Get yer cats out for the lads!

[EJG1980]

That's great news! Oscar went missing for three days last summer and that was bad enough, can't imagine one of ours cats being gone for a month.

Maybe it's a trait of ginger cats? I think a sample size of two is good enough to draw that conclusion

[nonny]

About time I got my cat out for the lads.

This is Bear. He's about 8 months old now and he's a blue mitted ragdoll. Absolutely love the little bugger and out of all the cat I've had growing up he is the most placid and playful, which is a trait of the breed to be fair. If you've got kids or are looking for a really good house cat I highly reccomend the breed. As I said I've had numerous cats growing up but this breed has floored me as they're quite different from the norm.

My wife gets to take him to work with her as she works for a small company that makes custom-made shoes and glasses so he's already had a pair of glasses named after him and got the entire office suckered in. To me he's my hand warmer for those long Xbox sessions as he tends to sit on my forearms to sleep.












Bears glasses: http://www.sneakingduck.com/glasses/M-2-4

Playing in the office when he was younger: https://plus.google.com/109092790738...ts/LNAJcReH2PM

[teddymeow]

Poppy is at the vet this evening. She's started passing blood when having a wee.

Hoping it's just a repeat of the infection she had a while ago but she is an.old last so I am really quite scared!

[Fader209]

Teddy - How did Poppy get on at the vets? I saw you were trying to raise money selling stuff earlier so hope you managed to get enough together for the relevant tests. Annoyingly with older cats they do tend to need the expensive tests, we had the same with old Rosco at one point (he had fallen oddly and couldn't walk on his back legs) and we couldn't afford it...turns out he didn't need them anyway and healed perfectly so it would have been a waste of money.

nonny - Bear is a beast! Looks a lot older than 8 months, is that a trait of ragdolls?

[teddymeow]

Poppy is fine.

Being an elderly long haired tortie she doesn't tend to groom as much as she should so she gets matted.

As she doesn't really like being brushed too much she was sedated and then shaved from her neck down to her tail. Her paws are still furry but her whole body is bald!

She had blood tests and urine tests. The results came back okay. Slightly raised glucose levels caused by stress. Her cystitis is back but she's had antibiotics to sort that.

?277.01!! Worth every penny to keep my baby happy.

[ETC]

It's really pricey looking after an older animal been through it myself years ago with a cat and a dog (its when an average vet trip starts becoming ?100+ every time instead of regular checkups and when your vet is a speed dial in your phone, but they are part of the family so it's worth it no matter the cost). My cat was mental will have to fish out a picture he only loved my mum me and my dad he couldn't have given two shots about and was pretty obvious about it.. Git that he was class though

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

nonny - Bear is a beast! Looks a lot older than 8 months, is that a trait of ragdolls?

Raggies are the one of the largest breeds. An adult can expect to hit 20lb+.

Sam is only 13 months and bigger than most domestic cats.

[Kit]

What a cutie!

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

My cat was mental will have to fish out a picture he only loved my mum me and my dad he couldn't have given two shots about and was pretty obvious about it.. Git that he was class though

My Sammy will only go to other people if they have food, otherwise he just sits with me.

Delilah makes me laugh though. If you stroke her, she goes from looking at you with a 'And WHAT do you think you're doing?' expression to the head back and 'Ooooooh, that's nice, now scratch a little to the left. No, MY LEFT you IDIOT!'.

[nonny]

Yep ragdolls get very big. Bear is around 5kgs at the moment whatever that converts to?

I think only Maine Coons get bigger? Either way he's pretty big at 8 months but I don't think he'll get too much bigger. His dad was about 7.5kgs.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Yeah, Maine Coon is the largest 'domestic' breed by far as they can reach big dog size and yes, the missus wants one!

Had a few problems with a couple of the other half's children and have temporarily moved into my folks spare room. Went over to pick up my bike today and Samson, well lets just say I've never seen him like that before. He wouldn't leave me alone. Every time I picked him up he'd put his front legs out as if to hug me, his heartbeat was so fast and loud, his purring sounded like a jet taking off... I guess he thought I'd gone for good.

The look on his face when I left was almost unbearable. I'd bring him here with me but I couldn't split him and his sister up.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Hungry Samson & Delilah!

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

And one of Delilah & Ebony 'fighting'

[EJG1980]

Oscar has spent pretty much the whole day sat on a garden wall asleep. He then let out a mighty yawn, came inside, and went to sleep again upstairs



Edit: Hmm, strange, when I upload that photo to Photobucket it looks much less saturated and colourful that it should. Anyone have any idea why that'd happen?

Edit edit: Ah, something to do with the colour space. Never had that happen before, weird!

[koopatroopa90]

Stumbled across this website and thought this was probably the best place to post it