Intruder in the night

On Nov 2, 9:43*am, "Christina Websell"
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"Adrian" wrote in message

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Christina Websell wrote:
Yesterday I was awoken at 4 a.m. by the noise of a cat fight and
galloping feet. * KFC and Boyfriend do have their ups and downs but
they rarely actually fight although it has been known, once or twice,
and always in the night.
I briefly considered getting up and going downstairs into the cold
house to see what was going on. *Very briefly ;-) *As all was quiet
again in a minute or two I decided against it.
When I got up in the morning both cats were perched on arms of chairs
in the lounge peering into the kitchen with wide eyes and elongated
necks. *As I stepped into the kitchen there was an explosion of
orange. *A cat had got into the house overnight and become trapped
inside - and at the sight of me he was climbing the walls and
battering at the windows in a real panic, jumping on shelves, sending
everything there flying, cookery books, plants: large basket of
spices, spare cat dishes, saved veggie seeds, little paraffin lamp
etc on the windowsill went straight into the sink where there was a
bowlful of washing up water that I'd forgotten to empty :-( I hurriedly
opened the back door so he could go out. *I failed to
notice he'd done a loose poo in front of it so I spread that around
with my inward opening door. *Oh, joy.
I retired back into the lounge but he didn't go out of the open door
after a few minutes just continued racing around scattering
everything in his path including crockery in the drainer, knives,
forks and spoons bit the dust. *I had to make him panic even more by
approaching him to open a window so he could escape from there and
that's when he pulled my curtain pole off the wall complete with
fixtures and curtains. I noticed he was un-neutered as I got closer to
try and let him out
the window. *He was a teenager too, just like Boyfie when he arrived
here. *A beautiful looking boy in good condition, orange striped body
with a lovely white front. *I also noticed he had eaten a plate of
crusty old rejected cat food up on the worktop that I was going to
give to the chickens. I got him out of the window eventually.
I've seen him only once before, crossing the road in front of my
house about a week ago, and no, I am not going to give him a home if
he returns.
The kitchen was full of cat fur, some from Boyfie and some orange.
Boyfie's reflective collar had been pulled off over his head, I found
it in the kitchen. He was dreadfully upset. *After I got the intruder
out he had no appetite for his breakfast at all, now that's serious
as he loves his food. Kitty was only slightly upset by it, as I guess
she didn't have to fight, and she agreed to have her breakfast at
about 2 pm. All the brightness went out of Boyfie and he meatloafed on a
pair of
my trousers for hours with narrowed eyes saying "leave me alone" this
is not like him.
He would not eat all day.
I just wish people who decide to have cats realise it's as important
to have a male neutered as a female. Those teenage boys with their
hormones, well, snippety-snip. *They are much happier not fighting
and staying home instead of wandering in search.
If this ginger boy comes again (and perhaps he's hungry) *he will not
be allowed to terrorise my cats, he will be off to a Cat Rescue, not
the RSPCA.

I hope ginger soon visits a vet and settles in a loving home where he can
be pampered for the rest of his life.
--

I suspect he already has a loving home as he was in magnificent condition,
it's just that some people don't think it's too important to pay out 50 quid
to get their males neutered as they don't have to deal with the kittens.
Here he is, breaking into houses in search of either females or food. *If
it's females, well KFC will have a word to say about that.. and if it's food
then he is lost, like Boyfie was. *If he returns for food then I will borrow
a trap and get him to a no-kill shelter.
Maybe the boy thought he'd chance going into another house, not sure why,
but it wasn't a good experience for him.

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On Nov 2, 9:43*am, "Christina Websell"
wrote:
think it's too important to pay out 50 quid
to get their males neutered

It's not even 50 quid! Our vet does females for £43.05 more if they
are on heat or pregnant- males I think is £35.00- £40.00

And they happily accept CPL vouchers, which cover most if not all of
the cost of spay/neuter

Kylie tells me they are happy to do break even on spays and neuters
because they believe in it

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

"Lesley" wrote in message
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On Nov 2, 9:43 am, "Christina Websell"
wrote:
think it's too important to pay out 50 quid
to get their males neutered

It's not even 50 quid! Our vet does females for £43.05 more if they
are on heat or pregnant- males I think is £35.00- £40.00

And they happily accept CPL vouchers, which cover most if not all of
the cost of spay/neuter

Kylie tells me they are happy to do break even on spays and neuters
because they believe in it

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Ginger will not enter my house again and escape with his nuptials intact
again, believe you me. First and last time he upsets my boy like that in
his own house when he was asleep.

Tweed

Christina Websell wrote:
"Lesley" wrote in message
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On Nov 2, 9:43 am, "Christina Websell"
wrote:
think it's too important to pay out 50 quid
to get their males neutered

It's not even 50 quid! Our vet does females for £43.05 more if they
are on heat or pregnant- males I think is £35.00- £40.00

And they happily accept CPL vouchers, which cover most if not all of
the cost of spay/neuter

Kylie tells me they are happy to do break even on spays and neuters
because they believe in it

------
Ginger will not enter my house again and escape with his nuptials intact
again, believe you me. First and last time he upsets my boy like that in
his own house when he was asleep.

Tweed


Are you sure he was married? LOL

Christina Websell wrote:

Yesterday I was awoken at 4 a.m. by the noise of a cat fight and galloping
feet. KFC and Boyfriend do have their ups and downs but they rarely
actually fight although it has been known, once or twice, and always in the
night.
I briefly considered getting up and going downstairs into the cold house to
see what was going on. Very briefly ;-) As all was quiet again in a minute
or two I decided against it.
When I got up in the morning both cats were perched on arms of chairs in the
lounge peering into the kitchen with wide eyes and elongated necks. As I
stepped into the kitchen there was an explosion of orange. A cat had got
into the house overnight and become trapped inside - and at the sight of me
he was climbing the walls and battering at the windows in a real panic,
jumping on shelves, sending everything there flying, cookery books, plants:
large basket of spices, spare cat dishes, saved veggie seeds, little
paraffin lamp etc on the windowsill went straight into the sink where there
was a bowlful of washing up water that I'd forgotten to empty :-(

[snip description of the amazing destruction one cat can create]

Oh my goodness! He was like a little orange tornado. I'm glad Boyfie and
KFC seem unscathed. It's actually amazing that she was as unstressed by
it as she was, and was still able to eat. Poor Boyfie, though, that his
non-violent little soul was so disturbed by it.

Glad you got your house in order again! The orange kitty certainly does
need to be neutered.

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

Christina Websell wrote:
"MLB" wrote in message
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Are you able to tell if Boyfriend got any wounds?

I can't see any.

Over here we would be wondering about rabies.

Fortunately this is something I don't have to worry about. There is no
rabies in the UK.

Sorry that you had such a mess to clean up.

Took me most of the morning. Ah well. It doesn't really matter now.
It looked like my kitchen had been burgled by someone with a faeces fetish.
All up the walls too..

Tweed



We Googled rabies and learned the only place where rabies doesn't exist is in the artic


MLB

MLB wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:
"MLB" wrote in message
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Are you able to tell if Boyfriend got any wounds?

I can't see any.

Over here we would be wondering about rabies.

Fortunately this is something I don't have to worry about. There is
no rabies in the UK.

Sorry that you had such a mess to clean up.

Took me most of the morning. Ah well. It doesn't really matter now.
It looked like my kitchen had been burgled by someone with a faeces
fetish. All up the walls too..

Tweed



We Googled rabies and learned the only place where rabies doesn't
exist is in the artic MLB

There is no rabies in the UK.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

"Adrian" skrev i meddelandet
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MLB wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:
"MLB" wrote in message
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Are you able to tell if Boyfriend got any wounds?

I can't see any.

Over here we would be wondering about rabies.

Fortunately this is something I don't have to worry about. There is
no rabies in the UK.

Sorry that you had such a mess to clean up.

Took me most of the morning. Ah well. It doesn't really matter now.
It looked like my kitchen had been burgled by someone with a faeces
fetish. All up the walls too..

Tweed



We Googled rabies and learned the only place where rabies doesn't
exist is in the artic MLB
There is no rabies in the UK.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk
And there is no rabies i Sweden.
There are strict laws for bringing pets into the country.
They have to have vaccination certificates or they will be put down.
Elisabet

MLB wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:
"MLB" wrote in message
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Are you able to tell if Boyfriend got any wounds?

I can't see any.

Over here we would be wondering about rabies.

Fortunately this is something I don't have to worry about. There is
no rabies in the UK.

Sorry that you had such a mess to clean up.

Took me most of the morning. Ah well. It doesn't really matter now.
It looked like my kitchen had been burgled by someone with a faeces
fetish. All up the walls too..

Tweed



We Googled rabies and learned the only place where rabies doesn't
exist is in the artic

There are others places it doesn't exist, or very nearly doesn't. Most
parts of the island of Newfoundland have had no rabies at least from the
beginning of recorded history until quite recently, when the disease was
brought down from the north, almost certainly by arctic foxes on ice
floes. Rabies was eradicated again even in the affected areas. Although
the high Arctic may well not have rabies, the....er, more southerly bits
of the north, like Labrador, most certainly do have rabies. It exists in
wild animals up North, probably has done since *before* recorded
history, and periodically flares up into an epidemic.

I have always heard that the UK, being an island and having extremely
strict anti-rabies laws, doesn't have rabies at all, not even in the
form of limited and quickly eliminated incursions by infected wild animals.

Poor Tweed and Boyfie, with such a mess! But I don't think they need to
worry about rabies.

I almost hope Ginger does come back, and is taken to TED, or to a
charity that will do the deed. My Sam was a young tom when I adopted
him, obviously originally a pet, roaming around and stirring up trouble
in his new neighbourhood. He's a lovely cat, and I found it hard to
believe that no one had reported him lost, but he had definitely worn
out his welcome in the neighbourhood he'd wandered into, what with all
the cat fights he managed to get into (or start! I gather the resident
cats didn't fight among themselves until Sam showed up). That's
un-neutered boycats for you. Sweet and friendly with people, maybe, but
do they ever get into fights!

Cheryl

We Googled rabies and learned the only place
where rabies doesn't exist is in the arctic
There is no rabies in the UK.

Well, not much. Somebody caught it a year or two
ago when exploring a bat-filled cave in Scotland.

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