And for my next trip.

[Peter 615]

In the 90's I worked on the Limehouse Link doing the Final Account (there were just 2 porta cabins left and the site cats)...being a softy I took cat food in every day and the half dozen cats would rush to meet me when I arrived.

Even the feral cats can be nice.Mills our feral cat was a hissy monster and the cats protection people said he would be a handful...not so.

[Chris Perkins 228]

We actually paid for Noodle to have the snip and sometimes someone comes and takes a van full of cats away (apparently to re-house, but who knows). We've paid out well over EUR1000 on other peoples cats to keep them healthy! Noodle died the other week of kidney failure.

[Peter 615]

We actually paid for Noodle to have the snip and sometimes someone comes and takes a van full of cats away (apparently to re-house, but who knows). We've paid out well over EUR1000 on other peoples cats to keep them healthy! Noodle died the other week of kidney failure.

So sad but at least he had a good life.We had another cat (SYD) The cats protection people said he was 4 the vet said 10.

I like to think his few years with us were happy.He actually died in front of us in his basket....died in his sleep.

[Chris Perkins 228]

We had a big tom cat (from an old bloke that died and his family in the house next door claimed to not know him!) that suddenly had some kind of wound on his face that smelled rancid and eventually fell off to reveal his teeth and gums! He had bits of ear missing, bit of face missing, was visibly full of lice, didn't look like he'd cleaned himself ever, but he was the friendliest cat. For a while he seemed quite happy with missing face, even though his food would fall back out while he was trying to eat it. I called him the Terminator and most people avoided him. Then we found him curled up in a sleeping position in the shed, dead.

[Fubar 80]

Three black cats at the moment. All strays.

The one in the attached picture is Ra and now rapidly turning grey. The others are an old lady who seems to be hanging on for the hell of it and a Norwegian forest cat the size of a medium sized dog.

Over the years we've had about a dozen cats and a Dulux dog.

Always a comfort and always good for a laugh.

Edited June 13, 2014 by Fubar