[just like buses - you get no posts for ages, then three come along at once]
We were away at the weekend – not for long, just a flying visit to Yorkshire to inspect our new home. We left at 7 a.m. on Friday and were home by 5 p.m. on Saturday, and Rob the Catsitter [...]
Iggy looking mournful
Originally uploaded by ramtops
Next door is having their extension refettled – this is an irritating process, given we work in the room just above where it’s being done, but no matter. Steve the builder is fascinated by the cats, and the other day when I went out, he said “that golden one’s [...]
Our weekend was bracketed by death.
Friday night, maybe midnight or thereabouts, we were woken by mad scrabbling on the landing. Investigation revealed Ron with a new toy: another mouse was moments away from its end.
There was a degree of oh-buggrit-we-want-to-sleep-clean-up-the-bits-in-the-morning and we subsided; until, that is, Ron brought his prize into the bedroom. No way [...]
Continue reading about it’s death before and death after: just all death all the time
Dear Ron
We know that you like to go hunting at night – we don’t like it, but we understand. And we understand that you want to bring your kills home, although you don’t bring them to us to show them off.
However, the chirps and other general noise that ensues is starting to get us down. [...]
Drumknott
Originally uploaded by ramtops
Drumknott, our melanistic black Bengal, went missing in November 2003, and I still think I hear him shouting with his distinctive voice from time to time … He was a dreadful cat, with a black coat, and a black heart, and we loved him to bits. He was generally known as [...]
We heard a growling, and Lilith came hurtling up the stairs with a small (dead) bird in her mouth, and Ron in close pursuit; no idea who was making the noise, but we’ve never heard either of them sounding like that before!
We think Lilith dropped it, and Ron picked it up, and he wasn’t about [...]
Ron went walkabout yesterday for the first time ever, and we’d forgotten what a worry it is.
Being the Greediest Cat in the World, he is generally first in line when the tin is opened, with sharpened elbows at the ready to make sure nobody gets there in front of him. So when Henry had been [...]
Ron and Henry
Originally uploaded by ramtops
Pete thinks that EnRon look like the Kray twins in this photo. And they are very good to their mother …
