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[Bonzocat]

@Rachel05

How’s the boy doing ?

He sleeps all day. I didn’t know just how much he sleeps, but so do my other 2 cats. All 3 of them have to remain indoors as the cat flaps are locked to keep him in, and all they do is sleep. He eats and sleeps and pees and poos, and likes to play. When I go to bed, he comes into the bedroom and loves to get tangled up under my legs and won’t move away as I get undressed - he loves my shoes of all things. Once the lights are off, he goes to his new cardboard Amazon box he’s adopted and sleeps some more, as do the other 2, on my bed.

I shall be making another visit to the vet to get his ears seen to as they bother him. When he’s relatively calm and isn’t bothered by his ears and the collarette I shall take him back for another checkup on his poor nose, and ask about the nature of the biopsy the vet might be considering.

[SuePJ]

@Bonzocat

ask about the nature of the biopsy the vet might be considering

When our last Airedale Vita was coming to the end of her life. the vet and I talked about more tests, but we decided not to bother. Knowing/not knowing would not have made a difference. She was already frail and it would have been unkind to have put her through anything more. So long as she was pain free and eating well, it was time to let her be.

[Bonzocat]

@SuePJ

When our last Airedale Vita was coming to the end of her life

My cat is full of life, burly and strong and desperately wants to go outside, but he can’t, not allowed to. If he was frail and clearly ailing I would go along with looking after his welfare with home treatment. What I’d like to know from the vet is, is there another way to diagnose his nose problem - an MRI or CT scan maybe?

The scab on his nose irritates him, and somehow he manages to dislodge it, making his nose bleed which calms him down until a new scab forms. And the cycle begins again. A biopsy will make things worse. But a scan might yield useful evidence.

My vet does have a CT scanner.

Imagerie - VETEA - Clinique Vétérinaire - Saintes 17100 - Drs Michelet et...

[SuePJ]

Good luck with this. I wonder whether a cream for the scab might keep it less itchy?

[Bonzocat]

@SuePJ

I wonder whether a cream for the scab might keep it less itchy

I’ll ask the vet, thanks. I had to clean his nose with betadine and apply a honey based skin recovery cream. But he has a long tongue and licks his nose.! I’ll start that treatment again anyway to see if it calms his nose.

[SuePJ]

Honey based cream sounds very lickable! Maybe something less palatable?

[Bonzocat]

@SuePJ

Maybe something less palatable?

He licks the Betadine as well, but I’ll the vet about his nose licking. Maybe she can suggest something.

[Rachel05]

@Bonzocat

he goes to his new cardboard Amazon box

Our cats love the Amazon boxes. We’ve got one where we keep all their toys and they enjoy digging around to get all their different toys out. If it’s a big box, Stuart makes it into a ‘go-cart’ and he pulls it along with one of the cats inside it and they really love that. Bobby also sticks his snout in Stuart’s shoes and slippers and often runs around the front room with his nose stuck in the slipper. They are such fun to watch especially when they do what we call the whirling dervish. They chase their tails round and round and it makes us, let alone them, go all dizzy.

But I’m glad he’s doing OKish, except for him dislodging the scab on his nose. Naughty pussycat

[Rachel05]

@Bonzocat - what are the names of your cats please

[Bonzocat]

@Rachel05

what are the names of your cats please

All 3 were abandoned kittens – Lucky with the nose problem, and Slinks (or SlinkyPoo) with arthritis, and the third is Cha-Cha, named by a 3-year-old. The family had found her as a kitten but couldn’t keep her. I found though that Cha-Cha had been played with like a doll by the toddler while they had her. Even now after 14 years she still avoids my hand being too close to her face.

I found an old video, slomo, of Cha-Cha and Lucky meeting for the first time.

First meeting.....

And one of Slinks with shoulder arthritis, for the vet to see, 5 years ago. He’s about 17 now.

Slinks walking ...

Don’t know what’s happening with the videos - more computer probing needed! Done!

[David_Spardo]

I love it when animals interact for the first time, seen it many times with dogs, and even once between my Rottie and a one eyed cat.

Not being a cat person, tell me, do they always leave the premises and live in the neighbourhood or are there any that remain at home, like dogs?

[Bonzocat]

@David_Spardo

Not being a cat person, tell me, do they always leave the premises and live in the neighbourhood or are there any that remain at home, like dogs?

For some reason the entertaining BBC film, “The Secret Life of the Cat”, in the Surrey village of Shamley Green doesn’t seem to be on view anywhere. The next best is a German study, if you have 50 minutes or so to spare!

The gps studies surprise their owners by where they go to and how far they travel.

The Secret Lives of Cats

[Nunthewiser]

Some like to wander, some don’t. We had 3 - the 2 my daughter has now in her tiny Paris apartment seem to be fine with it. The one I have couldn’t stand being inside. In good weather she’s out and about most of the day. Comes back to eat and pee and goes out again. After dinner she lays on my legs and we watch TV. When I get up to go to bed she stays with me and sleeps on the bed by my feet usually.

[Jennifer11]

Isn’t that typical cat? She has all of ‘outside’ but comes in to use the facilities.

[David_Spardo]

Interesting, I am not averse to having a house cat but would prefer it not to excrete what it doesn’t need onto the neighbours’ gardens, as their cats do on mine.

But otherwise your cat seems much like my dog (although not fenced from the neighbours) and he only seems to sleep on my bed if he thinks I am unwell, which is very rare. But I wonder if a cat would have lain alongside me when I fell and was inert for half an hour in the forest as he did. Probably impossible to know as I don’t think you walk with a cat as you would with a dog.

Which is probably why I would never have one, there is no doubt in my mind that walking the dog, more or less over the same ground twice every day has allowed me to last as long as I have.

[Porridge]

@David_Spardo

I am not averse to having a house cat but would prefer it not to excrete what it doesn’t need onto the neighbours’ gardens, as their cats do on mine.

It’s so annoying.

I lent my cat my old copy of Megarry, but he still hasn’t grasped the basics. He treats everywhere as if it’s his demesne.

[David_Spardo]

My dog Jules barks and howls at cats and will chase them if able, completely fenced in at home, but he has never caught one, possibly because he gives them plenty of warning.

But, once I heard him barking up by the swimming pond and on investigation found him shouting at a little cat which was soaking wet and I assumed had fallen in. But it wasn’t running and, although the 2 were only a few centimetres apart, he wasn’t attacking.

Today I had a similar experience. Heading into the field, the grass of which is mainly eye high (my eye), with Jules about 10 metres ahead, out of the corner of my eye I saw a dark figure less then 6 inches from my foot. It was the little brown/black cat that we have seen in there before and which Jules has chased and howled at when seen from 20 metres or so. Taken by surprise, I stopped and looked down and said ‘hello’. It immediately ran away soon out of sight.

Surely Jules with his roving eye could not have missed it. Even if he had, his super sensitive nose would not have. Is it possible that, because it did not run, he had not reacted and instead the two had stared at each other while only millimetres apart before moving on?

Perhaps he is only movement activated, it is true that he sometimes stares at cats outside the fence and only barks when they move. If so, if this little chap(ess), had responded to my voice by remaining for one of his treats, he might have had a friend to talk to in the garden later. What a shame.

BTW I saw a piece on TV last night from the States where a lizard, with one leg frozen in the air remained motionless as a snake wriggled by. It knows that snakes have poor eyesight and only responds to movement, hence his behaviour, but then another snake approached and would have touched him on it’s progress so he took the decision to burst into rapid running flight. Soon many snakes came racing out of the rocks and he only escaped by the skin of his teeth. Could Jules have a similar bent, only reacting to movement? If so and a cat coming into the garden was brave enough, we could have a cosy coexistence in the house.

Sorry, no photos, but I thought this was the best place to catch interest.

[ChrisK]

Had to take Blanche Neige to the vet today as she had a claw digging into one of her pads. They clipped the offending claw and did the rest of them too. She had a quick health check and we were told there would be no charge! She’s not limping now and is very chatty.

[hairbear]

Well, someone has to do it
{Photo posted by @cat herself on another thread)

[Lily]