Hello Kaji Konekos! Welcome to another Pull Up Your Cat. It’s Caturday here so like the Egyptians, I’m gonna write on the walls and worship cats. (hat tip to demi for that) Been a normal week around here. Kuroneko found a mouse living under the stove so she woke me up with a scrit-scrit-scritching sound on Thursday, which turned out to be her trying to get the mousie out of my shoe. Well I didn’t want one in my shoe either so I dumped it out for her and she was off to the races again. Later I heard the meowing that always indicates li’l mousie had gotten away. Yesterday, she caught it again but this time her lunge had killed the poor thing. She came into the bedroom for her praise and then proceeded to enjoy her lunch. Not wanting to see, (or hear), any of that, I went into the living room to watch Ben Kingley as Gandhi. Much better than witnessing a mouse lunch! Bye-bye mousie. At least it will be quieter around here until one of his relatives move in.

Poor SouthernDragon is ill and possibly still in the VA hospital. He says he’s going to be alright, (through our OmAli, thanks Om!), and he’s got somebody looking after his clowder of kittehs. I’ll bet they swarm the poor man when he gets home! Please join me in wishing him a speedy recovery.
Update:
Please see OmAli’s comment below @8 for an update on SouthernDragon. I can’t write it out myself but I thank OmAli for the news. I hope you’ll join me in keeping our SD in our thoughts. Good luck Richard. We all love you so much!

Now, on to this week’s photos!

First, the Kuroneko picture of the week. Here is Miss Regal, denying me permission to finish making my her bed. I may do it when she says I may do it and not before!

Obligatory cute kitten picture. Kittehs can read! via Lolcats

Please enjoy this kitteh video from the Stray Cats. An oldie but a classic and a staple for Caturday posts everywhere.

I hope everybody has a wonderful week ahead and especially hoping for a fast and complete recovery for the Dragon man. Please remember to set aside some time to spend with the animal(s) that share your life. They deserve it and so do you.

Greetings former caturdenizens! This diary has been conceived as a weekly diary with rotating diarists in response to the loss of caturday, whose author has, alas, moved on to bigger and better (diners). So, to fill the void left by the great one, a few of his diehard fangirls got together and decided that it needed to be done. Of course one doesn’t have to be a fangirl to both enjoy reading and to take turns authoring, (volunteers encouraged to speak up), this attempt to fill a wonderful man’s shoes. So far myself and bgrothus have agreed to share the duties but I think the diary should reflect the great diversity represented by the readers of the former one. Please bear with me though. I don’t know anywhere near as much about our kitteh friends as the SouthernDragon knew but I will endeavor to get you a good answer if you have a question.

It’s been an interesting week here. Kuroneko has been bouncing off walls. Thursday she caught a mousie and then kept me awake half the night torturing the poor thing. Then Saturday morning I woke up to a cat looking very guilty indeed:

See the feather behind her? There were a whole lot more, (along with the remains of her gruesome breakfast) on the front porch. As soft and warm and cuddly as they are to us, never doubt that any house cat is only one opportunity away from ruthless hunter. On a sillier note, Kuroneko likes to help me make the bed:

And here she is this morning after a big rain storm standing in the puddle outside the door:

Her mouth is open a tiny bit because she’s meowing at me. I think she thought she was going to get scolded for standing in the puddle because last time, she brought her wet and muddy feet into my bed to show me.
Lion version of the security blanket
I don’t have the obligatory cute kitten pics cause I’m really new at this. I tried to post some but apparently I don’t know how. I was able to find a great montage set to an old classic though:

Hope you cat, (and dog), folks will stop by and share your cat tales with us.