The mystery that is Thingy...

[megra]

When she's conscious, she has taken to sitting at my feet and staring at me. I invite her up onto the sofa and she stays staring up at me. I ask her if she wants food or if she wants to go out and she stays staring up at me. I don't know what it means.




This, her more usual pose, I understand completely:

[Maywalk]

Aaaaawww Thingy is lovely Megra and evidently she has you tied up in knots or else you would not bother with her.

[megra]

She has me wrapped round her little paw, so she has! She nags incessantly and very loudly; she manipulates and sometimes just makes me laugh out loud. She is a very old lady with a very checkered history. Nobody knows her exact age but it's certainly well over 20 years. She came to this sheltered estate as a stray, eventually found an owner who kept her till his death some ten years later. She stayed on as a stray, begging door to door. When I arrived just over a year ago, she had another old geezer vaguely looking after her but he wasn't very reliable and she soon latched on to me. I've never had a pet in all my life and I'm not sure I have one now. It's more like Thingy has a well-trained servant; moreover, I think she believes that she owns this entire estate and that all its inmates are at her beck and call!

[Maywalk]

She sounds a great character. She knows she has it made with you.
For saying you have never had a pet in your life you are evidently making a good stand in mum.

[Monsy]

She's staring at you like that because she wants a wee tickle! She's in fantastic condition for an old girl!

[Emm]

Great photos Megra - and well done you. The cat obviously knows a soft touch.


Maybe you are using different words - ones which she does not recognise?
Even so, the international language for animals - is kindness - and that, she is getting.

[megra]

Here are some more Thingy pics:

[Emm]

Well, she certainly has made herself at home, hasn't she.

[dejavou]

I wonder if she thinks of you as Thingy too ?? She looks a wise old bird though

[twinsmum]

Thingy looks lovely and content, does she like being cuddled

[Rowan]

Lovely pics.

[megra]

Thingy looks lovely and content, does she like being cuddled

Oh yes. She's a complete tart. But it has to be done on her terms. Sometimes she shakes me off petulantly. Other times, she'll roll over on her back, spread her legs demanding attention and with a lecherous expression on her face! She likes men more than women. She tends to be a bit wary of females until she gets to know them but when any of my male friends visits, she'll immediately take up sentry duty at his feet and look up adoringly. Cats, I've read, don't like staring as it's usually an act of aggression but boy does she stare and if you stare back she'll hold your gaze a very long time before turning away.

Uh-uh. Missee has found me and is sitting at my feet nagging me. Yeth, mithtress, I come...

[widget]

She is gorgeous, when Widget [parrot] make his usual mess, chews my magazine, demands to be up with the sun, I say to him, 'behave or I will get a cat'

[megra]

She is gorgeous, when Widget [parrot] make his usual mess, chews my magazine, demands to be up with the sun, I say to him, 'behave or I will get a cat'

I'd offer to lend her to you but she's pretty stupid and I'm afraid won't do anything she's told - she hasn't even worked out that she can push her way through doors that are only slightly ajar; she just sits like a blummin' princess waiting for them to be pushed open enough for her to swan through. A frequent visitor of mine reckons she's got Alzheimer's! However, she doesn't chew things she won't swallow and she's not into magazines. Neither does she scratch much. She has never put a claw out at me in spite of me doing things like putting drops in her ears and she has only ever given the furniture a cursory scratching.

However, for a stray moggy she's pretty damned good and such a character and I shall miss her when, inevitably, she turns her paws up for the last time.

[Dragon Lady]

She's really gorgeous, Megra! As to cats staring at you - I think they do it just to disconcert you!