Cats, Dogs, Other pets.

[mlooney 3,417]

21 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Ooh fancy cat! Corelle Ware water bowl, with extra helping of protein!

Fixed.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

11 hours ago, mlooney said:

Pretty much "does it fit here" is the schema used in this library.

Ah, If-It-Fits

This system was largely abandoned by formal libraries, but remains popular for feline furniture

[Darth Fluffy 302]

5 hours ago, mlooney said:

Fixed.

As well she should be.

[mlooney 3,417]

33 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

As well she should be.

Yes, and I should pay more attention to her water bowl.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

1 hour ago, mlooney said:

Yes, and I should pay more attention to her water bowl.

Mine used to ear bugs. And lick icing off of cake. That was 40 years ago. Great cat, but we had to give it away. When we were in school, it was fine, but when we graduated and both started working, the cat went nuts from the isolation. (Imagine that. isolation driving you nuts ...)

[mlooney 3,417]

6 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Mine used to ear bugs. And lick icing off of cake. That was 40 years ago. Great cat, but we had to give it away. When we were in school, it was fine, but when we graduated and both started working, the cat went nuts from the isolation. (Imagine that. isolation driving you nuts ...)

Explorer the Cat has separation anxiety if I go out of the house for more than an hour or so.

[The Old Hack 2,448]

9 minutes ago, mlooney said:

Explorer the Cat has separation anxiety if I go out of the house for more than an hour or so.

Unsurprisingly.

The creature who abandoned her is a ripe candidate for a fast trip down the stairs if I ever get hold of him.

From the top of the Empire State Building.

[mlooney 3,417]

17 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

Unsurprisingly.

The creature who abandoned her is a ripe candidate for a fast trip down the stairs if I ever get hold of him.

From the top of the Empire State Building.

Explorer wasn't one of the cats that got abandoned.  She was a barn cat at a friends farm.  While not the best of settings, she did get human attention every couple of days and they did feed the colony, maybe not as much as they should, but they did get food daily.

[mlooney 3,417]

Explorer the Cat taking a 5 second break in the important business of running around the house like a crazed person.

[The Old Hack 2,448]

42 minutes ago, mlooney said:

Explorer the Cat taking a 5 second break in the important business of running around the house like a crazed person.

Or rather, an entirely sane cat.

I am sure she is wondering why you aren't running madly around the house the way a reasonable feline does.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

42 minutes ago, mlooney said:

running around the house like a crazed person.

Or are the people we call "crazed" actually running like practical cats?

[mlooney 3,417]

5 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Or are the people we call "crazed" actually running like practical cats?

This could be a true statement.

[mlooney 3,417]

6 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

Or rather, an entirely sane cat.

I am sure she is wondering why you aren't running madly around the house the way a reasonable feline does.

I'm sure she knows I have bad knees, given how many times I've told her about them

[Darth Fluffy 302]

37 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

Or rather, an entirely sane cat.

I don't believe in sanity claws any more.

[mlooney 3,417]

3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

I don't believe in sanity claws any more.

/me adds a star and a check mark next to your name on The List

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

5 hours ago, mlooney said:

/me adds a star and a check mark next to your name on The List

Don't forget a little doodle of Chico Marx.

[mlooney 3,417]

12 minutes ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

Don't forget a little doodle of Chico Marx.

And you get an underline, a hash mark, a few stars and several arrows.

[mlooney 3,417]

Explorer the Cat on my bedside "table" getting ready to jump on to the bed.

And here she is on the bed

"Human!  My food dish is almost empty!  Fix This!"

[ProfessorTomoe 1,308]

I sit surrounded by our cats today. Due to swelling/edema in my legs/ankles/feet, I'm consigned to sleeping on the sofa with my feet elevated by a couple of pillows. There is a cat-sized gap between the pillows and my medicine shoebox, which Loudmouth has claimed as his own for the past 4 or 5 days. Today, Baker has joined him on the far end of the sectional. He's curled up next to his "nighttime-veg-out-next-to-Mrs.-Prof" pillow. Unusual behavior, but it might have something to do with the thunderrumblers that passed through a little over an hour ago.

I predict I'm going to have a lot of cat company late tonight when a squall line passes through. We shall see.

[mlooney 3,417]

Just now, ProfessorTomoe said:

I predict I'm going to have a lot of cat company late tonight when a squall line passes through. We shall see.

Weather Underground is predicting that I'll have a stressed cat from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM.  I'm less than thrilled by this, and I suspect that if EtC knew about it she would not be happy either.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Willard Scott would take time out of his forecast to send greetings to Today show viewers on their 100+ birthdays

What we actually need is a weather forecaster who can translate meteorological information into meow-tological info

A feline understandable weather report

"Later today there will be rain with thunder, your human knows about this and can not do anything about it"

A Purr-Litzer Prize for whoever figures out how to make this a news feature

[mlooney 3,417]

2 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

"Later today there will be rain with thunder, your human knows about this and can not do anything about it"

I've told Explorer about it today and she just kept eating.  I think she had the right idea there.

 

2 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

A Purr-Litzer Prize for whoever figures out how to make this a news feature

/me thinks about it.  Decides the it isn't list worth because /me agrees that there should be a prize named that.

[mlooney 3,417]

6 hours ago, mlooney said:

Weather Underground is predicting that I'll have a stressed cat from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM.  I'm less than thrilled by this, and I suspect that if EtC knew about it she would not be happy either.

Then are now saying I have about a 45%  chance of a storm from 5 to 6 this afternoon.

[mlooney 3,417]

Explorer the Cat in her big box.

[mlooney 3,417]

Closeup of Explorer the Cat not looking grumpy for a change.  I have trouble getting closeups of her that don't look grumpy.  She's not a grumpy kitty.