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Posted by ShadowCaptain
on Wed 5 Apr 06, 10:26 PM to ShadowCaptain's blog.
So here's the story.
I'm working away at the computer today and I hear noises from the kitchen, sounds like stuff slipping about on the drainer. Sometimes it does if it's in a big heap.
I hear it again. Odd because my cat Polly doesn't usually climb about in the kitchen, and even if she did she never knocks anything down, she's the most careful cat I've ever seen.
I call her, and she appears from under the bed. 
I creep through to the kitchen and there's a big black-and-white cat eating Polly's fish!
I've seen it before and thought it might have been one that The_Lady lost as a kitten. It doesn't have a permanent home but seems to visit lots of people in the area.
When it's finished the fish I pick it up and try to push it back through the cat flap in the window, but it isn't playing the game so I take it to the door.
It's hard to throw out something that's purring at you 
After working for another couple of hours I go through to the living room, and it's curled up in Polly's chair. It looks up at me as if to say "Oh Hi - it's nice here isn't it?"
Where is Polly? Under the bed again.
I pick it back up, ignore the purring and attempts to rub itself on me, and throw it back outside again.
Well - I can't be doing with two cats, and I can't have it coming into the house when I'm away and taking over, so I'm afraid Polly will have to have a collar now with the catflap magnet on it
She's never had a collar, I don't really want her to have one. She doesn't need one out here in the country, everyone knows where she lives and she's microchipped anyway.
All I have is a stiff plastic one. Still, it does until I come back from the shops with a fabby black suede one.
A while later Polly is limping back through the house, she's got the ring that holds the magnet hooked over her bottom tooth and can't close her mouth, so I get ome pliers and modify it (the collar, not the cat) so that the magnet now attaches directly to the D ring on the collar instead of dangling on another split one as well.
All done now, cat with new collar. She looks like somebody owns her now 
Can go off to work tomorrow knowing that the house isn't being invaded.
Edited Wed 5 Apr 06, 10:28 PM by ShadowCaptain
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