Poor Tiger

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Gavi

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Just about to set off for a potter this afternoon when I saw something sticking out of Tiger the cat's mouth. When I looked, it was a three pronged barbed fish hook, complete with spinner and line. A neighbour who knows fishing helped cut most of the hook free but the cat was too distressed for us to do more. I called the emergency vet and we took the poor chap there... And she removed the remaining hook in seconds. Tiger is now happy and has been fed tuna. My wallet is a bit emptier...
 
I caught an angler last year... He didn't retract his line as we passed by - cue high speed un ravelling of reel, followed by a loud snap as the rod broke. Seems he caught a prop that day...
 
rosssavage said:
I caught an angler last year... He didn't retract his line as we passed by - cue high speed un ravelling of reel, followed by a loud snap as the rod broke. Seems he caught a prop that day...
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I have been reflecting on this. We live on an island. How did it get here!? Also, my neighbour commented that the barbs on the hook should have been flattened before use. He suspected a hook used to catch dinner rather than sport (fair enough)... but I do not understand why it was somehwere on the island. I know the firshermen on the backwater and they are good. Another puzzle.
 
Gavi said:
I have been reflecting on this. We live on an island. How did it get here!? Also, my neighbour commented that the barbs on the hook should have been flattened before use. He suspected a hook used to catch dinner rather than sport (fair enough)... but I do not understand why it was somehwere on the island. I know the firshermen on the backwater and they are good. Another puzzle.
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Just a guess,but this sounds like pike tackle,the hooks were probably also baited with a small fish of some kind,it would have been cast from opposite bank.
Fisherman has over cast with the result it landed on your river bank got snagged,the line broke. Blimey a free fish dinner dinner ....... the rest is history.
"Vicious Vincent" our moggy
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oldgit said:
Our previous fleabag was also ginger and so of course very imaginatively called.......Tiger.
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Ours is not as grumpy looking as your current one. Apart from the day he fell in the river.... pathetic is a better word.

I will now do thread drift: do you take your cat out on your boat? We took Tiger out once. We were moving Ex Libris from the front to back moorings on the island. It was funny - he got on on one side and went to get off on the same side... stopped, looked at us as if to so "OK, what have you done with the land?". He was OK on the boat but I would worry about wandering at locks. Or is this something you just manage? He is not good at listening.
 
Have thought about it,but chicken out everytime.He is about 13 now and suspect he would not take kindly to us disrupting his "routine"
Sleep ....Eat ....Sleep....Start fight with other Moggies .... Eat etc :)
 
cats on the boat

Following thread drift...

Glad to hear Tiger is ok, nothing worse than an unhappy cat.

We take our cats on the boat and it's the first time in their lives this year and they are both 13 in November. As you can see from the pictures they look like they hate it!

Boating is a very tiring pastime for cats :)
 
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