Is your dog's unusual barking a secret code for something mysterious?

[Eggasperated]

After all the trauma with my chickens today I finally settled down to my lunch at 2.30, then the doorbell rang - Scottish power to read the meter. Very nice man, had a chat about animals (the dog had presented him with his toy while he was reading the meter), went back to my lunch to find the cat had eaten all the cheese off my biscuits and licked the butter off the very last home-made hot cross bun .

[Alis girls]

Sorry shouldnt laugh but i do feel for you as ours are scavengers too. when we first got them we went off to Paris leaving elderly father in charge. He put his bowl of Special K ad milk down on the dining room table an went off to get his tea. came back to any empty bowl . He rang us in paris to tell us - we fell about laughing he was not so amused but sees the funny side now.

[Minnie&Moose]

We also have a four-legged, furry, butter-scrumping fiend . We all know his tricks so never put down a piece of toast because we know where his tongue has been. However, occasionally he gets lucky if we have visitors .

[Space Chick]

I made 6 quiches over Christmas, and Sabrina took a bite out of every one as I'd left them on the oven top to cool

 

Got to love cats hey.... Hope you had more cheese for your biscuits

[Alis girls]

Ours has been known to eat chocolate gateau - worrying time as no one could remember if it was cats or dogs who shouldnt have chocolate. hes still here to tell the tale.

[Daphne]

Ours will eat Christmas cake - complete with alcohol But ditto about still being here.

 

We have a low glass coffee table and if you put a plate down with a sandwich or toast a paw will come up from underneath - he hasn't worked out that we can see him

[Couperwife]

I love cats for this reason

 

piperkit must "try" everything that we have, including lamb rogan josh, dried mango pieces, melon, tomatoes she isnt really a thief tho, i think she just cant be bothered

 

she does steal my water that I take to bed tho I woke up once to see her "helping herself little madam

 

cathy

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[dancing cloud]

 

Once when I'd made macaroni cheese and left the portions to cool before freezing, Pud-cat had a "taste" of each one. Quality control!

 

She also takes it for granted that she can inspect the empty dinner plate before it gets washed and that grating cheese automatically means a strand for her. I am so well-trained !

[Alis girls]

Honey is our substitute dishwasher - I dont need to wash breakfast pots she does a grand job for me.

[lillybettybabs]

Foggy pretends to be a good cat the hook you toast with his paws when you are not looking

[Lydia]

We can't leave anything out because it will be stolen. Some examples:

 

My dad came over to do some work on our decking. I made him a toasted teacake and specifically said to keep an eye on it or else Meg would have it. He didn't and she did. So he got himself another teacake and exactly the same thing happened! By the third teacake he'd learnt.

 

When we were having our kitchen done I left our dinner (coq au vin as I remember) defrosting in the microwave in the lounge. One of the builders took it out as he wanted to warm up his tea. Unfortunately he failed to put the bag of dinner back in the microwave again. Meg bit through the bag and helped herself and we came home to coq au vin oozing out everywhere.

 

I once made a cake for some guests we had coming that evening. The cake was cooling on the side and I had my back to it. I slowly became aware of a licking sound behind me and found Meg busy levelling the top of the cake! (I quickly made some icing and served it anyway )

 

I once made 10 blueberry muffins and left them to cool. When I returned to the kitchen there were only 9.

 

Meg also drinks from my water glass at night and Minty has, on many occasions, sent a half full glass flying with one flick of her tail.

[Seagazer]

Our kittens are terrible for drinking out of our water glasses. Toby is so funny when he does this, he sticks his head in and then rubs his paw around the front of the glass, most peculiar.

 

All the pets have now got used to Sophie (oldest cat) having her thyroid tablet. I feed it to her in a little blob of pate. They all seem to hear me opening up the tablet bottle and come running and wait for a little bit of pate

[mags]

Smudge swipes the toast out of your hand while you are eating it !

 

He has me well trained - he yellows to be picked up to get his meals and even yellowed to get pick up to get on the new bed

 

He has a cat flap but wants you to open the back door instead

 

Mags

[Alis girls]

At Christmas - both my cats were put in the garden as I knew something would be nibbled, licked or chewed. friends with dogs tell me they are just as bad - a whole Sunday joint - cooked with trimmings disappeared in one house - I have learnt never trust anything with teeth, fur and feet ( and chickens are no better either)

[dancing cloud]

This thread has really made me laugh and think my cats are actually not as badly behaved and thoroughly spoiled as I thought! And don't we just love the furry blighters?

 

Yesterday there were workmen in my rented house for over nine hours and, despite being asked to keep the front door closed so the cats would not go out, they constantly left the door open and never-moves-other-than-for-food Puddy went missing . Don't know when she actually went, but I realised she was missing at 4.00pm, when she wasn't demanding early dinner. I looked everywhere in the house before donning the waterproofs and wandering up and down the estate, in rain and hail, calling for her, with no sign. Texts to the landlord, asking him to contact the morning workmen and ask them to check their vehicles (already checked the afternoon ones before they were allowed to leave) - no joy - and back around the estate again, calling like a mad thing and shaking the biccie box, and back home, leaving the door wide open in case she came back and couldn't get in.

 

More than THREE HOURS from first being identified as MIA, the little furry tyrant arrives back, yowling her head off, very wet and very hungry . Did I shout and bawl and tell her how worried I was and demand an explanation? Of course not! I cuddled the soggy creature within an inch of her life, fed her tuna (her favourite food ever), towelled her dry with MY towel when she'd finished eating, and sat with the damp thing on my knee for most of the evening, telling it how worried I'd been and how glad I was my Pud-Pud'd come home!

 

Cats indeed!

[lillybettybabs]

Do other cats do the pretend yawn and stretch near your plate of food or is it just sneaky Foggy?

[Couperwife]

Pipers latest...?

 

Last night I went to bed, about 20 minutes later she came too kev was still up so he would come and take her downstairs when he was ready (she isn't allowed to sleep upstairs all night cos she wakes me at 4 )

 

Anyway, I took a glass of water, that she shoved her nose in...couldn't reach the water, so I went and got her another glass and filled it to the top so she could have a drink

 

Who is in charge here?

 

Cos it ain't me

[lillybettybabs]

Foggy is in love with his Kickaroo and i mean lurv, in the morning in my study!

he had to op over a month ago.

I forgot to mention it seems to be when i play Princes 'Kiss' song.

[snowberry]

Edward, one of my 4 cats tries to steal food from your dinner plate if you're not careful. He shuts his eyes & then a little paw tries to swipe a bit of food from the plate. I think that he thinks that if he can't see me then I can't see him

[Couperwife]

 

I was eating my tea the other night and piper came and sat next to me , at the point where her nose was about an inch away from my tea, I told her off

 

She never does this...I suppose that aldi's tuna with lemon and black pepper spelt really, really, really nice

 

When I offered her some that was left in the tin, she turned her nose up...think mine smelt better

 

Cathy

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