Cats, cats, cats

GG - I'll try raw chicken and boiled chicken just to see what happens. Even one week without barf will be a miracle.

Spookie - Love the picture. My cats love boxes too, any shape and size, even the one we use for recycling. They get into it and throw all the stuff out on the floor. Gotta love cats, they make life more interesting.

Oddly enough the ferals never seem to throw up unless they are going somewhere else to do it.

My husband and I are having a new house built, starting this summer (weird because we are mid seventies and life looks a lot shorter now) but my problem is this. Provided the ferals make it through this winter (it's relatively mild so far in Ohio this year) I will want to move the ferals with me. Have read you can't move them to a new spot, so now what?? Can't leave them because whomever buys this house surely won't want 2 feral cats with it and the responsibility. We are only going about one mile away yet I am worried I can't transplant them. Any thoughts on moving feral cats??

I don't know if this would work. Use the type of trap used for catching ferals when you take them in for spaying/neutering and put the butter on the bottom so they would have to step on it to get to the food at the back of the trap. just a thought.

Thank goodness I proofed this. Autocorrect turned ferals into freaks.

H ladies, I love this thread! Here is my little January being my doctor since I am in bed with a cold. She is my darling little Ewok rescue cat.

About the "skittish older pet" thing. In my family, since I was a child and lasting for years and years, we always had a (big sized) cat and a small size dog. We started with having the cat already then when the cat was an adult someone gifted me a Tibetan Spaniel dog (I was about 12). From that time on, for a little over 30 years, they raised each other: the old cat would die, a kitten would be adopted and be raised by the dog, the dog would get old and die, a new dog would be adopted and be raised by the cat, and so on. It worked wonders. For some reason they were all males except the last cat - by then both me and my sister were moved out and my parents were getting too old to walk a dog three times a day so the cat didn't raise a puppy.

Love the ewok cat and the autocorrect!

Trying to go to bed last night. My fat Whippet is taking full advantage of the pillows that are set to allow me to sleep propped up. Look at my long haired cat's face, he's like "yea, may we help you?"

Too funny!

ruthbru, so funny!

Teka took a sniff before I placed the X-mas red amaryllis back on top of the refrigerator.

Teka loves the smell of fresh cut cat grass behind the red amaryllis.

Great picture of Teka

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Jan 3, 2016 12:06PM - edited Jan 3, 2016 12:08PM by Teka

Daughter and Boyfriend took an outdoor stray cat to a no kill shelter. The elderly lady that was feeding the cat up and moved. The shelter doesn't take feral cats that are caught in live traps.

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Daughter and Boyfriend are keeping track of Arthur at the no kill shelter.

I just had to share this.

Conor has been practically screaming at me for half an hour, not plain meowing, he was looking at me and almost screaming desperately. Really scared me because I couldn't figure out what was the problem. Wasn't lack of food or water, he didn't seem hurt, I was starting to worry that he's hurting or sick or something.

Then finally I figured it out: he had lost his break-away jingle-bell collar. And THAT is why he was throwing such a fit. I found it - probably fell off when he and Seamus played - and put it back on him and now he's on top of their cat tree, purring with a smug face.

So cute. Ha! We all know who the masters are and who are the pets!

Arthur is adorable - I'd adopt him!

Hissy fit over losing his collar...love it!