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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Sleeping beauty! The lad again..

    Please, can someone transfer them so they show? Thank you


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭aonb


    He looks so comfortable and happy :) Lovely photo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    aonb wrote: »
    He looks so comfortable and happy :) Lovely photo

    would love to see it up here, please.

    One successful rescue from street stray...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    Cream is on his way home from a day in the vets having his teeth cleaned, we normally get him a dental every year but with the way things planned out this year we were late getting it and the poor scut ended up with gingivitis again :( hopefully he will be a lot happier when he’s home with his shiny new gnashers :D
    Is it bad that I think he’s cutest when he’s coming around after anaesthetic? He’s so dopey and lovable :pac:


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Three weeks in the new house, the cats are allowed outside and they're been brilliant. But Amelia is out now and it's nearly 2am... I can see her but she just doesn't want to come back in... She regularly spent whole nights outside in the three other places we lived! I know she's ok. It's just the first night.... I can't grab her cause she's like an eel! But I do have to go to bed eventually!

    Oh Amelia, please come inside! Running out of treats here.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Choc Chip


    Is anyone else in love with Garda Lazer?

    I'm besotted and I need to know if he really does have one floppy ear or if its just the way that its lying in his press pic.

    Edited to add: I just found a pic on twitter and he has 2 point ears. He is just adorable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Now the days are long I wake early and often walk the lane around five am. Followed by up to five cats.

    Today, watched the two young black rescues racing and leaping in an overgrown field with such zest and glee...

    Life on a small island is not always totally easy but watching these cats makes it worth it. Never seen cats leap so high.. ah far better than street life.. for all of us


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Our morning walk... before 5 am


    Two and a half of the five... the others went on ahead..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    and four!
    Always one missing!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    and the rest...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Talkative cats.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmfkR8Mr6Rk

    I defy you not to laugh even once..;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Looking down at my bed.. three of my energetic lively cats (!) have feasted on raw chicken and crashed. a heap of soft- breathing fur....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    So Esmae in to get her lady bits out, I’m a nervous wreck & Mr C’s going around looking for her...:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    Ohhhhhhh the drama! Was up till 3am as Esmae turned into the devil incarnate shrieking like a banshee...

    I’ve never in my life witnessed such a display of fear... then I remembered; it was like looking in the mirror, as apparently I was very much like that in the hospital when I woke up to find out I’d been run over.

    She’s pretty chilled now snuggled up next to me now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    em_cat wrote: »
    Ohhhhhhh the drama! Was up till 3am as Esmae turned into the devil incarnate shrieking like a banshee...

    I’ve never in my life witnessed such a display of fear... then I remembered; it was like looking in the mirror, as apparently I was very much like that in the hospital when I woke up to find out I’d been run over.

    She’s pretty chilled now snuggled up next to me now.

    (((HUGS)))


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,053 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    God Lucy was fine when she was spayed - it was a novelty for me to go and collect a dog who had to be woken up to go home compared to Bailey's 'TAKE ME HOME' barking the moment I walk in the door. She strolled home and went to bed and not a bother on her :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    tk123 wrote: »
    God Lucy was fine when she was spayed - it was a novelty for me to go and collect a dog who had to be woken up to go home compared to Bailey's 'TAKE ME HOME' barking the moment I walk in the door. She strolled home and went to bed and not a bother on her :o

    The one time I had to leave my wee dog with the vet a few hours, when I got the poor man was in bits.. " She is terrified!"

    He had sedated her while I was still with her and I heard her yelling when I went to the car but 2 old ladies said how good he was with the dogs

    Wee dog was cowering at the back of the pen. As soon as she saw me all was well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Bells21


    em_cat wrote:
    Ohhhhhhh the drama! Was up till 3am as Esmae turned into the devil incarnate shrieking like a banshee...

    When Bella had x-rays done she was knocked out. Collected her that evening and my god talk about drama!! Just purely from the anaesthetic, keening, crying and was really out of sorts. Got her to sleep and everything had worn off when she woke up again. Think she was just so put out by the groggy feeling more than anything. Funny thing is when she was spayed a few years earlier was grand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    tk123 wrote: »
    God Lucy was fine when she was spayed - it was a novelty for me to go and collect a dog who had to be woken up to go home compared to Bailey's 'TAKE ME HOME' barking the moment I walk in the door. She strolled home and went to bed and not a bother on her :o

    I know, Esmae was great when I collected her, she was completely knocked out and was reversed while I was there as she freaks out & becomes a demon the minute someone she doesn’t recognise tries to touch her. So I was there and she stuck her little snout into her tiny Baskerville and bore holes into the nurse with her eyes...

    She’s is somewhat better form today but not entirely.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    I’m absolutely dreading her suture removal as she really hates the nurses...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    em_cat wrote: »
    I’m absolutely dreading her suture removal as she really hates the nurses...

    Can you take them out yourself? Its really simple, never had to take any of ours back for stitch removal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Can you take them out yourself? Its really simple, never had to take any of ours back for stitch removal.

    Agree. When it was suggested I do this for both dogs when they had been spayed I was horrified but in fact it was very very easy. Even for me :eek: ;) The most squeamish of people..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    Can you take them out yourself? Its really simple, never had to take any of ours back for stitch removal.

    I might do as I’ve done so in the past with other pets & myself. I don’t remember if I did with the last pooch we spayed. I’d forgotten it’s been awhile since we had a puppy ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,053 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Could you maybe take photos of the wound and mail them to the vets rather than take her in for inspections and save her the stress? That's what I did when I thought it was time for Bailey's tooth to come out - nurse asked me to get a few good photos and she could show it to the vet etc etc. I'd that anyways if either of them have a wound and that way you can compare if you think it's not healing etc etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    tk123 wrote: »
    Could you maybe take photos of the wound and mail them to the vets rather than take her in for inspections and save her the stress? That's what I did when I thought it was time for Bailey's tooth to come out - nurse asked me to get a few good photos and she could show it to the vet etc etc. I'd that anyways if either of them have a wound and that way you can compare if you think it's not healing etc etc

    I don’t think our vets are that modern tbh... It’s a good idea though. One of my really good friends is a senior nurse in the burns unit at SJH so if I were worried I’d get her over before taking Mae Mae to the vet nurses...

    I seriously don’t remember ever bringing them back in for removal but knowing Mae Mae she’ll be killing me if I don’t get her over to her agility this week as she’s being driven demented so I’m thinking shes on the mend! The incision, looks good, clean, tidy, and no licks so far. My 2 where flying around playing gently with thier toys today so hopefully it’s up n up from here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,053 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    We were back in every few days for wound inspection. When my friends dog was done it was leaking/seeping and I think had to be restitched! Looking back they should have sewn a zipper in lol as that dog is quiet accident prone for blockages and having stuff removed(!) and has been opened up a few times! Lucy was almost two when she was done with her being a retriever - she didn’t have the first heat until she was around 15 months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Yesterday my most shy newbie cat, she of the terror of doors, took another leap forward.

    She has been calling to get in for a while, but y;day she raced into the kitchen, leapt onto the chair and started a long, intense, one sided conversation with me.

    Thinking she wanted food, I put some out; she took a bite, then back to the chair and chattered on and on!. Then let me not just touch her, but really rub her face and neck and back. Never stopped nattering!

    Over six months with them now and always a joy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    At last caught all five in one photo...

    Walking the cats.. They are a treasure. I use a walking stick and the smallest decided to play with it, pouncing at every step.

    Watching them play on the seaweed banks as the tide is out.. then getting left behind and the sheer speed of the chase.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    My boy cat Gryphon snuck out on Friday night and spent the whole night and morning in the back garden where he got the pitbull next door so worked up that the dog busted through the fence and got into our backyard. Gryphon ran up to the neighbor's upstairs back porch where they saw him, texted me and I was able to get him back home safely. We also contacted the next door neighbors and they got their dog out of our yard (who was very sweet - he came running up to me, a complete stranger, tail wagging, tongue flopping out and gave me kisses. It was just a bit disconcerting to walk into your back garden which is fenced off by a 6ft tall fence only to see a large pitbull running toward you).

    The back garden is mostly dirt so Gryphon had to suffer the indignity of a bath! He usually begs to go outside (I walk him on a leash) but hasn't moved toward the door at all since coming back home. Lesson learned (for now)!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Fastest Zooplus order ever, placed it on the 20th & will be delivered today :eek:
    I was waiting almost 2 weeks before!
    Have they changed something to make it faster or am I just lucky??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,053 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Fastest Zooplus order ever, placed it on the 20th & will be delivered today :eek:
    I was waiting almost 2 weeks before!
    Have they changed something to make it faster or am I just lucky??

    I always pick DPD and find them faster than DHL/An Post and would get it in about 4 days! It depends on the depots near you though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    tk123 wrote: »
    I always pick DPD and find them faster than DHL/An Post and would get it in about 4 days! It depends on the depots near you though

    Yea it's DPD I go for too, driver in our area is great, not alone do we get the email but he always rings first to see if we're around.
    But I've always used DPD & the previous packages took so much longer. Maybe I hit them on bad days :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    tk123 wrote: »
    I always pick DPD and find them faster than DHL/An Post and would get it in about 4 days! It depends on the depots near you though

    I get frequent An Post deliveries from Holland and Barrett and Lenehans hardware and they always get here the day after I place the order. As i am out on an island that is truly awesome.

    The man who delivers our post is the ferryman so it has an interesting journey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭aonb


    Graces7 wrote: »
    At last caught all five in one photo...

    Walking the cats.. They are a treasure. I use a walking stick and the smallest decided to play with it, pouncing at every step.

    Watching them play on the seaweed banks as the tide is out.. then getting left behind and the sheer speed of the chase.

    Fab photo - look like a gaggle of cats heading out for a stroll with you :):)
    (whats the collective name for a group of cats?!?)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    aonb wrote: »
    Fab photo - look like a gaggle of cats heading out for a stroll with you :):)
    (whats the collective name for a group of cats?!?)

    This happens every day here! As soon as I unlock the gate, word goes round and one by one they come..

    i think we decided on a "scatter of cats".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Catnest in the sun ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    I have the politest cats ever..

    The sleek new one yearns to sleep on my bed but tends to try to revert to the inaccessible corner she used right at the start

    Yesterday she was on my bed as I was resting and half asleep and she suddenly came up to my shoulder and my face.

    When I responded she headed as if to the corner, then diverted to the outside door.. "PLEASE MAY I LEAVE THE ROOM? "

    Oh and y'day the scaredy one rolled over so I could rub her belly!l

    Happy days

    Why do folk think cats are thick!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,053 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    :pac: :pac: lol lol Bailey cried at the kittens in the vets yesterday when they were pouncing on each other (they're in a cage in the back room where he has laser every week)... I think because I told him not to bark at them last week lol - he wanted to give out to them so cried instead


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    This fluffmeister just appeared on the road beside my house yesterday morning. Asked around & nobody seems to have misplaced it :pac:
    Might be a new addition!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Yyyyaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwn!

    Oh I need a new name for the lad on the left. as you can see he has an irritating ..... smudge... on nose and chin.. So he got called smudgie but it does not fit him ..... He is the one who all but trips me rolling on his back can also open the front door.... Ideas welcome..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Very early expedition to the church ( to beat midges and pollen) with five cats along. ( I take care of it)

    Two know the church well and frisk it for aliens. New boy vanished under the floor (!) and the two baby blacks disappeared totally,

    Had been going to complete the circuit but was worried about the 2 who may not have known the area that far away... even left the church door open...

    One was sitting in the lane half way back, giving out to me, and the other raced in as soon as I got in.
    The trick is not to feed them before we go out. The word "chicken" works wonders...

    Next time will go the other way round...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭aonb


    Cats!
    Ive never had cats (my mother disliked them and 'taught' us to dislike them growing up) - but since Ive got two ex-ferals Im a total cat slave.

    Second arrival was half dead, skeletal, feral when she arrived. Took 6 months of feeding her several times/day, sitting close to her while she ate, before she even let me touch her. Now shes fat (well actually obese), totally tame, lives in the house, and is the BEST cat on the planet :D Because of her horrendous start in life, I refuse her nothing (shes about 4 years old, the vets reckoned) - but the little maggot is now getting fussy about her food :(:( Our first arrival - beautiful long haired tuxedo, found as a tiny kitten, has always been very very fussy - no real interest in food - only best quality catfood, tuna, probiotic yogurt, and nothing else - literally. Now fatty cat is pulling the same stunt - though she will eat any meat. What are you all feeding your cats. Raw chicken I thought would be good for fatty cat, but she prefers cooked please. Anything else to feed her - looking for suggestions/ideas please (and if it might tempt fussy cat all the better)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Fakediamond


    I followed fatty cats story, what a triumph to get her to this!

    She is totally manipulating you, with a history and appetite like hers, she should eat anything that comes her way. My advice is hold firm and she won’t deprive herself of food when hungry :D

    Quote: “it didn’t take my cat long to train me”.

    Do you ever watch Simon’s cat on YouTube?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    aonb wrote: »
    Cats!
    Ive never had cats (my mother disliked them and 'taught' us to dislike them growing up) - but since Ive got two ex-ferals Im a total cat slave.

    Second arrival was half dead, skeletal, feral when she arrived. Took 6 months of feeding her several times/day, sitting close to her while she ate, before she even let me touch her. Now shes fat (well actually obese), totally tame, lives in the house, and is the BEST cat on the planet :D Because of her horrendous start in life, I refuse her nothing (shes about 4 years old, the vets reckoned) - but the little maggot is now getting fussy about her food :(:( Our first arrival - beautiful long haired tuxedo, found as a tiny kitten, has always been very very fussy - no real interest in food - only best quality catfood, tuna, probiotic yogurt, and nothing else - literally. Now fatty cat is pulling the same stunt - though she will eat any meat. What are you all feeding your cats. Raw chicken I thought would be good for fatty cat, but she prefers cooked please. Anything else to feed her - looking for suggestions/ideas please (and if it might tempt fussy cat all the better)

    Fussy cat ? Not here. One of my three tried that and now eats the same as the others. despite the wide, anguished eyes and utterly pathetic wails... Loves her food now.. five cats on a small pension and no access to shops is enough without special food for me or them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭VonVix


    Anyone notice an... outbreak of fleas lately?

    The past month I've been interacting with dozens of people reporting issues with fleas.

    [Dog Training + Behaviour Nerd]



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    when I open the door these summer mornings, a tide of cats flows in, at high speed... when I count to five, out comes the raw chicken... crunching, then silence as they sleep, replete after a busy night out..these days I am running a cat hotel...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    Graces7 wrote: »
    when I open the door these summer mornings, a tide of cats flows in, at high speed... when I count to five, out comes the raw chicken... crunching, then silence as they sleep, replete after a busy night out..these days I am running a cat hotel...

    Hope your charging room & board :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Choc Chip


    VonVix wrote: »
    Anyone notice an... outbreak of fleas lately?

    The past month I've been interacting with dozens of people reporting issues with fleas.

    Thankfully not. That's my worst nightmare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    em_cat wrote: »
    Hope your charging room & board :)

    Yeah ... cuddles and purrs and keep the rats etc away! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Choc Chip wrote: »
    Thankfully not. That's my worst nightmare.

    I agree;; do they spread cat to cat? If so we should be safe enough out here!


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