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[Fintray]

They are both big cats. Monty is 7.3kg and does not look overweight at all. All the energy bill savings get spent on the food bill instead!

Aye but they'll be outputting a few watts to the heating of the house...

[Mart]

Speaking of 8kg, here's a pic of Doyle at around 8.5kg, co-incidentally, the approx amount of weight Guide dogs have asked us to try to get off Toby.

At first Toby liked to bark and chase the cats in the garden, but the solution we found was to place the cats near Toby, at which point he refuses to look directly at them, and goes quiet. So they're becoming good friends now:



Winter is coming, as they say, and I've just put the cheap black rubber floor down in the conservatory.


And an update pic of Cookie Monster, who is looking really good now:



Only superficial scabs now, lots of healthy skin, and fur growing really fast. He still wants to scratch it a bit, but prefers to hold my hand with all four murder mittens, then chew my fingers ...... I believe it's affection, but could be hunger.

He's also put on half a kilo since we got him, so I'm certain now he isn't fully grown. He's reached 4.25kg, half Doyle's weight, but has chased (attacked?) Doyle several times, so we don't know if he's being playful, or is a price 'nutter'. Not sure why Doyle runs away, maybe it's the cone of shame making Cookie look like he has a huge head.


Meant to say, Doyle must have some strange genetics, as his brother Bodie is a similar height and length, but half the width, and nearly half the weight. Here they are eyeing up the last treat I sprinkled on the floor for them:

[Krill]

It's good to hear that Cookie Monster is healing I wonder how he will react when its healed (at least, as well as it could be), if he still tries to scratch at it.

Do you think he could chase Toby around?

Doyle looks the same shape as Winston when viewed from above.

[Mart]

Really hoping he'll stop with the scratching when healed, but I have tried him (supervised) with the cone off, and whilst he wasn't obsessed, he did get his back leg slowly up to his shoulder ..... and then he was off like a jackhammer kicking away, twice. But that was over about 30min, and I assume still very itchy.

If you gently scratch his scabby neck, his leg kicks, and he frantically licks the front of his cone, shouldn't laugh, but it's so funny.

At first he was very submissive, blinking and chirping at Bodie and Doyle, whilst they hissed at him. But now Doyle has relaxed, he's 'attacked' him twice. Hoping it's all play, Cookie doesn't seem nasty, just a bit doppy. But Doyle needs to put him in his place, but instead runs away, possibly because of the cone.

He's also made friends with Buster when we've let the doggo come upstairs and go in and see him. So he may just have a bubbly personality (nutter!)

[Mart]

Tangent to pets, but where we take the doggo, or doggos for a walk, we sometimes walk along an earth berm, part of the flood defences here for the large tidal range of the Severn. Yesterday was a spring tide, so thought it might be fun/interesting to post some pics showing how much it can vary.

So we have a low tide:



a high tide, which looks impressive, but there is still spare capacity onto the banks on the sides:



and a spring tide, where the water goes onto the sides, and is then held back by the berm, probably still 2m of 'protection', I think the tide can just about reach the pipe on the side of the bridge, so maybe another 1m at extremes:

[Mart]

Quick animal update.

So, we have asked if we can adopt Toby Guide Dog. Been waiting a few weeks for the re-homing team to do their thing. I think they are a going to ask the 'puppy raisers' who will have had him from ~7weeks old till he went for full training at ~14months.

He's lovely and happy, but a meanderer on walks. We've put bells on his harness, so we know if he's following, or sneaking off for a sniff/explore.

Weighed him yesterday, and he's down to 38.4kg, from 42kg when we got him, Target is ~34kg.

Whereas Cookie Monster cat has now reached 5kg at the last vet visit, up from 3.7kg when we got him. Best guess is that he's now about 1yr old, but we're not sure. Will need to see if he grows much more.

He has managed to scratch his head and neck at times, when we took the onesie and cone off a few weeks ago. So he's on some meds to reduce any inflamation and itching whilst he continues to heal. Wound is closed, thin fur on head hides what's left there. Neck still looks a bit bad, but is turning from soft bright pink skin, to a tougher whiter pink, slowly.



Today or tomorrow, we are going to try to lock him, us, the dogs, and the cats, into our front room, and see what happens (A&E have been notified). Up to now even big Doyle is running away when Cookie chases him. But I know cats don't like cones, and the vet pointed out, that the cone gives cats a fake giant head, so may make them look far more dangerous.

So cone and onesie off for the meet and greet, and we'll see what happens. He likes the doggos, but is respectful of their size, so hoping their presence will slow him down. If he eventually gets on well with the ginga twins, then we'll be keeping him.

We did leave his cone off last night, and let him sleep in the bedroom with us. He only did a bit of half-hearted scratching, and only onto the onesie. But still early days.

[nowty]

Although we no longer have any cats we still have pussy visitors to the garden.
This one we call pretty cat and is looking through the bottom gap in the back gate like our own pussy's used to.