it's cold

days are getting longer and generally I'm feeling more like a cat than I have for the last few months. Butterflies to chase, mice to hunt, generally spring is here.

Only problem is there seems to be a lot of hard point cold wet stuff coming out the sky - doesn't seem to bother the dog next door, but that's dogs for you. Me, I feel the cold and need to sit very very close to a heating duct ...

outcompeted

Obviously I havn't moved with the times. Some pesky cat in america is now a celebrity twitterer.

Given that that cat details everything it does, including every poo, it makes me want to agree with the bishop of paisley. Personally I like to keep my business secret. There are some things that are secret cat business and some things that are private cat business ...

vets, bloody vets

Timqat is a trifle out of sorts. You see he went to the vet a couple of days ago for his annual shot, and in the course of this not only did he get a thermometer up his bum he had his fat bits felt, and was told that big cat as he is 7.75kg is taking the piss just a bit.

So he's on a diet. One little tin of fish and 3/4 of a cup of cat nuts a day. Not a happy puss ...

breeding programme for scottish wildcats

some of my distant cousins are going to a captive breeding program in England. Important but a shame they have to resort to this.

Somehow English wildcats doesn't sound quite so cool ....

Mouse!

Timqat is now officially a rodentophage - found, caught, and ate a mouse!

heat and skylights

It's been hot, really hot. Too hot for cats. Have had to lie on bathroom tiles and under plants in the veggie patch to stay cool. Means I couldn't check my territory the way I wanted and that's concerning as there's a new cat down the street.

Anyway, last night it cooled down, and I went out to check things. Went up on the roof of my humans' house to see if that pesky cat had been there.

He hadn't, but I made this interesting discovery, or so I thought. The skylight was open and I could walk out onto the flywire and look down at the humans watching tv.

This turnedout to be a less than good idea as the flywire was clipped in and not really designed to support the weight of a cat.

Crash! Whoosh! suddenly I found myself falling through the air. Fortunately I managed to alnd on my feet and miss the humans on the way down. Tried to walk off very coolly as if this was normal, but I'm not sure I convinced anyone ...