For most of this year, my cat Spot has had some kind of mystery IBD-like problem that makes him get very skinny, have explosions at both ends, and have trouble subsisting on anything but a hideously expensive hypo-allergenic prescription-only catfood. However, his favorite food is still chicken and turkey, and it is one food he was still ( Read more... )

Wow, is this thing dusty... words still escape me (where is that butterfly net?), so let's start with some pictures from the latest Oregon Country Fair ( Read more... )

Discussion once more arose on the extraordinary quantities of fur Whiskers is capable of shedding at any time. Didn't he get the memo that he's a short-haired cat?

Karl says: "He's a long-haired cat in a short-haired cat's body. He's a trans-cat..."

(wait for it)

"He's transfurring!"

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh!
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The urban ponies across the street were looking especially picturesque today.

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It's been a fine time for lolling with laptops...

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Portable Cat is almost ready for porting...

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Mama cat never ceases to be disappointed by the fact that we are, in fact, omnivores. She can see no reason why cooking should involve anything other than meat. Our penchant for root vegetables is especially offensive, and really, there is no reason why zucchini bread could not involve bacon, in her feline opinion. Pork pancakes? Beef brioche ( Read more... )

Cats are not big on relativity. Fie on our irksome monkey ways, arbitrarily deciding that dinner shall be an hour later! Not that they complain about breakfast being an hour earlier...

In this case, I agree with them. Daylight savings always messes me up!