Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Rudy_Manchego Glad you are over your gaming hump!

@Thrillho Alrite my Lover, where you bin too?

The heights of my Janner accent when I lived in Plymouth.

@kyleforrester87 Glad Buster is back safe.

It is scary when cats don't come back, even if it's for a shirt while. One of our cats went missing for an astonishing 18 months - the day before he was due to have his balls off. We searched everywhere for him, including nearby fields and couldn't find him anywhere. One day he randomly turned up. Absolutely filthy but looking well fed, so we've no idea where he was or what happened.

Another cat went missing for almost a month. It turned out one of the old women at the retirement home round the corner had nicked her!

@mookysam yikes!! Yeah it’s not knowing that sucks, and the idea of them being stolen by someone local. That’s crazy that you had one missing for 18 months though.

@Kidfried Absolutely - I was really lucky in that my wife gave me a weekend free really just to relax and I finished up some games that had been half finished and then could start on something new and it was a completely chilled weekend. As I am on holiday soon, I am focusing on the Switch and just playing what takes my fancy.

@JohnnyShoulder Thanks man - it has taken me this long to accept I'm probably not good enough to complete Sekiro and move on emotionally.

My sister had an Persian cat which was an ex-stud. It was a beautiful looking cat but did need a lot of looking after. And he kept trying to escape the back garden, he actually broke out lol a few times but mangaged to get him back before he got too far. My sister was terrified that someone would try to snatch him, as apparently someone did with his last owner and actually held him for ransom! Up until then i never knew that was a thing. It always amazes me some of the levels people will go to just for money.

@Rudy_Manchego how far did u get in sekiro

@ellsworth004 Not that far really. Got into some caves after getting stuck on the guy with the big spear. I did manage to beat Lady Butterfly.

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I actually had someone claim that my cat was there's one time. 😮.

I guess their cat escaped (which I will admit looked alot like mine) so they were going door to door looking for it. My cat likes to sit in my front room window so when they walked up to the door they saw him. My cat is extremely friendly and will walk up to anyone for pets and rubs which didn't help my case and which I tried to explain to the neighbor but they swore up and down it was their cat. It finally took me showing them some pictures to finally figure out it was my cat. I to this day don't know if they found their cat but I did feel sorry for them.

Can we rename this thread 'The Crazy Cat Story Thread'? 😂

My crazy cat story is pretty horrendous. When I was six we moved house in the dead of winter when it was very cold and icy. A box fell on my dads leg and broke it so he had to go to hospital and my mum and gran had to try and unpack. In the chaos, our cat escaped and was sadly hit by a car and killed. My gran didn’t want me to be upset so tried to bury it. However the ground was very hard and it was dark. My dad gets back from hospital at like 7 in the morning, opens the curtain and out on the lawn is a small mound of dirt with four little paws sticking out. So he had to go out and chisel the frozen cat and rebury it before I saw.

Lovely 😂

Yeah my cat story isn't much better to be honest. My friend once got a knock at the door, it was his neighbour. They said "I'm afraid your cat has got into our rabbit hutch."

He was mortified of course, and apologised profusely for the loss of their rabbit. They replied "Oh no, the rabbit's fine" and handed him his cat in a carrier bag. The rabbit had kicked it to death.

😂😂

Yeah had some horror pet stories in the past. Not sure I feel totally comfortable writing or reading about them though.

@kyleforrester87 It was pretty insane. We'd actually given up hope of seeing him again and didn't think he would ever come back. It goes to show that even after a long time a cat can still come home. We moved about six months later so it was lucky that he came back when he did.

Old people really need to stop feeding cats that obviously belong to someone else. If a cat's a stray and uncared for you can usually tell. One of my Mum's cats was a stray who kept getting in through the cat flap. He was extremely thin and quite feral. He wasn't microchipped either, but someone had obviously cared about him enough at one point because he'd been neutered. We think his owners may have moved and he got lost. Years of love have made him really sweet now.

My pet story involves the burying of a small animal. It isn't grim like some of these tales though. It involves my sister's budgie "Sweetie". She was so excited to get him. You see, she'd always (since June) wanted a budgie and had spent the summer pestering our mother to get her one. Mum finally relented, but sadly when we woke up the next morning the poor bird was dead on the floor of his cage. Our parents were still in bed but rather than wake them up my sister came to me. I decided to help her bury him at the foot of the garden.

Picture the scene; it's 7am on a chilly autumn Saturday morning, and like most British chilly autumn mornings it's raining, miserable and faint mists are swirling. There's even a hint of thunder. If we had some organ music playing, the scene would well and truly be set. Rain could not deter us, however, and so we put on our wellies and raincoats and ventured out.

I begin digging in earnest. The ground is a little hard, but I persevere. Some time passes and eventually we start to notice these strange objects sticking out of the earth. Thin ivory coloured objects. The more I dig the more concerned we become because there are more and more of them and they really start to look like bones. Being an imaginative 18 year old, the only explanation I can come up with is that someone must have buried their children there. It's a Victorian house, who knows what could have happened over the decades? A serial killer could have lived there! A serial killer physician who delivered babies and then sacrificed them to his lord and master. I form a whole backstory for this serial killer before it gets too much for us, I drop the shovel on the ground and we run back to the kitchen screaming.

It was only when we looked outside the window that we realised our mistake.
You see, at the foot of our garden were a couple of apple trees - and, like all apple trees they have roots to nourish and grow.

@Gremio108 Oh wow you win. I have never trusted rabbits.

@kyleforrester87 I still miss Basil the cat.

@mookysam We lost a cat to an old lady across the road who over fed our cat and she just stopped coming back. We knew it had happened and saw her all the time but the old lady refused to believe it was ours and she was alone and we didn’t want to call the police on her or anything. In the end she moved to a bungalow the other side of the village and we never saw our cat again.

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