She's out here on the futon couch, sleeping kitty-corner from Puff (who has staked out his corner for the last few years), just a foot or so away from Adam as he's playing his mech thing on his PC. But don't imagine she'd welcome being touched. She wants to be out here with her humans, but the second he reached out to touch her nose, she pulled ( Read more... )

It is a newborn smoky-grey kitten, at the time of this writing about 3 days old. I don't know its gender yet. The mother cat apparently had an Immaculate Conception--she is one of three FEMALE cats owned by this person, all are indoor only with no access to the outdoors and the owner's checked for broken screens and the like--no way she's found for ( Read more... )

Adam is taking Spike to the shelter. The switch flipped back, and she went fucking nuts last night. She was getting more and more needy and affectionate, like a kitten--meowing like a kitten with the wide-open mouth, following me everywhere, even joining me in the shower. I mean IN the shower, by the way. Not hanging out on the edge. IN the shower ( Read more... )

Poor Spike. She has a lot to live down today. The sheer amount of destructive power she unleashed last night seems to have been a lot, even for her ( Read more... )

You know how in Beauty and the Beast at the end when Belle is weeping over the Beast, who lays gasping and dying in front of her, and the animation just gets so amazingly intense, the colors rich and gorgeous, her eyes so perfect, and you can tell in that moment that Disney got the Big Fucking Guns in on this scene because out of every scene in ( Read more... )

The last few days, I've been awakened after 5-6 hours of sleep by a raspy tongue licking my nose. This morning was no exception to that new rule ( Read more... )

No, seriously, I'm going to have to make sure she's really a cat. Last night out of the clear blue sky she was sporting a rather nasty-looking red gash across her neck near her jaw. No idea where she got it. At first we thought she'd gotten into a fight, but two things made us re-assess: first, we hadn't heard a fight (and for a gash that nasty we' ( Read more... )

there is a skillcheck required for a cat to take food out of someone's hand ( Read more... )

I admit, one reason I really think this is the weirdest kitten ever is how much she loves water. I mean if I go into the bathroom she leaps in with reckless, wild abandon. If I get into the shower itself, she just about backflips for joy and immediately hops onto the tub ledge to watch the water flow. She likes nothing better than to get water ( Read more... )

Apparently in my family, "quit licking the toilet paper roll" has become a valid command. I never thought I'd see that.

Do vets test cats' IQs?