The Cat Thread !!!

I bet the Cats of Stewart Island are quaking in their little furry socks after hearing Gareth's new plan to rid the island of cats and rats. He needs to find $50 million to do this and after his amazing success at turning the Phoenix around and building a new stadium it's only a matter of time before the kitties have to go.

This is awesome, kitties rock!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/10046784/Cat-saves-boy-from-dog

"Who is this Garth Moggan anyway? Has he been around long? I've been here since Ancient Egypt, darling, when they queued up to kiss my arse."

That takes me back to a comic annual story (possibly Valiant) about two cat rivals (one posh the other a street cat) putting aside their hostilities to battle an invasion of rats headed by a king rat.  They beat them and kill the king but are both very badly injured.  The street cat which was the newcomer limps off into the sunset...

Lord Digby I think was the posh cat and was white.  The street cat was black

I think Paul McCartney must have read the same story as years later he wrote a song about cats living together in a piano.

Another good source of cat/rat warfare is Robert E Howard's accounts from his childhood and includes his observations of the brutal life farm cats lead. I grew up near a farm and hung around a few others, (nothing like pretending farm machinery as a space ship*), and saw a few horrific cat deaths.

*Kids don't try this at home. You've all become so risk aversive that just looking at a combine harvester will result in you exploding.

Thanks to google I have found the annual:

http://feareriugena.blogspot.co.nz/2011/06/victor-book-for-boys-1973.html

The story is Mr Digby comes to town (so it wasn't Lord Digby - Digby is the outsider)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q

https://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat/videos?sort=da&view=0&flow=grid

when the kid that the cat saved goes on to become the world's most notorious serial killer, that cat is going to feel pretty damn stupid.

Dog was trying to do us all a favour.

The old fella who came over with us from home has kidney disease, fairly advanced.

Very upsetting as the evil old sod is the only thing in the world I really like. Smartest cat I ever met. 

Here he is from a few years back -  no doubt plotting one of his typically fiendish plans...

Where is Bevan these days? He'd love this thread.

Good in full screen if you have a nice comp.

Have you seen Maru, the Japanese cat who likes cardboard boxes?

Here's a small taster

New monsters - always good.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/may/26/five-rare-white-tiger-cubs-make-first-public-appearance-video

Now they ARE cool cats!,,

After fostering 3 x 4 week old kittens (when we got them) for a month +, every other cat I see looks like a giant. It's freaking me out.

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I swear this is where all cats come from.

That is so funny.

The Old Fella with kidney problems.

So we have to lock him in a room so he eats his food with his medicine in it. He's not stupid he's pretty much worked out that if he eats his olive oil based food he then gets let out. He figured that out quickly.

Anyhow he's taking to sleeping in the bathroom. NP I think, I bung his food in and shut the sliding door so the other cats don't eat it.
So I do this and then after 5 mins start washing up.

I look round only to see the Old Fella sitting there, (waiting for me to notice I might add), and the he just wanders off. 

He's escaped the bathroom in a couple of minutes. He must have used his paw then his head to push aside the door. I also think I honestly do, that he got his mate Stormy to help break him out of the bathroom.

Stormy was hanging around trying not to look sheepish at the time I though "What are you two up to?" (one trapped and the other not). 

It's like living with Great Escape crew at the mo...

No idea how he got out, apart from he's British and my cat looks like Sean Connery.