As I Xi It v2.3

Cici rolled in yesterday evening with a cut on his lip and was kinda grumpy all night. Started whining when he scratched it. When he popped in for lunch this afternoon, it wasn’t looking good and kinda ikky and oozey. Off to the vets he goes. I bet he’s thrilled.

Yeah, I'm well 'ard

Wounded

Cici’s friend has invited herself into the house for lunch again. She’s too well maintained to be a stray and must belong to someone. I wonder if Cici’s been eating her food and this is her way of retaliating.

A couple of weeks ago, she popped up to my room and then darted out when she saw I’d spotted her.

It must be quite nice being a cat, sunbathing and not getting sunburnt, unless you’re one of those odd looking hairless varieties.

Zzz...

Excuse me, but can't you see I'm trying to sleep here?

He was such a happy little chap. Sad to see his corpse just lying there when I got back from hols. Not sure what he died of, there was still plenty of food and water left in his cage.

Watson (November 2009-June 2011)

Sometime during Monday night/Tuesday morning, Margaret the Magpie died. When I saw it yesterday, the flies had already got to it, not sure what that means exactly in terms of establishing a time-line using forensic entomology.

Margaret the Magpie

There was a feline intruder in the garden this evening. Haven’t seen this one before, but judging by his general unkemptness, I’d say that it is without a fixed abode. Cici wasn’t exactly thrilled to have him in the garden.

He's not from round here

Guardcat

Hiding behind the garden furniture

Anti-gravity cat

Stray cat

Cici took down a juvi magpie yesterday, seemingly oblivious to the parent magpies yelling at him, it suffered some scratches, a damaged wing, possibly a broken leg or torn tendon and lost a few feathers. Instead of leaving Cici to dispatch it, I decided to shoo him away and the bird’s now recouperating in shed.

I estimate it’s 4-8 weeks old, had some difficulty feeding it yesterday but today it seems to be eating alright, in fact, it chowed down nearly the entire bowl of water soaked catfood over the last couple of days.

I’m doubtful it’ll make a full recovery and be able to fly, it’s fairly immobile, might have to take it to a wildlife rehab centre, but it seems happy enough in its box.

Hello, I'm new here.

It wasn't me.

I’d always wanted one of these for my tank.

Easter Island meets Atlantis

Think my heater might be on the blink. I need the water to be at a constant 26^oC  while I’m treating the tank for ich. Noticed that the heating element was still on this morning even though the thermometer read 30^oC, the built in thermostat’s suppose to switch it off once the water reaches the defined temperature. To check, I popped in a spare analogue thermometer and put new batteries into the digital one after turning the heater down to 22^oC just to be on the safe side. A few hours later, I see the values are different between the analogue and digital one and the heater still on. Now, one analogue read 26^oC, the other 29^oC and the digital one 31^oC, but according to the heater, it still wasn’t 22^oC so it just kept heating. I’ve turned the heater to its lowest at 20^oC hoping to compensate for it’s lack of sensitivity. Just to be sure of the temp in the tank, I’ve dunked in my watch which has a built-in thermometer so shall see how that goes.

Haven't seen you before