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Glad to hear Motley has turned up. One of our previous cats got locked in a neighbour's garage for several days. He was very keen to be back and be reunited with his food bowl. Twenty years ago, I broke my back by stepping on a cat I don't have going down the stairs. It wriggled and I went flying. It stayed for about three days and my cats didn't seem in the least put out. I suppose it was just trying me on for size to see if it could get a better quality of food/fuss than its primary owners. I obviously didn't pass muster. Before that (when I inexplicably didn't have a cat of my own), for a few months, a handsome Burmese would turn up at about 23:00, demand a bit of fuss, settle down on bed to sleep, then depart in the morning. No food was involved.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2026 3:44 pm A piece of good news and a miracle of sorts. After nearly 6 days Motley showed up. Apparently OK. Where he was is a mystery. I will keep further opinions of that whole situation to myself.

Good that furry family was reunited with his people.

mnem
Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message; maybe they'll get back to you.

Up until a few days ago I never knew this video existed. It was taken 3 years ago when Harley and Motley first arrived at barely 6 weeks old. Harley is the feisty one smacking his brother in the head.

The names shown at the bottom are temporary.

https://youtube.com/shorts/YN6AJdtUyAU?feature=share

There's only one thing that can be said when you see kittens playing... Awwww!

Adorable!!

On another note, Schottky arrived here a year ago yesterday.










They certainly do grow like weeds!!

-Pat

A somewhat different pic this time; this is a pic of a pic of a cat; from the Cat Museum in Amsterdam.

And another; this is Alberto Giacomettis vision of a cat. There is something to it. The sass. From Fondation Maeght just west of Nice in the hills above Côte d'Azur.

Ricky Gervais - Alley cats
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38264832/

I think this one is still alive, and not being prepped for reincarnation as a quadcopter.

No way! Neither the chap wielding the clipper nor his assistant are wearing rhinoceros hide gauntlets. No cat would stand for that treatment unless it was drugged.

I think the ear twitches.

Daughter's dog has to be sedated before visiting the vet, lest he uses his teeth to express his opinion of the proceedings. Allegedly the vet is coming to have a sneaking appreciationof the mutt, because he doesn't deceptively pretend to be frightened/annoyed/etc.

Cat triggers fire brigade call-out in Baden-Baden.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/region ... r-100.html

It reminds me of a story of how the fire brigade was called to rescue a cat which was stuck in a tall tree. They came and rescued it. The grateful cat owner gave them cups of tea. The local press came and took their picture with the cat and its owner.

On the way back to the station a cat ran across the road and was run over and killed by the fire engine. It was the one they'd just rescued.