Gardeners and their cats

[BAGGY]

Now I have the hang of this photo thingy,this is Merlin.  Bird killer and frog harasser extraordinaire

[BAGGY]

[Merlins Mum]

oh baggy he goes after the frogs too  :'(
some might find this strange but I personally find this much harder to cope with.  frogs often scream when being played with by cats, a scream you wouldn't imagine they could make and they can play with them till they die but they never eat them (someone might prove me wrong on this).  chivers who was a bird catcher, a collector of a neighbours goldfish was also a molester of frogs.  It got so bad that in the end we filled in our tiny pond and took all the frogs (obviously missed a few) to a local pond about a mile away.
having said all this I loved him dearly and it brok my heart when he was hit by a car and killed :)
and I still think your merlin is a handsome boy.

also pleased you've got the hang of posting photos, the more the better  :)

MM

[kitty]

wow!baggy!merlin11 is the spitting image of our freedy minus a bit of white!
lovely boy

[kitty]

almost all shorthaired freddy types we have met have a fludffy sort of bunny fur coat..has merlin?

[cleo]

What lovely photos-I still miss the ones now departed,but there is one consolation? Cleo and Rags are lazy ladies so there are birds nesting in the garden again.

That frog scream is eerie-wish I still had frogs,the garden used to be full of them until two years ago-the grass snakes moved in and took them all.

Stephan

[Georgie]

That's two Merlins I want now!   ;)

I am fortunate in that my two nearly-17 year olds don't bother the birds.  Fletcher brought a live Magpie, about as big as him, through the cat flap when he was 6 months old and the experience seems to have put him off for life.  (I caught it in a towel and let it go - it seemed none the worse for wear.)  We get the odd wood mouse and that's about it.

Tiger, on the other hand , looks like he might be trouble when he gets braver.  He's already chasing my large frog around and today he scaled the Jasmine - persumably after a bird.  Thing is, he makes so much noise I should imagine he scares off the birds 3 gardens down!   ;D 

I hope it stays that way...

G xx

[BAGGY]

My Merlin has very soft fur.  He is a British shorthair but to be honest he is just a mog to me - I could never tell the difference apart from him being totally grey.  (no optical illusion stripes )  The frog he was harassing didn't scream so he either killed it outright or it was doing the I'm-dead-so-don't-bother act.  Let's hope it was the latter. ???

[kitty]

freddy must have a lot of bb in him-but he has a white tummy too-so far from pure bred-arent their faces lovely and round...i think frogs do play dead.....and i dont think they like to gnash them(cats i mean)as they taste nasty.....
lets hope your frogs ok anyway...

[Gardengirl]

Just catching up with the messages on this thread, but sad to say I still cannot see some of the photos :'(  Can see the one of Bunty & Doris though - what a great photo :)

Talking of frogs 'playing dead', we found what we thought was a dead baby newt indoors the other night.  I gently picked it up - it was not stiff so I hoped it wasn't dead.  I put it outside and when I looked in the morning it had gone, so hopefully had found its way back to the pond.

Hopefully next time I look, the photos will re-appear :-\ :)

[Merlins Mum]

Hi Gardengirl
Sorry Bunty and Doris should read Myrtle and Doris, mum and daughter.  I have just changed it.  It's strange about not being able to see some of the photos, I can't either and yet I have put them on in exactly the same way.  ???

MM

[maz]

Aww what a fab pic of the two of them together.

I have something similar of Alice ( on the left) with her adopted sis Hannah. I lost Hannah this time last year at the age of 15 . :'(  She was such a sweetie taking to Alice in the way she did.  :-*

[kitty]

what a pair of cuties!
hannah looks very like maisy,doris's sister...

[Merlins Mum]

A lovely pic maz, but I feel sad for you to have lost Hannah, it's like losing a part of you. :'(  Still I know you will have so many lovely memories as I know kitty does of doris. :)
Some people say the pain of losing a pet is too much and they will never have another.  Not me, they give so much to us, that  the pain of their passing is a price I'm prepared to pay.  I can't imagine my life for long without a cat about the place.  :)

MM

[Gardengirl]

Talking of togetherness, I thought you might like to see this photo of one of my dogs (Busby) with one of our cats (Penny).  They absolutely love one another.  Please excuse Busby encroaching on the cat's thread ;) :)

[Merlins Mum]

thanks gardengirl for the lovely photo, I do so love to see cats and dogs getting on. :)

MM

[kitty]

cant understand it when people say they wont get another cat/dog when their furry chum dies-if you didnt have that bit of pain at the end you'd never have all that pleasure would you?

i love 'em,me!! ;D

[Georgie]

Awww, Maz and Gardengirl, such beautiful pics, thanks for sharing. 

G xx

[maz]

Oh georgie I could bore for Britain about my pets, both here and gone.

I have similar pics like GG's of my black lab with cats and kittens. Im setting up my MSN site and doing pages for them. I know..... I need a job, lol.  ;D

[Georgie]

Well, you certainly won't bore us.   ;D

G xx

[Merlins Mum]

I agree with Georgie, so how about putting some pics on here maz of your lab with cats and kittens.  :)

MM