Friday Cat Blogging - 4 September 2009
| Fri Sep. 4, 2009 11:17 AM PDT
Last week Domino got Friday Catblogging all to herself, so this week it's Inkblot's turn. Besides, I got lots of good Inkblot pictures this week and none of Domino. Them's the breaks.
Anyway. On the left, Inkblot is peering down on all of his loyal subjects in the living room below. On the right, he's decided to come downstairs to join us and watch some tennis — cat style, of course. And by "cat style," what I really mean is that his dinner clock had kicked in and he was rolling around on the floor and trying to look cute, which is what he does every night around 6:30 or so. It's uncanny, really.
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One good, one bad
Submitted by thersites on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 11:30 AM PDT.
One time driving through New Jersey we saw a cow that had been hit by lightning lying in the middle of the field. The picture on the right is eerily reminiscent of that.
On the other hand, the picture on the left is just beautiful.
Al that is missing .......
Submitted by Ed Tracey on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 11:52 AM PDT.
... is the police chalk-line around the body.
6:30 Cuteness
Submitted by LarryB on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 11:36 AM PDT.
Ours will find us and purr violently for about 10 minutes at dinnertime. After that, it tends to turn into agitated kvetching.
Le Chat
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 11:37 AM PDT.
He's great. How long can he keep up the rolling for food act?
In the first photo ......
Submitted by Ed Tracey on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 11:51 AM PDT.
..... Inkblot looks like he's just jumped up onto that railing - and is holding on for dear life.
Nice cat shadow.
Submitted by B on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 11:59 AM PDT.
Nice cat shadow.
Our cat tries that for about a minute and then goes straight to biting our toes.
Breakfast is the most important meal
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 12:01 PM PDT.
Mine want breakfast, because they know this is the most important meal of the day.
For them, the quest to wake the human begins between 4:30 am and 6:00 am. It starts with the loud purring snuggle. If this does not work, and it usually doesn't, then the strategy is to ramp it up some. This usually means some meows, loudly. Which just gets a hand out of the blanket to grab one of the 5 who are assaulting the human. Generally the loudest offender. And then back to sleep for human with cat in grasp.
Next up is the purr, meow, slap the human with a paw, tap tap tap, trick. Added to the standard as loud as we can meows. (Eating is very serious business to these thugs!)
If this doesn't get the human motivated, there's the three cat knead and purr trick. One seeks out and finds a vulnerable piece of flesh to knead, with claws, while the other two use said kneading to pull and tug blankets and pillows until humans show motivation.
If this doesn't work, loud meowing and marching across human bodies will commence until a human gets up and out of bed and opens a can.
After years of this (the
Submitted by B on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 12:58 PM PDT.
After years of this (the worst of which was that they had discovered the location of the human bladder for well-placed pouncing) we found that switching their food to a particular wet brand + water mixed in (and piling it in like you would if you were trying to defeat the calaveras jumping frog) mostly satisfied them from 10PM to 7:30AM.
Now I wake up at 4AM wondering if the cats are OK.
Your last sentence tells all
Submitted by gyrfalcon on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 9:29 PM PDT.
You have very successfully trained your cats to wake you up in the morning by feeding them the moment you get up.
If you don't think you can get away with letting them free feed, then at least quit feeding them in the morning.
"Medical specimen"
Submitted by phoebes on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 12:26 PM PDT.
In our family, we call that cat-on-the-back thing "medical specimen" or "medical spec" for short. Only one of my cats does it. Her name's Phaedra and she's a 13 year old tabby/white mix who's drop-dead gorgeous but also as dumb as a box of rocks.
She's also about the size of Inkblot.
Her version of "medical spec" adds the front paws curled up on her chest in a begging position. It is probably the most pathetic position I've ever seen animal or human in.
Medical spec
Submitted by LouC (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 1:22 PM PDT.
We're more dirty minded in our house, Phoebes. My cat does that paws together, legs spread out pose on her back. We call it her "kitty porn" pose.
She can flip back quickly enough if she thinks she's luring a human to the kitchen.
What do you mean "trying" to
Submitted by kc (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 1:27 PM PDT.
What do you mean "trying" to look cute . . . he is outrageously cute.
Big Max
Submitted by BobH (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 2:00 PM PDT.
My red tabby Maine coon cat, Max, strikes the same pose as the one Inkblot has achieved in the right-hand picture. We have a name for it: "Geez, Max, do you look DUMB!"
Pinniped
Submitted by Cool Bev (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 2:47 PM PDT.
Like Phoebes' cat, ours curls her paws up when she rolls on her back. Due to her size, she looks just like a sea lion. So we call it the pinniped position.
ARRRR! Thar she blows! Man
Submitted by Steve Drum (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 4:11 PM PDT.
ARRRR! Thar she blows! Man the harpoons, me boys!!
Lou C and Cool Bev...
Submitted by phoebes on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 4:22 PM PDT.
Phaedra's "medical spec with the curled paws" is SO pathetic that any semi-porno or sea lion thoughts are lost in the complete patheticness of it.
Family and friends who have seen Phaedra in this pose are usually stunned into silence and disbelief that she's not auditioning for a part on "Queen for a Day".
Oh, sooo sweet!
Submitted by PTate in MN on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 5:45 PM PDT.
That black patch on his tummy!! That's so sweet!
Though, is "sweet" the right word for such a fine feline specimen? He must have been a fetching kitten.
Why is yer cat
Submitted by Paul Camp (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 7:34 PM PDT.
showin me his business?
Or hers.
Cats who can tell time
Submitted by Mnemosyne (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 9:01 PM PDT.
Our cats get a treat of wet food at exactly 10 pm every night and the freaky thing is, Keaton knows exactly when it's 10 pm. The only time they get confused is when we switch back and forth between daylight saving time and standard time and suddenly they're getting their treat one hour earlier or later. But they adjust after a couple of weeks and go right back to campaigning for treat at 10 pm.
I used to have a cat who
Submitted by sophronia (not verified) on Fri Sep. 4, 2009 9:55 PM PDT.
I used to have a cat who could actually make himself look thinner at mealtimes. He would sit next to us, cry, and stretch out his neck until he looked starved, all while staring at us pointedly to make sure we got the message. He was dying of hunger! Dying!
One of my cats does that
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun Sep. 6, 2009 7:14 AM PDT.
One of my cats does that pose all the time but I call it the "content otter" as he keeps both paws together up on his chest, long flat belly upwards and back paws stretched down, just like an otter!
He ofter switches to the "turn off the lights" pose by putting one of his paws over his eyes. He can lie like that for hours only occasionally emitting a little squeak of satisfaction...
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