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What’s the trick to make the cat see the toy as a friend, and not something to hunt and kill?

Ah yes, spake :)

The referee used to be a PE teacher, and has given them both the old “If you forget your PE Kit, you have to do the lesson in your pants and vest”

I wondered about that - I sort of assumed it was either a cat hater who’d accidentally subscribed “why do these things keep popping up in my feed?”, or someone with impossibly high standards for what a cat is “No, that’s just not quite cat enough. That’s a down vote from me”.

A bot is probably a more likely explanation.

Depends on the person, but sometimes things such as:

“Is there anything you do, watch, listen to, say or have done in the past, which is currently illegal in another country?”

“Did you see how in the US, some states have just recently made abortion illegal, and in others, you can get in trouble with the police for wearing clothes which they don’t think match your birth gender? Both things were perfectly legal a few years ago”

“Imagine it’s 2024 and mandateless unelected UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says model railways are offensive to motorists, so they’ve banned them”

“Do you think Facebook’s going to defend your privacy when the government makes model railways illegal, Dad?” :P

That is some amazing cat alignment. Did they stack themselves?

Yes, but then the new cat needs a pillow.

I think an additional nine cats would allow a full circular arrangement where it wrapped round to the first cat again.

They can’t really tell the difference between “front hands” and “back hands”. Your “back hands” (feet) have a stronger scent of you on them, and also, due to your height and bipedal nature, your “back hands” are the part they see most and closest.

I don’t think it’s a bad habit - they just have a preference for how they like their dinner, and probably not a hard one to satisfy.

I deliberately give mine a meat/biscuit mix, both from dietary recommendation and also it slows them down a bit - there’s three of them, and if given meat only, the quickest eater will scoff his in 5 seconds, then try and muscle in on his brother’s dinners. If mixed up, they’re all at their own bowls for a few minutes at least, before the inevitable swapping.

Maybe cut down on the treats, and save them for special bribery i.e. flea treatment, going to the vets, training etc.

My cats use exactly the same expression to manipulate me :)

Absolutely! The original focus on having a black cat day specifically included black-and-white cats.

“When the campaign was launched, statistics revealed that black and black-and-white cats took, on average, seven days longer to find a home compared to cats of other colours”

This totally worked with our cats - a slightly over-the-top “ow!” and recoiling a bit - then balancing it with extra fussing for clawless kneading.

If he wants to do it, he’s going to do it - you just make sure there’s somewhere you both agree is fine. Telling him “no” won’t work as well as “pick him up and put him in front of a thing that’s fine to scratch”.

We’ve got the “activity chair”, which is covered in toys and string and bits to climb through and jump off, and it’s absolutely scratched to pieces - but no other furniture has a mark on it.

Don’t worry - that definitely will have happened (the photo is a few months old).

They are all really lovely, and hopefully happy, cats. They’re still quite young (just under 1.5 years now), so still very playful, so there’s plenty of playtime with the humans and with each other. They’re brothers, and most of the time best friends, so they normally all hang out together.

They all get a good amount fussing if they’re in the mood for it, especially the silver one, who’s really into his “tummy tickles” or “belly rubs”, and likes to demand them quite frequently.

It looks like a slightly more grown-up version of the “Street Wolf”, which was a kids BMX with a pretend gps/map/computer console on it, and a real “plays annoying sounds” feature inside.

Of course, I’m only calling it annoying in retrospect. At the time I was envious of the cool kid down the road, whose computerised-scanner and siren sound machine was essential in defending our street from bad guys.

I’ve only been scratched once in two years and it was an accident due to a fairly unlikely farcical comedy scene.

Essentially, if you’re sat on a wooden chair (which can amplify sounds), and you have a nervous cat pinned on your lap, as you apply a vial of flea treatment to his neck, I recommend that you do not suddenly and loudly pass wind.

I spend a hundred quid or so, every year for the last ten years on Steam (Steam for Linux onwards), but in exchange for that, I have several hundred quality games - probably more than I can ever play in my lifetime.

How are people spending so much on imaginary gold rings for “Sweetshop Diamond Solitaire Saga Origins”?

Is it simply a matter of there’s 100 of them for every 1 of me?

Haha, I don’t think they can get inside the bed base, thankfully - but I’m very familiar with the 3am play-combat. There’s normally one or two sleeping on our bed at night, and there’s sometimes a competition for position. The one pictured is quite skilled at “Assassin’s Creed” style aerial takedowns off the top of the wardrobe, onto his poor unsuspecting siblings sleeping near our feet.