Show thread@shezza_tMar 12
@TheEddieShow When we let #SamCat out the side window, he frequently jumps onto the roof of our car. So when the other asks where Sam is, the answer is “car roof cat”.
Show thread@shezza_tMar 4

@nivrig When that happened here with #SamCat I eventually worked out he’d come in through the velux window over the stairs.

I worked it out when the neighbour told me she’d found him in her house when she came back from the shops. Much to the disgust of her elderly lady cat.

Neighbour wouldn’t let me pay for the broken vase either 🙃

Show thread@shezza_tMar 4

@rufustheduck I started brushing #SamCat when he was a kitten, to get him used to being handled.

He grew up into a cat happy to go out in all weather and come home mucked to his leg pits. So he often gets a lot of paper towelling and brushing when he comes home.

This year he seems to have decided he should be thoroughly brushed every time he comes home, even if he’s only been out for 10 minutes.

This wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t have the knack of appearing just as I’ve poured a mug of tea.

Show thread@shezza_tFeb 21

@rufustheduck I tend to throw names at the kitten/cat until it responds in some way.

I really wanted to call #SamCat Alfie because he looked like an Alfie when he was a fuzzy 8 week old. But OpGeek insisted he wasn’t an Alfie, but a Sam.

And you can guess which name the then-kitten responded to :)

@shezza_tFeb 17

#SamCat has some difficult days ahead.

The Whiskas in last week’s groceries came in a box with new artwork and branding. Same shade of pink; different, unrealistic, big-eyed cat.

Judging from the stinking looks he’s been giving me, and the way he is snarfing the old branding sachet I’ve just given him, the feckers have changed the recipe :|

@shezza_tFeb 9
Current status: having trouble convincing #SamCat that it is indeed raining outside every window and door.
@shezza_tFeb 7
I wonder if #SamCat can hear my tinnitus.
Show thread@shezza_tFeb 4
And turned up loud it stopped #SamCat freaking out when I was using tinfoil to wrap a tray.
Show thread@shezza_tFeb 3
Current #SamCat status: sitting on the highest bit of the scratching post, watching the dead, tail-less kicker toy with great suspicion.
@shezza_tFeb 3

A while ago I ordered #SamCat a Battersea cats’ kicker toy. It’s a rectangular pillow, with a furry tail, and the tail has something inside that makes crinkly sounds.

Turns out poor #SamCat is petrified of crinkly sounds.

I’ve just cut the tail off the toy, let him see me throw the tail away, and then I did a thorough job of stomping on the tail-less toy so he knows it’s dead.