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Garden Manager:
Oh G*d I've heard it all now!! :o  If only cats could be toilet trained like children! :-/

tim:
-and if only MEN could be trained like children - and clean up after their visits!!  I'm sure the girls will know what I mean? - Tim

Palustris:
More info on our moggies. Mytton was left behind by the former house owners. She was semi-feral and had never been inside the house. It took us about 2 years to persuade her to come in. Another year to get her to stay in to sleep rather than just to eat and another year or so to go into the living room where she used to sleep behind the settee. Now she is getting old (no idea really but must be at least 10) we have to throw her (not literally) out during the day for toilet purposes. She is very friendly, loves a stroke, but has never willingly sat on anyone. Loathes and detests Hannibal.
Hannibal was brought home from Uni by eldest daughter when her proposed house fell through. He chased our other two cats behind the chairs, hissed at the girls, sat down on my knee and went to sleep. He hated women. So far he has had a broken hip, broken jaw, more abscesses than I can count (rat bites) eye trouble, more stiches than an embroidered tablecloth and the only scar is a lump on his head where he head butted the bars on his temperary cage when he was supposed the be immobile with broken hip. Now he escorts every visitor round his estate. Aged 10.

Garden Manager:
Goodness Eric, hannibal has certainly used up a few of his lives hasnt he?

We've had more than a few scares with our cats over the years.

One, a ginger named Arthur, once fell sleep ina field and had her paws run over by a farm machine. Lucky not to loose one of them. Local vet patched her up very well, lost a couple of toes and a few claws, and was all bandaged up for some time, but a few months later the cat was back to her normal self.  Having learned no doubt not to go to sleep in a field again!

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