I was working on my partners laptop yesterday evening around 8pm, the TV on in the background behind me working in front of our lovely sound proofed windows, which is handy since we're living on a busy noisy main road, even though we're at the top on the 4th floor it's still rather noisy, or was before we had the new windows put in.
While trying to sort out the laptop I kept hearing this odd faint noise, thought it was children playing about as they so often do, even along side a main road as they're passing, so took no notice. Anyway, I ignored it for a while but it kept on. Thought then that perhaps it was on the TV but could see that it didn't quite fit in with what was happening on the TV so muted the sound but still it continued. Then I could hear a very faint, but distinct, meeow, meeeow, meeeeoooow, meeeeeoooooow. I thought, well, that's unusual, normally the cats are fighting at night, I've heard THAT noise many times in the past. In fact I've even passed cats before coming back from the station to our home and seen them, not always fighting/arguing or chasing each other but just facing each other meowing to each other as if they're having a good old 'chinwag', which is quite funny to see but anyway, I got up to look out of the window to see if I could see any cats on the ground in the distance and to my shock/horror, there on the far left side was a bloody cat right outside my flippin window perched on the roof tiles/guttering four floors high looking down for help and crying, meeeeeoooooow, meeeeeoooooowwwwing away... jesus christ, how the hell did that get there I thought. Blast it, I didn't quite know what to do at first thinking I'll have to call the fire brigade, hearing of cats stuck in trees that wont come down but anyway, I went to the window, opened it, got the cats attention and beckoned it over and it briskly walked along the guttering edge, quite a thin edge, one gust of wind and it would have been gone but anyway, it got near to the window and stood their a while hesitantly (perhaps wondering if it was going to be out of the frying pan into the fire), looking in before comfortably jumping in.
I don't know how long it was there for or how it got there, I don't think anyone on our floor has a cat but I could be wrong but still can't imagine how it could have got exactly where it was and all the way up there or along from any neighbours flats as it is a bit awkward but anyway, after a bit of fuss, a hiss hear and a scratch there, the cat curiously looking and having a good nose going all over our flat I managed to get it out, in the lift and back down to the ground floor. I know there's an old lady on the ground floor who has a cat so thought it might have been hers but she said hers was already with her so just left it to find it's own way back home.
It was a lovely cat and quite friendly, well, at first anyway, started hissing a bit later, ungrateful bisch! I thought of giving it a bit of food but it looked like it was properly looked after and hearing of one of my partners friends down the road who made the mistake of feeding a cat that just turned up and now has three! Apparently the cats wait for him to come home now squatting outside his front door. I expect the owners must love it, maintenance free cats!
Dam it, wish I'd now taken a video of the cat on the roof...

I was half expecting you to say that the cat had made it back up there before the night was over.

My cat had a secret way out of the house, and it took me months and months to finally find it. They can be rather crafty little critters!

Wes, I have a few questions but first, on behalf of my own Ginger, I want to thank you for your concern for one of his brothers or sisters (he is very inquisitive about that part and wont believe that I don't have a clue about the gender of the cat you rescued!):

1) what NAME did you give secretly to that cat?

2) will you open your door if it comes back?

3) are you or your partner allergic for cats?

4) do you prefer cats or dogs?

5) do you think there are better killing machines than cats?

I did wonder, as it was pouring with rain last night, if it might have come back up... actually, I did feel a bit guilty, once I was in bed, about leaving it out there.

I'm afraid I don't have a clue either as to what sex it was... may be it was a female, I didn't see any balls dangling behind, but then I wasn't looking.

1) I didn't give it a name, never thought about it really...

2) If it gets stuck on the roof I'll open the window again, but I don't particularly want it back in the home, even though I do like cats. Those claws can do serious damage... to our home we're still spending a fortune on. Any damage would cause me to chuck the cat back right out of the window! As it was, the cat started clawing at the old bit of carpet we have still on a bit of the floor.

3) Not that I'm aware of...

4) Cats.

5) Yes, crocodiles... though they're really pull you to bits machines first.

Oh that makes a change then. :o)

I beg pardon...? How very dare you! Just because a gentlemen wears a little foundation, you accuse him of hiding the sausage..

Brilliant!
Whats his name again Wes?

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Quote :2) If it gets stuck on the roof I'll open the window again, but I don't particularly want it back in the home, even though I do like cats. Those claws can do serious damage... to our home we're still spending a fortune on. Any damage would cause me to chuck the cat back right out of the window! As it was, the cat started clawing at the old bit of carpet we have still on a bit of the floor.Unquote

Now just you look here, the cat wanted to meet you, why do you think he/she took the trouble to walk the tightrope to get to you and then you put him/her out on the street! shame!

Sounds more to me like he/she fell out of an upstairs window and you took him DOWNstairs?

and.... I'll have you know, my 6 cats do NOT stick their claws in things (well only me really), but there again they have been brought up well

Now you look here, I feel guilty enough, don't make me feel worse...

We don't have an UPstairs window, we're at the top already... though it was raining cats and dogs that day!

Um, I wasn't talking about your cats... but cats do naturally claw stuff.

I'm about to leave for home and for the last few days, one of my cats has come to greet me at the front of my house, on the street, screaming loudly as my car door opens, she is so embarassing, the first time I thought she had been badly wounded and raced over to her. I have to brace myself to go home now.

Awwww, she loves you!

Wes, that's the biggest mistake you can make as fas as cats are concerned!
Cats do not love anything but their FOOD and play that they like their FOOD-PROVIDERS.
They are driven by self interest, that's all!

Don't tar all the cats please...

Yes I do: all cats are exactly the same: self interested killing machines! *

* but I happen to like 'm a lot!

Don't believe it... cats are not all the same.

is this the cat-bashing thread?i'd been looking for it

Cat bashing!!!!! I'll bash you if you do!!! Or better than that, I will send one of my super killing machines to do the job for me.

There was an article on the BBC yesterday about cat purring, it seems that they change their purrs if they want food to one with a crying sound. Well it appears one of my little darlings has cut to the chase with that. She has eliminated the purr and just goes with the crying, any wonder why she is known as Squawk? Trouble is, there is always food down for them, she is not hungry, so I assume she is asking for freshly killed mice?

Or does she just like to see me wait upon her?

Here's the article in the Guardian about that...be sure to click on the link at the bottom as it has sound examples comparing the differences between purrs...very cool:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul...r-food-research

Probably the sound I heard from the cat on our roof, crying...
We've had roof windows put in so luckily we didn't have them open wide enough otherwise it could have got in by itself.