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#1 Post by OFSO » 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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#2 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:16 pm

Are you guilty of facilitating an alien animal to seek succour among your community?

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#3 Post by llondel » Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:35 pm

Around here the vets will usually scan a chip for free, although there's still the time and cost of the journey.

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#4 Post by G-CPTN » 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.

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#5 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:18 pm

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.

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#6 Post by llondel » Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:27 pm

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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.

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#7 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:29 pm

All I wanted was 'news' that the owner had been found locally.

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#8 Post by OFSO » Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:40 am

I see that pet scanners that plug into a smartphone are ludicrously cheap but just reading a number won't help.

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#9 Post by OFSO » Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:04 pm

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...

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#10 Post by OFSO » 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....

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#11 Post by llondel » Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:41 pm

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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.

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#12 Post by Rwy in Sight » 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.

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#13 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:24 pm

Rwy in Sight wrote:
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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? :-? :-??

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#14 Post by Rwy in Sight » Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:40 pm

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? :-? :-??

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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.

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#15 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:42 pm

OK :-ss

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#16 Post by OFSO » Mon Aug 16, 2021 9:05 pm

Merde alors, c'est la vent, il m'fait ***** !

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#17 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sun Aug 22, 2021 4:19 pm

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.

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#18 Post by OFSO » Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:47 am

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...
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#19 Post by OFSO » Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:50 am

And there was another duplicate in Islington....or is it one cat, quantum shifting ?
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#20 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:19 pm

Obviously Erwin Schrödinger's cat.

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