Stray cat?

Posted on January 11, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cold weather, Freezing, Life, Living room, my cats, Rescue, Tuxedo cat4 Comments

This week has been really cold. Last night it was minus 19 °C in Altnagar in the Northern Highlands of Scotland. I was below zero here.

A couple of cats, a ginger and this black and white cat have started sneaking in. Last night both popped in for food, but this one came and sat down in the living room, all the while being stared at (but seemingly accepted) by my own cats.

I managed to take a photo of this boy cat, and put a post on our local lost and found cats page. I have had people offering to check it’s microchip but it must have gone out in the night.

Anyway at least I’m offering a warm space during this cold weather. I’ll have a chat with my vets on Monday. X

Fat Cat drawing

Posted on January 9, 2025 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat sketch, Drawing, Facebook memories, fat cat, Ink roller, Sketching, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

A fat cat drawn using an ink roller that I did a few years ago. It came up on my Facebook memories and I really like it. It’s only a small drawing, I can’t remember where it is now? Maybe in a sketchbook upstairs somewhere.

Yin Yang Cats

Posted on January 9, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cats, Chair, cuddle poem, Life, Pink, Poetry, snuggle, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

It’s cool for cats?

Not if you want to stay warm!

Sharing a chair

Which side is yours?

Not much space

To pace about?

So cuddle up

Snuggle down

Purr and sleep.

Ginger cat comes in…

Posted on January 8, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Black cat, Cat, Cat Food, Food, ginger cat, Owners, sneaking in, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

A beautiful ginger cat came in today and was eating my cats food. I had wondered why the bowls are being locked clean. This is an addition to an almost totally black cat that keeps coming in. That one doesn’t eat food but I have caught it sleeping in the spare bedroom. I’ve used flea spray and keep washing the cats bowls.

I don’t want to be horrible to them as its freezing at the moment. My own cats stand nonchalantly by, they were rescue cats and seem quite tolerant. If I can find their owners I’ll ask them what’s happening?

Moving about

Posted on January 7, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged bloganuary, bloganuary-2024-01, Challenge, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1804, Health, Movement, Sad, Stuck, Time3 Comments

What are your biggest challenges?

My biggest challenge seems to be movement inside and outside the house.

Inside I’m unsteady, I use my stick because my feet get muddled sometimes. They twist round each other and trip me up. Going up and down stairs is fun, especially when the cats decide to sleep on the stairs it’s a good job they have white patches so I can see them in the dark.

Outside is a challenge too. Just getting down the steps, hanging on to handrails, then walk a few steps to get to the car. But I get nervous driving, in the past I had hubby with me. Now? I get lifts with people if I can if I’m going any distance. I imagine myself stuck with a flat tyre, or out of petrol, or lost, or too tired to carry on. What happens if the person I’m going to see is out? I think I drove less that 500 miles last year. Memory is of driving all over the country, no longer. My challenge is to get better? I wish.

It’s 11.30pm

Posted on January 7, 2025 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cats, Dreams, Ill, Nightmares, Sleeping, Tired, upset stomachLeave a comment

Had a quiet day. Upset stomach (you don’t need to know). Slept most of it, kept warm. Left the milk outside too shaky to get it.

Interesting dreams, and nightmares. Cats kept me company. Paws for thought. Like miniature lions on plinths, standing guard while I snoozed.

Memory of watching rain then snow fall, then rain again. Had a bit of breakfast at 2pm, but nothing else but black decaff coffee. Stomach cramps stopped more.

Listened to radio at 5pm. Unbelievable words from across the pond. Not President yet talks about invading Greenland, Canada as 51st state, going into Panama. Am I delusional? Later a spokesman said he was joking. Piecing it together he also spoke about windmills killing whales, dripping taps, expelling millions. I’m not the deluded one.

Normal posting will resume tomorrow hopefully.

Cat dilemma.

Posted on January 3, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cats, Claws, Comfy?, kevlar, Legs, Pain, puncture wounds, SharpLeave a comment

Scenario: you sit down and a cat comes up and settles on your knee. One of the other cats comes up to say hello, reaches up and puts her claws in your leg in greeting, you disentangle her claws and the cat on your knee jumps off. Do you A, put up with it and try and get the comfy cat back, B, shout Stop! Loudly at the second cat? Or C, buy kevlar shin pads to avoid puncture wounds?

Cats keeping warm

Posted on January 3, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cat bed, Cold, Heater, oil heater, Tuxedo cat, Warmth, Winter2 Comments

They are both by the oil heater. Remarkable as they usually chase each other. The third is beside me curled up on the chair. Now ones moved, I have a little igloo bed she gets in to keep away the chill. I think I need one of those sausages that you use at the base of the door to stop drafts. My door is right onto the pavement with no porch, so any drafts sneak in. My ankles are permanently cold at this time of year. Anyway at least the cats are warm. X

She’s a Cat

Posted on January 1, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, described, friendly cat, Happy, Poem, Poetry, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Cat with claws, stretch, hook, ouch!

Puncture wounds in my knees

Black and white with a pink and black nose

Chin strap of black under half her chin

Chunky and wriggly, she loves nuzzling

Loud purr, quiet miaows

Little and friendly.

Sweet.

Such a grey December

Posted on December 27, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bulb, Cat, Cats, Curtains, December, gloom, Grey, Light, no sun, Poem, Poetry, Support, TiredLeave a comment

Grey throughout the day.

Cold and dreary

Cat sits by the oil heater,

The others up

On the bed.

My curtains closed

I hold the grey at bay.

My “daylight” is a bulb

No warmth, just brighter

Than the gloom outside

Grey, removing colour

Sad sort of day.

Mallaband-Brown

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