Leo the Wondercat

13/03/2023

17/01/2022

Staying at my mum’s house, realising I can leave my hair band on the beside cabinet overnight…🤯

13/01/2022

Do any of your cats KILL and CLEAN at the same time?!

17/12/2021

This is such an important point.
Cats have not been domesticated for that long, they still need their own place to hide away and feel safe from people, no matter how loving they are 😻

Being able to hide is vital for cats.
No matter how confident or outgoing your cat may be (or not), it's really important that every cat always has places in its home to retreat to and be hidden.
They help cats to feel safe, let them assess their environment from a secure place, give them a sense of control over what happens to them and ultimately increases their confidence. To achieve this, hiding places need to be:
- Easy to access – both physically and mentally, eg, it would not cause the cat additional distress in attempts to reach the hiding place
- Available at all times
- Quiet and without disruption
- Warm and comfortable
- Only they can access

Good examples include:
- Boxes, shelves, covered beds, open cupboards and spaces behind furniture pulled away from the wall.

Special considerations: Kittens, older cats and those with mobility issues may not be able to get up high, so ensure they can easily access their hiding places.

Share your top tips for creating a hiding places for cats in the comments!

(Below: Olive hiding and surveilling the outside world from her wheelbarrow, just outside her catflap!)

26/11/2021

Cats of Playa Blanca Lanzarote 😺

24/11/2021

It's been 30 years since we lost Freddie Mercury and he continues to remain very close to our hearts. 💙 Not only are we big fans at Blue Cross but, he actually rehomed his beloved Delilah from us.

01/11/2021

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY WONDER-PANTS!!
He’s had a lot of Sheba so he’s happy 😸🎁🎈🎊

25/10/2021

21/10/2021

I love the look on the cat’s face!
Basically waiting to be put down again 😹

19/10/2021

20 seconds of zombie cat bliss 😻

18/10/2021

Cats like to look down over their territory.
If you have a cat who always stays up high watching other cats down below, that might be their way of trying to keep hold of territory.
But Leo would flippin love this tree!

03/10/2021

😻 CAT CAFE REVIEW!
Maison de Moggy 🐈‍⬛ Edinburgh City centre.

Upon arrival in Edinburgh I discovered that Maison de Moggy was a few houses away from where I was staying, so of course I had to book! It was £10 entrance fee for 1 hour, then they’re hoping you’ll buy drinks and cakes.

The cats are all stunning. They are all from a breeder, acquired as kittens so they’ll get used to being constantly fussed, and on the whole I was pretty much ignored by all of them! They were mostly asleep (surprise) for the whole hour, apart from a stunning Maine c**n called Pauline, and a very sweet little sphynx called Elodie, who has her own heated bed, presumably because of her lack of fur.

My drink - orange hot chocolate - was divine, and there was plenty of beautiful merchandise for sale. But basically you wanna stroke fluffy cats. And there are fluffy cats for strokin. Not much more to it! Oh and the non-fluffy one likes to lick hands and apparently cream.

Go here to have a relaxing hour hoping the cats will all wake up and come sit on your lap (I don’t think they will 😸), a nice little city sojourn.

29/09/2021

Received this video from the other half today while I was at work. Nice little song if you turn the volume up 💤

27/09/2021

This evening, for the first time in months, Leo brought in a mouse.
Poor little thing had to be put out of its misery. Anyone else know that guilty feeling?
😟🐭😼

17/09/2021

Broken again

04/09/2021

One from my brother 😎

03/09/2021

My new favourite movie 🎥