Freaked out felines

"Adrian A" wrote in message
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Debbie Wilson wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

Other Brits, how's your weather? Breezy?

Strong winds and intermittent rain, yucky but not as bad as yours I
think!

Deb.

Looking at the satellite pictures tonight there's more to come.


Thanks for cheering me up, Adrian! g
The cats will be staying in tonight. Old trees are falling. There is a
terrific wind here.

Tweed

Kreisleriana wrote:

The thing that really bothers me about the storm thing is that Stinky
loves company more than anything, and it takes something really
upsetting to send him off by himself. So he's miserable because he's
scared by the storm, and he's miserable because he's alone. After
awhile I go down there to check on him, and much of the time, he will
literally fling himself into my arms. But he won't come back up with
me. So a lot of the time, I end up staying down in the basement with
him in my lap.

What a good cat-mom!!

Joyce

wafflycat wrote:
Last night was strong gusting winds. Same this morning with added
horizontal rain. So last night was noisy with the sound of the wind
against the windows. Cue freaked out felines. My three really don't like
the noise and are wide-eyed, unsettled, tail-lashing felines wandering
from room to room in a most upset fashion. Poor beasties!


Boy, I know that feeling! We had our heavy winds a few days ago, for a
couple of days, and I never saw so many cats on the bed, wide-eyed,
staring first at the window, and then at me ("Mommy! I'm skeered! Make
it stop!"

Poor beasties, indeed.

Ginger-lyn

Christina Websell wrote:
"Adrian A" wrote in message
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Debbie Wilson wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

Other Brits, how's your weather? Breezy?

Strong winds and intermittent rain, yucky but not as bad as yours I
think!

Deb.

Looking at the satellite pictures tonight there's more to come.


Thanks for cheering me up, Adrian! g
The cats will be staying in tonight. Old trees are falling. There
is a terrific wind here.

Tweed

It won't be as bad as 1987, I woke up the next morning wondering why all the
trees were on the ground.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart.
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

"Adrian A" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:
"Adrian A" wrote in message
...
Debbie Wilson wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

Other Brits, how's your weather? Breezy?

Strong winds and intermittent rain, yucky but not as bad as yours I
think!

Deb.

Looking at the satellite pictures tonight there's more to come.


Thanks for cheering me up, Adrian! g
The cats will be staying in tonight. Old trees are falling. There
is a terrific wind here.

Tweed

It won't be as bad as 1987, I woke up the next morning wondering why all
the
trees were on the ground.


I hope it won't be as bad as that. I have about 70 trees here and I'm
wishing that the wind will die down soon so they aren't damaged.

Tweeed

"Karen" wrote in message
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Wow. You guys don't normally get this harsh of weather, do you?



It's fairly normal for this time of year.

Last night was strong gusting winds. Same this morning with added
horizontal rain. So last night was noisy with the sound of the wind
against the windows. Cue freaked out felines. My three really don't
like the noise and are wide-eyed, unsettled, tail-lashing felines
wandering from room to room in a most upset fashion. Poor beasties!
Boy, I know that feeling! We had our heavy winds a few days ago, for
a couple of days, and I never saw so many cats on the bed, wide-eyed,
staring first at the window, and then at me ("Mommy! I'm skeered!
Make it stop!"

Ours are mostly used to it and have the sense to just stay inside and
sleep. The exception is Splodge, who is an intact Persian male. He
spends most of the time inside sleeping too, but occasionally he just
*has* to go out on the prowl. And he did it last weekend. The gale
force winds wouldn't have bothered him much, being low to the ground
and with dense fur, but there were occasional violent bursts of rain
and the time he picked to go out was just before one. He came back
half an hour later with his ardour well and truly dampened, looking
like somebody had thrown a bucket of ice water over him and wailing
for a human to Do Something About It. It took a full-size bath towel
to dry him off.

Splodge can be *very* determined when he gets in the mood. Early this
year he got a poisoned foot. We took him to the vet for antibiotics
and painkillers, but the day after he was off again for some all-night
partying, hopping out through the catflap on three legs before I could
say "where do you think you're going?".

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"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message
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Last night was strong gusting winds. Same this morning with added
horizontal rain. So last night was noisy with the sound of the wind
against the windows. Cue freaked out felines. My three really don't
like the noise and are wide-eyed, unsettled, tail-lashing felines
wandering from room to room in a most upset fashion. Poor beasties!
Boy, I know that feeling! We had our heavy winds a few days ago, for
a couple of days, and I never saw so many cats on the bed, wide-eyed,
staring first at the window, and then at me ("Mommy! I'm skeered!
Make it stop!"

Ours are mostly used to it and have the sense to just stay inside and
sleep. The exception is Splodge, who is an intact Persian male. He
spends most of the time inside sleeping too, but occasionally he just
*has* to go out on the prowl. And he did it last weekend. The gale
force winds wouldn't have bothered him much, being low to the ground
and with dense fur, but there were occasional violent bursts of rain
and the time he picked to go out was just before one. He came back
half an hour later with his ardour well and truly dampened, looking
like somebody had thrown a bucket of ice water over him and wailing
for a human to Do Something About It. It took a full-size bath towel
to dry him off.

Splodge can be *very* determined when he gets in the mood. Early this
year he got a poisoned foot. We took him to the vet for antibiotics
and painkillers, but the day after he was off again for some all-night
partying, hopping out through the catflap on three legs before I could
say "where do you think you're going?".

Have you ever considered getting him neutered?

Tweed

[Splodge, intact tomcat]
Splodge can be *very* determined when he gets in the mood. Early this
year he got a poisoned foot. We took him to the vet for antibiotics
and painkillers, but the day after he was off again for some all-night
partying, hopping out through the catflap on three legs before I could
say "where do you think you're going?".
Have you ever considered getting him neutered?

Of course.

But we haven't.

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"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message
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[Splodge, intact tomcat]
Splodge can be *very* determined when he gets in the mood. Early
Have you ever considered getting him neutered?

Of course.

But we haven't.

Why not?

Tweed