Cat-nabbing adventures.

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That's a very brave thing to do, take a semi-feral cat and trying to turn it into a nice family pet. My parents live on (in?) the countryside and over the years there have been several cats that just walked up to the house and they've become a part of the family :-).

@bj:

Is anyone sterilizing the cats in the colonies? Or are those cats just left to their devices apart from the people from the organisation you mentioned feeding them? Here when cats come into the local animal shelters it's standard procedure to sterilize them to prevent further breeding and spreading of feral cats.

Cats rule! :kitty:

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@speel:
The wonderful completely-utterly-positively boring and nothing-to-be-done-there town of Veendam.

@pmc:
Maine Coons are yet even bigger when compared to Norwegian forestcats innit? (My parents have one, though she's sort of a mini-version).

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They can become very massive, are very friendly, a tad ehm....'goofy' or perhaps 'simpletons' (at least the few my mother imported from Norway).

The first one my mother took home (by plane :-)) got run over by a car quite soon (IIRC he didn't live to become one year of age). The second my mother imported had more success (she still lives) and had a litter here, among those kittens a few have grown to gigantic sizes. My parents' neighbours have the most colossal one. My brother emigrated to Norway some 2 years ago and he took one of the offspring of the cat my mother took from Norway back to Norway :crazy:.

Here's a pic of the 2nd one my mum imported, quite large when compared to the cute little black one :-). Though this cat (Sylvi) isn't that big when compared to 'proper' forestcats.  I think it's a halfbreed.

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And she's small compared to the one the neighbours have :-). But when you remove the hair you don't have much left. The one  my brother has had to have her hair removed at the vet some time ago. She looked pathetic! :-).

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Zoutkamp....they have chavs there? :inquisitive: I thought only 2,5 fishing boat and a dog lived there :-). Actually...I was on the annual (I guess it was annual) fair with stands selling lots of crap in Leens in september. I almost bought a T-shirt of the local radio :crazy:.

@pmc&vincent:
Here's a pic of the first Norsk skogkatt (not an 'official' pedigree one though) my parents had, Plumeau. He was particular big and stupid, really really really stupid, but so friendly and sweet :-). Shame he got run over.

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Jasmine sounds just like Sylvi. That cat has a tendency to clear my parents' garden of anything mouse-like and deposit it on the living room floor :-).