ONE GONE

I was down by the pond today clearing out old vegetation and of course I was followed by the cats so that they could supervise. One on them, Jenny, decided to go to the other side where the Bog Garden is and stepping onto a large flat stone missed her step and Splosh she was in the pond!:WINK1: It's around 4' deep there and she vanished under the water. Before I could move she was up and sank her claws into the stone and was out. With a look at me, as though it was my fault, she shot through the Jasmine Hedge to get onto the lawn to sit in the sun and lick herself dry. How do you lick yourself dry? The last part of her to dry was her tail, I know because all day she'd kept cuddling up to me as she dried out. I presume that's one of her Nine gone!!

 

She's like the Raptor in Jurassic Park, lurking in the bushes watching, always testing the fences for any weaknesses to see if she can get out, and if not then ambushing you. Plus being Female she's never wrong and it's the Male's fault.

 

So long as it was just water!!

 

Of course it's your fault! You should have been standing in the pond waiting to help her.

It must have been a shock to both of you and I'm so pleased she's OK

At least she didn't jump into your arms and soak you as well . Oscar always went straight to Mrs Shiney when anything went wrong. It always appeared to be "mummy will sort things out"

 

I think she's "forgiven" me now as today whenever she saw me sitting in the Arbour her tail would go up like a flag pole and she'd come running to sit on the seat with me. She even went trotting along the bank of the bog garden, where she'd fallen in, to watch me feeding the fish. Oh, and yes, the expression on her face does give her away as she's always up to something which ends in a crash, bang or thump as something falls over.

 

I'm not sure what life my other cat, Sally is on:


She's only got the one eye and has a leaking saliva gland making a swelling on the left side of her face, all the effects of Cat Flu. I believe the owner of Sally's Mother took the Mother and her 5 kittens to the Vet in Dove Holes in Derbyshire with them all suffering to some degree from Cat Flu. The Vet had, unfortunately, to put the Mother and 3 of the kittens to sleep and Sally had to lose an eye. The owner had no money and left the cats with the Vet who passed them on to the local Cat Rescue Home. I went to buy my brother a cat, he'd recently lost his, and while letting him make his choice, this little furry thing climbed up the chicken wire of it's cage and I swear it was saying to me *buy me, buy me!!".......crazy I know! I remember thinking "It's only got one eye!", I don't remember buying it and taking it home.........but I did!