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Our cat is ruining our table and needs a cat scratching post

My family has a cat, I have to say we are cat lovers. We’e hany cats in the past but now we just have one. And I think it’s time to buy a cat scratching post.

At just have to be the most wonderful pet you can think of. They are affectionate and loving, not smelly like a dog and you can keep them in a house all the time. Now that hard to house train and they don’t eat too much so they don’t cost a lot of money to keep.

But cats aren’t perfect. They do have some annoying habits, and one of them is scratching all sorts of things.

I suppose if you think about it a cat values its claws. Its claws are its main weapon of defence and so it needs to keep them nice and sharp.

Of course that’s not really the case because our cat lives indoors 24 hours a day and there is nobody there that is going to do any harm, but of course our cat doesn’t know that either.

And I suppose it’s instinct that a cat always needs to be ready to defend itself and that includes sharpening its claws whenever it needs to.

Of course in the wild it would just do so on the trunk of the tree, or maybe on a fence post. But because our cat is indoors all the time it doesn’t get to see a tree at all and so he has to find somewhere else to sharpen his claws.

And so he does it on the legs of our table. You should see the mess that it’s made on the table legs. It looks like they’ve been attacked by a chainsaw, it’s made a terrible mess of our beautiful dining room table.

But I know there are solutions, probably one of them like a cat scratching post will work fine. I’ve looked a little on the Internet and I can find some information on how to make your cat scratch the scratching post instead of scratching the legs of my table. (more…)

« Holidays With Kids, Boats And Water

Holidays With Kids, Boats And Water

If you love your holidays you’ve got to get out on the water. Water is about the best place to have a holiday on.

And if you want to get out on the water you need a boat.

We have a small boat. Just a small aluminium boat, about 12 feet long. Its got its own trailer with it so we can tow it, we don’t need to put it on the roof of the  car.

Last week was school holidays to we took the family, including kids, away for a few days. 5 days actually at a small resort about 6 hours drive away. Unfortunately there was a really strong wind and heavy rain when we left and I thought it was going to be a really nasty drive but the wind dropped out and the rain stopped after about a half hour, the sun came out and it turned into a pretty nice day actually.

The resort was good. We chose it because it had lots of things for kids to do there. Kids always need to be busy, so if you go somewhere where there aren’t any kid facilities then you’ve got a problem with bored kids.

Nothing is worse than  bored kids. They get in your face and so you’re grumpy and they’re bored. I like to read books while Im away so having bored kids interferes with my reading.

But the kids were happy over the weekend. There’s so many things that they could do, including jumping up and down on this plastic blow up thingy, and they just loved that. That alone kept them happy and busy.

And there was this big tv for them to watch in the games room and each night there was a movie to watch so they loved that too.

And it’s amazing how something like a swimming pool can keep kids happy for hours and hours. I can swim for a little while then I get bored with it.

But I mentioned our boat. We took the boat along because there was a river there and we could take them on the river. And it’s useful for taking other stuff along too. The kids bikes wouldn’t fit in the car but no problem getting them in the boat at all, lots of space.

So it was really worth taking a boat. We spent some time on the local river putting up and down looking at the scenery and having a nice time. We stopped and spent an hour or 2 having lunch while the kids ate lunch and had a swim. And I got to sit and read a book in the sun.

And we did a day on a lake near us too. I bought one of those tyre tubes that you pull behind the boat and pulled the kids around the lake on that. They loved it and wouldnt get off it. If you  have kids and love water you’ve got to have a boat, it makes for a great holiday. (more…)

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