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Post by acatcalleddog on Jul 6, 2013 10:20:16 GMT
Hi all cat lovers,
My name is Jem Vanston, author of A Cat Called Dog, my first cat novel published on 1st July 2013.
I live in Swansea with my two rescue cats, Honey (torti-tabby) and Bumble (semi-longhaired black), who are both female and two years old - and possibly related (we don't know for sure!)
If anyone would like to respond, then please feel free to miaow back!
Many thanks!
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Post by tingler on Jul 6, 2013 10:30:46 GMT
Hi Jem
I'm Jim, daddy to a BSH black cat called Gypsy, she is 15 years old.
Welcome to the forum
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lorna
Newbie
Posts: 8 
Pets I own: 4 beautiful cats, 3 of them rescue cats from Cats Protection. Merlin is 5, Woody is 4, Venus is 7 and our baby Jasmine is a year and a half.
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Post by lorna on Jul 6, 2013 11:09:16 GMT
Hiya, and welcome to the forum. I only just joined too! I also have a semi-long haired black cat - Merlin is 5 (my avatar pic is of him). I also have 3 other cats.
And Jim, your Gypsy is a beauty!
Lorna x
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Post by tonib on Jul 6, 2013 11:12:32 GMT
Welcome to the forum Jem, hope you enjoy it here. Your cats sound as though they really suit their names.
I'm Toni with 4 rescue cats aged 4 - 14.
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Post by BorderTerrier on Jul 6, 2013 11:22:22 GMT
Hello, your username is quite cool by the way  |
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zina
Newbie
Posts: 34
Animals I love: All animals :)
Pets I own: My new Kitten Boo
Lexi - Doberman
7 Chickens
8 Fish
1 Turtle
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Post by zina on Jul 6, 2013 18:42:23 GMT
Hi and Welcome  I am also new... I have a 9 week old kitten called Boo my profile pic x |
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Post by lotsofcats on Jul 6, 2013 22:15:40 GMT
Hi Jem and welcome to the forum. I'm Jenny and I also have two 2-year old cats and I live in South Wales. I have 5 other cats and 2 dogs as well.
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Post by catcalleddog on Jul 7, 2013 8:36:22 GMT
Great to hear back from you all - many thanks for the replies and welcome!
My user name is the same as my book's title - when I hit on it, I liked it, and felt it suited the story purr-fectly!
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Post by gladys on Jul 8, 2013 13:56:48 GMT
Hiya. Welcome to the forum. |
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Post by catcalleddog on Jul 14, 2013 14:58:05 GMT
I wonder if anyone else's pets get grumpy and scratchy in the heat!
One of our cats - Bumble, semi-longhaired black female (who behaves so much like a tom sometimes we call she 'he') get really cross in the hot weather.
Added to which, we have had an airshow in Swansea today and yesterday, with ear-splitting thunderous noises of Hawker Harriers and fighter jets flying over head. Not a cat favourite, perhaps...
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Post by tonib on Jul 14, 2013 15:01:08 GMT
Ours seem to get sleepy during the heat & more active in the evening/night, although they haven't been disturbed by a noisy airshow!!!
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Post by catcalleddog on Jul 14, 2013 15:26:52 GMT
We don't let ours out at night. We got these two last August, kept them in a month, then let them out - a month later each vanished, a week apart. One was gone for 14 days; one for 20. Very worrying! So we got collars - which one keeps on losing again and again! Anyway, we had a great view of the red arrows from our little garden today, but it's fair to say that noisy aeroplanes are probably not a feline favourite  |
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Post by ridley on Jul 14, 2013 16:53:04 GMT
hi and welcome!Im Helen and slave to 3 moggies!
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Post by catcalleddog on Jul 15, 2013 11:02:02 GMT
And very pretty your three look too!
We thought of adding to our two - but are a bit worried of reactions! This is the first time we've never had a tom in the house though - but Bumble (on the photo) is a surrogate tom because s/he behaves exactly like one!
I dedicated my book to all the cats we've had over the years -
Tippy, Podge and Nana (officially George and Georgine, because we got them on St George's Day 1978 after coming back from some fair in the local park in Kent where I grew up),
Hobbes (sadly killed aged 18 months by two Alsatians owned by some awful woman neighbour who let her dogs out on the street every evening),
Max and Leo,
Fifi and Frodo (both died last year aged 13 and had cataracts, rare in cats ironically, which may mean they were inbred!),
and our new arrivals, Honey and Bumble.
I think it may be the first novel dedicated to cats. Not sure though.
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Post by catcalleddog on Aug 6, 2013 14:56:36 GMT
If anyone's interested, here's a centrefold feature from the local paper today - they got a few things wrong, but never mind! The cat in then photo in Bumble - who was actually at the vets today with a stomach problem (eating fur methinks). Now we just have to try and somehow give him his medication - we'll try and disguise it in tuna because Bumble goes mental when I even try to go near him with a syringe to squeeze medicine into his mouth! www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/shaggy-dog-story/story-19617958-detail/story.html#axzz2b60KzCB0 |
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I am also new... I have a 9 week old kitten called Boo my profile pic x
