National 'Hug your Cat day'

[Silver Tabby]

Today, June 4th, is national 'Hug your Cat day'.  Seemed like a nice idea - so I did.  Perhaps I should have fed him first.  Does anyone have brandy and bandages to hand?

[klondike]

[GrannyMac]

😁😁

I wish we still had our cat, but she wouldn't have tolerated a hug, even after food! 

[Scrumpy]

I won't be hugging the cat that sits outside the Co-op.. spiteful old bugger..

[klondike]

My parents used to feed a big old stray tom. My mother used to put on leather gauntlets to put a plate of food on top of a lean to shed they had.

On stray animals...

A dove (the sort with a shuttlecock bum) was in our back garden. It seemed to be injured. We gave it some water and my wife nipped to the local shop for some bird food. The packet had a picture of a budgie. The contents turned out to be sand for the bottom of a cage. The dove flew away.

A ginger cat made its way into the kitchen and wouldn't shoo away. I took a picture and made a "found cat" poster for the lamp post that used to be outside. I'd just finished laminating that and zip tying it up and was preparing to get some cat food when it just cleared off. It moved in a few doors away and stayed. I expect they were quicker with the cat food.

[muddy]

My poor dog Mungo got beaten up by an old Tom 
It was his own fault running up behind him in the park when even I could see the old moggy had had a rough night on the tiles and was in no mood to tolerate nonsense from border collies.

[klondike]

Toms gone feral are pretty formidable creatures.

[CHF]

I wish I still had my cat to hug; she died about three years ago, aged nineteen.
I still talk to her and call her my little person. I loved her to bits.