Incoming CC!

She sounds wonderful already, as the owner of two very chubby lady cats (plus two other less chubby ones and 4 thin cats) I think you'll be pleasantly surprised how much character and fun these unassuming lumps of fluff can be 😁 Can't wait to hear more about her Ladyship 😍
 
nagblagger said:
I hope she has started using you as her slave by now, we don't want you to have it too easy. ;)
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No, she doesn't need to! I'm being an Anxious Cat Mother. She's still wedged in an uncomfortable corner behind the wood burner. I've offered some top quality wet food, of which she's scoffed three-quarters, fresh water and a small dish of cat biscuits.
On the bright side, she will meet my gaze and responded to me doing a slow blink with one herself. Early days.
I've texted the donor with update. She's says OH is still crying. Also, that I'm doing better than she thought that I would. Mmmm.
 
Ratface said:
No, she doesn't need to! I'm being an Anxious Cat Mother. She's still wedged in an uncomfortable corner behind the wood burner. I've offered some top quality wet food, of which she's scoffed three-quarters, fresh water and a small dish of cat biscuits.
On the bright side, she will meet my gaze and responded to me doing a slow blink with one herself. Early days.
I've texted the donor with update. She's says OH is still crying. Also, that I'm doing better than she thought that I would. Mmmm.
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And furthermore - she didn't thank me for the card, lovely bunch of shop-bought tulips and good (aka expensive) bottle of French wine I sent back with husband.
Children want to come and visit. Nooo. How can I dissuade that? Explain what a very dangerous environment it is for "lively" young children? Don't want cat/OH upset?
 
Ratface said:
And furthermore - she didn't thank me for the card, lovely bunch of shop-bought tulips and good (aka expensive) bottle of French wine I sent back with husband.
Children want to come and visit. Nooo. How can I dissuade that? Explain what a very dangerous environment it is for "lively" young children? Don't want cat/OH upset?
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Just say, ‘no. It’s not fair to the cat’
 
Ratface said:
And furthermore - she didn't thank me for the card, lovely bunch of shop-bought tulips and good (aka expensive) bottle of French wine I sent back with husband.
Children want to come and visit. Nooo. How can I dissuade that? Explain what a very dangerous environment it is for "lively" young children? Don't want cat/OH upset?
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I think she needs 6 weeks to settle before visits. It will confuse her if previous family comes now. Besides, kids are likely to leave the door open before she has found her feet.

Hopefully, after 6 weeks, the kids will have moved on.
 
Ratface said:
And furthermore - she didn't thank me for the card, lovely bunch of shop-bought tulips and good (aka expensive) bottle of French wine I sent back with husband.
Children want to come and visit. Nooo. How can I dissuade that? Explain what a very dangerous environment it is for "lively" young children? Don't want cat/OH upset?
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No. No. A thousand times No!
What a truly disgraceful specimen of humanity! I think you are going to have to gird your loins over the visiting, possibly develop some really vile contagious disease?
(Eating and cat blinks, you are on your way to being best friends 💕)
 
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Red-1 said:
I think she needs 6 weeks to settle before visits. It will confuse her if previous family comes now. Besides, kids are likely to leave the door open before she has found her feet.

Hopefully, after 6 weeks, the kids will have moved on.
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Agree, except I'd make that a minimum of 6 months, not 6 weeks.
 
Rumtytum said:
No. No. A thousand times No!
What a truly disgraceful specimen of humanity! I think you are going to have to gird your loins over the visiting, possibly develop some really vile contagious disease?
(Eating and cat blinks, you are on your way to being best friends 💕)
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I can always say that I've had another flare-up of malaria . . .
Outright lie - haven't had one for at least twenty years, but she's not to know that.
 
Rumtytum said:
No. No. A thousand times No!
What a truly disgraceful specimen of humanity! I think you are going to have to gird your loins over the visiting, possibly develop some really vile contagious disease?
(Eating and cat blinks, you are on your way to being best friends 💕)
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Are you channelling the late, great Frankie Howerd? Such a clever man.
 
Ratface said:
And furthermore - she didn't thank me for the card, lovely bunch of shop-bought tulips and good (aka expensive) bottle of French wine I sent back with husband.
Children want to come and visit. Nooo. How can I dissuade that? Explain what a very dangerous environment it is for "lively" young children? Don't want cat/OH upset?
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Since the kids, and their other pets is part of why she didn't like it at her home anymore, you don't want her to associate her new home with that the kids she's just escaped turns up the next day.

Tell them her and you needs time to get used to each other, bond, and relax. If you're comfortable with it, offer to email them some pictures so that the kids can see how CC's new home looks like. You don't even need to show too much of the stuff around, focus the photos on simple stuff, like here she tried to climb up, here's her food bowls, her litter box, here she's squeezed in and decided to sleep...
 
Rumtytum said:
No. No. A thousand times No!
What a truly disgraceful specimen of humanity! I think you are going to have to gird your loins over the visiting, possibly develop some really vile contagious disease?
(Eating and cat blinks, you are on your way to being best friends 💕)
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Covid, Norovirus, Flu, Bird Flu, Covid again - that’ll string it out till they lose interest.
 
Sounds like she's using a visit to Cat They Don't Want as a fun day out for them. If weepy husband wants to visit at some point in the future, maybe the suggested 6 months or so that's one thing, but kids who are the reasons the poor puss has been evicted wanting to come and stamp about upsetting her and you.....no way!

Looks like King Kevin Kat has given his Chubby Queen his seal of approval if he's seen fit to swagger off to kitty paradise. I wish you both many happy years together ❤️
 
Ratface said:
And furthermore - she didn't thank me for the card, lovely bunch of shop-bought tulips and good (aka expensive) bottle of French wine I sent back with husband.
Children want to come and visit. Nooo. How can I dissuade that? Explain what a very dangerous environment it is for "lively" young children? Don't want cat/OH upset?
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How very rude! People like that really annoy me.

I'd go with CC needs time to settle into her new home, and maybe plant the idea that one of the little darlings might end up in the drink in case they don't lose interest in the meantime.

Or you could just go the very blunt route of 'Oh dear me, no, I don't think that would be a good idea at all' and leave it at that!
 
Ratface said:
P.S. The Spirit of King Kevin Kat has left the barge. I'm feeling sort-of-OK about that.
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I think KKK is up to mischief. He has infiltrated PPO who has gone home, poured himself a huge drink and blurted out that you are an amazing loving, kind person with a fabulous cosy cabin and CC settled in immediately. The cat hating family are now jealous and demanding to meet you.
 
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