Your thoughts on Margaret Thatcher please ?

PS The OP said the question should separate the men from the boys (sexist remark or what!)
How many who responded are female?

That's why the answers are so sensible (another sexist remark)

New house could mean new carpets
Butter on paws could mean grease on the new carpet.

I knew there was a reason why we never had a cat.
(Besides the thought of all the furry and feathered presents they bring in.)

Ps just a thought - why are those bows called 'pussycat bows'? I have never seen any self-respecting cat wearing one.

Don't bother answering, I'm going out - again!
(Have to escape from GN sometimes otherwise .....)

Good grief, bossy iPad, NADAL not " nasal"!!!

Not Marmite, Nasal and Nutella, that would require a LLD!!

May I ask where you put the cat while it's licking 'em clean?

We always used to butter our cat's paws when we moved house.The idea is that he will then associate the new house with nice things, as he licks them clean!

Don't Galen you'd need to have a lie down and then you'd miss you cruise!

I'm still trying to imagine buttered Nadel with marmite.

Questiontime's gone very quiet! Perhaps the butter on his or her paws experiment failed and s/he is lost in the woods. Watch out for the Big Bad Wolf

I love the way my GN friends are handling this! I just saw and ignored the original post, thinking "Oh no, not again." But this has made me smile.

Or should I say, a cat's never owned me. They're obviously very wise.

Perhaps it's just as well I've never owned a cat

Yer wot?

Has any gransnetter actually buttered a cat's paws? I have had cats around me most of my adult life and I'd rather try bathing them and soaking them overnight in Domestos than buttering their paws.

Do wonders for fur balls as well.

Add some Marmite to the butter on the cats paws and it would certainly not stray.

And then he'd be stranded in the woods!

I thought that as well, Ana but I suppose if you put loads of butter on each paw you'd get a kind of Hansel and Gretel effect so when the cat gets lost it can find its way back by licking its own pawprints.

That's assuming all the neighbourhood cats haven't beaten him to it.

Oo-er Elegran!

I thought you put butter on a cat's paws to keep it at home (i.e. when you move house and the cat's not well pleased about it!)

I don't know though . . .

That was crumpets with lots of butter, not Rafa Nadal...

With lots of butter. The sort you put on cat's paws so they can find their way home.

Can we have a link please Alea ?