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It’s Sunday again and that means it’s time to pull up your cat and have some kitteh chat. Wow! This week went by quickly for me! It seems like just yesterday that I was writing this post. Kuroneko and I ended the week pretty much like any other, though she insisted that I wake up and pay attention to her at around 4:00am Saturday morning. Encouraging her to snuggle in the clean laundry while I mop the floors has worked like a charm and she hasn’t tried to follow me around over the mop bucket again. After clean up, we took a nap together on the sofa, she nestled on my legs. It was sweet but I woke up with her kneading my flesh in her sleep. As I write this, she’s climbing the back of my chair to sneak attack my typy fingers. She’s so stealthy and intrepid.
I saw an unusual number of dead cats in the road around here last week. I’m convinced that there is a borderline sociopath who lives nearby who goes out of his or her way to hit cats crossing the street. S/he certainly lives in this area. I’ve never gotten why some people have an irrational loathing of cats. I wonder if there have ever been any studies? If there is such a person around here, I sure wish someone would spot them and turn them in. I keep putting up warnings for people to keep their cats indoors because there is a cat abuser/killer loose but the management doesn’t seem to think it’s appropriate and keeps taking them down. I suppose their strategy is to ignore the problem and hope it goes away. There is a local school district newsletter that I’ve been ignoring since I moved here. I wonder if they would be interested in giving this some publicity?
On a happier note, here are the pictures:
Kuroneko picture of the week: That’s okay ‘Neko…it’s not like I poured that for myself or anything!
ADORABLE video of a kit sleep-bathing
Obligatory cute kitten pic of the week: Kitteh on a tightrope! From Cute Overload
In this video, we see that the “rotating snake” optical illusion seems to affect cats too.
That’s it from me. Please feel free to stop by and share your animal tails, (couldn’t resist the pun), with us! I hope everybody has a great week ahead but whatever you do, please remember to set aside some time to spend with whatever animals share their lives with you. See you down below!
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Good morning and welcome to pull up your cat. What’s new with yours?
G’Morning, Hon.
Picky’s been Makin’ bread dough more than usual this week. Not da craws, da Craws!
Owies, silly kitty.
Thanks for being such a loyal cat lover and hostess here, Peg.
Thanks demi and welcome to you and Picky.
Recommended.
Love the milk line. So true. It IS all about them, of course.
Now that I have those seed pots on the kitchen table, they sort of block direct access to his food dish which I keep up on the windowsill so the dog won’t get it. Picky has to jump on the chair first, then up to the sill.
So much work, ya know? Damn mom for making it so much harder to eat.
G’morning,, Peg and demi and cat people. It is lovely here after a bit of rain last night. Just before I went to bed there was thunder and lightning followed by hard rain…lasted less than 20 minutes, I think.
Big Boy had gone out after supper, and hadn’t been seen since. I went out to the patio and called him, opened the door a few more times, but he had gone to ground somewhere, I guess. Hope he stayed dry. He’s here right now, finishing breakfast. Since the weather has warmed up, he hasn’t spent a lot of time indoors.
On the other hand, one cloudy, gloomy day last week when I left from the front door for a detention center visit, he was ensconced in his bed in the kitchen, and to my surprise, when we returned, he was still there!
Bad side effect of getting up early all week: Squeaky has taken to waking me by tapping with claws extended; face, fingers, whatever she can reach. Owie, indeed!
Wow! You must have gone to bed late. We got a lot of rain here apparently. At least the ground is really wet this morning. I hope we get some more over the next few weeks and finally have a decent wildflower season.
Yes, I did, though not intentionally. There were a couple episodes of The Closer on that I hadn’t seen, and I can’t record, so got hooked and stayed up.
Oh, and wildflowers! I forgot…went to Pearsall on Friday and…surprise! Bluebonnets! Just a few patches, can’t remember just where, but the first I’ve seen. I made a mental note, “gotta remember to tell Peg.” Glad you mentioned them. I’d say they had just sprung up…almost missed them.
I saw that optical illusion on my FB page, but haven’t tested the kittehs on it yet.
I need to get myself showered and outta here to do a few Sunday errands, get back in plenty of time for the last basketball game of the season of my no. 2 team…go Hoosiers!
I will be back to see who drops in and what new tails they have.
Oh, and demi, I saw that pic last week ofyour handsome Picky. He looks quite like a youngster, not such an old fellow. But I was reading OE very late all week, nobody around to read a comment.
BBL. Happy Caturday.
G’Morning, tejanarusa.
You’ve been a very busy person lately. I’m so proud of you for going out on your own. When I think of you and your work, I just smile, smile, smile.
You’re on a real mission and I thank you.
(You’re good for the cats, too!)
Think I’m going to test it on Kuroneko and bring back a report next week.
Aw, thanks. It’s turning out to be hard work! Who knew? And I’m back among the folks who must do everything else on the weekend.
Off for realz. “poof”
Good morning, People of the Cat, and thanks for the post, Margaret.
Love the photo of Neko and the milk. Wish my desk was clean and shiny like yours.
We haven’t told Arry and Mottyl about the time change. The one good thing about DST is that now the “race back and forth across the bed like maniacs at 5 dark o’ 30″ happens at 6:30 now, and corresponds with the alarm clock going off.
Thanks. He used to be all grey, but the white is increasingly part of his look. Like we said yesterday at Peg’s PUAC, getting older isn’t that fun, but it’s better than the alternative.
I want a blt, so I’ll bbl.
Thanks, Peg, monocles follow from TH? anyway, this is endearing, the spot my late Jocabel used to occupy all the time now is warm place to Ms. Kitty;
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3EJvfRaKlUTzjZEBLnQpQg8szHUx-OY9EC-wKjAl8ho?feat=directlink
I am sure the cat killer is someone abused as a child. They were inflicted with pain as a child, so they feel this emotional need to inflict pain as an adult. They see a cat sunning themselves on the edge of the pavement they will swerve to run the cat over. It gives them a feeling of satisfaction when the pain they create counters the pain they feel with-in themselves. People like that need help with psycho and empathic therapies, or at least removed from the public before they move up to killing humans. The cat killing is a symptom of psychopathology. Some can be helped, while others have to be perminantly intitutionalize. He would make a great Republican leader or a corporate CEO. Whether they end up in prison or being a CEO depends on the person’s social/economic standing.
Kind of a wide brush, but I won’t argue with you.
Do you have children than you made and raised? Just for context.
Sorry, Peg.
I’ll go make my BLT’s and be back.
Ms. Kitty is a looker too.
Maybe I should look for Romney/Ryan bumper stickers.
Good bet.
Besides bacon, I bought 2 bunches of daffodils at the store. $1.67 a bunch. Had to.
Gonna leave you pups to have an enjoyable cat thread.
Thanks again, Peg.
Take care, all.
It will be less enjoyable if you leave. Having said that, thanks for visiting and have a wonderful afternoon.
I guess that’s true. If the time change had happened last week, Kuroneko would have woken me up at five instead of four.
Neko left a nice hairball for me! At least she’s hacking them up in plain view more often than she used to, so I can pick them up right away.
Thank you for the post and the photos, so sweet. Nikko has perfected his coyote yelp (Ow Ow Owwwww). So now, he does a cat, a dog, a coyote, and Curley from the Three Stooges, wub wub wub. Not sure what the next animal noise will be! (Vetoed the peacock call. Mason thinks it is too loud!)
I know the hairball hack, from when Tommy (long hair) did that, looks like an accordion, with a sweater caught inside! Takes lots of effort to bring one up.
This is Jocabel, on her pallet on the same spot, some time ago.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/znnzsLEuWB4pUC_8j8CqttMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
Hi Margaret,
Spring Break and I have the teen started on some projects for the next couple of days, that is the focus, at Mcat’s house. Meanwhile she is being the ever intent inspector, NOT. ;-)
Almost 12 straight hours of rain, the packed snow in the drive is now glare ice, the snow is rapidly diminishing.
The two neighbor cats have been around this week twice. The saddle-back and white is a good sized, thick, muscular bodied male, over 15. Stood still long enough outside the window, looking for human activity in the house to observe, then I moved and he was gone. Slightly beat up face as if a fighter.
The thin, long and lanky pewter gray appears to be a female. Huge face, large ears and yellowish eyes. Cannot distinguish any ear clip for a TNR on either one of them.
Hope you and the other cat people are doing well and have great upcoming week.
Bet you miss her.
I remember how you took a coupla days with her at her end.
Just the two a yaz.
It impressed me then and makes me smile now.
Good Soul, Ruth.
Jake whistles for the dogs, and calls Kitty,Kitty, Kitty, but doesn’t make cat or dog sounds, must identify only with humans.
Thanks, Margaret and hello, everyone. Wacky, exhausting week …so no chance to keep up with y’all though some progress on the personal strength front, just when one least expects it as usual. Sleeping better, so it MUST be good!
Mr. Merlin is fine ~ love-ins and sleeping on the bed sort of regular like. :-) We are inventing some games and he is playing more often by himself (what’s that noise?) when I deny the demand of the hour: I feel like I am raising a 4-year-old! He had some sort of digestive problem while I was at work yesterday, but apparently nothing serious, and quite understandable given all my drama.
I’m just glad I don’t have hairballs! Other than that, share and share alike ~ starting with the milk!
And I really, really, really want a bird that does coyote yelps!
You know those horror movies when the victim wakes up in the middle of the night plagued with fear? People who write movies like that have cats.
Aren’t you sweet?
My BLT’s are not as bad as some may think. For my body.
Got fresh bagels, and did lotsa lettuce, nice slices of tomatoes, cucumbers and just a tad of bacon. Teh yums.
We’re pretty much just hanging out today. Concert on the tb.
On Sundance. Portrait of Cuban musical culture.
March seems to be coming in like a lion here, and elsewhere.
Let’s look forward to lambs.
LOL. Gotta love the little devils, even when your face is the pit stop in the kitty 500, per-dawn addition.
The city dump here employs peacocks for some purpose and for a while I thought there was a stray cat hanging out at the shop. Yeah, the city dump isn’t in the same neighborhood. They are loud.
Ooh! Gorgeous tortie!
MCat seems very content in that role.
I know a yellow headed parrot who is bilingual. Speaks English and Spanish.
Love wasn’t the emotion I had in mind when Kuroneko first started kneading my thighs on Saturday morning. But she was being sweet, if annoying.
LMAO!
*g*
And confident the humans know what they are doing, most of the time.
Man, she has such a thick, beautiful coat. I’ve tried to interest Mottyl in the vacuum grooming. Her coat is not nearly so thick, but it is getting quite long. She is interested in the vacuum and not skittish around it until I actually try to touch her with the hose.
Yes, the peacocks are loud, and so beautiful. A neighbor of ours has 3 pairs, and I believe two of the hens are sitting right now. Was it ever fun to watch the males strut around, fanned out.
Cool! (And funny):)
I introduced the vacuum during a brushing initially, and she was already trained to come to the tapping of the brush quite well before that. The dust collector there is powerful but emits a lower frequency sound that the other shop vac with a narrower diameter hose.
The linked photo above was taken not too long ago, just noticed the camera date function had reset itself to 5 years ago.
I need to work on the brush sessions before I try again. She does love the brush, so I’ll try to approach it from that angle. Thanks.
Guineas are really loud, too, but not nearly so attractive :)
Oh, try brushing her with the vacuum hose and the brush at the same time with the vacuum off, I remembered that was part of getting over the fear factor, which was almost non-existent when I finally tried brushing with it turned on. Eventually, turned on the vac, had both items in my hands and tapped the brush. She wanted to be brushed and came over reluctantly the first time.
Mine would never get near a vacuum.
OT, just took a video of spuds out running the tiller through the garden, will try to put it up for you tomorrow.
Ha! Kuroneko likes the vacuum as much as I like wood splinters in my eyeball. If I so much as open the door where it’s kept, her back goes up and the hisses start. I’d have better luck trying to brush her with a flail.
Sweet, I do want to see that and I am assuming use of the antique single axle tractor?
We can get our final frost of the season in the last week of May, None of the starts get set out before that. maybe hardened off and brought inside at night.
If anyone wanted a genetically modified cat, for mild manners, friendliness, always comes over to greet strangers who visit, and good behavior, dis interest in what is on the kitchen counters, etc., M could be an ideal, GMC gene donor.
This is the hand push model, Graveley. Lovely and antique, but not tractor really.
Your M cat should be cloned, made to order on request. Of course, no telling how any one cat will turn out.
Funny, I was just reading about a flail mower for chopping green manure cover crops in a garden.
The rain has stopped, Juncos, Cardinals, Bluejays immediately came out from cover, and a female Cardinal is bathing in the ice water puddle with seeming pleasure.
I have raised 2 natural born and 3 adopted children. I loved every one of them. Some of my best children were adopted. I divorced my first wife because of abuse to the children.
In the six plus years we’ve had her, twice she needed a ten day course of pills, just sat there each morning and evening, let my push in into her mouth, gently hold her mouth closed until she swallowed. Of course, that was followed with a little scrap of real tuna or something good.
Thanks again, Margaret, pups, going to get outside for a little walk.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to look for a Romney/Ryan bumber sticker. If you were born a psychopath to a poor family, you either go to prison or a mental institution. If you born a rich psychopath, you gain political or economic power, because you are capable of making those hard decisions, without any self-trauma to your emotional stability. Psychopaths have no fear either. They are willing to take risks that puts them into high level positions. They are value by corporations.
Go whore your scam somewhere else.
Thoroughly flagged at the profile page.
Hi, all, I’m back. Got my outside errands done, missed the first part of the BB game, but caught most of it, and we pulled it out by one (one!!!) point with 8or 9 seconds left. Whew. My mom watched, too…both breathing hard by the end.
Kittehs have been in and out, enjoying the gorgeous sun and just under 70 degree-weather. Squeaky sitting nerarby, watching the door for some reason.
Lots of good stories here today. Lovely picture of Jocabel; I’m very fond of torties. Nice that she had her favorite spot made more comfy. And now Ms. Kitty can enjoy it, too. So nice.
And that Mcat photo—talk about relaxed. Such a nice pussycat. Imagine a cat accepting pills with no fuss!
And whatever scam was posted, must have been removed; I see nothing.
There was some kind of work from home sales pitch up a little while ago. Glad you had a good day. :)
You are just such a breath of fresh air when you whoosh through here.
Watching a game with your mom, on the phone, I’m guessing. Too Cute.
No. Nothing here is too cute.
Found this earlier today & thought it was very funny –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289563/Fed-cat-climbing-keyboard-Amazing-photo-medieval-manuscript-covered-pawprints-shows-new.html
Apparently getting a cat between you & your media has been going on for a very long time…
LMAO! Looks like the cat turned over the ink and walked through it and onto the manuscript. How funny!
Oh, the manuscript with kitty paw prints! I saw that on FB a couple weeks ago, but couldn’t find the original to post it here.
Isn’t it great? Kitties have been the same through the centuries!
I’m looking at those pix of the manuscript – the closeups weren’t included in the FB post. Can’t you just see kitty walking across the left page, parallel to the edge of the desk, then turning, with its back to the poor, panicking scribe, wanting a head rub or a back scritch, while the scribe is trying desperately to scoot the kitty off the page?
Like the article says, paper (or parchment, maybe) was too expensive and writing too laborious to toss the page, so he had to leave it in. Just so that 500 years later, all we cat lovers could get a bood laugh.; )
Trying to type goodnight around a kitty right now. Goodnight, all, thanks Margaret.
Ohmmmm
Goodnight Om and four legged friends! At least the cat isn’t leaving footy prints!
Drat! Om, I keep missing you! Had to reboot to get out of a screen with a “script” that wouldn’t stop. Hope it wasn’t malware.
I guess I need to go do the remaining Sunday tasks. Good to see y’all. Love the weekly kitteh stories.
Take care of yourselves and your animals (and birds, and doggies, and whatever you may live with.)
Well, I’m late as usual. I’ve been very busy lately. Will try to recap on OE if I can get there. I read as much FDL as possible, but usually only comment on short threads, and that not often. I love to look at the kitty threads when I can.
Om, thanks for the inquiry. I am trying to get back to business here.
I’ve been getting that too. I don’t think it’s malware but I keep getting advertisement videos that I can’t turn off.
Well, it’s time for me to pack it in once again. Thank you all for stopping by! Another successful kitty thread I think. Good night and be good to your animal friends.
Night night, pegster.
I hope you have a good week – trouble free, fun, no problems – and sleep well with your little girl.
All best.
Deb