i was just thinking out loud that's all,
one of the reasons i alwasy go for old cats is because (and dont; take
this the wrong way) they are not likely to be around for much longer
and since i live in rented property it is a feature iof the cat i can
use to good effect if the landlord doesn't like the idea of us havign
pets; "she won't last for more than another 6 months the vet said, so
she will be dead before you knwo it and it won't be a problem then, so
can we keep her/him? it won't be for long". Our landlord is ok with
jessie and terri, there is nothing in our contract which rules against
havign pets but you never know.

Also as i don't own the house myself and have no roots in this area
(not enough money to put down roots here nor any intention to cos this
area is too snobby for my liking) I have veered away fromthe idea of
getting a kitten who I willhave for the next 15 + years with me cos I
really don't know where i will be living this time next year. That is
why i have veered towards really ancient cats atthe adoption centres
because they are not likely to last for very much longer (6 months or
so was all they gave for jasper when i got him) and so after that if I
need to move for a job or cos I have been kicked out then i can and it
is no issue. just woudl not be fair to bring a small kitten into my
situation i think unless i have somewhere of my own and am really
settled, does that make sense?

of course things haven't worked out like that, I have been living
inthe same house for nearly 6 years now and have no reason to move now
unless i suddenly win the lottery and can buy my own house (not liekly
to happen otherwise, house prices inthis country are ludicrous). Also
japser was supposed to live for just 6 months but he decided to hang
around for 18 months in the end, then when he went over the rainbow
bridge I found I could not live without a small grumpy furry person to
cuddle and fuss over and generally spoil rotten and I went straight
out to the cats protection HQ and got jessie, who was also supposed to
be on her last life and was nto expected to be with us for much
longer. That was in July 2005 and she is still here and in quite rude
health, plumper than she was and she still has us wrapped around her
furry paw  (as it shoudl be really).

terri was really not planned, just got a phone call to say someone had
abandoned their puss and could i help? she is living here now because
going over twice a day to feed her whilst she lived inthe freezign
cold outside was not feasible, especially not as i have warm soft
cushions going spare. until i can find her a lovely home she can stay
with us, but it is not really our intention to keep her, not since we
are renting. we wil certainyl not be dumping her on cats protection or
anything like that as they have enough homeless cats and such like to
cope with and she is ok where she is for now, better she is here with
me than sitting alone and scared in some drafty cat pen at the bottom
of someone's garden. here she has hidey holes, cushions, nooks ,
crannies, and warm airing cupboards to sleep in, a bti of space to
potter round in and a garden to sunbathe in (when she gets the courage
to go out that is).

believe me, if i had my own house i would be down that rescue centre
today and coming home with armfuls of homeless kitties, all the really
old and unwanted ones with all the ongoing medical things which put
other people off (diabetes, hyperthyroidism,.etc etc) anmd I would
have my own little kitty convalescent home filled to the rooftops with
lots of big squashy cushions and comfy chairs for them to snooze on. i
would also have all the scaredy ones who are deemed 'unfriendly' and
let them do their own thing in their own time and hide wherever they
want for as long as they want, they dont have to come out and be
friendly if they dont want to. Also all the ones who scratch every
where, i woudl have those too, and let them scratch the sh.t out of
all my furniture as muich as they want and that would be fine cos
really it is their furniture anyway and they don't have to learn
'better' behaviour cos they won't be going to live elsewhere so they
can do what they want when they want and noone is going to care or
make a fuss about it.

ok I will have to get a huge mansion for all this so all the kitties
can have their own space and don't wind each other up, and it would
have to have a huge garden for them to prowl around in, preferably
with lots of overgrown wild bits in it for them to hunt in, but i can
dream can't I?
I will have to find an old rich man with a dodgy heart to marry, so I
can bump him off and have his millions and put it to good use, any
ideas where i can find one?

Bookie (sitting here planning out the climbing frames for the special
abandoned kitty climbing and activity room i will have in my huge
house)

speaking of little sh@t's...I woke up this morning to the strangest
sound. It sounded a bit like a grand father clock ticking away..
(baring in mind it was 6am, I knew it couldn't be anything that
unusual, but the sound disturbed me so much that I had to get up &
investigate....

I dragged my sorry butt out of bed & came down to the living room to
see if I could find out exactly what it was. there on the desk sat
Lilly  with Lucy(fur!) playing with one of those desk toys( I'm mad
with myself cuz I can't recall their name), with four balls. When you
hit one it starts a chain reaction & hits the others until all of them
clang &  does it again in reverse.. There was Lilly @ one end, &
Lucy(fur!) @ the other both pat-pawing them backwards and forwards
again...I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, LOL...

S;o)

yes photos of more cats are always very welcome

why is terri digging away at her litter tray downstairs? sounds like
she is trying to bury a camel or dig her way to freedom, she has been
scraping and burrowing about in there for a good few minutes now and
even jessie is looking at me in a sort of 'what the hell is she doing
down there??!!' kind of way.

all i know is that when she has finished i will have something i need
to remove to the bin outside, nice

I like it too, but it's just a nickname, courtesy of an inside joke with a
friend years ago that stuck. Started using it at a forum we both posted at,
then went to a new forum with some of the same people, so I kept using it so
they'd know it was me, and eventually...well anywhere you go online, if you
see a Lilah Morgan, chances are that's me!