Yes, I'm so Happy! 2012

[Maggi Young]

Oh dear, don't know how  to tell you this - but for the second time in as many weeks- we are out and about with no camera! Didn't have one at the AGM either   

Must be old age or creeping stupidity   

[Brian Ellis]

Oh dear, don't know how  to tell you this - but for the second time in as many weeks- we are out and about with no camera! Didn't have one at the AGM either   

Must be old age or creeping stupidity   

Should have taken your iPad

[angie]

Oh dear, don't know how  to tell you this - but for the second time in as many weeks- we are out and about with no camera! Didn't have one at the AGM either   

Must be old age or creeping stupidity   

Maggi now we won't see what we are missing. Ireland is such a wonderful place and I think the people are so so friendly, cant wait until I can visit again.
Have a good time and remember when you come home don't leave Ian there 

Angie 

[David Nicholson]

Ian and I are happy, we are in Ireland at the Dublin AGS Termonfeckin weekend  - lots of good friends here and the sun is shining!

Have a Termonfeckin good weekend both      

[Darren]

Well done Darren on your award. I to never knew that you did talks, wonder if Aberdeen is to far for Susan to drive 

Angie 

Angie, for you and Maggi, I'd walk 

On drat - that bl*@dy song by the Proclaimers just popped into my head and I just KNOW it will be there for days now........

[Anthony Darby]

 ???At least it's not Al Jolson Darren.

[Olga Bondareva]

Yes, I'm so happy! 
I've got a cat now! 
His name is Chizhik (russian common name of  Carduelis spinus). He is a son of a wild cat. For two years he lived with my village neighbor. Sometimes I posted pictures at the forum. We were friends, I shared my food with him.
And now this cat is mine. 
Never suppose semi-wild cat can be so clever, tactful and tidy!





Of course he is bored by apartment life after free village living. An we both are waiting for spring. 



"Olga, I'm so tired watching TV! Lets go to the village!"

[Susan Owl]

It looks nice, Olga! Congratulations 
We also have a semiwild cat, which was separated too early from its mother and lived for the first two and a half years with people who didn't care. So it didn't learn things which are important for cats. The first years it was quite suspicious against us and didn't like hugs, but now it is very confident.

[angie]

Olga he looks lovely. Obviously photogenic but then again any subject in your hands would look perfect.
I used to have four cats myself all gone to cat heaven. The last two years I fed a wild cat but I could never get to touch him, he would sit at my feet as long as I never made a move. I fear that cat flu got him in the end. Never found a body even though he slept in my shed. Nice to have a cat around to keep the mice numbers down, maybe another one might turn up.
Hope you have plenty fun with him.

Angie 

[Olga Bondareva]

Thank you Susanne and Angie!

Susanne I wonder my cat learned things important for cats straight away. And it is very patient to our endearment. I take it 100 times per day to caress and it purr to show the pleasure.

Angie it’s so painful to lose pets!
Lots of mice here some years. No cat can control them.

[art600]

Olga
Chizhik looks like an excellent mouser.  YOU are very lucky that he let you into his life   (Of course I think HE is very lucky to have such a caring owner).

I sadly lost my cat - Gemma - who was 18 to two massive fits.  Coupled with possible blindness the vet thought she probably had a brain tumour.  I took her to the PDSA hospital at 0200 the day before travelling to the Pelopennese.  It would have been much worse to come home and find that she had died at the cattery.

I discussed with the vet the possiibility of finding a kitten.  She said that one of the nurses was hand rearing 6 kittens whose mother had died.  I put my name down for one and later that morning phoned to say I would like two.

I collected them a week after my return from Greece.  They are both female and have such energy.  I have never laughed so much seeing them speeding round my lounge, climbing the special scratch post ensemble, and lying in wait to pounce on each other.

The vet who gave them their first injections this week thought that they were two of the best adjusted kittens  he had seen in a long time - a credit to the nurse who hand reared them.

I named them NICKI & VICKI after the nurse and the vet at the PDSA.  Nicki and Vicki are friends in real life and I think my little terrors will mirror this.

[arillady]

Art they will be like twins with only slight differences.

I took two kittens together about 14 years ago and Smokie is still with us. She has been bitten twice by brown snakes so I call her our $1000 cat. Usually any noise close by and she will jump but last night she brought in a baby brown snake. In the dim light ( I was on the phone and had not turned on the light yet) I thought she had a pretty big mouse or a lizard till I realised with shock that it was a snake (or a legless lizard) A very hasty 'Have to go' to the person on the phone. By this time our other cat Millie had come to investigate and I bundled up both cats and threw them into another room. Grabbed the broom and swept the snake out from under the Christmas tree - it did have part of its tail separated by the cats. So there I am with a baby brown wriggling under the broom, and a bit of tail wriggling around. Luckily a son turned up and put pressure over the head with the enamel jug - enough to kill it and then it was added to the jar with the other brown snake in metho from a number of years ago.
In such a situation I am not sure how the heck you are supposed to see clearly enough if it is a legless lizard

[Lesley Cox]

I don't know much about Australian snakes except that the taipan is deadly. Is the brown snake poisonous?

[Lesley Cox]

Mmmm. A quick Google tells me it IS poisonous. I didn't realise Australia had so many different snakes. We have none here. I don't mind snakes at all, but of course say that from the comfort of having none around. I do think they are all beautiful and my mother who encountered a few in Oz said they were cool and very pleasant to touch.

[arillady]

Yes brown snakes are very poisonous - even a young one. I was looking at the cats for an hour afterwards to check for effects as they show up fairly quickly. Luckily they were fine. As the snakes around here are poisonous I am not going to pat any.