h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, now we have three cats. Sort of. Jupiter and Pluto and Venus when she feels like it.

I don't think we're very good at training cats. They use their tray and go in the garden, but also go indiscriminately everywhere else. We wanted to go and see the new James Bond film for some light entertainment on Sunday night, but by the time I'd finished scrubbing all their mess off the stairs and the walls, it was too late.

they have started catching rats, though, and funnily enough, they leave them outside. All previous cats have presented their booty outside our bedroom.

Anyway, they don't know it yet but they have appointments at the vet's tomorrow. At least, the two residents do. One tom and one missus. Perhaps that will change their urinating habits a bit - at least the tom's.

Mine usually deposits his mice in his food bowl! Very tidy.

Good luck!

Yet another journal about !!!

I think I will take a poll at the thread & find out who *hasn't* got a!

The vet visit will definately cure the tom


Don't think about the vet before you take the or he will sense it & play you up.

Yes, thay can mind read.

How else do they know when you are coming home at different times of the day?

I'm a cat person too! I love my kitty.

LSF... I don't have a cat, anymore
the latest two have gone to live with an old lady and about 70 other cats. I was sick of them pooing everywhere (especially in the little gruesome's bedroom and the neighbours garden) so that was that
but I feel guilty that I didn't have the emotional attachment to those two that I had to my previous cat (Frodo) who died 3 years ago last week. I still miss him a lot. He was the best of cats. The other two were just annoying creatures.

ho hum

TC: in your place i'd get rid. Usually i'm fairly adamant that pets are for life, but pets are supposed to enrich your life, not make it a bind.

(sorry, feeling a bit down at the moment for some reason, which may reflect in this rather negative post)

Well for a while now we've had no cats. The whole family disappeared in the end, and then Venus came back, bringing her offspring. Then my kids gave away the young ones when they were old enough and the day the second one went, the mother never came back.

AT the moment, work is worse than ever and I am either at the office or in bed at home, or at choir practice. Apart from which our enormous living area is still not liveable even though the conservatory extension was finished last autumn and the interior of the new three-part lounge was finished in the spring. So there's nowhere to sit. By Christmas we should be able to sit down in there - going to the furniture shop today.

My biggest problem is how to convince my husband I don't want blue sofas but red. I don't think I'm going to get the red approved, but maybe we can compromise with Bordeaux.

So next year you can come and see it. I am serious - I'd love to have visitors. Maybe by then I'll have a job that doesn't eat me up 12 hours a day and have found some time to do some housework.

O yes, cats. It will be nice to be able to sit by the fire again this winter. Then I'd like a cat to stroke. Something's missing when there's not a little creature doing its own thing when you're standing in the kitchen or sitting watching TV.

They do get annoying when they sit in front of the screen and chase the cursor around though. Stepping on the keys on their way down and typing rubbish.

We never even found names for the two kittens. To continue the theme I would have liked to named them after Jupiter's moons, becuase Jupiter, their aunt, was my favourite cat.

Can't understand why she disappeared. The nicest cat I ever knew. She was a coal-grey tabby like both the kittens, so Gannymede and Io would have been rather suitable. Although one was male and the other was female, they both got called LIlly at their new homes. Until the one family realised they had a male and changed it to something else, can't remember what now. He was the picture book ball of fluff, big and soppy. The girl was sleek-haired, tiny and wiry, far quicker and brighter.

So, all we've got to bother about at the moment is fish. They're housing in a rainwater butt as we've dismantled the pond which was just outside the conservatory. Next week we are having the area around the conservatory paved so that you can come into our new living room with clean feet. We haven't decided how to lay out the rest of the garden and where the pond will then be, so they will be wintering in a neighbour's pond until their new home is built.

Must get them over there soon as the water in the butt is getting awfully murky.

Thanks for the invite! You're being very daring inviting the whole of h2g2 to your house.

I'm serious. After all - you seem to be prepared to put us all up in your caravan in Wexford!

Not all simultaneously, I'm afraid. But you, TC, are welcome anytime, either in Wexford or Dublin.

It's ten years since I've been anywhere close to where you live, and that was Alsace. It's tweny since I've been in Germany (other than a day trip to Aachen from Brussels, and a trip through Germany at night from Belgium to Austria. In recent years, my wife has decided she likes to go to countries where she can speak the local language, and that means either France or Greece. Perhaps I can persuade her that a trip to Pfalz and beyond would be interesting. We can learn about German white wines as we go.

That'd be nice. I hope you don't wait until your girls are looking for somewhere to spend a year as an au pair.