Oliver Takes Over

This next clip is my regular fall interaction with my nemesis, “fat squirrel”. This cheeky fellow has no manners.

After dealing with my cheeky furiend, I always enjoy a calming session of leaf watching.

It’s always good to get a better view of the leaf action by sitting on top of the sofa.

Al is more of a TV kitty so he likes to get his wildlife close and personal on TV. Despite the warning, he did knock the TV over and crack it.

And when all the leaf and squirrel watching stresses me out, I go and sit at the window that faces the front garden and enjoy the soothing sound of the rain.

Well that’s it for this week, I hope you enjoyed a taste of fall in our neck of the woods and that you’ll also enjoy this week’s featured feline news.

Jury Awards $1.4M Against Landlord Who Stole Tenant’s Cat

Joshua found Frank his cat in 2017 and took him in at a drug recovery residential facility where he was staying. Two years later, Frank turned up missing, and Joshua was certain his landlord was the culprit. The landlord reportedly confessed and said he gave Frank to his girlfriend to take to a local shelter.

Joshua sued, and it took the jury less than 2 hours to award the whopping verdict. Normally, in these cases, the animal owner can only recover the actual value of the cat, which would be next to nothing. Although we don’t know the details, it seems as if the jury awarded punitive damages for willful misconduct.

Hey Joshua now that you’re a millionaire, how about investing some money into trying to find Frank so he can live his best life too!

Man’s foster cat is obsessed with him and it’s turned into an amusingly toxic living situation

Bill found himself a sudden cat dad when his friend became sick and unable to take care of her cat, Teddy. Bill took Teddy in and while Teddy acted like most cats when finding themselves in an unfamiliar setting (he hid under the bed and kept to himself at first. When he did finally get comfortable with Bill, Bill made sure Teddy got lots of love and attention.

Evidently Teddy couldn’t get enough of Bill’s attention and now follows Bill wherever he goes asking for skin skritches and petting.

“He became obsessed with me. I gave him tons of attention, I played with him all the time but it was just never enough. He always wanted more,” Bill told The Dodo. “Anytime I would turn my attention to something other than him, he would scratch at me until I turned my attention back.”

Teddy made sure Bill knew he wanted attention , grabbing pieces of his clothing as he tried to walk by and biting at him. Still, Bill loves Teddy and hopefully he understands that Teddy’s behavior is probably because he’s worried that this human will disappear from  his life too.

‘Claude’ the hangar cat reunited with his Yellowknife family after 2 months

Claude the cat whose actual name is Peyote is now back home with his family.

A five-year-old Yellowknife boy got his Christmas wish early this month when he was reunited with his beloved tabby cat, Peyote (Yote for short).

Yote’s disappearance from his home during the Yellowknife fire evacuation in August prompted a two-month-long search by his humans.

But, Yote was living high on the hog at the Buffalo Airways hangar in Yellowknife, eating as much as he wanted, chasing rodents, loafing in empty planes and sleeping on important paperwork, all under a new name: Claude.

“It’s quite the paradise for cats here,” said Mikey McBryan, the general manager of Buffalo Airways, describing how “Claude” made himself right at home in the company’s DC-3 aircraft and befriended the humans and dogs in the hangar during his stay there.

“Claude would have had a great life here — but it would be even better to be with his family.”

The airline usually has a couple of rescue cats at a time lounging in its Yellowknife hangar, and staff were in the process of flying stray cats and dogs down south during the evacuation when they encountered Yote.

Yote’s family had been on vacation at the time, and told their house sitter to open up the windows so their cats could have a chance to flee if the wildfire made it into town.

“As time went on … we were like, ‘OK, well what are we going to do about our cats that are obviously all over the neighborhood?'” recalled Kaitlyn White-Keyes, Yote’s owner. The family asked the SPCA to keep an eye out, and as the months wore on, White-Keyes tried to prepare her five-year-old son, Tomek, for the possibility that Yote didn’t make it.

But when Tomek said one of his Christmas wishes was for Yote to come home, White-Keyes knew she had to make a last-ditch effort to find him.

“It’s like the most heart-wrenching moment as a parent,” she said. “You’re like, ‘OK — I need to get this cat back home.'”

She posted about the search on Facebook and, as luck would have it, McBryan had recently made his own post highlighting the airline’s new hangar cat. The stars aligned.

“It’s been an emotional roller-coaster,” she said. “I’m so happy that he was safe and warm.”

Yote returned to his family, having made a wealth of new friends at the hangar.  The folks at the hangar are happy that Yote is home with his family but they do miss him.

Cambridgeshire cat breaks Guinness World Record for loudest purr by a feline currently alive

A 14-year-old cat has broken the Guinness World Record for the loudest purr made by a feline currently alive.

Bella, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England let out a purr which clocked in at 54.6 decibels, equivalent to the noise from a boiling kettle.

The sound smashed the previous record of 50db, and was confirmed by a Guinness World Record adjudicator.

Nicole Spink, the cat’s proud owner, said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled that Bella has broken the world record.

“She has been our family’s companion for many years – we love her to bits and are so proud of her achievement.”

In order to record Bella’s feat, Mr Wilson and an acoustic engineer blocked out external noises in the Huntingdon home and set up recording devices.

Once Bella settled down on her favorite cushion in preparation of breaking the record, she began to purr and the “results were immediately obvious”.

The Human claims Al and I snore and purr loudly so maybe we should have her get an acoustic engineer to check our decibel levels!

Man Discovers He Has 2 Cats After Pet Brings Feline Friend Home, Moves In

A cat owner living in Guam has a new resident after his cat brought home an unexpected guest.

Christian Fleming posted to Reddit, through the account name @sandcrabsailor, photos of his cat named Little. But the photo did not just include one cat. The post reads, “White one is mine. Black one is not my cat. Both came through the cat flap. He got comfortable quickly. Took about 3 weeks, but I now have 2 cats.”

The new tuxedo cat named Tedo walked in through the cat door with Little, and made himself right at home.

“I was surprised the cat came inside, initially,” Fleming told Newsweek. “But if he’s hungry enough to be that brave, I wasn’t going to begrudge the food.”

Although he is a little skittish around people, Tedo is getting used to his new home, Fleming said. Plus, it helps that he adores Little and is very comfortable with Fleming’s dog.

“He has since gotten braver and more comfortable,” said Fleming. “When he jumped on me to snuggle with Little, I knew he had decided to live here.”

“Now, wherever I am in the house, I tend to have a small herd following me around,” said Fleming.