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MediumLoad

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Lads,

It's a week yet until Christmas and Jimmy already has three Christmas presents.

I'm not jealous or anything.

Just saying.
 
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My older lady has had a bit of a new lease of life lately. She has IBD and we’ve put her on one of those brutally expensive mail order cat food diets but she seems to really like it, her coat is so incredibly thick and soft (I never thought there was an issue with her coat but it has become even better regardless!), this and her steroid tablets keep the vomiting sessions to a minimum and her litter tray no longer smells like toxic waste. What a winner! We have a 6 week old baby and we had no idea how this was going to go, but she continues to tolerate him really well, spending plenty of time in the same room with him. She isn’t interested in interacting with him but that’s for the best. I’m impressed by how well she tolerates his crying. And she has picked up playing with toys again after a long spell of not seeming like she cared for them anymore. It’s a huge relief that our ‘first child’ is thriving!
 
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jojida

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Our girl spent all night crying at the top of the stairs because OH didn't come home (he was working away) and was all out of sorts that he wasn't home, but now he's home she's massively given him the cold shoulder 😂
 
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My sweet old cat eats all sorts. We used to have to lock the food waste bin as she would open it with her head and get all sorts out of there.
Her favourite food would most probably be a ham and cheese sandwich 🤣 she loves bread, loves ham and loves cheese! The only thing we can safely rely on her not to touch, as I think I’ve said here before, is chocolate. Which is great given that it’s toxic to cats. She needs to have a sniff of when she knows you’ve opened some, but after that she has zero interest. I deed to think how many expensive vet trips we would have had if things were different!
 
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shazbev

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Merry has decided to nap on my clean sheets airing on the bannister. Loki is busy ambushing her from the other side 🤦🤦🤦🤦
 
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shazbev

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Meanwhile the last time my cat threw up a furball I freaked out (not directly at her, I’m not a complete monster) because of course she had chosen to sit herself down on an expensive rug, the only expensive rug we’ve ever owned, to yak it up. Excellent 👍🏻
I present to you my expense rug.... covered with a grey bedsheet as both Merry and Loki think it's a super large scratch mat,.. this is why we can't have nice things (wouldn't have it any other way 😊).
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Love this 🤣
Slightly different, but when I told my mum and we told my in laws I was pregnant, we did the whole scan picture in the Mother’s Day stuff because the timing worked out quite well like that. Both of them, independently and without being in communication with each other, asked if it was definitely my scan and not our cat’s. Our cat, who we adopted already neutered several years ago. Who is in her late teens 🙃🙃🙃 it’s a minor miracle that I’m pregnant but if the cat was knocked up I’d be all over the tabloids making some money off the story 🤣
 
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MediumLoad

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My boy Thor has an internal clock that tells him to start bugging me 1 hour before food time. You could set your watch by him.
Jimmy is the same. He has a 12 hour clock that counts down from his last feed to the next one.

Anyways, I was in the bathroom this morning when I heard the kitchen cupboard door rattling. I looked and, sure enough, there was Jimmy trying to open them. There is absolutely nothing in there for him to eat - it's pure mischief and nothing else.

He was so engrossed in his safe-cracking that me asking him what he was doing was enough to make him go "Eeeep!" and flee the scene.
 
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Mamacita

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They will have seen and heard everything! The cat sitters we have had were surprised to discover that our food obsessed girl will come to the door and greet them, then fully escort them to the kitchen and demonstrate where all the food is, and once’s she’s had some, will make her way to the tap and lick it to encourage them to turn it on so she can hydrate herself 🤣 we barely need to give them instructions 🤣🤣🤣
My cat is actually embarrassing at this point when the cat sitter comes in to pick up keys he immediately does his treat dance which evolved from just a little beg standing on back paws to a full on macarena. Like let the woman walk through the door first!
 
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shazbev

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Ah, the spoils of war! Despite being 2kg lighter than her brother, Merry has overcome the Ginger beast to take possession of the marvellous empty Amazon box. Loki's gone off in a sulk 😂.
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Wooh

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First off welcome! The Kong toy is a good start, you could also distract her with other toys.

Something that's always worked for me is a quick spray from a simple spray bottle and a stern 'No!'
It might sound mean but it's harmless and they quickly learn that they don't like being sprayed.
All I need to do now is pick up a vaguely bottle-shaped item and my cats quit mucking around straight away.
So I had a cat; this cat...
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who was the bonniest, most confident cat ever. As a kitten she climbed up the drawer handles onto a bench and I sprayed her with the magic kitten training water bottle - and she leaned into it asking "more more I love this"

I thoroughly recommend Selkirk Rex breed, this lovely confidence is a trait

PS @Keikochan this cat's name was actually Bossy x
 
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