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Mr Ringo

Mr Ringo Interviews Larry the Downing Street Cat via Zoom!

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This is not a filter, I am a cat!

Earlier this year, Mr Ringo had the wonderful opportunity to interview Larry the 10 Downing Street cat, who recently celebrated 10 years in power and has seen off 2 Prime Ministers. He currently lives with PM Boris Johnson. Due to Covid restrictions they chose to zoom call and besides Mr Ringo didn’t wish to invade Larry’s territory. Read the full mews here…..

Mr Ringo: ” Meowsers! Larry, can you hear me? I can’t see you? Can you see me? Can you smell me?”

Larry: “Hey Ringo! Yes I can see and hear you but you can’t smell on zoom silly!”

Mr Ringo: “Hi Larry! How’s it going up there? Congrats on 10 years in power!”

Larry: “Not too bad dude all things considered, what with living with the two legs with Mad Hair, a baby two legs, that cries more than me and a DOG!”

Mr Ringo: ” How is Mad Hair these days?”

Larry: “ok but he changes his mind more than us cats, and he really needs a good groom, why can’t two legs groom themselves like us cats?”

Mr Ringo: “Oh meows! Tell me about it, some good whiskers coming on in this house too”

Larry: “Word on the street dude, is the price of organic catnip is going to rise with all this Brexit stuff, might even be a shortage!”

Mr Ringo: “Oh Neow!!!!”

Larry: “Yes and my PETition to get free cat flaps in every home, has due to cutbacks, gone out the door with the used litter! Not that I need a cat flap as I have staff to open my front door!”

Mr Ringo: “Yeah but you are making some progress with the plan to make microchipping cats compulsory! Tails up to you dude!”

Larry: “Thanks Mr R!”

Mr Ringo: ” Hey Larry apart from seeing off Palmerston the cat, any trouble from new Moggs on the street?”

Larry: ” Hiss meows yes! One called Rees the Mogg, I’m feeling territorially bothered by him! Can’t put my paw on it, but he’s on my patch and I’m the only Mogg in No 10!”

Mr Ringo: “OH no! You must warn Mad Hair soon!”

Larry: “Latest mews is that the two legs are not all going to get their jabs! They should be so lucky, its free and at least they don’t get it in the neck, like we do!”

Ringo: “Yes its purrfect and we get them out of our house and our territory back to normal”

Larry: “Meowsers to that Ringo!”

Mr Ringo: ” Ok Larry we better finish now and let you get back to sleep or controlling No 10, or the front door at least !

Larry: “Ok meowsers out!”

Mr Ringo: “Meows!”

Have a great April 1st everyone! Love and purrs Mr Ringo & Rachel xx

What is it about Ginger Cats?

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Mr Ringo giving me the look!

I’ve been cat sitting now for over 16 years and as you can imagine my days have been filled with hundreds of felines of all breeds, sizes, ages and colours…..they all have their wonderful personalities and funny ways, but ginger cats seem to be in a league of their own…. a league of mischief makers!

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity!

T.S.Eliot

I suppose I maybe a little bias because Mr Ringo is ginger but they are such mischief makers. Everyone living on our side of the road or the people living in the houses that back on to our garden, know Ringo…. its a bit embarrassing to be honest. I have often felt like the school Mum who’s son is the classroom clown or worse thief!

Over the years Mr Ringo has emptied fish ponds, helped himself to neighbours BBQs, invaded their homes and even stayed the night! He’s wandered into neighbours kitchens and helped himself to their juicy tuna steaks! All very awkward when you are trying to run a professional cat sitting service……

But when a crime’s discovered, Macavity’s not there!

T.S.Eliot

Another thing that makes me smile, is when chatting to new clients, people often mention another cat coming in their house. My reply to them is often to ask if its ginger and nearly all the answers are yes but how did I know? Gingers just seem to think they can enter any house and make themselves at home! Gingers can be fighters too and I met many a ginger when I worked at The Cat Clinic with war wounds, often returning week after week and these cats were neutered…

Mr Ringo in his younger days…

I often think about putting a tracker collar on Mr Ringo to see where he goes, but then do I really want to know? He also seems to be entering his senior stage and just enjoys looking out the window, watching the neighbours, bird watching, until he sees another cat in his garden that is….

International Declaration of Responsibilities to Cats

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Every Cat Matters

Some time ago International Cat Care launched an important new document, the International Declaration of Responsibilities to Cats, which they are encouraging all cat lovers to sign.

The gathering of signatures will achieve three goals:

  1. Those signing will be acknowledging that they have read the document and agree that we need a collaborative way forward to help the global cat population.
  2. The gathering of signatures will act as a petition, helping iCatCare to show the world how many people care about cats and want their welfare to be improved.
  3. Supporting the Declaration will enable organisations to use the document to help convince other parties to work together or develop new laws or responsibilities which can help deliver better cat welfare.

Please click here for more information.

You can also download  signs and use these to show your support on social media with the hashtag #catdeclaration

Why not join in and post your photos, Mr Ringo was very helpful ……. xx

Why Does My Cat Do Zoomies?

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Does your cat suddenly run madly around the house, very often at dusk or dawn, when you are asleep? The zoomies I call it, often accompanied by loud meowing or yowling? Yep it’s the zoomies! Mr Ringo tends to do this less often now he’s older but still does it. Our older cats would always do zoomies after using the litter tray, it didn’t matter that they were getting older too, they still did the zoomies around the house often followed by a certain pong 🙂

So why do they do this? Well it’s a totally normal behaviour and your cats way of getting rid of energy that doesn’t get used up, because lets face it our feline friends are pretty lazy compared to their wild cousins….

The cat will run around, attack your very scary rugs and cushions and sometimes even run up curtains! Knock things off shelves and even run up walls and furniture.  They just need to let off steam. I’ve noticed indoor cats seem to do this more, which makes sense as they aren’t getting outside for exercise. I often visit cats and find rugs and cushions all over the place. We have to remember cats are crepuscular, which means most active at dawn or dusk (when prey is out).  If its keeping you awake at night one thing I suggest is play with your cat for maybe at least 15 minutes before you turn in for the night, to tire him out.  So next time you get woken up by the zoomies, don’t worry its normal and you can always put the kettle on…….

Happy Meowmus and a Furry New Year!

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Mr Ringo Xmas message

Mr Ringo and Rachel would like to wish you all a lovely Christmas and Happy 2018!  Thank you to all our loyal customers for your business this year. The business keeps Mr Ringo in the lifestyle he is accustomed 🙂

Mr Ringo would also like to thank Dr Dorey and the amazing Cat Clinic in Southsea for keeping him well this year, even though they take his blood, pee and fur!

Here’s to another year of feline adventures. Seasonal Meowsers! xxx

Is Your Cat Having an Affair?

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My cat Ringo or Mr Ringo to his friends loves visiting my neighbour who lives next door.  He used to visit my next door neighbours in our previous house, he’s just really nosey and an opportunist, looking for more treats etc. He doesn’t need a cat flap, Ringo just uses the often open back door. It used to really upset me and I often got annoyed, I felt like he was betraying my love. How dare he want to go there when we gave him a wonderful home with the best cat food! I felt like Ringo was having an affair! Silly I know….

As time has gone on, I’m more at peace with his wanderings to see the neighbours, better to live next door to cat lovers than haters surely? Cats are independent and unless we keep them indoors, they go and do what they wish.  It also makes me smile when my poor neighbour loses a tuna steak from her kitchen top…. ummmm wonder who stole that?? However I wasn’t smiling when I saw my neighbours leave for a weeks holiday only to later see Ringo in their house looking out of the window! Don’t worry we got him out 🙂

My neighbours are often on hand to cat sit for Ringo when we aren’t there and he even has his own towel to dry him when it rains! I used to want to tell my neighbours to get their own cat, but then if they did Mr Ringo would fight the poor thing…..

Maybe Ringo just likes a bit of a change sometimes and the neighbours offer him a change of scene or different type of service of B&B?

Mr Ringo has even been in a house further down the road that I happened to be cat sitting for, I went into the house to find him sat on the bed! I’m not sure who was more surprised! The resident cat wasn’t bothered, maybe they were friends?

I’m often told by my clients that non resident cats visit their houses and many of them appear to be ginger and nearly always male funny that I hope they aren’t all Mr Ringo!