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Friday Cat Blogging - 29 May 2009
| Fri May. 29, 2009 11:09 AM PDT
I don't know how well it shows up in the photo, but when they write the definition of "smug" in the next edition of Webster's, they're going to use this picture of Inkblot. He was so pleased with himself he could hardly stand it. On the right, we have an action shot of Domino darting out from behind the quilts to protect the house from an invasion of cat toys.
And here's our latest experiment in feline pyschology. Last weekend Marian brought home a blue blanket and tossed it down in the entryway. Inkblot made an immediate beeline for it and claimed it as his new favorite thing. The next day we put the blanket up on the couch. He wouldn't go near it. We put it on the carpet. Ditto. We put it on the carpet right next to the sofa, and he not only wouldn't go near it, he actually circled way around it as if it were going to bite him. So then, out of curiosity, I picked it up and put it back on the hardwood floor in the entryway. He made an immediate beeline for it and curled right up. Now what the hell is going on with that?
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Cat psychology and scatblogging
Submitted by SocraticGadfly (not verified) on Fri May. 29, 2009 11:16 AM PDT.
As for Inkblot, possessiveness toward the entryway, with the blanket having to be claimed as part of that.
For Friday SCATblogging, I’ve got scat, Brazilian style, as well as a scat facility, from an Ohio county with scat on its hands and agenda.
wood floors
Submitted by optical weenie on Fri May. 29, 2009 11:20 AM PDT.
are cold doncha know. That's why cats need blankets for wood floors.
Good pic of his high blottiness.
Feline psychology
Submitted by nobody, really (not verified) on Fri May. 29, 2009 11:26 AM PDT.
"Now what the hell is going on with that?"
It's simple, really: he's messing with your head. Cats think confusing humans is funnier than snakes-in-a-can, and that's exactly what he did. Why do you think he looks so smug in the picture?
"I think they're very clever. They're trying to confuse us to death."
Can't help you with the blue
Submitted by ahab on Fri May. 29, 2009 11:56 AM PDT.
Can't help you with the blue blanket question, but I gotta say (as you must already know) that the quilt over the bannister is the BEST CAT THING EVAR! Well, one of them, anyway.
Reply to What's Up with That!
Submitted by Cat Owner (not verified) on Fri May. 29, 2009 11:58 AM PDT.
Smells, man. It's all about the smells.
The front door is where new smells enter the house, on your person, your shoes, bags, what have you. The blanket was a new smell and the front door is where new smells go. There newness is investigated and analyzed and marked by the first cat to drag its scent glands over it. New smells are not on the couch, or the carpet, or the carpet by the couch. The inner sanctum of the house is already marked by cat scent or human scent. It's stacked out territory where no new smell should be (unless you have guests but that is a whole other issue). If new smells are that far into the house, acclimatization with article and feline would have taken place over the course of many days, (but you moved it too quickly).
All these years you have been owned by cats and you still haven't learned their ways? This is a perfect example why cats are so disdainful of the human race and why they keep us only as pets and servants.
Wood Floors
Submitted by Zeke (not verified) on Fri May. 29, 2009 12:09 PM PDT.
Are hard, while blankets are soft. Whenever my tiled kitchen floor has laundry over it, it acquires a sleeping cat or three. On the carpet, there's not such need for a soft sleeping location, so that cat will either sleep in its preferred spot on the furniture or occupy a patch of sunlight on the carpet.
Kevin, rather than "smug" ......
Submitted by Ed Tracey on Fri May. 29, 2009 1:18 PM PDT.
.... I would characterize your-friend-and-mine Inkblot (at least in this photo) as a "crime victim" - all that's missing is the chalk outline around his body.
We should pay attention to that man behind the curtain.
The human psychology testing
Submitted by Nazgul35 (not verified) on Fri May. 29, 2009 5:30 PM PDT.
The human psychology testing is proceeding nicely I see...
Cat astro phic psychoanalysis after all these years ...
Submitted by Dredd (not verified) on Sat May. 30, 2009 6:10 AM PDT.
A book wonders out loud about all these cats who are doing psychotherapy faithfully these past 100 years ... as things get worse ... it would seem.
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/05/100-yrs-of-psycho-therapy-take-cov...
Are hard, while blankets are
Submitted by silver100 on Sat May. 30, 2009 7:24 AM PDT.
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Who knows what goes on in those cat brains?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat May. 30, 2009 5:58 PM PDT.
Slinker will only sleep in his pet bed when its on our bed. Rose will only sleep in her pet bed when its on the living room floor next to the laundry closet. They'll both sprawl on the tile at the front door, or on the concrete in the garage. And on blankets on the couch. Chairs at our computers are a favorite, whether on them or under them when they're being used. Have to watch out for batting paws and ankle nibblers.
I'm convinced its an initial random selection followed by stubbornness. Kind of like Republican talking points. The blanket goes THERE, and anywhere else is wrong.
Bigger Images, please
Submitted by steverino on Mon Jun. 1, 2009 5:41 PM PDT.
It would be nice if each photo were a link to a larger version, as at, picking a blog at random, TBogg's.
I seem to have been alternating photos of the TBassets with photos of the Drum kitties as wallpaper, and the bassets win as far as clarity is concerned. Though nothing says "contentment" like a sleeping cat.
steverino
Solid vs print
Submitted by Kim (not verified) on Mon Jun. 8, 2009 11:20 AM PDT.
Sam will sleep on the chair with the solid colored blanket but if we put the plaid blanket (same fleece fabric) on the same chair, he will avoid it at all costs. They are strange and wonderful creatures!
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