She's doing it again!

But with no excuse of not being fed this time. KFC polished off her tea and
then ate Boyfriend's as well. He was out, but I was expecting him back any
minute however he didn't get the chance of it as his bowl had been polished.
So imagine my surprise as I set off to walk three houses down to the left
for my monthly dinner with the neighbours to see the neighbour two houses
away in their front garden with Kitty. In front of her was a bowl of dog
food and a bowl of milk which she was tucking in to.
Now I know these particular neighbours quite well - unlike the others she
went to who were two houses to the right, if you see what I mean. They have
lived here for at least ten years, will have seen Kitty around in her
younger days a lot and we socialise with bbqs in the summer, they are aware
of my two cats in other words. Jean & Andy.
Jean said "is this your cat? We heard she went missing the other day and
you got her back. We were going to come and ask you, oh, and btw, she's
just vomited and had a bit of diarrhoea"

I'm afraid I lost it a bit. I said "of course she's vomited, she just had
two meals not an hour ago, she is lactose intolerant and her stomach is
getting overloaded by well meaning neighbours which will give her the
runs.."
And bless your bottom dollar if they didn't say they were thinking of taking
her in.
I took her back to the house and shut her in. No evening sunbatheing
available for Kitty. She will have to stay in all day tomorrow too while I
am work, the last sunny day we will have for a while apparently. Boyfriend
will have to stay out if he is out, or in if he is in.
When I get home from work tomorrow I'll fence the small gap between gate and
side fence left by the nice developers which allowed her to slip out the
front, and rig up some netting across the garden which will prevent her from
going further down to get to the r h neighbours. This will confine her to
an outside area of around 35 - 25 feet with patio, a flower bed and some
drooping shrub roses should she wish to be in the shade.

I'm beginning to wonder if she is getting confused. She is looking at the
back door now thinking she might like to go out and it's 11.40 pm.
It's all a bit worrying.

Tweed

"Christina Websell"
But with no excuse of not being fed this time. KFC polished off her tea
and then ate Boyfriend's as well. He was out, but I was expecting him
back any minute however he didn't get the chance of it as his bowl had
been polished.
So imagine my surprise as I set off to walk three houses down to the left
for my monthly dinner with the neighbours to see the neighbour two houses
away in their front garden with Kitty. In front of her was a bowl of dog
food and a bowl of milk which she was tucking in to.
Now I know these particular neighbours quite well - unlike the others she
went to who were two houses to the right, if you see what I mean. They
have lived here for at least ten years, will have seen Kitty around in her
younger days a lot and we socialise with bbqs in the summer, they are
aware of my two cats in other words. Jean & Andy.
Jean said "is this your cat? We heard she went missing the other day and
you got her back. We were going to come and ask you, oh, and btw, she's
just vomited and had a bit of diarrhoea"

I'm afraid I lost it a bit. I said "of course she's vomited, she just had
two meals not an hour ago, she is lactose intolerant and her stomach is
getting overloaded by well meaning neighbours which will give her the
runs.."
And bless your bottom dollar if they didn't say they were thinking of
taking her in.
I took her back to the house and shut her in. No evening sunbatheing
available for Kitty. She will have to stay in all day tomorrow too while
I am work, the last sunny day we will have for a while apparently.
Boyfriend will have to stay out if he is out, or in if he is in.
When I get home from work tomorrow I'll fence the small gap between gate
and side fence left by the nice developers which allowed her to slip out
the front, and rig up some netting across the garden which will prevent
her from going further down to get to the r h neighbours. This will
confine her to an outside area of around 35 - 25 feet with patio, a flower
bed and some drooping shrub roses should she wish to be in the shade.

I'm beginning to wonder if she is getting confused. She is looking at the
back door now thinking she might like to go out and it's 11.40 pm.
It's all a bit worrying.

Tweed

Cats!! Sometimes ya gotta wonder what they're thinking. Good idea for the
fence and the netting.
Do the roses have thorns on them? If so, you might want to trim them off.
I wouldn't worry tho. She'll be mad at you for awhile, but she'll get over
it eventually.
But it for her own good. Right? Right.
Mosey has an attitude problem and he loves to poop outside the box if we
don't pay him enough attention, so we had to put a plastic sheet over the
bed because he peed on our big bed twice. I've been really sick with both
stomach and cold type flu's and have been in bed alot and haven't been up to
playing with the 4 of of them. He's the only one that acts up.
Hug
Kyla

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
But with no excuse of not being fed this time. KFC polished off her tea
and then ate Boyfriend's as well. He was out, but I was expecting him
back any minute however he didn't get the chance of it as his bowl had
been polished.
So imagine my surprise as I set off to walk three houses down to the left
for my monthly dinner with the neighbours to see the neighbour two houses
away in their front garden with Kitty. In front of her was a bowl of dog
food and a bowl of milk which she was tucking in to.
Now I know these particular neighbours quite well - unlike the others she
went to who were two houses to the right, if you see what I mean. They
have lived here for at least ten years, will have seen Kitty around in her
younger days a lot and we socialise with bbqs in the summer, they are
aware of my two cats in other words. Jean & Andy.
Jean said "is this your cat? We heard she went missing the other day and
you got her back. We were going to come and ask you, oh, and btw, she's
just vomited and had a bit of diarrhoea"

I'm afraid I lost it a bit. I said "of course she's vomited, she just had
two meals not an hour ago, she is lactose intolerant and her stomach is
getting overloaded by well meaning neighbours which will give her the
runs.."
And bless your bottom dollar if they didn't say they were thinking of
taking her in.
I took her back to the house and shut her in. No evening sunbatheing
available for Kitty. She will have to stay in all day tomorrow too while
I am work, the last sunny day we will have for a while apparently.
Boyfriend will have to stay out if he is out, or in if he is in.
When I get home from work tomorrow I'll fence the small gap between gate
and side fence left by the nice developers which allowed her to slip out
the front, and rig up some netting across the garden which will prevent
her from going further down to get to the r h neighbours. This will
confine her to an outside area of around 35 - 25 feet with patio, a flower
bed and some drooping shrub roses should she wish to be in the shade.

I'm beginning to wonder if she is getting confused. She is looking at the
back door now thinking she might like to go out and it's 11.40 pm.
It's all a bit worrying.

Tweed


She might be getting confused, but it sounds like some of her instincts are
still spot on.

You know how the elderly have more vivid memories of years ago than of
current events. Maybe she is going through her 'second kittenhood'

We had an awful time of it with Charlie's grandmother. She would slip out
of the retirement home given half a chance. That wasn't bad enough, she
would head for the horses in the neighboring field, fully intending to ride
them. Bareback, which she had always done. She would have been well into
her nineties. I'd guess KFC is in her nineties comparatively.

What it worse, when the mind goes first or the body?

Jo

On Jun 9, 5:42*pm, "Christina Websell"
wrote:
But with no excuse of not being fed this time. *KFC polished off her tea and
then ate Boyfriend's as well. *He was out, but I was expecting him back any
minute however he didn't get the chance of it as his bowl had been polished.
So imagine my surprise as I set off to walk three houses down to the left
for my monthly dinner with the neighbours to see the neighbour two houses
away in their front garden with Kitty. *In front of her was a bowl of dog
food and a bowl of milk which she was tucking in to.
Now I know these particular neighbours quite well - unlike the others she
went to who were two houses to the right, if you see what I mean. *They have
lived here for at least ten years, will have seen Kitty around in her
younger days a lot and we socialise with bbqs in the summer, *they are aware
of my two cats in other words. *Jean & Andy.
Jean said "is this your cat? *We heard she went missing the other day and
you got her back. *We were going to come and ask you, oh, and btw, she's
just vomited and had a bit of diarrhoea"

I'm afraid I lost it a bit. *I said "of course she's vomited, she just had
two meals not an hour ago, *she is lactose intolerant and her stomach is
getting overloaded by well meaning neighbours which will give her the
runs.."
And bless your bottom dollar if they didn't say they were thinking of taking
her in.
I took her back to the house and shut her in. *No evening sunbatheing
available for Kitty. *She will have to stay in all day tomorrow too while I
am work, the last sunny day we will have for a while apparently. Boyfriend
will have to stay out if he is out, or in if he is in.
When I get home from work tomorrow I'll fence the small gap between gate and
side fence left by the nice developers which allowed her to slip out the
front, and rig up some netting across the garden which will prevent her from
going further down to get to the r h neighbours. *This will confine her to
an outside area of around 35 - 25 feet with patio, a flower bed and some
drooping shrub roses should she wish to be in the shade.

I'm beginning to wonder if she is getting confused. *She is looking at the
back door now thinking she might like to go out and it's 11.40 pm.
It's all a bit worrying.

Tweed

I do believe that old cats can somewhat develop a feline version of
age-related
dementia. My old Cherokee, who had impeccable house-cat manners, would
suddenly decide to nap on the dining room table...he would get this
*look*, like
he forgot he wasn't supposed to.
Any change in behavior is worrying. That's sometimes the only
barometer we have
that something isn't quite right. I think I'd do the same as you,
confine her
to the house for a bit. Hope she is okay. Keep us posted.

Sherry

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
But with no excuse of not being fed this time. KFC polished off her tea
and then ate Boyfriend's as well. He was out, but I was expecting him
back any minute however he didn't get the chance of it as his bowl had
been polished.
So imagine my surprise as I set off to walk three houses down to the left
for my monthly dinner with the neighbours to see the neighbour two houses
away in their front garden with Kitty. In front of her was a bowl of dog
food and a bowl of milk which she was tucking in to.
Now I know these particular neighbours quite well - unlike the others she
went to who were two houses to the right, if you see what I mean. They
have lived here for at least ten years, will have seen Kitty around in her
younger days a lot and we socialise with bbqs in the summer, they are
aware of my two cats in other words. Jean & Andy.
Jean said "is this your cat? We heard she went missing the other day and
you got her back. We were going to come and ask you, oh, and btw, she's
just vomited and had a bit of diarrhoea"

I'm afraid I lost it a bit. I said "of course she's vomited, she just had
two meals not an hour ago, she is lactose intolerant and her stomach is
getting overloaded by well meaning neighbours which will give her the
runs.."
And bless your bottom dollar if they didn't say they were thinking of
taking her in.
I took her back to the house and shut her in. No evening sunbatheing
available for Kitty. She will have to stay in all day tomorrow too while
I am work, the last sunny day we will have for a while apparently.
Boyfriend will have to stay out if he is out, or in if he is in.
When I get home from work tomorrow I'll fence the small gap between gate
and side fence left by the nice developers which allowed her to slip out
the front, and rig up some netting across the garden which will prevent
her from going further down to get to the r h neighbours. This will
confine her to an outside area of around 35 - 25 feet with patio, a flower
bed and some drooping shrub roses should she wish to be in the shade.

I'm beginning to wonder if she is getting confused. She is looking at the
back door now thinking she might like to go out and it's 11.40 pm.
It's all a bit worrying.

Tweed

I agree with Jo and Sherry - it's probably age-related dementia and she's
reliving her kittenhood when she had to scrounge handouts to supplement her
livelihood. I think it's a good idea to keep her confined (I'm assuming she
won't climb/jump the fencing?).

Purr are still heading your way for KFC.

Hugs,

CatNipped

"Jofirey" wrote in message
...
She might be getting confused, but it sounds like some of her instincts
are still spot on.

You know how the elderly have more vivid memories of years ago than of
current events. Maybe she is going through her 'second kittenhood'


Maybe she is but it's only come on over the past week. The little devil did
it again tonight. After having confined her to the house all day, when I
got home from work I let her out after she'd had her meal. I'd blocked the
gap between the fence and the gate with a 4 ft in height upright plank which
I thought would hold her while I went down the garden to get the wood I
needed to fence it properly
When I got back minutes later she had disappeared.
Obviously I could not start the fence until she was back in case I fenced
her out, I went up and down the road looking for her, nothing, nor was she
anywhere in the garden. I waited a while and did it again, still no sign of
her.
A few minutes later my doorbell rang. It was Jenny-next-door. She said "we
have a little visitor trying to get into our house." So I fetched Kitty
home yet again and shut her in the house while I fenced like a madwoman.
The gap is totally good now, feather-edged board up to 6 feet. Spent ages
too mending a 6ft high fence that was a bit sort of weary, shall we say, to
prevent her going down the garden, and getting the 6ft high gate there to
close again, it's been lodged open for years. There is just a 7ft length
that I've had to improvise for today so she doesn't wander off and go the
the neighbours who took her to TED.
It's only three feet high, that bit, but she cannot jump.

I let her out and watched her. She made several attempts over a couple of
hours to climb the little bit of netting at the gap where she thought she
could get through and was defeated by the new fence. Oh, joy. Neither
could she get down the garden which she tried as an alternative.

Boyfie was majorly annoyed that his path down to rat patrol was blocked but
is a good jumper and climber and he will easily find his way up and over the
sheds and the gate to get in and out of his house.

So all is well, I thought. Until my doorbell rang again just now. Jenny.
"Your cat is here again.." She came and looked at the fencing I'd done
tonight and doesn't understand how she could have got out.

I need to get someone to help me drive two posts in for that last little bit
to get it 6 ft high but that is not where she is getting out, she can't get
out to the front of the house from there.

However, I need to seriously consider her future. I will give her a few
more days to settle and if she is still desperate enough to wander that she
climbs out I will take her to TED to see if any infection is going on that
could be making her this confused that she wants to escape.
She was quite happy to lay around her home until a few days ago, so
something obviously is going on in her mind.
She is looking at the door now, sniffing at the crack of it but NO WAY is
she being allowed outside. I'm glad she can't meow or I'd be deafened with
"let me out, let me out"

Tweed

"Sherry" wrote in message
...
On Jun 9, 5:42 pm, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

I do believe that old cats can somewhat develop a feline version of
age-related
dementia. My old Cherokee, who had impeccable house-cat manners, would
suddenly decide to nap on the dining room table...he would get this
*look*, like
he forgot he wasn't supposed to.
Any change in behavior is worrying. That's sometimes the only
barometer we have
that something isn't quite right. I think I'd do the same as you,
confine her
to the house for a bit. Hope she is okay. Keep us posted.

I will see how things go with her. If she still keeps trying to escape and
wander from the house to find food that she doesn't need, begging at the
neighbours doors, she will go to TED in the next few days to see if there's
an explanation.
I will not keep her as a prisoner long term. To see her desperately trying
to get out through the fence I'd put up to stop her bothering the neighbours
tonight hurt my heart.

Tweed

Christina Websell wrote:
I need to get someone to help me drive two posts in for that last
little bit
to get it 6 ft high but that is not where she is getting out, she can't get
out to the front of the house from there.

However, I need to seriously consider her future. I will give her a few
more days to settle and if she is still desperate enough to wander that she
climbs out I will take her to TED to see if any infection is going on that
could be making her this confused that she wants to escape.
She was quite happy to lay around her home until a few days ago, so
something obviously is going on in her mind.
She is looking at the door now, sniffing at the crack of it but NO WAY is
she being allowed outside. I'm glad she can't meow or I'd be deafened with
"let me out, let me out"

Perhaps she's just making sure you know she's down but not out. Doesn't
want you to fall for any of those elder stereotypes :-)

Not to make light of it Christina - I know how much you worry and we're
all purring for the continued good health of KFC.

Susan M
Otis and Chester

Christina Websell wrote:
snip
She was quite happy to lay around her home until a few days ago, so
something obviously is going on in her mind.
She is looking at the door now, sniffing at the crack of it but NO WAY is
she being allowed outside. I'm glad she can't meow or I'd be deafened with
"let me out, let me out"

Oh Kitty. You don't know where you have it good, do you?

Maybe it's just the smells of summer that are tempting her.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Christina Websell wrote:

I will see how things go with her. If she still keeps trying to escape and
wander from the house to find food that she doesn't need, begging at the
neighbours doors, she will go to TED in the next few days to see if there's
an explanation.
I will not keep her as a prisoner long term. To see her desperately trying
to get out through the fence I'd put up to stop her bothering the neighbours
tonight hurt my heart.

Do you think you could put a collar on her? With your address and phone
number, and maybe even a legend saying DO NOT FEED THIS CAT. I realise
it may not be the easiest thing to do with a feisty old lady like KFC.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.