Pet StoriesWhen one of my cats was younger and a lot fatter, he came bowling in from the garden with an almighty crash. Looking slightly stunned, he'd arrived into the kitchen having ripped the cat flap from the door and was still wearing it as a cat-tutu. Did I mention he was quite fat?
In honour of Jake, a well loved cat, who died on Wednesday, tell us your pet stories and cheer us up.
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chthonic, Fri 8 Jun 2007, 9:15)
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More on Tiy (Mr Backgammon below)Tiy, my cat, was a bit of a hunter: mice, magpies and crows (sometime brought in alive, and rather cross, through the catflap), squirrels, rats, pigeons, and once, an earthworm.
This caused a few moments of stress between us:
- Came back to the house, with friends due to arrive shortly for drinks/food. The kitchen looked as though a axe murder had taken place. Actually caused by a pigeon Tiy had brought in, bitten deeply in the neck, and left to bleed copiously whilst flying laps around the kitchen.
- Like magpies, crows are quite bright, and the word got out. I always knew when Tiy was outside by the bitching from the crows/magpies. As Tiy like to wander out at about 5:30 to have a comfort break before a busy day snoozing on the sofa, it made for an early wake up call.
- Walked into kitchen one morning, slipped on water that was supposed to be in Tiy’s bowl. Curse cat, pick up bowl, find little mouse cowering underneath – it had taken cover by running through the handgrip hole in the side of the bowl..Tiy had spent an entertaining night batting the bowl around the floor trying to retrieve the mouse.
- We used to live in an end terrace house by the park. Woken at 6:00am by screaming. Cat was torturing a rat downstairs, and apparently rats can scream. The front door had little windows by it, with a wire ‘grill’ on the inside for security. The rat had climbed several feet up this. As I was naked, and knew cornered rats could jump, I retreated to acquire a pair of jeans for safety, and a pool cue for rat biffing.
I lined up the rats head for a quick kill, and struck. Little bastardo ducked, I put the pool cue through window. Rat bailed through convenient hole in glass.
Two neighbours walking their dogs in the park rushed up to see what was going on, I hid the cue, and muttered something about ‘an accident’.
Fortunate really, that they weren’t in view 30 seconds earlier, in time to see me pushing a rat through a window with a pool cue.
“Nice pad you’ve got there Mr Beatswork..”
(, Fri 8 Jun 2007, 13:56, Reply)
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