How Was Your Day?

[HoustonFox]

Sat inside for the last 4 days hoping my house doesn't flood, the power doesn't go out and we have enough food. 

 

Seriously, luckily we've been ok with the flooding in our area, but the rain keeps coming. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Did anybody go to Beacon Hill yesterday?

 

If you did, you may have been lucky enough to see the family that brought their cat along to their picnic on a lead.

 

That's the one thing I'll remember about this bank holiday

[Countryfox]

 

Took the family and our cat out to Beacon Hill yesterday ...   Lovely day out apart from this bellend who kept staring at us ...    Weirdo !!

[Bellend Sebastian]

8 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

 

Took the family and our cat out to Beacon Hill yesterday ...   Lovely day out apart from this bellend who kept staring at us ...    Weirdo !!

I liked it best when you took the cat on the slide

[Stadt]

32 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Did anybody go to Beacon Hill yesterday?

 

If you did, you may have been lucky enough to see the family that brought their cat along to their picnic on a lead.

 

That's the one thing I'll remember about this bank holiday

Yep, saw it too. Our dog pottered towards it and the cat was obviously scared so the idiot kid yanked it up and it was just swinging it around and it looked uncomfortable. 

No idea why you'd do it as the cat looked really distressed.

Edited 29 August 2017 by Wookie

[Buce]

Got lost in Wistow maze yesterday. 

 

And now my head is sunburned. 

 

Fvck my life. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

34 minutes ago, Wookie said:

Yep, saw it too. Our dog pottered towards it and the cat was obviously scared so the idiot kid yanked it up and it was just swinging it around and it looked uncomfortable. 

No idea why you'd do it as the cat looked really distressed.

That's taken the shine off it somewhat. When I saw it, it looked quite chilled out (although I didn't see the bit when they took it on the slide first hand).

 

I expect this may not catch on

[Turbogre]

We've got a cat, and we put ours on a lead in the back garden.

 

We live near a busy road and worried he may get ran over.

[Merging Cultures]

We've got a cat, and we put ours on a lead in the back garden.
 
We live near a busy road and worried he may get ran over.

Best thing for him. Cats are horrid creatures.

[Merging Cultures]

Sat inside for the last 4 days hoping my house doesn't flood, the power doesn't go out and we have enough food. 
 
Seriously, luckily we've been ok with the flooding in our area, but the rain keeps coming. 

How are you doing? It seems it might be quite a while before things calm down. Have you got enough food etc? Not that I can help!!

[Bellend Sebastian]

17 minutes ago, Turbogre said:

We've got a cat, and we put ours on a lead in the back garden.

 

We live near a busy road and worried he may get ran over.

I assume you've got a litter tray then, and you're not having to harness him up every time he needs to take a dump?

 

I'm quite fortunate in that my cat has very narrow horizons and has never even attempted to leave our (not that large) garden

[Turbogre]

7 minutes ago, Merging Cultures said:

22 minutes ago, Turbogre said:

We've got a cat, and we put ours on a lead in the back garden.
 
We live near a busy road and worried he may get ran over.

Best thing for him. Cats are horrid creatures.

Grow up.

[Turbogre]

2 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I assume you've got a litter tray then, and you're not having to harness him up every time he needs to take a dump?

 

I'm quite fortunate in that my cat has very narrow horizons and has never even attempted to leave our (not that large) garden

Yes we have a litter tray for him.

[Carl the Llama]

People who 'walk' their cats are idiots.  We bought ours a lead so he could stretch his legs a bit at the motorway services on the long move from England to Belgium (even then one of my sisters nearly lost him by letting him off, the absolute melt ) but beyond that it never got used.

 

With dogs the lead only serves to get you from the house/car to a point where the animal can be let off to run around for a bit, if you're keeping the animal leashed at all times then it defeats the purpose of giving it a 'walk' imo and since this is the case for most cats (I have seen a few people on public transport with a free-roaming cat happily sticking to its human) then I don't see why you'd do it other than to seek attention or because you don't have the parental abilities to tell your kids "no that's moronic".  

[Bellend Sebastian]

43 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

People who 'walk' their cats are idiots.  We bought ours a lead so he could stretch his legs a bit at the motorway services on the long move from England to Belgium (even then one of my sisters nearly lost him by letting him off, the absolute melt ) but beyond that it never got used.

 

With dogs the lead only serves to get you from the house/car to a point where the animal can be let off to run around for a bit, if you're keeping the animal leashed at all times then it defeats the purpose of giving it a 'walk' imo and since this is the case for most cats (I have seen a few people on public transport with a free-roaming cat happily sticking to its human) then I don't see why you'd do it other than to seek attention or because you don't have the parental abilities to tell your kids "no that's moronic".  

I think they just wanted their cat to be able to share in their enjoyment of the day out.

 

If only it were possible to tell if it was grateful for this opportunity

[Countryfox]

9 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I think they just wanted their cat to be able to share in their enjoyment of the day out.

 

If only it were possible to tell if it was grateful for this opportunity

 

Good start to the day today ...   After a lovely day out yesterday with puss at Beacon Hill I awoke today to find him vacuuming the front hall ...   Good old puss ..   He must have really appreciated the day out and felt obliged to pay me back in his own simple way.   I'm taking him back there tomorrow and hopefully he'll wash the car.

[Merging Cultures]

1 hour ago, Countryfox said:

 

Good start to the day today ...   After a lovely day out yesterday with puss at Beacon Hill I awoke today to find him vacuuming the front hall ...   Good old puss ..   He must have really appreciated the day out and felt obliged to pay me back in his own simple way.   I'm taking him back there tomorrow and hopefully he'll wash the car.

That definitely sounds a lot better than the normal scratching the sh!t out of the furniture, bringing home a half dead animal and taking a dump in the kids sandpit.

[Carl the Llama]

Sounds like you were abused by a cat as a child, MC.  We're here for you if you need to talk about it.

[Stadt]

My brother's hamster finally died and the cat just can't get his head around it not being there anymore  

[HoustonFox]

5 hours ago, Merging Cultures said:

19 hours ago, HoustonFox said:

Sat inside for the last 4 days hoping my house doesn't flood, the power doesn't go out and we have enough food. 
 
Seriously, luckily we've been ok with the flooding in our area, but the rain keeps coming. 

How are you doing? It seems it might be quite a while before things calm down. Have you got enough food etc? Not that I can help!!

Doing ok thanks! FoxesTalk is keeping me sane (or driving me even more insane) while stuck inside since Thursday.

[Merging Cultures]

Sounds like you were abused by a cat as a child, MC.  We're here for you if you need to talk about it.

My Grandma had a vicious one. It would hide on the stairs and take a swipe at you as you walk by. Horrid.

Oh and I'm allergic

[ajthefox]

7 hours ago, Carl the Llama said:

People who 'walk' their cats are idiots.  We bought ours a lead so he could stretch his legs a bit at the motorway services on the long move from England to Belgium (even then one of my sisters nearly lost him by letting him off, the absolute melt ) but beyond that it never got used.

 

With dogs the lead only serves to get you from the house/car to a point where the animal can be let off to run around for a bit, if you're keeping the animal leashed at all times then it defeats the purpose of giving it a 'walk' imo and since this is the case for most cats (I have seen a few people on public transport with a free-roaming cat happily sticking to its human) then I don't see why you'd do it other than to seek attention or because you don't have the parental abilities to tell your kids "no that's moronic".  

I've taken a cat for a walk of sorts.

 

I lived in a flat in the centre of liverpool that had no external space with an ex girlfriend so the cats were house cats. We took them to a park (we didn't actually walk them there) and then had them on a leash while we were sat down relaxing. Let them climb a few trees and have a good sniff around too. 

 

It's not the ideal scenario but I don't think it's idiotic.

 

[Jon the Hat]

3 hours ago, Merging Cultures said:

My Grandma had a vicious one. It would hide on the stairs and take a swipe at you as you walk by. Horrid.

Oh and I'm allergic

Toughen up bro, my grandmother had about 50 and fed them before the kids.  Crazy cat lady.  I still have one   oh and Zara the GSD puppy

[Strokes]

Cats are egotistical bellends though, proper little pricks. 

[Countryfox]

4 hours ago, Merging Cultures said:

My Grandma had a vicious one. It would hide on the stairs and take a swipe at you as you walk by. Horrid.

Oh and I'm allergic

 

Was it a lion ? ...