Tigger's Tales

Tigger is a young tabby and white cat, who at about 8 weeks old was found lying beside the road with a broken leg, crushed paw and other injuries. We set his leg and treated his other injuries and he has recovered incredibly well (in fact looking at him and watching him play, you would never know he had been injured).  However, nobody came forward to claim him so he was adopted by a member of our staff.  He is the cat whose picture is at the top of our website and this is his occasional blog, telling you about some of the crazy antics he gets up to.

14 Mar 2012:  Mum left the bathroom door open last night, I ried to climb up the towel but it just kept coming down until it fell off the towel rail, ow! that rail is hot, not touching that again.  Then I saw the spare toilet roll on the table, I wondered if I could do some more paper folding like I did with the tissues, but then I discovered how satisfying it is to sink your claws and teeth into the toilet roll, they go right in because it is soft, the paper does stick to your mouth a bit though, so I had a little bit of a tearing session as well, very satisfying.  Oh dear, what a mess, toilet paper all over the bathroom! better go downstairs and pretend nothing happened, if Mum finds it I will blame it on Dad or Jim.  That didn't work, Mum said I was the only one with teeth that shape, hmm, need to be a bit more careful in future and hide the evidence!

29 Feb 2012:  Watched Mum folding some paper napkins to look like flowers which was rather neat I thought I might have a try, but Mum said no and turfed me out of the dining room, which was not really fair, I was only trying to help, she said another time but she was in a hurry to get things finished today.  I went into the sitting room and found a box of tissues so I thought I would try my hand at this paper folding lark, I got them to look a bit like the Sydney Opera House (although some were rather shaggy at the edges and I had to chew the box a bit to get them out).  Jim found them and told me I would be in trouble, but when Mum saw them she laughed.

5 Feb 2012:  Woke up this morning to find the garden had gone white and everything was sort of rounded, very strange, dad said it had been snowing, it looked very cold and I really didn't fancy going out, so dad brought some of this snow in to show me, it really is cold, urgh, Tiggers don't like snow.  I slept most of today, so had lots of energy this evening, thought I would see how high I could jump and I fancied a look on top of the book case anyway, almost made it but was now hanging on by my claws 2 metres off the floor, scary stuff, then Jim grabbed me to stop me falling, good job he was close at hand, dad said I was barmy, what does that mean? T.

31 Jan 2012:  Mum was pruning the chilli bushes yesterday so I thought I would give her a hand by chewing the dead branches on the other bush, it was going well until she noticed what I was doing, she said it was very nice of me to help, but chewing chilli bushes was not something she wanted me to do, particularly as she felt sure that chilli bushes are not good for cats and she now had to clean up the mess. At least I didn't get into trouble this time. T.

26 Jan 2012: Mum had a hyacinth that had finished flowering and was cutting the dead bits off, anyway she had to get dinner ready so left the hyacinth clearing unfinished, so I thought I would help, the plants looked dead right the way down so I decided it would be best to dig them up so that mum could throw them away, well it got a bit out of hand, how can you get that much soil in a small pot, and it got all over the floor and worktop in the utility room, so I thought it best to beat a quiet but rapid retreat and pretend to be asleep in the sitting room and not know anything about it.  That did not work, I forgot about the paw prints in the loose soil.

I hope she has forgotten by tonight. T

10 Jan 2012:  Ha, Mum left her handbag open on the floor by her chair last night, she had been watching one of the TV shopping channels and I think she had been buying stuff, anyway I had often wondered what else is in there as she surely didn't need a bag that size just for her purse.  So I decided to have a look while she was not paying attention.  Purse, mobile phone, makeup, keys, sachet of sugar? handkerchief.  Anyway, now I had got all that lot out, I could get into the bag, well almost, my backside and tail were still out when mum noticed.  Ah well, good fun while it lasted. T.

02 Jan 2012:  In trouble this morning.  Well, they got up late and I was already awake and nobody to play with, so as someone had left a dining chair pushed back to give me access, I decided to have a look round on the top of the cabinets in the dining room, it was so high, then I brushed against this old vase and it crashed to the floor.  Dad was not best pleased, he kept on about how it had been his mother's now it was in bits, well that was obvious. T.

01 Jan 2012:  Liz the boss Vet came round for New Years Eve, we had lots of fun, anyway as she had been so kind to me when I first arrived at Roebuck, fixing my leg and all, I thought a bit of mutual grooming would not go amiss, so I groomed her hair while she sat there, she seemed to like it, but everyone else was laughing, thats not kind, anyway she did say thank you afterwards. T.

26 Dec 2011:  Wow, so many people yesterday, it felt like the house was full up.  But lots of fuss and titbits, the more I played cute the more titbits I was given, I must remember that one! T.

Fri 23 Dec 2011:  Hmmm, got into trouble last night.  Dad left the kitchen door open while they had dinner, so I had a look to see what was there,  Mum had left a piece of quiche on the kitchen table, it was very nice but I had already had my dinner so didn't eat very much of it.  A couple of days ago Mum left a little pot of vitamin pills out for Dad and he hadn't taken them, so he obviously didn't want them, the little red one really wizzed accross the kitchen floor when I batted it with my paw, some of the others didn't smell very nice, but there was one that smelt of fish, so I tried that, it was very nice, bit oily though.  I had just finished that when Mum came in and saw the mess.  I do hope she has forgotten before Christmas, because Jim was putting up the Christmas tree for me to climb and now I am banned from the sitting room as well as the kitchen, I don't see the link there. T.

Tue 13 Dec 2011: Mum has two Chilli bushes that they brought in from the garden before the frost came, they are ever so big, they touch the roof of the conservatory.  Mum picked all the red chillies a couple of weeks ago, but she missed one at the top of one of the bushes, so I thought I would get it down for her, I had nearly got to the top when the bush toppled, oh dear, both bushes came down, so much soil on the floor.  Oh well, at least I can get at that chilli, ow, that stings, yuk, tiggers don't like chilli! T

Mon 12 Dec 2011:  Mum was pouring water away into the plant pots this evening, I thought I would give her a hand by digging a hole in the soil for her to pour it into, she didn't seem too pleased, even less so when I decided to have a drink of it as she poured it and the water went all over the carpet, time for a quick exit. T.

Thur 8 Dec 2011:  Jim has this odd thing where he dips a loop into a little pot and blows through the loop and lots of bubbles appear, I tried to catch them but they disappear as soon as I touch them, but it is good fun all the same, I can leap up and pop them by clapping my paws together, I managed to pop six before they landed. T.

Wed 7 Dec 2011:  I hadn't realised how much fun it is using my claws to shred newspaper, mum said it would mean dad wouldn't need his office shredder, but when dad came home he didn't seem too pleased, don't know why. T.

Fri 2 Dec 2011:  They were eating sausage and chips while they were watching the TV tonight, but nobody was giving me any so I jumped up beside Jim and splatted his mustard with my paw, strange taste, not bad though, I licked it all off.  Jim was not happy, he said he now had to go and get a clean plate, why? T.

Mon 28 Nov 2011:  I was shut in the dining room and conservatory all morning, while they had new carpets laid in the hall, that's not fair, the men had some interesting looking toolboxes to play in.  They said I am not allowed to scratch it, why not, it brings up little balls of fluff, which are great fun to play with, but I will leave it alone, it has an odd smell and it is strange to walk on. T.