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The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

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    #4772
    loveisdivine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,463 ✭✭✭loveisdivine


    I was giving away some cat stuff about a year and a half ago, I offered it to local charities and I've only just seen a bunch of message on facebook from charities asking for the stuff :mad: The messages had gone into some "other" folder which I didn't even realise existed!

    Now I feel awful as it looks like I just ignored them. The stuff ended up going to a lady working with ferals, which is great, but I still feel like a bit of a douche.


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    #4773
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Felix is booked in at the vets on Thursday, he's at his bad ear a lot again. Hopefully it's not another infection. He's very uncomfortable so I gave him some of his painkiller this morning. Poor little guy:(


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    #4774
    SillyMangoX
    Registered Users Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    Hope this is okay to link here! Anyone wanna play with some kittens? You can control toys in American cat shelters over the internet :D

    http://www.ipetcompanion.com/


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    #4775
    SillyMangoX
    Registered Users Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    I'm going to kill my parents. They keep giving out about Dude constantly getting diarrhoea, which I don't blame them for doing, but I do blame them for over feeding him and giving him table scraps! A bit of chicken is fine but not salty fatty rashers -.- anything new into his system and his stomach is upset an hour later. And no matter how many times I tell them that I have fed the cats in the morning/evening they still insist on giving them more because they don't like to see the bowls empty. No wonder so many pets are obese if this is a common way of thinking. My cats get enough food to fill them and keep them healthy. Of course they are going to eat more if it's put in front of them, they're greedy little piggies! It does not mean they are starved!!! Agh!! Sorry that's my rant over for tonight :pac:


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    #4776
    honerbright
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭honerbright


    Visiting my OHs family for a confirmation and they have 4 week old Cocker Spaniel pups... I think I'm in love. Also not sure if there's a smell I love more than the smell of puppy breath :P


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    #4777
    tk123
    Registered Users Posts: 14,020 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    honerbright wrote: »
    Visiting my OHs family for a confirmation and they have 4 week old Cocker Spaniel pups... I think I'm in love. Also not sure if there's a smell I love more than the smell of puppy breath :P

    Everyone said that to me about Lucy's breath - i don't get the attraction :p


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    #4778
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I can't change the bedlinen since Toby and Poppy are sprawled on our bed, they look far too snug to disturb them:)


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    #4779
    honerbright
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭honerbright


    Did the grocery shopping in Aldi today and ended up with two boxes. Second they were empty the cats were in one each, delighted with themselves.

    Myself and the OH are talking about taking one of the wee pups we met yesterday. I fell in love with one of the girls, I put photos of her up in the other thread. She's an absolute dote. I was holding her and she got sleepy and just curled up on one of my palms (tiny!) and went to sleep.


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    #4780
    handbagmad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 650 ✭✭✭handbagmad


    Omg beautiful puppies <3 I want one :'(


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    #4781
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'm sooooo pi$$ed off with my parents. They've a neutered male and spayed female cat. They also have 2 un-neutered stray males. I borrowed a tnr trap for one of the males as I had a rescue that was going to take him. Twice since last year I got the tnr trap and both times they didn't bother their asses to try to trap him, despite saying they wanted the rescue to take him.

    The other chap is essentially their cat as every time I go over he's asleep on a recliner in the living room. I've lost track of the number of times I've told them that both males need neutering, I even offered to take the tamer one to the vets and get it done for him. But no, they haven't bothered to have them done.

    Yesterday my mother phoned to thank me for the mothers day flowers we sent. Then proceeded to tell me how both male cats are constantly sitting outside the house across the street, where the un-spayed female was 'allowed' to have a litter, and is still not spayed:mad: I pointed out, yet again, the grim reality of what kind of life unwanted kittens would have and the illnesses the males were at risk of catching from fighting. All falling on deaf ears, again.

    Honestly, it took every ounce of restraint that I had not to get abusive with the woman:mad:


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    #4782
    SingItOut
    Registered Users Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭SingItOut


    It's Moones fourth birthday tomorrow :D i'll take her into my old job at the weekend and pick her up some goodies :)


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    #4783
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I finally got rid of Poppy's furball. She won't take any of the usual furball remedies so I gave her half a teaspoon of Dairygold on Saturday and so far there hasn't been anymore coughing or wheeziness:)


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    #4784
    mymo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    Yesterday was my daughter's friends, dogs birthday (our dogs best pal), so daughter made sardine dog biscuits to bring up to her, they were a big hit, dogs all loved them, we brought choc chip cookies for the humans, but my friends husband nearly ate a dog one, even though they were shaped like bunnies.


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    #4785
    mymo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    I just laughed my arse off at the dog, he was in his bed in daughters room, looking a bit guilty, so went in for a look...2 cat toys, 3 Teddy's, 1 dog chew, a toilet roll, and several socks, as well as another tin of mackerel fillets in spicy tomato sauce!

    He's nicked and opened 3 cans of sardines/mackerel fillets in just over a week!
    I think I found his stash!

    Anyone know of any support groups for kleptomaniac dogs?


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    #4786
    honerbright
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭honerbright


    Eating dinner last night and suddenly this little black head comes out of nowhere and sinks his teeth into a garlic mushroom and runs off. I found the remains of the mushroom shortly after, the breaded garlicky bit sad long gone.
    I've never known a cat like Max to eat anything and everything the way he does. The OH reckons it's because he was stray and didn't know when or where his next meal was coming from.


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    #4787
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Felix is being a real daddy's boy today. My husband split his finger at work last night and had to be taken for stitches and a tetanus jab. He got home at about 3am and totally confused our moggies coming in at that hour. Felix was stuck to him like glue and when we went to bed he sat on the stairs refusing to let the others come up. Mr P has been signed off work for a week so Felix is loving having him around, my husband has always been Felix's person.


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    #4788
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Felix is being a real daddy's boy today. My husband split his finger at work last night and had to be taken for stitches and a tetanus jab. He got home at about 3am and totally confused our moggies coming in at that hour. Felix was stuck to him like glue and when we went to bed he sat on the stairs refusing to let the others come up. Mr P has been signed off work for a week so Felix is loving having him around, my husband has always been Felix's person.


    Its mad how cats always have a favourite, I'm definitely one of my cats favourites and the other favours my bf. Even though it was just me and her for a few months while he was away, before I got the 2nd even though I feed her and clean her trays etc :D


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    #4789
    SingItOut
    Registered Users Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭SingItOut


    Moone used to be so underweight due to her extremely fussy eating , it got even worse when frankie died and it took her a while to get back to herself personality and eating wise. When Alli came along she was back to her happy self and is now lying asleep on her bed with a pudgy little belly :) she's exhausted after her birthday celebrations :D meanwhile Alli is asleep facing the wall on the cold wood floor with her legs squished against the wall, collies being geniuses? I'm not so sure !


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    #4790
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Sarannewrap wrote: »
    Its mad how cats always have a favourite, I'm definitely one of my cats favourites and the other favours my bf. Even though it was just me and her for a few months while he was away, before I got the 2nd even though I feed her and clean her trays etc :D
    It's weird alright. My husband works a 2 cycle shift and Felix always gets a bit narky when he switches from one to the other. They hate change. The other 3 are mine. Funnily enough I'm the one who does the litter tray scooping and washing, feeds them and gives them their treats, also the one who gets jumped on at stupid o'clock in the morning when they're bored or hungry.

    They gave up on trying to wake my husband long ago, we even changed sides of the bed to give me a break, but they just came around that side of the bed.


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    #4791
    tk123
    Registered Users Posts: 14,020 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    I got a dogmatic head collar for Bailey on the off chance I might need surgery and he might be too strong etc Had to send the first one back since it was too big, tried the smaller one on him and it was a bit loose but plenty of slack to adjust it - tried it on Lucy and it was tight lol her 10 month old block head is bigger than Bailey's :p


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    #4792
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I have got to stop looking at rescue sites, I'm getting broody for a puppy, don't know why, we've got our hands full with 4 cats, so it's not going to happen. My doctor thinks I'm perimenopausal(I'm only 41):( Maybe that's what it is:confused:


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    #4793
    tk123
    Registered Users Posts: 14,020 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    A tiny bunny just ran past my feet in the car park at work!! :pac:


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    #4794
    SillyMangoX
    Registered Users Posts: 4,002 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    Back at the vets today, more antibiotics and painkillers for my lil dude baby. He started peeing blood last night :( he had another urinalysis done and it showed up clear again, but he has the antibiotic just in case. But the vet did say that he is a very healthy little boy!


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    #4795
    Layinghen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    Delighted you got good news about him SMX. You must have been worried sick. That little cat will be responsible for the high blood pressure of a lot of his fans, with all the various scrapes he gets into :p


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    #4796
    Zapperzy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭Zapperzy


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I have got to stop looking at rescue sites, I'm getting broody for a puppy, don't know why, we've got our hands full with 4 cats, so it's not going to happen. My doctor thinks I'm perimenopausal(I'm only 41):( Maybe that's what it is:confused:

    Well I go through phases of severe kitten broodiness sometimes and I'm a long way off menopause (I hope so anyways) so that's not it. :P No known cure for it I'm afraid. Jesse has stifled it in me for a while but now she's getting older I'm starting to get a bit broody for little itty bitty kittens again :D But I think youtube videos will have to suffice for now :D

    Would volunteering with a rescue or short term fostering of pups be an option?


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    #4797
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    Walked up to the kitchen to find a cat tormenting our 2 GSDs using the kitchen windowsill as her catwalk (!)

    The 2 dogs were up on the kitchen counter looking out and she was just doing her thing, shaking her tailfeather.

    She has been tormenting them for a couple of months now. She shows up in the middle of the night, sets them off barking and then disappears into the darkness. They may be fast but I don't think they'll ever catch her.

    Cats are such rascals with dogs :pac:


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    #4798
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    Zapperzy wrote: »
    Well I go through phases of severe kitten broodiness sometimes and I'm a long way off menopause (I hope so anyways) so that's not it. :P No known cure for it I'm afraid. Jesse has stifled it in me for a while but now she's getting older I'm starting to get a bit broody for little itty bitty kittens again :D But I think youtube videos will have to suffice for now :D

    Would volunteering with a rescue or short term fostering of pups be an option?

    I get it really bad too :( The last time I got it bad I ended up with cat number 2 :D


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    #4799
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Zapperzy wrote: »
    Well I go through phases of severe kitten broodiness sometimes and I'm a long way off menopause (I hope so anyways) so that's not it. :P No known cure for it I'm afraid. Jesse has stifled it in me for a while but now she's getting older I'm starting to get a bit broody for little itty bitty kittens again :D But I think youtube videos will have to suffice for now :D

    Yeah that's what I thought, turned out there was a different reason for me being so irritable and moody for over a year.
    Would volunteering with a rescue or short term fostering of pups be an option?
    Couldn't really foster as our gardens aren't secure enough and I think the cats would probably murder me in my sleep, my husband gets nervous and twitchy every time I mention dogs, he's not really a dog person so it wouldn't be fair to him or the cats. I don't drive and the nearest rescues are too far away by bus. I will do short term foster for kittens though:)


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    #4800
    ferretone
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭ferretone


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I have got to stop looking at rescue sites, I'm getting broody for a puppy, don't know why, we've got our hands full with 4 cats, so it's not going to happen. My doctor thinks I'm perimenopausal(I'm only 41):( Maybe that's what it is:confused:

    I hear you! Was helping out a bit at a local kennels while the owners were away, where they keep some dogs for a greyhound rescue, and totally fell for a gorgeous, utterly hyper 2-y-o fella who didn't make the grade. True, greys tend to be couch potatoes, just not all of them :p Luckily for me, my old dobie simply would not stand for it, to say nothing of the DH :rolleyes: Honestly couldn't vouch for how well we'd be able to socialise him to the cats either, actually :eek:

    ETA: His name was Joker and all, summed up that line of thought perfectly :D


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    #4801
    Zapperzy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭Zapperzy


    Sarannewrap wrote: »
    I get it really bad too :( The last time I got it bad I ended up with cat number 2 :D

    The last time I had it a stray mammy had a litter of two kittens in the shed, then a week later a slightly older but very similar kitten appeared out of nowhere and wouldn't leave. Everyone was a bit suspicious of me planting them there :P Homed the two younger kittens and spayed mammy who decided to move house afterwards but the older kitten never left :D I think cats pick up on our kitten broodiness :P


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