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Visitor Cat
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:07 pm
by OFSO
The most gorgeous cat has been visiting us morning and night for the past few weeks. In the left ear is a tattoo: 49 and the letters AW. It speaks (or understands) English. No doubt it's chipped but damned if I'm going to pay a vet for a read-out, let alone a trip there and back.
She gets milk morning and night but turns nose up at standard cat food: used to better things no doubt. There's a buxom Spanish wench living in a cellar two doors down, on the other side of the Russian Mafia, and on one of my late night walks, while she was bending over to fondle her little dog, I raised the subject of Pussy, but she said she had no knowledge of such things despite having a Persian. All very confusing.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:16 pm
by G-CPTN
Are you guilty of facilitating an alien animal to seek succour among your community?
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:35 pm
by llondel
Around here the vets will usually scan a chip for free, although there's still the time and cost of the journey.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:40 pm
by G-CPTN
A long while ago I found a dog straying in the town centre.
I took it to the nearest vet where it was scanned.
They refused to tell me anything about the registered owner.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:18 pm
by Undried Plum
OFSO wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:07 pm
The most gorgeous cat has been visiting us morning and night for the past few weeks. In the left ear is a tattoo: 49 and the letters AW. It speaks (or understands) English. No doubt it's chipped but damned if I'm going to pay a vet for a read-out, let alone a trip there and back.
She gets milk morning and night but turns nose up at standard cat food: used to better things no doubt. There's a buxom Spanish wench living in a cellar two doors down, on the other side of the Russian Mafia, and on one of my late night walks, while she was bending over to fondle her little dog, I raised the subject of Pussy, but she said she had no knowledge of such things despite having a Persian. All very confusing.
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Let the cat decide.
They are good at such decisions.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:27 pm
by llondel
G-CPTN wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:40 pm
A long while ago I found a dog straying in the town centre.
I took it to the nearest vet where it was scanned.
They refused to tell me anything about the registered owner.
Normal procedure is that they either tell you which organisation to contact, or if they're taking custody of the animal then they'll make contact. The organisation that holds the owner's details will contact the owner to inform them that their pet has been found.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:29 pm
by G-CPTN
All I wanted was 'news' that the owner had been found locally.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:40 am
by OFSO
I see that pet scanners that plug into a smartphone are ludicrously cheap but just reading a number won't help.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:04 pm
by OFSO
Breakfast. Cat 49 demands some. ,Mrs OFSO puts piece of bread down, cat eats half. Mrs OFSO picks up rest. Cat grabs it from her, eats half, drops rest and walks away. Mrs OFSO picks it up. Cat runs back and eats it. Peverse creature...
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:16 pm
by OFSO
I don't know if No 49 is annoyed because it didn't get any of the chicken we had at lunch time, or is furious at the strong N wind, or both, but it's not around much today. Cats hate the wind as it disrupts their hearing, vital for staying safe....
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:41 pm
by llondel
OFSO wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:16 pm
I don't know if No 49 is annoyed because it didn't get any of the chicken we had at lunch time, or is furious at the strong N wind, or both, but it's not around much today. Cats hate the wind as it disrupts their hearing, vital for staying safe....
They also look undignified if it ruffles their fur the wrong way, and we can't have that.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:56 pm
by Rwy in Sight
There is a French expression about petting a cat the wrong way.
OFSO, I didn't know about the wind and how they dislike it.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:24 pm
by PHXPhlyer
Rwy in Sight wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:56 pm
There is a French expression about petting a cat the wrong way.
OFSO, I didn't know about the wind and how they dislike it.
Well, what is it?
PP
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:40 pm
by Rwy in Sight
PHXPhlyer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:24 pm
Rwy in Sight wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:56 pm
There is a French expression about petting a cat the wrong way.
OFSO, I didn't know about the wind and how they dislike it.
Well, what is it?
PP
I need access to someone who speaks really good French which for the time being I am not sure who to ask. Give me a day or two and I think I would find such a person.
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:42 pm
by PHXPhlyer
OK
PP
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 9:05 pm
by OFSO
Merde alors, c'est la vent, il m'fait ***** !
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:19 pm
by Rwy in Sight
I am still looking for the expression - my sister with a French language degree gave me the wrong one.
I spent the morning at the secondary residence to water the plants. A cat come for some food - we do provide food, my sister does it because she like to help the stray cats, I do it because I like stray cats around to take on cockroaches, snakes and other nasty creatures.She did refused to be touched initially but later she did enjoy some caressing.
Here she is:
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:47 am
by OFSO
Snap! There's a very small cat I see now and then (sometimes .missing for months) on my midnight walks and for whom I have food in a container...
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:50 am
by OFSO
And there was another duplicate in Islington....or is it one cat, quantum shifting ?
Re: Visitor Cat
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:19 pm
by G-CPTN
Obviously Erwin Schrödinger's cat.