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Oh, and now that I'm starting to feel normal again, our smallest cat has started acting all weird today. I caught her eating out of the dog's food bowl even though her food bowl was full, and she tried to eat some of my breakfast even though she hates human food. stinky_monky gave her two doses of catnip over the past week, so Peanut is probably still tripping ( Read more... )

Monkey just learned how to knock on the bedroom door.  Next he'll be undoing the hinges.

Years ago, Before Ohio, I bought a Chinese Money Tree from Trader Joe's.  It survived a year in Oak Park, a couple months in Rancho Cordova, a two-thousand-mile trek to Ohio, and a year in Columbus before I finally managed to kill it by putting it in an unused room, closing the door, and forgetting about it.  When stinky_monky moved in, we found the poor ( Read more... )

rdchino is tired of his cat chewing on the laptop's power cord. That's how Jesus died, you know...

rdchino is re-enacting the Hidalgo Revolt of 1810 with his cats.

Last night I was peacefully playing Lego Batman in my videogame chair when I heard the familiar (and aggravating) rustle of a cat playing with the Christmas tree.  When I looked over I saw an evil glint in Monkey's eye, and I tried to grab him but he managed to upend the entire tree before I could get to him.  Right onto my head.  As I sat there, ( Read more... )

Happy 67th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor!  I hope everyone celebrated in a suitable fashion, though I have no idea what a suitable celebration would be.  We had our first major snowstorm of the season this weekend and it was a bit hard to get into the spirit since Columbus in no way resembles Honolulu right now ( Read more... )

Our cat, Monkey, was sick this weekend.  And then yesterday I caught a cold.  Coincidence...?  Yeah, probably not.  Our symptoms were different.  And it's pretty rare for an illness to jump from a cat to a human.  But I'll still say I survived a rare case of Feline Flu.

An update on the back-order child, for those of you who don't read stinky_monky's LJ:  ( IVF stuff )

Monkey was just sitting in my lap being the sweet little guy he can be, but rarely is, when I felt something crawling on my leg.  At one point while I was petting him I must have let loose a tick that was hiding in his fur!  Good God, I hate ticks!  An epic battle ensued, and I vanquished the little spawn of Satan (the tick, not Monkey).

Now, of ( Read more... )