Post a picture of a cat!

[raptor1956]

A friend of mine posted this funny picture:

A Goose named Roomba


Brian

[peteb2]

This was Morris as a young kitten. Throughout his life he often appeared on my workbench to say hello and approve what i was repairing in the moment. Once satisfied he'd find the computer keyboard and curl up on it for a sleep....

Morris lived 19yrs.

[Cubdriver]

Morris was a handsome fellow, Pete.  Great photo!

-Pat

[david77]

This was Simon one of the sweetest cats I've ever met. I got him as a birthday present for my 18th birthday in 1999.
He loved to be carried around on my shoulder. He was a good mouse catcher and regularly brought them home - sometimes hanging half a mouse up to dry  .
I had to have him put down in 2011, he got very sick and constantly had nose bleeds. One of the hardest days  .




Then in 2012 this fella, Max, decided to move in with us. He was one of our neighbours cats but didn't like their other cat. So he just moved two doors down the road. One day we had his vaccination certificate in our letterbox. Apparently he came from a bad home originally, so he's not very good with people. That's probably also the reason why he's a loner and not very cuddly. He's become more approachable with age, he now demands his 5 minutes of cuddling every day.



Now his previous owner has died and her son asked us if we would also take care of the other cat - we'll have to see how that works out...

[Cubdriver]

It seems no matter what that they always leave us far too soon.  That's an awful decision to have to make, but some comfort has to come from knowing that it's for the best despite the hurt.

Simon must have been an awesome cat!

-Pat

[peteb2]

Morris was a handsome fellow, Pete.  Great photo!

-Pat

He sure was and of all the critters that have come into my life Morris had to be about the most memorable. It was the 1st time i ever shared my home with a pedigree compared the moggy strays that i took in through previous years. As a British Blue he was very aloof and never ever sat on my lap or leapt up onto the kitchen bench. He'd  seek attention & verification i was around by appearing at the most inconvenient time, be it at as i did something on the electronics bench or if i was under a car swapping out a transmission & he'd stand in precisely the wrong place!

Here's a YT of him with me speaking in my most ridiculous sounding voice ever (which many of us are guilty of apparently)..

[peteb2]

guys, throw away those annoying lasers and buy a electric toothbrush ! 

Not only cats that enjoy a good brush. Even the bovines do it seems (sorry for going OT)...

[tautech]

Yeah Pete, we've got a Lely setup just down the road from us in Taupaki.

https://youtu.be/nIWAJsa2spQ

[Lord of nothing]

Not only Cats Enjoy some Vibrating Toy:

[Raj]

in the hat

[SeanB]

This is the local sort of feral cat, she is again just slightly knocked up. No name, responds to kitty, and sort of allows you to scratch her. Looking to get her fixed up when she drops, last lot of 6 kittens died from cat flu though, they just did not make it when they caught it, and they did not respond to antibiotics when I gave them.

[peteb2]

Yeah Pete, we've got a Lely setup just down the road from us in Taupaki.

Gotta admit there's an opportunity to put some damn fine electronics smarts into one of those cow-brush things.... Motor torque auto-ranging, auto height, a dye-chem tag to mark the cow so there's a reference to her having had a good scrub and whether it increases her milk yield.... yadda-yadda....

I expect most are simple mechanical no bullshit systems so there's zero maintenance, the most important thing in that environment i guess.

[tautech]

Yeah Pete, we've got a Lely setup just down the road from us in Taupaki.

Gotta admit there's an opportunity to put some damn fine electronics smarts into one of those cow-brush things.... Motor torque auto-ranging, auto height, a dye-chem tag to mark the cow so there's a reference to her having had a good scrub and whether it increases her milk yield.... yadda-yadda....

I expect most are simple mechanical no bullshit systems so there's zero maintenance, the most important thing in that environment i guess.

Talking about electronic smarts, if you want a look at this same shed that also has 3 Astronaut robotic milkers let me know as they're good mates of ours. If you know a little about dairy farms think again as this place will open your eyes.

[xrunner]

My Siamese Taza developed diabetes. She started to pee a lot and got really skinny so had to take her in to see what was the issue. She responded to the insulin very well and now seems completely normal. Have to give two shots a day until we go back for a glucose curve, maybe one a day will do I hope.

Where do these cats on You Tube who help demo how to give insulin shots learn to stand still? 

[nanofrog]

Where do these cats on You Tube who help demo how to give insulin shots learn to stand still? 

Can't say for those on YT, but a former classic orange tabby I had named Duck Sauce was just a really great patient. Never gave me any issues with his insulin shots at all, even if I ended up hitting a tender spot (had to give him insulin for years).

Of course he was definitely a people kitty, so that probably had a lot to do with it (he knew he was going to get loved on).

[Raj]

not my cat, but still, a cat

[Howardlong]

My Siamese Taza developed diabetes. She started to pee a lot and got really skinny so had to take her in to see what was the issue. She responded to the insulin very well and now seems completely normal. Have to give two shots a day until we go back for a glucose curve, maybe one a day will do I hope.

Where do these cats on You Tube who help demo how to give insulin shots learn to stand still? 

One of my pair was recently diagnosed with diabetes. The same symptoms, although for about a year he’d had trouble digesting, we thought it was diet, we tried everything. Then suddenly he started drinking an awful lot, peeing a lot, lost a lot of weight over a few weeks, and became very lethargic. It’s taken a couple of months to get the doseage right, he’s on 3 units twice a day. He doesn’t have the same jumping strength he had, but other than that he’s the same old moggy. At one point in the early days of diagnosis when he was on one unit, he was so lethargic I thought he was a goner.

Regarding the injections, we put it in the scruff of his neck. First we lightly pinch the scruff, and he immediately becomes compliant, lying down, and in it goes. All done in a couple of seconds. My assumption is that this is a natural reaction, from when they were carried as kittens.

[TerraHertz]

Cat and mouse.

Also, the results today of intervening in a cat fight. One cat (the one in 1st pic) is friendly towards the other. They were sniffing noses, when the other much larger cat suddenly took a swipe. I grabbed the large one, she reacted badly.

[Lord of nothing]

  get some heavy armoured gloves from your next police outfitter. 

[TerraHertz]

Ha. I HAVE such gloves, and have used them in hand to hand combat with possums.
But this was unexpected.

Bah. The left hand one is a full depth front fangs bite, and is getting infected. Antibiotics begun. The right hand set are just superficial scratches, only look bad because of the dried blood and iodine.

[bob225]

That's a mere scratch try a full feral Tom in full fight mode after being trapped, full length leather gauntlets did stop that one I'm pleased to say 6 hours later he was awake less 2 of his friends

[Cubdriver]

Damn, dude - you got shredded!!   

Hope it heals quick.  My ex's male cat sank his teeth into me once; I got to take pills for a week, too.  Not fun.

-Pat

[tautech]

Damn, dude - you got shredded!! owned !! 

Hope it heals quick.  My ex's male cat sank his teeth into me once; I got to take pills for a week, too.  Not fun.

-Pat

Correction added. 

[TerraHertz]

Neither shredded nor owned. I won, cat was in a lock hold till she calmed down, then let down to the floor gently.

The culprit:

[Lord of nothing]

  use some Nasa Stuff to prevent it from scratching you: