Baby Clyde has been throwing up since this afternoon. He looks pretty ragged. I’m sure we’ll take him to the vet in the morning if he’s still acting and looking this bad, but I can’t decide if we need to
Good, Bad, Ugly: weekend recap edition
The ugly: we spent the entire weekend obsessing over fleas. In 8.67 years of living with multiple cats, they have never had fleas. Admittedly, our cats have been outside (on leashes) more lately than ever but I also think the
In which I explain the naming of cats
On a discussion on flickr group “Cat in the Bag“: We have six cats: three littermates, and three who are not related. Bonnie and Clyde (usually known to us as Baby Clyde) are two of the littermates, and despite their
Feline songwriting
I was working in MasterWriter when I got up to admire a bluejay outside the window. When I came back, Barbra was sitting on my laptop keyboard, writing a song. Here’s what he wrote: yttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttgyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu – (c)
No surprise to us, really…
but as of this writing, Bopper is winning the kitten war. We’re so proud!
The year in review
Borrowed from and many others; edited for stuff I care about answering. I linked to a lot of stuff throughout; my apologies if any links lead to where you, dear reader, cannot follow. Review of 2004 What did you do
New kitten!
She’s here! She’s finally here! Hot off the presses, here are some pictures of Bopper, the newest addition to our kitty family. It wasn’t easy meeting five cats, some of whom are more than four times your size! http://www.honeybowtie.com/kate/kitties/images/bopper_faceoff_10042004.jpg But
Cozy Baby Clyde and Karsten
Cozy photo taken this afternoon. That’s Baby Clyde the Wonder Potto curled up in Karsten’s arm nook. And the detractors say cats are distant. They’ve never spent a quiet Sunday afternoon at our home.
New nickname for Baby Clyde
Several of our nicknames for Baby Clyde involve the word “potto” because his wide, round eyes and somewhat pointy nose remind us both of a potto. He also has the longest and most dense fur of all the cats, and
Coming out to my cat
I just woke up from a dream in which I was coming out to my cat, Blackberry. Halfway through telling Blackberry I’m bi (“so that means I sleep with both men and women” — I dream of not-very-good definitions of