CATS ON TUESDAY INFOS - please read !

I think we should do something that "CATS ON TUESDAY" group keeps up its quality and not quantity.

There are some people "playing" without being member just by putting in letters "Cats on Tuesday "on top of their post, not even with a logo and of course nothing in sidebars either.

We started with 7 and now we are 25, but sometimes I counted until 36 in Mr. Linky ! If we want to be able to read the posts of other members, only people who intend to play this on quite regulary basis should be admitted.

So I did some new logo propostions, maybe not all of you love a toilet ! This new logo has to be put in your sidebar just like for other groups. On each post on tuesdays has to be either the little cat on the toilet logo or one of the others showing us that you are "in".

I took one member out for this reason : Since she became mother of a little son, she forgot her cat completely. Her blog was only about her cat now it's only about the baby. I am not even sure if she still has her cat. I am sorry, but people like that don't belong in our group. We are probably all mothers or fathers and didn't drop our animals just because now it became useless ! An animal, in this case a cat, is not an object to be thrown away, just because the person has other interests now. I have asked several times about the cat (the baby is now about 3 months old) without success and in her posts the cat is not mentioned once ever since.

I also took out some people who only played one or two times since the creation of the group and don't have a logo in their sidebar.

Of course I can understand that some of you just can't, don't have time, or are not feeling well to participate, but until now I always have been informed when it happened. I think you agree that our group doesn't become a Wordless Wednesday or a Thursday Thirteen, just rushing and catching for comments without even reading.

And a note for those who are on "comment hunting" for business purposes ONLY, taking a cat as an excuse : THIS PLACE IS NOT FOR YOU.

If you don't like the above then you can choose between :

TAIL TALES

CATS ON TUESDAY

If by any chance you walked by our house this morning then you would have heard a big sigh of relieve ! Arthur feels better, in fact much better because he took up his favorite game of "Pookie chasing" ! Still locked inside yesterday, he had worked with application on our nerves. Each door leading outside was sieged by him, sitting there and meowing like a sirene announcing an attack !

Today it is a week since his tail accident (see below if you don't kow this important world changing matter) and I decided that he could run outside behind girls instead of bothering poor Pookie with his accumulated energy. It also is raining, cold and grey and I thought with this weather he won't stay outside very long.

But Arthur, now that all doors to paradise were open, decided otherwise. He remained on his (mine during nights) bed and washed. Probably he had to think over this whole story. I thought this would be a good occasion to check the sensibility of his tail.

Tail position n° 1, I put it against his body. No reaction

Tail position n° 2 I pulled it straigth. No reaction

Tail position n° 3 I folded it, no reaction

In normal times he already would have killed me as he didn't support at all his tail being touched, stretched, pulled, folded or whatever, but now it's completely unsensible. It's rather funny to see him running or walking around because his tail swings with each body movement and hangs down. Apparently that doesn't bother him anymore and he shows his old himself. What a relief ! The only problem which remains now, does he get his "tail feelings" back or has it to be cut off ?

After this, Arthur disappeared armed with a new collar and telephone n° to say hello to his friends and came back after an hour.

Has anybody experienced such a tail tale ?

ARTHUR ON LEASH AND CORD

Mr. Gattino fat up of walking Arthur around invented something new. He put a cord from one end to the other of the garden, that way Darling Arthur can walk from one end to the other !

He now walks normally again and probably is used to the fact that his tail hangs useless down.
Fortunately cats recover quick and he got back his balance.

Now the only thing which is very hard for both of us is the fact that he wants to go out ! And this he manifests by meowing loud ! (very loud !) and that is terrible.

Arthur with his "walking cord" on the leash

Big Brother is still watching !

Kim has to check this new thing too !

And after 3 h on leash and cord he finally agreed to nap !

NEW TROUBLES WITH ARTHUR

Last sunday Arthur came home and looked strange, he walked like a drunken sailor and made noises like an old ghost in a castle something like ououou. I checked his hind legs but couldn't find anything. While I did that he growled but didn't do anything. Later I understood that this was his way to show that he had pains.


He settled besides the cat house and as he didn't move I brought him something to eat and he ate. I couldn't go to the vet because it was sunday. So there was nothing to do but wait until the next day. But while I was busy he suddenly disappeared.

I had never thought that he would be able to go out as he walked so badly. Now Mr. Gattino got in panic and looked (again) everywhere outside, checked all bushes, fields and neighbors, but Arthur had disappeared into thin air.

40 hours later I suddenly heard this ououou behind me in the kitchen. Arthur was back ! still walking like a drunken sailor and hungry like a lion. He emptied a whole big can of food and I was so relieved that he was back. I had already thought that he was laying somewhere and couldn't get home because of his bad leg.

All doors were closed immediately no way to escape anymore. As it was the 1st of May and a bank holiday no vet again, except the emergency service. But as he looked and ate well I thought I could wait for the next day.

First thing in the morning was calling our vet and announced an emergency. I could bring him over right away and


here you see Arthur in his cage in my car. He was very brave he didn't "sing" as usually, he said nothing. Only when I stopped talking with him, he started to growl again, so I told him about phone calls to make, unpaid invoices to pay and my friend's miseries and everything going through my mind non stop until we arrived at the vet.

After meticulous examination the vet pointed on that :


Arthurs tail ! It was completely dead. He felt nothing in it anymore. What he had done or what had be done to him remains a mistery. Diagnosis : Broken or squashed tail !

Now that was the reason why he walked so strangely, he had no balance anymore and had first to get used to the fact that his tail was useless. Otherwise he was in very good shape. But he had to get a shot against possible inflamation and other things, to heal the tail. If it's not OK in one month, it has to be cut off. Poor Arthur ! But I was almost relieved that it was not the leg or something else and "only" the tail.


Here sits Arthur after the procedure and had been really a very good boy.

When we came home and I took him out of his cage, he walked already much better and disappeared again. I looked through the whole house and finally found him here in Mr. Gattino's wardrobe ! He had pulled out pajamas, socks and slips and had made himself a cosy little nest. There he rested for the rest of the day.


But then the next morning he wanted to go out and he meowed and growled and scratched every door, that finally Mr. Gattino put him an extendable leash on and went with him in the garden.


Mr. Gattino had blanc nerves with all these events and was more exhausted and sick then Arthur and when Arthur wanted to dig his little hole for his business and had some difficulties because the ground was so dry and hard, he asked me to bring him a little shovel to help digging ! At this moment I really thought this is the end and now he has become crazy !

But finally Arthur managed his business alone

and did his washing up afterwards.

As the normal collar was not a good solution if we have to walk him everyday I went out to get a harness.


Arthur didn't complain at all about this at least to him very strange thing, as he had never worn one before. But there was no problem he didn't get crazy or hysterical, he just walked around as if he had done that his whole life.


Of course Kim had to check the harness too.

And then after this rough day, he finally could sleep in peace.

What I think more and more is that he had been bitten by the black very aggressive cat who is new in the neighborhood and with whom Arthur already had some fights.

Now we have to wait how it will continue.

13 THINGS ABOUT LISA

With her 16 years of age Lisa still does 12 of these things, and doesn't agree with n° 13

Eating, eating and eating

sleeping, sleeping, sleeping

checks that humans keep also clean like herself

and washes herself meticulously

very helpful in Computer work

she likes to have the last word


playing with water is also not bad

or just playing

Annoying people when they are in a special place , the human litterbox

She likes to act as alpinist

Is not afraid of height

and doesn't care about weight

So these 13 and more statements don't fit on her