Check out the first paragraph in their T's & C's here.

Their parent company is in . . . . you guessed it, China.

It seems its a frog then.

In my defence, my book, "Complete Mediterranean Wildlife" by Paul Sterry, has an animal looking more like the frog, but under the heading 'Common Toad'.

You'd better get the book "How to train guard toads" then, because that's what he/she is.

It looks like a Common Toad (Bufo bufo)

Not at all Mike, you'll always be welcome anytime. Just having a bit of fun, that's all. I hope nobody's too disappointed. And I called them kittens too, they are cubs of course.

If I were ever to be able to have a big cat, it'd be a cheetah.

I'm not sure I should be contributing to this thread anyway, I spend most days waiting for the sun to go down

Sorry, but I fail to understand how the comment "More twaddle" could reassure anybody of anything, except perhaps that gartmore doesn't take his moderators role seriously enough.

Of course not, it's all confidential you know, but I can imagine how smeggies reaction to gartmore's comment(s) here could have made him make perhaps inappropriate comments in other threads around the same time. We can all make bad decisions when we've been deliberately wound up by someone.

Moderators should not bait other members, they can't maintain impartiality when they make such inflammatory remarks like "More twaddle".

I still fail to understand how that particular post was helpful in any way to the OP.

FWIW: I am in agreement with smeggie and others on here who believe the focusing is off.

You should both be ashamed of yourselves. Gartmore for making a plainly inflammatory post (otherwise known as trolling), and the OP for marking it as helpful.

Pray tell, in what way was gartmore's post helpful to you?

Hi Jeff,

Before this goes too far, I don't really have any tigers, It was just a bit of fun, but time to stop it now, though I'd dearly love to have the resources to keep big cats as they are a passion of mine.

The photo of the tiger kittens was taken at Sandown zoo on the Isle of Wight in 1985 and I believe the two tigers in the shot were the first to have been bred there.

The adult tiger lives at Whipsnade Zoo.

I do keep cats though, or rather, I feed a few, anything between 10 & 15 feral cats of mixed gender. Over the past couple of years I've gradually captured them all and had them spayed/neutered. My funds don't run to giving them inoculations as well. I lost my favourite cat, Dice, recently to FLV.

I have one house cat, the rest of them are confined to the outside unless they craftily sneak in through an open door or window.

Food for them all costs me about €30.00/month.

Spoilsport. Is there no fun to be had around here any more?

Here he is anyway.

As a kitten, with his sister at about 3 months old. I don't have those boots any more, he decided he was hungry and chewed them to bits. Fortunately my feet weren't in them at the time.



Benji as a kitten.jpg by Peter E Smith (AKA Mannesty), on Flickr


All grown up and in his compound. This is where he likes to be but is happy to roam the rest of the grounds when I'm not at home. Notice his tongue sticking out, he's always done that since he was a kitten.



_IGP1850-2.jpg by Peter E Smith (AKA Mannesty), on Flickr


Another photo of him in his compound in all his adult splender, and recently fed.



_IGP1846.jpg by Peter E Smith (AKA Mannesty), on Flickr

Isn't he gorgeous. Of all my cats, he's my favourite, but he's not allowed in the house. He's not been neutered because I hope to breed from him some day, and when he sprays . . . need I say more?.

No that's Cherry Pie. She is one of three sisters, all named by my wife. She got her name because when she was a tiny kitten, her face looked like a Cherry Bakewell tart, she had a pink nose, much like a cherry.

Benji is my Bengal Tiger. Would you like to see a photo of him?