Rats ...

[Robin128]

I just pictured the Viking with a CZ452 swinging it thru the lounge when ovenpaa is bringing in the tea....WAAAA...WTF!


Fut fut fut!!

:P

Rob

[ovenpaa]

I just pictured the Viking with a CZ452 swinging it thru the lounge when ovenpaa is bringing in the tea....WAAAA...WTF

She usually kills them with her hands if she can catch them, in fact it seems to be her preferred method of killing most things.

Women eh? :roll:

[Robin128]

I'm just waiting for a graphic from 25PDR...Where is he?

:)

Rob

[Robin128]

Do you know that lead you give clays?

A few hundred years ago when I was about 16, we kept chickens and therefore stored and used bags of meal. We also had bloody good ratting cats...saying that, you ought to see the rats and squirrels my 3 cats drag back out of the copse opposite us, nowadays.

Well, one day I was in the lean to conservatory (glasshouse we called it then, which doubled as a workshop) where we stored the meal and my cat had already got a mouth full of mice, when I opened a half used meal bag expecting more mice. Almost a reflex action, I had a claw hammer in my mit, the mice ran and I had one running across a window sill...splatt...what a shot ... squeek...what you doing out there Rob...oh...nothing!

:)

Rob

[ovenpaa]

Talking of lead, I used to work at Jordans Mill many years ago as an electrician and old man Jordan pounced on me one day to tell me a strip light was u/s in the mill, I found it soon enough... it was the one all but shot in half and covered in feathers and guts. Apparently he was known to prowl the mill with a shotgun at night :?

Heather, how do you take your cat (Jim?) to work, just bundle him in the car, let him out at the other end and keep him in your office or let him wander around?

[HeatherW762]

Jim only goes out on a lead so he has to be walked every day (nearly!!). He's quite happy in the car and would rather be in the car in a car park than left at home. At work he has the run of the office - and other areas if he gets out - and regularly plays with Smudge, Karen's dog, in the office next door.

Jim is a Bengal so would have a huge territory, approx 5 miles across, which would go across main roads, railway lines and a canal. So only way to ensure he's safe is to keep him on a lead.

Heather

[ovenpaa]

I remember holidaying in a house in the sand dunes of NE Denmark many years ago with Christel's sister tagging along. She insisted on bringing her cat Emile who was walked through the Dunes on a lead. I insisted the two girls spoke German if anyone got close as no way did I want a Brit associated with two Danes and a cat on a lead

He looks like my sort of cat, what does he weigh in at?

[HeatherW762]

He's only 8.5 kg as he's a bit of a runt. Had a major op on his gut as a kitten and the result (apart from extracting all the bits of plastic mat that he'd eaten!!) was that we lost a fair bit of growth - about a third.

A lot of people - especially men - who say they aren't cat people, like him as he is full of character and doesn't give a damn.

Let me know when you are at Bisley next & I'll bring him out to meet you. He was out at the European F Class champs, on the team day. Thoroughly enjoyed himself.

Heather

[ovenpaa]

8.5kgs is still quite a lump. I would like to meet him one day. We had Smith, a Brown Tabby until the end of 2009, he seemed quite large but Christel says around the 6kg mark. He used to sleep in the lane outside and refuse to move for anything including people, cars and dogs. He would follow us right out across the field with the dogs and often dragged Rabbits in through this bedroom window announcing his arival with an odd 'chirping' sound, not a good thing to wake up to.

[Christel]

He was a beautiful Missekat.