A second blog today :O) Read them in order.
As I promised, a second blog :O)
All of you who have ever had cats know that there is nothing they like better than to creep up into your bed for a morning cuddle … well, normal cats that is. Sukie loves to creep up and leap on the bed and attack the duvet cover with a vengeance! She is totally ruining my lovely (and expensive) duvet cover. She gets her teeth into it and pulls all the threads as hard as she can. I try to shoo her off. Does that work? No! She clings on with all her sharp claws making it even worse! This morning I managed to get her off and she promptly shot up under the cover and ripped her claws down my foot! Now for those who don’t know, I react to cats scratches and it is extremely painful and itchy for ages, even the tiniest scratch, and this was not tiny I can tell you. It bled for a while and I refused to talk to her after that :O)
This doesn’t look bad but I assure you it was really painful for me :O(
SPIDER DOOR
For ages now I keep asking Mo for the clear Mastic to fill a very large hole where the gas pipe is. I forgot to do it when I went all round the brickwork with it. It was big enough for a spider army to get through! Every time I asked she said “I’ll get it tomorrow” You know what that means. Months have gone by and now is the time of year when we are likely to get visitors. I asked her today and she said the same. fed up with waiting, I went in search of it myself. I knew if I didn’t I would forget again. I finally found it and look :O) It will dry clear so wont look this bad but you can see how big the hole was!
Stumble it!
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Spider | 9 August 2007 at 17:28
Oh poor you, I do know how painful those scratches can be, and like you they redden and itch on me too.
Why do these lovely little things we love so much destroy everything we hold dear? Our puppies have in the past chew only the very best of my shoes, scratched the very best of our chairs and chewed a large hole through the door to get to the other side… Do you remember the photo?
Where is the gas pipe? It looks like a shower but it can’t be :O) Well done you, where was the filler? Was it in a spidery shed?
Tina
Spain
granny grimble | 9 August 2007 at 18:10
Just imagine if Sukie were as big as a dog! I bet you suffered with that scratch Babs. Don’t you clip their claws? I do all my cats regularly, for their own safety, as well as the survival of my home! I never clip the back ones though as they need those to be able to quickly shin up a tree or fence when beating a hasty retreat!You’ll have to be patient Babs. In another ten years she will have outgrown all that silly stuff!!!
weechuff | 9 August 2007 at 18:12
Sometimes it pays to do it yourself:0) I know that all the big spiders come under the front door, so I put that very wide sellotape all along the bottom of the door, overlapping the edge, so that they wouldn’t be able to come through without getting stuck! It seems to work quite well, but I have such a job doing it! You need to be lying on the floor really, but I can’t so I do it standing up and bending over, cutting off my air supply, and getting the long stretch of sellotape, stuck up my arms:0( I am going to ask Livvie to do it when she comes tonight, because Lennie just laughs at me.
Beetle | 9 August 2007 at 18:24
Wahhhh ha ha ha ha! That did make me laugh sandie! My air supply gets cut off when I have to tie my shoes! I keep saying I will get slip-ons but can never get them to fit my wide feet ha ha!
Yes we do clip their front claws – always have. Can you imagine my foot if we hadn’t?
granny grimble | 9 August 2007 at 18:39
I can’t help wondering if the cellotape on the door works well as Sandie says, does she have to pick off monsters that are stuck to it?
weechuff | 9 August 2007 at 19:31
I have never had a spider stick to it, but since it has been there, I haven’t had any large spiders either, so I shall keep doing it! The always come from the direction of the hall, so I am sure that is where they get in. I can see a little bit of daylight under the door, and they can get through the tiniest of places!
Sindie | 9 August 2007 at 21:15
Will you lot give it a rest? Why do you even care if a spider comes in? If you just let them come in, they might just march straight through the house and out the other door! If they settled in your utilty room and jumped out at every opportunity then that would be a different matter!
weechuff | 9 August 2007 at 22:11
You have to have more patience with us older folk. We can’t jump as high, or run as fast as you!