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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #28 on: June 28, 2008, 23:31:44 PM »
Ready for action??? the mind boggles!

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2008, 23:19:31 PM »
Ready for action??? the mind boggles!



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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #26 on: June 28, 2008, 23:17:24 PM »
Just seen an advert on our local classified site for a Ragdoll Queen ready for action at £600 - would this be a good bargain??
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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #25 on: June 28, 2008, 23:17:00 PM »
Bengals are ginger and white?? Weyhey , I can flog the kitbits and make a fortune! :rofl:



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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #24 on: June 28, 2008, 23:04:21 PM »
Anyone who has seen / handled / heard a real Bengal (and yes, they do shout LOUD) would not get them mixed up with a tabby non-ped. Benglies are just far too distinctive to make that mistake once you know what these cats are like.

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #23 on: June 28, 2008, 22:47:41 PM »
Guess there are folks who want to one-up the neighbours "on the cheap" with a posh cat, but who, because they are utterly clueless, end up parting with stupid money for a mog, leaving the sellers laughing at them and lining their pockets at the same time. Shows how gullible some folks can be...  :tired:

A pet-quality Bengly is around the £600 mark, it's far more for a show neuter, more still for a potential breeding queen or stud. Anyone who has seen / handled / heard a real Bengal (and yes, they do shout LOUD) would not get them mixed up with a tabby non-ped. Benglies are just far too distinctive to make that mistake once you know what these cats are like.

Oh yes, and I was born and bred in Islington, but I ain't that 'doopid...  :shify:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #22 on: June 28, 2008, 20:21:16 PM »
We took in a cat yesterday, person paid over £100 for a Bengal - he is ginger and white!! Will post pics when I go to see him tomorrow.He was obviously bought from Loot or some such. And we took in two Bengal Crosses that didn't look much like Bengals, the moggy i picked up the day before looked more like one than his (and they were his words).  it is shocking how many people think they have got a Bengal and it is nothing more than a tabby
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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #21 on: June 28, 2008, 19:55:51 PM »
I saw an advert on one of the horrible free sites for "organic" kittens - god knows what they are!!!!

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2008, 20:31:17 PM »
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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2008, 19:35:17 PM »
You're forgiven.. you know me well  :Luv:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2008, 19:31:46 PM »
Sorry - here's a couple of unpublished Alice pics to make up for it  :shy:
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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2008, 19:23:19 PM »
You don't live in Islington  :evillaugh:

But I did  :-[

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #16 on: June 27, 2008, 19:21:18 PM »
What a brilliant idea, though.  :wow:

Roll up! Roll up! Get your Free Range Kittens here! Only £275 each!!  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #15 on: June 27, 2008, 19:20:24 PM »
I'm sure a couple of Islington types will fall for it though  :evillaugh:

Oi! :slap:

You don't live in Islington  :evillaugh:

But I did  :-[
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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2008, 19:10:18 PM »
What a brilliant idea, though.  :wow:

Roll up! Roll up! Get your Free Range Kittens here! Only £275 each!!  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2008, 19:01:53 PM »
I'm sure a couple of Islington types will fall for it though  :evillaugh:

Oi! :slap:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2008, 18:42:24 PM »
I'm sure a couple of Islington types will fall for it though  :evillaugh:
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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2008, 17:53:13 PM »
is that the same as free range?  :rofl:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2008, 17:06:30 PM »
is that the same as free range?  :rofl:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2008, 16:57:49 PM »
I saw an advert on one of the horrible free sites for "organic" kittens - god knows what they are!!!!
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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2008, 16:49:56 PM »
To be fair although I sympathise that they have lost their kitty (moggy or bengal I'm sure he/she was equally loved) I can't feel sorry for people that get ripped off this way. Bengals are a difficult breed and to buy one without even knowing what one LOOKS like is beyond belief!

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2008, 16:48:57 PM »
Hiya Julie,

Thought you might like to know that Jumpy is in my animation behind the desk in the box office scene.

http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,15447.0.html

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Gosh! So he is!  :evillaugh: I think we best not tell him, though, as it will only go to his head. He is always telling us we don't appreciate his many talents. :innocent:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2008, 16:41:46 PM »
Obviously, we feel sorry to hear of any lost pet. As some will remember, I know that feeling only too well and we hope puss comes home ASAP. The point was more of the nature of how these  :censored: acquired puss in the first place...

It's a illustration of the consumer, one-upmanship, impatient world we now live it, isn't it? If I was a  :censored: and I want something, I want something special that either no one else has or can afford. But rather than pay full whack to have a certified puss from a reputable breeder, I see an ad in the newspaper offering something cheaper but still very special sounding, no paperwork but still as good as the expensive variety - the neighbours won't know I got one a little bit cheaper! So I pay vast amounts of dosh for something exotic sounding and then sit back while all the neighbours envy me.

I found it hysterical that it's that easy to get a shmuck to part with lots of cash for a tabby because they obviously didn't Google 'Bengal Cat' before they coughed up the dough!  :rofl: :rofl:

I am thinking of having an adoption drive on exotic, preselected Ebony Kittens.  :sneaky:

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2008, 16:31:31 PM »
Hiya Julie,

Thought you might like to know that Jumpy is in my animation behind the desk in the box office scene.

http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,15447.0.html

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2008, 16:29:32 PM »
It could be the other way around though I guess. Someone replies having found a proper Bengal kitten and they say "Yep that's the one thankyou very much" you never know these days!!

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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2008, 16:27:12 PM »
It's quite sad though that a) they have lost their kitten.  and b) they may well have been sold a "moggy" and led to believe it was a Bengal. 
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Re: One born every minute!
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2008, 16:24:04 PM »
oh dear and these people were allowed responsibility of another living being :-: no wonder the poor thing is lost!!

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One born every minute!
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2008, 16:14:36 PM »
Mark and I were out earlier today checking over a report of a group of ferals. We saw a Lost Cat appeal stuck to a lampost, so naturally we stopped to study it. The heading was Lost Bengal Cat, aged 7 months. The picture was of a standard Tabby moggy kitten.

Someone made a few quid out of that!  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 


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