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TwiceAsNice Sat 14-Mar-20 08:52:38

Let’s hear it for cats!

Curlywhirly Sat 14-Mar-20 20:15:29

I haven't got a cat, but a dog, can I join in? She a 9 year old golden labrador and glued to my side - she follows me everywhere, even though she now has arthritis in her back leg and struggles sometimes to get up off her favourite place, on the settee! She's a greedy so and so and wakes me up at 6/6.30am every morning for her breakfast. She's quite jealous ( not in a nasty way) of the DGC, and squeezes in between them and me if they are near me and constantly paws me so I will give her and not them my attention! She's so patient with them, they stroke her and have even sat on her (I quickly remove them!) and she doesn't flinch, just raises her eyebrow and gives me a knowing look?. If a leave the room, even for just a few minutes, she greets me as though I have been away for a week's holiday, she squeals with delight and her tail wags her whole body. I love her to bits. Oh, wouldn't it be lovely for our husbands/partners to show such devotion - hmm, then again ........

ValerieF Sat 14-Mar-20 20:41:00

Thumps up from me! ABSOLUTELY adore our feline friends. Not got one at moment since my last died, totally unexpectedly in the prime of his life. Fabulous photos and a very happy thread for once. Thank you Twice as nice x

Curlywhirly Sat 14-Mar-20 20:51:20

Here's the lady relaxing as usual.

Curlywhirly Sat 14-Mar-20 20:54:54

Oh, and that's my place, on the left of the pic, she starts off on the other side of the settee, then slowly pushes me into a tiny space, until she gets her favourite spot!

Artdecogran Sat 14-Mar-20 21:38:06

Merry cat (picture in previous post) also likes to sit on my lap when I am using the loo! She also frightened the life out of me when I was sat on loo with trousers around my ankles ( not too much info I hope). I put my hand down, without looking, to pull up my pants and there was this warm hairy mound in them. I don’t know what I thought it was but my scream was loud enough to wake her up and she legged it out the bathroom at 90 miles an hour.

callgirl1 Sat 14-Mar-20 23:53:20

This is Mia. She was a rescue cat just over 8 years ago, I don`t have a recent pic, this was about 4 years ago, making her mind up about my new ornament. She isn`t a lap cat, but loves being stroked and petted, just doesn`t like being picked up, can`t wait to get down again!

seacliff Sun 15-Mar-20 09:32:00

Curlywhirly, She is lovely, just as long as she doesn't chase all these kitties? She seems very laid back.

Artdeco, I laughed out loud at your post, can just imagine it!!!

Callgirl. Mia is very beautiful, and I love the glimpse of the soft stripey ginger cat behind. I have a weakness for ginger cats (and cookies) .

What a lovely thread.

callgirl1 Sun 15-Mar-20 13:01:28

Seacliff, that "soft" stripey ginger cat is a pottery ornament! She currently resides on the fireplace, lots of people have bent down to stroke her, thinking that she`s real!

BlueSapphire Sun 15-Mar-20 14:56:32

Here is one of my cats, Daisy, on my lap this afternoon.

seacliff Sun 15-Mar-20 15:10:26

Ha ha callgirl, must get new glasses!!

seacliff Sun 15-Mar-20 15:12:59

BlueSapphire, Daisy is really enjoying that cuddle.

Makes me realise, cats, well all animals, are so therapeutic.

Jane10 Sun 15-Mar-20 17:10:33

Aww lovely pic. Here's Snowball when DD first got him. So angelic. Just today he's been out fighting and came home with another tick on him. Luckily DD is now an expert tick remover!

Doorstop Mon 16-Mar-20 09:26:55

Hi, sadly my dear little cat was had to be put to sleep a couple of years ago and I still miss her dreadfully. Anyway he is a pic of next doors cat who has virtually moved in after being evicted as they got a dog. He looks rather comfy!

Jane10 Mon 16-Mar-20 09:45:26

Lucky you Doorstop. A welcome trespasser!

Doorstop Mon 16-Mar-20 10:42:37

He doesn’t like cuddles unlike my old cat so I have to admire him from afar!