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Post by whollygoats on Mar 8, 2018 22:27:21 GMT
Well, he IS big boned. And, he has fums!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 11, 2018 10:57:53 GMT
Sounds about the size of my Lily back in the day when she was nice and healthy. She got up to 8kg which is apparently 17.6 pounds.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 20, 2018 16:15:01 GMT
He has now figured out how to get the hoomins up from their sleep to let him out....this morning, it was a blissfully late 5:30 am. He uses his weight to his advantage, of course...He 'catapults' from the bedroom floor up onto the bed with two sleeping humans. Sixteen pounds of stub love makes an impression, especially if it is presented on the edge of consciousness. He got out.
Cleo, on the other hand, who used to love to get up at 4 am to go out, then in, then out again, and back in, before going out...well, she wants to sleep in (she burrowed under the blankets to snooze) and when she awakens, she does not want food, nor to exit the building. No, she wants to play string. Nowadays, if Cleo is awake and there is a human in her presence, she wants the human to play string with her. She is monomanical. Incessant.
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Post by Mari on Mar 20, 2018 18:44:51 GMT
Why on earth would you get up at 5.30 to let a cat out? That's way too kind! And way, way too early...
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 20, 2018 20:34:00 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 20, 2018 20:37:00 GMT
Why get up? Because the pounding from an airborne incoming fuzzwad continues to be repeated until somebody gets up and lets him out.
The time was not too bad, considering his sister wanted to get up at 3 am or 4 am to go out. She used to do 'stompies' until she got a response. But now, from what Swimmer reports, if she doesn't get an adequate response, she has figured out how to turn off Swimmer's CPAP. Evidently, just knocking valuables off the bedside table was not working so she 'stepped it up'. Literally.
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Post by Mari on Mar 21, 2018 6:25:54 GMT
Reason to remove the cats from the bedroom.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 21, 2018 15:13:32 GMT
Um....If you remove Cleo from the bedroom, she will be outside the closed door yowling her fool head off. She is loud.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 21, 2018 15:44:07 GMT
And scratching the door?
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Post by Mari on Mar 21, 2018 17:50:46 GMT
My cats tried that too, but I ignored them. At some point they stopped. But yeah, I can underrstand how letting them have their way is easier sometimes. Tybbe especially can be yowling really annoyingly in the evenings. And when you finally give in and open the door, he just stands there looking at it saying "why did you open the door, silly, you're letting the cold in".
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Post by Moose on Mar 21, 2018 20:21:43 GMT
We have at least two cats in the bedroom most of the time. No point shutting them out ... as Kelly says, they'll just raise hell on the landing.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 6, 2018 16:00:14 GMT
Well....Last night, Murray would NOT come in.
I was rustled from my comfy bed this morning to go see what it was he had cornered in the back yard.
I thought it might be a crow fledgling, but no....Murray had caught a mouse somewhere out in the garden and evidently spent the entire night playing with it. According to Swimmer, it was still live this morning, as she actually saw Murray carrying around the still live mouse.
I just went out to the balcony, and he is sacked out on the bench, oblivious to the world....snoring.
It is now official....Murray is a 'Mighty Hunter'.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 6, 2018 16:34:17 GMT
Ellie carries around live mice, apparently unharmed. One such just yesterday afternoon.
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Post by Mari on Jul 8, 2018 17:55:44 GMT
Mine don't, but they don't come outside. No mice inside fortunately.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 16, 2018 15:35:40 GMT
Well, Murray is exhibiting his native smarts....He has figured out how to let himself out in the morning....provided all the conditions are right.
Those conditions include: The back door is ajar such that he can pull it open far enough to squeeze through and the screen door is not latched shut, so that he can push through it.
He's pretty smug about it, too, according to Swimmer, even though he cannot come back in. Yet. He does have thumbs.
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Post by Mari on Jul 17, 2018 9:06:46 GMT
Hahaha, I have one ninja like that. The other one keeps trying, but he keeps pushing where he should pull and vice versa.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 17, 2018 19:24:49 GMT
He repeated it this morning.
I'd pointedly left the door shut, but ajar and not latched, and made sure the screen door was not pulled shut tight.
Sure enough, he did not harass us to arise and open the door to let him out at 4 - 4:30 am, and, the door was open catbutt width (aka 'whiskerwide').
He can get away with this because his stubby tail doesn't risk getting traumatized in the screen door, but I'm quite sure he learned the door opening techniques by watching and emulating his sister, who is a master at getting in to rooms, cabinets, and dusty, cobwebby places. I'm a bit amused that it is he that figured it out, rather than his sister. He's gonna be disappointed when cooler temperatures return and the door gets latched all the time.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 11, 2018 13:57:01 GMT
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Post by Kye on Aug 11, 2018 14:00:50 GMT
The pic is not showing, Goat dear.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 11, 2018 14:06:49 GMT
The pic is not showing, Goat dear. Is now....I'm fumbling.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 11, 2018 14:11:08 GMT
So....Murray's 'favorite' (if there is such a thing) is the 'butt muncher', which he solicits regularly. If done 'right', he goes in to 'down dog' position while getting his butt munches and then does a tuck and roll in to what they call the 'Kali Ma', which are known as 'bellyrubs' or 'tummyrubs' in this house. Tummyrubs are encouraged to go on endlessly with Murray....don't try it with Cleo, though; she's not reliable and may spring the hand trap.
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Post by Kye on Aug 11, 2018 16:29:40 GMT
My cats like a combination of the bread kneader and the fine-tooth comb.
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Post by Mari on Aug 11, 2018 16:32:21 GMT
Mine go in for the butt muncher and kali ma in Puck's case and the full body scratch for Tybbe
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Post by Mari on Aug 11, 2018 16:34:23 GMT
Mine go in for the butt muncher and kali ma in Puck's case and the full body scratch for Tybbe Oh and the turtle neck. His favourite however is when I pet his head while covering his eyes. Dunno why he likes having his eyes covered so much.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 11, 2018 17:18:16 GMT
Mine go in for the butt muncher and kali ma in Puck's case and the full body scratch for Tybbe Oh and the turtle neck. His favourite however is when I pet his head while covering his eyes. Dunno why he likes having his eyes covered so much. That's like Murray....He loves it when I cover his entire face with my hand; I basically grasp his face. He falls asleep that way. I call it 'facepalm'.
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Post by JoeP on Aug 11, 2018 17:48:16 GMT
Mine too. Thumb to the left of one ear, little finger to the right of the other ear, remaining fingers massaging the skull. Don't squash the ears.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 21, 2018 6:29:32 GMT
With Dave the Lodger now gone, the bedroom on the main floor is empty. Cleo has found it that way and is thoroughly enjoying the result and has taken to doing singing sessions in the empty room to take advantage of the echoing of her loud Abby voice off the hard walls. I have to close the room at night so she doesn't rouse the sleeping hoomins upstairs.
Murray is still damned smug about his ability to "slip out the back, Jack" (with considerably assistance from yours truly) at night. He's figured out that once out, he cannot get back in until a human opens the door for him...and gives him access to his food bowl. Once cold comes, the door will not be 'set' for him and we'll have to make other arrangements. I suspect he may opt to spend more time indoors....he _is_ a bedlump.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 27, 2018 20:10:16 GMT
Murray, my balcony gargoyle.
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Post by Mari on Aug 28, 2018 7:33:05 GMT
wow, he's grown!
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 28, 2018 12:50:27 GMT
Yeah...He's a big guy. A big softy, for sure. A lunk.
He's actually been losing weight and he's in his summer slimmest.
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