It took us an hour to go to lunch. Just an hour.


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There are ugly truths in a cat's love.

We got two cats, figuring one would choose each of us. I immediately wanted the cute little black one. But cats choose people, not the other way around.

Hela chose T. She follows him around. When he is home, she is always in the same room with him.

I figured Loki also chose T, though is a bit lower-key about it. ( Read more... )

 Loki is not so sure about this "regular schedule" thing. In the past week he once decided that he NEEDED human companionship at 2am. *sigh* Usually he decides to alert us that he is LONELY at sometime between 5:15am and 6:30am. On Saturday mornings this can be.... annoying. Will point out that if one of us goes out, Loki will not associate with us ( Read more... )

T asked our neighbor's ~8 year old to take care of the cats while we were gone. She has a 3 year old (maybe 4) little brother and a 10 year old elder brother. The elder one was out of town when we invited the family over for pizza and cat meeting/greeting before we left ( Read more... )

T and I were under the impression that our last cat spontaneously learned to play fetch as a kitten and LOVED IT. Adored it. As a lazy adult, he would often not bother chasing or bringing back the ball, but as a kitten he would fetch until he could no longer breath.

I think we were wrong. I think we taught our last cat to play fetch. I say this ( Read more... )

When do cats decide that sitting on a shoulder is A Thing ( Read more... )

 This week has included supervised visits to my office.

To both T and my delight, the furry ones appear to be willing to be lap kitties. They do not pee on the leather couches (so far). They spend a lot of time sleeping. And Hela seems to believe that my lap is The Place when I'm in my office working. For my future lap space, Loki has decided that ( Read more... )

Friday T came home with kittens. Which pretty much shot any attempt at productivity for the weekend. But T totally bonded with them. Me... less so. They don't always run when I come in the room. Which is progress ( Read more... )