Come Saturday Morning: It’s a Cat ThingBy: Phoenix Woman Saturday October 13, 2007 8:30 am |
Ya know what?
I don’t wanna talk serious stuff this morning.
I’d rather talk about kitty cats.
How about you?
Let’s use this post to regroup, recharge, and talk about cats. And mice. And breakfast. (But if you really wanna talk Serious Stuff, check out Jane’s and Matt Stoller’s plans for going after the Bush Dogs like Jim Marshall. Cats are always in favor of going after dogs. And you can always do what Christy says here.)
Meow! Purr purr purr purr purr.
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not only do I get the zeduno fitzeroo, but I get to post THIS;
Cat’s DiarY
DAY 752 – My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from ruining the occasional piece of furniture…Tomorrow I may eat another houseplant.
DAY 761 – Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded, must try this at the top of the stairs. In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors,I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair…must try this On their bed.
DAY 765 – Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body in attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear into their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little cat I was… Not working according to plan.
DAY 768 – I am finally aware of how sadistic they are. For no good reason I was chosen for the water torture. This time however it included a burning foamy chemical called “shampoo.” What sick minds could invent such a liquid. My only consolation is the piece of thumb still LODGED between my teeth.
DAY 771 – There was some sort of gathering of their ccomplices. I was placed in solitary throughout the event, however, I could hear the noise and smell the foul odor of the glass tubes they call “beer..” More importantly I overheard that my confinement was due to MY power of “allergies.” Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.
DAY 774 – I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit. The bird on the other hand has got to be an informant, and he speaks with them regularly. I am certain he reports my acctivities. Due to his current placement in the metal room his safety is assured. But I can wait, it is only a matter of time…
Chickens?
Kittehs! I took a break from the housework just in time. And right now my cat is impeding progress while I try to put new sheets on the bed. I figure she’ll get bored in a few minutes and I can finish the task ;-)
Er, chickens?
Waves hi to Phoenix Woman!
Hiya Lou! Been missin’ you.
wangdang! Missing you too. We were asking about you last night!
Let me tell you about the best cat in the world. He came to me from the streets (through a catch and release program two ladies down the street run) and now he rules the world from his third floor window-sill castle. He stole the Morris “look” and is working on getting as fat as Morris.
His name is S**tKat (so I can save words when i have to yell at him for something else that he’ll do lol)and his “cutest” trick is to enter a room when I have friends over and we are not paying attention to him (or at least enough attention) with an empty cat food can in his mouth! He drops it in front of a friend and then sits there and cries! What a piece of work.
My favorite trick on him is to let him clean and preen for the 1/2 hour he uses. Then I stroke him and he gets that look on his face that says “You are a real jerk” while I laugh. As if I ruined the entire reason he preens himself like that.
Dogs drool; cats rule!
dems have to cease and desist on their “pussy party” strategies.
LoudounLib @ 6
I couldn’t hang, work is sucking my soul.
egregious @ 4
Hello!
Perris, that is too funny
LOL. I heart Ed’s cat.
wangdangdoodle @ 9
Aw, sorry to hear that — hope things get better soon for you.
do-si-do @ 12
Agreed — cats are just endlessly entertaining!
…typo in title. should be: Caturday
LoudounLib @ 14
I miss them so much! I grew up in a bipartisan house (cats AND dogs) and had my own kitty. But hubby is deathly allergic. So one of my daughters and I go to the local garden nursery to get our kitty fix.
What a beautiful day, what am I doing in here? I thing I’ll go outside and build a chicken tractor. Y’all have fun!
It’s Caturday?
Hi PW from partly cloudy Phoenix…. it was 66 degrees when I got up this morning…
No cats here….. allergic…. Miss Dog keeps the kitties away from my house….. this is the time of the year that the patio door is open and neighbor cats like to wanter ….Miss dog is sacked out on the sofa snoring quite loudly….
Breakfast…. yesterday I fixed a great fratata with italian sausage, mushrooms, french swish cheese….. yum…. so what do I fix today?
twolf1 @ 15
Except that is pretty much everyday for those of us who are owned by our felines.
Iz it ok if we writ lik dis about teh kittehs k bai
We have marking problems. Gracie has been using the rug under the dining room table for her personal urinal. We have removed the rug and cleaned with nature’s miracle and spritzed with best behavior. She’s now taking her meals under the table to discourage further marking.
Has anyone found a good way to prevent this kind of behavior?
See you later wangdang, enjoy!
tw3k @ 18
lol — my cat’s eyes were just about that big this morning while I was vacuuming.
OK now you all have done it. I’m having flashbacks to when my kitty slept under the covers and when I rolled over she would, without waking up, hook her little paws around my waist and be carried to the other side.
I would then be awakened in the a.m. with her stepping on my face.
egregious @ 21
HAI
while teh kittehs do look
KTHXBYE
Good morning, everybody.
I must introduce my cat-jet black with green eyes, 17 years old, and the most socialized animal I’ve ever seen. He’ll sit in front of me and go off on these long, rambling speeches-it’s hysterical. My wife says that he and I are the only case of simultaneous incarnation she’s ever seen-I just consider him my familiar. He is the terror of my wife’s dachhund, and his name is Merlin. He is truly the best.
LoudounLib @ 24
:)
Hah — kitteh has gone down the hall…must finish putting the sheets on the bed while the gettin’s good.
Say a little come on home prayer for my black and white cow kitty Al. I haven’t seen him since around 4pm yesterday afternoon. He spends most of his days outside and then comes in to sleep with us at night. He never came home and hasn’t even shown up to eat the yummy chicken I cooked up for him this morning.
I’m very worried.
Love to eat them mousies
Mousies what I love to eat!
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet
The pic
((((anangryoldbroad))))
Another story:
My grandmother, an extremely proper and well groomed person, was a big scaredy cat of kitties *g*. She was babysitting us once and was standing by my window to watch me leave for school. My cat at the time, really a bulldog in another life, jumped directly onto her shoulder and scared the beejeebus out of her.
A few days later, she was sitting at the piano and playing. No one was paying attention (which offended her a bit) except for this cat, who was sitting good as gold on the floor behind her, listening. Like the RCA dog. too funny. I think we achieved detente.
twolf1 @ 15
I’ll have to fix that!
Has anyone found a good way to prevent this kind of behavior?
Not me,I rely on tile floors and buckets of warm, soapy water.
WangDangDoodle, if you’re still here, what is a chicken tractor?
Oh dear! No kitties here, just a big black lovable lab…who tracked mud in all over this morning, but I’m trying to ignore that…Today’s a cleaning day anyway, right?
RonD @ 36
Well I’m thinkin it would have to be pretty small, and need extra hand controls for the wings.
egregious @ 38
Thanks for asking. I was scratching my head over that one too.
Ripley @ 31
I’ve still got that on an o-l-d tee shirt from my Hawaii days.
Hi egregious!
You can see why I asked! Small, with extra controls for the wings…redesigned foot pedals to accomodate the feet…
yellowsnapdragon @ 22
The original culprit was probably that rug you have since removed. It’s actually pretty common for some rugs to trigger this — speculation is that there’s some odor on the particular kind of rubber backing that it has. From your description, it sounds like she’s not doing this any longer since you removed the rug (and put her food dish there; excellent move)?
I’m assuming you meant “remove rug” as in “got rid of it” but on re-reading it, you could have meant you removed it for thorough cleaning but it’s back there now? If it’s still there, remove it entirely and see what happens.
anangryoldbroad @ 30
Oh dear! What kind of neighborhood do you live in–urban, country? Was it raining last night or good hunting? How old is your cat? Just wondering.
If it gives you hope, my cat wandered off and was gone for weeks…someone found him and posted a want ad. It was a tiny miracle that we got him back. Hopefully Al will skeedaddle home well before that. ((anangryoldbroad))
Hmmm…”Chicken Tractor”…it sounds like the name of a band.
RonD @ 41
Is that what free-range chickens means? They drive tractors?
I just got a kitten (4 months old) after more than 2 years without a cat. Previous cat lived to be 19 and a replacement just wasn’t the right thing.
New kitten is a lot of fun, and has already earned its name RC Gizmo by catching a mouse. He also very much like to chase a laser pointer around… RC is Rodent Control, but could just as easily be Remote Controlled with the way he jumps around for the little red dot.
He’s also a very loving animal, just came up and settled purring on my chest.
Heh, mine is 17 years old, pretty nutty, and is currently laying on the heat register, looking pretty happy.
All yer heets are belongz to us, k thx bai
anangryoldbroad @ 30
Kitty come home!
I’m an admitted crazy cat lady…
My feline boss is instructing me from my lap right now as I type this…I only live for her pleasure you know…(hehe)
I had to wait 35 years to get my first (and so far ONLY) cat, since my father hated cats (thus no kitties while growing up at home) and my first husband was deathly allergic. She was WELL worth the wait!
We are cat freaks here. We have seven. Our Siamese and a stray and her five kittens in the utility room on the back porch. Mama cat was abondoned about two years ago by a former neightbor. About eight weeks ago the kittens were born next to the front porch under the bushes. I scooped them up after I got home from work and put ‘em in a cardboard box and took them to the utility room. They’re happy as clams. Mother cat brought the first field mouse in for breakfast for her babies this morning. I got rid of it and gave them all sausage and scrambled eggs. The cats love spicy foods. Chile and beans is a particular fave. All the kitties will end up at the family farms and ranches nearby. They’ll have a good life. They will be raised as progressive Democrats. And as you might expect, the kitties meow with a distinctive Oklahoma twang.
A chicken tractor is a portable little chicken coop with no floor that you can move from place to place as the chickens forage for grubs and other tasty morsels.
Each morning as I blog for a couple of hours my two cats Beany and Dim Sum sleep in a double chair set-up that I’ve rigged for them with towels and a sweat shirt next to my chair and a table lamp that heats them up.
That way, when I get too upset about something I’m reading, I can just reach over and rub them and feel better immediately…
It is amazing to me how my cat can look around, yawn, and drop into a position that is instantly more relaxed than I’ve ever been in my life.
All I can figure is, It’s Good to be the King.
egregious @ 38
there used to be a great chicken tractor pdf on permaculture.net but here is one with a cat.
twolf1 @ 45
Yeah, and they have their own racing circuit too. Wangdang better hurry to get her tractor ready for the season…
dakine01 @ 40
That cat character look mighty familiar!
Thank you, OB!
anangryoldbroad @ 51
Like this?
Well I was having fun imagining chickens on little tractors on the big oval.
mwg @ 49
Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
peanutbutter @ 42
I have removed the rug completely, but I hope to reintroduce it some day in the future. I did not know that some rugs are attractive targets. This one doesn’t have a rubber backing, but may be made from the special hair of the camel’s ass or something.
((((angryoldbroad))))
We are having Catnip Fiesta here in honor of the post.
{{catdance}}
RonD @ 36
It is a movable coop with attached run covered in chicken wire open to the ground beneath. I’m thinking a couple of nest boxes, since I have read that the girls share. A rooster and 4 or 5 hens should keep the two of us supplied with yard eggs.
Chicken tractor gallery
tw3k @ 54
Cadillac Poultry Ark bwahaha!
Much less expensive than Nature’s Miracle and IMO more effective:
1 c. hydrogen peroxide
1 t. baking soda
1 drop dish washing liquid
Mix to dissolve BS, pour on area and let sit, let dry naturally.
can repeat, if necessary. I have not had any color loss with anything I have used it on, but you should test first.
The oldest cats are dropping off the branch — 24, 26, years old or so — and their replacements, ferals from a lumberyard, have come in. They are ‘the bats’, because of their triangular black faces, tall pointed ears, and shoebutton eyes. Black almost all over, except for a white gorget on each, with long elegant legs. Telling them apart makes birdwatching seem easy. Bat One has long wrist bones on all four limbs. Bat Two has a ring of white hairs near the tip of the tail, wrists not so long, Bat Three’s tail is shorter, face is broader, and, if you can see it, has a white toe on a hind foot. A year ago we had a shortage of black cats, but no more.
We are alternately amused and incensed by reading in pamphlets that feral cats never make good pets, because all but three of the current cats were feral and they are uniformly sensible and sociable. OK, one of them, a wild Maine Coon who was raising litter after litter in a cemetary, did have to have a room to herself and be fed (not by me) while wearing high rubber boots, a heavy overcoat, and gloves (the feeder, not the cat) for I think it was two years. After that, though, ‘Baby’ (the cat) turned into the most loving animal of them all, although always insisting upon her special position (#1) in her owner’s affections.
bg @ 61
OK, what’s in the pinata as if I didn’t know…
Oklahoma kiddo @ 50
Spicy foods? True siamese then :) I grew up with a cat who ate grapes.
do-si-do @ 66
Yes, they are so adorable with the bandana tied over their eyes, and once they twirl around and go after it with a bat, stand back.
Yellowsnapdragon and others with cat marking — check out Feliway. I am using the infuser with my Bengal rescue (who goes to his furrever home on Monday) and its made a world of difference. It is a cat pheromone.
The critters would not let me sleep in this morning and I am slowly getting on with my day. Have a great weekend!
Anyone familiar with the site ‘I Can Has Cheeseburger?’
I’ve only recently discovered it, and it is the funniest site on the web IMO. It is cat photos with captions, in mangled English. It is LOL funny. It’s hard to describe, you’ll just have to visit.
yellowsnapdragon @ 60
LOL!!!! You totally got me on that one! *G*
bg @ 64
Oh my gosh, thank you for the recipe! It is expensive!
Cats are horrible, selfish little creatures! Er, I mean Rats . . .
Thanks WDD. Good to see you again-we were pondering your absence at Late Nite last night, Somehow, the moon just wasn’t quite as bright…we grew up with chickens, but on 20 acres, and just let ‘em wander at will, they’d all go in their coop at night, and we’d close the door. I’d never seen a chicken tractor.
Wow. The things you learn on FireDogLake.
sorry to get all serious and everyhting but this will lighten everyone’s day even though it isn’t about cats or pets;
gleamed from think progress
let’s hope that’s some real light at the end of this tunnel
Back in the late 60’s I smuggled a stray kitten from the naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines to Japan, where my wife and I lived off base in Yokosuka. A neighbor suggested we call him Tama-chan, little ball of fur. When we moved on base he developed what Lyn thought was a horrible habit. Tama-chan loved to go into the laundry hamper and drag out Lyn’s underwear and drag them around the apartment. You could count on him performing this little act when we had friends over. Lyn had two sweet females that we had flown over from the states, Chu Chu and Chugar Bee, and they all got along great. We had world traveling kitties when it was safe to have one’s animals on a plane. In those days the airlines took wonderful care of animals. Not so today, I’m afraid.
Unfortunately, all three fell prey to an evil neighbor in San Diego. Her house burning down was no consolation.
Now, single for many years, I have a houseful of rescues. And I have another Tama-chan, who looks much like the original but is bigger. I’m losing my oldest, Missy, to old age at 22 1/2. Spend most of my time with her. In no pain and not suffering, she’s spending her final days at home. I have the consolation that we’ll meet again one day at the Rainbow Bridge. But even that dream will be small consolation for missing her.
I think Durbin should bring some cats to look into it. Should flush out the rats and smelly fish pronto.
Phoenix Woman @ 48
I will tell Kittyputt, who seems to have a connection to the entire cat world, all over the world. Other than that, my prayers are with you and your cat. One time, when we moved, Kittyputt went out the window and was gone for two days. At the end of day 2, she showed up in her usual window with a look on her face like “what’s the big deal?”
Dianne in DC @ 69
We tried Feliway when Gracie first arrived and had some success. I will try it again. Thanks.
Perris, do you have a linky? Where did you find this? Sorry if I read too fast and blue skyed.
tw3k @ 56
Ah, one of my old favorites in the days when I roomed with cats.
B. Kliban’s Cats
Now that the weather has cooled considerably, I get a lap lump every time I sit down. The cats also are keenly aware of the sound of the furnace kicking on, so when they hear it, they run to sit by a vent. Unfortunately for them, the human won’t turn on the furnace before Nov. 1. Hence the lap lumps!
(If I get the job I’m interviewing for on Monday, I will adopt my two boys’ younger sister from the barn where they all were born. Wish her luck!)
wangdangdoodle @ 17
Build a chicken tractor? What do you suppose she’s really up to?
perris @ 75
A w00t for Durbin!
do-si-do @ 80
OK thinkprogress…Doh!
When I lived in Florida, my cat had kittens and we kept one, which meant the mother never dried up and we couldn’t get her fixed and she got knocked up again.
About 60 days later, I came home from the market and found the mother cat and the Willie tousling outside the guest room and I thought OMG, she’s having kittens and he was in there menacing them.
So I quick scooped him up and then checked to makes sure all was well, it was. Mama cat all ready had two kittens, there would be four.
So Willie and I went in the Florida Room and I kept him on my lap. But about twenty minutes later, mama cat rushed in the room and jumped and grabbed Willie by the neck and started dragging him off.
And that’s what I had interrupted when I came home earlier, she was trying to get this errant kitten back into the nest! She was a little overcome with hormones I guess.
Willie wouldn’t go near the kittens for three weeks, but then he became their other mother, he did everything but nurse them. He was one of my most favorite cats.
behindthefall @ 65
Ooooh! Maine Coon cats are lovely animals.
The idea that feral cats invariably make bad pets is odd — if that were true, then cats would never have started hanging out with humans in the first place!
If cats sat in the Senate, instead of the current…er….no description comes to mind, then the King would have much more trouble herding them to vote his way, and we would all be better off. Really, a cat listens to no human.
Hi Loo Hoo! It’s not what it sounds like. We had some fun with the idea upthread…It’s a portable chicken coop with no floor.
Ask do-si-so about the “Poultry Cadillac Ark“…
Rayne @ 81
hah, excellent, I knew I saw that style before. I like the rougher b/w one better tho.
Hai! Teh blessigs of teh ceiling cat b pwn u, lol!
Teh Holiez Bibul
Phoenix Woman @ 87
I love them too!
The only cat I ever bought was a Maine Coon Cat, and obviously I didn’t do my homework because it was by far the smallest cat I ever owned.
Phoenix Woman @ 87
Yes, indeed! I also get incredibly annoyed with people telling me that feral cats can’t ever be strictly indoor cats. Tell that to mine, who survived subzero winters in a barn and who infinitely prefer watching birds from behind glass. Plus they get to catch the not-so-bright mice who wander into the house.
perris @ 75
I wish he’d said “no blanket immunity, period”, but it sounds like they want to use this as leverage to find out what’s been going on. They won’t, and at the point that this becomes clear, they should then say “OK, that’s it”, junk the Senate bill and copy over HR 3782 (the FISA Modernization Act of 2007, written by House ProgDems with the aid of the ACLU).
Okay, kitty story first:
When we moved into our new place, the elderly woman who lived next door had just passed away. None of her children could take in her 17 year-old cat, so we adopted it. “Twinkie” is a white persian, who had to have his ears cut off a few years ago due to skin cancer (according to the vet, this isn’t uncommon with this breed). Two years later, Twinkie is still a purr-monster, and is currently sleeping on my lap while I type this.
Second: from the gut-wrenching Department of Irony-
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s concentration of power is stifling his country’s transition to democracy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
“In any country, if you don’t have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development,” Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists.
“I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma,” said Rice, referring to the Russian parliament.
I thought I had developed an immunity to the bullshit these clowns spew after the years I’ve had see, hear and read it, but Condi really swung for the bleachers on this one. It’s only 9:30, but I may need to have a cocktail and a valium after this.
bleh.
Ah, kitties. We have named this month October Kitten month, in honor of our lost kitty, Toby (October Kitten for long). He heard the call of the wild one to many times and the coyotes et him.
So we’re left with two fabulous older cats we adopted last August, Lucky (9) and Nick (7). You can hear Lucky purring from upstairs when he’s in a good mood. He is quite the amplifier, weighing in at 18 lbs. He’s grey and white and has a Hitler mustache sliding off his face. He and the dog curl up together to sleep.
Nick is a Fraidy Cat. He’s shy and slinky and orange striped. He’s finally losing his fear – we think he may have been feral at some point – and, much to my delight, he started to sleep with me this week. I love a curled cat against my tummy or legs. We are falling in love.
Sprout lugs Lucky upstairs and reads him stories, explains the video games and uses him as a pillow when in a TV stupor. They are starting to fall in love, too.
Love to eat them mousies,
Mousie’s what I like to eat.
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet.
Blender wins for the department of irony post.
Everyone remember to spany and neuter your kittys. The male kitten can father a litter at 4 months old. The female kitten can get pregnant at 5 months old, and it only takes 9 weeks gestation. A momcat can go into “heat” when her newborn litter is only a couple weeks old, and she’s pregnant again.
I’m now an expert! We have quite a feral cat population in the neighborhood, and after the momcat had her fourth litter in our backyard, we finally caught her and spayed her. The only problem, we are hand raising the last litter. Anyone need a kitten? I had no idea what a terrible problem this is!
Catherine D. @ 93
Agreed. Two of ours came from the mean streets of Denver. Alice is the Queen. This is her theme tune.
cuddlefish @ 91
Grate iz Ceiling Cat!
best cat jump ever
White House Civil War
Promised real power as Bill Clinton’s vice president, Al Gore found he had a rival for that role: the First Lady…..
pg 3 of 7….As a sitting president, Bill was in a unique position to boost his vice president’s candidacy by scheduling White House events to highlight his achievements. But in 1999 those resources were diverted from Gore to Hillary “in a big way,” said one member of the Gore team. “The Clintons come first. That was their basic framework.” From June through December, Bill and Hillary appeared at 20 events under the aegis of the White House…. where in typical style Bill larded his tribute with statistics on welfare, poverty, crime, and economic growth as he touted his wife as a “genuine visionary” needed by the Senate—the ultimate confluence of the personal and political. During the same period, Gore was featured only at a White House Conference on Mental Health—with Bill, Hillary, and Tipper.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/poli…..nton200711
With friends like the Clinton’s, who needs enemies?
twolf1 @ 101
it looked intentional.
707!
Cats are extremely wise. They’re indifferent to humans, because they know they can survive without them, and that humans can be very foolish. If humans want to provide them food, shelter, a warm couch, that’s fine, but it’s not essential.
On the other hand, I would be very sad to live in a world without cats. One of my neighbors is a cat, and we always say hello.
Rayne @ 81
At the time I got my tee shirts (I had two of them), Kliban had an exclusive with Crazy Shirts.
I have the “Love to eat them mousies…” tee and the one of the two cats sitting on the fence with the first telling the second “If I had two dead rats, I’d give you one.”
Impatient Kitty
bg @ 64
Please note: only make up as much of this as you intend to use. You need to throw away the excess, do NOT store this.
This is more typically the formula used to de-skunk a dog. I don’t know how well it works in place of Nature’s Miracle.
The latest addition to my family.
RonD @ 97
Yeah, ranks right up there with the Orlly quote on an Edwards presidency.
Oilfieldguy! Too adorable! Congratulations.
RonD @ 97
Rightio! Hi!
Oilfieldguy @ 108
aww
what a sweetie!
The odor remover is good for a lot of things.
It is very helpful with cats, IMO. I have cats, I have to use it occasionally. It is the best and least expensive of anything I have used.
My daughter, the baby boy’s mother, told me he is the cutest baby she has ever seen.
I’m shocked. Shocked I say.
OFG, that is an unusual looking (but of course adorable) kitty.
behindthefall @ 65
We are alternately amused and incensed by reading in pamphlets that feral cats never make good pets, because all but three of the current cats were feral and they are uniformly sensible and sociable.
I have six, count ‘em, six ferals and they are just as loving as any other cat. They won’t be in the same room with any human but me but I can live with that. Two sets of brothers and one set brother and sister. There was a stray female that had been fed for years by two women who worked in a small law office across the street from my office. When they quit they became realtors and came to work for us. Mama kitty started crossing the street looking for someone to feed her and I figured I’d start feeding her, catch her and make her an indoor kitty. After about a week of feeding her I went out one morning and there were two kittens, about 3 months old. A couple of days later, two more, about 5 months. All four apparently from this same female. About a week later I was out feeding this little pride and felt something. I turned around and there were two more kittens sitting in an access hole in the building foundation. One black and one orange, but obviously not from this mama kitty. Prospective adopters backed out and I ended up with the kittens and my boss took the mama kitty. That was 5 years ago.
Lap lumps. Yeah, I can get behind that. Now that it’s turning chilly I can see that my days of controlling the waterbed are numbered.
Oilfieldguy @ 108
Congrats ! Looks just like you.
Oilfieldguy @ 108
Congrats OFG! Nice pic.
(((OFG))) Congrats! What a bundle!
I don’t get to have a kitty because I have an American Eskimo. My daughter brought one home once, and she had to take it back. Something about the breed, I guess.
(dear Mod(s) – I put in the wrong link for Louis at #113, please delete if possible. sorry…)
Elliott @ 103
this bird sort of likes this cat
alot
http://www.livevideo.com/video…..s-cat.aspx
Oilfieldguy @ 108
Awww! Human kitten!
What a doll baby, OFG!
Punaise, I’ve always thought it so clever of you to get a cat that matched the upholstery. Louis had grown into such a beautiful cat.
punaise @ 113
I sure hope you’re there with your camera when that happens!
You can always find a free cat. I have two spayed female outdoor cats. They keep the river rats away. Though I feed and water them and pet them occasionally, I’m not particularly attached to them emotionally. I recognize that they can be clever and so forth, but to me they are mostly just innocent dumb beasts.
egregious @ 21
Not only iz ok but on Caturday iz mandatoree!
Mommybrain @ 126
we took the cushions to the pound to look for the right match, of course…
punaise – removed. Hard refresh and gone.
No problem.
The Lurking Mod @ 131
much obliged!
Gotta go, the Mew-iachis are here and it’s just about time to break out the Te-Cat-e. Viva la Fiesta.
…the roaming wild turkey family…
The first day in our previous house, the one in the foothills, we came upon 7 (!!!) rattlesnakes, two of them pencil-sized babies. Our neighbor told us wild turkeys were good to keep the rattlesnakes away.
The next morning, when I went to get the paper, I found 7 bottles of Wild Turkey on the lawn. Ah, Daddybrain. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Paraphrasing Robert Heinlein: A cat is perfectly capable of taking care of itself-the cat doesn’t need you. Therefore, if a cat DOES decide to hang with you, it is a compliment in itself.
“Where Cat is, is civilization.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
punaise @ 132
moral of the story: when posting from photobucket, be careful which URL you use.
anyway, here’s a stand-alone pic of Louis.
O/T; British Conservative leader succumbs to drug abuse;
“Speaking during an upbeat tour of the US west coast, Mr Cameron hailed Mr Schwarzenegger as a model centre-right politician and acknowledged his debt to the film star-turned politician, describing himself as a fan. He said: “My wife said to me: ‘How are you going to explain to an American audience what sort of Conservative you are?’ I said: ‘I’ll say look at me and think of Arnold Schwarzenegger’.”
http://politics.guardian.co.uk…..mp;feed=11
Mommybrain @ 134
a regular bender fender, eh?
punaise @ 136
Beautiful cat – looks very surprised.
Condi is worried about a president’s broad powers. No the Secretary is not talking about her boss. As she should be.
“I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma,” said Rice, referring to the Russian parliament
“In any country, if you don’t have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development,” Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists.
DaddyBrain sounds like my brother…
PeteCO @ 135
I just returned from the UK earlier this week; got real sick of seeing Cameron on the Beeb every day!
Our two cats, Mr. Sam and Mika, have requested that I post a link to a story that they found ironic, in a sick and twisted sort of way.
Apparently our oh-so-fashionable SecState is worried that the leader of a great democracy is amassing to himself too much power, threatening the continuation of democratic institutions.
http://my.earthlink.net/articl…..-169555135
OT question:
How many people here have ever lied to a Significant Other about how much time you spend on FDL?
punaise @ 136
what a handsome gentleman!
Ms. Rice is such a loser. Restraint? Is that what your boss is exercising in Iraq?
ISTANBUL, Turkey – Acknowledging “a difficult time” in relations with Turkey, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday appealed to the U.S. ally for restraint against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and in reaction to a genocide resolution in Congress.
RonD @ 144
perhaps lied is too strong a word… benignly mislead?
punaise @ 146
Ok, we’ll accept that…
Elliott @ 144
ah shucks..thanks. the cat isn’t bad looking either… :~)
RonD @ 144
Can’t….. all he has to do is check the comments…..
Hate to break into this cat party (I’m cat-staff as well), but this pow wow post was seriously EPU’d from yesterday. Essential read. Will need fresh pot of coffee and a few minutes. It’s a doozy!
John Edwards in New Hampshire, live on CSPAN1 right now. Town hall, taking questions, sounds very good.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 145
Bush has no choice, Turkey wins this round as well. Sibel Edmond’s gagged due to politically embarrassing Turkish infiltration (Dickersons) into the FBI and Pentagon. Known Turkish ties to Hastert and god knows how many not-on-the-radar congresscritters on the thanksgiving turkey payola. And for dessert:
“Turkey is a regional hub for the US military, and some suggest access to Incirlik airbase or other supply lines crucial to US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan could be affected by the row.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7043170.stm
Edwards: if you grad HS, work part-time while in college, Government pays your tuition. Universal 4 year old pre-school. Create a national teaching university, like service academy-free education, then teach in the toughest places. NCLB is a complete mess.
newtonusr @ 151
Sure is! Need a fresh java for that one.
Edwards on NCLB: You don’t make a hog fatter by weighing it.
Really funny cat clips:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oVK…..mp;search=
I want to see more debates…but not these group press conferences. How about a tournament-style structure of one-on-one, Lincoln-Douglas-style debates? Think they’d go for it?
I’ve put the resident feline to work. It’s an easy gig, as you can see here:
http://www.storybroads.com/200…..vigny.html
RonD @ 155
Interesting how he pulled off the “southern boy” reference. NH likes Edwards a bit.
newtonusr @ 150
Achoooooo!, my eyes are itchy and watering, my nose is stuffy, the benadryl has made me groggy, and I can hardly breath. When does the cat lover’s meeting end?
Wow. Edwards pressing the flesh, talking to the people, taking questions, down in the crowd. Very impressive.
RonD @ 157
Good idea. I can hardly wait for the general election debates!
Who would Roody choose for a VP?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 145
With such a skilled Sec’y of State, the U.S. should have no trouble persuading Turkey to exercise restraint. Never mind that Rice’s latest accomplishment is fail in negotiations with Russia. Condi, you’re going a heck of a job.
Loo Hoo. @ 162
It would have to be a southern Governor.
LS @ 157
cute!
RonD @ 157
Not a chance. Freddie Fizzle is having a hard enough time memorizing sound bites for softball questions in the current format.
Jeb, newtonusr?
RonD @ 89
“Chicken Coupe”… ROFLMAO!
newtonusr @ 164
Jeb!
A lot of the people talking to Edwards keep saying things like, “I was supporting Hillary, but now…”
If I was Hillary -and I have defended her at length-I would worry more about Edwards than Obama.
Loo Hoo. @ 168
God no!
Loo Hoo. @ 167
Maybe Perry, Texas, dog help us.
The Bush name is mud for the foreseeable future.
Cute vid, LS!
Who would Romney choose?
Thompson?
Loo Hoo. @ 175
Fred or Tommy?
Loo Hoo. @ 174
The owners of the Republic Party have designated Jeb as the required choice.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 139
I’m almost without words….
I suppose that it’s a good thing that the lack of ability to recognize irony and hypocrisy, combined with a severe dose of stupidity, do not constitute any kinda life-threatening condition.
Keep on keepin’ on, Condi – that “legacy” is lookin’ better by the minute.
Maybe she likes cats.
We lost our 18year old striped male ” toonces ” 2 weeks ago (old age) He was named for the driving cat in the Steve Martin , Victoria Jackson SNL skit , He had a very good life IMO , 7 Year old “quigley” a jet black female feral rescue has moved from garage into house to take his place, she insisted . When she was 8 weeks old she rescued herself by getting a respiratory infection , gluing her eyes shut and refusing to leave the porch & the food bowl , we nursed her back to health and with the help of my friend Kelvin the Cat whisperer she has become the most loving animal I have ever met . She can be cradled , belly up for rubbing , just like a baby . Her younger half brother , Red Hot , also a voluntary rescue , is very loving too but only on his own terms ( don’t even think of picking me up , but don’t ever stop rubbing my noggin )
BTW I am a dog person
I don’t think Jeb will play…it’s too soon. The Bush brand is damaged at the moment…Jeb will wait for ‘12, after 4 years of watching the Democrat try to cope with the mess GWB has made.
Guiliani/Huckabee, maybe?
Thought we were talking about cats! I would write more if I could get mine off the keyboard.
(((A.Leeuup))) for toonces!
Maybe they’ll just stick with Cheney. He’s been doing a pretty good job.
When old kitty (18 & a half) finally goes to that happy hunting ground, I would get a couple of kittens in a split second. I’ve lived with cats (lost count of how many) since the day I came home as a baby from the hospital. However, a future daughter-in-law is allergic. Just the thought of not ever having a cat again is extremely depressing but there is no alternative.
Loo Hoo. @ 183
I guess the VP isn’t limited to only two terms
brrr
what a horrible thought.
Loo Hoo. @ 182
Spew!
Warn people before you say things like that!
/s
Damn it…Constitutional question…IS the VP term-limited?
Loo Hoo. @ 182
Cheney won’t want that. Where’s he going to find a puppet Preznit as compliant as George W. Bush? Anyone he selects might want to do more than ride a bike.
Loo Hoo. @ 182
looking for “/s” somewhere here… don’t see it…
good morning loo hoo
Badwater @ 188
Fred Thompson
Oh goody. I can talk about my ‘Elvis.’ Yes, my cat is named Elvis — long hair and attitude. He was a rescue at the age of 2 months and weighed less than a lb because his mother was not a very good Mom. So I got him and he spent the first week nuzzled against me and feed hourly with an eye dropper.
Now he weighs upwards of 20 lbs and insists on being ON whatever I am doing. My granddaughter does her homework with me and Elvis has to lay on the book she is reading, the paper she is writing, or the keyboard as she types. Same with me. Many a time my screen has gone blank because he has pawed the wrong key.
And I love him. Sometimes he lets me pet him, and sometimes he bites me.
Did I mention he has 6 toes on each front paw and is actually quite handy with them — opening cupboards, pulling things out of drawers, and stuff. Why do I love this cat? Because he tolerates me lovingly.
What a great topic for this stress filled grandma.
RonD @ 186
The 22nd Amendment does not mention the office of Vice President. Cheney can be VP for life.
I had a cat like this one but he kept stealing my dates … *g*
Howie’s upstairs with a Blue America thread.
just catching up on the news, and I know we’re not supposed to talk about serious stuff here, but this really isn’t that serious (’cause nothing about Condi is too serious): why is Rice in Europe intentionally eff’in off the Russians.. basically callin’ Putin a dictator, promptin’ Putin to threaten unspecified “nuclear consequences” if we proliferate missile defense to the eastern block AND outright offering support to dissident groups? Isn’t she supposed to be a Russian diplomacy specialist or something?
Randi Scheurer upstairs with Howie!
” Blue America: Randi Scheurer Takes On Illinois Bush Dog Melissa Bean”
Blub @ 194
She is obviously playing to the Neocon base … the Europeans know better …
My cat is the best cat in the world.
Why? Because I say so.
That is all ye need to know.
Serendipity. A friend just showed up with kitten in tow. Looks like we’ve been adopted.
Hey wdd,
what are you gonna name the newkitty?
which looks like… ?
Thees gato just gave up on NPR.
Pfui, National Public Relations
Verdaderamente.
so.
Elliott @ 199
8 wk old orange tabby male, so sweet! No name yet, but derBoof was mentioned. Or Bevo. Or Ricky.
“Bush Dogs like Jim Marshall…Cats are always in favor of going after dogs.”
This made me laugh out loud. Thanks for the hoot!
Here’s my cat Kuro.
His favorite movies are Gus Van Sant’s Gerry and Nicholas Ray’s The Savage Innocents. His favorite TV is Brothers and Sisters because he’s obsessed with Sally Field.
My cat thinks he’s a dog! He acts almost like one, but as every feline worshiper knows… cats could NEVER really act as stupid as a dog, now could they?
David Ehrenstein @ 203
Meow!
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