Above the snowline
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PPO = poor previous owner
Incoming CC!
- Thread starter Ratface
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ElleSkywalkingintheair
As excited as Kitty about to be a bridesmaid
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 
Can't wait to hear more about her Ladyship 
Barton Bounty
Just simply loving life with Orbi 🥰
Im glad you have some new company 
Cavalous Christmas
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Good luck to you and CC
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
Yay, very happy for you both. Sounds like she is trying hard to fit in.
splashgirl45
Lurcher lover
Just caught up , good luck RF and looking forward to photos and tales of her lady’s hip
fetlock
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Good luck and looking forward to hearing how she settles in
PS chubby girl cats rock x
PS chubby girl cats rock x
nagblagger
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I hope she has started using you as her slave by now, we don't want you to have it too easy. 
Ratface
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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.I hope she has started using you as her slave by now, we don't want you to have it too easy.
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
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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?
AmyMay
Situation normal
Just say, ‘no. It’s not fair to the cat’
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
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.
Rumtytum
Have Marmite, will travel
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
)Ratface
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Excellent. Good idea. Thank you.
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
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Agree, except I'd make that a minimum of 6 months, not 6 weeks.
Ratface
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I can always say that I've had another flare-up of malaria . . .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
Outright lie - haven't had one for at least twenty years, but she's not to know that.
Ratface
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Are you channelling the late, great Frankie Howerd? Such a clever man.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
Rumtytum
Have Marmite, will travel
I’m pleased you recognised it! He was indeed a very clever man.
Ratface
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P.S. The Spirit of King Kevin Kat has left the barge. I'm feeling sort-of-OK about that.
FinnishLapphund
There's no cow on the ice
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...
fetlock
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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
Covid, Norovirus, Flu, Bird Flu, Covid again - that’ll string it out till they lose interest.
ElleSkywalkingintheair
As excited as Kitty about to be a bridesmaid
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
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
Above the snowline
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Nooooooooooooo. You’ve got ringworm, scabies, worms and Covid. They all hate the dog mansion and are coming for a holiday. Time to form a forum army to defend you.
Fjord
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Well Wife sounds like an absolute delight! How rude. Definitely say a visit will upset the cat too much, then by the time she is settled hopefully they will have forgotten.
Above the snowline
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Long - very long covid
MiLeTa
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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!
Clodagh
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that, absolutely. No room for debate.
splashgirl45
Lurcher lover
What a cheek expecting to foist their kids on to you .. no, no, no
Above the snowline
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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.
Ratface
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I think ringworm might do the trick. Oh dear. I shan't be going to Heaven, shall I?