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 ...

out all night ...

Timqat was a dirty little stop out last night - disappeared just as it was getting dark, and despite being called and having dried food jar rattled (usually brings him back if he's in earshot) didn't reappear until daylight, when he appeared on the back step looking sheepish.

As soon as he was let in it was straight into the cat nuts, crunch, crunch, crunch, and then on for his regular morning cuddle with Judi, followed by some very serious z's in the middle of the bedroom floor ...

cats and time

like I said, cats have no sense of time. What's confusing the purple wingdings out of me is daylight savings, suddenly it isn't light when I think it should be, dark when I think it should be, I'm getting fed at the wrong time, and my humans keep going off to work at odd times.

Very confusing - enough to put a cat off his tuna ....

Not a lot of posting

well what can you say - cats are well known for having no sense of time - but I've persuaded my owner to post this picture of me reading the Canberra Times. Not of course that I actually read the paper - not enough news about rodents in it ....

mouse ...

timqat caught a real furry mouse! Only worry is there might be mice in the roof. Opportunity or problem?