Random cat chat thread

[feorag]

Originally Posted by fenwoman

I wish I'd been able to grab him and shove him in a cat box cos I'd have had him to the vet in the morning, but I think I would have lost fingers had I tried.

I've no doubt you would have! The adrenaline must have been pumping overtime when he realised he was well and truly cornered!

[butterfingersbimbo]

Sounds like the tom got the fright of his life when he realised what he had got himself into, I doubt he will try to get in again, good luck catching him i think you'll need it. Brave Sadie!

Freebie has lost more hair and some whiskers too.....I am quite worried and he seems to be grooming excessively and has got more bald patches and sore bits. He's not enjoying his fusses either so he must be sore. And he's eating a lot. He's only going for Bean half the time now......

Good luck with the hedgehogs Shell and the poor kitten!

[feorag]

Can't remember what you said earlier, Emma, but wasn't it that the vet had given Freebie some steroids for the bald patch on his bum? If so, that will explain the eating!

The whiskers I've no idea about - however, the overgrooming could be a 'scratch-itch' syndrome thing. The more he grooms, the more he itches - the more he itches, the more he grooms. Seems like a steroid might be the only thing that'll break that cycle.

[butterfingersbimbo]

Morning Eileen, he did give him a jab, would it still make him hungry after five days? I always forget that steroids make them hungrier, you would think I'd know by now after all the bloody dogs.....

[butterfingersbimbo]

Well we just got back from the vet and he said it's stress so he gave him a jab to calm him down, and said that if he's still stressed in future we can put him on some pills to chill him out, so I am really relieved as was worrying that he had some terrible disease!!!!

Rather than struggle with the cat box, this time I put him in Bean's harness, vet laughed his head off when he saw what the street-wise tom cat was wearing!

[feorag]

That's reassuring news Emma!

[fenwoman]

Originally Posted by feorag

I've no doubt you would have! The adrenaline must have been pumping overtime when he realised he was well and truly cornered!

I actually felt sorry for him at one point. It was when he'd climbed the bare brick wall and was sitting on a ledge about 6 foot up.He looked right into my eyes and there was a look of abject terror on his face. Poor chap must have come through the flap almost by accident, then found himself in hell with no means of escape, first from the cats screaming and attacking him, plus the dogs, all of them, baying like they were about to kill him, then a human appearing through the door. He seemed to be saying to himself "I am about to die".
That's when I opened the door to the outside, moved near him causing him to run in the opposite direction (around the wall) and see the way to safety.
I can't imagine he will want to repeat the unpleasant experience in a hurry.

[feorag]

I know exactly what you mean - I saw that same expression on an entire tom who came into our garden and then got trapped by the cat proofing.

We sprayed him with the hosepipe and then Barry went over to the corner where he was to 'shepherd' him out of the gate which I had opened, but he must have got a huge adrenaline rush and got out over the cat proofing!

Never came back though!!

[freekygeeky]

poor thing
its not his fault he is a male ful tom is it poor thing.

i doubt he will come back.

[Shell195]

Originally Posted by feorag

I know exactly what you mean - I saw that same expression on an entire tom who came into our garden and then got trapped by the cat proofing.

We sprayed him with the hosepipe and then Barry went over to the corner where he was to 'shepherd' him out of the gate which I had opened, but he must have got a huge adrenaline rush and got out over the cat proofing!

Never came back though!!

I wish someone would give our neighbourhood cats some brains. After being blasted with water and chased they still come back and get trapped in the garden
I dont know what it is about my garden but the local cats love it especially the 2 young males from across the road, I even had them castrated for the lady but they still come back in.