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Hello cat people. Welcome to another Pull Up Your Cat, so pull him or her up, (or just your company if you have no cat). It’s been a good sort of week here, although I’m a little concerned about Kuroneko this morning as she’s been having digestive issues. She must have found a bug or something that disagrees with her.
The weather’s been been changing again and making her run around like a 12 week old kitten. It’s hard to capture her in that element though I have tried. The best I could do is to capture her image when she sat down to help me write this post:
Helpful kitty! Thanks Neko. I also appreciated it when you entered those numbers for me. Very nicely done.
Not much else going on. I hope everybody has had a good week and remembered to set some time aside for whatever animal shares your life. Please enjoy this old classic. Dunno if this is Darwin at work or just catzpugh.
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We have two cats, one of whom will jump up onto the keyboard and meow at me when he thinks I have been paying way too much attention to the computer and far too little to him(maybe you think he should do that more often, lol).
Cute story, love that gator video(I saw it just last night on YouTube). So recc’d.
Thanks, Peg, glad the weather has turned cool now, for all our sakes.
Catzpugh!! That video is new to me.
Abner and Gracie did a similar number on a dog that wandered down our driveway yesterday, but with poofy tail and sound effects. They chased the poor thing off the property with its tail between it’s legs.
Right? I don’t want any more high nineties this year if we can avoid it.
Good morning, Peggy and cat people!
Oops, Squeaky (pause here)just pulled herself up onto my lap, standing between me and the laptop, until I scritched her head and she settled acrros the lap. Laptop now to my right…urgh, not so …ugh…easy l…to …reach….!
Just last night, really? Wow! I think I saw that on boingboing two years ago and haven’t thought much about it since. How coincidental is that?
LMAO! Cats are extremely envious of typy fingers!
Awww! Poofy tails and sideways running are things that Kuroneko can definitely relate to.
Yea weather change! I checked the patio thermometer at 9:00 am and it read barely 70! Wheee! Windows open two niights and a day now.
The main kitteh news here is that Big Boy, although he hid out during the downpours Friday and Sat. (didn’t see him from Friday a.m. til it stopped raining sometime Saturday morning, he turned up for dinner and hung around through the evening, going out a few times, but always coming back when invited.
I went to bed way late, and as he didn’t seem eager to go back out, I shut the door semi-tight, rubbed his head and told him he was welcome to stay, and went to bed.
Never heard any fuss, but when I got up at nine, he was gone. Went out on the patio and called him, and he turned up in a few minutes. All four ate and asked for more, as though the cool weather has made them hungrier.
The indoors went out for awhile yesterday, but stuck close. At first Smokey sat at the edge of the patio, looking around, apparently disappointed at the soggy ground. A bit later he was on one of the patio chairs by the sliding doors, looking content.
(I thought of Neko during the downpours, frowing at you and demanding that you make it stop, Peggy)
That’s great about Big Boy. Sounds like he’s getting more comfortable. Neko groused about the weather a little but she makes up for it by parking herself under my desk and entertaining herself by attacking my toes when they wander into her territory.
Attacking toes…Squeaky’s been doing that way too much. Usually in the morning when I first get up, like she’s trying to tell me to get a move on..into the kitchen.
I took a picture a little while ago of Smokey and Squeaky nestled together…in the space I cleared yesterday to work..on my desk. But then got a signal to “replace battery” and the camera shut itself off. So I guess it can’t be uploaded till I get a new battery.
I’m going to have to go do a few shopping tasks…kitty litter, for one, naturally…in a few. Glad to see you took on Pull Up a Cat today. You’re a trouper.
I’ve been so frantically busy lately I’m afraid to commit to a Sunday right now, but I’ll always squeeze in some time to check in. Have another appeal to start work on today, but there’s a little time. However, it’s clear that trying to do with the usual work interruptions is, um, not to be counted on, let’s say. So I just have to get a good start on it today, and it’s more complicated than the one I finished yesterday.
Good to see everybody here already! I’ll be back, no doubt.
Sadly, no one goes all Halloween at our house, arched back and sideways twinkle toes. We just get poofy and make angry cat noises.
If you come back later, I need some sewing advice… I’m making my Halloween costume out of my head without a pattern and I’m trying to figure out how to sew pieces together to make the shape of an overfilled bag. I have so little time, I only get one chance to make it…
We has a sad here in Toronto. Miss Daisy, a dainty tuxedo cat with the smallest paws I ever saw (I thought she was declawed, nope, just tiny paws) and my friend’s companion for about 16 yrs, died on Wednesday. A mouth cancer that attacked and finally destroyed her jaw. Up until Monday she was still eating (with difficulty, having no lower jaw) but not apparently in much pain. On Tuesday evening she seemed to be in serious distress for the first time and my friend decided that Daisy was ready for release but on Wed am Miss Daisy had a seizure and died, all on her own.
I had cat-sat her last spring, before she was diagnosed, and later for a couple of weeks this summer and was much impressed by her dignity and graciousness. Even though my summer visits each entailed a couple of droppers of meds and a pill she was always polite and even affectionate with me.
Her person was about 5 when she was rescued from a dumpster, a young but full-grown cat, so they aren’t sure how old she actually is. Nineteen or twenty is the best guess. My friend does not recall ever being without Miss Daisy, even when his family was living abroad. He has a huge cat-shaped hole in his life.
Hang around with these short-lifers, your heart will get broken. It is totally worth it.
I have no evidence for the SoDragon’s Rainbow Bridge theory, but I like it.
It’s rare here, too, these days. Squeaky sometimes seems to be trying to intimidate Big Boy, but she just walks up to him and whacks him several times with a paw…or both paws. No threateniing posturing involved. Very direct, she is. (he just puts up with it!)
I’m so sorry. Poor Miss Daisy. Best wishes to you and your friend.
Oh, HotFlash, so sorry for you and your friend. “A huge cat-shaped hole in his life,” such a good way to describe the feeling. Tell him this bunch understands all too well.
And yes, it is totally worth it, isn’t it?
And yes, belief in the Rainbow Bridge, picturing the mob of loved animals who will, yes will, greet me there one day, makes it possible to get up the next morning after losing yet another one.
I wish I could get a pic of her doing that. She’d be the perfect Halloween cat poster.
Ha…sewing advice from me? You better hope Janis looks in….
But I’ll offer what I can. I did finally sit down and sew on a button on one pair of pants last week and a metal fastener on another this past week. That’s the sum total of my recent sewing. Sigh.
Thanks, Margaret and Tj, I will pass along to Chris.
Well, time is marching …I best get my buns moving. BBL!
Be safe!
My five are fine, and in rude good health. They did their usual morning routine — got me to feed and water them, clean and top up the litter, let them out and in, now they have all gone back to sleep. Now that the wweather is cooler here I have one bedcat, Miss Cutie-Baby, the longk-haired tortie. After sleeping all night next to my pillow, she is now asleep in the box mounted on the upstairs hall bannister. We have installed baskets and wooden boxes around the house hoping to entice the kittehs to sleep in places convenient to*us*. Mostly works, it is not nice when your cat coughs up a hairball in a customer’s harpsichord.
Heh. You know more than I do…I’m grasping at straws.
If *you* were making a burlap money bag costume, would you make a cylinder with an elastic or drawstring bottom around the legs or would you taper the pieces at the top to make a teardrop shape? A cylinder is sooo much easier, but I’m afraid my shoulders will be too broad and make the bag too heavy at the top.
Rest in eternal peace, Miss Daisy. 20 ish is quite an accomplishment for a former street cat, especially one who’s travelled the world. Wow.
We don’t have any cats any more, but I just wanted to say that every time I see the post, ‘Pull Up a Cat’, it makes me chuckle. What a great title!
Hi Margaret and cat friends,
Mcat is following the season with a preference for snoozing in her chair on her blanket next to my desk. As I mentioned, she is enthusiastic about getting a higher percentage of canned food in her diet in an effort to get her weight down a little. Took her only one time watching which cupboard door houses the new supply of cat food cans and she hustles right over there frequently trying to get me to follow.
Sorry to hear about Miss Daisy. M’s vet record has her born in 1999. She was a rescue street cat from a major city so her actual age is not exactly determined.
Kuroneko started off as a street cat but I have the luxury of knowing her time of birth pretty precisely. On or about April 13, 2007.
Hi, all, popping back in for a moment.
Oops, somebody stood with their paws on the keyboard and hit “submit.”
Anyway, yellowsnapdragon, gotta tell ya, I am a slave to the pattern, and even then, my spatial sense is so poor sometimes I absolutely cannot translate from the pattern to the fabric.
However, hmmmm. so, I guess you want the “money bag” to be gathered up at the top like an old fashioned bag, say in a Scrooge McDuck cartoon?
I think I’d cut it sorta square, but in a tube (call it a square cylinder). Not sure how to go about dividing the bottom for the legs, but yeah, you’ll need either elastic or drawstring…the latter might be easier and more flexible…(you know how to thread the drawstring through the sewn channel for it, don’cha? Attach a big safety pin to one end, and pull through, holding the pin from the outside of the fabric.)
Be sure you set the channel for the string at the top a couple inches from the top edge (stitched, if you’re going to stay stitch the edge to prevent raveling), so when you pull the string taut there’s plenty of fabric to bunch up above it in that paper-bag style.
For legs, I guess just put the tube on, pinch fabric around each leg and pin, then stitch a seam between them.
Then you just have to pack it with enough paper or whatevs, and distribute it right…that might be the hard part, because it sounds easy.
There are probably better ways, but that’s what comes to mind. Hope it works.
If all else fails, just use a broad marker to write “Money Bag” and everyone will know what it is anyway.
Looking at your question again, yellowsnapdragon, I’m thinking you just cut holes for sleeves and treat it like a sleeveless top to draw it up, maybe across your collarbone, or maybe throat. Wear a matching turtleneck or long-sleeved tee shirt underneath. Use the top drawstring to tie a bow–in fact, if the burlap is brown, use a brown ribbon, half-inch or inch-wide, and tie a bow on the outside, just below the gathers.
Does any of this make any sense, or sound doable to you?
Wait, aren’t you the one with the coffee store? don’t you have a nice big burlap coffee bag already sewn up? Or is that a romantic throw-back, and the beans come in ugly paper or plastic bags now?
We are not all that religious here at chez HotFlash, but we do have a kamiza which holds photos of the Critters Who Have Gone Before — not complete, but getting on to twenty. Mostly cats, who we *adore*, but also squirrels, about five of whom we have been privileged to be foster-parents to (eat that, grammar Nazis!).
Saturday is kamiza-cleaning day, and I always am comforted. Hello , Silver, hello Rocky, hello Post-it and Velcro; hello Srubby, hello Daisy (another Daisy, died years ago, full name the Honourable Margaret Scrofulous, pronounced ‘screw-loose’), hello to her offspring Tiglath, Tribble and Tallulah; to Ms Muffin, to Bunny-bunny Hoover, who was found in a tree and who never met anything even vaguely edible she wouldn’t ingest, to Demi, to Ralph G. Goodfellow, to Baboon (who protected me from everything including Ms Muffin and building inspectors, much to their surprise), to Vivian and Olivia, to Miss Mouse (aka the Minx), to my dear Hatshepsut, to Oyo-giri-san, and many more.
My plan is that when I reach Those Gates, the chickens whose wings I have eaten will be out-voted by the cats (and squirrels and raccoons) I have fed and attended to. Not much, I suppose, but what can I do?
Margaret, this is personal and you can ignore it if you please. But, I love your avatar, and I know you are an anime otaku (hicch! spellcheck wanted to make that ‘oatcake’!)- what pic is that?
Totally OT, but I am watching One Piece, Fairy tale and katekyo-hitman-reborn these days. Any recommendations? I hasten to list “The Cat Returns”, “, My FrienM i okd Totoru” (love the catbus!!!) and similar. Oh, here is the kittenbus.
Sorry, think I am OT. Wait, it is pull up a cat, so am I ok?
Jeez, I totally cannot type! Should read ‘Stubby’. Famous for her short legs. Hence.
Dang it! Laptop acting odd…ate a post and disappeared thos webpage! So Im on Kindle.
Worse, I can’t find the 10-page doc I finished yesterday…and savex every few grafs. Gone! It’s printerd out, but still. Need to cut n paste parts. Where the heck did it go? Dsmn microsoft.
.. what was wrong with Word 2007? This 2010 is newly downloaded ((and paid for!)
Hotflash, I wanted to say I like your vivid writing style AND ask What is a kamiza?
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Sorry I didn’t get here earlier. On a whim, we decided to go to the beach, take food, take da dog.
It was gorgeous. And, Cool.
And, I took this photo of Brindle to share.
Whatta FireDog, eh?
Aw man! The beach! Looks gorge -ee -us! Dog, too. Ah, California, huh? Nice. Lot better than my day
Which is ending badly. Glad to see you, demi.
Don’t let that happen.
Turn that frown upside down.
Shut off the world and do whatever it is that makes you feel bestest.
He is a nice looking googie, isn’t he?
Well, after the face fall on our beach camping trip, I felt like I was a little gypped.
Wanted to sit on the sand, take a stroll, take some pictures.
So we did.
Good to See you too, TJ.
Make. It. A. Good. Evening.
You are the boss of you. :) Hugs!
I meant Goggie.
He’s a goodie too.
I have sand on my desk. Just a little.
Sadly a certain court is the boss of me deadline! Panic will ssf in soon if…but Id best be about finding a fix. So will say good night. Have a good week all.
And thanks Peg for pulling up today s Cats.
Sand on desk! Ooh….envy here!
Going now for realz.
Sweetie!
That is Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV from Cowboy BeBop. She doesn’t have a cat but she’s kind of adopted Ein the Corgi.
Sounds like fun. Thanks for the pic!
Hey, it was.
We need to get out more. It was fun, and we laid one of B’s blankets in the back seat, he’d not traveled in the new car yet. It was successful which makes day trips a bit better.
Wherever we go, he goes.
We love him. He’s a good manny.
That’s Ein and Ed on the left.
Oh, ‘kamiza’ is kami = god(s/esses) plus za = seat. (as in, Zazen is sitting meditation).
In Japanese temples and dojos it is traditional to have a long shelf at the ‘head of the room”, wherever that works out to in the specific room, that is dedicated to the founders, parents, special patrons or members and such. Usu there are photos and such. This one is more vertical than most I have seen, but gives the flavor.
Ours has photos of many of our dead animals, plus various memorials that might be called lares and/or penates (qv). A visiting Catholic priest was polite but a little shocked.
Are we religious> No, not subscribing to any religion, but spirtual? Yeah, for reasons we cannot understand or explain. Probably a lot to do with wishful thinking. But hey, if we are right, then it still won’t matter, OK?
Hooha! That would be Françoise Appledehli? Enjoyed the Cowboy, Jet Black was my fav. Not a Corgi fan (cough). I was so sad at the end, but somehow it seemed more honest than the ‘goes on forever until you are bored to death and forget it’ serials. I am up to ep 566 of One Piece, and although I know that Luffy will die at the end, I am in for all the eps. My other favs are Oh, Edo Rocket, also Lodos Wars, and ??? Hard to decide, there are so many. What did I forget? Hmmm, 3×3 Eyes, 13th Kingdon, …
BTW, I remember Edward as looking more like this.
Cannot even tell you how jealous I am of a beach trip….What a treat. Beach really does make the cares roll away.
Sorry, I really cannot much do the cat thing anymore. My goal/plan is not to have another; will need something different.
BTW, I tried pulling up my cats, they objected. They just don’t get the Internets.
Thanks, teja. I’m definitely going for a Ritchie Rich cartoon money bag style. Im going for a fuller look, so one coffee bag isn’t enough (those only hold 132 lbs, which I most certainly am. not.) but, yeah I’m repurposing those burlap bags.
My tentative plan is to open the bags along the bottoms and down one side and sew the two bags together to make a doublewide. Then, the plan is to sew an extension of felt on the bottom of the bag and make one gather around both legs for simplicity an in felt because the burlap is itchy and an allergen. I hadn’t even thought of doing legs…way out of my league!
The upper portion is my biggest problem. Treating the top as a sleeveless is a helpful hint. Not sure how to accomplish sleeveless but I can prolly google simple instructions.
Fish.
Easy Peasy, and won’t break your heart so much.
Oh, Bev. I think about you and Angela and share your (continuing) loss of her.
Hugs, Bev.
Think about Fish. Just ponder it.
May not be the answer, but just trying to help. :)
Bwahaha. Abner objects as well. More like pull up your bloody hand after you try to make home do anything….
bad news/good news….bad news 1st…Minx the feral Siamese,had since 6 weeks,escaped during the move to the new farm,have been leaving food outside,hope she returns….good news,adopted 4 reject dogs from shelter, tally is now 8,wish me luck!
Sadly, you are a trouper! Eight dogs is more than I can encompass, mentally and felinely, the cats would absolutely *not*, they give me the gears if I even pet a dog — “”Wooth, that smell, what have *you* been doing?”
Oh, best wishes and as much psychic energy as I know how to send to Mlle Minx. Not to get your hopes up, but my Ms Minx returned after nearly a year, that was nrly 20 yrs ago. Her interim owner found me and asked for her back. I left it up to Ms Minx, she went to the Other Lady, and if she wanted, I have no doubt that she would have come back. Who knows what they do, those kittehs? They are their own people.
she was the last one i moved,Angus,Harry,Jolie,and Brutus,have settled down,the cats and my 4 other dogs get allong famously,the 4 new ones(dogs) will live outside in barn area,i have to save as many as i can,cause they are wunnerful,critters…and deserve to live
Good luck and I hope Minx comes back. :(
Thanks to everybody who stopped by. I hope you enjoy the upcoming week and remember to set some time aside for the animals in your life.
Oya!
If’n I forget, they will remind me.
i actually let her out in new basement,and she ran for the rafters,i have no idea where she is,but i leave food all over,thanks for good wishes,going to sleep,nitey