Gypies

[TGB]

Many years ago one knocked at my mother's front door and was half way into trying to sell her some heather, which grows wild on all the local mountains. When she spied the black cat looking at her at eye level from the stairs. You've never seen someone want to be somewhere else so soon.

 

It was at least 15yrs. till the next visit. This time my mother answered the door, holding her next black cat. Again, there was a sudden need to be somewhere else.

 

I've just been to the door and was my mother's present black cat, (who normally sits by either the front or back door) anywhere to be seen.? No she wasn't.

 

Results so far:

3 Black cats

3 Visits

2 Showings

[Stubby]

Daffyd . My last cat was a black one and he lived till he was 26 ! Oddly have an all white one now

[the village idiot]

Daffyd . My last cat was a black one and he lived till he was 26 ! Oddly have an all white one now

 

26!!!! Are you sure someone didn't have him stuffed whilst you were'nt looking?

[Stubby]

26!!!! Are you sure someone didn't have him stuffed whilst you were'nt looking?

 

Had him from a kitten . Saw the vet twice in his 26 years . Once to be neutered when small and once 26 years later to be put to sleep , in my arms . He had started having fits and they were becoming more frequent . He was a good old stick . Used to sit on my fence in the poring rain for ages . Could come in when he liked but would just sit there .

[the village idiot]

Had him from a kitten . Saw the vet twice in his 26 years . Once to be neutered when small and once 26 years later to be put to sleep , in my arms . He had started having fits and they were becoming more frequent . He was a good old stick . Used to sit on my fence in the poring rain for ages . Could come in when he liked but would just sit there .

 

They certainly are hardy little fellas. Our next door neighbour's cat went missing for four days this winter. She eventually saw it clinging on at the top of her 40ft Leylandii. It had been up there for four sub-zero nights, blowing around in the gales.

The fire brigade had to come in to get her down. Apparently the cat just trotted back inside as if she had just popped out for a number 2 in the flower bed!

[TGB]

Family I know have always had cats. Three, a mother and two of her kittens were long lived. Beauty the mother made 20, Blacky mad 18 and Topsy made 26. They had another two that made high teens and the daughter had Lloyd, who lived to be 20. Sister's cat is currently 20. I dare say genes have something to do with it. But also being happy in a comfy home or being happy sat in the rain on your own fence has a good deal to do with it too.

[Gary Prentice]

Daffyd . My last cat was a black one and he lived till he was 26 ! Oddly have an all white one now

 

Wish we only had the one:sneaky2:, My missus has to take in every waif and stray (including me) she comes across. Our latest, a huge fluffy black thing, was coming for food before christmas, but turned up at New Year as a frozen ball of ice at the back door,

 

She calls him sooty, I call him Satan as he always tries to trip me up on the stairs if I don't turn the lights on. Lights on and his nowhere around.

[felixthelogchopper]

Big Harry

[the village idiot]

Big Harry

 

Looks like your nostalgic tales of life on the Essex marshes are having their usual effect Felix:biggrin:

[felixthelogchopper]

Looks like your nostalgic tales of life on the Essex marshes are having their usual effect Felix:biggrin:

 

More like the amount he has been fed. Although to be fair, he is down to 7kg now.