Cats in Boxes

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Garfield Feb 2021 7:01pm, 4 Feb 2021 15,073 posts	0 Garfield Or how furry are the shirts now?
NDWDave Feb 2021 7:13pm, 4 Feb 2021 13,931 posts	0 NDWDave It’s a ballet bar so very robust. I haven’t checked the shirts...
swittle Feb 2021 8:26pm, 4 Feb 2021 72,757 posts	0 swittle During my walk tonight, I met a white cat on top of a wheelie bin - not a box as such but you get the idea. Very affectionate; almost threw itself at my hand for a stroke. Is white in cats an uncommon colour, say, compared with black?
JEB Feb 2021 8:36pm, 4 Feb 2021 1,091 posts	0 JEB We have one, Flash, and we had his sister too who was also white. Unfortunately she went missing 6 months after we got them. He's the only all white cat we see in the area.
Corrah Feb 2021 8:39pm, 4 Feb 2021 6,453 posts	0 Corrah A chum on the Isle of Lewis has a black cat and a white cat and the other half (postie) sees a black cat and a white cat at the same house on one of the rounds he covers.
Garfield Feb 2021 9:03pm, 4 Feb 2021 15,074 posts	0 Garfield I had a friend with 3 black cats and one white cat. The white cat had mismatched eyes - one blue, the other green...and it was deaf.
NDWDave Feb 2021 9:05pm, 4 Feb 2021 13,933 posts	0 NDWDave I think white cats are more prone to being deaf. MrsNDW had a deaf white cat when she was a kid
Garfield Feb 2021 9:07pm, 4 Feb 2021 15,075 posts	0 Garfield That's what I've heard too.
JEB Feb 2021 9:18pm, 4 Feb 2021 1,092 posts	0 JEB Flash isn't deaf but we do have problems with sun burnt ears
swittle Feb 2021 9:28pm, 4 Feb 2021 72,758 posts	0 swittle The cat I saw was clearly an outdoor cat: it was a chilly evening, around 6 deg. C but dry. I wonder whether it belonged to a person(s) in the sheltered housing there.