• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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Not your cat! So some strange cat wanders into your house and plonks itself down on your table! The cheek. The nerve.
 
We know which ones belong to which neighbours but cannot account for this one.
Its been hanging around for a while.
A bit skinny but overall in good condition
It was grateful for the leftovers after sleeping halfway through the meal.
 
We get this as well. We have two cats, presumably pedigree as one has tiger stripes and the other leopard spots, patrol our garden twice a day in a set routine / route. As if they own the place (which in their minds no doubt they do). Every now and again if we leave a door open, one sneaks in for a look round. Occasionally has a nap on the cold stone laundry room floor. I'm actually allergic to cats but they are so bold and beautiful that I put up with the visits. We don't feed them and have no idea which humans they own.
 
fuse said:
We know which ones belong to which neighbours but cannot account for this one.
Its been hanging around for a while.
A bit skinny but overall in good condition
It was grateful for the leftovers after sleeping halfway through the meal.
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You have been chosen to look after this cat, I am deeply jealous.

Pete
 
For over a year a ginger cat has tried to adopt us. We do not feed it and eventually it goes somewhere else to be fed. A few weeks later it will return hang around for a while and try to convince us to change our minds then off again. I share Roger's conclusion.
 
Possibly so Roger... but:

"During the siege of Leningrad (as St. Petersburg was known then), citizens suffered from severe hunger. They ate all the cats in the city, which resulted in an infestation of rats. Hordes of rodents broke into houses and storages, devouring the last scarce food supplies.

The city authorities hunted the rats down, shot them, even squashed them with tanks, but nothing helped. That is why when the blockade was broken in 1943, wagons full of cats were the first to enter the city.

The “meowing division,” as it was called, quickly dealt with the problem and rescued the city from the army of disease peddlers. Monuments to these cats from grateful citizens can be seen today in St. Petersburg."

https://www.rbth.com/history/329614-cats-and-camels-helped-wwii"
 
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