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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #45 on: January 14, 2009, 12:21:40 PM »
Mrs Nick exercised her veto  sad24:
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #46 on: January 14, 2009, 12:22:42 PM »
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I thought you were perhaps being a tad over ambitious.
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #47 on: January 14, 2009, 12:24:04 PM »
Quote from: Nick on January 14, 2009, 12:21:40 PM
Mrs Nick exercised her veto  sad24:
Just as well you didn't get a cat... with a mouse in the house like!  point:
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #48 on: January 14, 2009, 12:29:29 PM »
Quote from: Barman on January 14, 2009, 12:24:04 PM
Quote from: Nick on January 14, 2009, 12:21:40 PM
Mrs Nick exercised her veto  sad24:
Just as well you didn't get a cat... with a mouse in the house like!  point:

How unkind <snigger>
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #49 on: January 14, 2009, 12:30:59 PM »
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #50 on: January 14, 2009, 12:41:53 PM »
As I mentioned previously my cat is ill.

The vet's bill so far is about £700, unfortunately the vet is still not sure what's wrong. I've just spoken to her and it's either more (expensive) tests with no guarentees or time to let him go.  cry:

Don't think I will get another.
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #51 on: January 14, 2009, 12:45:12 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on January 14, 2009, 12:41:53 PM
As I mentioned previously my cat is ill.

The vet's bill so far is about £700, unfortunately the vet is still not sure what's wrong. I've just spoken to her and it's either more (expensive) tests with no guarentees or time to let him go.  cry:

Don't think I will get another.

In a nutshell there is the reason we don't have cats or dogs. I grew up with both and it is heartbreaking to have to make the decision to have them "put to sleep" but on the other hand the cost of keeping them going for an unspecified period is now so high as to be impractical.
Keeping animals (including birds) is now, for me at least, purely a matter of providing eggs and/or meat for my table.
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #52 on: January 14, 2009, 12:48:00 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on January 14, 2009, 12:41:53 PM
As I mentioned previously my cat is ill.

The vet's bill so far is about £700, unfortunately the vet is still not sure what's wrong. I've just spoken to her and it's either more (expensive) tests with no guarentees or time to let him go.  cry:

Don't think I will get another.

Sorry to hear that Uncle Mort.

One of my friends has 2 cats. The children love them to pieces. However one of them has been unwell and has a series of tests / x rays - so far totalling in excess of a thousand pounds.

Apparently the diagnosis now is that she has dementia and there is nothing medically they can do

That wil be a £1000 well spent then  noooo:



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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #53 on: January 14, 2009, 12:48:31 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on January 14, 2009, 12:41:53 PM
As I mentioned previously my cat is ill.

The vet's bill so far is about £700, unfortunately the vet is still not sure what's wrong. I've just spoken to her and it's either more (expensive) tests with no guarentees or time to let him go.  cry:

Don't think I will get another.

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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #54 on: January 14, 2009, 01:21:56 PM »
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How can they tell?
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #55 on: January 14, 2009, 01:26:27 PM »
I think that is the vet equivalent of "you have a virus"

However she has started weeing in shoes and trainers left in the hallway (always immaculately house trained previously) and the other day my friend went out, was in the shops and went to get her purse  to find the cat had puked over all the contents in there  sick2:
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #56 on: January 14, 2009, 01:27:50 PM »
OUr cat did that. From six weeks old  rubschin:

She never laid eggs though  noooo:
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #57 on: January 14, 2009, 04:38:01 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on January 14, 2009, 12:19:24 PM
Have you taken delivery of that Maine Coon cat you were after yet?

He is remaining topical and has changed his order to the more unusual "Maine Paki".
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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #58 on: January 14, 2009, 04:39:03 PM »
Quote from: Darwins Selection on January 14, 2009, 04:38:01 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on January 14, 2009, 12:19:24 PM
Have you taken delivery of that Maine Coon cat you were after yet?

He is remaining topical and has changed his order to the more unusual "Maine Paki".

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Re: The unusual pets thread
« Reply #59 on: January 14, 2009, 05:16:40 PM »
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