At last the new kitten is old enough to leave his mother and has come to fill our house with squeeks. I have a 76-page election manifesto to read, understand, and familiarise myself with so may not be able to take the 200 photographs I want to take tonight, but I’m sure I will be […]
Entries Tagged as 'Pets'
Furry friend
March 25th, 2010 · Comments Off on Furry friend · Life
It has been quite a cat-oriented evening today. As soon as I got home I had to take Chiquita to the vets for a scheduled check-up to make sure her scar is healing properly. Considering she ripped the stitches out within minutes of having the collar removed at the weekend, she is doing fine. The […]
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Good news on the kitten front
March 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on Good news on the kitten front · Life
It appears that the local farm’s cat has had kittens, and they are happy to give them away to a good home. They have a pair of tabbies of, as yet, unascertained gender.  They are still too young to be removed from their mother, but as soon as they are old enough we can have […]
Back from the vets
March 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Back from the vets · Life
Chiquita had her long-awaited visit to the vets to get spayed yesterday and returned with a huge shaved patch and a buster collar to stop her ripping the stitches out. She is not impressed with the collar. Advice from the vets included a remark that the cat could be drowsy for a few days as […]
Obligatory cat photos
March 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
I spend a lot of time amusing and being amused by Chiquita, but hardly any time taking cat photos. I tried to make amends a little on Monday while I was taking a day off work.
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Turning the tables on the kitten
February 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Turning the tables on the kitten · Life
Over the last couple of weeks we have been reminded that kittens are a force of nature, but tonight Chiquita had a break from terrorising us as she learned that there is an even greater force of nature, which also comes on four legs – Jayne’s friend came round with her twin 8-year-old girls…Â I […]
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Cat Chaos
February 1st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
So. The first day that Chiquita was left alone all day and she trashed the front room a bit. At the moment we can’t let her out (a bit young, not had her jabs, paranoid about cars and wrapping her in cotton wool etc.) It was not supposed to be like this: it was supposed […]
More bad cat news
January 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Life
Today has been a very sad and depressing one, as it saw us lose our second cat in just over a week, but this time it was totally unexpected.
Welcome to the family
January 25th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Life
Funny how these things happen. Jayne went to a party on Saturday night and one of her sister’s friends was saying how she had a kitten they couldn’t keep any more…  Seems that they already had a dog, the kitten’s mother and the kitten’s older brother. When the cat had a litter they were persuaded […]
No more pets
January 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
We decided a while a go that, for various reasons, we would not have any more pets. After Ziggy died we weakened a little bit and so Rojo joined the family, but that was a momentary lapse of reason – somebody we knew had kittens who needed a home, we had a home… it seemed […]
