Is Your Cat A Cheater?

[tiggerblue10]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54710400




Sorry I'm a tad bored so posting willy nilly!

[Captain2]

Our story is the reverse, we were disowned. Large ginger tom, tough as old boots, used to pick fights with the local fox crossing his 'patch'.
When he was 13 we got a new kitten; didn't go down too well, but he put up with this intruder for about 6 months. Then he started going missing for a day, then two, then up to a week.
Found him 100 yards down the lane having adopted a family who had a cat flap in their garage door. He paid infrequent visits to us and they got less and less, but he seemed content with his new home when we saw him as we drove past.

[wolf63]

I've just finished reading it it was a beautiful cat. My brother has/had a visiting Cat but they decided not to feed it. It calls for cuddles and scratches now.

Devious little critters.
:-)

[Prudie]

I know my current 2 don't as they are never out for more than an hour before they return to bother me (and are kept in at night). I was however adopted by a stray who must have belonged to someone once. A ginger tom with the thickest coat you could imagine. He was also the most affectionate cat I've ever had. He became part of our home for a couple of years until he very sadly got ill with untreatable cancer. I posted about him at the time, I'd called him Mr Puss.

[pastafreak]

What a lovely story. I admit I'd find it very difficult not to feed a feline visitor. They make you want to. But the pain of missing your cat, wishing it to come back, calling it with no miaowing answer is dreadful, and I'd not want to put another owner through that.

[ummmm]

My cat isn't friendly. He's actually a bit of a twit so I very much doubt he cheats.

He senses my son is back off to uni so just sits and stares at him all day.

[pastafreak]

I remember the book mentioned...Six Dinner Sid. I'd bought it for my daughter when she was 5 or 6. At least the big black cat we had at the time didn't wander.

[Patsy33]

Not as far as I know. He gets fed too well here, and gets lots of attention. He follows me everywhere when he's not sleeping

[tiggerblue10]

Tigger hardly ever went out and Blue was never out for long. They were pretty much home cats.

[roopower]

I love 'Six Dinner Sid', when he 'falls ill', they discover he's a she and is pregnant. We've taken in numerous strays over the years and have always attempted to find an owner though some were very definitely strays. We found the owner for two - one had been dumped on waste land near us by a vindictive neighbour and was actually brought to us by one of our ex strays, the other had been let out too soon after a house move and got lost. We had a tortie that turned up in the garden and eventually moved in, many months later we discovered from his previous owners that he lived behind us but had left home when they got a dog. They had no idea he was living about ten feet away!

[roopower]

One of our present cats is a cheater but we don't mind. She goes next door to see our elderly neighbour and her son whose own cat died. They don't feed her but she loves the extra fuss and the woodburner - beats a radiator every time!

[pastafreak]

I suspect Cleo would be a cheater if she wasn't afraid of the big outdoors. She steals Tubbys food and uses his litter tray. Another house with more food would be heaven.

[tiggerblue10]

Would love to see some more photos of Cleo and Tubs, Pasta :o))

[calmck]

Any one read The Silent Miaow by Paul Gallico. A great insight into cat behaviour.
How is Tubby getting along now pasta?

[AuntPollyGrey]

When our housecat died a few years ago we were inundated with commiserations. Apparently, she was known to many neighbours and would go to lay on thier beds, sit by the firesides, aggravate their dogs and one woman told us she would visit her husband who had cancer and didn't even like cats, and would sit on his knee. One day , so I was told, she went down to the village green -a good half mile away as the cat flies - and sat and watched a game of cricket!

[Barsel]

A beautiful tortoiseshell cat adopted me once. Whenever I came home from being out, she would be there waiting on the doorstep. I found out she belonged to a family who had a young daughter who was pining for her, so I took her to them, but as soon as she was let out, she came back to me. I took her back again, but the lady of the house said the cat obviously wanted to live with me and that I should keep her so I did. I loved that cat to bits.

[david small]

A massive black and white cat graced us with his presence for a few years. At least twice the normal size, not fat, all muscle. When he rubbed against you it nearly tipped you over. Not in the least fazed or provoked by other cats. He’d lay in the long grass and wait to be hand fed. One chilled, laid back pussy cat.

[pastafreak]

Tiggs and calmck...Tubs is still hiding...he seems to go through brave and not so brave phases. I've seen his paws come from under the sofa skirt as he tries to smack Cleo...she sits just out of his reach, watching. Yesterday it sounded like he was doing that rolling around like a beached whale on his back that cats do. I kept hearing him thumping around under my seat.
Like this...Cleo is doing it a bit also.

https://www.thesprucepets.com/why-do-cats-roll-553936

Unfortunately Tubby has also left a few "presents" where I don't want them. Hope it's a phase.

[calmck]

Is Cleo using his box

[pastafreak]

Yes...I'm already assuming that might be the problem.