jess8619 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 This is Oscar, my first "Proper" pet, besides fish and the 2 hamsters I had when I was 4. He is 2 years old and is the oldest of six other brothers and sisters. He has an obsession with Felix cat food and likes being butch and scaring off the local foxes. He likes eating mice and birds. I love him lots except for when he meows at 4 am and persitently bangs on his cat flap. He likes nothing better than being fussed and is a very chatty puss. This is him as a kitten on the day we picked him up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 So cute the photo of him with the mouse is amazing. karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess8619 Posted October 7, 2007 Author Share Posted October 7, 2007 Oh, thank you- I took that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 very cute kitten picture! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Smashing pictures. Did he eat that mouse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellekatz Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 He's so gorgeous - I love gingers and have an elderley one myself. Who coudl resist those appealing kitten eyes?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 He is gorgeous - I have never had a ginger cat,but it is on my to do list for one day! I love the first photo - I love the way cats tuck their feet in like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 That kitten pic is priceless we inherited a half siamese ginger tom when we bought the farm, he has fathered an entire ginger dynasty locally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 What lovely photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess8619 Posted October 8, 2007 Author Share Posted October 8, 2007 Smashing pictures. Did he eat that mouse? Eventually, yes. Thank you for the comments! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 He's gorgeous ... I have a real soft spot for ginger cats (shh ... my own delightful and beautiful tabby might be reading this). That mouse picture is absolutely brilliant - you should enter that in a competition! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 That mouse picture is absolutely brilliant - you should enter that in a competition! I agree Olly - it's fab. When our old cat Milly died last year, I wanted a ginger boy, but then I met Biscuit, who's a sort of stone-washed ginger and fell in love (he's a cream tabby). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess8619 Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 He's gorgeous ... I have a real soft spot for ginger cats (shh ... my own delightful and beautiful tabby might be reading this). That mouse picture is absolutely brilliant - you should enter that in a competition! Haha, funnily enough I was going to but I forgot to post it . I will next year though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 What very lovely photos.... I too have a soft spot for ginger cats, and so does everyone else in the family, but when we looked for our kittens we couldn't find any ginger ones (obviously since then I've seen them all over the place!!)... our adult cats are both black, and the kittens are white, and black and white, and tabby and white, and totally adorable, so don't tell any of them I've said all this about ginger cats... Saw beautiful ginger kittens advertised locally the other day, but thought if I dare to adopt one more kitten (or any pet for that matter), my dear husband will probalby run off!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Ziggy, there are ginger kittens advertised in Crofts in Banbury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 A year after we got George (13 years ago) we got Jake, a gorgeous ginger just like yours. He was killed on the road a year later, on 23rd Oct 1996, while i was pregnant with Alexander. I still get upset on that date, he was the most amazing people cat you have ever met. He used to come & sit on my belly when I got home from work every night.I knew something was wrong when he didn't come home. His body had been taken to the local vets, so at least we got to bury him, & he looked like he was asleep. It was really hard to move house & leave him in the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 That's a sad story Jules - sounds like he was a much loved cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 He was. He was really good friends with George, they used to cuddle up together. At first George wasn't impressed with a tiny ginger kitten coming living in the same house, but Jake got around him by lovingly washing George's ears, which he loved. We had a radiator bed sheepskin thingy they used to squash in together. George really missed Jake, & not long after we got Jethro from the Cats Protection who had survived a car accident, although lost the sight in one eye because of it. George & Jethro tolerate each other, & Hattie does her own thing. When Jake died I wrote a big list of his quirky traits, like he used to sit on the side of the bath while you were in it. He also used to sleep at our feet under the quilt. I find it very theraputic to write things down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess8619 Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 Awh, that's so sad! R.I.P Jake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I've had a photo day today & scanned some photos in . Here's Jake & George squashed together on a kitchen chair. Jake looks quite young there Here he is a bit older, not long before he was run over Sorry he's sideways on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...