Pets & the Coronavirus Crisis

[Paul Whybrow]

Unfortunately, I don’t have a cat at the moment, owing to the dangerous location where I live, a petrol station on a (usually) busy road. It’s so quiet now, that it took ten minutes for a car to appear as I watched yesterday evening.

I shared my life for ten years with Pushkin (named for the Russian poet) a silver tabby, a rescue cat who kept me on the straight and narrow.

He came to America with me for three years. I was glad to get him back to Cornwall, before he departed for the bunny hunting ground in the sky.

I could do with the company of a wise cat right now, but I compensated by buying a fluffy white cushion, which I cuddle at night. I haven’t named it yet, so I still have a few marbles left!

This Guardian article is a well-considered contemplation on the value of sharing quarantine with a pet:

Sanity, stability and stress-relief: why our beloved pets have never been more important

What animal(s) are self-isolating with you?

Pictures please….

 

[RK Wallis]

Oh yes, Hannah and her stomach keep us entertained


This is an older photo, she put herself in my husband's suit bag. For anyone interested, more photos on my Instagram at DisabledHighlights.

 

[Eva Ulian]

Unfortunately, I don’t have a cat at the moment, owing to the dangerous location where I live, a petrol station on a (usually) busy road. It’s so quiet now, that it took ten minutes for a car to appear as I watched yesterday evening.

I shared my life for ten years with Pushkin (named for the Russian poet) a silver tabby, a rescue cat who kept me on the straight and narrow.

He came to America with me for three years. I was glad to get him back to Cornwall, before he departed for the bunny hunting ground in the sky.

I could do with the company of a wise cat right now, but I compensated by buying a fluffy white cushion, which I cuddle at night. I haven’t named it yet, so I still have a few marbles left!

This Guardian article is a well-considered contemplation on the value of sharing quarantine with a pet:

Sanity, stability and stress-relief: why our beloved pets have never been more important

What animal(s) are self-isolating with you?

Pictures please….

Re: loo- So do cats... probably much more. I have to stave off half a dozen of them every time

 

[Hannah F]

Self-isolation arm exercising with Jedi (16year 5month border collie. I rescued him at 11months old)

 

[Emily]

Paul, at first quick glance, I thought your cushion WAS your cat! I was admiring his angles and fur

 

[Steve C]

You may not have named it but do you order it to 'stay' when you leave the room and point a commanding finger at it? It's nice to be obeyed sometimes

 

[Barbara]

I haven’t named it yet, so I still have a few marbles left!

@Paul Whybrow, you may not have named it, but looking at the photo, you have measured it.

As for your other photo of a woman on the loo: Well, mind-edit the dogs out. Next, mind-copy a fluffy black kitten then mind-paste that kitten into the pants of the woman sitting on the loo. There you have it, that's how I spent every morning of my cat's kittenhood. He used to curl up and fall asleep in my pants, and I was so touched I stayed, reading another page of my magazine just so kitty could make his snooze worthwhile.

I'm not sure I should be allowed out. Oh wait, I'm not.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

@Paul Whybrow, you may not have named it, but looking at the photo, you have measured it.

As for your other photo of a woman on the loo: Well, mind-edit the dogs out. Next, mind-copy a fluffy black kitten then mind-paste that kitten into the pants of the woman sitting on the loo. There you have it, that's how I spent every morning of my cat's kittenhood. He used to curl up and fall asleep in my pants, and I was so touched I stayed, reading another page of my magazine just so kitty could make his snooze worthwhile.

I'm not sure I should be allowed out. Oh wait, I'm not.

Cats are revered in Islamic tradition. It's said that the founder of Islam, Arab leader Muhammad, was preparing to attend morning prayer dressing himself, when he saw his favourite cat Muezza was asleep on the sleeve of his prayer robe. Rather than disturb the cat, he used scissors to cut the sleeve off.

As for measuring 'things' I use centimetres these days...they sound bigger than they are!

 

[Barbara]

Rather than disturb the cat, he used scissors to cut the sleeve off.

That makes complete sense to me. I have in the past slept on the floor when my cat was poorly and wanted the bed.

As for measuring 'things' I use centimetres these days...they sound bigger than they are!

LOL!

 

[Steve C]

@Babara 'I have in the past slept on the floor when my cat was poorly and wanted the bed. '

Bloody hell!! How big is your cat?

 

[Barbara]

How big is your cat?

He's rather large as cats go. (Not sure if you saw him at the last Huddle.) He's 6 kilos (He does have a podgy belly. Healthy weight would be 5.7kilos. He easts too many mice.) But he towers over his feline enemies.

 

[Webbwalker]

I know the feeling well, Barbara. Here's my pair of little 'angels' , monopolising my bed, as they do, all the time.

 

[Cadiz]

I have this happen so often! Do I really have to send photos? LOL

 

[Steve C]

Here's my pair of little 'angels' , monopolising my bed, as they do, all the time

The one on the right looks like one of my 'angels' I'll see if I can find a pic
here's one of her with puppies

 

[Emily]

Bloody hell!! How big is your cat?

huge. HUUUUU-U-U-U-G-G-E. If I were a cat, I'd choose to be Barbara's cat.

 

[Barbara]

If I were a cat, I'd choose to be Barbara's cat.

You'd have a red carpet rolled out in front of you and trumpets playing every time you came through the cat flap.

 

[Emily]

You'd have a red carpet rolled out in front of you and trumpets playing every time you came through the cat flap.

When I reincarnate...

 

[Webbwalker]

The one on the right looks like one of my 'angels' I'll see if I can find a pic
here's one of her with puppies

What a sweetie! Poppy is a Lakeland Jack Russell cross - how about your wee angel, and what's her name?

 

[Steve C]

Hard to write her name in English. Gayow is close. In Thai it's a flower of sorts but the way I say it also means a glass. We have another 2 dogs one of whom is called Bia which I pronounce as beer. So I have my glass and I have my beer = happy me she is a mut my wife came across at a petrol station and is a real fighter having survived some sort of poison she and her brother (called Dollar) ate when puppies. $ died but Gayow survived, just! She also stood up against a king cobra defending those puppies of hers and it spat in her eyes. For a week she was blinded but still took care of her babies then miraculously the white film over her eyes faded and she recovered her sight. She's adorable
Somewhere I have a pic of the snake that tried to take one of her brood if you'd like to see it?