With my cat, Hookey, being predominantly white I frequently tell him to beware getting his ears burnt in the sun or I'll have to put some sun blocker on them. The message obviously got through and he found the solution....
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Explains why the bum and tail are brown :)
Sometime white cats are deaf. Our brown tabby female was. If she was somewhere she shouldn't be, I would tell her to get down and she never took any notice.
We have an all-white cat, about 15 years old now, and this time of the year she is not allowed outside before about 1630. She's not deaf fortunately and rules the two dogs with an iron fist (and I mean that literally... whack!, get out of my way!).
Cheers,
Chris
Sometime white cats are deaf.
a bit like Huskies, though with HB it seems to be intermittent / selective :'(
he can hear the fridge door open from upstairs, but doesn't hear you when you are stood next to him telling him NO.
and before some bright spark suggests it, I'm not humping a fridge round the fields just to get his attention >:(
Quotehe can hear the fridge door open from upstairs,
we proved that things can travel faster than the speed of light .mates ridgeback asleep on the bed upstairs,openthe fridge door and the ridgeback is at your side before the light in the fridge has turned on.
Quote from: class37025 on June 21, 2020, 03:12:09 PM
Sometime white cats are deaf.
a bit like Huskies, though with HB it seems to be intermittent / selective :'(
he can hear the fridge door open from upstairs, but doesn't hear you when you are stood next to him telling him NO.
and before some bright spark suggests it, I'm not humping a fridge round the fields just to get his attention >:(
Isn't he big enough to carry the fridge himself?
:D
Hookey definitely goes deaf when he's washing himself. I could set a hydrogen bomb off next to him and he'd still carry on regardless.
Well........probably
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 21, 2020, 04:18:52 PM
Hookey definitely goes deaf when he's washing himself. I could set a hydrogen bomb off next to him and he'd still carry on regardless.
And if you were to open a tin/packet of food next to him?
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 21, 2020, 04:18:52 PM
Hookey definitely goes deaf when he's washing himself. I could set a hydrogen bomb off next to him and he'd still carry on regardless.
Kato does the instantaneously-there-when-you-open-the-fridge thing. Quite unnerving when you know he was two floors up chewing on a signal just a second ago, it's as if he can fold the space-time continuum.
Based on your intelligence above, I'm wondering if a cat's bottom is actually a wormhole?
I must check the fridge for thermometers next time he goes to the vets.
Quote from: chrism on June 21, 2020, 04:25:03 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 21, 2020, 04:18:52 PM
Hookey definitely goes deaf when he's washing himself. I could set a hydrogen bomb off next to him and he'd still carry on regardless.
And if you were to open a tin/packet of food next to him?
Absolutely no contest. He can hear a tin of tuna chunks being opened above anything else, probably even the aforementioned hydrogen bomb!
We got a new kitten two weeks ago.
He's growing so fast right now, eating German Katzenminze (true), and yet the quality of my dinners has gone down hugely.
They had gone up in quality and creativity when my wife retired at the start of March, but the kitten now has all her attention.
I wish I could go down the pub but I cant!
Still he is beautiful. As is my wife.
Bob
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Quote from: Bob G on June 21, 2020, 05:02:51 PM
We got a new kitten two weeks ago.
He's growing so fast right now, eating German Katzenminze (true), and yet the quality of my dinners has gone down hugely.
They had gone up in quality and creativity when my wife retired at the start of March, but the kitten now has all her attention.
I wish I could go down the pub but I cant!
Still he is beautiful. As is my wife.
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He's a little cracker, Bob ;)
Our cat Bella does not appear to be deaf, but only has one eye and is partially sighted in the other. When she wants to go out, she, literally, howls until I go to her and say "Come on then". She will then follow me to whichever door I open. Yet, she will come in the same way our other four cats do - jump up to a window ledge, (I have just measured it and it is 49 inches off the floor), and then in through a small window. Not bad for a cat that is about 18 years old. She was our very first cat, so does get a bit of special attention. :)
Careful, Bob. If your wife sees that you may end up with a chilli con carne made with katzenminze. You'd end up with a nice shiny coat but halitosis.
Lovely kitten :heart:
Quote from: Bob G on June 21, 2020, 05:02:51 PM
but the kitten now has all her attention.
Tell me about it. I have often said to Louisa that when I depart this earth, I am coming back as a cat - as long as I can live with her! ;D
Quote from: dannyboy on June 21, 2020, 05:09:44 PM
Yet, she will come in the same way our other four cats do - jump up to a window ledge, (I have just measured it and it is 49 inches off the floor), and then in through a small window.
I wonder if it's that she doesn't like jumping down that distance any more?
Hence preferring to have a doorman to let her out.
More kitten nonsense
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I have also been doing a lot of modelling during lockdown - not just kitten cuddling. Its TRUE!
Bob
Quote from: chrism on June 21, 2020, 03:43:19 PM
Quote from: class37025 on June 21, 2020, 03:12:09 PM
Sometime white cats are deaf.
a bit like Huskies, though with HB it seems to be intermittent / selective :'(
he can hear the fridge door open from upstairs, but doesn't hear you when you are stood next to him telling him NO.
and before some bright spark suggests it, I'm not humping a fridge round the fields just to get his attention >:(
Isn't he big enough to carry the fridge himself?
:D
I'd imagine, into first field, open fridge, clear fridge, dump fridge, back to hunting [with no success] mice.
Quote from: chrism on June 21, 2020, 05:18:12 PM
I wonder if it's that she doesn't like jumping down that distance any more?
A good point Chris - I don't like jumping down that distance at my age and I am not yet the equivalent of Bella's age! :)
I'll get my (doorman's) hat and coat. ;)
Quote from: dannyboy on June 21, 2020, 05:09:44 PM
Our cat Bella does not appear to be deaf, but only has one eye and is partially sighted in the other. When she wants to go out, she, literally, howls until I go to her and say "Come on then". She will then follow me to whichever door I open. Yet, she will come in the same way our other four cats do - jump up to a window ledge, (I have just measured it and it is 49 inches off the floor), and then in through a small window. Not bad for a cat that is about 18 years old. She was our very first cat, so does get a bit of special attention. :)
My first cat (really my sister's) when I was growing up, carried on until we decided that she wasn't able to enjoy life any more and was put down aged 23!
Now with my own children, we have three cats, two are 10 years old and the other is 10 months. One of the older ones exits by the top-light in the living room window (about 36 inches above the ledge) and comes in via the cat-flap. The other is terminally lazy, can only just be bothered to use the (large) cat-flap and weight 8.5kg! The 10 month old has lately taken to going out and coming back in via the toplight (about 84" from the ground on the outside and with too small a cill to stop and prepare for a jump from!) He also keeps using the conservatory roof and the top-lights of the upstairs windows!
We had a white Tom, Topi, who ruled the roost for many years. Being white and in the Australian sun was not a good combination, so about 5 years before he left us we had to have most of both his ears amputated. Didn't seem to worry him much.
Of course, we all know that orange cats actually rule the world, well at least they themselves know it. Our Ginger Megs Soufi totally dominates the house, and really thoroughly enjoys both the N and G scale railways.
Quote from: Bob G on June 21, 2020, 05:02:51 PM
Still he is beautiful. As is my wife.
Bob
Excellent save Bob, have you thought about taking up goalkeeping :D
Quote from: tutenkhamunsleeping on June 21, 2020, 04:35:16 PM
Based on your intelligence above, I'm wondering if a cat's bottom is actually a wormhole?
Our cat's definitely is :D
But we get tablets from the vet for that. :laugh3:
John P
Our Neko found a shady spot :D
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My parents had a cat that would, jump up the 4 ft to come in through the small downstairs toilet window... Only she would do it carrying a live rabbit!!!
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