have fed the family for the requisite 3 or 4 days...
Thank god, I thought we were the only people who did this. I made the mistake of telling someone the other day that kitty has always been part of our apocalypse plan, and they were horrified. Like we were totally weird or something.
Why are you all looking at me like that?
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Hah, Ngaire, same here, we've been known to tell people that our large and docile moggy is our three days' protein after the earthquake. Together with the barbeque and a huge Vietnamese mint plant that I can't imagine ever using except in dire emergency.
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except in dire emergency
Well, exactly, we're talking apocalypse, zombies, end of the world here, not just start eyeing up the kitty every time it starts raining heavily.
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and yet they sometimes seem to be thinking "if only I were bigger, you'd be dinner
Like humans do.
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They also seem to prefer semi-stagnant, for some reason.
That's most likely because water loses its chlorine once it's been standing for about 24 hours. Fresh tap water will still have its chlorine in it.
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There are very clear messages everywhere round Big O - dogs welcome but MUST be on a leash at all times...so, FJG DoC gets dozens of messages a week about free-roaming dogs?
People can be really really stupid - and selfish-
Like the time a woman in a boat decided her weasel and ferrets needed a run, on the beach, on Great Barrier Island. I try very hard not to generalise, but I suspect she was from Glenfield with a sense of entitlement larger than the hundreds of people and their hours of work over many years in securing both Little Barrier and Great Barrier against pests.
In lots of ways and in many parts of the country, the sense of protecting our bush, our birds, our native fauna is becoming larger than the right to have an animal, dog or cat.
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Just been catching up on this thread and have learned so much...
@Bart - We have recently swapped to water bottles on the bedside table too, after waking to the sound of kitty lapping... Or I take a glass of water to bed and drink it immediately, which kinda defeats the point.
The chlorine aversion explains some of the cat's bowl avoidance, but doesn't explain why it'll practically dive into a fresh glass of water placed beside the bed. Or the bath, immediately post shower. I'm told they just like to find their own alternate sources.
On the Top Model height thing, with a mother who is 4'10", these 'short' models are almost Amazonian to me. Although I'm sure still petite enough to be trained to sleep at the end of my bed...
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Like humans do
recent posts seem to support your thesis
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Oh, and in a previous flat I lived in, the cat loved drinking from the bucket-bong that was permanently set up in the lounge. Every morning. Honestly, she was beside herself when I insisted the bong-ee downsize to something more appropriate.
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still petite enough to be trained to sleep at the end of my bed
but you wouldn't get any sleep, what with the whining and hair-tossing
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Oh oh oh, and also, last time I promise - I heard that the SPCA in Auckland is giving away kittens for free at the moment, obviously due to an abundance thereof. Not sure how long the offer is open for, but if you're in the market, get in there.
(Or actually, take a kitten for free and then give them a donation anyway. They're a charity, innit.)
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but you wouldn't get any sleep, what with the whining and hair-tossing
There was a bit of commotion yesterday in Parliament as the Miss Universe contenstants came to watch from the gallery. Various single male MPs were falling over themselves to get noticed. The contestants stayed for a while and wtached the house debate. I'm told they couldn't believe how bitchy it was...
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