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Post by Dagoth Gibber on Mar 12, 2006 19:11:05 GMT
Ah, but when they are worth £250 each, you dont want to risk them escpaing or stuff.
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Post by beansprut on Mar 13, 2006 16:59:28 GMT
well. what about keeping the indoors? or fencing the whole garden really high?
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Post by Cheesel the Menace on Mar 14, 2006 10:36:49 GMT
Actually, it's not to do with the cost of the cats, but for us. We live near a railway line, beansprut. Already three of ours have been killed on it, and I'm going to say quite frankly, that it wasn't nice collecting what was left. Now, with the cats in a cat-run, they can have some joy of being outside, but they have very little risk of catching diseases (which some have died from), no fleas or ticks (we live in the country), and it saves us a whole lot of heart ache if they go missing. One of our cats years back now, a full-Siamese called Raji, we never found out what happened to him. Our Tonkinese are part Siamese, they're born to wander. Building up a high fence would be nigh on impossible, because we do live in the country. Besides, they'd just climb over it, no offence to moggies, but most pedigrees are *very* intelligent. Chianna's our most intelligent one, but they're all exceptionally good a expressing themselves. Bibi, our queen, hates people sneezing or blowing their noses, so when anyone does that, or she hears an annoying sound, she'll give a jagged miaow - and you know that she's swearing at you. I mean, they say dolphins are intelligent, but I bet our cats could give them a run for their money. Yeah, I guess you could say it's selfish keeping them caged in, but hey, I love my cats, one in particular and I honestly would be heartbroken if anything happened to her. Me and Dotty are amazingly close, everyone says it, when I first started going to Uni, she got so depressed because I wasn't in there. So yeah, I want as much time with my cats as possible. I know I will outlive them, that's the downside of getting too attached. But, it's worth it. They grow up with the cat-run, so they know no different. Occasionally some silly bird or mouse will get in, so a bit of play for them. We try and rescue them, but our cats are *good*. May-May can usually jump into the air and catch them 'tween her paws. ;D But because they are girls (and one sissy boy) they don't kill them usually (female cats usually bring their prey back to their litter alive so the kittens can play with it and learn). Occasionally they'll get something, or we give them the body of any birds we find killed. But because they're also part-Burmese, they like to lay about doing nothing a lot of the time. ;D Their favourite activity is laying on a water-cooler, looking down into the tortoises' cage, they love the UV lightbulb. It's warm. *sigh* I miss them.
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Post by beansprut on Mar 14, 2006 20:42:26 GMT
My garden backs on to a railway line and we haven't lost a cat that way yet. On the other side of us is a main road. We have lost cats that way before, but only kittens. the others always pull through. Our garden is 200ft. and the cats dont wander further than a few gardens away(all the gardens in my strtch of road are quite long). I know what you mean aboiut getting attached. All my rabbits were killed by foxes, even little fred, my first. And me and my cat Footso are really close. My mum says he makes gooey love-eyes at me. I think thats well sweet. Hes no pedigree or posh cat, but hes mine. Talking of cats being intelligent; Our Footso can climb ladders vertically and scoops up his food in his paw if he wants some out of the can. As you can tell hes a dude, so he tends to kill anything he catches, which used to be a lot (he has an extra toe to claw them with!). I reckon he got rid of most of the rats down our road when he was younger. My cat likes to sleep cos hes old. Sometiomes he watches TV with us, if its a film. But Im going to miss him when i have to leave home, or if he dies. Hes so special to me. The cat we had before, Bilbo, was a pretty cat, though i should say 'handsome' cos it was a boy, and was mopre regal, but he was less of a rough and tumble cat. Almost all of our cats have come to us from being strays, and i mean literally just pass us on day and end up coming back. *sighs* I love cats soo much. My Moggins,
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Post by Cheesel the Menace on Mar 15, 2006 1:29:14 GMT
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Post by beansprut on Mar 15, 2006 18:07:48 GMT
Very nice. Now you need to make a poem out of it, e.g.; Hell On U Sanity Exterminated
God Is Bonkers Brown (and) Execelently Rare I know not very good, but you get the picture.
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Post by fudge on Mar 15, 2006 18:25:37 GMT
i hate cabbage
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Post by beansprut on Mar 15, 2006 18:46:53 GMT
same here.
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Post by Dagoth Gibber on Mar 15, 2006 22:20:34 GMT
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Post by fudge on Mar 16, 2006 15:45:50 GMT
*celebrates house gibber day*
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Post by beansprut on Mar 16, 2006 19:40:14 GMT
and when may that be?
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Post by Dagoth Gibber on Mar 17, 2006 23:37:33 GMT
Every day is House Gibber day!
*parties*
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Post by Cheesel the Menace on Mar 18, 2006 8:16:34 GMT
Party on down, dudettes.
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Post by Dagoth Gibber on Mar 18, 2006 10:57:59 GMT
*does the Party Prance*
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Post by Cheesel the Menace on Mar 18, 2006 13:05:02 GMT
*plays the harp*
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